Jacksonville State University
TRAVEL & TRANSLATION in the EARLY MODERN PERIODConference Schedule
All sessions held on 11th Floor of Houston Cole Library unless otherwise stated
Friday, November 8th
THE BIBLE AND THE CLASSICS
9:00-9:45: "'If there is a hell, then Rome stands upon it': Martin Luther as Traveler and Translator," by Russel Lemmons
9:45-10:30: "Fertile Ground: Erasmus' Travels in England," by Erika Rummel
10:30-11:15: "Ethics, Travel and Translation: The Odyssey of Charles, Prince of Viana's Spanish Text of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics from Naples to Barcelona," by Francisco Arenas-Dolz
11:15-12:00: "Aristotle's Moral Philosophy and the Question of Commensurability in Bartolomé de las Casas's Apologetica historia (c. 1557)," by Nicolas Wey-Gomez
*** LUNCH: 12:00-2:00***
TOWARDS THE VERNACULAR
2:00-2:45: "Across the Alps: an English Poet Addresses an Italian in Latin," by Stella Revard
2:45-3:30: "Milton Translating Petrarch: Paradise Lost VIII. 521-614 and the Secretum," by Anthony Cinquemani
3:30-4:15: "Travel and Translation in Shakespeare's The Tempest," by Jack D'Amico
4:15-5:00 "Hero and Anti-Hero: The Peculiar Travel of Two Optimum Elizabethan Poets to the Fall of Troy through Book II of Vergil's Aeneid," Alan Hager
***SUPPER at THE VICTORIA with Complementary Presentation by Kelly Gregg on Early Maps and Map Makers***
Saturday, November 9th
ENGLAND AND ITALY
9:00-9:45: "The Reconciling of Ancient and Modern: Thomas Hoby as Traveler and Translator," by Kenneth Bartlett
9:45-10:30: "'A poor preasant off Ytalyan costume': William Bercher's English Translation of Lodovico Domenichi's La Nobiltà delle donne," by Brenda Hosington
10:30-11:15: "Writing and Lying: William Thomas and the Politics of Translation," Joseph Khoury
11:15-12:00: "Early Modern Bilingual Dictionaries: The Traveling Lexicographer as Exile," by Carmine Di Biase
***LUNCH: 12:00-2:00***
THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW
2:00-2:45: "From Incan Realm to the Italian Renaissance: The Voyage of Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca's Translation of Leon Hebreo's Dialoghi d'Amore," by Jaime Nelson Novoa
2:45-3:30: "The Translator Translated: Inca Garcilaso and English Imperial Expansion," by Maria Antonia Garces.
3:30-4:15: "John Frampton of Bristol, Trader and Translator," by Donald Beecher
4:15-5:00: "Early Anglo-American Attitudes to Native Indian Languages," Randall C. Davis.
***BANQUET with Complementary Lecture by Harry Holstein on De Soto. [Site to be announced.] ***
Sunday, November 10th
AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
9:00-9:45: "Leo Africanus," by Oumelbanine Zhiri
9:45-10:30: "Konrad Gruenemberg and the Holy Land," Kristian Aercke
10:30-11:15: "Marlowe's Tamburlaine Plays and their Cultural Origins," by Howard Miller
THE ABUSES OF TRAVEL AND THE TRAVELER PARODIED
11:15-12:00: "Travel and Pseudo Translation in the Self-promotional Writings of John Taylor, Water Poet," by Joanne E. Gates
Optional reading: "Translating the World: Truth and Fiction in Travel Writing," by Luigi Monga [Luigi Monga's essay has been submitted but he cannot be present for the conference. The essay might be read by one of the contributors, but only if someone else happens not to be able to be present. In any case, it will be distributed early on to all of the contributors.]
***LUNCH: 12:00-2:00***
2:00-2:45: Massimo Ciavolella's presentation
2:45-4:45: Group Discussion about Plans for Publication
For additional information, contact Dr. Carmine Di Biase, cdibiase@jsucc.jsu.edu
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