MEMORY: RECOLLECTIONS OF THE RENAISSANCE

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The Early Modern Studies in Scotland Seminar (EMSIS)
The Scottish Institute of Northern Renaissance Studies (SINRS)
and
The Glasgow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (GCMRS)
present a Colloquium:

Saturday 1st November 2008

School of English and Scottish Language and Literature (SESLL)

4 University Gardens, Room 202

University of Glasgow

11 am: Arrivals and Coffee

11.30-12.45: SESSION ONE

‘Remembering Aemilia Lanyer’, Kate Chedgzoy, University of Newcastle.

‘Would the real Moll Cutpurse please stand up?: (mis)remembering Mary Frith’, Vicky Price, University of Glasgow.

12.45-1.30: lunch

1.30-2.45: SESSION TWO

‘Memory, affect and responsibility in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde’, Ruth Evans, University of Stirling.

‘“Whiles of my selfe I shall have memory”: Henry Howard and the Tudor business of remembering’, Andrew Hiscock, University of Bangor.

2.45-3.15: tea

3.15-4.30: SESSION THREE

‘Mourning and Remembering in Middleton’s Puritan Widow’, Andrew Gordon, University of Aberdeen.

‘Forgotten Ophelias: Shakespeare’s heroines behind barbed wire’, Michael Dobson, Birkbeck College, University of London.

4.30-4.45: break

4.45-5.45: SESSION FOUR

Informal round-table discussion, led by Willy Maley, University of Glasgow.

5.45: Concluding remarks and close.

NB: If you plan to come to this event, please contact Rob Maslen (r.maslen@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk), so he can get an idea of numbers. Registration will take place on arrival. We will ask for the following fee to help cover our costs: waged £10; unwaged free. Fees will be collected on the day. There are a limited number of bursaries available to help students with travel; please contact Andrew Gordon for details (a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk). All other correspondence should be addressed to Rob Maslen.