WRITING LIVES IN EUROPE 1500-1700
A conference to be held at University College Dublin 6-8 September 2018 (supported by the College of Arts and Humanities and the Humanities Institute, UCD)
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Thursday 6th September 2018, Humanities Institute, UCD
9-9.30 Registration and coffee
9.30-11 Plenary I: Prof Andrew Hadfield (Sussex), Reading The Life Between the Lines: Nashe, Spenser and Others
11-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30 Panel 1: The Religious Self
Richard Kirwan (UL) “Trouble Every Day: Experiences of Religious Exile in the Writings of Jacob Reihing”
John McCafferty (UCD) ‘”O Felix Columba Caeli/ O Happy Dove of Heaven”: a manuscript life shredded by early modern print’
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30–3 Panel 2: Unmooring life-writing: method, memory, and genre
Chair: Prof Kate Chedgzoy (Newcastle)
Ramona Wray (QUB), “Reading Life-Writing in the Cary/Tanfield Record”
Elspeth Graham (Liverpool John Moores) “’Lovely Lathom’, the Earls of Derby, and reading the Stanley family encomia”
Kate Hodgkin (U of East London), “Memory, melancholy and the languages of loss in 17th century life writing”
3-3.30 Tea
3.30-4.30 Panel 3: – Life writing and religion
Ann-Maria Walsh (UCD) “Mary (née Boyle) Rich, Countess of Warwick (1624-1678): Writing and Experimenting – A Spiritual Life”
Mark Empey (NUIG) “Life writer and Life writing: the parallel worlds of Sir James Ware”
5 Wine reception – Common Room, Newman Building, UCD
Friday 7th September 2018, K114, Newman Building, UCD
9.30-11 Plenary II: Prof Kate Chedgzoy (Newcastle), Writing Children’s Lives
11-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30 Panel 4 – Women in the 17th Century
Carol Baxter (independent scholar) “’Serving God rather than my father’: religious life writing as a rejection of the patriarchal family”
Naomi McAreavey (UCD) – The Countess of Ormonde’s Letters (title tbc)
12.30-2 Lunch (exhibition and archive visit)
2-3 Panel 5 – Travel and formation of the self
Maria Luis Dominguez-Guerrero (Seville) “Rhetoric of the Conquest: Narrations from Castilian Explorers”
Eva Holmberg (Helsinki) “Visual Self-Description in Seventeenth-Century British Travel Accounts”
4-6 Walking tour of Renaissance Dublin (AM Walsh), followed by pub visit and conference dinner, at Le Pichet, Trinity Street, Dublin 2*
Saturday 8th September 2018, K114, Newman Building
9.30-11 Plenary III: Prof Alan Stewart (Columbia), Writing Lives under Duress
11-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.45 Panel 6 – Alternative Forms
Nelson Marques (Miami) “War and Self: Soldier’s Petitions in Seventeenth-Century Portugal”
Emma Claussen (Oxford) “Forms of living in Descartes’s Les passions de l’âme”
Danielle Clarke (UCD) “Irish women’s recipe books as life writing: form, process, method”
12.45-1.15 Lunch
1.15-2.15 Panel 7 – Life writing and emotion
Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster), “Writing Emotional Lives: Thomas Churchyard’s Passionate History”
Raluca Duna (Bucharest) “Writing the self with images, painting identity with texts”
2.15-2.45 Roundtable and close
* Dinner is €40 per head. Wine will be supplied!
Conference information:
- The conference is free to attend, but for catering purposes we would appreciate it if you could sign up using this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-lives-1500-1700-tickets-48653964317
- All sessions will take place on the UCD campus, details of which you can access here: http://map.ucdestates.ie/
- UCD is on many direct bus routes from the city centre (39/39a, 46a, etc); the Aircoach (stops outside T1 and T2 at Dublin airport) also stops outside. Full details are here http://ucdestates.ie/commuting/
- There are numerous accommodation options nearby, or on direct transport links: the Mespil hotel, Leeson Bridge B&B, Shanahans on the Green, Radisson Blu, St Helen’s – Air BnB will also have a wide range of differently priced options.
If you have any questions, please email us at writinglives@ucd.ie. We look forward to meeting you in September!
FMRSI 