Past Events
March 11, 4:00pm-6:00pm & March 12, 2:30pm-4:30pm (webinar)
Erich Auerbach: Scholarship & Cultural Identity in Times of Crisis
Join us to explore varying views on Erich Auerbach’s relation to German, Jewish and Christian thought. As Auerbach’s influence as a scholar of medieval and modern literature has spread, his reputation has grown as a cultural-historical figure known for writing his most important literary and cultural history in exile during the National Socialist era. He now shares this focus of attention with Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Hannah Arendt. This conference will feature new research by German and American scholars who will discuss Auerbach’s debt to secular, Christian and Jewish intellectual traditions in Germany.
For information, program, abstracts, and registration:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19bCB-Zp1IuraeDTSk3h4EJC2FeVTWU_F/view?usp=sharing [drive.google.com] Register: https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z_rEFCwYRhGiWeCunko0kw
Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature, Center for Jewish Studies, and the University of Oldenburg (Germany)
April 9, 5:00pm-7:00pm (Zoom)
Hernando Colón's Library Catalogues
Featured speaker: Seth Kimmel (Columbia University)
Ferdinand Columbus maintained a complex series of key word indexes, alphabetical lists of authors and titles, numerical inventories, and book summaries to document his library, one of the largest collections of the sixteenth century. This talk explores these catalogues, including Columbus’s massive compendium of summaries, known as the Libro de los epítomes and recently rediscovered in the Arnamagnæan Institute’s archive in Copenhagen.
Seth Kimmel is an associate professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, and the author of the award-winning book, Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain (University of Chicago Press, 2015). His work on Hernando Colón is part of a second book project that studies the relationship between library culture and cosmographic inquiry in early modern Spain.
Please contact us at renaissance@gc.cuny.edu for details on how to join the event.
Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America and the Bibliographical Society
April 30, 9:00am-6:00pm (Zoom)
Annual program conference “Gold, Sugar, Tobacco, Rice: The Stuff of the Early Modern Atlantic World”
Gold, Sugar, Tobacco, Rice: The Stuff of the Early Modern Atlantic” aims to explore the forces driving new forms of corporatization and labor extraction, including, but not limited to, racialized life-long slavery. We also hope to foreground the interactions of various colonial powers and indigenous populations, not only in terms of transfers of territory, but also exchanges of knowledge and taste, as well as impacts on social organization. The conference will be sponsored primarily by the Graduate Center’s interdisciplinary program in Global Early Modern Studies, as part of our focus on “Economies of Race and Labor in the Atlantic World” over the past two years.
Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gold-sugar-tobacco-the-stuff-of-the-early-modern-atlantic-world-tickets-145179581035
September 25, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Open House for Global Early Modern Studies
Students interested learning more about The Certificate Program in Global Early Modern Studies are welcome to attend this get together via Zoom.
You’ll have a chance to meet our faculty and find out what they’re working on and teaching. Everyone will have a chance to introduce themselves and ask questions. If you haven’t been to a meeting since we changed our name from Renaissance Studies to Global Early Modern Studies, this would be a good chance to learn about new directions in our program.
October 23, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Doing Research in the Time of COVID
Students and faculty from all disciplines who are interested in early modern studies are welcome to join a conversation about doing research in the time of Covid on Friday, October 23, 5:00-6:30 PM. There will be brief presentations about online research resources, interlibrary loan at the GC, and new internal funding opportunities for graduate student research, followed by small group discussions that bring faculty and students together to share strategies for starting and finishing research projects with the resources that are available to us now.
Speakers:
Lisa Tagliaferri, Graduate Center PhD (Comparative Literature & Renaissance Studies, 2018), Digital Humanities researcher at Villa I Tatti
Duncan Faherty, Director, Early Research Initiative at the Graduate Center
Silvia Cho, Interlibrary Loan Supervisor, Mina Rees Library
November 20, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Teaching in the CUNY Classroom
For graduate students who will be teaching for the first time in Fall 2021 or those who feel they might benefit from insight into CUNY, the background of the typical CUNY student, and how that background and curriculum matters—both in high school and at CUNY—relate to pedagogy and the teaching of early modern European literatures, cultures and histories, a seminar has been organized for Friday, November 20, 2020 from 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Some of the featured speakers include Professor Herman L. Bennett (Graduate Center), Professor Monica Calabritto (Graduate Center & Hunter College), Professor Clare Carroll (Graduate Center & Queens College), Professor Sarah Covington (Graduate Center & Queens College), and Professor Luke Walzer (Director, Teaching and Learning Center).
Following brief presentations, the session will be framed around a Q & A. We welcome all participants, especially first and second year graduate students about to enter the CUNY classroom.
February 13, 2020, 6:00pm-8:00pm, room 8301
Panel on Early Modern Oceans with Steve Mentz, Lowell Duckert, and Maurya Wickstrom
February 27, 2020, time and room to be finalized
Panel on early modern race with Carol Mejia-Laperle, Dennis Britton, and Jennifer Morgan, moderated by Erika Lin
[CANCELLED] March 12, 6:00pm-7:30pm, Segal Theater
Hernando Colón's Library Catalogues
Featured speaker: Seth Kimmel
CANCELLED: March 27, 9:00am-6:00pm, room 9206/9207
Annual program conference “Gold, Sugar, Tobacco, Rice: The Stuff of the Early Modern Atlantic World”
September 27, 2019, 5:00pm-7:00pm, room 4406
Negotiating Islamic Monuments in Early Modern Spain
November 1, 2019, 4:00pm-6:00pm, room 4416
“Shakespeare, Jankélévitch, and the Aesthetics of the Ineffable"
November 21, 2019, 6:00pm-8:00pm, room 5109
Redefining Ireland: Through Forgotten Early Modern Archives
Featured speakers: Pat Palmer, Clare Carroll, Sarah Covington
December 6, 2019, 5:00pm, room 4116
Forbidden Fruits: Religious Radicalism, Skepticism, and Sexuality in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
Featured speaker: Umberto Grassi
September 27, 2019, 5:00pm-7:00pm, room 4406
February 1, 2019, 4:00pm, room 4406
Queer Milton
Featured speakers:
Corey McEleney, Fordham
Erin Murphy, Boston U
David Orvis, Appalachian State
Melissa E. Sanchez, Penn
Steven Swarbrick, Baruch, CUNY
Response by Mario Di Gangi (Lehman College & Graduate Center, CUNY)
This book launch and roundtable celebrates the release of the landmark collection Queer Milton, an overdue intervention in the field of Milton criticism. A glittering assemblage of the volume’s contributors will discuss their essays, with topics ranging over gender and sexuality, ecocriticism, and biopolitics. They will also point to paths not yet taken, to queer Miltons waiting to be explored. Mario DiGangi will situate panelists’ remarks in the larger landscape of queer early modern studies.
