27-29 June 2012
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
09.00-10.00 Registration in front of Room 1129, Anthropole Building
10.00-10.15 Welcome: François Rosset, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne, Room 1129
10.15-11.15 Plenary lecture 1, Room 1129 [chair: Rachel Falconer, University of Lausanne]
Heinrich von Staden (Princeton University):
Writing Science in Antiquity: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder and Galen
11.30-13.00 Parallel sessions 1
A. MONSTROUS BIRTHS [session chair: Louise Wilson, University of St Andrews]
1. Emma Depledge (University of Geneva): ‘A Nest of Nunnes Egges, Strangely Hatched’: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Female Transgression in Anti-Catholic Propaganda of the Late 1670s and Early 1680s
2. Lucy Perry (University of Geneva): ‘ffendes-in-bedde, as our bokes sayn’ (Robert Mannyng’s Chronicle): Demonic Discourse, Demonic Intercourse, and the Birth of Merlin.
3. Erzsi Kukorelly(University of Geneva): Breeding Like Rabbits: Monstrous Generation and the Proliferation of Popular Print in Early Eighteenth-Century England
B. THE RUPTURED SKIN [session chair: John McGee, University of Geneva]
1. Katrin Rupp (University of Neuchâtel): (Un)Healthy Appetite: Medicinal Cannibalism in Richard Coeur de Lion
2. Joanne Winning (Birkbeck, University of London): The Meaning of Skin and Surgical Subjectivity
3. Sophie Ying-chiao Lin (National Taiwan Normal University): ‘every noise appals me’: Macbeth’s Plagued Ear
C. PHYSIC AND PSYCHE [session chair: Neil Forsyth, University of Lausanne]
1. Juliette Vuille (University of Lausanne): ‘Witte it welle, it was na ravinge that thowe sawe today’: Diagnosis and Contextualization of Medieval Female Mystics
2. Lisanna Calvi (University of Verona): ‘Is’t Lunacy to call a Spade a Spade?’: James Carkesse and the Forgotten Language of Madness
3. Cinta Zunino-Garrido (University of Jaen): Physic and Psyche on the Early Modern English Stage
13.00-14.30 Lunch break and/or registration
14.30-16.00 Parallel sessions 2
A. STAGING CHILDBIRTH AND SICKNESS [session chair: Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, University of Zurich]
1. Tamás Karáth (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest): Staging Childbirth: Medical and Popular Discourses of Parturition and Midwifery in the English Mystery Cycle Plays
2. John McGee (University of Geneva): Lovesickness in Romeo and Juliet
B. ‘EVEN SO QUICKLY MAY ONE CATCH THE PLAGUE?’ [session chair: Christa Jansohn, University of Bamberg]
1. Paola Baseotto (University of Insubria, Como): Religion and Medicine: Plague Writings by Elizabethan and Early Stuart Churchmen
2. Julia D. Staykova (independent scholar): The Discourse of Disease in the Anti-Theatrical Pamphlets, 1570s-1630s
3. Tommi Kakko (University of Tampere): Galenic and Empiricist Medicine in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year
C. OPTICS [session chair: Margaret Bridges, University of Bern]
1-2. Annette Kern-Stähler (University of Bern) and Beatrix Busse (University of Heidelberg): Blindness, Sightedness and the ‘In-Between’: The Diversity of Blindness in Middle English Language and Literature
3. Anne-Valérie Dulac (Paris Est Créteil University): London and Baghdad: Sir Philip Sidney’s Ornaments Viewed from the History of Optics
16.00- 16.30 Coffee break
16.30-18.00 Parallel sessions 3
A. MAGICKING HEALTH AND SICKNESS [session chair: Sarah Baccianti, University of Lausanne]
1. Susan Zavoti (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest): Blame it on the Elves – Perception of Sickness in Anglo-Saxon England
2. Milagros Torrado-Cespón (University of Santiago de Compostela): Some Notes about the Evil Eye Tradition and Witchcraft in England during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
B. ACCESSING MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE [session chair: Indira Ghose, University of Fribourg]
1. Clarissa Chenovick (Fordham University, New York): ‘Malveis coer’ and ‘malveis char’: Meditation as Surgery in the Livre de Seyntz Medicines
2. A. Gwyndaf Garbutt (University of Toronto): Evidence and the Exotic: Exploring Evidence Use in the Defective Version of The Book of John Mandeville
3. Helen Smith (University of York): ‘A medicine for the scorpion’s sting’: Divinity and Physic in Early Modern England
C. THEORIES OF THE SENSES [session chair: Elisabeth Dutton, University of Fribourg]
1. Marsha L. Dutton (Ohio University): Love’s Mirrors: Questions of Ocular Science in Guillaume de Lorris’s Roman de la Rose
2. Claire Bardelmann (University of Metz): ‘Had I no eyes but ears’: Early Modern Theories of Perception and the Rhetoric of the Senses in Venus and Adonis
18.15-19.15 Plenary lecture 2, Room 1129 [chair: Denis Renevey, University of Lausanne]
Eric Masserey (Lausanne) and Vincent Barras (University of Lausanne):
Reality or Fiction? Itineraries in Medicine and Literature, with Reference to Eric Masserey’s Le Retour aux Indes and other Texts: a dialogue
19.15-19.45 Musical interlude with Gaël Liardon (guitar and vocals)
19.45-21.30 Conference reception in the main hall, in front of room 1129
Thursday, 28 June 2012
08.15-9.00 SAMEMES AGM
9.30-11.00 Parallel sessions 4
A. STAGING SICKNESS (II) [session chair: Erzsi Kukorelly, University of Geneva]
1. Estella Antoaneta Ciobanu (Ovidius University, Constanța): The Truth(s) of the Body in Pieces in Middle English Passion Plays, or How to Make an Anatomical Imaginary before Early Modern Anatomy
2. Hanako Endo (Jissen Women’s University, Hino): Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet
3. Beatrice Montedoro (University of Geneva): Words as Sickness – the Dramatization of Bewitchment in Middleton’s The Witch (c. 1613-16) and Dekker’s The Witch of Edmonton (1621?)
