24th Biennial International Conference
SOUTHERN AFRICAN SOCIETY OF
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES
Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa
23 – 26 August 2018
Ancestry and Memory in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
PROGRAMME
THURSDAY, 23 AUGUST
Thursday afternoon: Arrival and registration
19.00 Dinner
FRIDAY, 24 AUGUST
08.00 Breakfast
09.00 – 10.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
(Chair: Victor Houliston, University of the Witwatersrand)
Alexandra Walsham:
The Reformation of the Generations:
Age, Ancestry and Memory in Early Modern England
(University of Cambridge)
10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea/Coffee
11.00 – 12.45 Session 1: Shakespeare and reading the past
(Chair: Michele Du Plessis-Hay, North West University)
Paul Beehler:
Where have all the mothers gone? Memory and absence as education in The Tempest (University of California, Riverside)
Kirsten Dey:
‘Thy worst all best exceeds’: Shakespeare’s paradoxical response to Petrarch in his Dark Lady sonnets (University of Pretoria)
Frances Ringwood:
Shakespeare’s mavericks and the Machiavellian moment (University of Zululand)
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.30 Session 2: (Re)constructing ancestors, progenitors and roles
(Chair: Idette Noomé, University of Pretoria)
Rowland C. Amaefula:
Conflicting masculinities and ambivalent identities in medieval drama (Rhodes University)
Peter Titlestad:
Radical Parentage: Martin Luther, son and progenitor
(University of Pretoria, Professor emeritus)
Alan Melnick:
Ancestry and memory’s role in Milton’s life and work
(Independent researcher)
15.30 – 16.00 Afternoon Tea
16.00 – 17.30 Session 3: Early Modern Genealogies
(Chair: Catherine Addison, University of Zululand)
Harber, Eric:
Shakespeare’s use of exotic (Italian/Greek/Latin) sources
(Independent researcher)
Wallace Cleaves:
Anamnesis and ancestry: the fragility and centrality of lineage in Medieval English and North American indigenous literature and tradition (University of California, Riverside)
19.00 Dinner
SATURDAY 25 AUGUST
08.00 Breakfast
09.00 – 11.00 Session 4: Religion, Politics, and Prose
(Chair: Anthony Parr, Professor Emeritus)
Luigi Robuschi:
Between spiritualism and conciliarism: the unpublished fourth book of Ragionamenti by Giovanni Maria Memmo (1565)
Marianne Ritsema van Eck:
Constructions of spiritual ancestry and territorial claims in Observant Franciscanism (Leiden University)
Carin Marais:
Rememberer of gods and kings: the literature of Snorri Sturluson and his interaction with mythological elements and history
(Independent researcher)
11.00 – 11.30 Morning Tea/Coffee
11.30 – 13.00 Session 5: Reshaping Cultural Memories
(Chair: Carin Marais, Independent researcher)
Sandra Young:
Contemporary Shakespeare and cultural memory in the diaspora (University of Cape Town)
Julie Pridmore:
Creating a ‘Mythology for England’? J R R Tolkien’s Literary Memories? (University of South Africa)
Catherine Addison:
Rochester’s Triplets: The Offspring of Libertinism or Reason? (University of Zululand)
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00- 15.00 Session 6: Medieval Memories and new directions
(Chair: Peter Titlestad, Emeritus, University of Pretoria)
Victor Houliston:
Re-membering the murdered darlings: Brian Lee and Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale (University of the Witwatersrand)
Idette Noomé:
Where ancestors meet, new memories are made
(University of Pretoria)
15.00-15.15 Afternoon tea
15:15 – 16:00 SASMARS Biennial General Meeting
16:00 – 18:00 Free time. Optional: Walk up the mountain
19.00 Conference Dinner
SUNDAY 26 AUGUST 2018
08.00 Breakfast
9.00 – 10.30 Session 7: On the move
(Chair: Julie Pridmore, UNISA)
Moosa, Hassana:
Impressions of darkness: power, race and enslavement in Robert Daborne’s A Christian Turned Turk (University of Cape Town)
Anthony Parr:
‘Bearing the name only and no more’: recovering the classical and biblical past in early-modern English travel
(University of the Western Cape, Professor emeritus)
10.00 – 11.00 Closure and discussion
11.00 – 11.30 Morning Tea/Coffee
11.30 – 12.00 Free time
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
Departure after lunch, depending on transport schedule.
SASMARS 