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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. View conference webpage
12p.m, Martin Segal Theatre
Wednesday, November
2
Rewriting History
Margaret King (CUNY) "The Transmission and the Chain of
Civilization"
Alan Stewart (Columbia University) "The Original of Shylock? Dr. Lopez
and the Dangers of Literary History"
Catherine Howley (Rutgers University) "Re-Dressing the Issue of Women
at the Court of Elizabeth I"
3p.m., Room 5414
Sponsored by the CUNY Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG) Information
Thursday, November 17
Laila Paris (rare book
dealer/Athenaeum)
"Fictions of the Italian Renaissance: Giulia Bigolina, Giulia
Camposampiero e Tesibaldo Vitalini"
6:00 -7:30 p.m., Room C201
Sponsored
by SSWR
Friday, November 18
Malcolm Smuts (History/University
of Massachusetts-Boston)
"Religion, Dynastic Politics and Anglo-French Diplomacy at the Court
of Henrietta Maria, 1625-1641"
4:00pm, Room 5109 (Certificate Programs Office)
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the Ph.D.
Program in French
2004-2005
SPRING
SEMESTER 2005
Thursday, February 17
Mary Bly (English/Fordham University)
"Punning in the Liberties: Othello and Erotic Language"
7:00-9:00pm, Room 9206
Sponsored by the
Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance. Information: Susan O'Malley
Friday, February 18
CUNY Faculty Lecture Series
Professor William Childers (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
"El moro romántico y el morisco vecino en Castilla la Nueva hacia
1600: tres ejemplos"
6:00pm
Room 4116
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures
and Languages
Jean Racine's Bajazet
US premiere of the play in its original
form and with 17th-century costumes. Pre-performance
lecture by directors Desmond Hosford and Angèle Branca.
7:30pm, Elebash Recital Hall
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in French
Friday, February 25
Graduate Student Conference
EARLY MODERN EROS AND THANAT0S
11:00 - 11:45
Registration
(Please email cshanafelt@gc.cuny.edu to register.)
11:45 - 1:00
EROS: Gender, Sexuality, and Love
Robin Hizme (CUNY Graduate Center)
"Sex or Death: The Dark Side of Love in Webster's The Duchess of
Malfi"
Jennifer Rimm (New York University)
"Obtainable, Containable, and Uncontrollable: Female Sexuality in Romeo
and Juliet"
Sharon Henesy (SUNY Empire State
College)
"Late Medieval and Early Modern Bodies: The Witch and the Hardening of
the Lines of Gender"
1: 15 - 2:30 THANATOS: The Anxiety of
Annihilation
Gabriel Rieger (Case Western Reserve
University)
"Ophelia's Valentine: Sex, Death, and Annihilation on the Jacobean
Stage"
Christopher Matusiak (University
of Toronto)
"Death and the 17th Century Theatrical Family: The
Case of the Beestons"
Carrie Shanafelt (CUNY Graduate Center)
"Virility, Authority, and the Anxiety of Posterity in
the Poems of Ben Jonson"
Benjamin Myers (Johns Hopkins
University)
"Amavia's Grave: Rethinking Temperance in Book II of The Faerie
Queene"
2:45 - 4:00 PERFORMANCE: Creation,
Spectacle, and
Staging
Magda Romanska (Cornell University)
"Death and Beauty: The Ophelia Syndrome"
Balaka Basu (CUNY Graduate Center)
"Paulina's Poor Images and Prospero's Secret Studies: Alchemy of
Magician into Playwright"
William Goldstein (CUNY Graduate
Center)
"Why is Samson Agonistes a Play?: Movement and Genre in Samson
Agonistes"
Brenda Henry-Offor (CUNY Graduate
Center)
"Intimacy and Space in Othello"
4:15 Plenary Speaker
Richard Rambuss
(Emory University)
Author of Closet Devotions and Spenser's Secret Career
His talk, "Deep Purple," will
take place at 4:15 p.m.,
Rm. 4406 (English Department Lounge).
All events, except the Plenary Speaker's lecture, will take place in
the Elebash Recital Hall
Hosted by the
Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group. Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in
English, the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, and the Center for
Lesbian and Gay Studies
Thursday, March 17
Carole Levin
(History/University of Nebraska)
"The
Nightmare of the Dead Husband in the Cowhouse and the Case of the Sleeping
Preacher: Ideas about Dreams in 1605 England"
7:00-9:00pm, Room
9206
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday,
March 18
Professor
Antonio Azuastre (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
"Las saítiras breves de Quevedo"
6:00pm
Room 4116
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures
and Languages
Wednesday, March 23
Enrique Chavez-Arvizo (John Jay
College, CUNY)
"Animal Automatism in Gomez Pereira's Antoniana Margarita and its
Possible Influence on Descartes' Bete-Machine Doctrine "
4:15pm, Room 9206/9207
Sponsored by the Ph.D Program in Philosophy
Friday, April 8
Professor
Manuel Angel Candelas (Universidad de Vigo)
"Poesía y erudición en Quevedo"
6:00pm
Room 4116
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures
and Languages
Thursday,
April 14
Nancy Dersofi
(Italian/Bryn Mawr College)
"The Poetry
of Laura Terracina"
7:00-9:00pm, Room 9206
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, April 15
Shakespeare Birthday Lecture
Patricia Parker (Stanford)
"Eunuchs (and Editors) of All Kinds: Textual Surprises in A Midsummer Night's Dream
and Twelfth Night"
4:00-5:30pm, Room 4406
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English
Friday, April 22
Renaissance Studies Spring Colloquium
"Women Rulers
and Spectacle in the Renaissance"
Program
Dympna Callaghan (English, Syracuse
University) "Women as Instigators and Audience of Early Modern
Poetry"
Honey Meconi (Music, University of
Rochester, Eastman School of Music)
"Marguerite of Austria and Music"
Break
Anthony Feros (History, University of
Pennsylvania) "Court, Representation and Patronage in 17th century
Spain."
