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SCHEDULE
OF PAST CUNY RENAISSANCE & EARLY MODERN EVENTS
2007/2008
SPRING
SEMESTER 2008
Friday, February 8
Elizabeth
Pallitto (Fatih & Yeditepe Universities, Istanbul, Turkey)
"'Torre
il libero arbitrio': A Debate on Free Will Between a Capuchin and a
Courtesan in Counter-Reformation Italy"
1:00 - 3:00 p.m., Room 8106
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Thursday, February 14
Wendy
Neilsen (English/Montclair State University)
"Imperialism
in Dramas about Boadicea Before 1800"
6:00
- 7:30 p.m., Room 9204
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
(SSWR) Information: Susan
O'Malley
Thursday, February 28
Andrew
David Hadfield (Chair of English/University of Sussex, UK)
"Secrets and Lies: The Life of Edmund Spenser"
6:30pm,
Certificate Programs Office (Room 5109)
Sponsored by the
Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Friday, February 29
The Culture of Appearances in Medieval & Renaissance Europe
Francesca Sautman (French/CUNY)
"Hidden in Plain Sight: Women and Veiling in Late Medieval France"
Martin
Elsky (English/Comparative Literature/Renaissance Studies/CUNY)
"The Eroticized House and the Renaissance Invention of the Private
Room"
Eugenia Paulicelli (Comparative Literature/CUNY)
"The Fashioned Self: Public and Private Spaces in Giacomo Franco’s
Costume Book (Venice, 1600)"
Moderator: Glenn Burger (English/Theatre/Medieval Studies/CUNY)
2:00-4:30
pm, Room 9204
Sponsored
by Fashion Studies Forum, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, &
Women's Studies Certificate Programs, Ph.D. Programs in English, French &
Psychology
Wednesday, March 19
"Early-Modern
Italian Women in Music and Song"
Lecture
Wendy Heller (Director of Italian Studies/Professor of Music, Princeton)
Recital
featuring the work of Italian Baroque women composers
La Nuove Musiche
12:00-4:00pm,
Segal Theatre
Organized by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG)
Thursday, March 20
Irma
Jaffe (Art History/Fordham University)
"Zelotti's Epic Frescoes at Cataio: The Obizzi"
6:00-7:30pm, Room 9204
Sponsored by SSWR
Thursday, April 17
Valeria
Finucci (Romance Studies & Theatre/Duke University)
"Waiting to be Counted: Reconstructing the Italian Renaissance
Canon, Genre by Genre"
6:00-7:30pm, Room 9204
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, April 18
Graduate
Student Conference :"Early Modern Afterlives"
Keynote
Speaker: Diana E. Henderson (MIT)
Author of Collaborations
with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare across Time and Media, and Editor, A
Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen
9:00am-6:00pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre
Organized by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG)
Call for papers and panels
Deadline February 1,
2008
Thursday, May 8
Music in Midtown
Sendebar: Medieval Mediterranean Music
1:00-2:00pm,
Elebash Receital Hall
Sponsored by the Ph. D. Program in Musical Arts Performance and the Foundation
for Iberian Music
Thursday, May 15
Betty
Travitsky (English, Center for the Study of
Women &
Society/CUNY Graduate Center
"Cyberspace, Infinite Space: Early Modern Women in a Nutshell"
6:00-7:30pm, Room 9204
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, May 16
New
Trends in the History of Renaissance Science
Allison Kavey (History, John Jay/CUNY)
"It's Agrippa's World: We're Just Playing With It"
Sheila Rabin (History, St. Peter's)
"'The stars incline': Kepler and Astrology"
Pamela Smith (History, Columbia University)
"Objects, Practices, Techniques, and Texts:
The Movement of Knowledge in the Early Modern World"
Respondent: Joseph Dauben (History/GC)
The
colloquium will be followed by a reception honoring Clifford Stetner, winner
of the 2006/2007 Essay Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and Seth
Parry, recipient of the 2007/2008 Renaissance and Early Modern Travel and
Research Grant.