Cosponsored with the Ph.D. program in English and the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
February 22, 2019, 5:30pm, room 5109
“Fighting over Greek in Early Modern Europe" A panel featuring Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College and GC), Jessica Wolfe (UNC-Chapel Hill), and Micha Lazarus (Cambridge)
Far from representing established authority, Greek emerged into early modern Europe as a source of crisis and controversy, challenging received assumptions about religious authority, political power, literary genres, relations between the sexes, education, and more. Just as ancient Greek texts encouraged thinkers across Europe to reflect on the origin, nature, and evolution of conflict, the contested status of Greek itself generated new conflicts.Opposed by conservatives and embraced by champions of reform, Greek electrified learning and literary culture across Europe alongside the start of the print revolution.
April 5, 2019, 9:00am-6:00pm, Segal Theatre
"English Among the Literatures of The Early Modern World"
Annual Renaissance Studies Certificate Program conference
May 1, 2019, 6:30pm, Segal Theatre
Shakespeare in Living Color: Race and Performance Now
In an evening of performance, director José Esquea generates fresh dramatic tensions in key Shakespeare scenes by introducing questions of race. Formerly director and artistic director of Teatro LATEA, Esquea has directed multicultural productions of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth 2029, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear. The evening’s performance will be followed by a conversation with the director and Shakespeare scholars Tanya Pollard, professor of English at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, and Miles Grier, assistant professor of English at Queens College.
Co-sponsored with Public Programs
May 3, 2019, 4:00pm-6:00pm, room 4406
Producing Race: Shakespeare and Staged Racial Bodies
Featured speakers: Sydnee Wagner, Patricia Akhimie, Jose Esquea
Moderated by Erika Lin
Co-sponsored with the Ph.D. Program in English
September 21, 2018, 5:00pm-7:00pm, room 4202
“Riveruse: Water, Gender, and Resources in Early Modern France”
Co-sponsored with the Ph.D. programs in French, History, and Comparative Literature
Biography:
Katherine Ibbett is Professor of French at the University of Oxford, and Caroline de Jager Fellow in French at Trinity College, Oxford; she has previously taught at University College London and the University of Michigan. She is the author of Compassion’s Edge: Fellow-Feeling and its Limits in Early Modern France (Penn, 2017) and The Style of the State in French Theater (Ashgate, 2009), and the co-editor of Walter Benjamin’s Hypothetical French Trauerspiel (Yale French Studies 2013). She is currently working on a book entitled Liquid Empire, about the writing of water in France and the Americas.
Talk:
This talk explores the relationship between a figurative language about rivers and a new science of hydrology in early modern France and the French Americas. How did the residents of riverbanks - from nymphs to washerwomen - navigate the significance of the river and its multiple resources?
October 15, 2018, 4:00pm-5:00pm, room 4416
"The Image, the Saint and the Earthquake: Francisco Borja and the Politics of God and Nature in the Spanish Empire"
Featured speaker: Monica Azzolini (Bologna)
In 1627, an image of Francisco Borja fortuitously acquired from an indigenous indian by a rich man from the Andean town of Tunja started to perspire profusely under the eyes of the man’s son. Attempts to dry the picture were futile: the moisture kept resurfacing. If this was not wondrous enough, with time passing the expression of the aspiring saint became increasingly sad and doleful, “as if to indicate a forthcoming calamity”. A number of dignitaries visited the site to collect testimonies of the miracle and present them to the archbishop of Santa Fè to promote Borja’s canonization. These events, miraculous as they were, were not connected to earthquakes until the earth started to shake a few months later. It was at this point that a new commission was established to examine the wondrous events: Borja was elected patron saint of earthquakes and invested with intercessory powers against natural disasters. This paper shall investigate how this intercessory cult emerged in the Kingdom of New Granada and how it was later transferred to Rome and Naples. In doing so, the paper explores both the complex relationship between the Jesuits and the Borja dynasty within the vast Iberian Empire and concepts of nature and the divine in the period ca. 1620-1780.
October 19, 2018, 7:30am-9:00am, room 9207
"Teaching, Learning and Researching Early Modern Irish in a Digital Age."
Co-sponsored by the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies and the Queens College Irish Studies Program
Featured speaker: Dr. Brendan Kane of the University of Connecticut (Storrs)
Biography:
Brendan Kane is an associate professor of history at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and the author of The politics and culture of honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541-1641 (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He is also co-editor of Elizabeth I and Ireland (Cambridge University Press (2014) andNobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland (with Thomas Herron), Folger Shakespeare Library (2013). He is also one of the founders of the website Léamh.org, which seeks to promote the dissemination and translation of early modern Irish-language texts.
