Objects, Extensions,Prosthetics: The Body and Subjectivity in thePre-Modern Period
Wednesday 16th May 2018, 12-7pm
Room G.27, Devonshire Building
Newcastle University
For full details see: https://imagesofmatter.wordpress.com/objectsextensionsprosthetics/
Schedule
12-1pm Lunch and introduction
A lunch buffet will be provided and will take place at the seminar location in DEV
G.27
1-1.45pm Clothing and the self
Emily Rowe (Newcastle University) – A ‘bodkin to picke his teeth’:
Language-as-clothing and the prose of Thomas Deloney
Kimberley Foy (Durham University) – Performing Englishness?: Elite Dress and
International Diplomacy at the Elizabethan and Early Stuart Courts, 1560-1620
2-3pm Devotional objects
Catherine Evans (University of Sheffield) – ‘A brittle crazy glass’: George Herbert,
John Donne and Bodies of Glass
Claire McGann (Lancaster University) – ‘Set downe with her pen’: Embodied
Experience and Grace Cary’s Manuscript Prophecy (1644)
Elizabeth Biggs (Durham University) – Maintaining a Catholic Self in Elizabeth’s
England: Durham Priory Books in Recusant Circles
3.15-4.15pm The body as object
Julia Erdosy (University of York) – The Bunch-back and the Baby Bump:
Shakespeare’s Use of the Protruding Prosthetic
Jenny Hunter (Northumbria University) – Bodies and plague in Thomas Clark’s
Meditations in my Confinement (1666)
Mary Odbert (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) – The
Dissected Subject: Dismemberment as Objectification in Early Modern Drama
4.30-5.30pm Keynote
Professor Helen Smith (University of York) – Of Men and Metals: Early Modern
Material Bodies
5.45-7pm Roundtable discussion and wine reception