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In conjunction with the exhibition Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II, the Yale Center for British Art is hosting a scholarly symposium to reassess assumptions about the art of the period and cultural politics of the time. The symposium entitled On the Ladies of the Court: Women, Politics, Art and Power at the Court of Charles II, will be held on Saturday, January 26, from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm in the Center’s lecture hall. It is free and open to the public.
The program will address various literary, historical, and cultural aspects of the Restoration Court. Ranging in subject from the politics of portraiture and the erotics of the theater to issues of religion and sexuality, the papers will examine the ways in which royal women, mistresses, actresses, and female courtiers were portrayed and considered, both during their lifetimes and in later centuries.
Speakers will include Annabel Patterson, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University Tim Harris, Professor of History, Brown University Kevin Sharpe, Fletcher Jones Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Warwick Joseph R. Roach, Professor of English and Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater, Yale University Rachel Weil Associate Professor of History, Cornell University Julia Marciari Alexander, Acting Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art Catharine MacLeod, Curator of Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Collections, National Portrait Gallery, London.
On the Ladies of the Court: Women, Politics, Art and Power at the Court of Charles II
Schedule of Events:
Saturday, January 26, 2002
9:30 Registration and Coffee<
9:50 Welcome: Constance Clement, Acting Director, Yale Center for
British Art
Morning Session
10:00 Representing Regality: Aesthetics, Sex and Politics in
Seventeenth-Century England
Kevin Sharpe, Fletcher Jones Distinguished Fellow at The
Huntington Library and Professor of English and Comparative
Literature, University of Warwick
10:40 “Colors that will Hold”:
Figuring and Disfiguring Barbara Villiers, Countess of
Castlemaine
Annabel Patterson, Sterling Professor of English, Yale
University
11:20 Popular Critiques of the Court in Restoration Britain
Tim Harris, Professor of History, Brown University
12:00 Discussion
Afternoon Session
2:00 Public Fantasy: The Erotics of the Stage
Joseph Roach, Professor of English and Charles C. & Dorathea S.
Dilley Professor of Theater, Yale University
2:40 The“Female Politician” in the Late Stuart Age
Rachel Weil, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University
3:20 Response by Curators of the Exhibition
Catharine MacLeod, Curator of 16th- and 17th-Century Collection,
National Portrait Gallery, London, and Julia Marciari Alexander,
Acting Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Yale Center
for British Art
3:30 Discussion
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