2023 Conference Program
November 4, 2023
Forest Lawn Memorial Museum, Glendale CA
SESSION ONE
Constructing Identities, Real and Imagined
Chair: Ilan Mitchell-Smith (CSU, Ƶ)
Location: Forest Lawn Museum Gallery
Anna Kelner (CSU, Dominguez Hills), Thomas More's Mixed Life: The Voice of Clerical Authority in 'A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation'
Kathryn Chew (CSU, Ƶ), Blood and Monsters Throughout the Centuries
Ayesha Mosaddeq (USC), Reimagining Elizabethan England through Anglo-Islamic Trade
Reconstructions and Reinventions
Chair: Heather Graham (CSU, Ƶ)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection
Claire Lipsman (Forest Lawn Museum), Building the American Dream: Eclectic Architecture and California’s Rise to Cultural Power
Abigail Berry (UC, Los Angeles), A New Architectural Truth: The Post-War Reconstruction Of Medieval Lübeck
Harrison Foreman (Forest Lawn Museum), Faire Play: Cold War Escapism through the Renaissance Faire and Century 21 Exposition
SESSION TWO
Legacy and Legend
Chair: Martine van Elk (CSU, Ƶ)
Location: Forest Lawn Museum Gallery
Marie Kelleher (CSU, Ƶ), Rewriting a Conspiracy: Barcelona's "First Bad Year" in the Early Modern Imagination
Erika Ostergard (American University, Washington DC), Robin Hood in Film and the Law: Magna Carta as Fetish
Mark Bayer (University of Texas at San Antonio), Shakespeare’s Marvelous Book: The Totemic Nature of the First Folio
The Persistence of Memory
Chair: James Fishburne (Forest Lawn Museum)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection
Lisa M. Rafanelli (Manhattanville College), The Persistence of Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà
Juan Carlos Garzon Mantilla (CSU, Fresno), The Genealogies of Pacaritambo and the Early Modern Andean Creation of a Global Antiquity
Emily Hagen (Pennsylvania State University), Digging Up the Past: Architecture and Rediscovered Relics in Post-Tridentine Rome
TOUR OF FOREST LAWN
James Fishburne, Forest Lawn Museum Director
Behind-the-Scenes tour of Forest Lawn’s Great Mausoleum. Highlights include Romanesque and Gothic Revival architecture and numerous full-scale Michelangelo replicas.
SESSION THREE
Transformations in Early Modern Literature
Chair: Martine van Elk (CSU, Ƶ)
Location: Forest Lawn Museum Gallery
Brittany Asaro (University of San Diego), "Laughing at the Vanity of Public Opinion”: Reinventing Courtly Love by Fame in the Orlando Furioso
Thea Tomaini (USC), Unholy Unions: Death as Spouse on the Early Modern Stage
Billy Howell (George Mason University), Gately as Gravedigger: The Shakespearean Fool Refigured in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
Reinventing the Visual
Chair: Heather Graham (CSU, Ƶ)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection
Sophia Quach McCabe (CSU, Ƶ), Through the Renaissance Looking Glass: Harmonia Rosales, Orishas, and Contemporary Art
Hector Reyes (USC), Habit and Adaptation: On the Art of Fabian Debora
Anatole Upart (SUNY Binghamton), Filming Leonardo’s Last Supper: Italian Renaissance, Einstein’s Pedagogy, and Pipinashvili’s Storyboard
PLENARY ROUNDTABLE: Medieval California: A Case Study of the Middle Ages in America
Moderator: Alison Locke Perchuk (CSU, Channel Islands)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection
Bryan C. Keene (Riverside City College)
Wallace Cleaves (UC, Riverside)
Larisa Grollemond (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Roland Betancourt (UC, Irvine)
5:45 – 6:30 RECEPTION
