EVENTS, 2015-2016
APRIL:
TUESDAY, April 12th: Join us for a dissertation chapter workshop with Kyle Grady at 3pm in 3184 Angell Hall. Kyle’s chapter is titled “Skin Folk and Kin Folk: Afterlives of Alcazar.”
MARCH:
WEDNESDAY, March 9th: At 3pm in 3241 Angell Hall, we invite you to workshop a work-in-progress entitled “Towards a Poetics of the Secular in Middle English Literature” with Professor Cathy Sanok.
FRIDAY, March 11th and SATURDAY, March 12th: The EMC invites you to attend its two-day annual conference. This year’s theme is “Performance and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Culture.” Keynote addresses will be given by Andrew Sofer (Boston College) and Jill Stevenson (Marymount Manhattan College).
THURSDAY, March 17th: The EMC invites you to attend a lecture by Reid Barbour, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Barbour will also hold a workshop with graduate students on the morning of Friday, March 18th.
FEBRUARY:
MONDAY, February 8th: Join us at 3pm in 3241 Angell Hall for a dissertation chapter workshop with John Paul Hampstead. The chapter is entitled, “‘I sing the Man who Judahs Scepter bore’: Hebraists, Royalists, and Cowley’s Davideis.“
DECEMBER:
TUESDAY, December 8th: The EMC invites you to workshop a dissertation chapter by Amrita Dhar. The chapter comes for her dissertation, “Writing Sight and Blindness in Early Modern England.”
OCTOBER:
FRIDAY, October 23rd and SATURDAY, October 24th: On Friday the 23rd, the EMC invites you to attend a roundtable with Dr. Paul Dingman, project manager for EMMO (Early Modern Manscripts Online) at the Folger Library. The following Saturday, Dr. Dingman and the EMC invite you take part in an all-day transcribathon! Anyone interested is encouraged to drop in for as short or as long as desired and help transcribe early modern manuscripts!
EVENTS, 2014-2015
APRIL:
MONDAY, April 13th: The EMC invites you to workshop a dissertation chapter by Cordelia Zukerman, “Faustus, Malvolio, and Failures of Reading.” The workshop will take place at 3:00pm in 3241 Angell Hall.
MARCH:
WEDNESDAY, March 25th: The EMC invites you to workshop a dissertation chapter by Cassie Muira, “John Donne’s Voluptuous Laughter: From Skepticism to Holy Joy,” at 4:00pm in 3241 Angell Hall.
FEBRUARY:
WEDNESDAY, February 11th: The EMC invites you to workshop a book chapter by Professor Peggy McCracken entitled “Survival, Skin, and Sovereignty.” The workshop will take place at 4:00pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
FRIDAY, February 20th and SATURDAY, February 21st: The EMC invites you to attend its two-day conference, “Mediating the Sacred and Secular in the Medieval and Early Modern Period.” The keynote speakers for this event will be Professor Sara Poor (German, Princeton University) and Professor Nancy Warren (English, Texas A&M).
NOVEMBER:
THURSDAY, November 20th and FRIDAY, November 21st: Dr. Peter Erickson, lecturer at Northwestern University will give a lecture entitled “The Significance of Shakespeare’s Whiteness” on November 20th at 4:00pm in 3222 Angell Hall. The following Friday morning, at 9am in 3184 Angell Hall, Dr. Erickson will hold a workshop with graduate students of a work in progress entitled “Bending toward Justice: From Shakespeare’s Black Mediterranean to August Wilson’s Black Atlantic.”
SEPTEMBER:
THURSDAY, September 18th and FRIDAY September 19th: A lecture and graduate student workshop with Professor Arthur Marotti. Professor marotti’s lecture is entitlted “The Poetry Nobody Knows: Rare or Unique Verse in Early Modern English Manuscripts” and will be given on Thursday, September 18th, at 5:00 PM in Angell 3222. Professor Marotti will also conduct a paleography workshop for graduate students on Friday, September 19th, at 9:30 AM in Angell 3184.
EVENTS, 2013-2014
FEBRUARY:
FRIDAY, February 21st and SATURDAY, February 22nd: The EMC invites you to attend its two-day conference, “Representations of Race in the Early Modern Period.” The keynote speakers for this event will be Professor Arthur Little (English, University of California-Los Angeles) and Professor Susan Parrish (English, University of Michigan).
THURSDAY, February 27th and FRIDAY, February 28th: The EMC invites you to attend a lecture by David Wood, “Recovering Disability in Early Modern England” on February 27th at 4:30pm in 3222 Angell Hall. Professor Wood will also hold a workshop of a pre-circulated paper “Stigma, Identity, and Difference in Fletcher and Massinger’s A Very Woman” with graduate students on February 28th at 9:30am in 3184 Angell Hall.
JANUARY:
THURSDAY, January 23th: Please join us to workshop “‘Do you believe in fairies?’: Thresholds of Performance in the Age of Elizabethan Theatrical Production” by Professor Steven Mullaney in Angell Hall 3241 at 4:00pm.
