The Romance Studies Colloquium, co-sponsored by Montclair State University and the journal Romance Studies, will take place in Jersey City, NJ (US) from Oct. 14-16, 2004. Keynote speakers Nancy Freeman Regalado, Gustavo Pérez Firmat and Edvige Giunta and panelists will address representations of celebrations across the Romance languages. Topics include Carnival and other holidays, rites of passage, celebrations of military and political victory, sporting events, commemoration of national heritage, and more. The final program follows below.
For more information, please consult the colloquium web site: http://www.chss.montclair.edu/~emerye/romancestudies.htm or contact Elizabeth Emery (emerye@montclair.edu).
Thursday, Oct. 14
REGISTRATION 1:00-2:00
Session 1. 1:30-3:15
Social Tensions in the Representation of Medieval Celebration
Chair: Laurie Postlewate, Barnard College
Karen Duys, University of St. Francis
Medieval Miracles: Their Celebration and mise-en-livre
Martha M. Daas, Old Dominion University
Unholy Celebrations: A Post-Lenten Respite in the Book of Good Love
Edward J. Gallagher, Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
Lessons from a Fifteenth-Century Hagiographic Cycle: The Case of the Martyrs' Plays from Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Ms 1131"
Simonetta Cochis, Transylvania University
Feasts and Fights: Knights Living it Up in Antoine de La Sale's Jehan de Saintré
Session 2. 1:30-3:15
Carnival!
Chair: Robert S. April, NYU School of Medicine
Katja Gvozdeva, Humboldt-Universität
"Celebrating Men in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel
Louise Hipwell, Rutgers University
Visions of Utopia in Goldoni's 1750 Opera Libretto Il Mondo della Luna
Christina Ferree Chabrier, Duke University
Representations of Carnival in Pierre Louÿs' La Femme et le pantin
Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood, Drexel University
Carnival in Flanders or Karnaval by Thomas Vincent
Coffee Break. 3:15-3:30
Session 3 . 3:45-5:30
Festive Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Chair: Kathleen Loysen, Montclair State University
Jenna M. Soleo, CUNY Graduate Center
Which came First: the Piazza or the Palio? The Semiotics of Space and the Site of the Festive Performance in Late Medieval Siena
Markus Cruse, New York University
Dance Fever in the Roman d'Alexandre
Arzu Öztürkmen, Bo azici University
A Comparative Look at Renaissance and Ottoman Festivals: Mutual Perceptions and Interactions 16-18th Centuries)
Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York University and
Marilyn Lawrence, New York University
"Celebrating the Performance of Medieval Narrative
Session 4. 3:45-5:30
Celebrating Everyday Life
Chair: William Rosa, Montclair State University
Laurie Greene, Richard Stockton College and
Sonia B. Spencer, Rowan University
From Earth to Spirit: The Merging of Sacred Architecture
Nicholas Roberts, King's College London
Eugenio Montejo and the Poetic Celebration of Heritage and Being
Susan Harrow, University of Wales Swansea
"Margins, Mess and the Material Sublime: Jacques Réda's Everyday Celebration"
Coffee Break. 5:30-6:00
WELCOME REMARKS 6:00-6:15
Mary A. Papazian, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Montclair State University
Elizabeth Emery, Conference Organizer
FRENCH KEYNOTE LECTURE 6:15-7:15
Nancy Freeman Regalado, New York University
Medieval Celebrations: Moods, Modes, and Mise en texte"
WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION 7:15-8:30 Harborside
Friday, Oct. 15
REGISTRATION
Breakfast and Coffee. 8:30-9:00
Session 5. 9:00-10:15
Medieval French Celebration
Chair: Simonetta Cochis, Transylvania University
Julie Human, University of Michigan
"Erec's Coronation Cloak: The Sartorial Celebration of Knowledge in Erec et Enide"
Sibusiso Hyacinth Madondo, University of South Africa
