The Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group is a DSC Chartered Organization. EMIG provides a student-run forum for the exchange of ideas related to the period between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. The group serves as a bridge between the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, Departments at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and the Renaissance Studies Association, while also serving the larger community of humanities scholars with an interest in this period. By emphasizing connections between developments in philosophy, theology, politics, rhetoric, law, science, sociology, theater, music, literature, and the visual arts during this important period, EMIG engages scholars from many academic disciplines. In doing so, we hope to broaden not only our knowledge of the period, but our scholarly approaches as well. EMIG meets at The Graduate Center, CUNY during the academic year.

Current Co-Chairs: Jenn Holl and Gina Grimaldi

Contact: CUNY.EMIG@gmail.com

Faculty: Mario DiGangi, Martin Elsky, Richard C. McCoy, and Joseph Wittreich

Events:

2/27, 2pm, Room 5114: Naomi Liebler, Professor of English at Montclair State University, will present a lecture on "The Wolf/Man's Lament: King Lear and Howling"

3/13: Eric Song, Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, will present a lecture on Milton and Ireland.

4/3: Fifth annual EMIG conference: Private Parts: Early Modern Bodies, Spaces and Texts

5/8: End-of-year EMIG cocktail party