The University of Michigan
The Rhetorics and Rituals of (Un)veiling
in Early Modern Europe


Schedule of Events

Friday 3 October
9-12 a.m
 Workshops
  • Catherine Brown (Romance Languages [Spanish]/Comp.Lit., UM), Jose Rabasa (Romance Languages [Spanish and Latin American Literature]) and Katherine Roth (graduate student, Romance Languages [French]) "Catholicism Reads Veiled Bodies" (Commons, MLB 4th floor)

  • Stephen Campbell (History of Art, UM) and Sandra Seekins (graduate student, History of Art, UM) on the exhibition "The Body (Un)Veiled: Boundaries of the Figure in Early Modern Europe" (Corridor Gallery, Museum of Art)

  • Michael Schoenfeldt (English, UM), Michael Macdonald (History, UM) and Theresa Braunschneider (graduate student, English/Women's Studies, UM) "Medical Bodies" (Institute for the Humanities, Rackham, Room 1524)

  • Michael Wintroub (History, UM), Doug Hildebrecht (graduate student, History of Art, UM) and Annemarie Sammartino (graduate student, History, UM) "Framing the Invisible: Science, the New World, and Seeing the Self" (1024 Tisch Hall)
2.00 p.m. Welcome
2-5 p.m
Angell Hall
Auditorium B 		Session I: "Rhetorical" Strategies
  • Chair: Stephen Mullaney, English, UM

  • Patricia Parker (English and Comp Lit, Stanford Univ), "Moors and More"

  • Julia Perlman (graduate student, History of Art, UM), "Venus and the Elders: The Voyeuristic Fantasies of Iconographic Method"

  • Stephen Whitworth (graduate student, English, Bowling Green State Univ.), "Androgyne Schemes: Rhetoric and Ontology in Dickenson's ARISBAS (1595)"

  • Helmut Puff (German/History, UM), "The Rhetorics of the (Un)speakable: Policing Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland"
5.30-7.15 p.m
Corridor Gallery
Museum of Art 		Reception at the Exhibition
"The Body (Un)Veiled: Boundaries of the Figure in Early Modern Europe"
7.30 p.m
Hutchins Hall
Room 100 Honigman Auditorium 		Keynote lecture
"Dressing/Undressing: Constituting the Subject in Early Modern Europe"
  • Introduction: Linda Gregerson, English, UM

  • Peter Stallybrass (English Literature and Cultural Studies, Univ of Pennsylvania) and Ann Rosalind Jones (Comp Lit., Smith)
Saturday
4 October
9-12 a.m.
Angell Hall
Auditorium B 		Session II: Costumes and Customs
  • Chair: Alison Cornish, Romance Languages [Italian], UM

  • Pat Simons (History of Art/Women's Studies, UM) "'Clothe all of it with its flesh'": Artifice and layers of (un)dress in Italian Renaissance visual culture"

  • Giulia Calvi (History, University of Siena), "Dress, Gender and Citizenship in Early Modern Tuscany"

  • Diane Owen Hughes (History, UM), "Costume Maps of the Hapsburg Empire: Spain and the Designs of Veiditz and Vico"

  • Rose Pruiksma (graduate student, Musicology, UM), "The Fabric of Noblesse in Louis XIV's court ballets"
2-5 p.m
Angell Hall
Auditorium B
 Session III: "Secret" Spaces
  • Chair: Elizabeth Horodowich, graduate student, History, UM

  • Valentin Groebner (History, University of Basle), "Signs, Spies, Bribes: The Politics of the Invisible in Renaissance Basle"

  • William Eamon (History, New Mexico State University), "(Un)masking Nature in Early Modern Popular Culture"

  • Richard Rambuss (English, Emory), "The Prayer Closet"

  • Kathryn Babayan (Near Eastern Studies, UM), "From Intuition to Reason: Veiling and the Hardening of Gender Lines in Early Modern Iran"
7.15 p.m
University Reformed Church
1001 East Huron (behind Rackham)
 Pre-concert Lecture
"Hearing Venus: the Rhetoric of (Un)Veiling and Seduction in Seventeenth-Century Hispanic Songs" Louise K. Stein (Musicology, UM)
8:00 p.m
University Reformed Church
1001 East Huron (behind Rackham)
 Venus (Un)Veiled
Songs from Seventeenth-Century Spain, Dances from Africa and Mexico, Opera from Peru

The Harp Consort:

    Ellen Hargis - soprano;
    Judith Malafronte - mezzo soprano;
    Paul O'Dette - baroque guitar, theorbo;
    Pat O'Brien - baroque guitar;
    Andrew Lawrence-King - baroque harp, director
Tickets $20 ($15 students) can be purchased: in town at SKR Classical, Tower Records, Warehouse Records, and Hudsons; Ticket-Master charge by phone (810) 645-6666; or at the door.
Sunday 5 October
9.30 a.m. -1.00 p.m.
Angell Hall
Auditorium B 		Session IV: Cartographies of the Body
  • Chair: Celeste Brusati, History of Art, UM

  • Katherine Park (History of Science/Women's Studies, Harvard), "Seeing Beneath the Skin: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection"

  • Patricia Seed (History, Rice), "Colonial Pentimento: Revealing the Identity of 'Indians'"

  • Tom Conley (French, Harvard), "The Cartographic Veil in Baroque France"

  • Valerie Traub (English/Women's Studies, UM), "Mapping the Global Body"
Concluding Remarks
Domna Stanton (Romance Languages [French]/Women's Studies, UM)
An international, interdisciplinary conference supported by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Office for the Vice President for Research, the Centre for European Studies, the Programme for British Studies, the International Institute, the Programme in Society and Medicine (Medical School), the School of Music, the Women's Studies Program, the Medieval and Renaissance Collegium, and the Departments of English, German, History, History of Art, and Romance Languages. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public.

For further information on all events, call (313) 764-5400





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