Profanity: The Obscene and the Secular in Early Cultures
Department: The Center for Early Cultures
Date and Time: October 12, 2018 | 9:00 AM-5:00 PMEvent Location: HG1010
Event Details
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