Malcolm Smuts (History, University of Massachusetts-Boston)
"Theater and Political Culture in the Entourage of Henrietta
Maria"
3:00-6:30pm, Elebash Recital Hall
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program; Ph.D. Programs in
English, French, Hispanic & Luso_Brazilian Literatures & Languages,
and Music; and the Henri Peyre French Institute
For further information, please contact
Professor Martin Elsky, Coordinator, Renaissance Studies Certificate
Program, melsky@gc.cuny.edu
Thursday, May 12
Dorothy L. Latz (formerly Theology/St. Joseph's Seminary)
"The MS Memoir of Sr. Catherine Holland (b. 1637) and her Flight from
the English Pursuivants"
7:00-9:00pm, Room C201
Sponsored by SSWR
FALL SEMESTER 2004
Thursday, September
23
Margaret Hunt,
History/Amherst College
"Refiguring
European Women’s History: Islam and Eastern Europe"
7:00-9:00pm, Room C-203 Sponsored by
the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance.
Information: Susan O'Malley
Tuesday,
September 28
Marilyn
Aronberg Lavin , Art & Archaeology/ Princeton
"Seeing
Visual Images in the Digital Age: The Piero Project"
6:30pm, Martin Segal Theatre Sponsored by the CUNY Faculty
Development Program and the PhD Program in
Art History
Thursday, October 14
Barbara Traister, English/Leigh
University
"Simon Forman and Women Practitioners"
7:00-9:00 pm, Room C-201
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, October 22
Lynne Greenberg, Hunter College,
CUNY
"Milton and Motherhood"
2:30pm, Room 5414
Sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group
Thursday, November 11
Cristina Alfar, English/Hunter
College/CUNY
"‘Manhood is Melted into Curtsies’: Women’s Responses to Men’s
Accusations of Cuckoldry in Shakespeare"
7:00-9:00pm, Room C-204-C-205
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, November 12
Looking at Seventeenth-Century
Painting. A Symposium in Memory of Leonard J. Slatkes
Participants include Eddy de Jongh (Utrecht), Wayne Franits (Syracuse),
Jeffrey Muller (Brown), Albert Blankert (The Hague), David Levine (Southern
Connecticut State), Susan Koslow (CUNY).
2:00-5:00pm, Elebash Recital Hall.
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Art History and the Renaissance Studies
Certificate Program, in collaboration with Christie's, Richard L. Feigen,
Noortman Master Paintings, and Sotheby's.
Friday, November 19
"From Student to Professional:
Becoming an Early Modern Scholar"
Panel discussion with Richard McCoy, Martin Elsky, Joseph Wittreich, Jackie
DiSalvo, and Matthew Greenfield
2:30pm, Room 4406
Sponsored by EMIG
Friday, November 19
Manfredi Piccolomini (Professor
of Italian, Lehman College, CUNY)
"Ideas of the World Leading to Columbus: An Exploration of Ancient
Myths about the Inhabitable World and the Shape and Measurement of the
Earth as Well as Their Transformation through the Middle Ages and the Early
Renaissance"
6:00-8:00 p.m., Room 5383
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature and Italian
Studies
Monday, November 29
Mariët Westermann (Director, NYU
Insitute of Fine Arts)
"Making Home in the Dutch Republic: Art and Interiors,
1600-1670"
4:00-5:30pm, Lecture Hall, Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86 Street,
NYC
Monday, December 6
José Manuel Rico García (Grupo
PASO [Poesía Andaluza de los Siglos de Oro] Universidad de Sevilla)
“¿Qué fue del Parnaso? La contribución de la teoría literaria del siglo
XVII a la formación del canon poético del Siglo de Oro”
6:30pm, Room 4116
Sponsored by the Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures
and Languages
2003-2004
FALL SEMESTER 2003
(Preliminary Schedule)
The Music Program has a regularly scheduled "Renaissance
Sing" that meets from 7:30 - 10 pm in Room 3102.06 (Music Thesis
Room) on the following dates: September 15, September 29, October 20,
November 3, November 17, December 1, and December 15. The group consists of
students, faculty and others interested in singing from copies of original
Renaissance music. They share snacks of food and wine that are provided by
members of the group.
If you are interested in being on their email list or joining Renaissance
Sing, please contact Professor Ruth
DeFord
Thursday, September 18
Mihoko Suzuki,
University of Miami
"Gender, the
Political Subject and Dramatic Form:
Cavendish's Loves
Adventures and the Shakespearean Example"
7:00-9:00pm. Room TBA
Sponsored by the Society for
the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Information: Betty
Travitsky
Friday, September 19
Richard Rambuss, Emory University
"Crashaw and the Metaphysical Shudder"
4:00-6:00pm. Room 4406
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English
Thursday, October 16
Fiona McNeill
(SUNY-Purchase)
"Free and
Bound Maids: Women's Liberty in Shakespeare"
7:00-9:00pm. Room 9204
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, October 17
David Bromwich, Yale University
"The Sublime in Burke and Shakespeare"
4:00-6:00pm. Room 4406
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English
Friday, November 14
RENAISSANCE STUDIES FALL COLLOQUIUM:
Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Auerbach's
Mimesis
3:00-6:00pm. Room 4406
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, and the Ph.D.
