Space and Place (Espace/Place)
University of St Andrews
5-7 July 2022
Twitter: #SEMFS22
Programme
All sessions take place in Parliament Hall
Tuesday 5 July
11.00 PG Workshop
12.30 onwards Arrival and Registration
13.25 Welcome: Katherine Ibbett, Chair of the Society
13.30-15.00 Session 1: Cities
Chair: Richard Scholar
Henry PHILLIPS (University of Manchester)
Necessitas, commoditas and voluptas: Secular and Religious Cultures in the City
Jennifer OLIVER (University of Oxford)
Spaces and Places of Ingenuity: Lyon, 1548
Clare BURGESS (University of Oxford)
Mapping Sex for Sale: A Geographical Approach to Understanding Sex Work in Late-Sixteenth-Century Cities
15.00-15.30 Tea
15.30-17.00 Session 2: Gardens and Landscapes
Chair: Emily Butterworth
Jérôme BRILLAUD (University of Manchester)
Growing Spaces: Vegetable Gardens in Early Modern France
John LYONS (University of Virginia)
Plain and Grotto: Parameters of the Baroque Garden
Alexandra COREY (Trinity College, Dublin)
Political Landscapes: On Descriptions of Nature in Emmanuel-Philibert de Pingon’s Emmanuel Philibertus
17.00-18.00 Session 3: Idealised Topographies?
Chair: John O’Brien
Richard SCHOLAR (University of Durham)
Utopias and Temporo-Spatial Play
Joséphine GARDON-GOUJON (Sorbonne Université)
Une idée de perfection: les utopies politiques à l’épreuve du roman
19.00 Dinner
Wednesday 6 July
9.-10.30 Session 4: Dramatic Spaces
Chair: Noel Peacock
Michael MORIARTY (University of Cambridge)
Locations in Tragedy and Tragicomedy
Delphine CALLE (University of Ghent)
La séparation tragique: la fonction des lieux dans Médée, Bérénice et Ariane
Daniel CLARK (University of Cambridge)
Inexistant and Uncertain: Dream Spaces on (and off) the 1630s French Stage
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 Session 5: Playhouses and Plays
Chair: David McCallam
Julia PREST (University of St Andrews)
Revisiting Segregated Spaces in the Playhouses of Colonial Saint-Domingue
Fabien CAVAILLÉ (University of Caen)
Les scènes parisiennes face à la mondialisation: porcelaines chinoises, Arlequin et lazzi comiques à la Comédie Italienne et à la Foire (1692-1723)
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Optional Tour: ‘Early Modern Musical Spaces and Places’
15.00-15.15 Tea
15.15-16.45 AGM
17.00-18.30 Keynote Paper
Chair: Katherine Ibbett
Louisa MACKENZIE (University of Washington)
Revisiting Places: Can We Still Be Early Modern?
19.00 Vin d’honneur
19.30 Conference dinner
Thursday 7 July
9.15-10.45 Session 6: Travel
Chair: Julia Prest
Emma GILBY (University of Cambridge)
Looking for Balzac: Two Cambridge Women and the Mapping of the Early Modern
Andrea FRISCH (University of Maryland and Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study)
Cannibalizing Jean de Léry: Theodor de Bry and the
Place(ment) of the Image
Emma CLAUSSEN (University of Cambridge)
‘No Place like Home’: Oysters and their Places
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.15 Session 7: Interiors
Chair: Emma Herdman
Helena TAYLOR (University of Exeter)
Textual Spaces vs Salon Spaces: The Case of Anne Dacier
Lucille RAYNAL (University College Dublin)
Le cabinet au féminin: l’espace de travail des femmes professionnelles
12.15 Concluding remarks: Katherine Ibbett, Chair of the Society
12.30 Lunch
CLOSE OF CONFERENCE