Plenary speakers:
Prof Ruth Ahnert, ‘Trending’ topics in the Tudor State Papers
Prof Tim Harris, Empire, Liberty and Slavery in Restoration England
Prof Terttu Nevalainen, How to do things with language change in the long 18th century
Prof Martin Dzelzainis, ‘A great master of words’: editing Andrew Marvell’
Day 1 (Thursday 14 July), 1.30-3.00
New Sources for Words
Jack Avery, ‘Who with false news prevented the Gazette?’: Andrew Marvell and the Archival Reconstruction of State Newswriting
Thomas Clifton, A Re-Creative Approach to Seventeenth-Century Meditational Forms Prompted by Katherine Austen’s Book M
Marco Condorelli, A Reference Database of Early Modern English Vocabulary (1500–1700)
Aphra Behn’s Exclusion
Rachel Adcock, Fires and Feasting: Civic Ceremony in Behn’s Exclusion Crisis Plays
Juliana Beykirch, Rethinking Monster Theory: Aphra Behn’s Reading ‘Monsters’ in The Second Part of The Rover (1681)
Marcus Nevitt, Aphra Behn and Dedication
Civility, Cultural Exchange, and Conduct Literature in Early-Modern England,
Douglas Clark, Counterfeit Civility
Emma Depledge, Civility Literature and the London Book Trade, 1500-1700
Erzsi Kukorelly, ‘Civil Language Exchanges: Gregory’s A Father’s Legacy’
Questions of Method through Women’s Writing
Sylvia Adamson, literary-linguistic approaches to early-modern words
Catherine Ingrassia, ‘but Words, mere Words’: Laetitia Pilkington’s Memoirs
Laura Runge, Digital Concordance Analysis of Aphra Behn’s Words
Day 1 (Thursday 14 July), 3.30-5.30
Blasphemy, Corruption, and the Varying Virgin
Fraser Dallachy and Marc Alexander, The Virgin Varies: Tracing concept lexicalisation using the Historical Thesaurus of English and EEBO-TCP
Mark Knights, Corruption
David Manning, New Religious History: Belief-Language and Historical Method
Unreliable Words
Karen Gevirtz, Oaths, Vows, and Promises in Aphra Behn’s Narrative Fiction
Samuli Kaislaniemi, How to Find One More Early Modern English Word; or, from ‘edited truth’ to ‘digitised truth’
John Spurr, Early Modern English Oaths: ‘Snares’, ‘Speech Acts’ or Performance?
Helen Wilcox, What did, could, and can early modern words signify? On Editing Oroonoko and Other Seventeenth-century Texts
Material Words
Juan A. Prieto-Pablos, Aphra Behn’s Stagecraft and the Puzzle of Sir Patient Fancy
Claudine van Hensbergen, Word and Image: From Lely’s Portraiture to Behn’s Pastoral Poems
Elena Watts-Johnson, The Landlady’s Labours in Aphra Behn’s The Lucky Chance
Bethany Thomas, A Press’s Perspective on Digital Editions
Workshop: The Shakespeare’s Rivals Project Michael Cordner + 2 actors
Day 2 (Friday 14 July) 8.45-10.30
Linguistics Frameworks and Early Modern Words
Mel Evans, Oh for Behn, but o for Dryden: Interjections and Authorial Style
Ding Huang, Dealing with Spelling Variation in a Study on Formulaic Sequences in Early Modern English
Alysia Kolentsis, Theorizing Early Modern Words
Emily Smith, Shell Nouns, Specificity, and ‘The Name of Action’
Words across Nations
Eszter Kovács, Female criticism of Fontenelle’s Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds: Aphra Behn and Émilie du Châtelet on Intellectual Liberty for Women
Richard Maber, Whose Words? The Languages of Early Modern Scholarly Dialogue
Annalisa Nicholson, A New Babylon: Hortense Mancini’s Salon and Cross-Disciplinary Methods
Rafael Vélez-Núñez, The French History of England: The Writing of English History in Late Seventeenth-Century French Fiction
Alice Thornton’s Books: Towards the Preparation of a Digital Edition Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Sharon Howard
Workshop: An Introduction to Doing Creative Things with Words Sara Read and Megan Constable
Day 2 (Friday 15 July) 1.00-2.45
Aphra Behn: Words and Concepts
Aleksondra Hultquist, Aphra Behn’s Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and the Meaning of Love
Amelia Mills, Reclaiming the ‘Carte de Tendre’. Madeleine de Scudéry, Paul Tallemant, and Aphra Behn
Margarete Rubik, Conflicting Images of Kingship in Behn’s The Young King
Early 18c Words
Kate Loveman, Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack: Defoe, Attribution, and London Politics
