Conference: Christine de Pizan: Publishing, Politics, and Reception in Premodern Europe
When and Where
Description
The University of Toronto hosts the SSHRC-funded conference, Christine de Pizan: Publishing, Politics, and Reception in Premodern Europe.
Keynote Speaker: former Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies, Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ)
Additional speakers include Scholars from Europe and the United States, in addition to distinguished members of U of T's own Faculty. (click here for a full list of speakers and biographies)
Registration not required; all are welcome to attend. To request a Zoom link to be sent on the first day of the conference, please email medieval.communications@utoronto.ca.
Tentative Schedule
(click here for detailed programme)
Day 1, Wednesday, August 21
9:00-9:30 Registration [Jackson Humanities Institute - Room 100]
9:30-9:45 Welcome: [JHI 100] Rebecca Kingston (Conference Keynote Moderator, Undergraduate Director and Associate Chair, Department of Political Science, U of T)
9:45-11:00: Keynote: [JHI 100] Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ) "'Tenir son peuple en paix: Rethinking Sovereignty and the Nation with Christine de Pizan's Livre de Paix."
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Session #1: Readings of Christine [JHI 100]
Moderator: Renée R. Trilling (Angus Cameron Professor of Old English, CMS / English, U of T)
Inès Villela-Petit (Independent Curator, Paris, President, French Antiquarian Society) “Christine de Pizan and the first readers of her manuscripts.”
Vanina Kopp (2013-14 PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kolleg für Mittelalter und Neuzeit, an Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Trier Fellow) “Relight my fire: Christine de Pizan, literary orders and social disorder.”
12:15-1:30 Lunch (and walk to the Fisher)
1:30-2:30 The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Manuscript of Christine’s Livre de Paix [Fisher] (Resource: Livre de Paix mss 8.4.24)
Presentation of Fisher MSS 05041 by Timothy Perry (Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library)
Tania Van Hemelryck (Professor Extraordinaire, University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) “The Manuscript Tradition of Christine de Pizan's Book of Peace (Livre de Paix).”
2:30-3:30 [Fisher] Viewing of the manuscript and related materials
Moderator: David Fernandez (Head, Department of Rare books and Special Collections, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library)
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-4:45 Session #2: Christine in Burgundy [Fisher]
Moderator: Kelsey Gordon (PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, U of T)
Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (Head Researcher, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage KIK/IRPA, Brussels) "Christine and the Burgundians."
Helen J. Swift (Professor of Medieval French Studies and Tutorial Fellow, St Hilda's College, Oxford University) "De clergie tresor: Learning as Labour for Peace in Christine de Pizan and Martin Le Franc."
Day 2, Thursday, August 22
9:00-10:00 am Coffee / Tea [JHI 100]
10:00-11:30 Session #3: The Devotional Christine [JHI 100]
Moderator: Ann M. Hutchison (Academic Dean Emerita, PIMS)
Dorothea Kullmann (Associate Professor, Department of French & Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) “Between Devotion, Moral Teaching, and Poetry: Christine de Pizan’s Lyrical Prayers.”
Maureen Boulton (Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame, Associate Fellow, PIMS, University of Toronto) “Hours & Hours: Christine de Pizan’s Contemplacion de la Passion, the Canonical Hours, and the Office.”
Alison More (Comper Professor in Medieval Studies, St. Michael's College, the University of Toronto) “Spiritual Influences: Ste Elizabeth of Hungary and Christine de Pizan.”
11:30-1:30 Lunch break
1:30-2:30 Session #4: Christine de Pizan as Political Philosopher [JHI 100]
Moderator: Lori J. Walters (Visiting Scholar, CMS, U of T)
Rebecca Kingston (Professor, Political Science Department, University of Toronto) “Political Fragility and Peace in Christine de Pizan and Michel de Montaigne.”
Kelsey Gordon (PhD Candidate, Political Science Department, University of Toronto) “Putting Love at the Centre: The Political Philosophy of Christine de Pizan.”
2:30-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-4:00 Session #5: Christine and Italy [JHI 100]
Moderator: Elisa Brilli (Director, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
Mary Anne Case (The Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law, the University of Chicago Law School) “Showing that ‘femme est a l'omme pareille’: Novella, daughter of Giovanni d’Andrea, in the Livre de Leesce and the City of Ladies.”
Mihoko Suzuki (Professor Emerita, University of Miami, Florida) “Christine & Machiavelli.”
Day 3, Friday, August 23
9:00-10:30 am Coffee / Tea [JHI 100]
10:30-11:30 Session #6: Christine’s English Legacy [JHI 100]
Moderator: Sebastian Sobecki (Professor, Later Medieval English Literature and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
Misty Schieberle (Professor, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS) “The Reception of Christine’s Epistre Othea in England.”
Lori J. Walters (Harry F. Williams Professor of French Emerita, Florida State Univ; Visiting Scholar, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) “The Reception of Christine's Queen's Manuscript (BL Harley 4431) in England.”
11:30-12:00 pm Informal Wrap-up Discussion
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