Programs in Comparative Literature and
English
Thursday, November 20
Tanya Pollard, Monclair
State University
"The Female Corpse Onstage: Medicinal or Poisonous"
4:00-6:00pm, Room C-202
Sponsored by SSWR
SPRING SEMESTER 2004
Thursday, February 19:
Jane Tylus, University of Wisconsin,
Madison "Geographies of Charity: Female Piety in
Late Medieval Italy"
7:00-9:00pm, Room 9206
Sponsored by SSWR
Thursday, March
11-Saturday, April 24
Splendors of
the Renaissance: Princely Attire in Italy
Attire donned by Renaissance nobility comes to life
in 15 spectacular reconstructions of courtly clothing from the late 15th to
the early 17th century, each costume is displayed adjacent to a
reproduction of the portrait in which it appears. The reconstructions were
created by the King Studio in Italy under the direction of Fausto
Fornasari. The exhibition is curated by Distinguished Professor of Art
History Janet Cox-Rearick
Tuesdays-Saturdays, 12:00pm-6:00pm
The Art Gallery
The exhibition has been organized with the
collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York City
In conjunction with the exhibition, talks will be
presented by Professors Cox-Rearick and Diane Kelder, curator of the Art
Gallery on Wednesdays, March 17 and 31 respectively, 5 to 7 pm in the
Martin E. Segal Theatre.
Thursday, March 18
Irma Jaffe, Fordham University
"Women, Love and Poetry in the Renaissance"
7:00-9:00pm, Room 9204
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, March 26
Domna Stanton, Graduate Center
"Ruling Women: Queens and Regents in 17th Century France"
4:00pm, Room 4116
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature &
Italian Studies
Thursday-Saturday, April
1-4
Renaissance Society of America's Annual
Meeting celebrating the organization's 50th anniversary
Grand Hyatt Hotel
Park Avenue at Grand Central Station
For registration, conference, and hotel information,
contact RSA
As the host institution of the RSA, The Graduate
Center is planning a gallery exhibit and related sessions, as well as an
opening night reception.
Friday, April 2
A Dramatic Reading of Samson
Agonistes, by John Milton. Performed by The Lark Ascending (Nancy
Bogen, artistic director)
7:00pm, Graduate Center
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the New York
State Council for the Arts
Thursday, April 15
Sasha Roberts, University of Kent
"Recreational Misogyny and the Early Modern Reader: Critical Dilemmas
in Manuscript Culture"
7:00-9:00pm, Room C-203
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, April 23
ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE CONFERENCE
4:00pm, Room 4406
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English and the Renaissance Studies
Certificate Program
Thursday, May 6
Mary Hill Cole, Mary Baldwin College
"The Family of Elizabeth I"
7:00-9:00pm, Room 9204
Sponsored by SSWR
2002-2003
Thursday, September 19: Anne
Huse, John Jay College, CUNY
"The Girl as Patron, the Poet as Girl: Andrew Marvell and Mary
Fairfax"7:00-9:00pm, Segal Theatre.Sponsored by the
Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance.
Friday, October 11: RENAISSANCE
STUDIES FALL COLLOQUIUM
"Where Was the Renaissance?: The Cultural and Political
Geography of the Emergence of Modernity"
- Ronald Witt, Duke University
- Henry Kamen, Higher Council for Scientific
Research, Barcelona
- Andrew Hadfield, University of Wales
- Domna Stanton, The Graduate Center, CUNY
"The Nation as its Others: France in the Age of Louis XIV"
- Moderator and Organizer: Martin Elsky, The
Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, CUNY
3:00-7:00pm. Skylight Conference Room,
9th Floor In collaboration with Ph.D. Programs in Comparative Literature,
English, French, Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures, and History.
Reception to follow program, sponsored by RSA.
Thursday, October 17: Kathy
Talarico, College of Staten Island, CUNY
"Sex Lies, but no Videotapes: Violence and Female Discourse in
Margueritte de Navarre's Heptameron" 7:00-9:00pm. Room
9207.
Sponsored by SSWR.
Thursday, November 21 Cristina
Malcolmson, Bates College "Science and Imperialism in Cavendish's
Blazing World" 7:00-9:00pm. Room C201.
Thursday, February 20: Julie
Crawford, Columbia University
"Wroth's Cabinets" 7:00-9:00pm. Room 9207 Sponsored
by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Thursday, March 20: Noami
Liebler, Montclair State University
"Wonder Woman or the Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance
Drama" 7:00-9:00pm. Room C204 Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, March 21: Gonzalo Pontón,
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain. "Editar
el teatro de Lope de Vega: de la pluma a la escena, de la escana a las
prensas" 4:00-6:00pm, Room 4422
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian
Literatures, as part of a series in "The Theory and Practice of
Editing Hispanic Texts: The Early Modern Period"
Friday, March 28: Patrick
Lenaghan, The Hispanic Society of America "The Iconography of Don
Quijote" 4:00-6:00pm, Room 4422
Sponsored by Ph.D. Program in Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures,
"The Theory and Practice of Editing Hispanic Texts"
Thursday, April 3 Sister Lucia
Treanor, Grand Valley State University
"Marie de France and the Wolf of Gubbio: A Structural
Examination of the Lay of Bisclavret" 7:00-9:00pm. Room
9204 Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, April 4: Isaías Lerner,
CUNY Graduate Center "Cervantes y sus editors"4:00-6:00pm,
Room 4422 Sponsored by Ph.D. Program in Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian
Literatures, "The Theory and Practice of Editing Hispanic Texts"
Friday, April 11: Alfonso Rey,
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, "La edición de la poesía
de Quevedo" 4:00-6:00pm, Room 4422 Sponsored by Ph.D.
