8:15

Shuttle to UCSB leaves from Franciscan Inn

8:30 – 9:00

Registration and Coffee

9:00 – 9:15

Opening Remarks: Patricia Fumerton, University of California, Santa Barbara

9:15 – 10:15

Featured Speaker: Richard Helgerson, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Remembering, Forgetting, and the Founding of a National Literature: The Example of Joachim du Bellay"

Introductory Remarks: Mark Rose, University of California, Santa Barbara

10:15 – 11:15

Panel 1: Reconceiving History

Moderator: Sears McGee, University of California, Santa Barbara

• J.K. Barret, Princeton University
  “Looking Forward to Looking Back: Cymbeline, Anticipatory Nostalgia, and Collective Memory”
• Natalie Fizer and Glenn Forley, Parsons School of Design
  “Timeline as Mnemotechnology: Joseph Priestley’s Charts of Biography and History”
• Mac Test, University of California, Santa Barbara
  “The Hunt for Amaranthus: Transcribing New World Histories in Spenser's Faerie Queene”

11:15 – 12:30

Lunch

12:30 – 1:30

Featured Speaker: Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Professor of History, Stanford University
“Paper Memories and Identity Papers in Early Modern France ”

Introductory Remarks: Hilary Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara

1:30 – 2:45

Panel 2: Memorable Impressions

Moderator: Jessica C. Murphy, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Rhodri Lewis, Jesus College, University of Oxford
  “The Proper Custodie of Knowledge: Francis Bacon and the Art of Memory in Early Modern England”
• John Hunter, Bucknell University
  “The Dangers of the Trained Memory; or, How a Well-Stocked Mind Becomes a ‘Great Barred Chest of Nothing’”
• Scott L. Newstok, Gustavus Adolphus College
  “‘Here lies’: Anxiously Spatialized Memory in the Early Modern Epitaph”
• Simone Chess, University of California, Santa Barbara
  “‘Lovers made him remember that he was one’: Memories Carved in Ash in Mary Wroth’s Urania”

2:45-3:00

Break

3:00-4:00

Featured Speaker: Marvin Carlson, Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature, City University of New York
“Memory Theatres and Theatre Memories”

Introductory Remarks: Simon Williams, University of California, Santa Barbara

4:00-5:00

Panel 3: Staging Memory

Moderator: Leo Cabranes-Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Hannah Cowles Freeman, University of Kentucky
  “‘Cuckold or Cully?’: Memory, Identity, and Pain in Dryden’s Amphitryon”
• Stefanie Tcharos, University of California, Santa Barbara
  “Rome’s Arcadia: Nostalgia as Ideology and the Problem of Musical Drama”
• Aleksandra Koutny, Cambridge University
  “Remembrance and Reinvention: Memorial Portraiture in 17th and 18th Century Poland-Lithuania”

5:00– 5:15

Closing Remarks: E. Heckendorn Cook, University of California, Santa Barbara

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