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SRC, Nov. 1-2 2013

The 70th annual meeting of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference will be held on November 1-2, 2013, at Duke University in Durham, NC. We have promise of a colorful fall, warm hospitality from our hosts—George Williams, Joe Porter, and their colleagues at Duke—and an exciting gathering of Renaissance scholars from across the country. Please forward this email to faculty and students at your institution who are engaged in Renaissance studies.

LODGING: All activities for this year’s conference will take place in the same venue:  The R. David Thomas Executive Conference Center, Fuqua School of Business, on the campus of Duke University. The address is No. 1 Science Drive, just off NC Highway 751, immediately across the highway from the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club.  On the edge of the Duke campus, the Thomas Center is a ten-minute walk from the library, chapel, and gardens.

To reserve a room, you can call the Thomas Center directly at 919 660-6060 or book online at http://blogs.fuqua.duke.edu/rdtecc/ .  When reserving your room, indicate that you will be attending the meeting of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference.  Rooms are available at the rate of $139/night.  Please make your reservations before October 11.  The Center website provides directions, photos, and instructions for reservations; some specific links are available below.  Another convenient option for lodging is the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, 919 490-0999. 

DIRECTIONS: The Center’s website provides comprehensive directions for arrival from all points, including the Durham airport:

http://blogs.fuqua.duke.edu/rdtecc/driving-directions-maps/ .

For those driving to the Conference, free parking is available adjacent to the Center.

The following links provide a map of downtown Durham http://www.durham-nc.com/visitors/maps/

and an interactive map

SCHEDULE: The conference will be held at the Glaxo Room in the Thomas Center. Registration begins on Friday, November 1, at noon, directly outside the Glaxo Room. The first session runs from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.; the second from 3:15 to 5:15 p.m. Complimentary snacks and beverages will available at all times during the conference.

Attendees can relax after the end of the second session and await the opening of a cash bar adjoining the Thomas Center’s Dining Room, where we will gather at 7:00 for a banquet hosted by The Office of the Provost, Duke University.  Courtesy of The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, wine will flow freely, and entertainment will follow our dinner. 

Saturday, November 2, Conference activities begin at 8:15 a.m. with complimentary breakfast. We will continue with two more sessions, from 8:45 to 10:45 a.m., and from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., with a Break/Business Meeting between 10:45-11:30 a.m.  Complimentary beverages and snacks will be available.          

ATTENDANCE CONFIRMATION: By Oct. 1, Please let me know via email ( stockard@fau.edu )  1) that you plan to attend this year’s meeting, 2) whether you will be staying at the Center, and 3) whether you will be attending the banquet.  Indicate as well the name and affiliation you would like on your nametag.

             

Southeastern Renaissance Conference Program

 

                                    Friday, November 1, 2013

Session I: 1:00-3:00 p.m.    Contrary Commonwealths

Presiding: Michele Ware (North Carolina Central University)

John N. Wall, North Carolina State University: “George Herbert’s Incarnational Poetics”    

Mara Amster, Randolph College: “A … harlot is true in nothing but in being false”: Prostitute Performances and Anti-Sprezzatura

Kevin Chovanec, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: “”What is there in three dice”: The Role of Demons in the History of Probability”

Anthony Welch, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: “Anthropology and Anthropophagy in The Faerie Queen

Session II: 3:15-5:15           The Poetics of Reinvention

Presiding: Matthew Cook (North Carolina Central University)

Paul Stapleton, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: “King Arthur and the Battle of Badon Hill in Milton’s History of Britain”

Gerald Snare, Tulane University-Emeritus: “Neo-classical Drama in the Renaissance: The Case of George Buchanan’s Jephthes”    

Pamela Macfie, The University of the South: “Allusion as Plunder: Marlowe, Hero and Leander, and Colluthus’ Rape of Helen”

William Coulter, Randolph College: “A Clearing in The Forrest: Some Thoughts on Jonson and Spenser”

Evening: Dinner, 7:00 p.m., Dining Hall, Thomas Center

 

 Saturday, November 2, 2013 

Continental Breakfast, 8:15 a.m.

Session III: 8:45-10:45          Technologies of the Self

Presiding: Joanna Kucinski (North Carolina Central University)

Margaret Simon, North Carolina State University: “Authorial Feints and Affecting Forms in George Gascoigne’s The Adventures of Master F.J.”   

Andrew S. Keener, Northwestern University: “Prefatory Friendships: Florio’s Montaigne and Material Technologies of the Self”   

Jessica Schiermeister, Mary Baldwin College: “‘Youth in Petticoats’: The Early Modern Boy Actor, the All-Male Stage, and Female Performance”

Ruth Stevenson, Union College: “The Painting/Tapestry and the Narrator in Shakespeare’s Lucrece

Refreshments/Officer’s Business Meeting, 10:45-11:30                            

Session IV: 11:30-1:30       Rereading Shakespeare

Presiding: Rachelle Gold (North Carolina Central University)

Tom Hester, North Carolina State University: “‘ Are we turned Turks’: Reading His-story in Othello”        

Ward Risvold, University of Georgia: “ ‘Cucullus non facit monachum’: Hooded Words, Tricky Speech, and Licentia in Measure for Measure

Patricia B. Wareh, Union College: “Reading the Body in Cymbeline

Christopher Crosbie, North Carolina State University: “The Comedy of Errors, Haecceity, and the Metaphysics of Individuation”      

DUES: 

Many thanks to those who have already sent dues. At the Conference it can be difficult to register the many new and old members.  I greatly appreciate your sending dues ($17.50) in advance, together with contact information (name, address, phone, email), to Emily Stockard, SRC Secretary-Treasurer, College of Arts and Letters, DW 303B, Florida Atlantic University, 3200 College Avenue, Davie, FL  33314.

But you may join or renew at the meeting. The best bargain in the academic cosmos is still the SRC: the yearly fee of $17.50 covers mailings, a copy of Renaissance Papers, and most costs of the meeting, including the banquet, reception, entertainment, and coffee breaks. The generosity of our host institutions borders on the legendary. They deserve our heartfelt thanks, which you may deliver personally to George Williams, Joe Porter and their colleagues at the conference.  I hope to greet you all personally at our meeting at Duke.

Best,

Emily Stockard

SRC Secretary-Treasurer

Associate Professor of English

Florida Atlantic University

Davie, FL  33314

stockard@fau.edu

 

 

 

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