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Location: Graduate Student Center (click here for maps and directions)

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Friday April 15th

Registration
8:30-9:00 am

Panel 1: Language, Sound, and Music
9:00-10:15 am
Chair: Kristjan Hannesson

Jerrod Rosenbaum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Kabbalah and Cryptology in More’s Utopian Language”

Megan K. Eagen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“‘A Literary … or Musical Gift’: Erasmus Rotenbucher’s Bergkreyen as a Primer for Protestant Lay Exegesis”

Ashley Werlinich, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“‘A Confused Noise Within’: Supernatural Sounds in Shakespeare’s The Tempest”

Panel 2: Borders and Boundaries
10:15-11:30 am
Chair: Ashley Werlinich

Sam Brock, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Dante and Medieval World Maps”

Kristjan Hannesson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Vera an falsa crimina: Invectives as a Site of the Humanistic Ideal”

Kevin Chovanec, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“‘Soe many tongues the spirit sure was there’”

Keynote 1
11:30-12:45 pm

Dr. Whitney Trettien, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Edward Benlowes & Queer Humanisms”

Lunch
12:45-2:00 pm

Library Exhibit
2:00-4:00 pm
Location: Grand Reading Room, Wilson Library

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Saturday April 16th

Breakfast
8:30-9:00 am

Panel 3: Medical and Digital Humanities
9:00-10:15 am
Chair: Katie Landers

Michael Clark, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“John Caius and ‘the so-called medical humanists’: Rethinking Our Approach to the Medical Humanities”

Mary Learner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Much Ado About No-things: Erotic Impersonations and Early Modern Courtship Ballads”

Grant Glass, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Lost Context: Investigating the Borders in Andrea Alciato’s Emblematic“

Coffee
10:15-10:30 am

Panel 4: Violence
10:30-11:45 am
Chair: Matt Diem

Colleen McAlister, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Violence and Fame in the Quijote: Corporeal Manifestations of the Search for Identity”

Matthew Charles Carter, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“Crossed Swords”

Morgan Souza, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Violence and Maternity: A Breast-Baring Motif”

Lunch
11:45-1:00 pm

Panel 5: A Return to the Classics
1:00-2:15 pm
Chair: Ani Govjian

Matt Diem, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Aristophanic Chaucer: Echoes of Old Comedy in the Canterbury Tales”

Philip Gilreath, College of Charleston
“Shakespeare’s ‘New-Born Gauds’ and the Myth of the Trojan War”

James Norman, Bridgewater State University
“Wicked World: Satan’s Humanism, and Education in Paradise Lost“

Panel 6: Mediators
2:15-3:30 pm
Chair: Susan O’Rourke

Evyan Gainey, Appalachian State University
“‘Enter ANNE in her bed’: Annulling Transabled Identity in A Woman Killed With Kindness”

Courtney Lewallen, Appalachian State University
“Early Modern Posthumanism in Shakespeare’s King Lear”

Katie Landers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Mediating the Human in Margaret Cavendish’s Assaulted and Pursued Chastity and The Blazing World”

Coffee
3:30-3:45 pm

Keynote 2
3:45-5:00 pm

Dr. Lucy Munro, King’s College London
“On Proverbs: Humanists, Humanisms, and Post-Humanisms”

Round Table Discussion
5:00-6:00 pm
Facilitators: Michael Clark and Mary Learner

Reception
6:00-8:00