Forms of Conversion: Transformation in Europe and its World, 1500-1700

Friday, 2 December 2011 | A-832 | New Music Building | McGill University

9:30-10:30
Gender and the forensics of faith: An inquiry into Agnes Bowker, the woman who gave birth to a cat in Leicestershire, 1568
Steven Mullaney and Sarah Linwick (University of Michigan)

10:45-11:45
Evangelical Conversion in its Late Medieval Context
Peter Marshall and Stephen Bates (University of Warwick)

1:00-2:00
Caravaggio’s Conversions
Angela Vanhaelen, Tomasz Grusiecki, and Sonia Del Re (McGill)

2:15-3:15
The Turns of Time: Figures of Temporal Cognition in the Preliminaries of the King James Bible and Related Worlds
Mark Vessey and William Green (University of British Columbia)


Saturday, 3 December 2011 | A-832 | New Music Building | McGill University

9:30-10:30
Richard Smyth’s “Retractation Sermon” at Paul’s Cross and Oxford (1547)
Torrance Kirby and Eric Parker (McGill)

10:45-11:45
Animal Spirits and Cognitive Ecologies
John Sutton (Macquarie University)

1:00-2:00
Between Human and Animal: Zoomorphism and Visual Culture in Northern Italy (1550-1650)
Bronwen Wilson (University of British Columbia)

2:15-3:15
Animal Dreams
Paul Yachnin and Shaun Ross (McGill)