HNA-Sponsored Session
Constliefdigh: Dutch and Flemish Masters Portray their Love of Art
Organizer: Elliott Wise, Brigham Young University
Thursday 3:30-5:00PM
Location: BOUNDARY WATERS B
Session Papers:
- In liefde ghetrau’: Karel van Mander on Spiritual Fidelity and the Love of Art
Walter S. Melion, Emory University - Jacob van Swanenburg: Between the Devil and the Church
Amy Golahny, Lycoming College - Painting and Making in Gabriel Metsu’s Depictions of His Wife, Isabella de Wolff
James Clifton, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Other Sessions and Papers of Interest:
THURSDAY 1:30 – 3:00PM
Panel: Jesuits in Europe and Around the World
Erika R Hosselkus, University of Notre Dame, Organizer
Location: GREAT LAKES A1
Session Papers:
- Apostasy and Identity: Former Jesuits as Cultural Communicators in mid-17c Japan
Samantha Perez, Southeastern Louisiana University - Negotiating Education: The Jesuits between Ingolstadt and Munich, 1573-1575
Susan Mobley, Concordia University Wisconsin - Interview with the Missionary: Frequently Asked Questions for Jesuit Petitioners for the Indies Elisa Frei, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt-Boston College
Panel: Art, Topography, and Artificial Intelligence Interpreting Material Culture from the Low Countries to Poland
Howard Louthan, University of Minnesota, organizer
Location: MINNETONKA
Session Papers:
- Investigating Visual Communication During the Reformation and Counter-Reformation with Computer Vision
Drew Thomas, University College Dublin - Jean Bodin, Topographical Publishing, and the Beginnings of Architectural History
Kristoffer Neville, University of California, Riverside - The Mind and Majesty of this Greatest King: Exploring Polish Renaissance Kingship through an Ekphrasis of the Jagiellonian Tapestries, 1553
Anne Stackpole, Leiden University - Sermon, Still Life, Collection
Julie Johnson, University of Texas, San Antonio
Paper: ‘De mano sua propria:’ Raphael, the Workshop, and Patrons’ Expectations, 1505-1525
Sheryl E. Reiss, Newberry Library/University of Chicago Graham School
Location: GREAT LAKES BALLROOM B
THURSDAY 3:30-5:00PM
Panel: Reading Marguerite de Navarre
Jessica E. DeVos, Independent Scholar, organizer
Location: BEMIDJI
Session Papers:
- Understatement in the Heptaméron
Jacob Ladyga, Bucknell University - Comme est escript: Biblical authority in Marguerite of Navarre’s Pater Noster
Rachel K Teubner, Australian Catholic University - Marguerite as a Witch: Jean Bodin’s Reading of the Heptaméron
Philippe Baillargeon, University of Massachusetts Amhers
FRIDAY 8:30 – 10:00AM
Panel: Violence, Resistance, Identity, and Networks in an Age of Religious Change
Jessica C.Lowe, The University of the South, organizer
BOUNDARY WATERS C
Session Papers:
- “These Mennonites Are Anabaptists”: 17th-century Palatine Perspectives on Radical Identity
Cory D. Davis, independent scholar - “Non sans espines Rosier”: The Reflections of a Parish Priest in the Southern Netherlands, c. 1565:1616.
Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes University - Alten, Schwachen und Enermüdlichen: Old Age and Reform in Württemberg’s Monasteries
Ana G. Barnes, Vanderbilt University - The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in Romanssur-Isère: A Conspiracy or Crisis of Authority?
Joseph TenHulzen, University of Iowa
Panel: The Artist
Amy Golahny, Lycoming College, organizer
Location: GREAT LAKES A2
Session Papers:
- Pliny the Elder and the Deaf Painter Cristoforo de Predis in Milan
Jeffrey Schrader, University of Colorado Denver - Rembrandt’s Nemesis
Stephanie S. Dickey, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada - Painting is Mute Poetry’: Deaf Artists and the Sensory Compensation Narrative in the Historiography of Early Modern Dutch Art
Barbara A Kaminska, Sam Houston State University
Panel: Moved by Faith: Religious Refugees in Central Europe
Howard Louthan, University of Minnesota, organizer
Location: MINNETONKA
Session Papers:
- Wenceslaus Hollar and the Thirty Years’ War
James Gresock, University of Minnesota - The Religious-Political Landscape of Sixteenth Century Bohemia
Lisa Scott, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Bohemians Refugees and the Advent of Church Sharing in Prussia, 1530-1550
Maximilian Scholz, Florida State University
Panel: Counsel, Resistance, and Exile: Reformed Political Encounters
Jennifer Powell McNutt, Wheaton College, organizer
Location: HARRIET
Session Papers:
- “Manful Soldiers of Christ”: Gendering Resistance in the Writings of the Marian Exiles
Allison M. Brown, Baylor University - From Counsel to Constitution: Bridling the Prince’s Libido in Calvin’s Seneca Commentary
Nicholas Barden, Georgetown University - “A Covering Shelter from the Storm” Calvin’s Political and Religious Perspective on Exile
Sam (Neulsaem) Ha, Calvin Theological Seminary
Panel: Writing beyond Europe: Spanish, Dutch, and English Encounters with Africa and Asia
Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota, organizer
Location: LAKE SUPERIOR B
Session Papers:
- What was Heard and Said in Elmina, African Gold Coast, 1668-70
Nigel Smith, Princeton University - Accumulative Comparison: The Arabic Concept of Direct Experience, Dhawq in Seventeenth-Century Thought
Jane Mikkelson, University of Virginia - Lyric and Gold: A Southeast Asian Material Vernacular
Marisa Galvez, Stanford University - Amsterdam the Center of the World?
