Association of Renaissance Students Undergraduate Conference Revealing the Renaissance: (De)constructing Early Modern Identities
9:00 – 9:15: Coffee and Breakfast - Copper Room, Goldring Student Centre, Victoria College 9:15 – 9:30: Opening Remarks 9:30 – 10:45: Session I – Refining Representation: Art & Artistry in Italy • • •
Vittoria Tesoro: “The Reflection of Vanity: Beauty and Love Inspired by Castiglione in Titian and Bellini's Paintings” Zahra Rajan: “Women in the Renaissance: A Case Study of Isabella d’Este and Her Influence in Mantua” Faraz Olfat: “Beauty, Gender, and Love in High Renaissance Portraiture”
10:45 – 11:00: Coffee Break 11:00-12:15: Session II – Beyond Borders: Identities on the Continent • • •
Camila Walls Castillo: “Defective Bodies: Examining Physical and Mental Disability in Fifteenth-Century Valencian Slave Trade” Tatiana Thoennes: “Adoration of the Magi: Antwerp’s Self-Fashioning in Engagement with the Other” Andrew Morton: “Lutheranism and Community: Identification through Unification”
12:15 – 1:00: Lunch 1:00 – 2:15: Session III – Executing Evil: Sexual Deviance & Heretical Personhoods • • •
Aidan Flynn: “‘He used his body as the body of a woman’: Sodomitical Anxieties in Early Modern England” Madeleine Sheahan: “Female Sexuality and the Male Gaze: Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Europe” Nico Mara-McKay: “Katherina Hetzeldorfer and the Consquences of a Woman Living as a Heterosexual Man in Fifteenth-Century Germany”
2:15 – 2:30: Coffee Break 2:30 – 3:45: Session IV – Fashioning Florence: Rocking the Cradle of the Renaissance • • •
Ursula Carmichael: “The Decline of the Arte dei Mercatanti di Calimala in SixteenthCentury Florence: What the 1561data can tell us” Alexandra Schoenborn: “Love and La Vita Terrena: Arguing a Secular Life in the Fourth Day of Boccaccio’s Decameron” Shawnee Redford: “Writing/Righting in the Humanist Tradition: The Feminism of Tullia d’Aragona in Dialogue on the Infinity of Love”
3:45 – 4:00: Closing Remarks 4:00 – 5:30: Reception – Victoria University Common Room