Conference Programme
It is our pleasure to publish the programme for “Making Short Verse Collections”, a two-day conference held in Strasbourg over 18th and 19th November 2022, organised jointly by the Université de Strasbourg and University College London.
The conference programme is given below. Further information is available on the conference website, https://makingshortversecollections.wordpress.com/ . We are hoping to live-stream the conference over Zoom: if you are interested in this option, please contact Chris Stamatakis (c.stamatakis@ucl.ac.uk).
Organising Committee: Cezara Bobeica (Université de Strasbourg), Emilie Jehl (Université de Strasbourg), Chris Stamatakis (University College London), Rémi Vuillemin (Université de Strasbourg)
Making Short Verse Collections, Conference Programme
Friday 18 November
(MISHA, Université de Strasbourg)
10.00 – 11.00am
Opening Keynote
Michelle O’Callaghan (University of Reading), ‘Making Verse Collections’
Chair: Megan Heffernan (De Paul University)
11.15 – 1.00pm
Panel 1: (Re-)Framing Verse Collections
Chair: Shankar Raman (MIT & USIAS fellow, Université de Strasbourg)
Erin McCarthy (University of Galway), ‘What Can Math Tell Us About Manuscript Verse Miscellanies? Introducing the STEMMA Project’
Stefanie Lethbridge (Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg), ‘Tradition, Rhetoric and Affect: The ‘Uncertain Authors’ Section in Tottel’s Miscellany’
Anne-Marie Miller Blaise (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), ‘William Jaggard and the Idea of a Short Verse Collection’
2.15 – 4.00pm
Panel 2: Verse Collections and Creative Poetics
Chair: Fanny Moghaddassi (Université de Strasbourg)
Megan Heffernan (De Paul University), ‘Inventories and Invention: Poetic Itemization in Englands Helicon’
Matthias Bauer & Angelika Zirker (Eberhardt Karls Universität Tübingen), ‘The Wandering Poem, or: Recontextualization and Co-Creativity in Verse Collections of the Early Modern Period’
Jean-Jacques Chardin (Université de Strasbourg), ‘How to Read Henry Peacham’s Emblem Collection Minerva Britanna (1612)’
4.15 – 5.25pm
Panel 3: Manuscript Curiosities
Chair: Lianne Habinek (MIT)
Guillaume Coatalen (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), ‘Francis Castillion’s Verse Miscellany in Osborn MS fb 69: the Collection and the Letter Book’
Joshua Eckhardt (online, Virginia Commonwealth University), ‘William Sancroft’s Religious Verse Miscellany, Bodleian MS Tanner 466’
Saturday 19 November
(Institut Le Bel, salle Guy Ourisson, Université de Strasbourg)
09.00 – 10.00am
Keynote Address
Michael Bath (University of Strathclyde, University of Glasgow), ‘Ut poesis pictura ? Iconography as Rhetorical Mirroring in the Emblemes of Francis Quarles’
Chair: Jean-Jacques Chardin (Université de Strasbourg)
10.00 – 11.10am
Panel 4: Verse Collections and Visual Culture
Chair: Pierre Le Duff (Université de Strasbourg)
Inès Ettaoui (Université de Strasbourg), ‘The Role of Motifs in the Content and Structure of Francis Quarles’s Emblemes (1635)’
Fabrice Schultz (Université de Strasbourg), ‘The Eye and the Voice: Reading Richard Crashaw’s Carmen Deo Nostro (1652)’
11.25am – 12.35pm
Panel 5: Paratexts of/Paratexts as Short Collections
Chair: Andrew Eastman (Université de Strasbourg)
Julian Neuhauser (King’s College London), ‘Commendatory Verses: Constraint and Opportunity in Collections of Short Verse’
Allison Steenson (University of Sussex), ‘Fowler’s Ichnaea: The Collection that Never Was