Program Events
SCHEDULE OF CUNY RENAISSANCE & EARLY MODERN EVENTS
2012/2013
SPRING SEMESTER 2013
Friday, February 22
“Research and Grant Opportunities for Graduate Students at the Folger," Kathleen Lynch, Director, Folger Institute
2:00 – 4:00 pm, Room C-205
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Wednesday, March 15
"Antigone's Example: Early Modern Women's Political Writings & Civil War"
Mihoko Suzuki (English /Director, Center for the Humanites, University of Miami)
6:00-7:30pm, Room 4108
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Thursday-Friday, March 14-15
Becoming Global: The Renaissance and the World
Thursday, March 14
Lecture, Title TBA
Serge Gruzinski (Professor & Director of Research, Ecole des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales/Paris)
7:30pm, Proshansky Auditorium
Friday, March 15
Conference panels
9:00am-6:30pm, Elebash Recital Hall
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Website: http://globalrenaissance.ws.gc.cuny.edu/
Monday, April 8
"'In their Tables': Hamlet Q1 and its Audience"
Tiffany Stern (Professor of Early Modern Drama and Fellow of University College, Oxford)
4:00-6:00pm, Room 9204
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Thursday, April 11
"Crime & Sensationalim in Early Modern Germany"
Joy Wiltenburg (History/Rowan University)
6:00-7:30pm, Room 9207
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Monday, April 15
“Gathering Places and Collective Identities in Medieval and Early Modern Gaelic Ireland"
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (NUI/Galway)
5:00-7:00pm, Room 9204
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Friday, April 19
"Women in the Pantheon of Illustrious Men: Galleries, Books and Political Allegory in Seventeenth-Century France"
Abby Zanger
5:00p.m., Room 4202
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in French and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Friday, May 3
"Orientations: Female-Female Eros in Renaissance Neoplatonism"
Todd Reeser (French, University of Pittsburgh)
5:00p.m., Room 4202
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in French and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
SUMMER 2013
June 15-July 11
NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers:
"Researching Early Modern Manuscripts and Printed Books"
The Graduate Center, CUNY, The Morgan Library, Union Theological Library, Columbia Rare Books, Hispanic Society of America, New York Public Library, The New York Academy of Medicine, and The Grolier Club
Directors: Clare Carroll (The Graduate Center, CUNY) and Marc Cabal (University College Dublin) Deadline for application: March 4, 2013 http://www.2013nehseminar.ws.gc.cuny.edu
FALL SEMESTER 2012
Thursday, September 20
"The Future of Poetry: Shakespeare, Lanyer, and Textual Reproduction"
Sara Ostendorf (English, New York University)
6:00-7:30pm, Room 9207
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Friday, September 21
"Thinking About Tragedy in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy: Why Aristotle Didn't Lay the Egg"
Daniel Javitch (Emeritus Professor, Comparative Literature, NYU)
2:00-4:00pm, Room 9205
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Thursday, October 11
"Adultery in 15th-Century Northern France
Sara McDougall (History, John Jay College)
6:00-7:30pm, Room C205
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Friday, October 12
Transforming Identities Conference
Keynote speaker: Hannah Crawforth (Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at King’s College, London)
c9:00am-5:00pm, Skylight Room (Room 9100)
Sponsored by the Ph. D. Program in English, the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG), King's College, London, the London Shakespeare Centre, the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Friday, October 19
Roundtable: "New Trends in the History of Science"
Moderated by Monica Calabritto (Associate Professor, Romance Languages, Hunter & Comparative Literature, GC) with Nancy Siraisi (MacArthur Fellow and Distinguished Professor Emerita of History, Hunter/GC), Brian Copenhaver (Professor of Philosophy & History, UCLA), Pamela Smith (Professor of History, Columbia), Sheila Rabin (Professor of History, St. Peter's), Allison Kavey (Associate Professor of History, John Jay/GC), and Dániel Margócsy (Assistant Professor of History, Hunter)
2:00-4:00pm, Segal Theatre
Sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Friday, November 2
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Lyric Poetry
2:00-4:00pm, Segal Theatre
Sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG) and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Thursday, November 15
“Stages of Girlhood in Early Modern England”
Caroline Bicks (English, Boston College)
6:00-7:30pm, Room 9207
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program