Wit and Wordplay: Verbal Ingenuity and the Making of Literature in Early Modern Europe

Registration Lunch (for Speakers and Chairs only)

Welcome 

Latin (Chair: Richard Serjeantson)

Raphaële Garrod (Newnham College, University of Cambridge) Daedali opera: Erasmus on obscurity

Anthony Ossa Richardson (University of Southampton): Elegantia in Early Modern Criticism and Rhetoric

Spanish (Chair: Caroline Egan) 

Rodrigo Cacho (University of Cambridge): Quevedo's Black Humour

Christopher Johnson (Warburg Institute, University of London): “Es como hidra bocal”: On witty wordplay in Gracián and Góngora

Coffee

Italian (Chair: Alexander Marr) 

Raymond Edward Carlson (Columbia University): Michelangelo at Play in Words and Images

Ita Mac Carthy (University of Birmingham): Untranslatable Wit: Ariosto's Innuendo in the Hands of Harington and Gay

Dinner for Speakers and Chairs 

English (Chair: José Ramón Marcaida)

Kathryn Murphy (Oriel College, University of Oxford): Quips, Quibbles, and Conundrums: Early Modern Puns and Scholastic Style

Will Poole (New College, University of Oxford): Logical Fallacy and Some Seventeenth Century Poetry

David Francis Taylor (University of Warwick): Puzzle Pictures: The Arrival of the Satirical Rebus in Britain

Coffee

German (Chair: Richard Oosterhoff)

Sundar Henny (University of Bern): Calling Names: Puns on Proper Names in Early Modern Zurich

Tobias Bulang (University of Heidelberg):“A Book full of Pantagruelisms” – Images and Emulations of Ingenuity in Johann Fischart's German Translation of Rabelais

Lunch (for Speakers and Chairs only)

French (Chair: Tim Chesters)

Nicolas Kies (centre Saulnier, Université Paris IV Sorbonne): Is there a Feminine facetudo? Women and Wordplay in Late Sixteenth-Century French Narratives

Jean-Alexandre Perras (Jesus College, University of Oxford): The Equivocal Pun in Light of Classical Theories of the Sign