2:00-5:00pm, Certificate Programs Office (Room 5109)
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
FALL SEMESTER 2007
Thursday, September 20
Katheryn
Coad Narramore (English, The Graduate Center)
"Judith Man’s English Argenis"
6:00 - 7:30 p.m., Room C201
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
(SSWR) Information: Susan
O'Malley
Friday, September 28
Cocktail Hour
for Medievalists & Early Modernists
welcoming new medieval and Renaissance students
3:00-5:00pm,
Certificate Programs Office (Room 5109)
Hosted by the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study & the Early Modern
Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG)
Friday, October 5
Rage,
Folie, Désespoir: Excess and the Passions
in Early Modern France (1550-1715)
The Interdisciplinary Group for Seventeenth-Century French Studies at the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York will present its annual
student conference.
Professor
Roxanne Roy (Université du Québec and author of L’Art de s’emporter, 2006) will be
the keynote speaker, and events will include a performance of seventeenth-
and eighteenth-century French music on period instruments.
Time, Room TBA
Conference website:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/French/events/passionconference.html
Thursday, October 18
Margaret
Mikesell (English, John Jay College/CUNY)
"Competing Masculinities in Hamlet"
6:00 -
7:30 p.m., Room 9207
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, November 2
The
Legacies of Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt; A Symposium in Conjunction
with The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of
Art
Welcome:
Barbara G. Lane, Professor of Art History, Queens College and The
Graduate Center,City University of New York
Moderator: Christopher
D.M. Atkins, Assistant Professor of Art History, Queens College, City
University of New York
Speakers:
Walter A. Liedtke, Curator of European Paintings, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art
"Introduction: Dutch Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt in The
Metropolitan Museum of Art"
Christopher D.M. Atkins
"Frans Hals’s Modernity"
Catherine
E. Scallen,
Associate Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
"America’s Rembrandt"
H.
Perry Chapman,
Professor of Art History, University of Delaware
"Romancing the Painting: Bruegel, Vermeer, and Art History
Fiction"
Respondent:
Mariët Westermann, Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director and Professor of
Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Vice Chancellor,
New York University
Symposium Coordinators: Christopher D.M. Atkins and Barbara G.
Lane
A reception will follow in the Art History Department Student Lounge,
Room 3408
Admission
to the Symposium is free, but space is limited. For reservations, please
contact Rosemary Ramsey (rramsey@gc.cuny.edu). Unreserved
seating cannot be guaranteed.
1:00 to 4:00pm, Rooms C201/202
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Art History and the Renaissance Studies
Program at The Graduate Center, and funded by the John Rewald Endowment, the
Leonard J. Slatkes Symposium Fund, and The Center for the Humanities at The
Graduate Center.
Thursday & Friday, November 8-9
Reappraising
Auerbach’s Contexts
A Conference on the 50th Anniversary of Erich Auerbach’s Death
On the
50th anniversary of his death, join world-renowned literary critics from Germany
and the US for public panels on the life and work of Erich Auerbach,
exploring everything from Auerbach in the Weimar period and Jewish Berlin to
his time in Istanbul to his significance in literary studies today. Among
other topics, papers will explore Auerbach’s
early publications on the law and previously untranslated archival materials,
including those concerning Auerbach’s Marburg
professorship and
his dismissal by Nazi authorities, as well as previously untranslated
materials from the years following his arrival in the US after World War II.
Thursday, November 8:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
5:30-7:00pm: Representation and Its Influences
Karlheinz Barck , “Dante Meets Surrealism /
Surrealism Meets Dante: The Dialogue between Auerbach and Benjamin”
Alexander Gelley, "Auerbach and Hans
Blumenberg: Which Mimesis?"
7:15-8:00pm:
The Voice of Erich Auerbach
Introduction:
Martin Vialon
Erich Auerbach, “On Dante”: A Sound Recording of a Lecture Delivered at Penn State University, 1948
Friday, November 9:
Skylight Conference Room (9th floor)
11:00am-12:30pm:
Life, History, Politics
Jane O.