Valerie Rumbold, Publication and Professionalism: The Case of Swift in Print
Nick Seager, Defoe’s ‘Change of Hands,’ 1710-11
Performance beyond Words
Carey T. Coleman Jr, Learning How to Play Music with Early Modern Words
Mirjam Haas, From “ah” to “oh” – Understanding Exclamations between Early Modern Page and Stage
Cora James, Mrs Norris as ‘the City-Bawd and Puritan’
James Shirley
Caroline Taylor, ‘A physic … to stay the looseness in [your] bodies’: Plague Space and Quarantine in Shirley’s The Bird in a Cage (1633)
Teresa Grant, A Brace of Court Apes in James Shirley’s Masques
Stefania Crowther, If you can’t mend your morals mend your style
Day 2 (Friday 15 July) 4.45-6.15
The Language of Science
Katie Aske, Washes, Warts and Words: Tracing Early Modern Skincare Remedies
Benjamin Lomas, ‘Examine them together’: Almanac Weather Words in the Little Ice Age
Richard Jason Whitt, Narrative Viewpoint in Early Midwifery Manuals, ca. 1540-1800
John Milton’s Words and beyond
Jameela Lares, There Is No Way but or: More on Method in Milton and Bunyan
Eva Momtaz, Reader Reception and Cultural Curiosity: Milton and the Modern Muslimah
Ellen Roberts, ‘It is magnificent; but is it English?’: Milton’s Neologisms and the Oxford English Dictionary
Publishing Words
Crystal Biggin, Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister on EEBO and ECCO: Attribution and Bookselling in the Long Eighteenth Century
Al Coppola, ‘Fully Prov’d by the Plates’? Desaguliers’ Unauthorized System and the Epistemology of Science in Performance
Leah Orr, Marketing Short Fiction in Restoration England
Shifting Forms, Places and Conventions in the Long Restoration Theatre
Anna Mikyšková, The Bad Taste of the Town?: The Popular Shift in Early Eighteenth-Century English Theatrical Culture
Filip Krajník, Shakespeare and Co. ‘Quite Undone’: English Renaissance Plays as Late Restoration Popular Entertainments
Klára Škrobánková, From Otway to Singspiels: Early Performances of Restoration Theatre in the Czech Lands
Day 3 (Saturday 16 July) 9.15-10.45
The Language of Love
Jennifer Batt, Remapping the Island of Love: Allegory, Cartography, and Translation in Aphra Behn’s Lycidus
Alexandria Morgan, Desire and Creation: Lucretianism, Early Modern Feminism and Queer Theory in the Poetry of Aphra Behn and Lucy Hutchinson
Gillian Spraggs, Aphra Behn and the Discourse of Female Homosexuality in Early Modern England
Travelling Words
Susan Amussen, Gender and Racial Order on the Late 17th-century English Stage
Emily Stevenson, Anti-Languages in Principal Navigations
Sonia Villegas-López, Words that Matter: The Literary Fortunes of Sébastien Brémond’s Hattige; or, The Amours of the King of Tamaran
Workshop: Digital Textual Scholarship, Why, How, and When Not to Make a Digital Edition Elizabeth Williamson
Day 3 (Saturday 16 July) 11.15-12.45
Revolting Words
Charles Cathcart, Insidiate, Thomas Heywood, and The Just Reward of Rebels
Braden H. Hammer,Len Deighton and the Utopian Tradition
Ann Hughes, The People, the Archives and the (Parliamentarian) Civil War State
Circulating Words
Mary Chadwick, Devolving Texts: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Miscellanies
Marie-Louise Coolahan, The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700
MariaJosé Coperías-Aguilar, Popularising Early (Short) Fiction and The Gentleman’s Journal
Restoration Words
Caroline Curtis, ‘An Essay-Writer must Practise in the Chymical Method’: The Early Royal Society’s Adoption of the Essay Genre
Peter Hinds, Charles II and Catherine of Braganza: The Royal Marriage of 1662
Hannah Straw, ‘Kill’d the Husband and keepes the Adultresse’: Representing Violence and (dis)Honour in the Restoration
Thomas Nashe’s Words Chair: Jennifer Richards
Kirsty Rolfe, Devils in their Devices: Annotating Sex Work in Thomas Nashe’s The Anatomie of Absurditie
Emily Rowe, Wordsmiths: Nashe, Metallurgy, and Linguistic Change
Rachel White, The Tagger and the Text: A Feminist Approach to Authorship Attribution
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