Resurrecting

Men In Tights:

Chaucer *Milton

Shakespeare* Spenser

Dead White Guys

for Modern Times

Politics, Religion, Censorship, & SexLearn why literature's

greatest minds still matter.

Friday, April 5, 2013

University CenterUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-FLINT

Resurrecting Men in Tights

• 9:00-9:15 Welcome, Michigan Rooms B

• 9:15-10:00 Panel 1, Michigan Rooms BCreative Artists—Re-inventing Works

Natalie Broda: Ode to Great Writers!Sarah Evangelista: poem on Red Crosse KnightCandace Lester: painting of “Ambition”Andrea Edwards: sketches of the deadly sins / paintingKatie Brokaw: King Lear paintingNadia Alamah: fiction: Britomart as a Muslim girl

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• 9:15-9:55 Panel 2, Michigan Room CLearning from Experience / Red Crosse Knight & the Reader

Stephanie Ruddock: Monster Error and all the baby errorsSarah Kenney: Red Crosse's Biggest Enemy: Despaire & ReflectionMary Robinson: The Reader's journey & what She Learns

Schedule

• 10:00-11:00 Panel 3, Michigan Room BTaking Off the Tights—Sex in the Fairie Queene

-Sam Wells – Red Crosse's issues-Connor Tinnin – Sex & Monsters-Nadia Alamah—Slut Shaming

• 10:00-11:00 Panel 4, Michigan Room CPersonal v. Political: The Real Effects of Reading

Lauren Florida: Spenser's FQ allegories—what purpose?Andrea Edwards: Colin's love story & Spenser's Political ComplaintBob Gidcumb: I see all my past mistakes: Am I reading wrong?Candace Lester: Confronting Cultural Constructs with Milton's “Lycidas”

• 10:00-11:00 Panel 5, KIVA Women in Shakespeare: How Real?

Teresa Lindhurst: Shakespeare as a proto-feministRebecca Blakeney: Kate Untamed but EqualAmy Hartwig: A Shrew by any other Name …Michal Kirkwood: Women and ShakespeareSchuyler Ferguson “Did She Say Yes?”

Schedule

11:00-12:00 Panel 6, Michigan Room BAreopa—What? Why every American Must Read Areopagitica!

Sarah KenneyConnor TinninJohn HeronNatalie BrodaNadia Alamah

11:00-12:00 Panel 7, Michigan Room CShakespeare: Wrestling with Shakespeare / Beyond the Text

Zach Anderson: Brother Arts: Shakespeare and Professional WrestlingMichal Kirkwood: Shakespeare's Revolutionary ArtAmy Hartwig: Wrestling with Characters / Good-bye StereotypesAmanda Honold: “Ax & Fire: The Merchant of Venice and Organized Religion”

12:00 LUNCH in the KIVA

Schedule

12:30-1:30 SHAKESPEARE ROAST in the KIVA *Please note: the Roast may contain adult language

1:30-EVENT END: Panel 8, in the KIVAChaucer Recitations

- Shannon Huffman reading from the Old English elegiac poem “The Seafarer.”- Tiffini Hurley (“The Miller's Tale” or “The Wife of Bath's Prologue.”)- Jonathon opening lines of Chaucer's “General Prologue.”

Reading and discussing favorite passages- JoAnn Zak- Susanna Bird-Jennifer Onufry-Stephanie Ruddock-Ellen Smith-Bob Gidcumb-Audrey Ditri

Wrap-Up / Closing Statements

Schedule