Celebrating EBBA’s 20th Anniversary: Back to the Future
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Schedule
Friday, February 24, 2023 (Loma Pelona 1108, UCSB)
8:30 – 9:15 Registration/Coffee and Pastries
9:15 – 9:30 Welcome (Patricia Fumerton)
9:30 – 10:45 Session 1: Grant Writing, the NEH, and EBBA
Moderator: E. Heckendorn Cook
- UCSB EVC David Marshall, Patricia Fumerton, NEH EBBA Project Manager Molly Hardy
10:45– 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:15 Session 2: Mixing Genres
Moderator: Olivia Bievenue
- Yujin Jang, “The ‘Shirburn’ Ballads and Receptions of Shakespeare’s Plays”
- Firdevs Idil Kurtulan, “Undone in Little Space: The Early Moderns Across Two Pamphlets and a Ballad”
- Jenni Hyde, “The ‘Heavie Hande of Heaven’: Providence, Editorial and News in Early Modern Ballads”
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch (on your own; the UCEN—serving different foods—5 min. walk away)
1:30 – 2:45 Session 3: Individuals Making Broadside Ballads
Moderator: Jessica Zisa
- Angela McShane, “Putting the ‘Popular’ into Political Song: Philip Brooksby, Ballad Maker Extraordinaire”
- Madison Connaughton, “‘WWMPD?’: What Would Martin Parker Do?”
- Qingyu Wang, “Earl of Essex’s Posthumous Fame in Seventeenth-Century Ballads”
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 4:00 Session 4: The Intermodal Broadside Ballad
Moderator: Andrew Griffin
- Erik Bell, “Non-Metric Accent: Further Exploration of the Tune’s Effects upon Text in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads”
- Kevin Murphy, “Mary Robinson: A Life in Multi-Media”
4:00 – 4:15 Break
4:15 – 5:30 Keynote 1: Ballad Music
Introducer: Tim Cooley
- Revell Carr, “‘A Science Peculiarly Productive of Pleasure’: On the Importance of Singing and Listening to Ballads”
6:00 – 7:45 Dinner at Mosher Alumni Hall/Terrace
7:45 – 9:30 Night of Songs at Mosher Alumni Hall/Terrace
Saturday, February 25, 2023 (Loma Pelona 1108, UCSB)
9:00 – 10:00 Session 5: Race and the Foreign in English Broadside Ballads
Moderator: Bernadette Andrea
- Katie Sisneros, “Islam, Piracy, and the Politics of Identity in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads (A Retrospective)”
- Gitanjali Shahani, “Coffee Ballads, Othello, and the Consumption of Difference” (video)
10:00–11:15 Keynote 2: From the Foreign Perspective: Czech Broadside Ballads
Introducer: Patricia Fumerton
- Pavel Kosek, “The Materiality of Czech Broadside Ballads”
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:45 Session 6: Gendering Ballads
Moderator: Liv Henderson
- Kris McAbee, “The Guinea Wins Her: Living by the Body in Ballads”
- Christina Luckyj, “Rereading Perdita and Ballad Culture”
- Jessica Murphy, “Reproductive Bodies English Broadside Ballads”
12:45-1:45 Lunch (provided, on Loma Pelona Patio)
1:45–2:45 Session 7: Queering Ballads
Moderator: Shaun Nowicki
- Mac Test, “Catalina de Erauso: Translating Stories of a Basque Warrior”
- Simone Chess and Dianne Dugaw, “Queer Findings & Refindings: Generations of Songs & Scholarship”
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 4:15 Keynote 3: EBBA as Digital Humanities
Introducer: Alan Liu
- Carl Stahmer, “Representation Beyond Anecdotal Literary Criticism: Revisiting EBBA through Quantitative Analysis of Semantic Webs of Multimodal Printed Early Modern English Broadside Ballads”
4:15 – 4:30 Break
4:30 – 6:00 Roundtable: “Hear ye, Hear ye; The Old Ballad Team Made Anew”
Introducer: Stephanie Goldstein
Moderator and Organizer: Jessica Murphy
6:00-7:30 Reception
FINIS