Conference Schedule
Day One: Friday, February 24
8:15 Shuttle Departs South Coast Inn for UCSB Campus
8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:00-9:30
Introduction
Patricia Fumerton (English, Director EMC, UCSB), “The Spacious Voices
of Broadsides and Ballads: Pepys’s Blackamoor, Black and More”
9:30-10:45
Session 1. Re-Collecting Ballads
Moderator: Joseph Nagy (English, UCLA)
Alan H. Nelson (English, UC Berkeley), “Humphrey Dyson: Unheralded Collector of Early English Ballads”
Giles Bergel (English, University of London), “‘An Acquaintance of a Much Lower Stamp’: Thomas Percy and the Dicey Press”
Mary Ellen Brown (Folklore/Ethnomusicology, Indiana University), “Child's Ballads and the Broadside Conundrum”
Gerald Egan (English, UCSB), “Encoding an Electronic Archive of English Broadside Ballads”
11:00-12:15
Session 2. Street Aesthetics: Woodcuts and Black Letter
Moderator: Mark Meadow (Art History, UCSB)
Elizabeth Mitchell (Art History, UCSB), “William Hogarth's Pregnant Ballad Sellers and the Printer's Matrix”
Sean Shesgreen (English, Northern Illinois University), “Crude Woodcuts from a Hawker's Basket: Images for ‘The Bottom Levels of the Social Scale’”
Angela McShane-Jones (History, Oxford Brookes University), “The Singing Shoemaker, Richard Rigby: Cobbling Together Popular Political Ballads in Early Modern England”
12:15-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-3:15
Session 3. Monsters and Wonders
Moderator: Robert Erickson (English, UCSB)
Tassie Gniady (English, UCSB), “Do You Take This Hog-Faced Woman As Your Lawful, Wedded Wife?”
Julie Crawford (English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University), "Monsters in the Margins"
Joel Slotkin (Introduction to the Humanities Program, Stanford University), “Chimerical Allegories in Early Modern Broadside Ballads”
Anita Guerrini (History, UCSB), “Advertising Monstrosity: Broadsides and Human Exhibition in the Early 18th Century”
3:15 Shuttle Departs UCSB Campus for South Coast Inn
4:15 Shuttle Departs South Coast Inn for Chase Palm Park Center
Evening Events at Chase Palm Park Center
4:30-5:30 Reception
5:30-6:30 Lecture-Performance
Introductory Remarks: Stefanie Tcharos (Music, UCSB)
Dianne Dugaw (English, University of Oregon), “Fighting and Sailing Women in Folksongs and History”
6:30-8:00 DINNER
8:00-9:30 Night of Songs
Ballad Tunes performed by:
Jennifer Bowen (Geography, UCSB)
Revell Carr (Music, UCSB)
Dianne Dugaw (English, University of Oregon)
Katherine Meizel (Music, UCSB)
Rebecca Mounts (English, UCSB)
Ruth Perry (Literature, MIT)
Rob Wallace (English, UCSB)
*With a special guest appearance by renowned early modern vocalist Judith Nelson*
9:30 Shuttle Departs Chase Palm Park Center for South Coast Inn
Day Two: Saturday, February 25
8:45 Shuttle Departs South Coast Inn for UCSB Campus
9:00-9:15 Registration and Coffee
9:15-10:30
Session 4. Gender and Transgression I: Hearing Voices
Moderator: E. Heckendorn Cook (English, UCSB)
Niamh J. O’Leary (English, Pennsylvania State University), “Singing Community: Listening to Women’s Voices in Early Modern Street Ballads”
Simone Chess (English, UCSB), “‘And I my vowe did keepe’: Oath Making, Subjectivity and Husband Murder in ‘Murderous-Wife’ Ballads”
Thomas Pettitt (Literature, University of Southern Denmark),“Folk Song and Femicide: Journalism vs. Tradition in the Early English Ballads of the Murdered Sweetheart”
Coffee Break
10:45-12:15
Session 5. Gender and Transgression II: Crime
Moderator: Liberty Stanavage (English, UCSB)
Frances E. Dolan (English & Women’s Studies, UC Davis), “Tracking the Petty Traitor across Genres”
Joy Wiltenburg (History, Rowan University), “Ballads and the Emotional Life of Crime”
Ruth Perry (Literature, MIT), “Brother Trouble: Incest and Murder in English Ballads”
12:15- 1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:45
Session 6. Class and the Collective
Moderator: Patrick Ludolph (History, UCSB)
Steve Newman (English, Temple University), “‘The Maiden’s Bloody Garland’: Thomas Warton and the Elite Appropriation of Popular Song”
Melissa M. Mowry (English, St. John’s University), “‘Poor-whores,’ ‘Apprentices’ and ‘Citizens’: The 1668 Bawdy House Riots and the Imperative of Collectivity”
Christa Lynn Pehl (Music, Princeton University), “The Representation of Lower-Class Diet in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Balladry”
3:00-4:45
Session 7. Political Broadsides: From England to the Americas
Moderator: Elisa Tamarkin (English, UC Irvine)
Corrinne Harol (English, University of Alberta), "Relics in a Whiggish Age: Jacobites, Ballads, and Pretentious Bastards"
Scarlet Bowen (English, University of Colorado, Boulder), “‘Sold to Virginny’: Kidnapping Tales, Indentured Servitude, and the Anti-Emigration Movement, ca. 1680-1720”
Noelle Chao (English, UCLA), “Polly, Musical Crossing, and the In-Betweens of Circum-Atlantic Performance”
William B. Warner (English, UCSB), “Yankee Doodle, Masculine Anxiety, and the American Way of War”
4:45-5:30: Reception and Open Discussion
5:30 Shuttle Departs UCSB Campus for South Coast Inn
8:00 DINNER at Opal
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