Conference: Transnational Drama within and beyond Europe, 1450-1750
AMSTERDAM AND ONLINE (HYBRID)
More information on translatin.nl/conference
To register, send an email to dinah.wouters@huygens.knaw.nl
Theme
Early modern drama research is done on an increasingly large scale. On the one hand, this is the result of the use of computational research methods and the expansion of online resources for the study of drama. On the other hand, the larger scale is the result of scholars making connections between fields that were previously separated. These new approaches increasingly take into account colonial drama and drama written by Jesuit missions, as well as the transnational movements of theatre texts and practices across national, linguistic, and confessional borders. Mobility and circulation can be studied on a small scale, but the accumulative effect of these studies is a view of early modern drama that extends over a large portion of the world map and that begins to create a global picture. What new skills do scholars apply in order to tackle these changing scales of research?
The presentations focus on:
the integration of computational and non-computational methods;
the connections between different national traditions and languages, including Latin: circulation, mobility, transnationality;
the connections between the local and the supralocal;
the integration of large-scale and small-scale research methods;
the integration of various databases, resources, and data formats;
the relationship between the different research fields for early modern drama: literature, performance, cultural history, etc.
The conference will take place in hybrid format, on location in Amsterdam with the possibility of following, contributing, and interacting with the other participants online.
Organising committee: Dinah Wouters, postdoctoral researcher, Jan Bloemendal, senior researcher and PI TransLatin
About the Project: This conference is organised within the scope of the TransLatin project (translatin.nl) of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, which forms part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The project studies the international network of Netherlandish Neo-Latin playwrights and the vital interaction between Latin theatre and a ‘transnational’ web of plays, through computational analysis and a qualitative investigation of sources.
Register by sending an email to dinah.wouters@huygens.knaw.nl
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Programme
Thursday 1st of September
09.30 – 10.00 Registration and introduction
10.00 – 11.00 KEYNOTE
Nigel Smith (Princeton University)
Transnational Early Modern Drama: Violence, Emotion and Political Theater
11.00-12.30 SESSION 1 Presentation of the TransLatin project (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands—Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
12.30 – 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.00 KEYNOTE
Ioana Galleron (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle)
Free the Drama! A Call for Rethinking Editorial Practices of (European) Theatrical Texts
15.00 – 16.30 SESSION 2 Digital editing
Mirella Saulini (Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University)
Codices and Digital File Formats
Neven Jovanović (University of Zagreb)
Preparing a Research Corpus of Stanislaus Kostka Plays
Piotr Urbański (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Michał Bajer (University of Szczecin)
Tragedies about Saint Polyeuctus (16th-18th century) in Modern Bibliographical and Textual Studies: Visibility vs. Invisibility
16.30 – 17.00 Break
17.00 – 18.00 SESSION 3 Performance and visual sources
M.A. Katritzky (The Open University)
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Transnational Performers: The Visual Record
Justyna Łukaszewska-Haberkowa (University Ignatianum)
From Transnational Literature to Tapestry. Understanding the Performance of Ballet des Polonais
19.00 Conference dinner
Friday 2nd of September
09.30 – 10.30 KEYNOTE
Barbara Fuchs (University of California)
Rethinking Gender in the Hispanic Comedia
10.30 – 12.00 SESSION 4 Drama in circulation
Linda Simonis (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) ONLINE
‘Trojan Women’ in Early Modern Drama.
Thom Pritchard (University of Edinburgh)
”The Tragedies that are acted upon the Theatre of this World”: Reconstructing the Thirty Years War in European Drama
Mathieu Ferrand (Université de Grenoble) ONLINE
“L’Invention du THéâtre Antique dans le Corpus des paratextes savants du XVIe s.” (ITHAC – Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France) : Methods, aims and first results of a collective research program
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 KEYNOTE
Frank Fischer (Freie Universität Berlin) ONLINE
Behind the Digitised Mask – Focusing on Single Characters Within Large Multilingual Corpora
14.30 – 16.00 SESSION 5 Networks
Gabriela Villanueva Noriega (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Spanish Sources and English Literary Networks during the English Civil War
Jakob Ladegaard (Aarhus University)
Social network analysis and early modern drama: Methodological reflections.
Julia Beine (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) ONLINE
How to Figure out a Schemer: Tracing Types of Roman Comedy and its Reception through Network Analysis with DraCor
16.00 – 16.45 Concluding remarks. James A. Parente (University of Minnesota)
16.45 – 18.30 Official presentation of the database Dramaweb, with reception