Jan Bloemendal, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands/ Ruhr Universität Bochum
FRIDAY 10:30AM – 12:00PM
Paper: Honor, Religious Invective, and Reconciliation in Early Modern Germany
Allyson F. Creasman, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: BOUNDARY WATERS C
Paper: Visualising The New World From a European Perspective: De Bry’s Representation of a Devilish Public Ceremony
Kethlen Santini Rodrigues, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
Location: GREAT LAKES BALLROOM C
Paper: “Nature’s Work”: How Carolus Clusius and Other Leading Scholars in Central Europe Stimulated Sidney’s Interest in the Natural Sciences
Martina Kastnerová, University of West Bohemia
Location: GREAT LAKES A3
Paper: Carolus Clusius, Hubert Languet, and a Newly Discovered
Philip Sidney Letter
Thomas M. Vozar, University of Hamburg
Location: GREAT LAKES A3
Paper: Chronic illness in early modern German cities
Mitchell L. Hammond, University of Victoria
Location: LAKE SUPERIOR A
FRIDAY 1:30 – 3:00PM
HNA Sponsored Paper: Making Copies in the Early Modern Netherlands: a case study of The Madonna and Child after Jan Gossart
Yu Han Hsu, Chimei Museum/ Radboud University
Location: LAKE SUPERIOR A
Panel: Traces of Catholic Culture in Protestant Europe
Wim François, KU Leuven, organizer
Location: MINNETONKA
Session Papers:
- The Late-Medieval Altarpiece from Voss and its Afterlife in a Protestant Parish
Ragnhild M. Bø, Oslo, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design - English Catholic Women and the Bible in the Reformation Era
Daniel Cheely, University of Pennsylvania - Spiritual Virgins in the Dutch Republic and Their Passion for Devotional Prints and Pious Books
Evelyne M.F. Verheggen, University of Antwerp, Ruusbroec Institute
FRIDAY 3:30 – 5:00PM
Paper: Encompassing the World in the Alps: The Habsburg Court at Innsbruck in the Late Renaissance
Andrew L. Thomas, Salem College
Location: BEMIDJI
Paper: The Reformations in Olaus Magnus’s Work: Reporting, Reacting, Reimagining in a New Christendom
Bryan Kozik, Davis & Elkins College
Location: BEMIDJI
SATURDAY 8:30 – 10:00AM
Paper: The Curtain, the Stage, and Hans Holbein the Younger’s More Family Portrait
Jennifer Wu, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Panel: Drawing and Artistic Process
Rachel McGarry, Minneapolis Institute of Art, organizer
Location: GREAT LAKES A3
Session Papers:
- Reconsidering Mantegna’s “Two Standing Male Figures” and its Role in the Development of the Eremitani “Saint James Led to his Execution”
Christopher Platts, University of Cincinnati - A Drawing, Four Paintings, and a Printed Book: A possible chain of iconographic transmission
Magda Teter, Fordham University - Drawing on Color: The Patient Process of Federico Barocci
Vianna Newman Dennis, University of Maryland, College Park
SATURDAY 10:30AM – 12:00PM
Paper: “Or am I a Dutchman?”: Recategorizing SixteenthCentury Dutch Protestant Refugees
Jesse A. Spohnholz, Washington State University
Location: BOUNDARY WATERS B
Panel: Bodies I
James Clifton, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, organizer
Location: GREAT LAKES A3
Session Papers:
- Federico Barocci, Michelangelo, and the ‘MuscleMen‚Äù
Jeffrey M. Fontana, Austin College - Monkey Wrenches: the human versus the animal in Vesalius
Lyle Massey, University of California, Irvine - An Elusive Moment: The Instant of Death Represented in Early Modern Art and Medicine
Itay Sapir, Université du Québec
SATURDAY 1:30 – 3:00PM
Panel: Print Culture in Early Modern Europe: Knowledge, Branding, and Bunk
Gerhild Williams, Washington University Saint Louis, organizer
Location: GREAT LAKES BALLROOM C
Session Papers:
- “Officina Plantiniana” Books in Lithuanian Memory Institutions
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania - Printing Celestina in late sixteenth-century Leiden: The case of the 1595 Leiden Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea
Isidro J. Rivera, University of Kansas - Printing Lies: Quackery in German Books of Herbs
Christopher Hutchinson, University of Mississippi
Panel: Negotiating the Boundaries of Status and Power
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, University of Arizona, organizer
Location: GREAT LAKES A2
Session Papers:
