« Walking and Wandering in Early Modern Culture and Literature »
A joint London Renaissance Seminar / Paris Early Modern Seminar Conference, 21-22 June 2018
Institut du Monde Anglophone, Université Sorbonne nouvelle, 5 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris (Metro: Odéon), Room 16.
Thursday, 21 June
1.30 pm: Andrew Gordon (University of Aberdeen), « ‘My fete full slow be ye and lame when ye should move’: On the trouble with Renaissance walking ».
2.00 pm: Pierre Kapitaniak (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3), « Wandering and haunting: What it means to “move like a ghost” ».
2.30 pm: Sarah Ross (Victoria University, New Zealand) (read by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann): « Relocating Alice Egerton »
3.00-3.45: Question time and coffee break
3.45 pm: Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris-Diderot), « »Walking pilgrims and wandering pagans in Thomas Heywood’s The Four Prentices of London (c. 1594) ».
4.15 pm: Michael Willis (University of London), The moving spectator: performance, spectatorship and civic power in the 1617 Lord Mayor’s Show ».
4.45 pm: Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck College, University of London), « Mary Rowlandson’s ‘Removes’: Journeys in wild places ».
5.15 pm-6.30 pm: Question time and Drinks
Friday, 22 June
9.00 am: Per Sivefors (Linnaeus University), « ‘Heere may I sit, yet walke to Westminster’: Urban peregrination in Elizabethan verse satire ».
9.30 am: Claire Labarbe (Université Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3), « ‘Landmarks and characters’ of the city : reading Donald Lupton’s rambler’s guide to early modern London. »
10.00 am: Abigail Shinn (Goldsmiths, University of London), « Walking and gadding in John Taylor’s Rebellious Roundhead (1643) ».
10.30-11.00 am: Question time and coffee break
11.00 am: Aurélie Griffin (Université Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3), « Walking and wandering in Arcadia ».
11.30 am: Nandini Das (University of Liverpool), « ‘No walke without a recreation’: Will Kemp’s jig ».
12.00 pm: James Loxley (University of Edinburgh), « The Jonsonian poetics of the path ».
12.30 – 1.00 pm: Question time
Contact: Line Cottegnies (line.cottegnies@paris-sorbonne.fr), Denis Lagae-Devoldère (dlagaedevoldere@gmail.com), Ladan Niayesh (niayesh@univ-paris-diderot.fr) and Sue Wiseman (wiseman.susan@googlemail.com).
PEMS est soutenu par : EA 4398 PRISMES (Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3), EA 4085 VALE (Sorbonne Université), UMR 8225 LARCA (Paris Diderot- Paris 7), EA370 CREA QUARTO (Paris Nanterre), EA 3958 IMAGER (Paris Est Créteil), EA 2449 DYPAC (Versailles Saint-Quentin), EA 4299 CIRLEP (Reims Champagne Ardenne).