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SCHEDULE
OF CUNY RENAISSANCE & EARLY MODERN EVENTS
2008/2009
SPRING
SEMESTER 2009
Wednesday, February 18
Orders of Love
A Roundtable Presentation
Massimo Ciavolella
(UCLA)
“’The Loverers’ Maladye of Hereos’: Love and Passion in Early Modern
European Thought”
Paulo Fasoli (Hunter College/CUNY Graduate Center)
“’On the Usasge of Boys’ – Antonio Rocco’s School of Sodomy”
Gerry Milligan (College of Staten Island/CUNY)
“Under Women’s Loving Gaze: The Scrutiny of Military Masculinity in the
Quattrocento:
6:30pm. Room 9204
Sponsored by the Doctoral Specialization in Italian/Ph.D. Program in
Comparative Literature, Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the
Department of Romance Languages, Hunter College
Thursday, February 19
Nancy Selleck
(English, University of Massachusetts)
“Rethinking
Objectification: Shakespeare, Women, and the Prehistory of the Self”
6:00-7:30pm. Room C-197
Sponsored
by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
Information: Susan
O'Malley
Friday, February 27
Naomi Liebler (English, Montclair State
University)
“The Wolf/Man’s Lament: King Lear and Howling”
2:00pm. Room 5114
Sponsored by Sponsored by the
Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG)
Thursday, March 19
Amanda Bailey (English,
University of Connecticut)
“’Abusively
Employed’: Boys, Bonds, and the Early Modern Theater”
6:00-7:30pm. Room C-197
Sponsored
by the SSWR
Friday, March 27
Daniel
Carey (English Department, NUI Galway)
“Spenser, Purchas, and the Poetics of Colonial Settlement”
4:00-6:30pm, Room 9207
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Friday, April 3
Early
Modern Interdisciplinary Group Annual Conference
PRIVATE PARTS: EARLY MODERN BODIES,
SPACES AND TEXTS
9:00-5:00, Segal Theatre
Sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG), Renaissance
Studies Certificate Program
Information: CUNY.EMIG@gmail.com
Thursday, April 16
Sarah Ross (History,
Boston College)
“’Cittadina del Mondo’: Isabella Andreini
and Humanist Authorship in Counter-Reformation Italy”
6:00-7:30pm. Room C-197
Sponsored
by the SSWR
Thursday, April 30
Riccardo Bruscagli (University of Florence)
“Epic from the New World: The Poems of American Discovery (1514-1630)”
6:30pm. Skylight Room (Room 9100)
Sponsored by the Doctoral Specialization in Italian/Ph.D. Program in
Comparative Literature, Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the
Department of Romance Languages, Hunter College
Thursday, May 14
Betty Travitsky (English, Center for the
Study of Women and Society, The Graduate Center/CUNY
“Cyberspace,
Infinite Space: Early Modern Women in an Expandable Nutshell”
6:00-7:30pm. Room C-197
Sponsored
by the SSWR
Friday, May 15
End of Semester Party
We’ll be toasting our We’ll be toasting
students graduating with the Certificate in Renaissance Studies, and the
winners of the Essay Competition and the Travel Award.
There
will also be news about the speakers for our day-long conference on Early
Modern Religion to take place April 23, 2010.
4:00-6:00pm, Room 5109
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
FALL
SEMESTER 2008
Thursday, September 18
Julie Crawford
(English, Columbia University)
“Sexuality, Marriage
and the Ends of Shakespearian
Comedy”
6:00-7:30pm. Room
4116
Sponsored
by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
Information: Susan
O'Malley
Friday, October 3
New
Directions in Early Modern Scholarship:
A CUNY Roundtable Discussion
Moderator:Richard McCoy, The Graduate
Center
Panelists: Katharine Goodland (College of Staten Island); Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College); John Staines (John Jay College of Criminal Justice);
Andrea Walkden (Queens College)
4:00pm, Room 4406
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English and the Early Modern
Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG)
Information: EMIG.CUNY@gmail.com
Thursday, October 16
Monica Calabritto
(Romance Languages & Literatures, Hunter College/CUNY)
“The Madness of
Paolo Barbieri of Bologna: A Comparison of Social, Legal and Medical
Perspectives”
6:00-7:30pm. Room C-197
Sponsored
by the SSWR
Friday, October 17
Dr. Nessa Cronin (Centre for Irish Studies,
National University of Ireland, Galway)
"Mapmaking and Colonial Ideology
in late 16th century Ireland, Spain, Portugal and the
Americas"
3:00-4:30pm, Room 4202 (French/Urban Ed. Lounge) Sponsored by the Renaissance
Studies Certificate Program
Reception
honoring the winner of the 2007/2008 Essay Prize in Renaissance and Early
Modern Studies
4:30-6:00pm, Room 4202 (French/Urban Ed. Lounge) Sponsored by the Renaissance
Studies
Certificate Program
Thursday, November 20
Paula
Loscocco (English, Lehman College/CUNY)
"’May You
Never…Sorrow Know’: Love and Marriage
in John Milton and Katherine Philips”
6:00
- 7:30 p.m., Room C-205
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, December 5
Catherine Bates (English/Warwick University)
“George Turberville: Representations of Masculinity in the Literary Motif of
the Hunt”
4:00-5:30pm, Room C-197
Reception
5:30-7:00pm, Room 5109
Sponsored
by the Renaissance Studies
Certificate Program
For
more information, please contact Professor Clare Carroll, 212-817-8586, clarecarroll@earthlink.net
The CUNY Graduate Center is located at: 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY
10016.
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