Newman, “Figuration and Politics: Auerbach/Krauss, Pascal/Corneille”
Matthias Bormuth, “Between
St. Augustine and Goethe: Erich Auerbach’s
Idea of History and Life Conduct”
12:30-1:45pm:
Lunch
Harold
M. Proshansky Auditorium (C level)
1:45-3:15pm:
Modernity and Post-modernity
Martin Vialon, “Mimesis, Film, and Mechanical
Reproducibility: What Benjamin Learned from Auerbach”
Ackbar Abbas,”Auerbach's ‘Delicate Empiricism’: The Secular,
the Empirical, and
the Post-Colonial”
3:30-5:00pm:
The Jewish Context
James
Porter, "Erich Auerbach and the Judaizing of Philology"
Martin Treml, “Auerbach’s Readings and the Warburg
Institute: Jewish Legacies in the Fields of Kulturwissenschaft”
5:15-6:30:
Keynote address
Stephen
G. Nichols, “Fortuna, Fabula, Figura: Auerbach as
Philosopher of the
Secular World”
6:30-7:30:
Reception
English
Program Lounge (4406)
Conference organizers: Jane O. Newman (University of California-Irvine); Martin Elsky (The
Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, CUNY). Conference sponsors: Office of
Research and Graduate Studies, University of California, Irvine; Renaissance
Studies Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center; Zentrum für Kultur- und
Literaturforschung Berlin;Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center;
Center for Jewish Studies, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D. Programs in English
and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center; Medieval Studies
Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center
This conference is presented in coordination with an International
Symposium organized by Claudia Hahn-Raabe (Goethe-Institut Istanbul) and
Martin Vialon (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin/Yeditepe
University Istanbul): ERICH AUERBACH: PHILOLOGIE – GESCHICHTE – VERSTEHEN Teutonia-Haus, Tünel-Beyoğlu Istanbul, Turkey, December 14-15, 2007
Speakers's
Biographies
Conference Information
Friday, November 9
Richard
Strier (English, University of Chicago)
"Sanctifying the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Work of The Comedy
of Errors"
12:30 p.m., Room 5414
Sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG)
Thursday, November 15
Caroline
Hibbard (History, University of Illinois)
"Sociability in the Queen’s Palace:
The Presence Chamber of Queen Henrietta Maria "
6:00 -
7:30 p.m., Room C197
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, November 16
Camila
Townsend (Rutgers University)
"Reading Malinche: Indigenous Critiques of Moctezuma in the Era of
Conquest
6:00
p.m., Room 9204
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures
& Languages
Friday, November 30
Cristina
León Alfar (English, Hunter College/CUNY)
“Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity:
Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in The Tragedy of Mariam”
2:00
pm, Room 5414
Sponsored by the
Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG)
Friday, December 14
"The
Mouth of so Dangerous a Member:
Language, Authority and Agency in the Drama
of Christopher Marlowe"
9:00am-1:00p.m, Segal Theatre
Sponsored by the
Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG)
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SPRING SEMESTER 2007
All events are free and open to the public
Tuesday,
February 13
6:30-8:00pm, Skylight Room
"Undoing Jews: The Jew of Malta and The
Merchant of Venice
A conference in conjunction with Theater for a New Audience's simultaneous
productions of Christopher Marlowe's Jew of Malta and
Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Panelists include actor F.
Murray Abraham, director David Herskovitz, James
Shapiro (Columbia University), and Richard McCoy
(The Graduate Center, CUNY).
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities. For more information
about the plays, please visit: http://www.tfana.org/
Thursday,
February 15
6:00-7:30pm , Room 9207
Karen Robertson (Vassar College)
“Pocahontas: Conversion and Cloth”
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance.
Friday,
February 16
9am-4pm, Segal Theatre
Graduate Student Conference :"Strange Currencies: Dynamic
Economies in the Early Modern World."
Keynote address: 4:00pm, Segal Theatre
Kim Hall (Fordham University)
"Foreign Encounters with Domestic Economies."
