Day 1, Wednesday 6^th June
Day 2, Thursday 7^th June

Wednesday 6^th June

09:00-09:30   Registration
Location: Fulton Building foyer

09:30-11:00   Plenary 1: Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews), 'Making the news in early modern Europe'
Chair: Simon Davies
Location: Fulton lecture theatre A

11:00-11:30   Tea & coffee
Location: Fulton 114

11:30-13:00 
Session 1a: News and propaganda
Chair: Lena Steveker
Location: Fulton 101

• Cathy Parsons (University of Sussex), 'John Bale's King Johan: English history play or Henrician Protestant propaganda?'
• Laurent Curelly (Université de Haute Alsace), 'When digging the ground grabbed the headlines: the Surrey Diggers as viewed by contemporary newsbooks (1649)'
• Lena Liapi (University of York), 'Hectors and highwaymen: crime pamphlets and royalist propaganda in the 1650s'

Session 1b: Sensational news
Chair: Matthew Dimmock
Location: Fulton 107

• Josephine Billingham (UCL), 'Strumpet or simple wench?  Reporting infanticide in early modern England'
• Emma Whipday (UCL), '"A True Reporte": news and the neighbourhood in early modern marital murder narratives'
• Simon Davies (University of Sussex), 'Witchcraft in the news'

13:00-13:45   Lunch
Location: Fulton 114

13:45-15:15
Session 2a: News and the public persona
Chair: Margaret Healy
Location: Fulton 101

• Raymond Carlson (Clare College, Cambridge), 'Humanist as publicist: Benedetto Varchi, the Accademia Fiorentina, and Michelangelo's poetic persona'
• Maria Kirk (University of Sussex), 'Broadside ballads and the performance of wealth: the "triumphant show" of Algernon Percy, 10^th Earl of Northumberland'
• Catherine Tremain, 'And death shall have no dominion: the rise and significance of obituaries in eighteenth-century provincial journals'

Session 2b: International news networks 1
Chair: Rebecca Yearling
Location: Fulton 107

• Michael Gordian (Warburg Institute), 'News from Spain – a sixteenth-century account of an Inquisitional trial of Alumbrados in Germany'
• Michiel van Groesen (University of Amsterdam), 'Reading the Papers in the Dutch Republic – Hugo Grotius, P. C. Hooft, and the consumption of foreign news in the 1630s'
• Joop W. Koopmans (University of Groningen), 'The 1755 Lisbon earthquake in Dutch news sources'

15:15-15:45   Tea & coffee
Location: Fulton 114

15:45-16:45
Session 3: Producing news: rumour and rights
Chair: Paul Quinn
Location: Fulton 107

• John Hunt (University of North Florida), 'Rumors, newsletters and the Pope’s death in early modern Rome'
• Will Slauter (Université Paris), 'Owning the news, before and after copyright'

19:30   Conference dinner
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Thursday 7^th June

09:45-09:30   Registration (for those attending 2nd day only)
Location: Fulton Building foyer

09:30-11:00   Plenary 2: Joad Raymond (University of East Anglia), 'Sent abroad to lie: international news and libel in C17th Britain and Europe'
Chair: Andrew Hadfield
Location: Fulton lecture theatre A

11:00-11:30   Tea & coffee
Location: Fulton 114

11:30-13:00
Session 4a: News on the stage
Chair: Cathy Parsons
Location: Fulton 101

• Lana Harper (University of Sussex), 'Theatre as news'
• Barbara Wooding, 'Performing the news'
• Lena Steveker (Universität des Saarlandes), 'Staging news, politics and censorship in Middleton's A Game at Chess'

Session 4b: International news networks 2
Chair: John Hunt
Location: Fulton 103

• Anna Kalinowska (Polish Academy of Sciences), 'The avisos from divers other places of Christendome… News from East-Central Europe in English corantos, 1620-1642'
• Suzanne Forbes (University College Dublin/IRCHSS), 'The impact of reprinted news in Ireland, 1690-1715'

13:00-13:45   Lunch
Location: Fulton 114

13:45-14:45
Session 5a: News and visual culture
Chair: Michiel van Groesen
Location: Fulton 101

• Katrina Marchant (University of Sussex), '"Spinning Virginia": the works of John White, Theodore de Bry and Thomas Harriot'
• Adam Morton (University of York), 'Laughter & collusion: the visual culture of 'news' in Restoration England'

Session 5b: International news networks 3
Chair: Anna Kalinowska
Location: Fulton 103

• Virginia Dillon (Somerville College, Oxford), 'Transylvania, Poland and the Ottoman Turks: the adventures of György II Rákóczi in the German Newspapers, 1657-58'
• David Martín Marcos (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid), 'The founding of Colonia del Sacramento: news and conflicts at the Iberian peninsula'

14:45-15:15   Tea & coffee
Location: Fulton 114

15:15-16:45
Session 6a: Theorising around news: genre and politics
Chair: Barbara Wooding
Location: Fulton 101

• Andrew Kau (Yale), 'News and the New Poet in 1579: Sidney, Spenser, and Hake'
• Alexandra Zobel (UCLA), 'Becoming news: the politics of the Jonsonian masque and public drama'
• Elliott Karstadt (Queen Mary, University of London), 'Marchamont Nedham and the influence of the news on the theory of "interest"'

Session 6b: News and truth
Chair: Katharine Fletcher
Location: Fulton 103

• Paul Quinn (University of Sussex / University of Chichester), '"News from Sussex": sensation, aberration and doubt in Sussex news sheets'
• Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex), 'News of the Sussex Dragon'
• Nick Moon (University of York), '"Newes newes newes newes": the rhetoric of truthfulness in early modern broadside ballads'

16:45   Conference closes