New Perspectives on Censorship in Early Modern England : Literature, Politics and Religion
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Organizers :
Sophie Chiari and Isabelle Fernandes (IHRIM-Clermont-Ferrand)
Confirmed Keynotes :
Pr. Roger Chartier (Collège de France)
Pr. Janet Clare (University of Hull)
Pr. Line Cottegnies (Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Pr. Richard Dutton (The Ohio State University)
Dr. Thomas Freeman (University of Essex)
Free admittance
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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.