October 26, 2018, 5:00pm-7:00pm, room 9207
“Shakespeare, Spenser and du Bellay: Translation and Imitation in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.”
Featured speaker: Line Cottegnies (English, Sorbonne)
Line Cottegnies is Professor of early-modern English literature at Sorbonne Université. She works on cultural exchanges between England and France from the late XVIth century to the Restoration and on early-modern authorship. She has recently edited 2 HenryIV for the Norton Shakespeare and coedited Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England, an edition of Mary Sidney Herbert’s Antonius and Thomas Kyd’s Cornelia (MHRA, 2017), with M.-A. Belle. She is currently editing three of Aphra Behn’s translations from the French for the Cambridge Complete Works.
Friday, March 9, 2018, 9:30 AM-6 PM, Elebash Recital Hall
Affect Theory and the History of Emotions in Early Modern England
Speakers include: Mary Floyd-Wilson (Bowman and Gordan Gray Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Amanda Bailey (Professor, English, University of Maryland); Benedict Robinson (Associate Professor, English, SUNY Stony Brook), Patricia Cahill (Associate Professor, English, Emory); Katharine Craik (Reader, Early Modern Literature, Oxford Brookes)
For more details, see the conference website. You may also RSVP here.
Friday, April 27 2018, 4:00- 5:30 PM, Room C198
Festive Performance, Theatrical Surrogates: Early Modern Holidays and Commercial Playing
In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, holidays were often celebrated with dancing, music, athletic combat, unscripted roleplaying, and crossdressing. In the London playhouses, however, these same communal rituals functioned as commodified entertainments. This talk examines several ways in which theatre mobilized the logic of substitution that lay at the heart of seasonal festivity. In surrogating for older popular forms, not by representing holidays but by embodying them, commercial playing transformed performance from a ubiquitous mode of sociality into the institutionalized, aesthetic mode that we think of today as “theatre.”
Featured speaker: Erika T. Lin (Professor, Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center)
Erika T. Lin is an Associate Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance, which won the 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies. Her research on seasonal festivities and early modern commercial theatre has been supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Long-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library. In addition, with Gina Bloom and Tom Bishop, she is editing a volume of essays on early modern games and theatre. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Shakespeare Association of America and as the Book Review Editor for Theatre Survey
Friday, September 15, 2017, 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM, History Department Lounge, Room 5114
Reception for new and returning students and faculty in Renaissance Studies
Presentation of Essay Award to Jennie Youssef (Ph.D. Candidate, Theatre) for her essay, “A Querelles of Queens: An Alternate Reading of Antoine de Montchrestien’s La Reine D’Escosse.
Friday, October 13, 2017, 10:00 AM – 5 PM, Room C197
The Early Modern Cultural Impact of the Lutheran Reformation
Featured speakers:
Debora K Shuger (Distinguished Professor, English, UCLA)
Richard McCoy (Disginguished Professor, English, CUNY)
Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Kay Fortson Chair in European Art, University of Texas, Austin)
Sarah Covington (Professor, History, CUNY)
Andrew Morrall (Professor, Chair of Academic Programs, Bard Graduate Center),
W. David Myers (Professor, History, Fordham)
Reception to follow in Room 5114
Please RSVP here
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and Renaissance Society of America
Friday, November 3, 2017, 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Room 9204
Collecting Cultures in the Age of Exploration
Featured speaker: Surekha Davies (Assistant Professor, European History, Western Connecticut University)
Surekha Davies is the author of Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge University Press, 2016), winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas, and the Roland H. Bainton Prize in History from the Sixteenth-Century Studies Society. She will be speaking about her new book project “Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire” which, as she writes, “analyzes travel and geographical literature, inventories, artifacts and institutional archives from the early sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries in order to reconsider what the lives of objects can tell us about empires. “
February 24, 2017, 2:00-4:00 PM, Room 9204
Reading Greek Authors in the Renaissance: Two Case Studies: Xenophon and Lucian
Noreen Humble (Classics, Calgary) and Keith Sidwell (Classics, University College Cork)
March 17, 2017, 2:00-4:00 PM, Room 9205
Illegitimacy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Sara McDougall (French, John Jay and The Graduate Center): "Bastards and Bastard Priests in Medieval Europe“
Glenn Burger (English, Queens and The Graduate Center): “Bedroom Conduct: Legitimizing Late Medieval/Early Modern Marital Relations"
April 28, 2017, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM, The Segal Theatre
Conference: "Rights, the Human, and Literature in Early Modernity"
(Co-sponsored by the Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC), the Provost’s Office, the PhD Program in English, and the PhD Program in History)
This conference explored the pre-histories of human rights in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It took as a point of departure recent scholarship opening up the history of human rights and seeing it in less deterministic ways—less centered on Enlightenment republicanism, less Western, less inevitably focused on civil and political rights at the expense of social and economic rights.
Schedule
10:00-11:30, Opening Plenary
Eric Nelson (Harvard), “Liberalism and Theodicy”
Respondent: Joy Connolly (Graduate Center)
11:45-1:00, Rights in Continental and Eastern traditions
Chair: Clare Carroll (Graduate Center)
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (NYU), “The Right to Write Islam: Muslim Literati in Early Modern China”
Domna Stanton (Graduate Center), “‘Perpetual Peace,’ from Grotius to Kant: A Precursor to Human Rights?”
