INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR “ATTRACTION, SYMBIOSIS AND REJECTION: IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN”
UNIVERSITY OF JAEN
15TH-16TH FEBRUARY 2012
Programme
Wednesday 15th February
10.00h. Plenary speaker Jüri Talvet
"'Self' and 'Other': Thinking with Montaigne, Liiv, and Lotman"
11.00h. Coffee
11.30h. Plenary speaker John Drakakis
"Shylock, Morocco and Othello: Shakespearean intertexts"
12.30h. Paper presentations
José Ruiz: "The Wars of Cyprus and the Conquest of Nicosia and their Influence on the Image of the Great Turk in the English Literature of the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries"
Luciano García: "The Moor in the English Dramatic Mirror from 1500 to 1660. Secondary Texts"
14.00h. Lunch
16.15h. Plenary speaker Andrew Monnickendam
"Crucifying Othello: Title Deeds in Rossini's Otello (1816)"
17.15h. Coffee
17.45h. Plenary speaker Pilar Cuder Domínguez
"Delarivier Manley's Plays: Gender, Alterity, Jacobitism"
Thursday 16th February
10.00h. Plenary speaker Ali Zaidi
"The Monstrous King in Shakespeare's Edward III"
11.00h. Coffee
11.30h. Plenary speaker Rüdiger Ahrens
"Alterity in William Shakespeare's Plays The Merchant of Venice and Othello"
12.30h. Paper presentations
Rafael Vélez: "Anti-Spanish literary propaganda in Cromwellian England"
Yolanda Caballero: "The Problematization of the Vision of Otherness in the Texts by some Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century British Women Writers"
14.00h. Lunch
16.15h. Paper presentations
Primavera Cuder: "Moors and Spaniards in Early Modern English Drama: Thomas Dekker's Lust's Dominion"
Eroulla Demetriou and Cinta Zunino: "Robert Wilson's The Three Lords and the Three Ladies of London: Alien Vices and National Virtues"
Jesús López-Peláez: "The Travailes of the Three English Brothers and the Ideological (Re)production of Early Modern English Identities"