OCTOBER:
THURSDAY, October, 18th: The EMC invites you to attend a lecture by Ramie Targoff, professor of English and director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University, at 5:00pm in 3154 Angell Hall. The lecture will be entitled “Posthumous Love in Renaissance England.” The following Friday morning (October 19th), Professor Targoff will hold a workshop with graduate students of a pre-circulated paper, “Limit Cases: Henry King and John Milton,” at 9:30am in 3184 Angell Hall.
EVENTS, 2012-2013
MAY:
MONDAY, May 6th: The Department of English and Junior Faculty Forum will host a lecture, “The Future of Academic Publishing & Preparing Book Proposals,” by Dr. Linda Bree, at 1:00pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
APRIL:
FRIDAY, April 5th: Please join the Early Modern Colloquium for “Shakespeare and Disability Subjectivities,” a panel discussion with David Mitchell and Tobin Siebers, at 2:00pm in 3154 Angell Hall. David Mitchell is the 2012 Freehling Visiting Professor at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, and associate professor in the College of Education at Temple University. Tobin Siebers is the V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor at the Department of English, University of Michigan.
WEDNESDAY, April 10th: Please join the Early Modern Colloquium to workshop “Shakespeare’s Sex,” a book chapter by Valerie Traub, at 2:30pm in 3241 Angell Hall. Valerie Traub is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan.
MARCH:
TUESDAY, March 26th: Please join us to workshop “The Lack of Charity in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene,” a book chapter by Doug Trevor, at 1:00pm in 3154 Angell Hall. Trevor is an associate professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. His current book project is entitled “Radical Charity and the Long Reformation: Literature, Belief, and Transgressive forms of Love in Early Modern England.”
FEBRUARY:
THURSDAY, February 7th and FRIDAY, February 8th: David Cressy, the George III Professor of History and Humanities at The Ohio State University, will deliver a public lecture, “Trouble with Gypsies in Tudor and Stuart England,” at 4:00pm in 3222 Angell Hall. The next day we invite graduate students to join a colloquium at 12pm in 3241 Angell Hall on “Importunate Petitioners,” a chapter from David Cressy’s current book project on Charles I. David Cressy is the George III Professor of History and Humanities at The Ohio State University.
FRIDAY, February 15th and SATURDAY, February 16th: Please join us for our annual graduate student conference, this year entitled “Violence in the Early Modern Period.” The keynote speakers for this event will be Professor Melissa Sanchez (English, University of Pennsylvania) and Professor Mitchell Merback (History of Art, Johns Hopkins University).
JANUARY:
THURSDAY, January 17th: Please join us to workshop a book chapter: “Cross-gender Exchange, Civility, and the Foreign: a Ballet and a Barriers, 1605” by Melinda Gough at 4:00pm in 3222 Angell Hall. Gough is a professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies and the Graduate Program in Gender Studies and Feminist Research at McMaster University.
NOVEMBER:
WEDNESDAY, November 7th and THURSDAY, November 8th: At 4:00pm in 3222 Angell Hall, Jeffrey Masten, Professor of English and Gender Studies at Northwestern University, will deliver a public lecture, “Literosexuality: Queerer Book History through Early Modern Examples.” He will hold a graduate student workshop centering around a pre-circulated paper, “Straightening Out Christopher Marlowe; Or, Marlowe’s Vitality,”at 10am the next day in 3184 Angell Hall.
THURSDAY, November 15th: Please join us for a dissertation workshop: “Fooling, Song, and Intelletual Disability in Twelfth Night” by Angela Heetderks at 4:00pm in 3241 Angell Hall.
SEPTEMBER:
THURSDAY, September 13th: Please join us for the Graduate Interest Meeting at 4:00pm and Faculty Social Hour at 5:00pm in 3154 Angell Hall. The Meeting will offer more information about the EMC and discuss the schedule for the 2012-13 academic year. We would love to see current members of the EMC as well as any individuals who might be interested in participating in the EMC at this meeting; we will continue to plan our schedule for the year – a schedule that we hope will appeal to the various and sundry interests of the current early modern studies community at the University of Michigan. Immediately following. The Faculty Social Hour will provide graduate student and faculty members of the EMC with an opportunity catch up with each other as the Fall 2012 Semester commences. Because members of the EMC inhabit a variety of departments at Michigan, this event will allow all of us to reconvene again.
EVENTS, 2011-2012
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EVENTS, 2010-2011
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EVENTS, 2009-2010
MARCH:
FRIDAY, March 26th: Valerie Wayne (English, University of Hawai’i at Manoa) presents a lecture entitled “Cervantes & Shakespeare: Metatextualities in Don Quixote and the Late Plays,” at 4:30pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
FEBRUARY:
THURSDAY, February 4th: Marjorie Garber (William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University) presents a lecture entitled “A Tale of Three Hamlets: or, Repetition and Revenge” at 5pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
FRIDAY, February 19th and SATURDAY, February 20th: Please join us for our annual graduate student conference, this year entitled “The Renaissance Arts of Science and Nature”. The keynote speakers for this event will be Laurie Shannon (English, Northwestern University), “The Natural-Historical Politics of Early Modern Genesis” and Carla Mazzio (English, SUNY Buffalo), “Shakespeare’s Math”.