Organized by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group.
Friday,
February 23
4:00-6:00pm, Room C-197
"How Does Translation Matter?"
A Conversation with Edith Grossman translator of Garcia
Márquez,
Cervantes, and most recently The Golden Age of Spanish Poetry
and Distinguished Professor Lia Schwartz, Hispanic and
Luso-Brazilian Literatures
Sponsored by the Women’s Studies Certificate Program, Center for the Study
of Women and Society, and the Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian
Literatures and Languages
Friday
March 9
4:00-6:00pm, Skylight Room
The Medieval & Early Modern Culture of the Book: A Conference
in Honor of W. Speed Hill
Seth Lerer (Stanford University)
“From Medieval to Early Modern: Books and Readers of the 1550s”
Margreta de Grazia (University of Pennsylvania)
"Common-placing Shakespeare's Sonnets"
Co-sponsored by Ph.D. Programs in English and Comparative Literature and
the Medieval Studies Certificate Program
Thursday,
March 15, 2007
6:00-7:30pm , Room 9207
Betty Hageman (University of New Hampshire)
“Introducing Heroic Women to the Restoration Stage: Katherine Philip’s
Pompey”
Sponsored by SSWR.
March
30-31 & April 12
“Worlds Apart? Early Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire” I
A Conference Jointly Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate
Program (CUNY Graduate Center) and the Medieval and Renaissance Center
(NYU). Co-sponsored by the Ottoman Studies Program (NYU), the Ph.D. Program
in Art History and the Office of the Provost (The Graduate Center), and
coinciding with the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Venice
and the Islamic World, 828-1797.”
Friday, March 30
CUNY Graduate Center , Segal Theatre
2:00-3:30pm
Chair: Margaret King (Brooklyn College and PhD Program in History,
CUNY)
Nancy Bisaha (Vassar College) ‘Pope Pius II and the Ottoman Advance.’
Richmond Barbour (Oregon State University), ‘The Occidental
Tourist: Thomas Coryate in Venice and Constantinople.’
4:00-6:00pm
The Arts of Diplomacy
Chair: James Saslow (Queens College
and PhD Program in Art History, CUNY)
Deborah Howard (Cambridge), ‘The role of the ambassador in East-West
Early-Modern Exchange’
Julian Raby (Smithsonian), 'Art in the art of diplomacy: gift-exchange
in Venetian-Ottoman diplomatic relations'
Saturday, March 31
Program
to be held King Juan Carlos Center, NYU (53 Washington Square South, NYC)
9:30-11:00am
Chair: John Archer (Department of English, NYU)
Molly Greene (Princeton), ‘From Venice to Livorno: Changing Commercial
Regimesin the Early Modern Mediterranean’
Daniel Vitkus (Florida State), ‘Puny Protestants, Mighty Muslims:
GlobalTrade, Islamic Empire, and English Renaissance Culture’
11:30-1:00
Chair: Leslie Peirce (Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic
Studies, NYU)
Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young), ‘Renegade Women: Gender and Conversion
in the Early Modern Mediterranean’
Natalie Rothman (Toronto), ‘Interpreting Dragomans: The Making of
Venetian-Ottoman Intermediaries in Early Modern Istanbul’
2:30-4:00pm
Chair: John Guillory (Department of English, NYU)
Baki Tezcan (UC Davis),"From Christo-Muslim Seven Sleepers to the
FearlessPeople of the West: Competing Representations of Western Europeans
in Ottoman Geography and Historiography of the Late Sixteenth Century"
Jonathan Burton (West Virginia), ‘The Rise of Europe and The Global
Early Modern’
4:30pm
Keynote address
Philip Kennedy (Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU),
Introduction
Robert Irwin,(author of Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and
Its Discontents [2006]) ‘Enlightened
Despots, Gallant Indians and Rococo Harems:
Aesthetic Orientalism in the Early Modern Period’
Reception to follow program.
