PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME (last updated 15 March 2012)
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- All sessions will be held at Green College Coach House, except for the two plenary lectures by our keynote speakers.
- Coffee, lunch, and the Friday evening reception will be in the Green College Piano Lounge, adjacent to the Coach House.
- The Saturday evening banquet will be at Banana Leaf Kitsilano, 3005 West Broadway, Kitsilano, Vancouver V6K 2G9.
- Titles of talks are linked to their abstracts (opening in a new window)
FRIDAY 16 MARCH
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee: Green College Coach House
Welcome: Richard Unger (History, University of British Columbia; Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies; and one of the founders of the UBC Medieval Workshop)
9:00 – 10:00 Session One: Scientific Mirrors
Berthold Hub (Art History, University of Vienna)
“Bloody Mirrors: Superstition or Science?”
Anna Dysert (History, McGill University)
“Specular Art and Science: A New Typology of Mirror Imagery in Alchemical Texts”
Chair: Daniela Boccassini (French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, University of British Columbia)
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee
10:15 – 11:45 Session Two: Historical Mirrors
Courtney Booker (History, University of British Columbia)
“The Dionysian Mirror of Louis the Pious”
David Napolitano (History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)
“Adjusting the Mirror”
Louis Shwartz (History, University of Toronto)
“The Mirror of Scripture: Papal and Imperial Interpretations of the Two Swords: the Case of Frederick II, Gregory IX, and Castel Sant’Angelo”
Chair: Alison Beringer (Classics & General Humanities, Montclair State University)
11:45 – 12:00 Walk to Plenary Lecture
12:00 – 1:00 PLENARY LECTURE: Buchanan A101
Suzanne Conklin Akbari (English, University of Toronto)
“Sight Lines: The Mirror of the Mind in Pre-Modern Poetics”
Introduction & Chair: Sheila Delany (Emerita, English, Simon Fraser University)
1:00 – 2:30 Lunch: back in Green College
2:30 – 3:30 Session Three: Princely and Worldly Mirrors
Filippo Andrei (Italian Studies, University of California Berkeley)
“Specula Principis: Aspirations to Kingship and Ideal Representations of the Sovereign in the Old French Romances”
Hélène Cazes (French, University of Victoria)
“Réflexions érasmiennes sur la poétique du reflet: le miroir de l’aveugle, le speculum de l’ingénieur et la géométrie de l’amitié”
Chair: Chantal Phan (French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, University of British Columbia)
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee
4:00 – 5:00 Session Four: Philosophical and Theological Mirrors
Martin Sastri (Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame)
“The Reflection of Visio Absoluta as Adequate Metaphor of Emanation in Nicholas of Cusa’s De Visione Dei”
Sergius Kodera (Philosophy, University of Vienna)
“Between Stage-Prop and Metaphor: Mirrors in Giambattista della Porta and Giordano Bruno”
Chair: Raúl Alvarez-Moreno (French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, University of British Columbia)
5:30 – 7:00 Reception: Cash Bar
Welcome: Mark Vessey, Principal of Green College (English, University of British Columbia)
SATURDAY 17 MARCH
9:30 – 10:00 Registration and Coffee: Green College Coach House
10:00 – 11:30 Session Five: Women and Mirrors
Alison Beringer (Classics & General Humanities, Montclair State University)
“A Mirror of Words: Semiramis and Alexander in Late Byzantine Romance“
Yvonne Owens (History of Art, University College London)
“Mirrors, Menstruation, Basilisks, and Poison Maids: Reflections of Toxic Femininity in Hans Baldung Grien”
Robyn Rossmeisl (Art History, Visual Arts, & Theory, University of British Columbia)
“Opening the Spiritual Aperture: Reflections of Perfect Piety in The Martyrdom of St. Apollonia”
Chair: Arlene Sindelar (History, University of British Columbia)
11:30- 12:00 Coffee
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12:00 – 1:00 PLENARY LECTURE: Buchanan A201
Tom Conley (Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University)
“Lyric and Luster: Mirrored Verse in Renaissance France”
Introduction: André Lamontagne (Head, French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia)
Chair: Nancy Frelick (French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, University of British Columbia)
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch: back in Green College
2:00 – 3:00 Session Six: Visual Reflections
Danijela Zutic (Art History, Visual Arts, & Theory, University of British Columbia)
“Contour of the World/Contour of the Soul: Opicinus de Canistris (1296 –c.1354), Mirroring as Mystical Method”
Ulrike Feist (Institute of Art History & Visual Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin)
“The Reflection Sundial at Palazzo Spada in Rome”
Chair: Bronwen Wilson (Art History, Visual Arts, & Theory, University of British Columbia)
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee
3:30 – 5:00 Session Seven: French Mirrors
Elizabeth Black (Foreign Languages & Literatures, Old Dominion University)
“Mirror/Window, Reflection/Deflection: Regulating the Gaze Inside and Outside the House in Gilles Corrozet’s Blasons domestiques (1539)”
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (Littératures de langue française, Université de Montréal)
“Portraits et miroirs dans les éloges collectifs de femmes au XVIIe siècle”
Kathleen Kasten (Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania)
“Reflections of Luxury: Mirrors and Mirror Imagery in the Letters of the Marquise de Sévigné”
Chair: Carol Knicely (Art History, Visual Arts, & Theory, University of British Columbia)
7:00 – 9:00 Dinner: Banana Leaf Kitsilano
3005 West Broadway, Kitsilano, Vancouver V6K 2G9;
Banquet address: Courtney Booker
(Department of History, UBC; and Chair of Medieval Studies, University of British Columbia)
SUNDAY 18 MARCH
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and coffee: Green College Coach House
9:00 – 10:30 Session Eight: East/West Mirrors
Leila Rahimi Bahmany (John F. Kennedy School Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin)
“Convergence of Symbols: The Mirror of Divinity in Persian Sufi Literature”
Sophia Rose Shafi (Islamic Studies, Iliff School of Theology)
“When the Mirror Shatters It Becomes a House of Mirrors: The Religious Function of Aineh-Kari inImamzadeh”
Daniela Boccassini (French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, University of British Columbia)
“Wondrous Mirrors: The Contemplative Art of the Fedeli d’Amore, East and West”
Chair: Niall Christie (Corpus Christi College, University of British Columbia and Langara College)
10:30- 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:00 Session Nine: Iberian Mirrors
Monika Edinger (French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, University of British Columbia)
“The voice from the distance: the interplay between the four classical elements and their representation in French and Spanish Renaissance re-writings of Ovid’s Narcissus and Echo”
Elixabete Ansa Goicoechea (French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, University of British Columbia)
“Basque Virgins: Speculum Sine Macula in the Actualization of a 17th-Century Miracle by Salbatore Mitxelena and Itxaro Borda”
Chair: Juliet O’Brien (French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, University of British Columbia)
12:00 – 12:30 Concluding Remarks
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