Preliminary program

The Rutgers British Studies Center presents:

Performing the Book: Multi-Media Histories of Early Modern Britain

February 11, 2011

Alexander Library, 4th floor

169 College Avenue

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

9:00 am Registration

9:30 am Alastair Bellany (Director, Rutgers British Studies Center), Welcoming Remarks

9:45 – 11:00 am Christopher Marsh (Queen’s University, Belfast), “Balladry as a Multi-Media Matrix: Best-Selling Songs and Their Significance in Seventeenth-Century England”

11:15 am – 12:45 pm Multi-Media Adaptation

Juliet Fleming (New York University), “The Pre-Historic Renaissance”

Scott Trudell (Rutgers University), “‘Drown’d in noyse’: Multi-Mediation in the Lord Mayor’s Show”

Michael Plunkett (City University of New York), “A Queen’s Masque in Chaucer’s House”

Panel chair: Allison Deutermann (City University of New York)

12:45 – 2:00 pm Catered lunch

2:00 – 3:15 pm Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California), “Within, Without, Withinwards: The Circulation of Sound in Shakespeare's Theater”

3:45 – 5:00 pm Acoustic Circulation

Thomas Ward (University of Pennsylvania), “Properti and Proper Voisez in Sikstįnþ Senturi Speling Reform”

Leslie C. Dunn (Vassar College), “Catches and Snatches: Tuning in to the Early Modern Song Network”

Tessie Prakas (Yale University), “Musical Passports: The Circulation of Liturgical Sound in the Seventeenth Century”

Panel chair: Carter Mathes (Rutgers University)

5:15 – 6:30 pm Response and Discussion

R. Malcolm Smuts (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Gary Tomlinson (University of Pennsylvania)

Moderator: Meredith McGill (Rutgers University)

6:30 pm Reception

This event is free and open to the public. To register, or if you are interested in attending via live webcast, please email Scott Trudell (trudell@eden.rutgers.edu) by February 7, 2011.