Thursday,
April 12
6:30-8pm, Skylight Room
“Worlds Apart? Early Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire” II
Stefano Carboni (Curator of Islamic Art at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and curator of the Met’s exhibition “Venice and
the Islamic World, 828-1797”)
“Moments of Vision: Venice and the Islamic World”
Co-sponsored by Ph.D. Program in Art History and the Office of the Provost.
Thursday,
April 19
6:00-7:30pm , Room 4406
Elena Ciletti, (Hobart and William Smith College)
“Artemesia Gentileschi and the Exemplarity of Judith in the Counter
Reformation.”
Sponsored by SSWR.
Thursday,
April 19
6:30pm, Room TBA
Sara Melzer (University of California at Los Angeles)
"From Native American 'Savages' Into Civilized French Colonies:
The Foundation of France's Assimilation Policy in the 17th Century"
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in French
Friday,
April 20
4:00-6:00pm, Segal Theater
Annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture
Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University)
"Art and Life in Hamlet and The Comedy of Errors"
Organized by the PhD Program in English. Co-sponsored by The
Renaissance Studies Certificate Program.
Thursday,
May 17
6:00-7:30pm , Room 9207
Ellen Belton (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
“Female Eloquence and Male Authority in Shakespeare’s Comedies”
Sponsored by SSWR.
FALL SEMESTER
2006
August 23-October 6
"Elizabeth I: Ruler and
Legend"
A new traveling exhibition
that commemorates the 400th anniversary of the death of Queen
Elizabeth I of England,
based on a major exhibition of the same title, which opened at the Newberry
Library of Chicago on September 30, 2003. Sponsored by the American
Library Association.
Lehman
College Library
Information
Friday, September 8
Miguel Ángel Garrido Gallardo
(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
"Lengua y literatura en el siglo XVI: las retóricas espaZolas"
6:00pm, Room 4116
Sponsored by The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures
and Languages
Thursday, September
21
Alison Kavey (History/John Jay,
CUNY)
"Gendered Desire: Femininity, Masculinity, and Want in Agrippa's Three
Books of Occult Philosophy"
6:00-7:30pm, Room 9207
Sponsored by the
Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance. Information: Susan
O'Malley
Friday, October 13
General Meeting of Renaissance Studies
Certificate Program faculty and students.
3:30-5:00pm, Certificate Programs
Office (Room 5109)
Monday, October 16
Deadline for Renaissance and Early
Modern Travel and Research Grants
Information
Thursday, October 19
Katherine Goodland
(English/College of Staten Island, CUNY)
"Constance and the Claims of Passion in Shakespeare's King John"
6:00-7:30pm, Room C-197
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, October 20
Ph. D. Program in French Graduate
Student Conference
"Fortune & Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France
(1553-1715)"
Keynote Speaker: Domna C. Stanton (Distinguished Professor of French/CUNY)
The conference will be followed by a free concert with La Musique de la
Reine performing vocal and instrumental works by Clérambault, L.
Couperin, Duphly, and Montéclair on period instruments
8:00am-6:00pm,
Concert 6:15pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre
Conference website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/French/events/tragedyconferenceprog.html.
Friday, October
27
Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Reception for new students and announcement of awards
2:00-4:00pm , Certificate Programs Office (Room 5109)
Friday, November 3
Fay Rogg (Borough of Manhattan
Community College/CUNY)
Manuel Durán (Yale University)
"Fighting Windmills: Encounters with Don Quixote"
6:00 pm, Room 4116
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian
Literatures & Languages
Thursday, November 9
Salvatore S. Nigro (Scuola
Normale Superiore, Pisa)
"Le Braghe di San Griofone: Intorno alla Prosa del
Quattrocento"
6:30 pm, Room 3309
Sponsored by the Doctoral Specialization in Italian, Ph.D Program in
Comparative Literature & Department of Romance Languages, Hunter
College
Friday, November 10
Matthew Greenfield (English/College
of Staten Island, CUNY)
"Genre Parasites"
2:00-4:00pm, Room 5409
Sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group
Wednesday, November
15
Frederick
Purnell Memorial Lecture
Ernan McMullin
(Notre Dame)
"Galileo's Challenge to Aristotle's Natural Philosophy"
4:15pm, Rooms 9204/9205
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the Ph.D.
