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New England Renaissance Conference 2019:
“Motion, Rhythm, Shifts”
Oct. 5, 2019
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
(all events will take place at RISD’s Chace Auditorium unless indicated otherwise below)
SCHEDULE
(as of 9 July 2019)
9:00am-9:30am Light Breakfast
9:30am Opening Remarks:
welcome by Museum Director + Provost + NERC President;
introduction by conference organizer Pascale Rihouet
9:45-11:00am First Session: The Pulse of Ritual
- Francisco Orts-Ruiz (UNED, Madrid): Rhythm of the Urban Ceremony. Music and Sounds in the Royal Entry of Juan II and Juana Enríquez in Valencia (1459)
- Borja Franco Llopis (UNED Madrid): Morisco dances in Christian festivities
- Cristelle Baskins (Tufts University): Mediterranean Crossings: The King of Tunis at Habsburg Courts
11:00-11:20am Coffee break
11:20am-12:50pm Second Session: Shifts in Books
- Daniel Ruppel (Brown University & Roger Williams University): Imaginary Passings: Shifting Genres and Syncopated Time in the Entry of the Queen Gijllette
- William S. Monroe (Brown University, Hay Library): On the Use of Roman and Arabic Numerals in Earliest Printed Books
- Tara Nummedal (Brown University): Arhythmic Reading and Alchemical Practice
1:00pm-3:15pm Lunch
1:45-2:30pm Demonstration: tempera (Rich Gann, Chace lobby)
2:00-2:45pm Workshop: engraving (Andrew Raftery, Benson Hall)
1:30-3:00pm Prints & Drawings Exhibition (Jamie Gabbarelli, PDP department, 5th floor of museum)
2:00-3:00pm 30-min tours of the Early Modern collections, RISD Museum (Suzanne Scanlan, Susan Ward, Maureen O’ Brien, Pascale Rihouet)
3:15-4:10pm Third Session: Bodies in Motion
- Chris Yates (Brown University): “The highways are stopp’d with them”: Circulation the City in The Roaring Girl
- Todd Borgerding (Rhode Island College): Counterpoint, Improvisation, and Bodies in Motion
4:10-4:50pm Final Discussant: Evelyn Lincoln (Brown University) & Open Discussion
5:00pm-6:30pm Concert and Reception in Fleet Library
The New England Renaissance Conference (NERC) is the oldest scholarly association in the USA dedicated to study of the early modern period (roughly 1400-1700). It has no constitution, membership fee, or fixed location; it is a consciously interdisciplinary group. Since it was founded in 1939, the NERC conference has been rotating each year; in 2019 it will be hosted for the first time at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
RISD (pronounced “RIZ-dee”) is a private, nonprofit college founded in Providence in 1877 that has currently circa 2,400 students from around the world. It offers liberal arts studies and 19 studio majors in the fine arts, architecture, design or art education (bachelor’s or master’s degrees). All events will take place at RISD’s Chace Auditorium, unless indicated otherwise.
The conference will be free to all. A dinner and accommodation on 4th October are planned for the speakers.
See also: http://www.new-england-renaissance-conference.org/