A day-long symposium, part of the Early Modern Conversions series, exploring various aspects of transformation, from alchemical to sexual, in the works of Ovid, Lyly, and Benserade.

9:00 Continental breakfast

9:30-9:45 Valerie Traub (U-M): Welcome and Opening Questions

9:45-11:45 Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Premodernity

Doug Trevor (U-M): Chair
Peggy McCracken (U-M): "Moralizing Metamorphosis"
Kathleen Long (Cornell University): "Women Who Degenerate into Men: The Story of Iphis in Early Modern Science"
Marjorie Rubright (University of Toronto): "TRANS*: Iphis and the World of Wordes"

11:45-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:00 Lyly’s Galatea

Steven Mullaney (U-M): Chair
Eliza Mathie (U-M): "Subject to Change: Submission and Self-Transformation in Lyly’s Galatea"
Patsy Badir (University of British Columbia): "You are now in Lyncolnshire"
Katherine Eggert (University of Colorado): "Alchemy, Humanism, and Other Useful Bad Ideas in Lyly’s Galatea"

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-4:45 Benserade’s Iphis et Iante

George Hoffman (U-M): Chair
Matthieu Dupas (U-M): "Gallantry and the (In)Significance of Lesbian Desire in 17th-Century France: The Case of Benserade’s Iphis et Iante"
Susan Lanser (Brandeis University): "Changing the Ways of the World: Sex, Youth, and Modernity in Benserade’s Iphis et Iante"

4:45-5:15 Valerie Traub: Wrap up

5:15-6:00 Reception