Christopher N. Warren (Carnegie Mellon), “Angels and Diplomats”
2:00-3:30, Rights in the early modern Atlantic world
Chair: Sarah A. Covington (Graduate Center)
Herman Bennett (Graduate Center), “Before the Human: Africans, Sovereigns, and Slaves”
Sarah Rivett (Princeton), “Natural Equality without Political Rights: Missionary Linguistics and the Limits of Universalism in Early America”
Sharon Achinstein (Johns Hopkins), “New World Behn: Languages of the Body and Questions of Humanity”
4:00-5:30, Closing Plenary / Joseph A. Wittreich Lecture in Milton Studies
Mary Nyquist (Toronto), “Hobbes, Milton, and the Right of (Political) Resistance”
Respondent: John M. Archer (NYU)
September 15, 6:00-7:30 PM, Room 9207
Seminar for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
“Offstage Direction: French Women and the Reshaping of the Renaissance Theatre”
Francesca Canadé Sautman (French, Hunter and The Graduate Center)
September 30, 2016, 12 Noon – 1 PM, The Medieval Study (Room 5105)
Celebration of Research and Essay Prize Winners
Maura Kenny, Winner of the 2016 Research Award & Krystle Farman, Winner of the 2016 Essay Award
October 14, 4:00-6:00 PM, The Skylight Room
Roundtable: Renaissance Studies and the Digital Humanities
Speakers: Michael Ullyot (English, Calgary), Richard Freedman (Music, Haverford), Julie Van Peteghem (Romance Languages, Hunter), and Andie Silva (English, York)
October 17-21, The Graduate Center and New York University, Casa Italiana
Ariosto after 500 Years
David Quint, Lina Bolzoni, Federica Caneparo, JoAnn Cavallo, Sergio Zatti, Wendy Heller, Jane Tylus, Dennis Looney, Luigi Ballerini, Brian Richardson, Antonio Ricci, Daniela D’Eugenio, Bettina Lerner, Alessandro Giammei, Joshua Reid, Melissa Swain, Eugenio Reffini
https://symposiumariostoafter500years.wordpress.com/
October 28, 2:00-6:00 PM: Open House: The Dining Commons
Lunch and informal meetings with Renaissance Studies faculty and students followed by the English Friday Forum: 4:00-6:00 PM, Skylight Room : ‘My Play’s Last Scene’: Donne and Bowie Perform Death”
November 5, 4:00 – 6:00 PM, The English Department Lounge, Room 4406
Othello Now: Race and Academic Identities
Ian Smith (English, Lehigh) and Miles Parks Grier (English, Queens College)
Thursday, February 18
Dressing Renaissance Bodies
Penny Jolly (Art/Skidmiore)
6:00-7:30pm, Room 9206
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaisance and the Women's Studies Certificate Program
Thursday, March 17
Queer Pregnancies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Alicia Andrzejewski (PhD Student/English)
6:00-7:30pm, Room C201
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaisance and the Women's Studies Certificate Program
Thursday-Friday, March 18-19
400 Years (and Two Days) of Shakespeare
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the CUNY Graduate Center and the Theatre for a New Audience present a two-part symposium on Shakespeare’s legacy on both page and stage.
Friday, March 18, 2016, 4:00-6:00 PM, Room 4406
Shakespeare Dead or Alive: What’s Trending in Shakespeare Studies?
Richard McCoy will moderate a roundtable discussion featuring Mario Di Gangi (current president of the Shakespeare Association of America), Gail Kern Paster (Director Emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library, past president of SAA, and current editor of Shakespeare Quarterly), Tanya Pollard (co-editor, Shakespearian Sensations). Ayanna Thompson (author of Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race and Contemporary America).
Saturday, March 19, 2016, 11 AM-12:15 PM
Shakespeare in Performance at TFANA
Theatre for a New Audience, Polonsky Shakespeare Center
262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Theatre for a New Audience has been producing Shakespeare’s plays for more than three decades. Jeffrey Horowitz, TFANA’s Founding Artistic Director, will join a panel discussion of Shakespeare’s plays in contemporary performance with members of TFANA’s Council of Scholars, Gail Kern Paster, Tanya Pollard, and Ayanna Thompson; Richard McCoy will moderate.
Free event, email humanities@tfana.org to reserve your seat.
Saturday, March 19, 2016, 2:00 PM
Performance of Shakespeare’s Pericles, directed by Trevor Nunn
Followed by TFANA Talk with Gail Kern Paster and Members of the Cast
Theatre for a New Audience, Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Tickets $55 with code PERCUNY* TFANA.org
Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 10:00 AM- 5PM, Room 9206
Symposium on Researching in European Archives
Featuring talks by Matteo Binasco (Notre Dame, Rome), Paolo Broggio (Studi Umanistici, Roma Tre), Simon Ditchfield (Early Modern History, University of York), Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (School of History and Archives, University College Dublin), and Igor Pérez Tostado (Geography, History and Philosophy, Pablo de Olavide University).
Wednesday, April 6
Montaigne and Transnational Literatures and Languages in the Late Renaissance
Warren Boutcher ( Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary University of London)
4:00-6:00pm, Room C201
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Thursday, April 14
A Lens into the Study of Early Modern Women
Abby Zanger (author/editor)
6:00-7:30pm, Room C201
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaisance and the Women's Studies Certificate Program
Renaissance Studies Student Works in Progress Series: Fridays, 12:00-1:15pm, Medieval Study, Room 5105
March 4
Joseph Bowling, "John Higgins' First Part of the Mirror for Magistrates and the Primal Scene of British History,"
Faculty respondents Rich McCoy and Clare Carroll
April 8
Lisa Tagliaferri, "English Responses to Catherine of Siena," Chapter 2 of “Lyrical Mysticism: The Writing and Reception of Catherine of Siena"
Faculty respondents: Steve Kruger and Clare Carroll
April 15
Luisanna Sardu, "Concealing Anger, Provoking Laughter in Catalina Ramirez De Guzman's Poems"
Faculty respondents: Monica Calabritto and Lia Schwartz
May 6
Daniela D’Eugenio: "Translating Macro-Terms: Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, Idiomatic Expressions, and Compound Words in Translation."
