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SCHEDULE
OF CUNY RENAISSANCE & EARLY MODERN EVENTS
2011/2012
SPRING SEMESTER 2012
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3
"Double Dealings and Double Meanings: Deliberation, Dissimulation, and the Ebb and Flow of Intimacy in Early Modern Fiction"
Adele Kudish (Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature), Winner of the 2011 Renaissance and Early Modern Travel and Research Grant
Room 5114 (History Lounge), 2:00-4:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
"The Boy Actor and the Professional Actress in Shakespeare"
Pamela Brown (English, University of Connecticut, Stamford)
Room 9206, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Cosponsored by the Womens Studies Certificate Program (WSCP) & the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
THURSDAY, MARCH 8
"The Fictions of Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Costume Books to Satires (1590-1648)"
Eugenia Paulicelli, (Italian and Comparative Literature, Fashion Studies , The Graduate Center/CUNY)
Room 9206, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Cosponsored by the WSCP & SSWR
TUESDAY, MARCH 27
"Global Designs: Fashioning Textiles in the Early Modern World"
Giorgio Riello (History, Warwick University)
Room C-197, 2:00-4:00pm
Sponsored by the Ph. D. Program in History, Fashion Studies, and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
FRIDAY, MARCH 30
"Double-Sided Portraits: Literary Models, Modes of Perception between
Mind and Body"
Lina Bulzoni (University of Pisa)
Room 3408 (Art History Lounge), 4:00-6:00pm
Sponsored by the Comparative Literature Program's Italian Doctoral Specialization and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
THURSDAY, APRIL 26
"The Myth of Counter-Reformation Misogyny"
Virginia Cox (Italian, New York University)
Room 9207, 6:00 -7:30 p.m.
Cosponsored by the WSCP & SSWR
FRIDAY, MAY 4
"The Aesthetic Cure: Skin Disease, Noses, and the Invention of Plastic Surgery"
Valeria Finucci
Room 4116, 4:00-6:00p.m.
Sponsored by the Comparative Literature Program's Italian Doctoral Specialization and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
FALL SEMESTER 2011
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
Opening Reception for new and continuing students and faculty.
Room 5114 (History Lounge), 4:00-5:30pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
"Reading (Between) the Lines: Shakespeare's Old Ladies"
Naomi Conn Liebler (English/Montclair State University)
Room 9206, 6:00-7:30pm
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
"Religious Exile and Migration in the Early Modern World"
A roundtable discussion featuring Megan Armstrong (History/McMaster University); Francesca Bregoli (History/Queens College-CUNY); Leslie Peirce (Ottoman History/NYU); and Nicholas Terpstra (History/University of Toronto)
Introduction by Provost Chase Robinson (Professor/History)
Skylight Room (Room 9100), 4:00-6:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the Renaissance Society of America
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20
"Hunting Women Heretics in Henry VIII's England: The Case of Anne Askew"
Daniel Lowenstein (English/University of Wisconsin
Room 9206, 6:00-7:30pm
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28
"Mass Entertainment and Renaissance Drama"
Jeffrey Knapp (Chancellor's Professor of English, University of California/Berkeley)
Room 4406, 4:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the Ph.D. Program in English
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Renaissance Studies Seminar
"Groveling with Earth in Kyd and Shakespeare's Historical Tragedies"
Jean Feerick (Brown University)
Room: C-197, 3:00-4:30pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17
"I'll Put a Girdle Round About the Earth in Forty Minutes"
Allison Kavey (History/John Jay College/CUNY)
Room 9206, 6:00-7:30pm
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18
"How can the 'Galileo Case' be Closed?
Michael Segre (Professor & Chair of History of Science, Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy)
Room C-415, 2:00-4:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
For
more information, please contact Professor Clare Carroll, 212-817-8586, ccarroll1@gc.cuny.edu
The CUNY Graduate Center is located at: 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY
10016.
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