Liturgical Feasts and Heroic Epiphany in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval or The Story of the Grail
Tamara Bentley, Independent Scholar
"The Last Laugh: The Celebration of Death as the Great
Liberator and Equalizer in La Danse Macabre of Guy Marchant (1485)"
Session 6. 9:00-10:15
Banquets, Parades, and Other Celebrations in Modern France
Chair: Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University
Lori R. Weintrob, Wagner College
Beyond Liberty Trees: Civic and Democratic Rituals of the Fin-de-siècle
Janet T. Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University
Celebrating Cluny's Resurrection"
Roxane Petit-Rasselle, Pennsylvania State University
A Celebration in Double Discourse: The Bicentennial of Alexandre Dumas Père
Coffee Break. 10:15-10:45
Session 7. 10:45-12:30
Celebration and Social Exclusion
Chair: Thomas J. Lynn, Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College
Holly Haahr, Yeshiva University
Crashing the Party: Celebration in the Work of Rimbaud
Laura Morowitz, Wagner College
Pride and Prejudice: Edouard Drumont's Les Fêtes Nationales de la France
Valérie Pruvost, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The Rise and Fall of Halloween'
Adele La Barre Starensier
La Madonna Che Scappa in Piazza
Session 8. 10:45-12:30
Ballrooms, Intrigue, and Power Plays in French Literature
Chair: Madhuri Mukherjee, William Paterson University
Susannah Carson, Yale University/Université de Versailles
"Public Events and Private Evolutions: Courtly Conflicts in the Seventeenth-Century Nouvelle Historique"
Ann M. Moore, Hampton University
"Hall of Mirrors, Hand of Fate: Endangered Hosts and the Perils of Misguided Celebration in Late 17th-century French Literature"
Lisa Beckstrand, Montclair State University
Political Contests and Gendered Performances in late 18th-century France: Olympe de Gouges' Le Prince Philosophe
Aurélie Barjonet, Université de Paris III--Sorbonne Nouvelle/ Universität des Saarlandes
Celebration and Power: Zola's Representation of the Ball
Lunch. 12:30-2:00
Session 9. 2:00-3:15
Education, Propaganda, and Colonialism in Latin America
Chair: Pamela Smorkaloff, Montclair State University
Cora G. Lagos, New Jersey City University
Revisiting Alternative Ways of Reading and Writing: How Aztec Codices Can Help
Alejandro Cañeque, New York University
Celebrating the King's Power: The Viceregal Arches of Colonial Mexico
Lesley Wylie, University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College)
"Hearts of Darkness: The Celebration of Regional Identity in the Latin American Jungle Novel
Session 10. 2:00-3:15
Celebrating King and Country: Identity, Festivity, and Power in Old Regime France
Panel organized by Julia Landweber
Chair: Jennifer Jones, Rutgers University
Abby Zanger, Tufts University
Betwixt and Between Celebration and Humiliation: French Caricatures of the Spanish Nation
Elizabeth Hyde, The College of New Jersey
"Propagating Paradise: Fêtes, Gardens, and the Perpetual Springtime of Louis XIV"
Julia Landweber, Montclair State University
La Caravane du Sultan à la Mecque: The French Contribution to the 1748 Carnival in Rome
Coffee Break. 3:15-3:45
Session 11. 3:45-5:30
Female Communities, Celebratory Rituals, and Social Identity
Chair: Holly Haahr, Yeshiva University
Richard Vernon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
House Parties for Social Disruption: Assembleias in 18th-Century Portuguese Cordel Literature
Kate Mitchell, University of Warwick
"Private Emotions. Public Celebrations. Narrative Fiction by Italian Women Writers from the Late-Nineteenth-Century"
Juliana Starr, Christian Brothers University
"Seeking their Place at the Table: Women and Culinary Ritual in
19th-Century French Art and Literature"
Astrid Friedrich, University of Cape Town
Passions Elémentaires: In Praise of Love
Session 12. 3:45-5:30
Music, Performance, and Identity in Modern Europe
