SEDERI 13
13th International Conference on English Renaissance Studies
University of Vigo, 21-23 March 2002
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Detailed preliminary programme (subject to last-minute modification)

Thursday, March 21st

09:00h-10:00h: Registration
10:00h-10:30h: Opening session (Otero Pedrayo Room)
10:30h-11:30h: Plenary session (Otero Pedrayo Room).- John Drakakis (University of Stirling) “Jews, Bastards and Black Rams: The 'strange' outsiders in The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing and OthelloChair: Angel Luis Pujante (University of Murcia)
11:30h-11:45h: Coffee break
11:45h-13:00h: Paper sessions
Panel 1: Linguistics I (Otero Pedrayo Room):
Chair: Elena Seoane (University of Santiago de Compostela)
- Jane Griffiths (Magdalene College, University of Oxford) “The matter of invention: Coinage and semantic change in early Renaissance England”
- Rosa María Álvarez Cougil & Ana González Cruz (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) “On the development of deverbal conjunctions. A case-study on the grammaticalization of provided (that) in early Modern English”
Panel 2: Comparative Shakespeare (Room 2)
Chair: Rui Carvalho (University of Porto)
- Maria de Jesús Crespo Candeias Velez Relvas (Universidade Aberta, Portugal) “The literary construction of a monstrous portrait: King Richard III, by Thomas More and William Shakespeare”
- José María Rodríguez García (University of Santiago de Compostela) “Shakespeare, the 'Classic' and William Carlos Williams”
13:00h: City Hall reception
16:00h-17:15h: Paper sessions
Panel 3: Translation and Shakespeare (Otero Pedrayo Room):
Chair: Keith Gregor (University of Murcia)
- Laura Campillo Arnaiz (University of Murcia & Universität Basel) “Spanish translations of culture-bound elements in The First Part of Henry IV: A historical perspective”
- M. Gomes da Torre (University of Porto) “Discussing the sex of fairies: A problem in the translation of A Midsummer Night's Dream into Portuguese”
17:15h-17:30h: Coffee break
17:30h-18:45h: Round table sessions
Round Table A (Otero Pedrayo Room): Clara Calvo, Keith Gregor & Angel Luis Pujante (University of Murcia) “Shakespeare in Spain in the framework of European culture”
Round Table B (Room 2): Zenon Luis Martínez, Leticia Álvarez Recio & Alberto Zambrana (University of Huelva & University of Sevilla) “Drama and the restoration crisis reassessed (1678-1682): The performance of the civil conflict in Nahum Tate's Richard II (1689), Elkanah Settle's The Female Prelate (1680) and Thomas Otway's Venice Preserved (1682)"
18:45h-19:45h: Plenary session (Otero Pedrayo Room).- Francisco Fernández (University of Valencia) “W. Dumbar's lament for the Makaris: Some relevant features of 16th Century northern English” Chair: Marta Dahlgren (University of Vigo)
20:00h: Sederi Shakespeare Night (Caixanova Theatre) "William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost", performed by the USC Amateur Theatre Group

