Thursday 11 May

9.00 am – 10.00 am
Registration
10.00 am – 11.30 am
Plenary: Mary Morrissey (University of Reading) – Donne and decorum: preaching styles and preaching places
11.30 am – 12.00 pm
Coffee Break
12.00 pm – 1.00 pm

Session 1: Staging space

Creating Sacred Space on Stage – Ceri Sullivan (Cardiff University)

Abraham Cowley and Royalist City Comedy – Andrew Reilly (University of Lausanne)

1.00 pm – 2.30 pm
Lunch
2.30 pm – 4.00 pm

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)

4.00 pm – 4.30 pm
Coffee Break
4.30 pm – 6.00 pm

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)

7.15 pm onwards
Guided tour of Lausanne Cathedral followed by fondue dinner

Friday 12 May

10.00 am – 11.00 am

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)

11.00 am – 11.30 am
Coffee Break
11.30 am – 1.00 pm

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)

1.00 pm – 2.30 pm
Lunch
2.30pm – 4.00 pm

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)

4.00 pm – 4.30 pm
Coffee Break
4.30 pm – 5.30 pm
Session 7: George Meylan: Mercator: the Space, Place, and Image of a Geographer and Astronomer
5.30 pm onwards
Wine-tasting

Saturday 13 May

10.00 am – 11.10 am

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)

11.00 am – 11.30 am
Coffee Break
11.30 am – 1.00 pm

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)

1.00 pm – 2.30 pm
Lunch
2.30 pm – 4.00 pm

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)

4.00 pm – 4.30 pm
Coffee Break
4.30 pm – 6.00 pm
Plenary: Andrew McRae (University of Exeter) – Drayton’s Material Pastoral: Soil and the Nation in Poly-Olbion
6.00 pm onwards
Apéro and Conference Dinner