Faculty respondents: TBA
Thursday, September 17
Women Without Men: Sailors' Wives in Early Modern Europe
Eleanor K. Hubbard (History/Princeton)
6:00-7:30pm, Room C201
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaisance and the Women's Studies Certificate Program
Friday, September 18
How to Apply for Post-Doctoral Fellowships
a workshop with Dr. Carla Zecher, Executive Director
Renaissance Society of America
12:00-2:00pm, Room 9207
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Thursday, October 8
Women's Voices in 17th Century Venice
Wendy Heller (Music, Director of Italian Studies/Princeton)
6:00-7:30pm, Room 9206
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaisance and the Women's Studies Certificate Program
Friday, October 16
A Saslow Renaissance: Seeing Sex and Gender in the Rinascimento
with Guido Ruggiero (University of Miami), Will Fisher (Lehman/GC), and Allison Levy (Art Historian). James Saslow (Professor Emeritus, Queens/GC), Respondent
4:00-6:00pm, Room C198
Sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Friday, November 6
Global Shakespeare: Affective Histories, Cultural Memories
Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University)
4:00-6:00pm, Room 4406 (English Program Lounge)
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English
Thursday, November 19
Gender and Travel Discourse: Early Modern English Women's Travel and Travel Writing
Patricia Akhjimie (English/Rutgers)
6:00-7:30pm, Room C201
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaisance and the Women's Studies Certificate Program
Friday, September 5
Centering the Edges: A Symposium of Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art in Honor of Professor Eloise Quiñones Kerber
2:00-6:45pm, Segal Theatre
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Art History and the Renaissance Society of America
Thursday, September 18
Slavery and the Sweet Tase of Empire
Kim Hall (English,Barnard College) and Jennifer Morgan (History, NYU)
6:00-7:30pm, Room C202
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Friday, September 19
"The Laurel and the Axe: Execution Poetry in Late-Renaissance Italy"
Virginia Cox (NYU)
4:00-6:00pm, Room 4116
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature (Italian Specialization) and the Sonia Raiziss Giop Foundation
Information: mcalabritto@gc.cuny.edu
Thursday, October 16
"Greek Tragic Heroines in Shakespeare's Comedies"
Tanya Pollard (Comparative Literature, Brooklyn College & GC/CUNY)
6:00-7:30pm, Room 9206
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Friday, October 17
Roundtable on Renaissance Mediterranean Studies
Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto), Leslie Peirce (New York University), Adam Beaver (Princeton), Anna Akasoy (Hunter, CUNY)
4:00-6:00 PM, Room 9100 (The Skylight Room)
Sponsored by the Renaissance Society of American and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Friday, October 24
Dante in Comtemporary Perspectives
An all-day conference featuring sessions on 20th-Century Readers of Dante, Translations, and Dante High and Low.
9:30am-6:00pm, Segal Theatre
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature (Italian Specialization), the Doctoral Students’ Council,the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, the Medieval Studies Certificate Program, the Romance Languages Department (Hunter College), the World Languages Department (College of Staten Island), the Department of European Languages and Literatures (Queens College), the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (City College of New York), the Department of Italian Studies (New York University), and the Renaissance Society of America.
Tuesday, October 28
Presentation of Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire (Visual Culture in Early Modernity), by Eugenia Paulicelli (Ashgate). The author will be joined by Bella Mirabella (Literature & Humanities, Gallatin School/NYU), Emily Braun (Art History, Hunter & GC/CUNY). Moderator: Ruthann Robson (CUNY School of Law)
6:00-8:00pm, Segal Theatre
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Thursday, November 13
Libertinism and Misogyny in Early Modern Venice
Paulo Fasoli (Italian & Comparative Literature, Hunter & GC/CUNY) and Andrea Fedi (Italian, SUNY-Stony Brook)
6:00-7:30pm, Room C201
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Friday, February 7
"On English Women as Authors, Distributors and Readers of Manuscripts and Books in Early Modern Prisons"
Earle Havens ((The William Kurrelmeyer Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts, The Sheridan Libraries, & Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of German & Romance Languages & Literatures/Johns Hopkins University)
4:00pm, Room 5114
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Friday, March 7
"On Hospitality in the Italian Renaissance"
Jane Tylus (Italian & Comparative Literature/NYU)
5:00-7:00pm, Room 9205
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Wednesday, March 26
"Global Renaissance/Anachronic Renaissance?": A Discussion
Serge Gruzinski (Princeton) and Alex Nagel (Institute of Fine Arts/NYU)
3:00-5:00pm, Rooms C203-C205
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Wednesday, April 2
"The History of the Book and the Digital Humanities"
Jonathan Hope (Literary Linguistics/University of Strathclyde)
2:00-4:00pm, Room 6495
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Friday, April 4
Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture
Lucy Munro (King's College, London)
4:00-6:00pm, Room 4406 (English Program Lounge)
Sponsored by the Ph. D. Program in English and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Thursday, September 19
"Translating the Diva: The Contrasti of Renaissance Actress Isabella Andreini"
Pamela Allen Brown, English/University of Connectcut, Stamford
6:00-7:30pm, Room 9206
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Friday, October 4
Roundtable: History of Women in the Renaissance, in Honor of Margaret King
2:00-4:00pm, Skylight Room (Room 9100)
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the Renaissance Society of America
Thursday, October 10
"An Unicum Among Renaissance Conduct Manuals: Annibal Guasco's Discourse to Lady Lavinia, His Daughter (1586)
Alexandra Coller, Languages & Literatures, Lehman College/CUNY
6:00-7:30pm, Room 9206
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Friday, October 18
