The Graduate Early Modern Student Society is hosting its 8th annual symposium, with the topic “Early Modern Temporalities.” This event will feature a keynote lecture by Jessica Keating (Solmsen Fellow, 2011–2012) entitled “Inventing Inventories, Picturing Pictures: Daniel Fröschl at the Kunstkammer of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.” See below for the full schedule and poster.
8:50-9:00 am: Opening remarks (Nayoung Kim)
9:00-10:00 am: Temporalities and the Operations of Power (moderator: Clara Molina Blanco)
- Sean Nowlan (PhD Student, History): “Paying for Violence, Fiscal-Military Relations in the North American British Colonies”
- Subha Prasad Sanyal (Research Scholar, English, Jadavpur University): “Monarchic Sovereignty and the Legal Precedent for Genocide” *virtual presentation
10:15-11:15 am: Bodies, Blood, and Lineage (moderator: Megan E. Fox)
- Christina Torres Cawdery (PhD Student, English, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa): ““Valor Becomes Thee Well”: Portrayals of Inherited Nobility in Cymbeline”
- Claire Kilgore (PhD Candidate, Art History): “Of Toad Babies and Holy Families: Hybrid Audiences and Sacred/Secular Narratives of Birth in Medieval/Early Modern Germanic Iconographies of Bodily Reproduction”
11:30 am-12:30 pm: Early Modern Textiles on the Move (moderator: Yifei Wang)
- Dehlia Mitchell-Gray (PhD Student, Art History): “Painted Silk as Fashionable Material in Late Imperial China”
- Chi-Lynn Lin (PhD Candidate, Art History): “Transition of the Silk Road in Early Modern Period: Islamic Textiles at the Palace Museum”
12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch *Hagen Room, Elvehjem Building
1:30-3:00 pm: Keynote lecture: Jessica Keating, “Inventing Inventories, Picturing Pictures: Daniel Fröschl at the Kunstkammer of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II” *L150, Elvehjem Building
What is the precise relationship between early modern collecting and early modern sovereignty? This is the question at the heart “Inventing Inventories, Picturing Pictures,” which takes up the largest and arguably the most famous early modern princely collection, Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II’s Kunstkammer in Prague. Art historians have long considered Rudolf’s Kunstkammer to be a quintessentially “political” and aggrandizing representation of the Emperor and the Holy Roman Empire’s mastery of nature. However, close examination Daniel Fröschl’s 1607-1611 Inventory of the Kunstkammer, reveals that it is only by way representations of the collection, not the collection itself, that allowed the emperor to appear as if he had dominion over the collection and by extension the world.
3:30-5:00 pm: Complicating Temporalities in Early Modern Literary Texts (moderator: TBD)
- Bridget Anderson (PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies): “A Bastard to the Time: Little Arthur, Casting Children, and Adjusting Age in King John”
- Irina Znamirowski (MA student, English, University of Toronto): ““To Prove a Villain”: Temporality and Fictionality in Richard II)” *virtual presentation
- Syd E. Curran (PhD Student, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies): ““Author and Actor”: The Semiotics of Performance in Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy”
- Grace Quast (PhD Student, English, Brown University): “Taking Stories In Hand: Dilatory Authorial Participation in Orlando Furioso”
