Friday, 10 March 2017
9:00–9:30 | Registration (Seminar Room) and Refreshments (Gallery)
9:30–9:45 | Welcome & Opening Remarks (Upper Annex)
Chiara Giovanni, Anik Laferrière, and Spencer J. Weinreich
9:45–11:00 | Plenary Lecture I (Upper Annex),
Chair: Rhodri Lewis (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)
“A Politics of Place in Early Modern English Prison Writing”
Rivkah Zim (King’s College, London)
11:00–11:15 | Break (Gallery)
11:15–12:45 | Parallel Sessions
Session 1 (Seminar Room). Radically Reformed: Life at the Confessional Extremes
Chair: Martin Christ (Balliol College, Oxford)
“Thomas Müntzer: From Exile to Execution”
Christopher Martinuzzi (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
“Exiled Anabaptists in Moravia: Struggle for Hegemony and the Hutterites”
Emese Balint (European University Institute)
“Title TBC”
Kat Hill (University of East Anglia)
Session 2 (Upper Annex). Nostalgia & Utopia
Chair: Nicole Pohl (Oxford Brookes University)
“Imprisonment, Exile and the English Church, 1553–1558”
Eliot Wilson (University of St Andrews)
“Prison and Exile in Early Modern English and Hungarian Literature”
Csaba Maczelka (University of Pécs)
“Of Babylonian Byrds: Musical Exile in the English Renaissance”
Florence Hazrat (Université de Genève)
12:45–1:45 | Lunch
1:45–3:45 | Parallel Sessions
Session 3 (Seminar Room). The Spectacle of Punishment
Chair: Jonathan Thacker (Merton College, Oxford)
“Sacrifice on the Elizabethan Scaffold”
Sophie Shorland (University of Warwick)
“Hidden Thoughts of the Soul: Miguel de Cervantes and Christian Slavery in Algiers”
Aaron Kahn (University of Sussex)
“‘Like birds i’the cage’: King Lear’s prison (un)scene”
Rachael Hodge (St John’s College, Oxford)
“Exiled from the Stage: Actors and Politics in the Late Stuart Period”
Máire MacNeill (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Session 4 (Upper Annex). Mimicry and Mirrors: The Captor/Captive Relationship
Chair: Molly Murray (Columbia University)
“Experiences of Imprisonment and Exile in Venice in the Early Modern Age”
Claudia Passarella (Università degli Studi di Padova)
“Captor and captive: expressions of political and religious identity in the needlework collaboration of Mary Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick”
M.A. Katritzky (The Open University)
“Triumphing over Torture, Cheating Death: Tommaso Campanella’s use of mimicry as a prison survival tool”
James Hall (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton)
3:45–4:00 | Break (Gallery)
4:00–5:30 | Parallel Sessions
Session 5 (Seminar Room). “Deep solitudes and awful cells”: Monasticism and Space
Chair: Anik Laferrière (Keble College, Oxford)
“Practica criminalis pro omnibus regularibus: The monastic prison of Groenendaal and the Modus procedendi of the Capuchin order”
Geert van Reyn (KU Leuven)
“‘Embracing the State of Religion’: Convents as Alternatives to Marriage for Early Modern Women”
Victoria Van Hyning (Pembroke College, Oxford)
“Places of Exile: Paradoxical Subjectivity and Space in the Lettres Portugaises (1669)”
Dominique Bauer (KU Leuven)
Session 6 (Upper Annex). Literary Form, Constraint, and Imprisonment
Chair: Lorna Hutson (Merton College, Oxford)
“‘Troublesome and modern bondage’: Rhyme as Prison”
Robert Stagg (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
“‘Livinge may be called a grave’: Poetics of Confinement in the Work of Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley”
Sonya Cronin (Trinity College Dublin)
“Churchyard’s De Tristibus—A Prisoner with Form”
Sophie Jane Buckingham (University of East Anglia)
7:30 | Dinner at Mezzeto (67 Walton Street, OX2 6AG)
Saturday, 11 March 2017
9:00–9:30 | Refreshments (Gallery)
