Panels and papers at the conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Berlin

Street Singers in Renaissance Europe and Beyond
Organized by Luca Degl'Innocenti and Massimo Rospocher, University of Leeds, UK
Thursday, 26 March, 1.15pm to 6.15pm, Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, 1.201

Panel I

Spanish Brotherhoods of the Blind and the Reciting of Prayers - Juan Gomis, Catholic University of Valencia

Christophe de Bordeaux and His Fight Songs against Calvinists - Tatiana Debbagi Baranova, Université Paris-Sorbonne

Possible Influence of Humanistic Literature on Popular Street Songs: The Case of Paraclausithyron and Serenade - Grazyna Urban-Godziek, Jagiellonian University

The Renaissance on the Other Side of the Mediterranean: The Repertoire of Algerian Meddāḥ - Francesca Bellino, University of Turin

Panel II

The Word on the Street: The Performance of News Songs in Early Modern Europe - Una McIlvenna, Queen Mary University of London

Representations of Dutch and English Ballad Singers and Their Songs (1500–1800) - Jeroen Salman, Universiteit Utrecht

Political Music on the Street in Early Modern England - Angela J. McShane, Victoria & Albert Museum

Panel III

Street Voices: The Role of Blind Performers in Early Modern Italy - Laura Carnelos, Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Street Performers and Chivalric Poetry in Renaissance Italy - Luca Degl'Innocenti, University of Leeds

Hybridity, Role Play, and the Visual Persona of the Renaissance Buffone - Chriscinda C. Henry, McGill University

Orality and Festival: Poets and Performers on the Court Stage
Friday, 27 March, 10:15 to 11:45am, Kommode, Bebelplatz 1, E34
Organized by Francesca Bortoletti, Luca Degl'Innocenti, University of Leeds, UK, and Eugenio Refini, Johns Hopkins University

Dance, Body Display, and Reception of Performance in Court Festivities: Charles V's Travelling Court from the Reports of Mantuan Witnesses - Marina Nordera, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis

Giovanni Battista Doni and His Vision of Performing Poetry - Elena Abramov-van Rijk, Independent Scholar

A 'corago' at the Medici Court: Staging Techniques of Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger - Anna Maria Testaverde, Università degli Studi di Bergamo

Festivals at the Este Court in Modena: Mise-en-Scene, Performance, and Printed Texts - Filippo Tansini, Università di Roma 'La Sapienza'

Francesca Bortoletti will give a paper entitled Performances of Pastoral Poetry at the Court of Aragona, as part of the session Sites of Renaissance Pastoral: Antiquity, Theatricality, Hybridity II
Friday, 27 March, 3:00 to 4:30pm, Kommode, Bebelplatz 1, 144

Stefano Dall'Aglio will give a paper entitled At the Foot of the Pulpit: Reaction and Role of the Audience in Early Modern Italian Preaching, as part of the session Renaissance Communities of Interpretation I: Interactions and Exchanges
Saturday, 28 March, 8:45 to 10:15am, Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/3, 3.103