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