Based at Queen Mary University of London, The European Research Council project ‘TextDiveGlobal’ (www.qmul.ac.uk/textdiveglobal) is working towards a literary history of Europe and its global connections between the two sieges of Vienna (1529-1683). Our seminar (day 1 in the University of Rijeka Library 8.30am-12pm; days 2 and 3 in the Moise Palace on Cres), will integrate presentations by scholars of medieval and early modern Croatian cultural history (Jasenka Gudelj, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA; Luka Špoljarić University of Zagreb) with presentations by our own project members. Contributors to our literary history from around the world will present their work-in-progress, while other members of the project (in Rijeka, Cres and online) and local guests will be invited to comment and discuss. Many but not all of the papers by our own contributors will focus on ‘Forms’. Topics range from puppets to portraits, melodies to administrative letters, court festivities to romances, race-making to poetics, and regions from New Spain to Ukraine, Scandinavia to Kongo, Portugal to the Philippines, Turkey to China. Host: Prof. Ivan Lupić, University of Rijeka TextDiveGlobal Team (Queen Mary University of London): Prof. Warren Boutcher, Dr Clare Whitehead, Dr Máté Vince, Dr Christopher Archibald.
Schedule
Wednesday (13 September) Rijeka (University Library)
8:30 – 10:00 Session 1 Chair: Warren Boutcher Respondent: Marie-Louise Coolahan Tiffany Stern – Northern European puppets Una McIlvenna – The international journey of a melody
10:00 – 10:20 Coffee
10:20 – 12:15 Session 2 Chair: Ivan Lupić
Jasenka Gudelj (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), ‘The architectural culture of Frane Petris/Francesco Patrizi of Cres’ Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA), ‘Connected Literature and Connected Methodologies: Translations, Libraries, Governmentality’ Luka Špoljarić (University of Zagreb), ‘The Shaping of a National Church at the Imperial Borderlands: Croat Churchmen, Humanism and Humanist Nationalism in the Renaissance’
Thursday (14 September) Moise Palace, Cres
9:00 – 11:00 Session 3 Respondent: Jessica Wolfe Lydia Zeldenrust – The Aljamiado Paris y Viana Simon Park – Race in Portuguese lyric Miguel Valerio – Blackness and early modern forms
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee
11:15 – 13:15 Session 4 Respondent: Marie-Louise Coolahan Henry Shapiro – Eremia K‘eōmurchean an Armenian author in Istanbul Maria Grazia Bartolini – Demonology in Ukraine Stuart McManus – “European” literature in early modern Asia
13:15 – 15:15 Lunch
15:15 – 16:45 Session 5 Respondent: Brian Richardson Teresa Clifton – Pastoral fiction in New Spain Goretti González (online) – Barezzo Barezzi and the picaresque
17:00–18:30 Session 6 Respondent: Warren Boutcher John Thornton (online) – Administrative and private writing in the Kingdom of Kongo Joan-Pau Rubiés (online) – The Boxer Codex
19:30 Conference dinner
Friday (15 September) Moise Palace, Cres
9:00 – 11:00 Session 7 Respondent: Jessica Wolfe Karen Skovgaard-Petersen – Scandinavian epic poems Roland Béhar (online) – Court festivities in Spanish Naples Karen Hearn (online) – Words on British painted portraits
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee
11:15 – 13:15 Session 8 Respondent: Brian Richardson Claudia Rossignoli – Castelvetro, criticism, poetics Patricia Marín Cepeda – Illicit love letters between Spain and Italy Virgina Cox (online) – Italian poetry collections
13:15 – 13:30 Concluding remarks