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Some folks might be interested in looking into this.    - Rosine


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anna M. DiStefano" <adistefa at binghamton.edu>
> CONFERENCE PROGRAM
>Organized by:
>  University of South Carolina Committee for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies
>  Program in Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina
> Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University,
> State University of New York
>
>         NORTH AND SOUTH
>         Identity, Imagination and Memory
>         in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
>
>University of South Carolina, March 23-24, 2001
>Columbia, South Carolina
>         *******************
>         Friday, March 23
>          *******************
> 8:30-8.45 am    Official Opening and Welcome
> Location: Russell House Theater (Russell House Student Activities Center,
> Greene St.)
>
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> 8:45-9:45 am  Plenary Session 1
> Location: Russell House Theater
> Chair: Jeremiah Hackett, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of South Carolina
> Prof. Alfred Ivry, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, New York University
>
> Muslim and Jewish Philosophical Influence on Medieval Philosophy
>
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> 10:00 am--12:00 pm   Session 1a
> Location: Russell House Theater
>
> MEDIEVAL LATIN PALAEOGRAPHY
> >Chair: Bert Dillon, Dept. of English, Univ. of South Carolina
>
> 1. Scott Gwara, Dept. of English, Univ. of South Carolina
> A History of Italian and Insular Uncial Script in the Seventh Century
>
> 2. Robert B. Patterson, Dept. of History, Univ. of South Carolina
> Margam Abbey's Busy Scribe 12: Twelfth-Century Business Hand on the
> Welsh March
>
> 3. Gordon Wilson, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville
> University Book-Hands: Editing Henry of Ghent's Summa
>
>          #############################
> 10:00 am-12:00 pm Session 1b
> Location: Russell House lecture room 203
>
> MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ENGLISH LITERATURE
> Chair: Paul Allen Miller, Director, Program in Comparative Literature,
> Univ. ofSouth Carolina
>
> 1. Gila Aloni, Dept. of English, Hunter College, and Shirley
Sharon-Zisser,
> Dept. of English, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
> The Enfolding "lyne oriental": Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Culture in
> Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe
>
> 2. Christel Johnson-Brown, Program in Comparative Literature, Univ. of
> South Carolina
> Othello: Black and White Stereotypes All Over
>
> 3. Grant Hamby, Program in Comparative Literature, Univ. of South Carolina
>  Sir Walter Raleigh and the Origins of British Colonialism
>
> 4. Bernadette Andrea, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio
> Who is She?  North and South Division and the Gendering of Late
> Seventeenth-Century England
>
>
>          #############################
> 2:00--2:45 pm   Plenary Session 2
> Location: Russell House Theater
> Chair: Robert B. Patterson, Dept. of History, Univ. of South Carolina
>
> Prof. Marcia Colish, Dept. of History, Oberlin College
> Resonances of Stoicism in Medieval Thought
>
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> 3:00--5:00 pm Session 2a
> Location: Russell House Lecture Room 203
>
> LATE ANTIQUITY
> Chair: Scott Gwara, Dept. of English, Univ. of South Carolina
>
> . Ralph Mathisen, Dept. of History, Univ. of South Carolina
> Romans, Barbarians and a 'Clash of Civilizations'
>
> 2. Raisa Khamitova, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary)
> Symbiosis and Exchange between Muslims and Christians in Syria during
> the Umayyad Period (661-750)
>
> 3. Paul Lonigan, Dept. of Romance Languages, City University of New York
>  From Latin to Romance Languages: Celtic Contributions
>
> 3:00--5:00 pm Session 2b
> Location: Russell House Theater
> THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
> Chair: Faust Pauluzzi, Dept. of Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, Univ. of
> South Carolina
>
> 1. Catherine Castner, Dept. of French and Classics, Univ. of South
Carolina
> Regional Identity and Authority in Biondo Flavio's Italia Illustrata
>
> 2. Charles Burroughs, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
> Binghamton University
> Fixed versus Flexed: Geographical Implications of an Antinomy in Early
> European Architecture
>
> 3. Pamela Merrill Brekka, Tampa, Florida
> Italy and the North: Artistic Exchange and Pan-European Thought ca. 1450
>
>          #############################
> 6:30-7:30 pm    Plenary Session 3
> Location: Russell House Theater
> Chair: R. I. G. Hughes, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of South Carolina
> Prof. David C. Lindberg, Dept. of the History of Science, Univ. of
> Wisconsin,  Madison
>
>The Medieval Church Encounters the Classical Scientific Tradition:
> Augustine, Roger Bacon and the Handmaiden Metaphor
>
>          #############################
>          Saturday, March 24
> 8:30-9:30 am Plenary Session 4
