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International Margaret Cavendish Society Conference: Conference Program
DRAFT PROGRAM
INTERNATIONAL MARGARET CAVENDISH SOCIETY
Presents
The 12th Biennial Conference
MARGARET CAVENDISH: RECEPTION AND REPRESENTATIONS
June 22 -- 24, 2017
All sessions in Pettengill Hall, G52, the Keck Classroom
BATES COLLEGE
Wednesday, 21 June
6:00 pm Registration and Reception at Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College
7:00 pm Film: “Margaret Cavendish, Virginia Woolf, and the Cypriot Goddess Natura,” a play by Jim Fitzmaurice, directed by Henry Bell, with actors from The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University.
Thursday, 22 June
8:30 am Registration
8:45 am
Welcome from Clayton Spencer, President of Bates College; announcements,
Cristina Malcolmson
9:00 am
Session 1 Cavendish: The Social, Cultural, and Regional Backgrounds
Chair: Edith Snook, University of New Brunswick
Sarah Beah Jacobson, Yale University,
Genre, Imperialism, and Northernness
James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University and The University of Sheffield
Margaret Cavendish as Observer and Participant in the Cultural Milieus of Paris and Antwerp
Sara Mendelson, McMaster University
Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn: a comparison of their interactions with contemporary readers
10:30 – 10:45 am Break: Coffee, tea, juice, water
10:45 am
Session 2 Cavendish and Her Contemporaries
Chair: Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami
Marshelle Woodward. Canisius College
The Dissolving Worlds of Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter
Laura DeFurio, University of Alabama
Lucy Hutchinson and Margaret Cavendish: Women, Solitude, and the State
11:45 pm
Session 3 The Text, Electronic and Otherwise
Chair: Liza Blake, University of Toronto
Sarah Connell, Northeastern University
“The Text is Variety”: Contextualizing and Analyzing the Works of Margaret Cavendish with Text Encoding
Shawn Moore, Florida SouthWestern State College and Jacob Tootalian, University of South Florida
“[L]ike to a Spiders Web”: The Digital Cavendish Project
12:45 Lunch Provided by the conference in the Bates Dining Commons
2:15 pm
Session 4 Cavendish’s Literary Influence
Chair: James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University and The University of Sheffield
Ruth Trego, University of Miami
The Way of The Blazing World: Locating the Feminist Touch between Margaret Cavendish and Siri Hustvedt
Lara Dodds, Mississippi State University
A London Guide for the Blazing Worlders; or, Notes Toward an Alternate History of Science Fiction and Fantasy
3:15 pm Session 5 Shame and Her Sisters: The Very Critical Reception of Margaret
Cavendish
Organizer and Chair, Mary Baine Campbell, Brandeis University
Cristina Malcolmson, Bates College
“Mad Madge” and Historians of Science
Marina Leslie, Northeastern University
In Defense of Not Defending Cavendish
Brandie Siegfried, Brigham Young University
The Mad, the Silly, and a Hint of the Sublime-to-Come: The Delicious Temptations of Margaret Cavendish
4:45 pm Break: Coffee, tea, juice, water, brownies and cookies
5:00 pm Session 6 Roundtable: Reimagining Early Modern Women Authors for Modern Audiences
Lisa Walters, Liverpool Hope University
Naomi Miller, Smith College,
James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University and The University of Sheffield
6:00 pm Plenary:
Danielle Dutton reads from her novel Margaret the First, Pettengill Hall, G52, the Keck Classroom
Friday, 23 June
8:45 am
Announcements from Cristina Malcolmson
9:00 am
Session 7 Blazing World, Vision, and Natural Philosophy
Chair: Marina Leslie, Northeastern University
Maria Antònia Martí Escayol, Autonomous University of Barcelona
The Castilian translation of The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
Sophia Richardson, Yale University
The Empress’s New Clothes: Margaret Cavendish’s Sartorial Epistemology in The Blazing World
Shannon Garner-Balandrin, Northeastern University
Splendor on the Backs of Fish-Men: Entangled Ecologies in The Blazing World
10:00 – 10:15 am Break: Coffee, tea, juice, water
10:15 am
Session 8 Cavendish’s Poetry
Chair: Lara Dodds, Mississippi State University
Edith Snook, University of New Brunswick
Margaret Cavendish and Early Modern Medical Writing in Poems and Fancies (1653/64)
Liza Blake, University of Toronto
A Thousand Lines of Non-Linear Poetry: Reading Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies, Part I
11:15 am
Session 9 Session Panel: Rethinking Domesticity and Science,
Organizer and Chair: Rebecca Laroche, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Mary Trull, St. Olaf College
Atomic Aesthetics and Aristocratic Women in Margaret Cavendish’s Poetry”
Jennifer Munroe, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Kitchen entanglements: An Ecofeminist Rethink of Cavendish, Science, and the Domestic
Rebecca Laroche, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Tending the Fire:A Refiguration of Gendered Interiors in Matrimonial Trouble
12:45 pm Lunch Provided by the Conference in the Bates Dining Commons
2:15 pm
Session 10 Utopias
Chair: Alexandra Bennett, Northern Illinois University
Lauren Liebe, Texas A&M University
Margaret Cavendish and Post-Restoration Political Utopia
Maureen McDonnell, Eastern Connecticut State University
A “place for freedom”: Staging segregation as utopia within The Convent of Pleasure
Emily Jones, University of South Florida
Worldbuilding
3:45 pm Session 11
Reading and Debating Margaret Cavendish
Chair: Chris Koester, University of Alabama
Katherine Landers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Readerly Interlude and Margaret Cavendish’s Prefaces
Promise Li, Occidental College
Reading Cavendish for the Vices
Barry Shelton, University of Georgia
“An Ingenious Opposer”: Margaret Cavendish and the Drama of Debate
5:15 pm Break: Coffee, tea, juice, water, brownies and cookies
5:30 -7:00 Plenary
Carolyn Merchant, University of California, Berkeley
Margaret Cavendish: Natural Philosopher and Feminist
7:00 pm Conference Dinner at Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College
Saturday, 24 June
8:45 am
Announcements from Cristina Malcolmson
9:00 am
Session 12 Reception History
Chair: Jacob Tootalian, University of South Florida
Hilda Smith, University of Cincinnati
How Historians and Literary Scholars treat Margaret Cavendish
Chris Koester, University of Alabama
Canonizing Cavendish: The Creation of a Literary Cult
10:00 am– 10:15 am Break: Coffee, tea, juice, water.
10:15 am
Session 13 The Cavendish Family
Chair: Brandie Siegfried, Brigham Young University
Alexandra Bennett, Northern Illinois University
Going Both Ways: Influence and Contribution in the Writings of Margaret and William Cavendish
Tanya Schmidt, New York University
“Lives or Lies”: Indirect Speech as “Feigned Orations” in Margaret Cavendish’s Life of William Cavendish
Erin Murphy, Boston University
Mercy, Martyrdom and the Execution of Charles Lucas: Reconsidering Margaret Cavendish’s Wartime Singularity
12:00 pm Lunch in the Dining Commons. Pick up packed lunch for Excursion.
12:30 am Excursion. Meet in Fireplace Room in the Dining Commons.
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