Conference Program: Afterlives 2023
California State University, Long Beach
CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES
and FOREST LAWN MUSEUM PRESENT
Afterlives: Reinvention, Reception, and Reproduction
8:30 – 8:55 REGISTRATION and CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:55 – 9:00 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
9:00 – 10:30 SESSION ONE
Constructing Identities, Real and Imagined
Chair: Ilan Mitchell-Smith (CSU, Long Beach)
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, Long Beach), Blood and Monsters Throughout the Centuries
Ayesha Mosaddeq (USC), Reimagining Elizabethan England through Anglo-Islamic Trade
Reconstructions and Reinventions
Chair: Heather Graham (CSU, Long Beach)
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
10:30 – 10:45 BREAK
10:45 – 12:15 SESSION TWO
Legacy and Legend
Chair: Martine van Elk (CSU, Long Beach)
Location: Forest Lawn Museum Gallery
Marie Kelleher (CSU, Long Beach), 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
12:15 – 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 – 2:00 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.
2:15 – 3:45 SESSION THREE
Transformations in Early Modern Literature
Chair: Martine van Elk (CSU, Long Beach)
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, Long Beach)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection
Sophia Quach McCabe (CSU, Long Beach), 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
3:45 – 4:00 BREAK
4:00 – 5:45 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