{"id":205,"date":"2015-07-25T09:21:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amemg.wordpress.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2015-07-25T09:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T12:21:33","slug":"2015-conference-25-26-september-st-francis-xavier-university-antigonish-ns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amemg.proxy.digitalearlymodern.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"2015 Conference, 25-26 September, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/amemg.digitalearlymodern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/14357873051_96260e1202_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-209 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/amemg.digitalearlymodern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/14357873051_96260e1202_k.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"14357873051_96260e1202_k\" width=\"462\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amemg.digitalearlymodern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/amemgabstractsaugust25.pdf\">Abstracts<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\">PROGRAM (<em>revised September 21)<\/em><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Location: Hall of Clans, Angus L. MacDonald Library<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\">Friday, September 25<\/h1>\n<p>Registration fee: $30, includes lunch and nutrition\/coffee breaks. Registration at the welcome reception and on the morning of September 26th (8:30 -9:00am).<\/p>\n<p><strong>6:30 &#8211; 7:30 pm\u00a0Welcome Reception\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7:30 &#8211; 9:00 pm The Devil: A Panel of Devilists<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keynote: Richard Raiswell (UPEI) \u2013 \u201cBlack Cats with Roasted and Boiled Babies: The <em>Errores Gazariorum <\/em>and the Synagogue of Satan\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Kathryn Morris (UKC)<\/li>\n<li>Karim Baccouche (UNBF)<\/li>\n<li>Stephanie Pettigrew (UNBF)<\/li>\n<li>Gary Waite (UNBF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\">Saturday, September 26<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">All speakers are asked to keep their presentations to 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<h2>8:45 &#8211; Opening Remarks<\/h2>\n<h2>8:50 &#8211; 10:00 am Session 1: New World and Old Worlds Collide<\/h2>\n<h2>Chair: Simon Kow<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lauren Beck (Mt A), \u201cIndigenous Travels to Spain in the Early Modern Period: The Journey of Calisto Tupac\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Stephanie Pettigrew (UNB) \u2013 \u201cEarly European Expansion: Re-Imagining the Imperial Narrative\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Gregory Kennedy and Vincent Auffrey (U de M) \u2013 \u201cAlexandre Bourg, la vie frontali\u00e8re et l\u2019\u00e9mergence d\u2019une \u00e9lite communautaire en Acadie, 1671 \u00e0 1760\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>10:00 &#8211; 10:10 Nutrition Break<\/h2>\n<h2>10:10 &#8211; 11:20 Session 2: Early Modern Marriage and its Transgression<\/h2>\n<h2>Chair: Edith Snook<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Julie Sutherland (Athabasca University\/CBU) \u2013 \u201cA little refreshing adultery?: Chapman\u2019s <em>Bussy d\u2019Ambois<\/em> and the Sexual Woman\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Krista Kesselring (Dal) \u2013 \u201cLicensed or Licentious? Divorce with Remarriage in the English Reformation\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Tim Stretton (SMU) \u2013 \u201cMarriage and Contract in Early Modern England\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>11:20 &#8211; 12:30 Session 3: Changing Worldviews in the Enlightenment<\/h2>\n<h2>Chair: Richard Raiswell<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Simon Kow (UKC) \u2013 \u201cThe Tolerant Emperor: Bayle on Religious Toleration and China\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Neil G. Robertson (UKC) \u2013 \u201cConstitutional Liberty in the Eighteenth Century\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Gary Waite (UNBF) \u2013 \u201cThe Religious Roots of Disbelief in the Enlightenment\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>12:30 &#8211; 1:30 Lunch<\/h1>\n<h2>1:30 \u2013 2:40 Session 4: The Body: in Sickness, Health, and Death<\/h2>\n<h2>Chair: Krista Kesselring<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Adriana Benzaqu\u00e9n (MSVU) \u2013 \u201cThe Quicksilver in the Weatherglass: John Locke and Mary Clarke on Health, Illness and Medicine\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Edith Snook (UNBF) \u2013 \u201cHealth, Hygiene, and Hair in Early Modern England\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Kathryn Morris (UKC) \u2013 \u201cDemons &amp; Bodies: The Devil in 18<sup>th<\/sup>-Century Vampire Debates\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2:40 &#8211; 3:50 Session 5: New Light on Old Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair: Adriana Benzaqu\u00e9n <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ronald Huebert (Dal) \u2013 \u201c\u2018Sacred Lust\u2019: The Private Devotions of John Saltmarsh\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Janine Rogers (Mt A) \u2013 \u201cCompiling and Collaboration: On an Interdisciplinary Research Project\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Ranke de Vries (St FX) \u2013 \u201cScribal Attitudes and Editing in Medieval Irish Manuscripts\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>3:50 &#8211; 4:20 Guided Tour of Celtic Collection<\/h2>\n<h2>4:20 &#8211; 5:30 Session 6: Religion, Authority, Witchcraft<\/h2>\n<h2>Chair: Gary Waite<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>William Lundell (Mt A) \u2013 \u201cNew Evidence of the Durability of Carthusian Support for the Council of Basel in the Wake of the Basel Schism (1437)\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Karim Baccouche (UNBF) \u2013 \u201cPreaching Against the Witches&#8217; Sabbbath: Demonological Debates in the Fifteenth Century and the Case of Guillaume Adeline&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Todd Pettigrew (CBU) \u2013 \u201c\u2018The Devil is a Juggler\u2019: Pythagoras as Witch in the English Renaissance\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5:30 &#8211; 5:50 Tour of Rare Books Room<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5:50-6:20 AMEMG Business Meeting: The Future Continued<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Election of Executive Members<\/li>\n<li>Other Matters\n<ul>\n<li>Next Year\u2019s Conference (MtA)<\/li>\n<li>Palaeography Training<\/li>\n<li>Other Collaborations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6:20 &#8211; Closing Reception<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conference accommodation is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.homewardinnscanada.com\">Homeward Inns of Canada<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a041 James Street.<\/p>\n<p>1-902-863-4212 (Local)<br \/>\n1-902-863-1700 (Fax)<br \/>\n1-800-251-0008 (Toll Free)<\/p>\n<p>Mention the Department of English conference to receive the group rate discount (79.95$\/night). \u00a0Rooms are reserved for Friday and Saturday night. The motel is walking distance to St. FX.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit:<\/em>\u00a0<em>Photo by\u00a0<\/em><em>&#8220;mrbanjo1138&#8221; on Flickr.\u00a0Licensed by Creative Commons <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/legalcode\">License<\/a>. No changes were made to the photo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstracts PROGRAM (revised September 21) Location: Hall of Clans, Angus L. MacDonald Library\u00a0 Friday, September 25 Registration fee: $30, includes lunch and nutrition\/coffee breaks. 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