- Safe Passage and City Business: Jewish Women and Christian Bureaucracy in Early Modern Augsburg
Helmut Graser, University of Augsburg - Eleanor of Austria: Negotiating Power as Foreign Queen of France
Tracy Adams, University of Auckland - Magic Swords and Masculine Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
B. Ann Tlusty, Bucknell University
SATURDAY 3:30 – 5:00PM
Panel: Conversion, Race, and the Cultural Entanglements of Global Protestantism
Rebecca Ann Goetz, New York University, organizer
Location: GREAT LAKES BALLROOM B
Session Papers:
- Calvinism, Conversion, and Cultural Spaces in the Dutch Asian Empire, 1600-1800
Charles H. Parker, Saint Louis University - Providential Cannibals: The Religious Narrative of Hans Staden’s True History, 1557
Joel F. Harrington, Vanderbilt University - Race, Indigeneity and the “Heathen” in the Moravian Missions to Shekomeko and Jamaica
Katharine Gerbner, University of Minnesota
Panel: Bodies II
Barbara A. Kaminska, Sam Houston State University, organizer
Location: GREAT LAKES A3
Session Papers:
- Virtue Rewarded: Proportional Illumination in Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and her Maidservant, 1623-25)
Mallory N Haselberger, University of Maryland, College Park - Della Porta’s Physiognomy in its Intellectual Context
Dan Mills, Chattahoochee Technical College - Theories of the Microcosm, Natural Philosophy, and Arcomboldesque Figures Actually Made of the Four Elements c. 1600
Joaneath A. Spicer, Walters Art Museum
Panel: Galleries and Museums
James Clifton, organizer
Location: BEMIDJI
Session Papers:
- Ut Pictura Poesis: Joachim von Sandrart’s Cycle of the Twelve Months as Early Modern Art Theory
Susan Maxwell, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Loan Exhibitions at the Detroit Institute of Arts in the 1920s and 30s: Joseph Duveen behind the Scenes”
Catherine B. Scallen, Case Western Reserve University - On the Figure of Christ as Liefhebber in the Feminized Collection Space of Frans Francken the Younger’s Allegory of the Pictura Sacra, c. 1635)
Jamie Richardson Sandhu, Bryn Mawr College
SUNDAY 8:30 – 10:00AM
Panel: The Loose Ends of History 2.5: New Sources for New Reformation Narratives
Jesse A Spohnholz, Washington State University, organizer
Location: BOUNDARY WATERS D
Session Papers:
- “To my Dearest and Most Learned Friend”: Interpreting Friendship in Early Modern Letters
Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Targeting Village Women as Witches in Reformation
Geneva Sara Beam, University of Victoria - Gleaning Insights on Dutch Reformed Religious Life from Elections of Elders and Deacons in Rural Dutch Reformed Consistories
Kyle J Dieleman, Trinity Christian College
Panel: Printing Nature: Early Modern Representations of Water, Plants, and Animals
B. Ann Tlusty, Bucknell University, organizer
Location: GREAT LAKES BALLROOM C
Session Papers:
- Healing Waters in Contest: Balneology and Lutheran Miracles in Early Modern Germany
Ute Lotz-Heumann, University of Arizona - To Illustrate or Not To Illustrate: A Philosophy of Plants in the Early Modern Period
Fabrizio Baldassarri, Indiana University Bloomington - Copied Singularities: Illustrating Toucans and Armadillos in Sixteenth-Century Travel Accounts
Lisa B Voigt, Ohio State University
Panel: Art, Collecting, Patronage, and Power
Sheryl E. Reiss, Newberry Library/ University of Chicago, organizer
Location: LAKE SUPERIOR A
Session Papers:
- Isabel of Castile as Patron and Collector
Jessica Weiss, Metropolitan State University of Denver - Performing Pearls: Dancing Bodies, Natural History, and Geopolitics in the Ballet Staged for Margaret of Savoy, 1660)
Elisa Antonietta Daniele, University of Bologna - The afterlife of the del Balzo Orsini sculptures: memory and celebration of a medieval dynasty in the sixteenth-century
Salento Giulia Pollini, University of Naples - Federico II Sylvia Ruffini: Reconstructing the Financial Support of Pope Paul III’s Mistress
Cynthia Stollhans, Saint Louis University
SUNDAY 10:30 – 12:00PM
Paper: The Mind and Majesty of this Greatest King: Exploring Polish Renaissance Kingship through an Ekphrasis of the Jagiellonian Tapestries, 1553
Anne Stackpole, Leiden University
Location: GREAT LAKES A1
For more information on the conference, and the full conference program, please visit the SCSC website.