"Women in the Pantheon of Illustrious Men: Galleries, Books and Political Allegory in Seventeenth-Century France”
Abby Zanger, author, Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power (Stanford)
5:00 - 7:00PM, Room 4202, French Program Lounge
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, Center for the Study of Women and Society and the PhD Program in French
Friday, November 1
"Una magnifica asprezza: Musical and Poetic Gravitas in the Late Renaissance Madrigal"
Giuseppe Gerbino, Music/Columbia University
5:00-7:00pm, Room 9205
7:00pm, Reception, Room 4202, French Program Lounge
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and Comparative Literature's Italian Program
Thursday, November 21
"Marie de Medici's Ballets at the Court of Henri IV
Melinda Gough, English/McMaster University
6:00-7:30pm, Room C-201
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Friday, December 6
"Comparative Perspectives on Writing Micro-History"
Vincent Carey, History/SUNY Plattsburgh & Visiting Professor/Queens
Monica Calabritto, Romance Languages/Hunter & Comparative Literature & Italian/GC
4:00-6:00pm, Room 5114 (History Program Lounge)
Sponsored by the Certificate Program in Renaissance Studies
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
“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
Friday, February 22
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
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
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3
"Double Dealings and Double Meanings: Deliberation, Dissimulation, and the Ebb and Flow of Intimacy in Early Modern Fiction"
Adele Kudish (Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature), Winner of the 2011 Renaissance and Early Modern Travel and Research Grant
Room 5114 (History Lounge), 2:00-4:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
"The Boy Actor and the Professional Actress in Shakespeare"
Pamela Brown (English, University of Connecticut, Stamford)
Room 9206, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Cosponsored by the Womens Studies Certificate Program (WSCP) & the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
THURSDAY, MARCH 8
"The Fictions of Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Costume Books to Satires (1590-1648)"
Eugenia Paulicelli, (Italian and Comparative Literature, Fashion Studies , The Graduate Center/CUNY)
Room 9206, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Cosponsored by the WSCP & SSWR
TUESDAY, MARCH 27
"Global Designs: Fashioning Textiles in the Early Modern World"
Giorgio Riello (History, Warwick University)
Room C-197, 2:00-4:00pm
Sponsored by the Ph. D. Program in History, Fashion Studies, and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
FRIDAY, MARCH 30
"Double-Sided Portraits: Literary Models, Modes of Perception between
Mind and Body"
Lina Bulzoni (University of Pisa)
Room 3408 (Art History Lounge), 4:00-6:00pm
Sponsored by the Comparative Literature Program's Italian Doctoral Specialization and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
FRIDAY, APRIL 20
"The Nuns of Port Royal"
Carol Baxter, Co-Editor (with Ruth Whelan) of Toleration and Religious Identity: The Edict of Nantes and Its Implications in France, Britain and Ireland (Four Courts Press)
Room 9207, 5:00-7:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
THURSDAY, APRIL 26
"The Myth of Counter-Reformation Misogyny"
Virginia Cox (Italian, New York University)
Room 9207, 6:00 -7:30 p.m.
Cosponsored by the WSCP & SSWR
FRIDAY, MAY 4
"The Aesthetic Cure: Skin Disease, Noses, and the Invention of Plastic Surgery"
Valeria Finucci
Room 4116, 4:00-6:00p.m.
Sponsored by the Comparative Literature Program's Italian Doctoral Specialization and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
Opening Reception for new and continuing students and faculty.
Room 5114 (History Lounge), 4:00-5:30pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
"Reading (Between) the Lines: Shakespeare's Old Ladies"
Naomi Conn Liebler (English/Montclair State University)
Room 9206, 6:00-7:30pm
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
"Religious Exile and Migration in the Early Modern World"
A roundtable discussion featuring Megan Armstrong (History/McMaster University); Francesca Bregoli (History/Queens College-CUNY); Leslie Peirce (Ottoman History/NYU); and Nicholas Terpstra (History/University of Toronto)
Introduction by Provost Chase Robinson (Professor/History)
Skylight Room (Room 9100), 4:00-6:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the Renaissance Society of America
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20
"Hunting Women Heretics in Henry VIII's England: The Case of Anne Askew"
Daniel Lowenstein (English/University of Wisconsin
Room 9206, 6:00-7:30pm
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28
"Mass Entertainment and Renaissance Drama"
Jeffrey Knapp (Chancellor's Professor of English, University of California/Berkeley)
Room 4406, 4:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the Ph.D. Program in English
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Renaissance Studies Seminar
"Groveling with Earth in Kyd and Shakespeare's Historical Tragedies"
Jean Feerick (Brown University)
Room: C-197, 3:00-4:30pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17
"I'll Put a Girdle Round About the Earth in Forty Minutes"
Allison Kavey (History/John Jay College/CUNY)
Room 9206, 6:00-7:30pm
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18
"How can the 'Galileo Case' be Closed?
Michael Segre (Professor & Chair of History of Science, Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy)
Room C-415, 2:00-4:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
FRIDAY, JANUARY 28
Roundtable Discussion
"Affect in Medieval and Early Modern Studies"
featuring Glenn Burger and Mario DiGangi,
with Patricia Clough (Respondent)
Room 4406 (English Program Lounge), 4:00-5:30pm
Sponsored by the Certificate Programs in Medieval Studies and Renaissance Studies and the Ph.D. Program in English
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Presentation by Ph.D. Candidate Linda Neiberg (English)
"Exquisite Corpses: Reading Necro-Eroticism in
Early Modern English Culture"
Followed by start of semester gettogether for students and faculty, honoring winners of the 2010 & 2011 Renaissance & Early Modern Travel & Reseach Grants (Linda Neiberg won the 2010 award; the 2011 winner will be announced.)
