conference at the Univeristy of Alberta

Sun May 24 16:55:43 UTC 1998

The conference MAKING CONTACT: NATIVES, STRANGERS, AND BARBARIANS,
which includes topics of interest to Slavists,
will be held at the University of Alberta on October 1-3, 1998.

Attached please find a copy of a tentative schedule for the conference.
We will try to make as few changes to the schedule as
possible.  Starting and finishing times for the conference (that is,
Thursday afternoon to Saturday afternoon) will remain constant.

We should have registration information and forms out to you by the end of
June.  Updated copies of the schedule and other information about the
conference, as well as registration forms, should be on the Medieval and
Early Modern Institute's web site soon.  The web site address is
http://www.ualberta.ca/~englishd/MEMI.htm.

From 21 May to 15 June please address any questions about the conference to
Jonathan Hart, co-director of MEMI (jonathan.hart at ualberta.ca).

Posted by Natalia Pylypiuk, MEMI (member of the executive).

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MAKING CONTACT: NATIVES, STRANGERS, AND BARBARIANS

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
(** indicate Slavic topics)

THURSDAY, 1st. October, 1998

2:30-5:30   REGISTRATION

4:00-5:30   CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1.  David Gay (English, Alberta), " The Border of Painting, Poetry and Film
in Ken McMullen's  R: The Dutchman"
     Richard Young (Modern Languages, Alberta), "Reading the Past in the
Present: Cabeza de  Vaca in History and Film"
     Garrett Epp (English, Alberta), "Jarman's Edward II"

2.  Rachel Warburton (English, Alberta), "Syphilitic Authority"
     Jim Ellis (English, Calgary), "Politics of Erotics in Male Friendship
Texts"
     Stephen Guy-Bray (English, British Columbia), "Sir Launfal as Male
Impersonator"

3.  Paul De Pasquale (English, Alberta), "The Myth of the Golden Age
Reconsidered:  Predicaments in Representing the New World for the English
Travel Writer, 1584-1610"
     Lesley Cormack (History and Classics, Alberta), "The Theatre of the
Empire of Great Britain:  Geography and the Creation of Britain"
     Rick Lee (English, Rutgers),  "'I could not but fall in love with
myselfe': Stylizations of  Selfhood in Pierre Esprit Radisson's Voyages"

7:30-8:30   PUBLIC LECTURE, Provincial Museum of Alberta
                  Olive Dickason (History, Ottawa),
                  "Iron Men, True Men, and the Art of Treaty-Making"

8:30-10:00   RECEPTION and TOUR
                     Syncrude Gallery of Native History,
                     Provincial Museum of Alberta

FRIDAY, 2nd. October, 1998

8:00-9:00   REGISTRATION

9:00-10:30 a.m.   CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1.  Mary Baine Campbell (English, Brandeis), "Fashion and Anthropology: The
Case  of Maculophobia"
     Leanne Groeneveld (English, Alberta), "Agency and the Playing of the
Sacrament:  The Miracle in The Croxton Play of the Sacrament as Masochistic
Fantasy"
     Klaus Neuman (Australian National University), "European Cannibals"

2.  Carolyn Ives (English, Alberta) and David Parkinson (English,
Saskatchewan), "The Fountain  and Very Being of Truth: James VI and the
Development of Scottish National Identity"
     James Knapp (English, Rochester), "Fantasies of the Primitive in John
Derrickes's Image of  Ireland"
     Stephen King (English, Alberta), "'A Prentise in the Divine Art of
Poesie': James VI's  Artistic and Political Coming of Age"

3.  Andrew Taylor (English, Saskatchewan), "The Harley Manual as a Site of
Trade"
     Sian Echard (English, British Columbia), "Bracketing the Text: Readers'
Interventions in Gower's Confession Amantis"
     Iain Higgins (English, British Columbia), "Wondering Where the Borders
Are within and  across Manuscripts and Versions: The Case of  The Book of
John Mandeville"

10:30-11:00    COFFEE

11:00-12:30    CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1.  Haijo Westra (Greek, Latin, and Ancient History, Calgary), "Status and
Function of  Medieval Latin vis à vis the Vernacular"
    ** Gunter Schaarschmidt (Slavonic Studies, Victoria), "Contact and
Influence in a Co-Territorial Situation: Sorbian and German"
     John Considine (English, Alberta), "Language Contact and Language
Extinction in Early Modern Europe"

2.  Linda Woodbridge (English, Pennsylvania State), "Vagrancy"
     Pamela Stanton (History and Classics, Alberta), "'High Politics' and
'Family Politics' in Sixteenth-Century Southwest England"
     Ron Cooley (English, Saskatchewan), "'Outlandish Gums' and 'Home Bred
Things': George Herberts Country Parson and the Domestic Exotic"
     Sylvia Brown (English, Alberta), "The Lost Sons of Adam: Letters from
the Corporation for  Promoting the Gospel amongst the Heathen in New
England, 1657"

3.  Nina Taunton (English, Brunel), "A Camp 'Well Planted': Chapman's Caesar
and Pompey: Unstable Borders and Constructions of Space in 1590s Discourses
of War"
    **Maryna Kravets (Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Toronto),
"Aliens' Experience in Early Modern Muscovy: Muslim War Captives"
    Martina Mittag (Siegen, Germany), "Territories of Race and Gender in
Early Modern Discourse"
   ** Natalia Pylypiuk (Modern Languages, Alberta), "Vocabularies of Identity:
Catholics, Orthodox and Muslims in Early Modern Ukraine."

