9:30a–10:15a Registration and Coffee
10:15a–10:30a Welcome
10:30a–11:50a Panel 1: Religious Transformation
Dr Christina Wald, University of Augsberg
Transubstantiation and Identity in Elizabethan England: The Religious Turn Revisited
Dr Isabel Calderon-Lopez, Universidad de Cádiz
Lady Falkland: Her Life, a Story of Conversion behind the Grille
Dr Matthew Dimmock, University of Sussex
Denying Transformation: The Conversion of Strangers in Early Modern London
11:50a–12:00p Comfort Break
12:00p–13:00p Panel 2a: Gender Transformation
Emily Sherwood, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“I may lawefully denie to live with him”: Legal Subjectivity and the Case of Elizabeth Bourne
Dr Lynsey Blandford
Sex and the male body in The Custom of the Country
Panel 2b: Internal / External Transformations
Dr Faye Tudor
Seeing the Self: mirroring and visual theory
Naya Tsentourou, University of Manchester
‘The ghost of linen decency’: Hypocritical Clothing on Stage and in Church
13:00p–14:00p Lunch
14:00p–15:20p Panel 3a: Geographical Transformations
Alison Stanley, King’s College London
Cities on a Hill: the Quaker Usurpation of Colonial Puritan Narratives
in Seventeenth-Century New England
Alexsandra Sakowska, King’s College London
Transforming Early Modern Spaces in the 21st Century
Prof Bernhard Klein, University of Kent
“Frail timbers on treacherous seas”: Ships and Mariners in The Lusiads
Panel 3b: Writing the Self
Dr Jenny Sager, Jesus College, University of Oxford
Changing approaches to Robert Greene’s Authorial Identity
Sophie Butler, New College, University of Oxford
The Early Modern English Essay and the Rhetoric of Self-Presentation
Dr Melanie Ord, UWE
Print, Publicity and Self-Assertion in the Work of John Dunton
15:20p–15:50p Coffee
15:50p–16:50p Panel 4: Transformative Concepts
Douglas Clark, University of Strathclyde
The Will of Wit, or Will’s Wit: An Early Modern Subjective Split
Dr Isabel Karreman, LMU Munich
“Shameless transformations”: The politics and poetics of forgetting
on the early modern stage
16:50p–17:00p Comfort Break
17:00p–18:00p Keynote Address
Professor Will Fisher, Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
“Flogging Cullies” and the Desire for the Whip: Questions of Sexual
Identity in Seventeenth- and Early-Eighteenth Century England
18:00p Closing Remarks and Reception