Program in Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures, "The Theory and
Practice of Editing Hispanic Texts"
Friday, April 11: RENAISSANCE STUDIES
SPRING COLLOQUIUM "Eros at the Court of the Medici: The
Painting and Poetry of Bronzino" A Colloquium Celebrating the
500th Anniversary of Angolo Bronzino (1503-1572). Introduction:
Clare Carroll (CUNY
Graduate Center and Queens College); Deborah Parker
(University of Virginia), "High Art and Low Puns in Bronzino's
Burlesque Poetry"; Bette Talvacchia (University of
Connecticut), "Control and Excess in Bronzino's Art." Epilogue:
Parker and Talvacchia read Bronzino's "Del pennello." Respondent:
James Saslow (The Graduate Center and Queens College,
CUNY). Moderator and organizer: Janet Cox-Rearick (The
Graduate Center, CUNY). 4:00-7:00pm, Elebash Recital Hall In collaboration
with the Ph.D. Programs in Art History, Comparative Literature, and
English; and the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. Reception to
follow program.
Friday, April 25: Annual
English Program Shakespeare Conference: "Cries and Songs: Listening to
Working Women in Shakespeare's England" Natasha Korda (Wesleyan
University), "Cleaving the General Ear: Shakespeare and the
Cries of London";Fiona McNeill (SUNY-Purchase),
"Free and Bound Maids: Women's Work Songs in Shakespeare"; Respondent:
Susan O'Malley (Kingsborough
Community College, CUNY). Organizer: Mario Di Gangi
(The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Lehman College). 4:00-6:00pm, Segal Theatre
Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program. Reception to
follow program.
Friday, April 25: Javier San José
Lera, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain "La edición de la
prosa castellana de Fray Luis de León" 4:00-6:00pm,
Room 4422 Sponsored by Ph.D. Program in Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian
Literatures, "The Theory and Practice of Editing Hispanic Texts"
Thursday, May 15: Mario Di Gangi,
CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College, " 'A Votress of My Order':
Reading against the Taxonomies of Female-Female Desire in Renaissance
England"7:00-9:00pm. Room C204 Sponsored by SSWR
2001-2002
Friday, Feb.15:Renaissance Studies Spring
Colloquium: The Material Foundations of Early Modern Texts: From Manuscript
Manipulations to Print Technologies II: Roger Chartier (École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), "Don Quixote in the Printing
Shop"; Robert Darnton(Princeton University), "Books and Orality
in18th-Century Paris: Mlle Bonafon and the Intimate Life of Louis XV."
4:00-6:00pm. Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall. Reception to follow
program. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, The Graduate
Center, CUNY; the Ph.D. Programs in English, French, History, Hispanic
& Luso-Brazilian Literatures, and the Italian Specialization in
Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY; and the CUNY Academy for
the Humanities and Sciences.
Thursday, February 21:Anne Barstow
(SUNY/Old Westbury, retired), "Witchcraft and Power: The Witch as
Victim and Threat." 6:00-9:00 p.m. Room 9204. Sponsored by the Society
for the Study of Women in the Renaissance. http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies;
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womencenter
Friday, February 22:Tobias Doering (Free
University of Berlin), "How to Do Things with Tears: Performances of
Mourning on the Early Modern Stage." 4:00-5:30. Room 5109 (Certificate
Programs Office)
1999-2000
Thurs, Sept. 30: Laura Gowing (U of Hertfordshire), "The
Haunting of Susan Lay." 7:00-9:00pm. Room TBA (Sponsored by
Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance; for further information
contact Betty Travitsky BTRAVITSKY/0002095890@MCIMAIL.COM
Sept. 16-Nov. 27: Exhibition: Giulio Romano, Master Designer.
Curator: Janet Cox-Rearick (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate
School). Leubsdorf Art Gallery, 68 St. and Lexington Ave. New York City.
For information, call 212-772-4991.
Thurs, Oct. 28: Shari Zimmerman (Hofstra), "Transposing
Pollution, Covenants, and Gender; or, Milton's Sliding Exposition of the
Hebraic." 7:00-9:00pm. Room TBA. (Sponsored by SSWR)
Sat, Nov. 6: An International Symposium to Celebrate the Exhibiton:
Giulio Romano, Master Designer. Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park
Avenue (betw 68-69 St), New York City.
Wed, Nov. 17-Fri, Nov. 19: International Congress in Commoration of
the Quincentennial Anniversary of La Celestina. Sponsored by the
Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures. 10:00am-5:00pm.
Room 5414. For more information, call 212-817-8410.
Thurs, Nov. 18: Lena Orlin (University of Maryland-Baltimore
County), "Women's History from Criminal Literature: The Witness Who
Spoke When the Cock Crowed." 7:00-9:00pm. Room TBA. (Sponsored by
SSWR)
Fri, Nov. 19: A Lecture in Honor of Angus Fletcher: John Hollander,
(Yale University), "Allegory and Espionage." 4:00-6:00pm.
Room 4106. Sponsored by CUNY Ph.D. Program in English.