12:30-2:00   LUNCH (not included in conference registration)

2:00-3:30   CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1.  Robert Upchurch (English, CUNY-Graduate Centre), "Boundaries of Time and
Text on the Hereford and Ebstorf Mappaemundi"
     Scott Westrem (English, CUNY-Lehman College and the Graduate Centre),
"Africa Unbounded on an Unstudied European Mappamundi (c.1450) and in
Related Cartography"
    Andrew Gow (History and Classics, Alberta), "Fra Mauro, Authority and
Empiricism:  Medieval and Early Modern World Views in a Fifteenth-Century
Mappamundi"

2.  Mary Polito (English, York), "Elizabeth Barton and the Performance and
Performativity  of Protest"
     Mathew Martin (English, Alberta), "Roast Pig, Alligator Piss, and
Vapours: The Seductive Grotesquerie in Bartholomew Fair"
     Gregory M. Semenza (English, Pennsylvania State), "Sans Sans, I Pray
You: Renaissance Comedy and English Language Planning"

3.  Ted Binnema (History and Classics, Alberta), "The Clash of Cultures?:
Ethnic as Deus ex Machina of Native North American History"
      Nicole Petrin (independent scholar, Toronto) "Dagobert, Samo, and the
Fur Trade"
      **Roman Kovalev (History, Minnesota) and Thomas Noonan (History,
Minnesota), "The Structure of the Fur Trade in Northern Russia in the
Pre-Modern Era"

3:30-4:00   COFFEE

4:00-5:30   PLENARY ADDRESS
                   Kathleen Biddick (History, Notre-Dame),
                   "Becoming Collection: The Spatial Afterlife of Medieval
Universal Histories"

5:30-7:00  RECEPTION and BOOK DISPLAY
                  Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta

SATURDAY, 3rd. October, 1998

9:00-10:30   CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1.  Ayako Nakai (Comparative Culture and Literature, Aoyoma-Gakuin Women's
Junior College, Japan), "European Missionaries and the Japanese"
     Sonja Arntzen (East Asian Studies, Alberta), "China and Japan"
     Eileen Chia-Ching Fung (English, UC-Santa Barbara), "Construction of
Oriental Nativism and Occidental Tourism in Marco Polo's Travels"

2.  Jacqueline Jenkins (English, Calgary), "Popular Devotion and Medieval
Laywomen Readers"
     Kate Currey (English, West of England), "Joan of Arc and the Jesuits"
     Rosalind Kerr (Drama, Alberta), "Borderline Crossings: Dissecting
Isabella Andreini's Queer Bodies"

3.  Silvia Shannon (History, St. Anselm, MA), "From Trade to Conversion:
Patterns of French Interaction with the Tupinamba in Brazil, 1555-1615"
     Peter Cook (History, McGill), "The Evolution of Intercultural Diplomacy
in the St. Lawrence Valley, 1603-1667"
     John Pollack (English, Pennsylvania), "1632. Year of Textual Discovery
in New France"

10:30-11:00   COFFEE

11:00-12:30   PLENARY ADDRESS
         ** David Frick (Slavic Languages and Literatures,
UC-Berkeley),  "Vilnius, 1640: Peoples, Confessions, and Languages
in Contact"

12:30-2:00   LUNCH (not included in conference registration)

2:00-3:30   CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1.  Aaron Hughes (Religious Studies, Indiana), "Self as Other: Construction
of Jewish Identity in  Al-Andalus"
     Jill Caskey (Fine Art, Toronto), "Images of Jews in the Kingdom of
Sicily ca. 1300"
     Steven Kruger (English, Alberta), "When the Stranger is Your Parent:
Medieval Jews and Christians in Dialogue"

2.  J. H. Barrett (Anthropology, Toronto), "Culture Contact and Colonisation
in Viking Scotland: An Archeological Contribution to the Recognition of
Changing Identities"
      ** Florin Curta (History, Western Michigan), "Slav-Roman Contacts During
the Sixth Century"
      David Townsend (Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto), "Nation and the
Gaze of the Other  in Eighth Century Northumbria"

3.  Joseph Grossi (English, Ohio State), "Marvelous Ethnography: The
Alliterative Morte Arthure and England's Advance on Italy"
      Ana Pairet (French, Rutgers), "Généalogie, identité et transgression:
des usages de la merveille"
      Deanne Williams (English, Stanford), "Babylon Revisited:
Nebuchadnezzar in Middle English Literature"

3:30-4:00   COFFEE

4:00-5:30    ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION and CLOSING COMMENTS

7:30   BANQUET (cost not included in conference registration)

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Natalia Pylypiuk, Book Review Editor
Canadian Slavonic Papers,
Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies:
Germanic, Romance and Slavic
200 Arts Building,  University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E6
Canada

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office phone & voice mail:     (403)  492 - 3498
departmental fax:                      (403)  492 - 9106

e-mail address:                       natalia.pylypiuk at ualberta.ca

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