Schedule of Speakers for Staging Transgression

Friday, 6th August 2010


Location for all panels: Room 4050a, Fourth floor, Arts and Humanities Building, Trinity College Dublin (not room 4053 as previously advertised)


12.30 Conference Registration

12.50 Opening Remarks - Dr. Rory Loughnane (Trinity College Dublin)


1pm Panel 1 – Murder and mayhem

Chair – Dr. Kate Roddy (Trinity College Dublin)

Emily O’Brien (Trinity College Dublin)
A Crying Sin: Representing Murder

Dr. Andrew Power (Trinity College Dublin)
Conventional Transgressive Women in Renaissance Tragedy


2pm Panel 2 – Mock trials and comic transgressors

Chair – Edel Semple (University College Dublin)
Postgraduate Respondent – Kathleen Davies (University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)

Hanna Koz’myk (Zaporizhya National University, Ukraine)
Laughter in English Renaissance Jest as a Strategy of Transgressive Practices Encouragement

Derek Dunne (Trinity College Dublin)
Gesta Grayorum: Staged Transgression at the Inns of Court

Judit Mudriczki (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary)
The Early Modern Dramaturgy of Indecent Courtly Behaviour in the Mock Trial Scene of King Lear


3.15 Break with refreshments


3.30 Panel 3 – Transgression as opportunity

Chair – Dr. Rory Loughnane (Trinity College Dublin)

Dr. Andrea Lobensommer (Ludwig-Maximilian University, München, Germany)
Transgression as a Means of Learning

Dr. Rob Carson (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, U.S.A.)
Reconfiguring Transgression in Richard II


4.30 Plenary 1 – Prof. Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin)
Speaking Out of Turn/Turning Speech: Gender, Language and Transgression in Early Modern England


5.40 Wine reception (room 4017)

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Saturday 7th


9am Refreshments


9.30 Plenary 2 – Dr. Thomas Rist (University of Aberdeen)
Renaissance Catharsis: Embodying Transgression in Shakespeare’s Theatre


10.40 Panel 4 – Fracturing the faith

Chair – Dr. Margaret Downs-Gamble (West Point, U.S Military Academy)

Dr. Mark Sweetnam (Trinity College Dublin)
Transgressing the Arcana Imperii: John Donne and the Unsearchable Councils of God

Dr. John Tangney (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Transgression as Transcendence in Early Modern Writing

Dr. Darragh Greene (Trinity College Dublin)
“Idlenesse the nourse of sin”: The Origin and Order of Sin in the Faerie Queene Bk I


11.50 Short break


12pm Panel 5 – Monarchical misdeeds

Chair – Dr. Stephen O’Neill (NUI Maynooth)

Prof. Stuart Kurland (Duquesne University, U.S.A.)
Loyal Service? Political Transgression at Court and on Stage

Dr. Andrew King (University College Cork)
The “ Monument of Uncertainty”: Literary and Royal Authority in Samuel Sheppard’s The Faerie King (c.1650)


1pm Lunch (not provided)


2pm Panel 6 – Dramatic women

Chair – Dr. Naomi McAreavey (University College Dublin)

Edel Semple (University College Dublin)
“a gentlewoman of my fashion": (Ad)dressing the Whore

Dr. Ayako Kawanami (The University of Hirosaki, Japan)
The Transgressing Whores in Robert Greene’s A Disputation betweene a Hee and Shee Conny-catcher

Dr. Christopher Ivic (Bath Spa University, U.K.)
Recuperating the Amazon: Shakespeare’s Margaret of Anjou


3.20 Plenary 3 – Prof. Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University)
Sex on the Border


4.30 Closing Remarks and Conference End – Edel Semple (University College Dublin)

Accommodation in Dublin

Dublin offers a wide range of places to stay from hostels, to Bed & Breakfasts (a small family-run hotel), to hotels. Trinity College is right in the city centre so there are plenty of options to suit all budgets, all within walking distance of the college.

Useful websites:

Trip Advisor:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g186605-Dublin_County_Dublin-Vacations.html

The official online tourist office for Dublin:
http://www.visitdublin.com/

The Irish tourist board's official site for Dublin:
http://www.discoverireland.ie/destinations/dublin.aspx

GTA Hotels (accommodation deals):
http://www.gtahotels.com/cities/dublin.htm

Getting to and from the airport:
http://www.dublinairport.com/to-and-from/

Dublin bus - info. for tourists
http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/Tourist-Information/

Trinity College maps and directions:
http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/

Staging Transgression poster

SRS postgraduate bursaries

"Staging Transgression" has been awarded several postgraduate travel bursaries by the Society for Renaissance Studies. Please email if you would like to apply for one of these £100 bursaries. For more information on the SRS please see their website: http://www.rensoc.org.uk/

Call For Papers

Call For Papers

Staging Transgression in the Early Modern Period

A Two-Day Conference to be held on August 6th and 7th in Trinity College Dublin

Funded by The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, The School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, and The Society for Renaissance Studies.

Plenary Speakers:

Prof. Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University)

Dr. Thomas Rist (Aberdeen University)

& Prof. Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin)

In recent years, early modern literary criticism has shown a marked interest in the concept of what constitutes transgression, the liminal and the marginal. Actions understood as transgressive were acted out on stage and described in sermons, conduct manuals, ballads, jest-books and other ‘cheap print’. Developing from this early modern literary fascination and building upon recent critical material on the subject, a two-day conference will take place in Trinity College Dublin on August 6th and 7th 2010 exploring the representation and performance of transgression in Tudor and Stuart literature. The conference is an inter-institutional collaborative event between Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, and it aims to interrogate the period’s insistent awareness of transgressive persons, places and things, deviant behaviours and communities. We invite papers that examine literary engagements with transgression in all its forms, from minor to severe violations of social, cultural, legal, political and religious norms and rules.

Papers are sought particularly in the areas of:

- trangressive individuals and communities such as criminals, witches, traitors, spies, malcontents, bawds, whores, usurers…
- deviant relationships such as those involving miscegenation, necrophilia, bestiality, infidelity or incest or those that defy boundaries of class, age, or gender…
- transgressive spaces, such as taverns, fairs, playhouses and brothels, and the violation of boundaries such as private/public, inside/outside, city/the Liberties…
- taboos and the construction and contravention of society’s norms…
- linguistic and political transgression through dissenting voices, sedition and rebellion…
- dramatic and literary transgression, such as deviations from generic conventions, pornography, controversial or libelous texts…
- rules and regulatory bodies, including but not limited to the Inns of Court, the guilds, ecclesiastical courts, and the Stationers’ company….
- heresy and orthodoxy, such as blasphemy, sacrilegious acts, desecration and the violation and subversion of religious commands….
- legal corruption and mitigating circumstances…

Please email proposals for papers to stagingtransgression@gmail.com by Monday 17th May 2010. Abstracts should be approximately 250 words in length and papers should be no longer then 20 minutes.

Dr. Rory Loughnane (Trinity College Dublin) Ms. Edel Semple (University College Dublin)

Staging Transgression blog: http://stagingtransgression.blogspot.com/