Fri, Dec. 3: Renaissance Studies Student Faculty Meeting and
Dissertation Colloquium: Desma Polydorou (English), "Gender
and Spiritual Equality in Marriage: A Dialogic Reading of Rachel Speght and
John Milton"; Cyrus Moore (Comp Lit), "Ercilla's
La Araucana: Epic and Imitatio in Sixteenth Century Iberian Court
Poetics"2:00-4:00pm. Room 8106
Reception to celebrate arrival in new building to follow program
Fri, Dec 10: Faculty work-in-progress lecture: Joseph Wittreich
(Graduate Center of CUNY), "Thought Colliding with Thought:
Reinterpreting Samson Agonistes." 4:00-6:00pm. Room TBA. Sponsored
by CUNY Ph.D. Program in English.
Thurs, Jan. 27:Laura Levine (New York University), "Demonographies."
7:00-9:00pm. Room TBA. (Sponsored by Society for the Study of Women in the
Renaissance; for further information contact Betty Travitsky <TRAVITSB@WT.NET)
Fri, Feb.18: Isaias Lerner (Graduate Center, CUNY),
"Literature and Strategies of Empire: Epic Poetry in Sixteenth-Century
Spain," 4:00-6:00pm. Room 4116.18 (Sponsored the Renaissance
Studies Certificate Program and Ph.D. Program in Hispanic &
Luso-Brazilian Literatures)
Thurs, Feb. 24: Susan O'Malley (Kingsborough Community College,
CUNY), 7:00-9:00pm. Room TBA. (Sponsored by SSWR)
Fri, March 3: Dissertation Colloquium: Elizabeth Pallitto (Comp
Lit) "A Fine Romance: Rewriting the Scene of Courtship in Tullia
d'Aragona's 'Il Meschino' "; and George Ouwendijk
(History), "The Education of a Jesuit Mathematician";
Organizers: Monica Calabritto (Comparative Literature) and Patricia
Franz (History). Reception following. 2:00-4:00pm, Room 9207
CUNY Participation in the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society
of America Florence, Italy March 21-24, 2000:
Janet Cox-Rearick (CUNY Graduate School), "The Fashioning
of a Public Persona: Eleonora di Toledo's Ceremonial Dress; chair, "Dressing
Well in Renaissance Italy: The Role of the Tailors"
Martin Elsky (CUNY Graduate School and Brooklyn College),
Moderator, Roundtable: "Renaissance Studies at the Millennium:
Renaissance vs. Early Modern"
Margaret L. King (CUNY Graduate School and Brooklyn College), "Mothers
of the Renaissance"; chair, "Approaches to Gender in the
Renaissance"
George A. Ouwendijk (CUNY Graduate School and The City College), "
'The Reform of the Human Mind': The Significance of Rhetoric in Galileian
Science"
Nancy G. Siraisi (CUNY Graduate School and Hunter College), "Oratory
and Rhetoric in Renaissance Medicine"; chair, "Renaissance
Medicine"
Thurs, March 30: Teresa Feroli (Brooklyn Polytechnic),
7:00-9:00pm. Room TBA. (Sponsored by SSWR)
Fri, March 31:Renaissance
Studies Teleconference:Carla Freccero (University
of California-Santa Cruz) and David Lee Miller (University of
Kentucky) "Cultural Studies and Renaissance Futures."
4:00-6:00pm. Seating is limited. Please contact Martin Elsky <melsky@gc.cuny.edu> for further
information. (Sponsored by the RSCP and Ph.D. Program in French)
Thurs, April 27: Victoria Burke (Nottingham-Trent University).
7:00-9:00pm. Room TBA. (Sponsored by SSWR)
Fri, May 5: Annual
Shakespeare Birthday Conference. Speakers: Andrei Serban and
Stephen Booth. Organizer: Richard McCoy. 4:00-6:00pm.
Room TBA, (Sponsored by the RSCP and Ph.D. Program in English)
1998-1999
Thurs, Sept. 24: Beatrice Gottlieb, "Women in a Service
Society." 7:00-9:00pm; Room 202, Graduate School (Sponsored by
Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance; for further information
contact Betty Travitsky, email=BTRAVITSKY/0002095890@MCIMAIL.COM)
Thurs, Oct 29: Anne Lake Prescott (English, Barnard College), "'And
then she fell in a great laughter': Marguerite de Navarre and English
Diplomats." 7:00-9:00pm, Room 202, Graduate School (Sponsored by
SSWR)
Fri, Nov. 6: Dissertation Colloquium: Patricia Lennox (English),
Chair and Organizer; Monica Calabritto (Comparative Literature), "The
Subject of Madness and the Dialogue of Traditions in Ariosto's Orlando
Furioso"; Florene S. Memegalos (History), "The
Parliamentary Press and the Seige of Portsmith 1642". 2:00-4:00pm,
Room 30-18 Grace Building.
Fri, Nov. 13: CUNY Renaissance Studies Colloquium Series: SCATTERED
BODIES OF TRUTH: INTER/RELIGIOUS/SECTARIAN RELATIONS, 1450-1700: Regina
Schwartz (English, Northwestern University), "Milton and
Reformation Poetics"; Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia (History, New
York University), "Reuchlin and Jewish Conversion";
Respondent: Richard McCoy (English, CUNY Graduate School and Queens
College); 4:00-6:00pm, 3rd-Floor Studio, Graduate School. Reception to
follow. (Co-sponsored by Ph.D. Programs in English and History; NYU
Seminar in the Renaissance)
Thurs, Nov. 19: Barbara Bowen (English, CUNY Graduate School and
Queens College), "Aemilia Lanyer and the Scene of Reading."
7:00-9:00pm, Room TBA (Sponsored by SSWR)
Wed, Dec. 5: Renaissance Studies Video Teleconference: Lisa Jardine
and Warren Boutcher (English, Queen Mary and Westfiled College,
University of London), "The Pre-War and Post-War Context of
Twentieth- Century Scholarship of Renaissance Humanism." 10am-12
noon; to be held at CUNY-TV, 555 57th Street, 10th floor. Seating Limited.
