SOUTHERN AFRICAN SOCIETY FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES

MONT FLEUR, STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA

25 – 28TH AUGUST 2016

Imagining Transformation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, 25 AUGUST

Thursday afternoon: Arrival and Registration

19.00 Dinner

FRIDAY, 26 AUGUST

08.00  Breakfast

09.00 – 10.30

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Black Skin, Green Masks: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer Worldmaking”,

Carolyn Dinshaw (New York University)

10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea/Coffee

11.00 – 12.30 Session 1: Court, Clothing, and Change

  1. Annette Volfing (Oxford University)

Presumptuous Peasants and Predatory Knights: Wittenwiler’s Dismantling of the Courtly Tradition

  1. Laura Barnard (University of Cape Town)

Transformed by a Dress: Economics and Clothing in Chrétien de Troyes’ Eric and Enide and Chaucer’s “The Clerk’s Tale”

  1. Carin Marais (Independent Scholar)

Cloaked Love: The Cloak as Representation of Unrequited Love, the Male Body and the Limits of the Female Role in Three Medieval Scandinavian Texts

13.00 – 14.00  Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 Session 2: Texts, History, and Transformation

  1. Tara Leverton (University of Cape Town)

‘Madmen’, Property, and Nudity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

  1. Sonia Fanucchi (University of Witswatersrand)

Newman’s ‘Callista’: An Apology for Ritual

  1. Derrick Higginbotham (University of Cape Town)

The Business of Lying: Merchants, Templates, and Social Change

15.30 – 16.00 Afternoon Tea

16.00 – 17.30 Session 3: Medieval Cultural Metamorphoses

  1. Retha Knoetze (University of South Africa)

Meanings of Monsters in the Travels of Sir John Mandeville

  1. Antoaneta Granberg (University of Gothenburg)

Levels of transformation in the text transmission: The episode of the unclean nations in the Old Church Slavonic translations of Pseudo-Callisthenes’ Alexander romance

  1. Sibusiso Hyacinth Madondo (University of South Africa)

‘La Verité Seroit Aperte / Qui Souz Fables Giste Couverte’: Sacralizing and Chastifying Erotic Narratives in Ovide Moralisé

19.00   Dinner

SATURDAY 27 AUGUST

08.00   Breakfast

09.00 – 10.30 Session 4: Travel and Transformation

  1. Bjorn Bandlien (University College of Southeast Norway)

Cultural Brokers in the Relations Between Norway and the Mediterranean, c. 1250 – 1320

  1. Sandra Young (University of Cape Town)

A Singular World: The Perils and Possibilities of the Bird’s Eye View in Early Modern Cosmographies

  1. Tycho Maas (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)

A History of Curiosity: Cape Hottentots in Travelogues, 1500 – 1795

10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea/Coffee

11.00 – 12.30 Session 5: Time, Translation, and Transformations

  1. Julie Pridmore (University of South Africa)
  2. R. R. Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur: Medieval or Timeless?
  3. Eran Viezel (Ben Gurion University)

The Authorship of the Bible: Between Medieval Exegetes and Modern Scholarship

  1. Idette Noomé (University of Pretoria)

Translating the Crucifixion: The Dream of the Rood

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 Session 6: Transforming Shakespeare

  1. Hassana Moosa (University of Cape Town)

Savage Scots and Tyrant Turks: Representations of Power in Macbeth and Selimus

  1. Paul Beehler (University of California, Riverside)

The 21st-Century Witch: Goold’s Conflation of the Subversive Nurse in MacBeth

  1. Chris Thurman (University of Witswatersrand)

Introducing Coriolanus to South Africa’s Classrooms (and Stages)

15.30 – 16.00 Afternoon Tea/Coffee

16.00 – 17.00 Session 7: Religious Transformations

  1. Victor Houliston (University of Witswatersrand)

From Tragic Scene to Spectacle: St. Thomas More on the Jesuit Schoolboy Stage

  1. PJH Titlestad (University of Pretoria)

Luther’s Commentary on Galatians, the Elizabethan Translation of 1575, and John Bunyan’s Writings

  1. Dennis Danielson (University of British Columbia)

Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Milton: From Quid Si Sic to ‘What if?’

17.00 – 18.00 SASMARS Biennial General Meeting

19.00   Conference Dinner

SUNDAY 28 AUGUST 2016

08.00   Breakfast

9.00 – 10.30 Session 8: Changes in Practice and Representation

  1. Catherine Addison (University of Zululand)

Transformations of the Female Knight in Renaissance Romance Epic

  1. Michéle DuPlessis-Hay (North West University)

Humanist or Humane? Renaissance Equestrianism in Theory and Practice

  1. Nina Newman and Ingrid Stevens (Tshwane University of Technology)

Early Renaissance Idealisation: A Contemporary Jewelry Design Approach

10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea/Coffee

11.00 – 12.00 Free time

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

Departures