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Structures of Feeling
The Center/Clark Four-Part Yearlong Core Program for 2004-05
directed by
Susan McClary (Center & Clark Professor, 2004-05)

— Part 4: Performing Bodies —

June 3-4, 2005– at the Clark Library


Friday, June 3 _______________________

9:30 A.M.

Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Session 1 – Commedia dell’Arte

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Massimo Ciavolella, UCLA
Isabella Andreini and Commedia dell’Arte in Italy

Eileen L. Moyles, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Antibodies: The Commedia dell’Arte at the Fairs in Early Modern Paris

12:00 P.M.

Lunch

1:30 P.M.

Session 2 – Listening, Swooning, Weeping

Andrew Dell’Antonio, The University of Texas at Austin
Recte Sentire: Proper Listening, Sensuality, and Transcendence in Early Modern Italy

Robert L. Kendrick, University of Chicago
Musical Paths, Mystical Unions in Seventeenth-Century Europe

Suzanne Cusick, New York University
Performance, Performativity, and Politics in Early 1600 Florence

4:30 P.M.

Reception

 

Saturday, June 4 _______________________

9:30 A.M.

Coffee

10:00 A.M.

Session 3 – Ideologies of Affect

Sarah Covington, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Wracking, Cutting, Branding, Burning: Judicial Wounding in Seventeenth-Century England

Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University
The Tragedy of the Humourless Hero

Nancy Armstrong, Brown University
The Politics of Incorporation at the Dawn of Individualism

1:00 P.M.

Lunch

2:00 P.M.

Session 4 – Bodies that Matter

Richard Wistreich, University of Newcastle
The Anatomy of Singing: Voice and the Performance of Identity in Early Modern Italy

Mark Franko, University of California, Santa Cruz
Fragment of the Sovereign as Hermaphrodite

Kathryn A. Hoffmann, University of Hawaii, Manoa
The Odd and the Dead: Spectacle, Curiosity, and the Making of Corporeal Knowledge in the Early Modern


 

 


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