Programme
All events will take place in the Zeeman and Mathematical Sciences Buildings (ex. 29th dinner).
TUESDAY 28 JULY
From 12:45: Registration, tea and coffee (Zeeman atrium).
13:30 Welcome and Introduction. (Room MS.02)
13:45 PLENARY LECTURE (Room MS.02)
Paulina Kewes: The Restoration Afterlife of Henry VIII鈥檚 Excommunication.
Chair: Hannah Straw
| 15:00 Tea and coffee break |
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15:30 PANELS
From Ambiguity to Outright Deceit: Unknowability, Pseudonymity and Fabrication in the Material Political Media of Late Stuart England. (Room MB0.07)
Elaine Tierney: Seeing and not understanding in Late Stuart festivals.
Catriona Murray: Ornamenting the Truth: Fashioning and Fabricating Historical Testimony at the Monument.
Angela McShane: Political Personation and Deceit: Who wasn鈥檛 Who in the Restoration Ballad Trade.
Chair: Tony Claydon
Social and religious identities(Room MB0.08)
Chelsea Reutcke: Self-Presentation or Public Condemnation: What Makes a Popish Printer?
James Honeyford: Associative Religious Practices: Fashioning Social Identity within the Restoration Social Sphere
Naomi Pullin: Solitude, Sociability and Selfhood in Late Stuart Britain
Chair: Alan Ford
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17:00 End of panels – break to allow check-in to accommodation and dinner |
20:00 THE FALSE COUNT by Aphra Behn. (Room MS.02)
A rehearsed reading, abridged and directed by David Fletcher, and performed by actors from the Loft Theatre Company, Leamington Spa, followed by a discussion.
Chair: Elaine Hobby
| 21:30 End |
WEDNESDAY 29 JULY - morning
09:15 PANELS
Posthumous identities - part 1 (Room MB0.07)
Alan Ford: Necroventriloquism: Manipulating the Memory of Archbishop Ussher in the Late Seventeenth Century.
Caroline Curtis: Mortobiography: The Construction of Posthumous Identity by Seventeenth-Century Royal Society Members
Claudine van Hensbergen: Grave Identities: Burying Aphra Behn, 20 April 1689
Chair: Mark Knights
Royal identities (Room MB0.08)
Ben Sharp: Fashioning Protestant Monarchy: Danby and the Politics of Identity in the Reign of Charles II
Eilish Gregory: The Public Spectacle of Monarchy: Queen Catherine of Braganza and the Politics of Display at the Restoration Stuart Court
Joanna Smith: Restoring the Monarchy in Colonies as well as Kingdoms: Charles II, Representation, and Colonialism
Chair: Grant Tapsell
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10:45 Tea and coffee break |
11:15 PANELS
Posthumous identities - part 2 (Room MB0.07)
Hannah Straw:"Cursed Extravagances" The Comte de Gramont and the fiction of Rochester.
Jonathan Fitzgibbons: The Reinvention of Bulstrode Whitelocke: Memoirs and the Forging of Identity in the Long Restoration
Paul Hammond: Reconfiguring Milton in the new Longman Edition
Thomas Corns: Rochester's posthumous reputations.
Chair: Mark Knights
Foreign affairs and identities (Room MB0.08)
Basil Bowdler: 鈥淚mpudent & horrid libel[s]鈥�: Reflections of the Exclusion Crisis in the Dutch Public Sphere, 1678-1682.
Claire Jones: Crafting the Anglo-Iberian Project: The Restoration, Commercial Diplomacy, and the Origins of Informal Empire, 1640-1670
Kerry-Louise Apps: Materialising Empire: A World in a House by the Thames
Chair: Imogen Knox
| 13:15 Lunch |
WEDNESDAY 29 JULY - afternoon
14:00 PANELS
鈥淎t the Pope鈥檚 Head in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange鈥�: Fashioning Restoration Bookselling and the Career of William Cademan.(Room MB0.07)
Maureen Bell: New evidence for the start of Cademan鈥檚 career at the New Exchange in 1667.
