APRIL 4-5, 2019 • 19 UNIVERSITY PLACE, 1ST FLOOR GREAT ROOM
Thursday, April 4
6:00pm
Welcome by the Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Center, Karl Appuhn
6:15pm - 7:45 pm
Opening Keynote: David Nirenberg (University of Chicago) "Poisonous Communication: Secrecy and Deceit in Court Societies"
Reception to Follow
Friday, April 5
9:00am - 9:30am
Coffee Service
9:30am - 11:00am
Panel 1: Politics and Ethics of Secrecy Chair: Clément Godbarge (Columbia University)
Benjamin Saltzman (University of Chicago) "Towards an Early Medieval Ethics of Secrecy"
Mark Jurdjevic (Glendon College, Canada) "Hidden in Plain Sight: Machiavelli and Guicciardini on the Many and the Few"
Karl Appuhn (NYU) "Princely Secrets and Heavenly Mysteries: The Problem of Secrets in Botero's anti-Machiavellian Politics"
11:00am - 12:30pm
Panel 2: Secrets of the Body and the Body Politic Chair: Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (NYU)
Noa Nikolsky (University of Pennsylvania) "Keeping Mum: Open Secrets in Late-Medieval English Gynaecological and Obstetrical Texts"
Joël Chandelier (Paris VIII, France) "Secrets of Medicine, Secrets of Politics (Italy, 13th-15th C.)"
Wenrui Zhao (Columbia University) "Unlocking the Secrets of the Eye in Early Modern Germany"
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Panel 3: Languages and Landscapes of Secrecy Chair: Tanya Schmidt (NYU)
Matteo Soranzo (McGill University, Canada) "Poetry and Forgery in Renaissance Venice: The Secret Alchemy of Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli (1441- 1524)"
Elizabeth Cohen (York University, Canada) "Secrets and Lies: Managing the Known and Owned among Urban Women, Rome, circa 1600"
Elizabeth Swann (University of Durham, UK) "Nothing Clearer, Nothing Darker: Robert Boyle's 'Glimmerings of Light'"
3:30pm - 4:00pm Coffee and Tea
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Panel 4: The Transmission and Circulation of Secrets Chair: Christopher Richards (NYU)
Juan Arias (Harvard University) "Secrets and Lies as Epistemology in the Castilian 'Libro de los Engaños'"
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin (University of Kent, UK) "Assayers, Secrets and Knowledge Cultures in Early Modern London"
Djoeke van Netten (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) "Secrets and Secrecy in the Dutch East India Company"
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Closing Keynote: Paula Findlen (Stanford University) "Galileo's Secrets: How to Make Documents Disappear and Reappear"
Closing Reception
