University of Waterloo

MARGOT fourth international conference

Women and community in the ancien régime: Traditional and new media

Les evangiles des quenouilles June 18-20, 2014 Barnard College, New York City

Schedule of events

Wednesday | Thursday | Friday

Wednesday, June 18

Time	Activity
8:00-9:00	Registration and continental breakfast
9:00-10:30	Plenary: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Fordham University « French Theology in English Convents: Regional and Supraregional Medieval Women’s Communities »
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Session 1 : cloistered communities Katie Bugyis, University of Notre Dame « Making history, Benedictine Cantrices and Aeditvae in Central Medieval England » Ghislain Tranié, Université de Paris-Sorbonne « Philippe de Gueldre and the Colettine’s Religious Community (1519-1547) » Kandace Brill Lombart, Independent Scholar « De Vita Regulari at the Royal Monastery of St. Louis de Poissy, France » Ciro Romano, University of Jyväskylä « The ‘Feminine’ management in a nuns’ monastery in late medieval Naples: The Case of Saint Peter e Sebastian Monastery »
12:30-1:30	Lunch
1:30-3:00	Session 2 : revisiting the debate on early modern salons I: salon sociability in sixteenth-century Italy Elena Brizio, The Medici Archive Project, Florence « Sienese Women and Sociabilité : can we talk about culture, independence, and politics? » Alison A. Smith, Wagner College « The Civile Conversazione of Stefano Guazzo : what can book IV tell us about salon sociability in Llate sixteenth-century Italy ? »
3:00-4:30	Session 3 : The Republic of Letters I Leigh Whaley, Acadia University « Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux d’Arconville and the Republic of Letters during the French Enlightenment » Simon Surreaux, Université de Paris-Sorbonne « Duchess and Letter-Writer : Victoire Louise Josèphe Goyon de Matignon, duchess of Fitz-James (1757-1771) » Hélène Michon, Université François Rabelais-Tours “Le Règlement donné par une dame de haute qualité à M** sa petite-fille, de Jeanne de Schomberg: a feminine concept of civility?”*
4:30-5:00	Coffee break
5:00-6:30	Session 4 : visual representations of and within female communities Margot Fassler, University of Notre Dame « Hildegard, the Nuns of the Rupertsberg, and the Production of the Illuminated Scivias » Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet, Université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail « The Nine Female Worthies: a group of female heroes in the middle ages under the brush of painters » Barbara Selmeci Castioni, University of Lausanne « Illustrious and illustrated ? Textual and engraved images of women in the Mercure Galant » Sonia Coman, Columbia University « A community of women artists and actresses at the end of the ancien régime : the Portrait of Madame Thénard Mère in ‘Hermione’ by Adèle Romany »

Thursday, June 19

Time	Activity
8:00-8:30	Coffee and registration
8:30-10:00	Plenary: Susan Brown, University of Guelph « Community, connections, and choices: changing literary Hhstory on the web »
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-12:00	Session 5: beyond the cloister Alexandra Verini, University of California at Los Angeles « ‘I schal send the frendys anowe’: female friendship in The Book of Margery Kempe » Ashley Williard, Graduate Center of the City University of New York « ‘Ce commerce d’Amour’ : La Fayolle on mission and marriage in the seventeenth-century Caribbean »
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:30	Project demonstrations Kenna Olsen, Mount Royal University « Material girls: middle English secular female scribes and their cultural agents » Christine McWebb, University of Waterloo and Lori J. Walters, Florida State University « The Christine de Pizan Digital Scriptorium : its creation & implementation for teaching & research »
2:30-4:00	Session 6 : revisiting the debate on early modern salons II : salon sociability in France and Ireland Julie D. Campbell, Eastern Illinois University « Marie de Beaulieu and Precursors of the Précieuses in Sixteenth-Century France » Chanel de Halleux, Univeristé libre de Bruxelles « Fanny de Beauharnais’ Salon : a promoter to ‘Light Poetry’ (1762-1780) » Maureen E. Mulvihill, Princeton Research Forum « The remarkable Mary Tighe (1772-1810) : An Irish poetess & her London Salon » with table display.
4:00-5:30	Coffee break
5:30-7:00	Session 7:The Republic of Letters II Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami « From the community of women authors and readers to the history of evil queens in the works of Louise de Kéralio (1758-1821) » Mélinda Caron, Fordham University « A distinguished and anonymous female presence : Louise d’Épinay and the Correspondance littéraire’s imagined community » Tania Robles, Complutense University of Madrid « Madame Roland’s letters : a source for the history of the French revolution »
8:00	Dinner (optional, off-campus)

Friday, June 20

Date	Activity
8:30-9:00	Continental breakfast
9:00-10:30	Session 8: transmission of knowledge Francesca Canadé Sautman, Hunter College and Graduate Centre and the City University of New York « Building women’s community through patronage in late fifteenth-century Burgundy » Henriette Goldwyn, New York University « Female prophesying in France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes » Mallika Lecoeur, Columbia University « Conversation as childsplay: the performances of Madame de Maintenon’s Conversations at the Royale Maison de Saint-Louis» Sylvène Renoud, Université de Nantes « The representation of the delivering woman’s body: the role of midwives in knowledge Session 9: cultural production by pre-modern women Kathleen Loysen, Montclair State University « Women and communities of authorship: the storytelling scene » Britt-Marie Karlsson, University of Gothenburg « Women’s intellectual work in sixteenth-century France: the case of Hélisenne de Crenne » Cecilia Rosengren, University of Gothenburg « Political implications of the bodily gestures in the Peritexts of Margaret Cavendish »
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Session 10: upper-class women, agency and authorities Sini Mikola, University of Helsinki « Valuing women’s voices: Martin Luther’s (1483-1546) responses to female agency » Rose-Marie Peake, University of Helsinki « Submissive servant, yet great leader ? Louise de Marillac (1591-1660) and Authority » Claire Buchet, Université de Paris XIII « Bring up to the power: the Princess of Condé and the princely education of the future Grand Condé between 1643 and 1646 »