Thurs, Jan. 28: Nathan Tinker (English, Fordham University), "Print
and Manuscript in the 1650s: The Case of Katherine Philips."
7:00-9:00pm Room 202, Graduate School (Sponsored by SSWR)
Fri, Feb. 5: CUNY Renaissance Studies Colloquium: SCATTERED
BODIES OF TRUTH: INTER/RELIGIOUS/SECTARIAN RELATIONS, 1450-1700 II.
Encounters East and West: Richard Trexler (SUNY-Binghamton), "Beating
Up on Jesus: Showing the Suffering Savior in Early Modern Mexico";
Daniel Goffman (Ball State University), "Infidels Among Us:
English Clergy in the Early Modern Ottoman World". 4:00-6:00pm;
Third-floor Studio, Graduate School. Reception to follow.
(Co-sponsored by Ph.D. Programs in English, History, Hispanic and
Luso-Brazilian Literatures; CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences;
NYU Seminar in the Renaissance) Abstracts
Thurs, Feb. 25: Rinaldina Russell, "A Renaissance Woman
Presents her Views on Love and Sex: Tullia d'Aragona and her Dialogue
on the Infinity of Love." 7:00-9:00pm; Room TBA (Sponsored by Society
for the Study of Women in the Renaissance; for further information contact
Betty Travitsky, email: BTRAVITSKY/0002095890@MCIMAIL.COM)
Friday, February 26: CUNY Renaissance Studies Colloquium: SCATTERED
BODIES OF TRUTH: INTER/RELIGIOUS/SECTARIAN RELATIONS, 1450-1700: III.
The Edict of Nantes: A 400th Anniversary Commemoration organized in
collaboration with the CUNY Ph.D. Program in French: Frank Lestringant
(University of Lille), "La Resistance Huguenote a l'Edit de
Nantes" [translation provided]; Barbara Diefendorf (Boston
University), "French Religious Identities After Nantes."
4:00-6:00pm; Proshansky Auditorium, Graduate School.
Fri, March 12: Dissertation Colloquium: Students from English,
History, and Comparative Literature Programs read from their dissertation
proposals. 2:00-4:00; Room TBA
Thurs, March 25: Mary Ann O'Donnell, "Mater Matters: The
Literary Connections of Alice Spencer Stanley." 7:00-9:00pm; Room
TBA (Sponsored by SSWR)
Fri, March 26: UCLA Faculty House-Redwood, CUNY RENAISSANCE STUDIES
PANEL: Renaissance Society of America Conference
University of California-Los Angeles
LESS THAN CLASSICAL: MEDIEVAL REVIVALS IN THE LATE RENAISSANCE
Moderator: Isaias Lerner (CUNY Graduate School); Lucia Binotti
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Rico ome de
pendon y caldera. Language as Antiquity: A Collector's Dream of
Legitimizing the Past"; Marie-Rose Logan (Temple
University), "Old Gems, New Verses: Remy Belleau's Lapidary
Poetry in the Tradition of the Occult"; Jose Miguel Martinez
Torrejon (CUNY Graduate School and Queens College), Poets in the
Antique Shop: Cultural Comebacks in the Iberian Renaissance"
Tues, April 13: Isaias Lerner (Spanish, CUNY Graduate School), "Literature
and the Strategies of Empire: Epic Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Spain."
6:30-8:00pm; Room TBA.
Fri, April 23: Annual English Program Shakespeare Birthday Lecture.
Speakers: Debora Shuger (English, UCLA); Peter Lake (History,
Princeton University). 4:00-6:00pm; 3rd-Floor Studio Graduate School. Reception
to follow.(Organized by Richard McCoy, CUNY Graduate School and
Queens College)
Thurs, April 29: Lisa Low, "Woolf's Allusion to Comus
in her Revolutionary First Novel, The Voyage Out." 7:00-9:00pm;
Room TBA (Sponsored by SSWR)
Fri, May 7: Nancy Siraisi (History, CUNY Graduate School and
Hunter College), "Ritual and Renewal in the Renaissance Medical
Lecture." 4:00-6:00pm; Room 40-18 Grace Building (Sponsored by the
Ph.D. Program in Comprative Literature)
1997-1998
Thurs, September 25: Bernice W. Kliman (Nassau
Community College), "Language and Gender in Henry V."
7:00-9:00 p.m. Room 202, Graduate School (Sponsored by the Society for the
Study of Women in the Renaissance)
Thurs, Oct. 30: Pamela Allen Brown (Columbia
University), "From Jest to Earnest: Women as Players."
7:00-9:00 p.m. This event to take place at NYU, room TBA. (Sponsored by
SSWR)
Wed, Nov. 5: Paolo Fasoli (Hunter College), "Against
Love: Anti-erotic Treatises in the Renaissance." 6:30-8:30p.m.,
Room 40-18, Grace Building (Sponsored by The Graduate Colloquium in
Comparative Literature and Italian Studies)
Thurs, Nov 20: Betty Travitsky (Center for the Study of Women and
Society, CUNY), "Author and Subordinate: The Case of Elizabeth
Egerton." 7:00-9:00 p.m. Room 202 Graduate School (Sponsored by
SSWR)
Fri, Nov. 7: Renaissance/Early Modern Dissertation Colloquium: Phil
Mirabelli (English), "Sexuality, Religion, and the Deepening of
the Early Modern Subject" William Rednour (History), "Anti-Spanish
Sentiment in Late Jacobean England, 1619-1624." Student
co-ordinators: Patricia Lennox (English), Mark Kelley.
