Department of English
HISTORICIZING SEX - program
PROGRAM
8:30
(Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall 218)
Registration and Seating
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9:15
(Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall 218)
OPENING REMARKS
Melissa Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania
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9:30-11:00
(Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall 218)
FEMINISMS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
Chair: David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania
Respondents: Emily Weissbourd, University of Pennsylvania
Phyllis Rackin, University of Pennsylvania
Coppélia Kahn, Brown University
“Feminist Criticism in Shakespeare Quarterly, 2000-2010”
Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University
“The Literacy of Shakespeare’s Daughters”
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11:15-12:45
(Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall 218)
RELIGION, NATION, AND SEXUALITY
Chair: Marissa Nicosia, University of Pennsylvania
Respondents: Bronwyn Wallace, University of Pennsylvania
Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania
Richard Halpern, Johns Hopkins University
“Samson’s Gospel of Sex: Failed Universals in Milton and Freud”
Richard Rambuss, Emory University
“Cosmopolitan Crashaw: A Study in Style”
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12:45-2:00
LUNCH
(Lunch will not be provided, but a list of nearby restaurants will be available at the conference.)
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2:00-3:30
(Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall 218)
WRITING RACE AND GENDER
Chair: Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
Respondents: Kelly Rich, University of Pennsylvania
Suvir Kaul, University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Masten, Northwestern University
“Queer Philologies: Editing Sex and Race in Othello”
Patricia Parker, Stanford University
“Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, Religion, and Race:
Nervous Masculinity, Black Hamlet, Spelling Backwards, and Asiatic Style”
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3:45-5:15
(McNeil Center)
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Moderator: Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
Discussants: Dympna Callaghn, Richard Halpern, Coppélia Kahn, Ania Loomba,
Jeffrey Masten, Patricia Parker, Richard Rambuss, and Melissa Sanchez
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5:15
CLOSING REMARKS
Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania
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5:30
RECEPTION