Profanity: The Obscene and the Secular in Early Cultures


 The Center for Early Cultures     Oct 12 2018 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM HG1010

Welcome & Coffee
10:00-10:15 am

Panel 1: Profane Genres
10:15-11:45 am

Jim Short, UCSD Theatre and Drama
Profane Body, Sacred Spirit – The Dual Nature of the Early Modern Child Actor

Mayra Cortes, UCSD Literature
"Obscene" Ballads: English Women Spirited to Virginia
Moderator: Dr. Julia Lupton

Lunch – HG 1002
12:00-1:00 pm

Keynote Presentation & Roundtable Q&A
1:00-3:00 pm

Dr. Joel Slotkin, Associate Professor of English, Towson University

Panel 2: Profane Revelations
3:00-4:30 pm


Laura Hatch, UCI Comparative Literature
A Fabliau as Mystery Play: Performing Theophany in Chaucer's Miller's Tale

Stacie Vos, UCSD Literature
Profane Preaching: Saint Augustine's Sermons on Miraculous Healings

Margaret Speer, UCI English
Lesbian Morphology in The Faerie Queene's "Mirrours More Than One"

Moderator: Dr. Rebeca Helfer

Reception: 6:00pm, 28 Virgil Court, University Hills