Renaissance Studies Certificate Program

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SCHEDULE OF 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 (9^th 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)

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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