10.00-10.30 Registration and Coffee
10.30-10.35 Welcome (Peter Auger, QMUL)
10.35-11.30 Keynote Address (Chair and Respondent: Prof. Warren Boutcher (QMUL))
Prof. Ingrid De Smet FBA (Warwick), ‘The Unbearable Lightness of National Boundaries in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies’

11.30-11.45 Break

11.45-13.00 Panel 1: Between National and European Cultures (Chair: Alice Brooke (Oxford))
Niall Oddy (Durham), ‘Approaching the Idea of Europe through French Literature’
John Gallagher (Cambridge), ‘This rich jewell of speaking tongues: Early Modern England Between Languages’
Una McIlvenna (QMUL/ Kent), ‘The Challenges and Benefits of Researching Early Modern News Songs in Four Languages’
Respondent: Matt Coneys (Warwick)

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.15 Panel 2: Cultural Relations (Chair: Alessio Cotugno (Warwick))
Alisa van de Haar (Groningen), ‘Defying Linguistic Divides. Philips of Marnix of Saint-Aldegonde Facing the Multilingual Low Countries’
Raphaële Garrod (Cambridge), ‘The Polemics of German Wit and Esprit Français in Early Modern France: Ingenium, Translation, and National Contexts’
Bryan Brazeau (Warwick), ‘London Calling: Linguistic and Literary Adaptations of Tasso and Ariosto in Late Sixteenth-Century England’
Respondent: Emilie Murphy (National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway)

15.15-15.40 Break

15.40-16.55 Panel 3: Comparative Approaches (Chair: Jenny Oliver (Oxford))
Rachel Holmes (St Andrews/ Cambridge), ‘Whose Consent Matters? Reading Romeo and Juliet Transnationally’
Suzanne Jones (Oxford), ‘Printable Borders: Molière in Early Modern England’
Martina Pranić (Free University, Berlin/ Charles University, Prague), ‘Folie à deux: Praises of Folly in the Works of Marin Držić and William Shakespeare’
Respondent: Linda Grant (Royal Holloway, University of London)

17.00-17.45 Roundtable: New Challenges, New Opportunities? Peter Auger (QMUL, chair), Kate De Rycker (Newcastle), Sara Harris (Cambridge), Oren Margolis (Oxford), and Felicity Maxwell (NUI, Galway)

18.00- Informal Drinks and Dinner