[Libri] two events this weekend

Thu Oct 21 00:40:13 EDT 2004

Dear Colleagues,

Please note the following events related to book studies.

Best,

Jim Wald

(1) Interdisciplinary symposium to be held at Smith College

French Royal Entries in the Sixteenth Century: Event, Image, Text
22-23 October 2004

PROGRAM

Friday, 22 October 2004
GRAHAM HALL - BROWN FINE ARTS CENTER
SMITH COLLEGE - NORTHAMPTON, MA

5-6:30pm - Craig Felton, Smith College - Introduction

Keynote Speaker: Margaret McGowan, University of Sussex
The French Royal Entry in the Renaissance: The Status of the Printed  
Text

6:30 RECEPTION

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Saturday, 23 October 2004
GRAHAM HALL - BROWN FINE ARTS CENTER - SMITH COLLEGE

9-11:30am -Nicolas Russell - Welcome

Chair: Ann Jones, Smith College

Hélène Visentin, Smith College
French Royal Entries: Recent Research and Publications

Daniel Russell, University of Pittsburgh
Emblematic Discourse in the Royal Entries of the French Renaissance

Elizabeth McCartney, UCLA
Recasting the Ceremonial Paradigm: Texts and Contexts of Royal Entry  
Ceremonies in Renaissance France, 1504-1610

11:30-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-3:30pm - Chair: John Moore, Smith College

Richard Cooper, Oxford University
Legate's luxury: Alessandro Farnese's entries into Avignon and  
Carpentras, 1553

Ann W. Ramsey, Independent Scholar
Character, Conjuncture, and Epistemology: Henry IV's Parisian Entry and  
the Decline of Ritual.

Benoit Bolduc, University of Toronto
Hypnerotomachia Medicensis : "Les Triomphes faictz a l'entrée du Roy a  
Chenonceau" (1560)

4-6pm - Chair: Pierre-Louis Vaillancourt, University of Ottawa

William Kemp and Lyse Roy, Université du Québec à Montréal
The Corpus of Entry Ceremonies during the Reign of Francis I

Joachim Stieber, Smith College
The "Joyous Entry" of the Duke of Anjou into Antwerp (1582)
and  the Tradition of Urban Liberties in the Low Countries

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Sponsored by the French Department at Smith College
For more information, contact Hélène Visentin hvisenti at email.smith.edu  
or Nicolas Russell nrussell at email.smith.edu

(2)  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Emily Dickinson's Maid and Muse at Museum

Contact: Paul Statt
Director of Media Relations
413/542-8417

Amherst, Mass. - The Emily Dickinson Museum presents "Margaret
Maher's Amherst - Emily Dickinson's Maid and Muse," a walking tour
led by Aífe Murray, scholar and artist. The tour will explore the
town of Amherst from the perspective of Margaret Maher who was a
longtime employee of the Dickinson family. The tour will take place
on Saturday, October 23, at 1:30 p.m. and is free and open to the
public. Participants should meet on the lawn of the Museum. The walk
route is about a mile and a half in length and does include some
moderate uphill walking. In case of inclement weather, the walk will
take place on Sunday, October 24, at 1:30 p.m. The tour will take
approximately 1.5 hours.

Emily Dickinson met her match in the formidable Margaret Maher - a
maid whom the poet described as "brave - faithful - punctual - and
courageous." A poor immigrant from County Tipperary Ireland, Maher
was a 28-year-old headed to California to change her life when a
Dickinson power-play landed this young and competent woman in the
Homestead kitchen. She remained there for 30 years as domestic
servant to several generations of Dickinsons. Baking loaf cakes
together or washing dishes, these two women shared much of the day -
and they shared sensibilities that included respect for the power of
poetry. Join us for a walking-story about the Homestead's
"downstairs" and a bond between the poor Irish Catholic Margaret
Maher and wealthy Yankee Protestant Emily Dickinson that forever
changed American literary history. Stopping at five sites in Amherst,
this tour will re-draw what we think we know about Emily Dickinson.

Writer and scholar Aífe (ee-fah) Murray is based in San Francisco and
has presented her work in the United States and abroad. She first
created the tour "Margaret Maher's Amherst" in 1997 as part of her
mixed media and public art installation for the exhibition Language
as Object: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art at The Mead Art
Museum, Amherst College. She studied art history at the University of
Florence (Italy), is a history and social theory graduate of
Hampshire College, and has an M.A. in English - Creative Writing from
San Francisco State University. Murray's forthcoming book, Maid as
Muse - Margaret Maher and Her Poet Emily Dickinson, will look at how
Margaret Maher and other poor servants altered the life course and
language of one of the most important American poets.

The Emily Dickinson Museum consists of two historic houses, the
Homestead and The Evergreens. In October the Museum is open Wednesday
through Saturday from 1-5 p.m. For more information about this
program, please contact Cindy Dickinson, director of interpretation
and programming, at (413) 542-8429.

http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/
http://www.emilydickinson.org/maher/mappage.htm
http://maidasmuse.com

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