at Amherst College, Amherst MA, November 12-14, 1999. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the prerogatives and conflicts of early modern royal women's roles and will examine the political influence that queens of France (and mistresses) claimed for themselves through their historical acts, as well as through the representation of these figures in literature, art, architecture, juridical treatises, encyclopedias, fairy tales, and political and sacred ritual. With a format including speakers from the U.S. and France and workshops on a variety of topics related to the themes of the sessions, the goal is to juxtapose both common and divergent disciplinary perspectives, providing ample opportunity for discussion among participants.

PROGRAM 
Friday, Nov. 12
2:15-4:15
LAWS, RITUALS, AND SYMBOLS OF QUEENSHIP

Sarah Hanley, Department of History, University of Iowa 
"The Legacy of the Fraudulent Salic Law: Theorizing Male Rights in a
Legal Quagmire"

Fanny Cosandey, Department of History, Université de Nantes
"Introducing the Queen: Political and Juridical Consequences of the
French Queen's Coronation"
  
Nicola Courtright, Department of Fine Arts, Amherst College  
"The Artistic Invention of Political Authority in the Marie de Médicis
Cycle"
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4:30-5:30
WORKSHOP

Katherine Crawford, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
Elizabeth McCartney, Iowa City, Iowa
Leah Middlebrook, Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford
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Saturday, November 13
9:00-11:00
THE QUEEN'S NATIONAL IDENTITY

Daniel Nordman, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
"The Queen of France as a Foreigner"

Sheila ffolliott, Department of History and Art History, George Mason
University
"Foreign Matters: Inside and Outside at the Sixteenth-Century French
Court"

Thomas Kaiser, Department of History, University of Arkansas at Little
Rock
"Aborted Metamorphosis: Marie-Antoinette, Austrophobia, and the
Nationality Issue
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11:15-12:15
WORKSHOP

Michele Bassett, Department of Art History, Hamline University
Melinda Gough, Department of English, Oklahoma State University
Elizabeth Hyde, Department of History, Rutgers
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2:00-4:00
GENEALOGIES

Adrianna Bakos, Vancouver, Canada
"Delivering France: The Politics of Royal Parturition, 1560-1650"

Abby Zanger, Department of French, Harvard University
"What the King Saw in the Belly of the Beast or How the Lion Got in the Queen: Allegories of Royal Procreation in the 1622 Royal Entry into
Lyon"

Simone Bertière, Department of Comparative Literature, Université de
Bordeaux III and École Normale Supérieure, Paris
"Widowed Queens and Underaged Sons"
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4:15-5:15
WORKSHOP

Cynthia Cupples, Introduction to the Humanities Program, Stanford
Martha Hoffman-Strock, Department of History, Brooklyn College, City
University of New York
Lisa Rotmil, New York City
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Sunday, Nov. 14
9:00-11:00
IMAGINED SEXUALITY

Peggy McCracken, Department of Romance Languages, University of Michigan
"Scandalous Stories about Eleanor of Aquitaine: The King's Rule and the Queen's Desire"

Kathleen Perry Long, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University
"Female Authority and Theories of Kingship in the Popular Imagination:
Catherine de Médicis and Henri III"

Lewis Seifert, Department of French Studies, Brown University
"Rules of Desire: Fairy-Tale Queens and Female Sovereignty in the Ancien Régime"
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11:15-12:00
WORKSHOP

Lisa-Jane Graham, Department of History, Haverford College
Melissa Hyde, School of Art and Art History, University of Florida,
Gainesville
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12:00-1:00
COMMENTARIES AND DISCUSSION
Ann R. Jones, Department of English, Smith College
Margaret Carroll, Department of Art, Wellesley College
Margaret Hunt, Department of History, Amherst College
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Co-organizers:
Nicola Courtright, Department of Fine Arts, Amherst College
Sheila ffolliott, Department of History and Art History, George Mason
University
Abby Zanger, Department of French, Harvard University