9:30–11:00 | Parallel Sessions
Session 7 (Seminar Room). Pre-Foucault, Post-Foucault
Chair: Marius Ostrowski (All Souls College, Oxford)
“‘To correct and punish’: Penal Theory and Practice at London’s Bridewell”
Jenny Cryar (Queen Mary University of London)
“‘If thy brother shall sin against thee’: Fraternal correction and the rise of correctional imprisonment in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries”
Lorenzo Coccoli (Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Parthenope’)
“Spectacles of confinement? Purposes of imprisonment in early modern England”
Richard Thomas Bell (Stanford University)
Session 8 (Upper Annex). Topographies of the Other
Chair: Chiara Giovanni (Magdalen College, Oxford)
“Controlled Minds in Early Modern Europe: Barbary Captivity Discourse and its impact on the Anglo-American Imagination”
Omar Moumni (International University of Rabat)
“‘In Which Cage of Rushes I Am Sure You Are Not Prisoner’: Interpellation, Colonization, Reterritorialization, and Lines of Flight in As You Like It”
William Kroeger (The Queen’s College, Oxford)
“Servitude and Space: The Narrative Mapping of Imprisonment and Exile”
Matt Pursell (University of West Florida)
11:00–11:15 | Break (Gallery)
11:15–12:45 | Parallel Sessions
Session 9 (Seminar Room). Creating Communities
Chair: Molly Corlett (King’s College London)
“The End of the Ignatian Dream; To Ethiopia, a Long Farewell: Ritual and Ceremonial Life under the Shadow of Exile”
Leonardo Cohen (Ben Gurion Unversity of the Negev)
“Oliver Cromwell and Irish Nuns: A History of Exile in Early Modern Spain”
Nere Intxaustegi-Jauregi (Universidad de Deusto)
“A ‘virtual community’: Jesuit Exile, Suppression and Re-Birth in José Pignatelli’s correspondence and life (1767–1811)”
Eleonora Rai (ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Western Australia)
Session 10 (Upper Annex). “A king of infinite space”: Resistance and Survival
Chair: Spencer J. Weinreich (Harris Manchester College, Oxford)
“Neo-Latin Poetry of Imprisonment and Exile”
Jane B. Stevenson (University of Aberdeen)
“John Bunyan in Conversation: Community and the Prison Autobiography”
Kristine L. Haugen (California Institute of Technology)
“Vinctus in Christo: How, and how not, to survive life as a prisoner of state in seventeenth-century France”
Julian Swann (Birkbeck College, University of London)
12:45–1:45 | Lunch
1:45–3:15 | Parallel Sessions
Session 11 (Seminar Room). Material Realities of Imprisonment and Exile
Chair: Richard Thomas Bell (Stanford University)
“Women in Bridewell, 1560–1610”
Duncan Salkeld (University of Chichester)
“Between Prison and the Printing Press: Benjamin Harris, Polemic Entrepreneur”
Philipp Reisner (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
“‘There are no proper divisions for men and women… This gaol is in a very ruinous state’: Identifying Female Space within the Eighteenth-Century Debtors’ Prison”
Alexander Wakelam (Queens’ College, Cambridge)
Session 12 (Upper Annex). The Marian Exiles
Chair: Sarah Apetrei (Keble College, Oxford)
“John Ponet: Calvinist or Classical Resistance Theorist?”
Mark Earngey (Wycliffe Hall, Oxford)
“Opposing Tyranny from the Outside: The Case of the Marian Exiles”
Francesca Pirola (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
“Prison Letter Writing and the Narrow Way”
Susan Comilang (United States Merchant Marine Academy)
3:15–3:30 | Break (Gallery)
3:30–4:45 | Plenary Lecture II (Upper Annex)
Chair: Diarmaid MacCulloch (St Cross College, Oxford)
“Exile, Refuge, and Prison in the Mind of John Calvin”
Bruce Gordon (Yale University)
4:45–5:00 | Closing Remarks
Prison/Exile: Controlled Spaces in Early Modern Europe 