9:30: Coffee

10:00: Greetings and Introduction: Clare Carroll (Queens College and The Graduate Center)

10:10 – 12:15: Affective Movement and Demonic Causality:

Katharine A. Craik (Early Modern Literature, Oxford Brookes): “Quickening Shakespeare”

Mary Floyd-Wilson (English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill):
“By Instigation of the Devil: Obsession, Distraction, and Murder in Early Modern England”

Respondent and Discussion Leader:   Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center)

12:15 – 2:00 PM: Lunch

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Politics, Anxiety and Race

Amanda Bailey (English. University of Maryland, College Park): “Early Modern Cosmopolitical Feeling”

Patricia Cahill (English. Emory University): “Surface Encounters: Skin Fantasies and the Affective Force of Early Modern Blackface”

Benedict S. Robinson (English, Stony Brook University):  “Anxious and Melancholy Fears”

Respondent and Discussion Leader: Mario DiGangi (Lehman College and The Graduate Center)

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Tea & Coffee Break

4:30 – 5:30:  Roundtable: Chair, Erika T. Lin (Theatre, The Graduate Center)
Katharine A. Craik, Mary Floyd-Wilson, Amanda Bailey Patricia Cahill, Benedict S. Robinson

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Reception