Staging Witchcraft Before the Law
Celebrating Recent Work by Julie Stone Peters
with Rivka Galchen, Sarah Barringer Gordon, and Julie Crawford
Tue Feb 4th 6:15pm, Heyman Center for the Humanities
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Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia, Affiliated Faculty Member at Columbia Law School, Global Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary University London School of Law, author most recently of Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe (2022), as well as more public-facing essays in the London Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Slate, Public Books, Chronicle of Higher Education, Village Voice, and elsewhere.

Professor Peters will be joined by panelists:
Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and History, University of Pennsylvania, former President of the American Society for Legal History, author of The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth- Century America (2002), The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America(2010), and the forthcoming Freedom’s Holy Light: Disestablishment in America, 1771-1876.
Rivka Galchen, Associate Professor of Writing, Columbia School of the Arts, New Yorker Staff Writer, winner of The Berlin Prize and William J. Saroyan International Prize in Fiction, author of Atmospheric Disturbances (2008), American Innovations: Stories (2014), Rat Rule 79 (2019), and Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch (2021).
Julie Crawford, Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities, specialist in 16th- and 17th-century English literature and culture, author of Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England (2005), Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England (2014), and articles in Studies in English Literature, English Literary History, Renaissance Drama, PMLA, Early Modern Culture, Huntington Library Quarterly, The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare, The Oxford Companion to Popular Print Culture, The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610, and elsewhere.
Moderator: Denise Cruz, Chair, Dept of English and Comparative Literature, author of Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina (2012) and essays in American Literature, American Quarterly, American Literary History, PMLA, the Journal of Asian American Studies, Modern Fiction Studies (and elsewhere), editor of Yay Panlilio’s The Crucible: The Autobiography of Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla (2009), and forthcoming studies of the development of high fashion in Manila from the 1940s to the present the importance of regions and regionalism to Asian America.