Ongoing Exhibit
"Raleigh's World: Selections from the J. Y. Joyner Library Special Collections Department”
Location: Special Collections, Fourth Floor, Joyner Library
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, 1-5pm
Highlights of the exhibit are Raleigh's Historie of the World (1634 ed.) and the 1590 Latin edition of Harriot's Briefe and True Report.
Thursday, April 10
7:00-8:00 pm
Keynote
Location: OC-309 Science and Technology Building, ECU
2008 Thomas Harriot Lecture
Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series
Mark Nicholls (St. John’s College, Cambridge)
Sir Walter Raleigh and the Elizabethan World of Thomas Harriot
Friday, April 11
All Friday events take place at Joyner Library, East Carolina University.
8:00 am Coffee
8:30 am Welcome
8:45-10:15 am
Panel I: Raleigh's Words
Presider: Jerry Leath Mills (UNC-Chapel Hill; East Carolina University)
Anna Beer (Kellogg College, Oxford University)
Golden Worlds: Raleigh's Poetry Reconsidered
Hannibal Hamlin (Ohio State University)
Raleigh Was Right: "The Nymph's Reply" and the Anti-Pastoral Tradition
Angelica Duran (Purdue University)
The Poetic and Political Legacy of Walter Raleigh to William Carlos Williams
10:15-10:30 am Coffee break
10:30-noon
Panel II: Spenser and Raleigh
Panel dedicated to Jerry Leath Mills
Presider: Julian Lethbridge (University of Tübingen)
Wayne Erickson (Georgia State University)
Spenser and Raleigh: Friendship and Literary Patronage
David Lee Miller (University of South Carolina)
Laughing at Spenser's Daphnaida
James Nohrnberg (University of Virginia)
Raleigh in Ruins, Raleigh on the Rocks: Sir Wa'ter's Two Cantoes of Mutabilitie
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch break
1:30-3:00 pm
Panel III: Raleigh’s Home and Books
Presider: Joshua Eckhardt (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Charles Ross (Purdue University)
Raleigh's Estate at Sherborne
Steven Galbraith (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Sir Walter Raleigh at the Folger Library
Michael Booth (Haverford College)
"Moving on the waters:" Metaphor and Mental Space in Raleigh's History of the World
3:00-3:15 pm Coffee break
3:15-4:45 pm
Panel IV: Atlantic Raleigh and Thomas Harriot
Panel sponsored by ECU Division of Research and Graduate Studies
Presider: Charles Ewen (ECU)
Eric Klingelhofer (Mercer University)
The Other Colonies that Raleigh Lost
Judith Owens (University of Manitoba)
Memory and Affect in Atlantic Crossings
Alden Vaughan (Columbia University)
Raleigh, Harriot, and American Ethnographic Literature
6:00-7:00 pm
Keynote
Sponsored by Joyner Library
Welcome: Larry Boyer (Director, Joyner Library)
Presider: Jonathan Reid (ECU)
Carole Levin (University of Nebraska)
Queen Elizabeth in Love
Saturday, April 12
1:30-3:00 pm
Panel V: Portraying Elizabethans
Location: Elizabethan Gardens, Manteo
Panel sponsored by the North Carolina Humanities Council, the Elizabethan Gardens, and the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Presider: Carole Levin (University of Nebraska)
Margaret Oakes (Furman University)
Raleigh Seeing Himself: The Rhetoric of Early Modern Frontispieces
Anna Riehl (Auburn University)
Exploring the Portrait of Queen Elizabeth at Manteo
