Thursday 11 May
Session 1: Staging space
Creating Sacred Space on Stage – Ceri Sullivan (Cardiff University)
Abraham Cowley and Royalist City Comedy – Andrew Reilly (University of Lausanne)
Session 2: Liminality
Settled and Unsettling: Home and Mobility in Thomas Heywood’s Domestic Drama – Ann C. Christensen (University of Houston)
‘God Suspends mee Betweene Heaven and Earth’: Liminal Spaces in John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions – Joel Salt (University of Saskatchewan)
Posture and Space: Donne Defends the Microcosmos – Arnaud Zimmern (University of Notre-Dame)
Session 3: Textual Space
‘This page left intentionally blank’: blank space in early modern texts – Laurie Maguire (University of Oxford)
Hearing ‘Here’ – Scott Newstok (Rhodes College)
Mind the Gap: Alice Oswald on Wyatt’s Pausing Verse – Rachel Nisbet (University of Lausanne)
Friday 12 May
Session 4: Travel
‘One can scarce distinguish New-England from Old’: Exploring representations of domestic space in England and its New World colonies – Sarah O’Malley (University of Nottingham)
Donne’s Travel to Venice: three LR1 letters augmenting his extant correspondence – Dennis Flynn (Independent Scholar)
Session 5: Donne’s Sacred Space
‘A Quire in this Service’: The Instructive Space of John Donne’s Sermons at St Paul’s Cathedral – Mary Ann Lund (University of Leicester)
The Contested Pliability of Sacred Space in St Paul’s Cathedral and Paul’s Churchyard in Early Modern London – John N. Wall (North Carolina State University)
‘In every minute that strikes upon the Bell, is a syllable, nay a syllogisme from God’: In the belfry with John Donne – Catherine R. Evans (University of Sheffield)
Session 6: New World
The Body/Soul Relationship in the Colonial Literary Anatomy of Virginia: Samuel Purchas and John Donne, ca. 1622 – Peter Mitchell (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
Love and Extension in the Poetry of George Herbert – Jonathan Gallagher (University of Edinburgh)
‘The Mere Worck of God Flottynge’: The Tempest, the Roanoke Voyages and the Uncertain Spaces of the New World – Johannes Riquet (University of Zürich)
Saturday 13 May
Session 8: Cultural Landscapes
‘In Grene Wode Bowndyn’: The Forest in Early Modern Folklore – Jennifer Reid (Birbeck, University of London)
‘A thick close bud display’: Lady Bedford, Patronage, and the Poetics of Gardens – Kader N. Hegedüs (University of Lausanne)
Session 10: Spenser
Imagining place in The Faerie Queene – Lloyd Kermode (California State University)
Judging the Plot of Ireland in Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland – Patrick J. Murray (University of Glasgow)
Ekphrastic Seduction and the Role of the Spectator in the Work of Spenser and Daniel – Mary Villeponteaux (Georgia Southern University)
Session 11: Icons & images
The confession of a tyrant. Eikonoklastes againstEikon Basilike – Francesca Pirola (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Spaces of passions in Aphra Behn’s shorter fiction– Katalin Schober (Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Gymnasium)
Thirteen ways of looking at church windows in Caroline England – Antoinina Bevan Zlatar (University of Zürich)