(English). 2:00-4:00 p.m. Room L32, Library
Wed, Nov. 19: Teolinda Barolini (Columbia University), "Francesca
and Guido Cavalcanti: Inferno V in its Lyric Context."
6:30-8:30p.m., Room 40-18, Grace Building (Sponsored by The Graduate
Colloquium in Comparative Literature and Italian Studies)
November 21, 1997; March 20, 1998; March 26, 1998: CUNY Renaissance
Studies Colloquium Series:RENAISSANCE
AND EARLY MODERN CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: THE PLACES OF IDENTITY, 1500-1700
Fri, Nov. 21: I. NATION AND DYNASTY: ENGLAND AND THE HABSBURG EMPIRE:
Thomas Kaufmann (Princeton University), "Ethnic and National
vs. Dynastic Identity in the Art of Early Modern Central Europe";
Malcolm Smuts (University of Massachusetts-Boston), "Rituals of
Power and National Identites in Seventeenth-Century Britain".
4:00-6:00 pm. 3rd-Floor Studio. Graduate School. Reception to follow.
Paper/abstract available on website.
Fri, Dec 5: Faculty work in prgress: Richard McCoy,
(English), "Four Funerals and a Wedding: Conjunction in
Hamlet." 2:00-4:00 pm. Room 1740 North Building (43 St)
Thurs, Jan. 29: Louise Mirrer(Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs, CUNY) "EarlyModern Widows: The End of the Golden
Age," 7:00 p.m., Room TBA (Sponsored by SSWR)
Thurs, Feb. 26: Sheila ffolliott(George Mason
University), "Muted Poetry: Raphael'sGalatea and Leonardo's
Ginevra de'Benci," 7:00 p.m., Room TBA(Sponsored by SSWR)
Fri, March 6: Renaissance Studies Colloquium Series: Renaissance
and Early Modern Cultural Geography: The Places of Identity, 1500-1700:
II. REGIONS OF IDENTITY: VENICE AND MEXICO CITY: Guido Ruggiero,
Josephine Berry Weiss Chair in the Humanities (Pennsylvania State
University), "Of Birds, Figs, and Needles: Rethinking Sexual
Identity in Renaissance Venice"; Richard Kagan(Johns
Hopkins University), "Creole Cartography in Spanish America"
(Co-sponsored with Ph.D. Programs in English, History, Hispanic and
Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Doctoral Specialization in Italian; Sonia
Raiziss Foundation; CUNY Center for the Humanities; CUNY Academy for
Humanities and Sciences; NYU Seminar in the Renaissance), 4:00-6:00 pm,
CUNY Graduate School, 3rd-Floor Studio. Reception to follow program.
Summaries of papers are available on colloquium website.
Thurs, March 26: Ann Hurley(Wagner College), "Introducing
Elizabeth Polwhele,"7:00p.m., Room TBA (Sponsored by SSWR)
Thurs, March 26: Renaissance Studies Colloquium Series:Renaissance
and Early Modern Cultural Geography: The Places of Identity, 1500-1700:
III. LOCALIZING BRITAIN: ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND:
Moderator and Organizer: Clare Carroll(CUNY Graduate School and
Queens College); Willy Maley (University of Glasgow), "Macboth?
Scotland, Ireland, and the British Problem"; Andrew Hadfield
(University of Wales), "Rethinking the Black Legend: English
Identity in the 1580's and 1590's and the Anti-Christ"; Vincent
Carey (SUNY-Plattsburgh), "`Neither good English, nor good
Irish': Gaelicisation and Identity Formation in Sixteenth-Century
Ireland" Held at the Renaissance Society of America Conference
University of Maryland, College Park, 3:45-5:15 p. m.,Stamp Student Union,
Room 2146.
Wed, April 22: Clare Carroll (CUNY Graduate School and Queens
College), "Translating Civility: A Comparative Approach to the
Colonization of Memory, Language, and Space in Early Modern Discourse on
Ireland" (The Graduate Colloquium in Comparative Literature and
Italian Studies, sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature
and the Sonia Raiziss Foundation), 6:30-8:30 p.m., Room 40-18 Grace
Building
Fri, April 24: English Program Shakespeare Lecture:
Gail Paster (George Washington University), "Anthony's Happy
Horse: Or, Cleopatra's Passions and the Boundaries of Species"
(Organizer: Richard McCoy, CUNY Graduate School and Queens College;
co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Theatre; The Rifkind Center for the
Humanities, The City College of New York, CUNY; Brooklyn College, CUNY;
CUNY Renaissance Studies Program), 4:00-6:00 p.m., CUNY Graduate School,
3rd-Floor Studio. Reception to follow program. This program will
be part of a teleconference jointly held with the CUNY Graduate School, the
University of Pennsylvania, and Brooklyn College, CUNY. Paper summaries and
voice clips of discussion will be available on teleconference website
(address to be announced).
Thurs, April 30: Margaret Hannay (Siena College) "'Bearing
the liverie of your name':The Countess of Pembroke's Agency in Print and
Scribal Publication," 7:00p.m., Room TBA (Sponsored by SSWR)
Fri, May 8: Renaissance Studies Dissertation Colloquium: Sarah
Covington (History), "Martyrs, Recanters, Prosecutors, and
Executioners: A Study of Persecution on the Lower Levels in Tudor
England"; Katherine Coad Narramore (English), "Revising
Romance: Anna Weamy's A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's
Arcadia." 2:00-4:00pm, 40-48 Grace Building. Refreshments to
follow.