Room: C-415A, 2:00-4:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Emily Sherwood (English/Graduate Center-CUNY)
"'A wife by any other name': Renaissance Rebranding & Self-Identification
6:00-7:30pm, Room C-197
Sponsored by the Society for Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25
Arthur Marotti (Distinguished Professor of English/Wayne State)
"In Defense of Idolatry: Residual Catholic Culture & the Protestant
Assault on the Sensuous in Early Modern England"
Robert Miola (Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of English & Distinguished Professor of Classics/Loyola)
"Publishing the Word: The Sacred Poetry of Robert Southwell, SJ"
Room 9204, 5:00-7:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
THURSDAY, MARCH 17
Janet Starner (English/Wilkes University) & Barbara Traister (English/Lehigh University)
"Anonymous"
Room C-197, 6:00-7:30pm
Sponsored by the Society for Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
THURSDAY, APRIL 14
Cristina Alfer (English/Hunter-CUNY)
" 'All the argument is a whore and a cuckold': Spousal de Praesenti & Marital Betrayal in Troilus and Cressida"
Room C-197, 6:00-7:30pm
Sponsored by the Society for Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
FRIDAY, APRIL 15
Michelangelo Symposium
Leonard Barkan (Princeton)
Deborah Parker (University of Virginia)
Room 9207, 4:00-6:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
FRIDAY, APRIL 29
Graduate Student Conference
Early Modern Encounters
Keynote Speaker: Nigel Smith (Princeton University)
Room: 9204/9205, Time TBA
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, Ph.D. Program in English, Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG), Doctoral Students Council, The Annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture
Organizers: Colin Macdonald & Michael Plunkett
FRIDAY, May 6
Richard Strier (University of Chicago)
"Mind, Nature, Heterodoxy & Iconoclasm in The Winter's Tale"
Room C-197, 4:00-6:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
Sophie Marinez (French and Francophone Studies/Vassar)
"Gender, Architecture, and Self-Construction in the Works of Mademoiselle de Montpensier"
6:00-7:30pm, Room C-197
Sponsored by the Society for Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7
Kathryn Finin (English/SUNY Oneonta)
"Reading Lady Macbeth"
6:00-7:30pm, Room C-205
Sponsored by the Society for Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8
"Defining the Field: Renaissance Art History/Early Modern Visual Culture"
Panelists:
Chris Atkins (Queens College/CUNY)
Andrew Morrall (Bard College)
Deborah Parker (University of Virginia)
Amanda Wunder (Lehman College/CUNY)
3:00-5:30pm, Skylight Room (Room 9100)
Sponsored by Ph.D. Programs in Art History, Comparative Literature, History, and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5
"The Threshold of the Public and the Private in the Italian Renaissance"
Stephen Campbell (Art History, Johns Hopkins)
"The Threshold between Public and Private: Mantegna's Camera Picta and the Gonzaga Court"
William Kennedy (Comparative Literature, Cornell)
"Public Statements, Private Goods: Petrarch as Homo Economius"
4:00-5:30pm, Room C-197
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Bianca Calabresi (English/Farleigh Dickinson)
"'L'ingegno donnesco': Alternate Sites of Women's Writing"
6:00-7:30pm, Room C-197
Sponsored by the Society for Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3
Kenneth Stow (Jewish History/University of Haifa)
"From Civil Society to the Family: Transformations in Early Modern Confraternal Structure in Rome"
3:00pm, Room 4116
Sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG)
End-of-semester reception following honoring the Yael Nezer, 2009/2010 winner of the Graduate Student Essay Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Friday, February 5
Tracy Robey (Ph.D. Student in History, Winner of 2008-2009 Travel & Research Grant in Renaissance Studies)
“Damnation of Memory in Renaissance Italy
4:00-6:00pm, Room 5109 (Certificate Programs Office)
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Thursday, February 18
Clare Carroll (Comparative Literature/CUNY)
“Female Fortitude: A Memoir on Princess Clementina Sobieski”
6:00-7:30pm, Room C-197
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
Friday, March 5
Barbara Lane (Art History/CUNY, author Hans Membling, Master Painter in Fifteenth-Century Bruges, Harvey Miller: Studies in Medieval & Early Renaissance Art History, 2009)
“Hans Membling’s Impact on Italian Painting, 1470-1510”
4:00-6:00pm, Room 3416
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Art History and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Thursday, March 18
Kathryn Finin (English/SUNY, Oneonta)
“Reading Lady Macbeth”
6:00-7:30pm, Room C-197
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
Thursday, April 22
Virginia Scott (Theatre/U of Massachusetts, Amherst)
“The Actress and Farce in Sixteenth-Century France”
6:00-7:30pm, Room C-197
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR)
Friday, April 23
Religious Difference and Co-existence in the Early Modern World
Symposium with lectures and round table discussion featuring Elisheva Carlebach (History, Columbia), “Early Modern European Jewry”; Nabil Matar (History & English, University of Minnesota), “Religious Toleration in the Ottoman Empire”; and Jeffrey Knapp (English, UC Berkeley), “Shakespeare and Civil Religion.”
