New Perspectives on Censorship in Early Modern England : Literature, Politics and Religion

Confirmed Keynotes :
P^r. Roger Chartier (Collège de France)
P^r. Janet Clare (University of Hull)
P^r. Line Cottegnies (Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle)
P^r. Richard Dutton (The Ohio State University)
D^r. Thomas Freeman (University of Essex)

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THURSDAY

• 8:30 Welcome coffee
• 9:00 Formal opening of the Conference (Anne-Garrait Bourrier and Jean-Philippe Luis, Université Blaise Pascal)

• 9:15 Silencing et regulating : meaningful omissions
  (Chair : Samuel Cuisinier-Delorme, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand)
  Dominique GOY-BLANQUET (Université Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens) The silences of Sir Thomas More.
  Joseph STERRETT (Aarhus University, Denmark) ’Stop up his mouth’ : Silencing subversive confessions on the early modern stage.

• 10:05 Discussion
• 10:30 Coffee Break

• 11:00 Keynote address
  Line COTTEGNIES (Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle)
  (Chair : Sophie Chiari, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand) "No cloudy stuff to puzzle the brain" : John Benson’s edition of Shakespeare’s Poems (1640) between censorship and ’accommodation’.

• 11:45 Discussion
• 12:15 Lunch at Pavillon Lecoq*

• 14:00 Science and philosophy : The censorship of knowledge
  (Chair : Pierre Lurbe, Université Paris-Sorbonne)
  Mickaël POPELARD (Université de Caen Basse Normandie)
  Censoring knowledge : censorship and the scientific revolution in early modern England.
  Brian MUNOZ (ENS Lyon)
  Censure et autocensure dans les dialogues londoniens de Giordano Bruno.

• 14:50 Discussion
• 15:05 Coffee Break

• 15:30 Censorship and translation
  (Chair : Anne Rouhette, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Fd)
  Marie-Céline DANIEL (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
  Translators – willing or unwilling auxiliaries of censorship ? A study of a few French pamphlets published in England in the last quarter of the sixteenth century.
  Pierre KAPITANIAK (Université Paul Vaéry - Montpellier 3)
  Pierre Le Loyer’s Treatise of Specters (1605) : Translation as censorship.
  Jonathan POLLOCK (Université de Perpignan Via Domitia)
  What Florio did not translate : the return of the repressed in the English rendering of Montaigne’s Essays.

• 16:45 Discussion

• 17:00 Discussion with
  Thomas Freeman (University of Essex) Censorship under the reign of Mary Tudor

• 18:30 Reception in the City Hall*
• 20:00 Dinner in the old town*

FRIDAY

• 9:00 Self-censorship
  _ (Chair : Line Cottegnies, Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle)
  _ Laetitia SANSONETTI (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
  _ Authorial self-fashioning disguised as self-censorship : Spenser’s strategies of indirect representation in The Faerie Queene.
  Aurélie GRIFFIN (Université Jean Monnet, St Etienne)
  _ (Self-)Censorship in Lady Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania (1621-1630 ?).

• 9:50 Discussion
• 10:10 Coffee Break

• 10:30 The censorship of foreign ideas
  _ (Chair : Roger Chartier, Collège de France, Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania)
  Anne GEOFFROY (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin)
  A diptych : Pietro Aretino and Paulo Sarpi or the representation of two famous cases of Roman censorship in early modern England.
  Freddy DOMINGUEZ (University of Arkansas)
  The politics of destroying books : The case of Girolamo Pollini’s Ecclesiastical History of the English Revolution and its English response.
  Edward Paleit (University of Exeter)
  ‘Seditious Textes’ and their readers : censorship of radical political texts published abroad, ca. 1572-1593.

• 11:45 Discussion

• 12:30 Lunch in the old town followed by a visit of the Cathedral*

• 15:00 Censoring art
  (Chair : Pierre Iselin, Université Paris-Sorbonne)
  _ Raphaëlle COSTA DE BEAUREGARD (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès)
  Painting the presence/absence of God and religious iconoclasm : the case of two religious miniatures by Isaac Oliver (ca 1610).
  Florence HAZRAT (University of St Andrews)
  Of lutes and lust : censoring sound in early modern music and poetry.

• 15:50 Discussion
• Coffee Break

• 16:30 The power of satire
  (Chair : Edward Paleit, University of Exeter)
  Pelin DOGAN (University of Ankara)
  The Malcontent’s fool, censorship, and the construction of the subject.
  Per SIVEFORS (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
  Lisping Amorists and snaphaunce satirists : satire, masculinity and the Bishops’ Ban of 1599.
  Roy ERIKSEN (University of Agder, Norway)
  Revisiting an old controversy : censorship in Doctor Faustus.

• 17:45 Discussion
• 20:00 Concert (Opera House)*

SATURDAY

• 9:30 Keynote address
  Richard DUTTON (Ohio State University)
  _(Chair : François Laroque, Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle) The limits of a censor’s authority : the case of the Masters of the Revels.

• 10:15 Discussion
• 10:30 Coffee Break

• 10:45 England after 1695 : the Licensing Act’s expiry
  (Chair : Denis Lagae-Devoldère, Université Paris-Sorbonne)
  Randy ROBERTSON (Susquehanna University)
  The Habermasian public sphere revisited.
  Pierre LURBE (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
  A Dublin auto-da-fé : the public burning of John Toland’s Christianity not Mysterious, 11 September 1697.

• 11:35 Discussion
• 12:00 Buffet*

• 14:00 Keynote address
  Janet CLARE (University of Hull)
  (Chair : Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Université de Picardie) ‘I like not this’ : censorship and censure in early modern drama’.

• 14:45 Discussion
• 15:00 Censorship and the book trade
  (Chair : Pierre Iselin, Université Paris-Sorbonne)
  _ Mark BLAND (De Montfort University, Leicester)
  Social Connections and the Control of the Book-Trade.

• 15:25 Discussion
• 15:40 Coffee Break

• 16:00 Keynote address
  Roger CHARTIER (College de France, Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania) Appraisal and perspectives.

• 17:00 End of the Conference
• 17:15 Cocktail*

* = for participants only

Sponsors :

IHRIM (UMR 5317, CNRS) Université Blaise Pascal, Labex COMOD, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Clermont-Ferrand, Conseil départemental, Conseil régional, Société Française Shakespeare, DRAC Auvergne, Ville de Clermont-Ferrand.