Structures of Feeling
The Center/Clark Four-Part Yearlong Core Program for 2004-05
directed by
Susan McClary (Center & Clark Professor, 2004-05)

— Part 1: Genders and Sexualities —

January 21–22, 2005– at the Clark Library


Friday, January 21_______________________

9:30 A.M.

Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Session 1 – Strike a Pose: Seventeenth-Century Voguing

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Margaret Rosenthal, University of Southern California
On the Cutting Edge: Women’s Fashions in Printed Costume Books and Manuscript Albums of the Late-Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Susan Leigh Foster, UCLA
Oeconomies in Motion: Choreography, Botany, and Lady Credit

12:30 P.M.

Lunch

2:00 P.M.

Session 2 – Acting Out: Gender on the Stage

Debora Shuger, UCLA
“In a Christian Climate”: Religion, Failure, and Honor in “Richard II”

Wendy Heller, Princeton University
Daphne’s Dilemma: Desire as Metamorphosis in Early Modern Opera

Susan McClary, UCLA
The Dragon Cart

5:00 P.M.

Reception

 

Saturday, January 22_______________________

9:30 A.M.

Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Session 3 – Structural Conventions and Unconventions

Richard Rambuss, Emory University
Crashaw and the Metaphysical Shudder

Elisabeth Le Guin, UCLA
The Gender of Song in Quixote

12:00 P.M.

Lunch

1:30 P.M.

Session 4 – Down and Dirty: Sex in the 1600s

Stephen Orgel, Stanford University
What Knights Really Want

Kathryn Norberg, UCLA
Brothels: Depicting Venal Love in the Classical Age

Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
Adultery for Children

 


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