1:30-5:00pm, Room 9100 (The Skylight Room)
Sponsored by the Provost’s Office, The Center for the Humanities, Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, Ph. D. Program in English, and Jewish Studies. Information
Tuesday, April 27
Helio Alves (Portuguese & Comparative Literature/Universidade de Évora)
"Failed Poets: Naming and Canonicity from Epic to Lyric
6:30pm, Room 5109
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Friday, April 30
Graduate Student Conference
‘What a Piece of Work is Man’:
Exploring Early Modern Masculinity
Keynote Address: Jean Howard (Columbia University)
Sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG)
Thursday, May 6
Katrina Atar (Italian/Queens College, CUNY)
“Scandalous Liaisons: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Italian Novella”
6:30pm, Room TBA
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, and the Italian Literature and Linguistics Program
Thursday, September 17
Elizabeth Pallitto (Comparative Literature/CUNY)
“From Cortegiana in the Temple of Venus to Cortegiano in the Temple of Vertu: Metamorphosis in Tullia d’Aragona Self-Fashioning”
6:00-7:30pm. Room 4108 (Liberal Studies Lounge)
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR) Information: Susan O'Malley
Thursday, October 15
Joan Hartman (English (Emerita), College of Staten Island/CUNY) and
Stephen Sterns (History, College of Staten Island/CUNY)
“Elizabeth Stuart, Princess Royal, Electress of the Palatinate, and Queen of Bohemia, Negotiates”
6:00-7:30pm. Room C-197
Sponsored by SSWR
Friday, November 6
Sarah Covington (History, Queens/CUNY)
“Judas and the English Reformation”
4:00pm. Room 5109 (Certificate Programs Office)
Sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Thursday, November 19
Bella Mirabella (English, Gallatin/New York University)
“Ornamentalism: The Art of Renaissance Accessories”
6:00-7:30pm. Room C-205
Sponsored by SSWR
September 25, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Open House for Global Early Modern Studies
Students interested learning more about The Certificate Program in Global Early Modern Studies are welcome to attend this get together via Zoom.
You’ll have a chance to meet our faculty and find out what they’re working on and teaching. Everyone will have a chance to introduce themselves and ask questions. If you haven’t been to a meeting since we changed our name from Renaissance Studies to Global Early Modern Studies, this would be a good chance to learn about new directions in our program.
Please register through https://www.eventbrite.com/e/119478723077. Everyone who registers will be sent a Zoom link on the morning of the event.
October 23, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Doing Research in the Time of COVID
Students and faculty from all disciplines who are interested in early modern studies are welcome to join a conversation about doing research in the time of Covid on Friday, October 23, 5:00-6:30 PM. There will be brief presentations about online research resources, interlibrary loan at the GC, and new internal funding opportunities for graduate student research, followed by small group discussions that bring faculty and students together to share strategies for starting and finishing research projects with the resources that are available to us now.
Please let us know if you will attend by clicking on the following link and registering.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/doing-research-in-the-time-of-covid-tickets-125381506461
All those who respond will be sent a Zoom link on the morning of October 23.
Speakers:
Lisa Tagliaferri, Graduate Center PhD (Comparative Literature & Renaissance Studies, 2018), Digital Humanities researcher at Villa I Tatti
Duncan Faherty, Director, Early Research Initiative at the Graduate Center
Silvia Cho, Interlibrary Loan Supervisor, Mina Rees Library
November 20, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Teaching in the CUNY Classroom
For graduate students who will be teaching for the first time in Fall 2021 or those who feel they might benefit from insight into CUNY, the background of the typical CUNY student, and how that background and curriculum matters—both in high school and at CUNY—relate to pedagogy and the teaching of early modern European literatures, cultures and histories, a seminar has been organized for Friday, November 20, 2020 from 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Some of the featured speakers include Professor Herman L. Bennett (Graduate Center), Professor Monica Calabritto (Graduate Center & Hunter College), Professor Clare Carroll (Graduate Center & Queens College), Professor Sarah Covington (Graduate Center & Queens College), and Professor Luke Walzer (Director, Teaching and Learning Center).
Following brief presentations, the session will be framed around a Q & A. We welcome all participants, especially first and second year graduate students about to enter the CUNY classroom.
Please email us at renaissance@gc.cuny.edu for the Zoom link.
March 11, 4:00pm-6:00pm & March 12, 2:30pm-4:30pm (webinar)
Erich Auerbach: Scholarship & Cultural Identity in Times of Crisis
Join us to explore varying views on Erich Auerbach’s relation to German, Jewish and Christian thought. As Auerbach’s influence as a scholar of medieval and modern literature has spread, his reputation has grown as a cultural-historical figure known for writing his most important literary and cultural history in exile during the National Socialist era. He now shares this focus of attention with Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Hannah Arendt. This conference will feature new research by German and American scholars who will discuss Auerbach’s debt to secular, Christian and Jewish intellectual traditions in Germany.
For information, program, abstracts, and registration:
Register: https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z_rEFCwYRhGiWeCunko0kw
Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature, Center for Jewish Studies, and the University of Oldenburg (Germany)
April 9, 5:00pm-7:00pm (Zoom)
Hernando Colón's Library Catalogues
Featured speaker: Seth Kimmel (Columbia University)
Ferdinand Columbus maintained a complex series of key word indexes, alphabetical lists of authors and titles, numerical inventories, and book summaries to document his library, one of the largest collections of the sixteenth century. This talk explores these catalogues, including Columbus’s massive compendium of summaries, known as the Libro de los epítomes and recently rediscovered in the Arnamagnæan Institute’s archive in Copenhagen.
Seth Kimmel is an associate professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, and the author of the award-winning book, Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain (University of Chicago Press, 2015). His work on Hernando Colón is part of a second book project that studies the relationship between library culture and cosmographic inquiry in early modern Spain.
Please contact us at renaissance@gc.cuny.edu for details on how to join the event.
Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America and the Bibliographical Society
April 30, 9:00am-6:00pm (Zoom)
Annual program conference “Gold, Sugar, Tobacco, Rice: The Stuff of the Early Modern Atlantic World”
Gold, Sugar, Tobacco, Rice: The Stuff of the Early Modern Atlantic” aims to explore the forces driving new forms of corporatization and labor extraction, including, but not limited to, racialized life-long slavery. We also hope to foreground the interactions of various colonial powers and indigenous populations, not only in terms of transfers of territory, but also exchanges of knowledge and taste, as well as impacts on social organization. The conference will be sponsored primarily by the Graduate Center’s interdisciplinary program in Global Early Modern Studies, as part of our focus on “Economies of Race and Labor in the Atlantic World” over the past two years.