B. SPIRITUAL DISEASE AND HEALING [session chair: Emma Depledge, University of Geneva]
1. Christiania Whitehead (University of Warwick): Spiritual Healing: Healing Miracles Associated with the Twelfth-Century Northern Cult of St Cuthbert
2. Virginia Langum (University of Umeå): Medicine and Sin in Gower
3. Eleonora Oggiano (University of Verona): Here’s a med’cine, for the nones: Practicing the Art of Healing in Jacobean England
C. GENDERED HEALING [session chair: Lucy Perry, University of Geneva]
1. Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa (Shizuoka University): Post-mortem Care of the Soul: Mechtild of Hackeborn’s the Booke of Gostlye Grace
2. Lyn Bennett (Dalhousie University, Halifax): Women Writers and the 17th-Century Rhetoric of Healing
12.30-19.00 Social programme
Friday, 29 June 2012
09.30-10.30 Plenary lecture 3, Room 1129 [chair: Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, University of Neuchâtel]
Margaret Healy (University of Sussex):
Paracelsian Medicine and Female Creativity: Distilling Medicines and Healing Poetry
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Parallel sessions 5
A. THE INFORMED READER: TEXTS, BODIES AND AUDIENCES IN THE MIDDLE AGES [session chair: Rahel Orgis, University of Neuchâtel]
1. Anke Timmerman (Medical University of Vienna): When Medicine Met Alchemy: Viennese Alchemica and their Readers
2. Katie L. Walter (University of Bochum): Digby MS 233: Medicine and the Chivalric Reader
3. Mary C. Flannery (University of London): Emotion, Exposure, and the Ideal Reader in Middle English Gynaecological Texts
B. ARTS OF HEALING [session chair: Madeline Ruegg, Freie Universität Berlin]
1. Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea University): Bathing in Blood: The Medicinal Cures of Anchoritic Devotion
2. Indira Ghose (University of Fribourg): The Paradox of Laughter in the Early Modern Period
C. TIME AND SPACE [session chair: Fiona Tolhurst, University of Geneva]
1. Stefania D’Agata D’Ottavi (Università per Stranieri, Siena): Between Astronomy and Astrology: Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe and the Measurement of Time in Late-Medieval England
2. Tamsin Theresa Badcoe (University of East Anglia): Mariners, Maps and Metaphors: Lucas Waghenaer and the Poetics of Space
3. Louise Noble (University of New England, Armidale): ‘Let others tell the Paradox’: Andrew Marvell and Early Modern Hydrological Science
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.00 Plenary lecture 4, Room 1129 [chair: Lukas Erne, University of Geneva]
Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University):
Diagnosing the body politic in William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part Two
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-17.00 Parallel sessions 6
A. TEXTS AND BODIES OF MSS [session chair: Olga Timofeeva, University of Zurich]
1. Peter Bovenmyer (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Configuring Surgery, Sanctity, and Salvation: A Reassessment of the Imagery in Roger Frugard’s Chirurgia (BL MS Sloane 1977)
2. Alessandra Petrina (Università degli Studi, Padua): British Library, MS Additional 60577: A Scientific and Didactic Collection
3. Patricia Ronan (University of Lausanne): John of Gaddesden’s Rosa Anglica and its Translation into Irish
B. RHETORIC AND THE BODY [session chair: Rory Critten, University of Groningen]
1. David Thorley (Durham University): Milton’s Letter to Philaras: The Patient as Prophet
2. Roy Sellars (University of St Gallen): Not Uninvented
C. NARRATING HEALTH AND DISEASE [session chair: Eva Grädel, University of Bern]
1. Edith Snook (University of New Brunswick): ‘Read(ing) of the vertue of those hearbs and flowres which I had wrought’: Elizabeth Isham, Needlework, and Medicine
2. Louise Wilson (University of St Andrews): Salutary Tales?: Reading, Health and Early Modern Romance’
3. Laetitia Sansonetti (Ecole Polytechnique, France): Syphilis or Melancholy? Desire as Disease in Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590)
17.15-18.15 Plenary lecture 5, Room 1129 [chair: Annette Kern-Stähler, University of Bern]
Anthony Hunt (University of Oxford): Anglo-Norman: The Missing Link?
19.30-23.30 Drinks followed by conference dinner