Marcus Nevitt: Restoration Playbooks, The New Exchange, and The Empress of Morocco Controversy (1673)
Tom Lockwood: Cademan鈥檚 will of February 1688/9 and the 鈥淚nventory and Catalogue of the copys of Books鈥� it contained.
Chair: Paul Hammond
Professional and corporate identities(Room MB0.08)
Emily Betz: 鈥淧hysicians of note and eminency鈥�: Contesting Medical Authority in the Restoration Courtroom.
Samantha Middleton: Expertise Against Patronage: The Fashioning of Naval Professional Identity under Charles II and James II.
Tristan Griffin: Urban government and the reinvention of corporate identity in the Restoration moment.
Chair: Tim Cooper
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15:30 Tea and coffee break |
16:00 Panels
Authorial identity (Room MB0.07)
Gary Evans: Soldiers of ink and quill; George Story and Edward D鈥橝uvergne. Authorial identity, literary authority, credibility and writing the Nine Years war.
Thomas Clifton: 鈥淩eformed by a Person of Quality鈥�: Identifying Authorial Effacement in the Works of Susanna Hopton.
Chair: Thomas Corns
Dramatic identities (Room MB0.08)
Aelfred Hillman: Heroic Drama and the Politics of Probabilism
Caroline Taylor: 鈥淏y gar, 鈥檛is no the fashion of France鈥�: Shakespeare鈥檚 English Comedy on the Restoration Stage
Chair: Tom Lockwood
17:00 PLENARY LECTURE (Room MS.02)
John McTague: 鈥淩evolution Politicks鈥�: A Secret History of Historiography
Chair: Hannah Straw
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19:30 Conference Dinner in the Radcliffe Dining Hall (for those who have booked) |
THURSDAY 30 JULY
09:15 PANELS
Claiming Authorship: Women Writers, Self-Fashioning and the Literary Canon in the Long Restoration. (Room MB0.07)
Nora Rodr铆guez Loro: Forging the Female Playwright in the Long Restoration: Self-Fashioning and Identity in Dedications
Eneas Caro: From Liminal to Seminal: An Enquiry into the Role of the Female Spaces and their Participation in a Transnational Canon.
Victoria Echegaray-Mitar: Navigating Authorship, Identity, and Politics: The Dedications and Prefaces to Susanna Centlivre鈥檚 Early Plays (1700-1707).
Chair: Elaine Hobby
Identities under attack(Room MB0.08)
Ian Atherton: Time, Identity, and the Restoration in England
Patrick Graham: Bristol鈥檚 Attack on Clarendon: Political Performance, Religious Identity and International Espionage
Tim Cooper: The Anti-Baxter: The Hostile Construction of an Identity 1659-60
Chair: Angela McShane
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10:45 Tea and coffee break |
11:15 PANELS
Allegories, fakes, and forgeries(Room MB0.07)
Bernard Capp: Mutiny on the Van Herring: political allegory and the Exclusion Crisis, 1679-81
Natasha Kee: Fictional Imprints: Books from 鈥淐ologne鈥� in the London marketplace
William White: Political identity and the language of 鈥榮ettlement鈥� on the eve of the Restoration
Chair: Marcus Nevitt
Gender identities (Room MB0.08)
Imogen Knox: Masculinity in the face of death: men, emotions and capital punishment in England, 1689-1720
Marlo Avidon: 鈥渁n odde sight, and a sight did not please me鈥�: Fashionable Transgression and the Curation of Elite Feminine Identities in Late Stuart England, 1660-1702
Olivia Golby-Kirk: 鈥淔or Young-men are so false-hearted鈥�: Youthful Masculinity from the Perspective of Women in Broadside Ballads, 1660-1700
Chair: Naomi Pullin
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12:45 Conference farewell and lunch |
This programme is subject to amendment.