9.00-10.30

Rita Copeland (Chair)
David Lawton (Washington U.): “1453 and the Stream of Time”
Theresa Coletti (Maryland): “The Chester Cycle in Sixteenth-Century Religious Culture”

11.00-12.30

Melissa Sanchez (Chair)
Kurt Schreyer (Penn): “Balaam to Bottom: Asses on Stage in Shakespeare and the Mystery Plays”
Jonathan Hsy (Penn): “Periodizing Merchants: Urban Temporality and the Compilations of Richard Hill and John Colyns”
Hannah Crawforth (Princeton): “The Role of Anglo-Saxon Language in Richard Verstegan’s Rewriting of History”

1.30-3.00

Emily Steiner (Chair)
Sara Murphy (Columbia): “Dames of Scotia: Women Signifying the State of the Nation in David Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis”
Ruth Lexton (Columbia): “To Compass to Kill the King: Arthurian Treason in Early Tudor Imagination”
David Coley (Maryland): “Does Historicism Demand Periodization? The Case of Saint Erkenwald”

3.30-4.45

Margreta de Grazia (Chair)
Jean Howard and Paul Strohm (Columbia): “The Imaginary Commons”

5.00

Reflections:

Barbara Fuchs (Introductory Remarks)
Jennifer Summit (Stanford): Commentary