Events
Renaissance Studies NOW: “Old Margins & New Centers” (poster PDF)
Two Roundtables, Monday, April 29, 2019, 10:00am and 3:00pm
College Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI)
1211 East Atwater Avenue (Corner of Ballantine and Atwater)
Please join us on Monday, April 29, for two roundtables with early career scholars doing exciting work, representing new approaches, and bringing new energy to Renaissance and early modern studies.
11:00am-12:00pm Roundtable 1: Studying the Renaissance NOW
Ari Friedlander (Assistant Professor of English, University of Mississippi)
“The Right to Maim in Early Modern England”
Tomasz Grusiecki (Assistant Professor of Art History, Boise State University)
“Why Care About ‘Polish Carpets’?”
Shannon McHugh (Assistant Professor of Italian and French, University of Massachusetts Boston)
“What’s a Sonnet Anyway?”
Break/Discussion
Emin Lelić (Assistant Professor of History, Salisbury University)
“Embodying Justice: Ottoman Physiognomy & Statecraft”
Olimpia E. Rosenthal (Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington)
“Sex and Segregation in Colonial Latin America”
Andrea Stevens (Associate Professor of English, Theatre, and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
“‘The Eunuch Much Sears Her Breast’: Classifying, Editing, and Performing William Heminge’s The Fatal Contract (1638-39)”
3:00pm-5:00pm Roundtable 2: Teaching the Renaissance NOW
Ari Friedlander (Assistant Professor of English, University of Mississippi)
“Researching Renaissance Disability in the English Broadside Ballad Archive”
Tomasz Grusiecki (Assistant Professor of Art History, Boise State University)
“Why Care About Early Modern Art?”
Shannon McHugh (Assistant Professor of Italian and French, University of Massachusetts Boston)
“A Long History of the Comic Book”
Break/Discussion
Emin Lelić (Assistant Professor of History, Salisbury University)
“Equality vs. Equity: A Question of Justice”
Olimpia E. Rosenthal (Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington)
“Using the Lilly Library as a Teaching Resource”
Andrea Stevens (Associate Professor of English, Theatre, and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
“Shakespeare Was A Businessman”
This event is made possible through the support of the College Arts and Humanities Institute, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund of the Department of French and Italian, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of English, the Department of History, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.