Conference: 2014
The Fourth International MARGOT Conference
June 18-20, 2014
Barnard College, New York City
MARGOT Fourth International Conference
Women and Community in the Ancien Régime : Traditional and New Media
June 18-20, 2014 Barnard College, New York City
Schedule of Events
Les Evangiles des quenouilles
Wednesday, June 18
8 :00-9 :00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9 :00-10:30
Plenary :
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Fordham University
« French Theology in English Convents: Regional and Supraregional Medieval Women’s Communities »
10 :30-11 :00 Coffee break
11 :00-12 :30 Session 1 : Cloistered Communities
Katie Bugyis, University of Notre Dame
« Making History, Benedictine Cantrices and Aeditvae in Central Medieval England »
Ghislain Tranié, Université de Paris-Sorbonne
« Philippe de Gueldre and the Colettine’s Religious Community (1519-1547) »
Kandace Brill Lombart, Independent Scholar
« De Vita Regulari at the Royal Monastery of St. Louis de Poissy, France »
Ciro Romano, University of Jyväskylä
« The ‘Feminine’ Management in a Nuns’ Monastery in Late Medieval Naples: The Case of Saint Peter e Sebastian Monastery »
12 :30-1 :30 Lunch
1 :30-3 :00 Session 2 : Revisiting the Debate on Early Modern Salons I : Salon Sociability in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Elena Brizio, The Medici Archive Project, Florence
« Sienese Women and Sociabilité : Can We Talk about Culture, Independence, and Politics? »
Alison A. Smith, Wagner College
« The Civile Conversazione of Stefano Guazzo : What Can Book IV Tell Us about Salon Sociability in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy ? »
3 :00-4 :30 Session 3 : The Republic of Letters I
Leigh Whaley, Acadia University
« Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux d’Arconville and the Republic of Letters during the French Enlightenment »
Simon Surreaux, Université de Paris-Sorbonne
« Duchess and Letter-Writer : Victoire Louise Josèphe Goyon de Matignon, duchess of Fitz-James (1757-1771) »
Hélène Michon, Université François Rabelais-Tours
“Le Règlement donné par une dame de haute qualité à M*** sa petite-fille, de Jeanne de Schomberg: a feminine concept of civility?”
4 :30-5 :00 Coffee Break
5 :00-6 :30 Session 4 : Visual Representations of and within Female Communities
Margot Fassler, University of Notre Dame
« Hildegard, the Nuns of the Rupertsberg, and the Production of the Illuminated Scivias »
Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet, Université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail
« The Nine Female Worthies : A Group of Female Heroes in the Middle Ages under the Brush of Painters »
Barbara Selmeci Castioni, University of Lausanne
« Illustrious and Illustrated ? Textual and Engraved Images of Women in the Mercure Galant »
Sonia Coman, Columbia University
« A Community of Women Artists and Actresses at the End of the Ancien Régime : The Portrait of Madame Thénard Mère in ‘Hermione’ by Adèle Romany »
6 :30-7 :30 Reception
Thursday, June 19
8 :00-8 :30 Coffee and Registration
8 :30-10 :00
Plenary : Susan Brown, University of Guelph
« Community, Connections, and Choices: Changing Literary History on the Web »
10 :00-10 :30 Coffee break
10 :30-12 :00 Session 5 : Beyond the Cloister
Alexandra Verini, University of California at Los Angeles
« ‘I schal send the frendys anowe’ : Female Friendship in The Book of Margery Kempe »
Ashley Williard, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
« ‘Ce commerce d’Amour’ : La Fayolle on Mission and Marriage in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean »
12 :00-1 :00 Lunch
1 :00-2 :30 Project Demonstrations
Kenna Olsen, Mount Royal University
« Material Girls : Middle English Secular Female Scribes and their Cultural Agents »
Christine McWebb, University of Waterloo and Lori J. Walters, Florida State University
« The Christine de Pizan Digital Scriptorium : Its Creation & Implementation for Teaching & Research »
2 :30-4 :00 Session 6 : Revisiting the Debate on Early Modern Salons II : Salon Sociability in France and Ireland
Julie D. Campbell, Eastern Illinois University
« Marie de Beaulieu and Precursors of the Précieuses in Sixteenth-Century France »
Chanel de Halleux, Univeristé libre de Bruxelles
« Fanny de Beauharnais’ Salon : A Promoter to ‘Light Poetry’ (1762-1780) »
Maureen E. Mulvihill, Princeton Research Forum
« The Remarkable Mary Tighe (1772-1810) : An Irish Poetess & Her London Salon » With table display.
4 :00-5 :30 Coffee Break
5 :30-7 :00 Session 7 : The Republic of Letters II
Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami
« From the Community of Women Authors and Readers to the History of Evil Queens in the Works of Louise de Kéralio (1758-1821) »
Mélinda Caron, Fordham University
« A Distinguished and Anonymous Female Presence : Louise d’Épinay and the Correspondance littéraire’s Imagined Community »
Tania Robles, Complutense University of Madrid
« Madame Roland’s Letters : A Source for the History of the French Revolution »
8 :00 Dinner (optional, off-campus)
Friday, June 20
8 :30-9 :00 Continental Breakfast
9 :00-10 :30 Session 8 : Transmission of Knowledge
Francesca Canadé Sautman, Hunter College and Graduate Centre and the City University of New York
« Building Women’s Community through Patronage in Late Fifteenth-Century Burgundy »
Henriette Goldwyn, New York University
« Female Prophesying in France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes »
Mallika Lecoeur, Columbia University
« Conversation as Childsplay: The Performances of Madame de Maintenon’s Conversations at the Royale Maison de Saint-Louis»
Sylvène Renoud, Université de Nantes
« The Representation of the Delivering Woman’s Body : The Role of Midwives in Knowledge
Transmission in the Ancien Régime »
9 :00-10 :30 Session 9 : Cultural Production by Pre-Modern Women
Kathleen Loysen, Montclair State University
« Women and Communities of Authorship : The Storytelling Scene »
Britt-Marie Karlsson, University of Gothenburg
« Women’s Intellectual Work in Sixteenth-Century France : The Case of Hélisenne de Crenne »
Cecilia Rosengren, University of Gothenburg
« Political Implications of the Bodily Gestures in the Peritexts of Margaret Cavendish »
10 :30-11 :00 Coffee break
11 :00-12 :30 Session 10 : Upper-Class Women, Agency and Authorities
Sini Mikola, University of Helsinki
« Valuing Women’s Voices : Martin Luther’s (1483-1546) Responses to Female Agency »
Rose-Marie Peake, University of Helsinki
« Submissive servant, yet great leader ? Louise de Marillac (1591-1660) and Authority »
Claire Buchet, Université de Paris XIII
« Bring Up to the Power : The Princess of Condé and the Princely Education of the Future Grand Condé between 1643 and 1646 »
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