Cities of Strangeness 1350-1700
strangers / estrangement / becoming-strange
Friday 11th May, University of Manchester
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| 9:30 – 10 | Registration | Atrium | |
| 10 – 11:15 | Panel 1: Literary Cities and Strange Locales | Conference room | |
| (chair: Laura Swift)
Charles Cathcart (Open University): The City-Dame Joel Swann: Metaphysical Poetry and the City: ‘A Mass of Strange Delights’? Callan Davies (Roehampton): Strange Entertainment in the Blackfriars |
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| 11:15 – 11:45 | Tea & coffee | Atrium | |
| 11:45 – 12:45 | Panel 2: Strange News Out of Europe: Travel and Trade | Conference room | |
| (chair: tbc)
Francesco Barbarulo (Trieste and Udine): Records of Strangeness from the ‘Universo Mondo’ (Giovanni Villani) Elena Escuredo (Seville): A Unicorn Relic and Other Weird Objects in Seville during the XVI Century |
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| 12:45 – 1:45 | Lunch | Atrium | |
| 1:45 – 3 | Panel 3: Estranged Communities and Social Change | Conference room | |
| (chair: tbc)
Sam Bromage (Sheffield): Urban Transformation and the Loss of Social Provision: Society, Poverty, and Decline following the Dissolution in Beverley, Yorkshire Lena Liapi (Keele): Charity and Strangers: Imagining Neighbourliness in Early Modern London Katrina Marchant: ‘[T]he finenesse of straungers wits and the grosenes of ours’: The Defence of the Commonwealth in Early Modern English Literature |
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| 3 – 3:30 | Tea & coffee | Atrium | |
| 3:30 – 4:30 | Panel 4: Drama’s Strange and Familiar Spaces | Conference room | |
| (chair: tbc)
Todd Pettigrew (Cape Breton): Shylock and the Jewish ‘Error’ Iman Sheeda (Warwick): ‘In London many alehouse ruffians keep,/ Which, as I hear, will murder men for gold’: Experiencing the City in Arden of Faversham (1592) |
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| 4:45 – 6:30 | Keynote panel | Conference room | |
| (chair: Annie Dickinson)
Anke Bernau (Manchester): Urban Magnificence – Giants at the Heart of National History Matthew Dimmock (Sussex): Flying to Quinzai Adam Hansen (Northumbria): Marlowe’s Strange Cities |
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| 6:30 – 7:15 | Wine reception | Atrium | |