Friday, March 22nd

09.00h-11.00h: Paper sessions
Panel 4: Cultural Studies (Otero Pedrayo Room):
Chair: Luciano Garcia (University of Jaén)
- Isabel Karreman (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München) “One and one is two, three is potency”
- Maurizio Calbi (University of Salerno) “Monstering bodies: Race, erotism and gaze in Early Modern literature and culture”
- Marcia Tiburi (Univeristy of Unisinos-Unilasalle) “The Saturn's Body: Melancholy and method in the Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
Panel 5: Miscellaneous Studies on Poetry & Theatre (Room 2):
Chair: Zenón Luis Martínez (University of Huelva)
- Jorge Casanova (University of Huelva) “Between The Complete Gentelman (1622) and The Complete Angler (1653): Incisions in the poetry of Richard Lovelace”
- Sonia Villegas López (University of Huelva) “Narrative levels in The Inhumane Cardinal (1696) by Mary Pix”
- Pilar Cuder Domínguez (University of Huelva) “The islamisation of Spain in William Rowley and Mary Pix”
11:00h-11:15h: Coffee break
11:15h-13:00h: Paper sessions
Panel 6: Linguistics II (Otero Pedrayo Room):
Chair: María José López Couso (University of SDantiago de Compostela)
- Paloma Núñez Pertejo (University of Santiago de Compostela) “Adjectival participles or present participles? On the classification of some dubious examples from the Helsinki Corpus”
- Victorina González Díaz (The University of Manchester / University of Vigo) “English adjective comparison in the Renaissance period”
- Bjorg Baekken (Univeristy of Bergen) “'Yet this follie doth many times assault the brauest minds': Affirmative declarative do in 17th century English”
Panel 7: Restoration Drama (Room 2):
Chair: Jorge Casanova (University of Huelva)
- Rafael Velez Núñez (University of Cádiz) “Melancholic sounds: Singing madness in Restoration Drama”
- Rafael Portillo (University of Sevilla) “Vizards, Gallants, Wenches and Wits: Playgoing in Early Restoration London”
- Carlos Gómez (University of A Coruña) “Farcical innocuousness versus morality and satire in the comedies of Thomas Durfey”
13:00h-14:00h: Plenary session (Otero Pedrayo Room).- Jacqueline Pearson (The University of Manchester) “Female bodies and feminine spaces” Chair: Pilar Cuder (Univeristy of Huelva)
16:00h-18:00h: Paper sessions
Panel 8: History (Otero Pedrayo Room):
Chair: Juan Antonio Prieto Pablos (University of Sevilla)
- Francisco J. Borge (University of Oviedo) “Richard Hakluyt and the promotion of the New World: The English nation in the making”
- Luz María Santamarta Lozano (University of Oviedo) “When did it all begin? Origins of the Anglo-Spanish conflict in the 16th Century?”
- Jesús Isaias Gómez López & José Carlos Redondo Olmedilla (University of Almería) “The Elizabethan pamphlet that foretold the end of the world”
Panel 9: Linguistics III (Room 2):
Chair: Luis Iglesias Rábade (University of Santiago de Compostela)
- Pilar Sánchez García (University of Salamanca) “Early Modern English literary dialect in Brome's The Northern Lass and Late Lancashire Witches
- Elvira Pérez (University of Salamanca) “The spread of non-European commercial and scientific loanwords in 16th Century English”
- Fuencisla García-Bermejo Giner (University of Salamanca) “Early sixteenth century evidence for [i, ia]>OE long a in the North?”
- Gudelia Rodríguez Sánchez (University of Salamanca) “Noah's Flood: Chester and Townley”
18:00h-18:15h: Coffee break
18:15h-19:15h: Plenary session (Otero Pedrayo Room).- António Maria de Castro Feijó (University of Lisbon) “Muscular inkhorns: Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, Part IChair: María Salomé Machado (University of Lisbon)
19:15h: SEDERI General Meeting (Otero Pedrayo Room)
21:45h: Conference Dinner at Club Financiero de Vigo Dinning Hall

Saturday, March 23rd

09:30h-11:00h: Paper sessions
Panel 10: Miscelaneous (Otero Pedrayo Room):
Chair: Jorge Figueroa Dorrego (University of Vigo)
- Nuno Manuel Dias Pinto Ribeiro (University of Porto) “The Second Coming. Prophecy and utopian thought in John Milton (1608-1674) and Antonio Vieira (1608-1697)"
- Rosa Flotats (Freelance Researcher, Vic) “Censoring and censors: Aeropagitica in the 21st Century”
- Paula Rodríguez Gómez (University of Valladolid) “Juliet's Mirror. A study on characters symmetry in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Measure for Measure
10:00h-11:00h: Presentation: Oxford English Dictionary (Room 1).- Jane Griffiths (Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
11:00h-11:15h: Coffee break
11:15h-13:00h: Paper sessions
Panel 11: Jacobean Literature (Otero Pedrayo Room):
Chair: Rafael Portillo (University of Sevilla)
- Rui Carvalho Homem (University of Porto) "Portuguese amazons, extravagant voyagers: Perplexities of travel and desire in Fletcher's The Sea Voyage (1622) and Brome's The Antipodes
- Coleen Shea (Queen's University Kingston) “Ben Jonson's verse epistles and the construction of the ideal patron”
- Maria Salomé Machado (University of Lisbon) “Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam
Panel 12: Comparative Studies (Room 2):
Chair: Francisco Javier Sánchez Escribano (University of Zaragoza)
- Beatriz Rodríguez Rodríguez (University of Santiago de Compostela) “The French influence on David Rowland's translation of El Lazarillo de Tormes (1586)”
- Maria Jesús Pando Canteli (University of Deusto) “'... and often Absences Withdrew our Soules and made us Carcasses': The destructive power of the female figure in Donne's Nocturnall and Quevedo's Love Poetry
- Elena Domínguez Romero (University of Huelva) “Thomas Morley's First Book of Madrigals to Four Voices and the Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles”
13:00h-14:00h: Plenary session (Otero Pedrayo Room).- Terttu Nevalainen (University of Helsinki) “Sociolinguistic perspectives on Tudor English” Chair: Santiago González y Fernández-Corugedo (University of Oviedo)
14:00h: Closing session (Otero Pedrayo Room)

Poster session (from Thursday to Saturday at CFV Main Entrance)
Francisco González García (University of Salamanca) “Love might make me leave loving: The variety of meanings of 'Love' in John Donne's Songs and Sonnets

Book exhibition by Oxford University Press, Palgrave & Ashgate Books
(from Thursday to Saturday at CFV Main Entrance)

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