Program in Philosophy
Thursday, November
16
Susan O'Malley (English/Kingsborough
Community College, CUNY)
"Fictions of the Italian Renaissance: Giulia Bigolina, Giulia
Camposampiero e Tesibaldo Vitalini"
Maud Sullivan & the Helen May
Butler Ladies Brass Band
6:00-7:30pm, Room C-197
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, November 17
Ph.D. Program in English Friday Forum
Series
Workshop on Academic Publishing.
4:00pm, Room 4406
Friday, November 17
Richard McCoy (English/Hunter
College & GC/CUNY)
"Sorceries and Enchantments in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors"
2:00-4:00pm, Room 5414
Sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group
Friday, December 1
Will Fisher (English/Lehman
College, CUNY)
"'Wantoning with the Thighs': Intercrural Sex in
Early Modern English Culture"
2:00-4:00pm, Room 5414
Sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group
SPRING SEMESTER 2006
Thursday,
February 16
Elizabeth Mazzola
(English/City College, CUNY)
"'Wealthy
Widdowes' and 'Girles Aflote': The Legacies of Single Women in Early Modern
England"
6:00-7:30pm, Room
C-205
Sponsored by the
Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance. Information: Susan
O'Malley
Friday, March 10
Conference: The Fabric of Cultures:
Fashion, Identity, Globalization from the Early Modern to the Post-Modern
9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., Segal Theatre
Sponsored by Continuing Education, Renaissance Studies Certificate Program,
Center for Culture, Politics & Place, The Italian Specialization, Ph.D.
Programs in English and Psychology, Women's Studies & Center for the
Study of Women and Society; Department of European Languages &
Literature and Women’s
Studies (Queens College); The Department of Art & Design Studies
(Parsons), New School University
Thursday, March 16
Irene Dash (English/Hunter
College, CUNY)
"Looking at Shakespeare's Women in Two American Musicals: Boys From
Syracuse (from The Comedy of Errors) and Kiss Me, Kate
(from The Taming of the Shrew)
6:00-7:30pm, Room C-205
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, March 17
MASCULINITIES IN THE LONG MIDDLE AGES
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at the CUNY Graduate
Center
9:30 a.m. Registration, Room 5109
10:30 - 6 p.m. Panels, Room 9205
2:45 p.m. Keynote Address,
"The Green Boy: Conquest, Memory and Gender" Room 9205
6 p.m. Reception, Room 5109
Keynote Speaker:
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Professor of
English and Human Sciences at George Washington University. Professor Cohen
is the editor of The Postcolonial Middle Ages and Becoming Male
in the Middle Ages, and the author of Medieval Identity Machines and
On Giants, among others.
This conference was funded through
generous donations by The Pearl Kibre Medieval Study, the Medieval Studies
and Renaissance Studies Certificate Programs, and the Doctoral Programs in
Comparative Literature, English, French, History, and Theatre at the
Graduate Center, CUNY.
Conference Registration is free and
open to the public!
Information: medievalmasculinities@gmail.com
Friday, March 31
Carrie Hintz (Queens College,
CUNY)
" 'These little private Histories': Margaret Baxter, Restoration
Dissent, and the Exemplary Woman"
(Faculty Membership Lecture)
4:00 - 5:30pm, Room 4406
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English
Friday, March 31
Richard McCoy (CUNY)
"Early Modern Miracles: Belief in Renaissance Theater"
4:30pm, Room 4116
Sponsored by the Ph. D. Program in Comparative Literature
Friday, April 7
Claus Uhlig (University of Marburg)
"European Literature and/or World Literature: Auerbach compared to
Curtius"
4:00-5:30pm, Room 4406
Co-sponsored with Ph.D. Programs in English and Comparative Literature and
Medieval Studies Certificate Program
Thursday, April 27
Will Fisher (English/Lehman
College, CUNY)
"Women's Erotic Agency in Early Modern English Culture"
6:00-7:30pm, Room
5103
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, April 28
Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group
Conference "Secrets and Lies"
Time TBA, Segal Theatre
Sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG).