> Location: Gambrell Hall Auditorium (room 153), College of Liberal Arts
> COMPARATIVE LITERATURE PLENARY SESSION
> Chair: Lawrence Rhu, Dept. of English, Univ. of South Carolina
> Prof. Victoria Kahn, Dept. of English, Univ. of California, Berkeley
>
> Ties that Bind: Rethinking Obligation in Milton's Doctrine and Discipline
> of Divorce and Paradise Lost
>
>         #############################
> 9:30-10:30    Plenary Session 5
> Location: Gambrell Hall Auditorium, room 153, College of Liberal Arts
> COMPARATIVE LITERATURE PLENARY SESSION
> Prof. David Quint, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Yale University
>
> Milton and the European Tradition
>
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> 10:35 am--12:30 pm    Session 3a
> Location: Gambrell Hall Auditorium, room 153, College of Liberal Arts
>
> MILTON AND THE EUROPEAN TRADITION
> Organizer: Lawrence Rhu, Dept. of English, Univ. of South Carolina
> Chair: Ward Briggs, Jr., Dept. of French and Classics, Univ. of South
> Carolina
> Commentator: Andrew Shifflett, Dept. of English, Univ. of South Carolina
>
> 1. John Watkins, Dept. of English, Univ. of Minnesota
> Milton and the Goddess with the Human Voice
>
> 2. David J. Bradshaw, Dept. of English, Warren Wilson College
>  Fata viam invenient: Asserting Eternal Providence in Virgilian and
> Miltonic Epic
>
> 3. Lawrence Rhu, Dept. of English, Univ. of South Carolina
> Ariosto, Milton and Early Modern Scepticism
>
> 4. Catherine Gimelli Martin, Memphis State University
> Epic Revisionism: Tasso, Bacon and the Neoclassical Aesthetics of Paradise
> Regained
>
>          #############################
> 10:35 am--12:30 pm   Session 3b
> Location: Gambrell Hall, room 151
>
> THE FOLGER SUPERNATURAL INSTITUTE
> Chair and Commentator: Kathryn A. Edwards, Dept. of History, Univ. of
South
> Carolina
>
> 1. Catherine Levesque, College of William and Mary
> The Grotto: Spiritual Ladder or Mirror of Creation
>
> 2. Nandra L. Perry, Univ. of North Carolina
> Identity and Imitatio: Negotiating the Protestant Self
>
> 3. Olivia A. Bloechl, Univ. of Pennsylvania
> Polyphony and Prophetic History in Gabriel Sagard's Histoire du Canada
>
>          #############################
> 10:35 am--12:30 pm  Session 3c
> Location: Gambrell Hall, room 152
> MUSIC, LANGUAGE AND HUMANISM
> Chair: Margit E. Resch, Chair, Dept. of Germanic, Slavic and East Asian
> Languages and Literatures, Univ. of South Carolina
>
> 1. Nancy Van Deusen, Dept. of Music, Claremont Graduate University
> Southern Musical Influence on Northern Europe: Augustine
>
> 2. Arjo Vanderjagt, The Medieval Institute, Univ. of Grøningen, The
> Netherlands
> The Uses of Humanism in the North: Northern Scholars and Burgundian
> Politicians
>
> 3. Kurt Goblirsch, Dept. of German, Univ. of South Carolina
> Scandinavian with a Southern Accent
>
>          #############################
> 2:30--3:30 pm     Plenary Session 6
> Location: McMaster College Auditorium, Room 214
> Chair: Charles R. Mack, Dept. of Art, Univ. of South Carolina
> Prof. Carol Purtle, Dept. of Art, Univ. of Memphis
>
> The Interaction of Southern and Northern Art
>
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> 3:45--5:45 pm    Session 4a
> Location: McMaster College Auditorium, Room 214
> PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE
> Chair: Davis W. Baird, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of South Carolina
> Commentator: Jeremiah Hackett, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of South
Carolina
>
> 1. Jan Opsomer, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of South Carolina
> From Greek to Roman Stoicism
>
> 2. Graziella Federici Vescovini and Orsola Rignani, Univ. of Florence
(Italy)
> Biagio of Parma's (Doctor Diabolicus) Astrological Materialism
>
> 3. Richard Lemay, City University of New York
> Gerard of Cremona and the Organization of Translators: Arabic to Latin
>
>          #############################
> 3:45--5:45 pm   Session 4b
> Location: McMaster College Lecture Hall, room 239
> NATION AND NARRATIVE IN PRE-MODERN EUROPE
>
> Chair: Jeffery Persels, Dept. of French and Classics, Univ. of South
Carolina
>
> 1. Zoe G. Urbanek, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Southern Methodist Univ.
> Eleanor of Aquitaine and Marguerite of Navarre
>
> 2. Amy Ogden, Dept. of French, Univ. of Virginia
> Exotic Propaganda in Late Twelfth-Century France
>
> 3. Patrick O'Neill,  Department of English,  Univ. of NorthCarolina,
Chapel Hill,
> North-South in Early Medieval Ireland
>
> 4. Michael Sharp,  Department of English, Binghamton University
> Embracing Chaucer, Rejecting England: Nationalism and Poetic
> Tradition in Late-Medieval Scotland
>
>          #############################
> The $50 registration fee covers: full participation in the conference,
> including all sessions, refreshments, luncheons and reception.
>
> Organized by the University of South Carolina Committee for Medieval and
> Renaissance Studies, the Program in Comparative Literature at the
> University of South Carolina, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance
> Studies, Binghamton University.
>
> Anna M. DiStefano