Chair: Gorica Hadzic, CUNY Graduate Center
Maria Rose, New York University
Cocktails with a Melancholy Twist: The Bacchus and Poetry Society Le Caveau (1796-1801)
Jennifer Forrest, Texas State University, San Marcos
"The Siege of Saragossa and Other Military Victories Celebrated
on the Tightrope in Théodore de Banville's Hébé Carisiti'
Derek Gagen, University of Wales Swansea
The Celebration of Heroism in Defeat. Alberti's Cantata de los heroes (1938) and Cercas' Soldados de Salamina
Coffee Break. 5:30-6:00
SPANISH KEYNOTE LECTURE. 6:00-7:15
Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Columbia University
Celebration/Cerebration: Teaching as Night of Passage
Introduction by Professor Derek Gagen, University of Wales Swansea
CONFERENCE BANQUET. 7:30-9:30
Saturday, Oct. 16
REGISTRATION
Breakfast and Coffee . 8:30-9:00
Session 13. 9:00-10:30
Feasting, Transgression, and Social Identity
Chair: Susan Harrow, University of Wales, Swansea
Jenny Philips, University of Texas
"Edible Ecstasy: Subversion of Sacraments and Celebrating Survival in Lazarillo de Tormes"
Thomas J. Lynn, Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College
Liberation Fantasy: The Feast of Fools in Sembène's Xala
Sayeeda H. Mamoon, Edgewood College
Invitation to a Beheading: Herod's Banquet in Fin-de-siècle Literature and Art
Session 14. 9:00-10:45
Celebrating Medieval and Renaissance Heritage
Chair: Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University
Maylis Curie, University of Edinburgh
Celebrating the Cathedral in Children's Books: How French Children were Taught about their Cathedrals between 1880 and 1910"
Barbara Larson, University of Syracuse
The Modern Pilgrimage and Rodin's Gates of Hell
Laura Rorato, University of Wales Bangor
The Colour of Light': Caravaggio's The Burial of St. Lucy Revisited by Pino Di Silvestro in La Fuga e la sosta
Coffee Break. 10:30-11:00
Session 15. 11:00-12:30
The Celebration of Italian Cultural Heritage and Identity
Chair: Marisa S. Trubiano, Montclair State University
Emelise Aleandri, Frizzi & Lazzi The Olde Time Italian-American Music & Theatre Company
Italian-American Immigrant Music and Theatre Celebrations in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Michela Musolino, Independent Musician
"Italian American Music, from Underground to Center Stage"
Cinzia DiGiulio, Merrimack College
Dancing the Poison Away: Celebrating Italian-American Women in Helen De Michiel's Tarantella
Session 16. 11:00-12:30
The Rhetoric of Celebration in 16th-century Europe: Dialogue, Storytelling, and Chronicle
Chair: Markus Cruse, New York University
Kathleen Loysen, Montclair State University
Festive Times: Scenes of Storytelling and Celebration in Noël du Fail's Propos rustiques
Robert Buranello, The College of Staten Island/CUNY
In Praise of Praise: Sperone Speroni's Dialogo della retorica
Benoît Bolduc, University of Toronto
The Rhetoric of Celebration: Relating Henri II Official City Visits in France (1547-1559)
Lunch. 12:30-2:00
Session 17. 2:00-3:15
Nation Building and Identity in Modern Italy
Chair: Laura Rorato, University of Wales Bangor
Norma Bouchard, University of Connecticut
Torino 'Italia 61' or the Failure of Commemoration in the First Capital of the Italian State
Gina M. Miele, The Coccia Institute for the Italian-American Experience, Montclair State University
"Can Fiabe Figure National Identity? Capuana, Calvino, and the Concept of L'Italianità
Marisa S. Trubiano, Montclair State University
"Ennio Flaiano's Postwar Italy: Festivalia of Soccer, Songs, and Saints"
COCCIA INSTITUTE KEYNOTE SPEAKER. 3:30-4:45
Edvige Giunta, New Jersey City University
Feasts of the Women of Sicily: Dances, Processions, and Other Recipes to Live By
Introduction by Dr. Gina M. Miele, Director of the Coccia Institute for the Italian-American Experience, Montclair State University