Sexualities - Schedule

Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy

University College Cork, 18-19 May, 2007

Schedule

Friday 18 May

9.00am	Registration & morning coffee - O Riada Hall, UCC Department of Music
9.50am	Welcome from Christopher Morris, Acting Head of Department of Music, and opening address (Melanie Marshall)
10.00am	Session 1: Sex and the Social Order (i) (Chair: Elizabeth Cohen) Flavio Rurale, ‘Cultura aristocratica e sessualità: Riflessioni su clero prelatizio ed élite regolare cortigiana nell’Italia cinquecentesca.’ Leofranc Holford-Strevens, ‘Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Carnal in the Carnival.’
11.00am	Relocate to Music Lecture Room, Department of Music
11.15am	Session 2: Textual Practices of the Erotic (Chair: Paula Higgins) Laura Giannetti, ‘Dal far questo non me ne può venire se non piacer: Textual Instances of Female-Female Desire in Italian Renaissance Literature.’ Donna Cardamone Jackson, ‘Erotic Jest and Gesture in Neapolitan flea and bird songs.’
12.15pm	Buffet lunch
1.30pm	Session 3: The Sensuality of the Spirit Laurie Stras, ‘Getting in Touch with his Feminine Side: Don Lodovico Agostini and the Gendered Soul.’ Catherine Lawless, ‘The Saint and her Spouse: Eroticism, Imagery and Devotional Art in Tuscany.’
2.30pm	Session 4: Sex and the Social Order (ii) Linda Carroll, ‘(el) g(h)e sa bon laorare: Women’s Economic Independence and Festival Courting in the Plays of Ruzante.’ Melanie Marshall, ‘Wine, Women and Song: Female Vocality and the Villotta’
3.30pm	Afternoon tea & biscuits
4.00pm	Keynote: Suzanne Cusick, ‘Madrigals of Love and War.’
6.00pm	Coffee & muffins
6.30pm	Concert - Four Nuns and a Courtesan. Deborah Roberts (soprano), Siobhán Armstrong (harp) & Ian Sexton (organ & harpsichord)
Evening	Dinner at a restaurant in town, perhaps followed by a visit to An Spailpín Fánach (opposite the Beamish Brewery) for those who can keep going. There’s usually a live trad music session starting around 9pm. It’s not always as lively as these photos suggest, but nonetheless they give a good idea of this Cork institution. Spot conference assistant Michelle Finnerty dancing with a fellow music postgrad, Daithi Kearney. (They’re the ones wearing stripes.)

Saturday 19 May

10.00am	Session 5: Pastoral Pleasures (Chair: Flavio Boggi) Christophe Brouard, ‘Tradition and Gender Transgression: The Iconography of the Shepherd Couple in Venetian Pastoral Landscape during the Sixteenth Century.’ Katherine McIver, ‘Pastoral Pleasures, Sensual Sounds: Music, Morality and Sexuality in Three Paintings by Titian.’
11.00am	Morning coffee
11.30am	Session 6: Erotic Tropes (Chair: Laurie Stras) Bonnie Blackburn, ‘The Lascivious Career of B Flat.’ Covadonga López de Prado Nistal, ‘The Roman Charity in the Art of the Renaisance. Between Erotic Fantasy and Moral Lesson.’
12.30pm	Buffet lunch
1.45pm	Session 7: The Discourse of Sex/Sex as Discourse (Chair: Alessia Ronchetti) Elizabeth Cohen, ‘Talking Sex in Roman Courts.’ Catherine Baxter, ‘Galeotto fu . . . la metafora: Rhetoric and Sexual Ethics in Boccaccio’s Decameron.’
2.45pm	Afternoon tea & biscuits
3.15pm	Roundtable: From Multidisciplinary to Interdisciplinary (Chair: Melanie Marshall) Judith Brown, Julia Hairston, Paula Higgins, Katherine McIver, Laura Macy
Evening	Conference dinner at Jurys Cork

For further information, please contact Melanie Marshall (ml.marshall@ucc.ie).

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