





2022
9th Annual Cyprus Conference
on Medieval, Renaissance
and Early Modern Studies
Academic Organising Committee: Dr Stella Achilleos (University of Cyprus); Dr Jane Chick (University of East Anglia, UK); Prof. James Fitzmaurice (Northern Arizona University, USA/Univerity of Sheffield, UK); Prof. Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University, UK); Dr Sarah James (University of Kent, UK); Dr Richard Maguire (University of East Anglia, UK); Dr Michael Paraskos FRSA (City and Guilds of London Art School and Imperial College London, UK); Dr Laurence Publicover (University of Bristol, UK)
Academic Board: As above, plus: ; Dr Nicholas Coureas (Cyprus Research Centre, Cyprus); Dr Rita Severis (CVAR, Cyprus); Prof. Astrid Swenson (Bath Spa University, UK); and, Dr Violetta Trofimova (St Petersburg University, Russia)
General Co-ordinator: Dr Michael Paraskos FRSA (Imperial College London, UK)
Othello's Island 2022

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Othello's Island 2015
The Annual Conference of the Byzantine, Mediaeval
and Renaissance periods and their legacies
in art, culture, history, literature, etc.
Friday 20 March 2015
10:00 Welcome
10:30 Professor Tim Prentki
(University of Winchester, UK)
"‘This Bare Island’: Insular Geographies in Shakespeare’s Theatre"
10:50 Andrew Duxfield
(Coventry University)
"Community and the Island Space in Othello and The Jew of Malta."
11:10 Lieke Stelling
(University of Leiden)
"Tragic Success: Othello´s Assimilation into Venice"
11:30 Discussion followed by lunch
13:30 Wael Ellouze
(University of Poitiers, France)
"Moral Topography in Othello: The Symbolic Scope of the Island(s)"
13:50 Arlynda Lee Boyer
(University of Toronto)
"The Other Interracial Marriage in Othello"
14:10
Patrick Madigan
(Heythrop College, University of London)
Expressive Individualism, the Cult of the Artist as Genius, and Milton’s Lucifer
14:30 Discussion
BREAK
15:10 Professor Lisa Hopkins
(Sheffield Hallam University)
Eroclea’s Island Too: Famagusta in Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy
15:30 Cynthia Shazia Bergeron-Zaidi
(McGill University, Canada)
The Renaissance Diary. From Mary to Anarkali: Akbar’s Annals and Renaissance Imagery
15:50 Dr Sarah James and Dr Michael Paraskos (University of Kent and SOAS University of London)
"Mapping Cyprus's Mediaeval Past: A Proposal"
16:10 Discussion
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19:00 Public Lecture at CVAR
Dr Chris Laoutaris
(The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon)
"Shakespeare and the Countess: The Formidable Elizabeth Russell and the Blackfriars Theatre"
Dr Laoutaris is author of book Shakespeare and the Countess:
The Battle That Gave Birth to the Globe (Penguin Books, 2014)
For further information on this book click here.
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20:30 Conference Meal at TBA
Saturday 21 March 2015
10:00 Keynote: Roger Christofides
'Sexual property and torture: the Cyprus Problem in Othello'
BREAK
11:10 Jessica Troy
(University of New Mexico)
Defending the Corpses: Reinterpreting Beowulf Lines
1212-1214b through the Subjunctive
11:30 Dr. Filip Bul Krajník
(Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
"The Dreams of Three Emperors: The Journey of Achmet’s Oneirocriticon from Byzantium to Bohemia"
11:50 David Rollo
(University of Southern California)
“Christian Exegesis, Demonic Interpretation and Early Romance”
12:10 Discussion followed by lunch
14:00 Dr Nora Liassis
(European University of Cyprus)
Re-visiting Giovanni Boccaccio – Accommodating the Cypriot Goddess
14:20 Robin Girard
(Washington University in St. Louis)
“Tristan and Vis̄ u Rāmin̄... and Cligès?”
14:40 Discussion
BREAK
15:10 Professor Maureen Boulton
(University of Notre Dame)
"Greek Mythology in the Ballades of Christine de Pizan"
15:30 Susan Noakes
(University of Minnesota)
"Cyprus in Boccaccio’s Decameron"
15:50 Alexandra Stachurová
(Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
"“By My Troth, She’s a Whore”: Sexually Available Women in the City Comedies of Thomas Middleton"
16:10 Discussion
18:00 - Film Evening: White Flags / Ak Bayraklar/ Λευκές Σημαίες at Home for Co-operation (click here)
Sunday 22 March 2015
10:00 Dr Frank Burnet MBE
(University of the West of England)
"Evoking Eternity: Have we had a close encounter with the mathematical geniuses of 15th century Iran?"
10:20 Christina Kakkoura
"Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus's Letter to Manuel Raoul"
10:50 Petar Parvanov
(Central European University, Budapest)
Archaeology from the Text: Object biography approach to the Story of the Iron Cross
11:10 Discussion
11:50 Dr Thomas Devaney
(University of Rochester, USA)
"Viejo, puto y judío: gender and conversion in late-medieval Castile"
12:10 Professor Sergey Lyubichankovskiy
(Orenburg State Pedagogical University, Russia)
"The Byzantine Heritage in the Russian Medieval Tradition:
“Symphony of the Authorities” and Power of the Tsar
12:30 Professor Gabriela Currie
University of Minnesota, USA)
“We Who Were Occidentals Now Have Been Made Orientals:” Imaged Sounds Of The Outremer
12:50 Discussion followed by lunch
14:30 Dr Nina Chichinadze
(Ilia State University, Georgia)
"Pictorial Evidences of the Cult of the Virgin Aghiosoritissa"
14:50 Dr Gaie Burnet
"Saint as Superman: Sequencing Scenes - Continuous Narrative"
15:10 Erga Shneurson
"A Veil of Sacredness: Sculpted Motifs on Georgian Church Façades"
15:30 Discussion followed by break
16:00 Eva Papoulia
(Courtauld Institute of Art)
"Gregory XIII (1572-85): The Idea of Union"
16:20 Dr Milda Kvizikevičiūtė
(Vilnius University, Lithuania)
"Reflection of the Levant in the Hierosolymitana peregrinatio (1582-1584) by M. K. Radvila (Grand Duchy of Lithuania)"
BREAK
16:55 Dr Nicholas Coureas
(Cyprus Research Centre / Cyprus Ministry of Education)
A not so Aristocratic Pursuit: Hunting in Medieval and Lusignan Cyprus (1191-1571)
17:15 Nicholas James McDermott
(Cardiff University, UK)
The Sweet Slaves of St John: The Hospitaller use of slaves on Cyprus.
17:35 Discussion
18:00 Conference ends
Monday 23 March 2015
Trip to Painted Churches of the Troodhos Mountains
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