1996-1997
Fri, Sept. 20: English Program Lecture in Honor of Distinguished
Professor Joseph Wittreich: John Rogers (English, Yale University),
"The Secret of Samson Agonistes:The Body without Organs and
the English Revolution." Introduction by Professor Richard McCoy
(Queens College & CUNY GraduateSchool). 3rd Floor Studio, Graduate
School, 4:00 pm.
Thurs,Oct. 3: Barbara Cohen-Straytner (Shelby
Cullom Davis Museum, The New York Public Library for the PerformingArts,
Lincoln Center), "What Did Powerful Women Wear in England from
1590-1610?" Rm. TBA, 7:00-9:00 pm. (Sponsored by the Society for
theStudy of Women in the Renaissance)
Tues, Oct. 22: Paula Findlen (History, Stanford
University) Renaissance Studies Seminar: "AlbertianFantasies:
Gender, Space, and Knowledge in an Italian Renaissance Household."
(Co-Sponsored with Columbia University, Dept. of English) Room TBA,
4:30-6:30pm.
Thurs, Nov. 7: Paula Glatzer(The New Variorum Shakespeare), "Cordelia's
Wicked Sisters: TheirUps & Downs Onstage." Room TBA,
7:00-9:00pm. (Sponsored by SSWR)
Thurs, Feb. 6: Sharri Zimmerman (English, Hofstra University), "
`Counterfeiting Performance' and the `Conjugal Mind': Reading Cary through
Milton's Divorce Tracts." 7:00-9:00 pm., Room 202 GS. (Sponsored
by SSWR)
Fri, Feb 21: Albert Rabil (History, SUNY-Old Westbury), "Reflections
on the Superiority of Women: Agrippa, Rodriguez, del Padron, and the
`Querelle de Femmes.' " 5:00-7:00pm, Room 4060 Grace.
Thurs, March 6: Joan Larsen Klein (University of Illinois), "Transforming
Genders and Debasing Kinds: Witchcraft in the Plays of Shakespeare and His
Fellow Dramatists." 7:00-9:00 pm., Room 202 GS (Sponsored by SSWR)
Thurs-Fri, Mar 6-7: CUNY Renaissance Studies Conference of the
Renaissance Society of America: EARLY MODERN TRANS-ATLANTIC ENCOUNTERS:
ENGLAND, SPAIN, AND THE AMERICAS. For program, papers, abstracts,
and comments, see conference
website.
March 6, 4:00-7:00, Spanish Institute, 684 Park
Ave, between 68-69 St.: Cultural Appropriations: Europeans and
Indigenous Peoples: Sabine MacCormack (History, Michigan), Karen
Ordahl Kupperman (History, NYU), Dana Leibsohn (Art History,
Smith). Reception.
March 7, 12:30-3:30, Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY
Graduate School: The New World and the Problem of Universals: Anthony
Pagden (History, Johns Hopkins), David Armitage (History,
Columbia), Thomas Cummins (Art History, Chicago), Joanne
Rappaport (Anthropology, Georgetown).
March 7, 4:30-5:30, New-York Historical Society,
2 W 77 St at Central Park West: The Rhetoric of New World Encounters:
Sacvan Bercovitch (English Harvard), Myra Jehlen (English,
Rutgers), Enrique Pupo-Walker (Spanish, Vanderbilt). Reception.
Tues, April 1: Renaissance Studies Seminar: Leatrice
Mendelsohn (Art History, SUNY-Albany), "Bronzino's Female
Monster: Classical Sources for Mannerist Heresy." 11:45-1:45. Room
LO2 Grace.
Thurs, April 3: Nanette Salomon (College of
Staten Island), "From Sexuality to Civility: Vermeer's Women."
7:00-9:00 pm., Room TBA (Spomsored by SSWR).
Tues, Fri, April 4: Renaissance Studies Seminar: Domenick Finello
(Spanish, Rider College), "Credibility and Renaissance
Storytelling: The Case of Cervantes." 6:30-8:30pm, Room 4060
Grace.
Fri, April 4: CUNY Renaissance Studies Panel: EARLY MODERN
TRANS-ATLANTIC ENCOUNTERS: David Quint (English, Yale), "The
Newness of the New World in Sixteenth-Century Italian Thought"; Steven
Mullaney (English, Michigan), "Imaginary Conquests: European
Visual Technologies and the Colonization of the New World" Mind; Rolena
Adorno (Spanish, Yale), "The Exemplary Tale of Gonzalo
Guerrero." Session to be held at 1997 Conference of the
Renaissance Society of America, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British
Columbia. 8:30-10:30am.
Fri, April 18: English Program Shakespeare Lecture: SHAKESPEARE'S
DISCOURSES: Jonathan Goldberg (English, John Hopkins University and
Duke University); Katherine Eisaman Maus (English, University of
Virginia). Titles TBA. 4:00 pm. Third Floor Studio, GS.
Thurs, May 1: Georgianna Ziegler (The Folger Shakespeare
Library), Title TBA.7:00-9:00 pm., The Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium
(Sponsored by SSWR)
Graduate Colloquium
In conjunction with the CUNY Renaissance Studies Conference, the
Renaissance Studies Program is also offering, together with the Ph.D.
Programs in English and in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, a
graduate colloquium: RenSt U831.01: Early Modern Trans-Atlantic
Encounters. Tues, 4:15-6:1 pm, Room 40-00 Grace. Weekly
speakers, syllabus, readings, and bibliographies are available on our
website.
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