Events
Renaissance Studies NOW: The New Generation (poster PDF)
Two Roundtables, Friday, May 4, 2018, 11:30am and 4:00pm
College Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI)
1211 East Atwater Avenue (Corner of Ballantine and Atwater)
Please join us on Friday, May 4th, for two roundtables with recent IU PhDs doing exciting work, exploring new frontiers, bringing new energy to Renaissance and early modern studies.
11:30am-1:30pm Roundtable 1: Teaching the Renaissance NOW
Mini-master classes where each presenter will share an example of how to make the study of the Renaissance relevant today, with a focus on one specific innovative approach or classroom tool.
Evan Ragland (PhD HPS, 2012; now at Notre Dame University)
“Breaking Up after the Affair: Rules of a Game for Student Analysis of the Galileo Affair”
Whitney Sperrazza (PhD English, 2017; now at University of Kansas)
“Uncommon Commonplacing”
Jennifer Cavalli (PhD History, 2011; now at College of Charleston)
“Curating the Self On- and Offline: Using the Isabella D’Este Archive (IDEA) to Teach Individualism and Self-Representation”
Discussion, short break
Isabella Magni (PhD Italian, 2017; now at Newberry Library)
“De-Coding the Pre-Modern World”
Tim Chenette (PhD Music Theory, 2013; now at Utah State University)
“Bartolomeus de Bononia (15th century), Carlo Gesualdo (1566–1613), and the Fiction of Historical Progress”
Robert (Moses) Fritz (PhD Spanish, 2017; now at Murray State University)
“‘What’s your problem?’: Using Aristotelian Problemata to Teach 16th-century Spanish Science and Literature”
Discussion
4:00-6:00pm Roundtable 2: Renaissance Studies NOW
Each presenter will give a brief example of the best work they do, before we open for a general discussion of the state of the field.
Whitney Sperrazza (PhD English, 2017; now at University of Kansas)
“Knowing the Early Modern Female Form”
Tim Chenette (PhD Music Theory, 2013; now at Utah State University)
“Hearing Beauty in the Metric Trajectories of the c. 1400 Ars subtilior”
Isabella Magni (PhD Italian, 2017; now at Newberry Library)
“Merchant Cultures in 14th-century Florence: Unlocking the Albizzi Bemorial Book”
Discussion, short break
Robert (Moses) Fritz (PhD Spanish, 2017; now at Murray State University)
“Bending Genre and Gender in Jerónimo Fernández’s Don Belianis de Grecia (1545)”
Jennifer Cavalli (PhD History, 2011; now at College of Charleston)
“Crisis Management:Women’s Letters of Commiseration in Sixteenth-Century Northern Italy”
Evan Ragland (PhD HPS, 2012; now at Notre Dame University)
“Taking the Long View with a Close Focus:Tracing Some Threads in the Complex History of Early Modern Experiment”
Discussion, followed by reception
This event is made possible through the support of the College Arts and Humanities Institute, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Barr Koon Funds of the Department of French and Italian, and the Departments of English, of History, of Music Theory and of Spanish and Portuguese.