Information: Carrie Shanafelt
Friday, April 28
Annual English Program Shakespeare
Lecture:
Garret Sullivan (Pennsylvania State University)
"The Private Life of Shakespeare's Young Man: Memory, Forgetting and
the Procreation Sonnets."
4:00-5:30pm, Segal Theatre
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English and the Renaissance Studies
Certificate Program
Thursday, May 11
STORIES OF SORROW: EARLY MODERN
FICTIONAL & SOCIAL PERCEPTIONS OF VIOLENCE:
Giuseppe Gerbino (Columbia University): "Opera & the Pleasure of
Tragedy"
Monica Calabritto (Hunter College/CUNY):
"Violence & Madness in Early Modern Italian Chronicles"
6:30pm, Room 9204
Sponsored by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund, Ph.D. Program
in Comparative Literature/ Italian Specialization, Renaissance Studies
Certificate Program
Thursday, May 18
Bonnie Gordon (Music/Stony
Brook, SUNY)
"Monteverdi"
6:00-7:30pm, Room
C-205
Sponsored by SSWR
FALL
SEMESTER 2005
Tuesday,
September 13
William Kolbrener (Bar Ilan
University, Israel)
"Love of God in the Age of Philosophy: Mary Astell's
Metaphysical Sensibility in the Contexts of Enlightenment"
4:30 p.m., Room 9205
Sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG).
Information: Carrie Shanafelt
Thursday, September 22
Patricia Phillippy (English and
Comparative Literature/ Texas A &M)
"Women
in Document and Monument:
Elizabeth Russell’s Letters and Works"
6:00-7:30
p.m., Room C-201
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in
the Renaissance. Information: Susan
O'Malley
Thursday, September 22-Friday, September 23
DON QUIJOTE, 1605-2005:
An International Colloquium
THURSDAY,
SEPTEMBER 22:
“Don Quijote” and Its Critics
Javier Blasco (Universidad de Valladolid), Isabel
Lozano (Dartmouth College), José Montero Reguera (Universidad de
Vigo), Moderator:
Isaías Lerner (GC/CUNY)
6:00pm, Instituto Cervantes, 211 East 49 Street
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
“Don Quijote” and the Anglo-American
World
Anthony Close
(Cambridge University), Daniel Eisenberg (Editor, Cervantes), Howard
Mancing (Purdue University), Moderator: Dominick Finello (Brooklyn
College/CUNY)
4:00pm, Graduate
Center, Room TBA
“Don Quijote” and Literary Theory
Marina Brownlee
(Princeton University), Edward Friedman (Indiana University), James
Parr (University of California, Riverside), Moderator: William
Childers (Brookyn College/CUNY)
6:00pm, Graduate Center, Room TBA
Sponsored by the Ph.D Program in Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian &
Literatures & Languages and Instituto Cervantes. Information
Thursday, September
29-Saturday, October 1
Translation, the History of Political Thought, and the History of Concepts
(Begriffsgeschichte): An Interdisciplinary Conference
Graduate
Center, Rooms TBA
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Programs in History and Political Science, and
The Center for the Humanities
Information: Conference
website
or Martin
Burke,
212/817-8445.
Thursday, October 20
Biana
Calabresi (English, Society of Fellows in the Humanities/Princeton
University)
"The Female Narcissus: Renaissance
Women’s Writing Technologies"
6:00-7:30
p.m., Room 9204
Sponsored
by SSWR
Saturday, October 29
French Orientalism: Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other
The PhD Program in French's annual
student conference, featuring papers, presentations and a musical
performance of 17th and 18th century French Orientalist works. The keynote
speaker is Julia Douthwaite. | |