JANUARY:
FRIDAY, January 29th: Please join the Early Modern Colloquium as it welcomes presentations by Aaron McCollough (English, University of Michigan) and Shana Kimball (Publications Manger in the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Library) at 1:00pm in 3222 Angell Hall. Aaron will offer an introduction to Early English Books Online – Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), and Shana will discuss the implications of digital culture for scholarly publication and discourse.
NOVEMBER:
MONDAY, November 16th and TUESDAY, November 17th: Bruce R. Smith (Dean’s Professor of English, University of Southern California) leads a graduate student workshop discussion at 4:00pm in 3154 Angell Hall. Smith will present a chapter from his forthcoming book, Phenomenal Shakespeare, that uses Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, and Edmund Husserl to assert the possibility of using phenomenology to interpret early modern texts. The next day Bruce R. Smith (Dean’s Professor of English, University of Southern California) presents a lecture entitled “Fuzzy Logic is Not an Insult: How Shakespeare’s Sonnets Challenge Cognitive Theory” at 4:00pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
OCTOBER:
MONDAY, October 5th, 2009: Bruce Holsinger (English and Music, University of Virginia) presents a lecture entitled: “Liturgy, Latinity, and the Prosaic: The Case of William Caxton” at 4:00pm in 3222 Angell Hall. Bruce Holsinger is Professor of English and Music and Associate Dean for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Virginia.
MONDAY, October 26th: Please join us for a dissertation workshop: “‘To avoide that fowle blot of unthankefullnesse’: London, Jerusalem, and Spenser’s The Ruines of Time” by Ori Weisburg (English, University of Michigan) at 5pm in 3154 Angell Hall.
EVENTS, 2008-2009
FEBRUARY:
FRIDAY, February 6th and SATURDAY, February 7th: Please join us for our annual graduate student conference: “The Religious Turn in Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies.”
NOVEMBER:
THURSDAY, November 6th and FRIDAY, November 7th: Catherine Bates (English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK) presents a lecture entitled: “Gascoigne’s Prick” at 4:00pm in 3222 Angell Hall. Prof. Bates works on the literature and culture of the Renaissance period, especially courtly poetry of the sixteenth century, and has interests in psychoanalysis and the epic tradition. The next day she will lead a graduate student workshop that will focus on her precirculated article “George Turberville: The Man and His Birds” at 10am in 3154 Angell Hall.
EVENTS, 2007-2008
APRIL:
THURSDAY, April 10th: Please join us for a dissertation workshop: “This Untoward Generation of Loose Libertines: Sexual Crime and Criminal Sexuality in Early Modern English Rogue Literature” by Ari Friedlander at 4pm in 3154 Angell Hall.
NOVEMBER:
WEDNESDAY, November 14th and THURSDAY, November 15th: Jean Howard (George Delacorto Professor in the Humanities, Department of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University) leads a graduate student workshop on post-New Historicist critical approaches at 12pm in 3154 Angell Hall. The next day, Jean Howard (George Delacorto Professor in the Humanities, Department of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University) will give a talk entitled: “Beatrice’s Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy” at 4pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
EVENTS, 2006-2007
MARCH:
THURSDAY, March 8th and FRIDAY, March 9th: Debora Shuger (English, UCLA) presents a talk, “The Reformation of Penance: Penitential Theology, Purgatory, and the Law in Early Modern England” at 4pm in 3222 Angell Hall. The next day, Shuger leads a graduate student workshop at 10am in 3222 Angell Hall that will discuss her recent, award-winning monograph, Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor and Stuart England (2006).
FEBRUARY:
THURSDAY, February 1st and FRIDAY, February 2nd: Katharine Eisaman Maus (James Branch Cavell Professor of English and American Literature, University of Virginia) will give a talk entitled: “What’s New About the New Organon: Bacon’s Idol’s in their Reformation Context” at 4pm in Angell 3222. The next day, Maus leads a graduate student workshop at 10am in 3222 Angell Hall on the practice of scholarly editing.
FRIDAY, February 9th: Join us for our annual conference: “Moving Texts: Manuscript & Print Culture, 1400-1700,” from 9am-5pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
JANUARY:
MONDAY, January 29th: The EMC Graduate Student Spotlight focuses on Laura Ambrose, who will present her chapter, “Guiding Our ‘Travails’: Mapping Travel in Seventeenth-Century England,” to workshop at 3pm in the English Department Faculty Lounge.
NOVEMBER:
THURSDAY, November 9th: MJ Kidnie (English, University of Western Ontario) and Carol Rutter (English, University of Warwick) lead a graduate student workshop at 9am in Angell Hall that will consist of a discussion of selections from their current scholarly works-in-progress. Professors Kidnie and Rutter are both established scholars in the field of performance studies, and are here to participate in the “Watching Ourselves Watching Shakespeare” conference which will take place on November 10-11 in conjunction with the RSC residency.
SEPTEMBER:
THURSDAY, September 14th: Patricia Fumerton (English, University of California, Santa Barbara) leads a graduate student workshop at 4pm in Angell Hall on popular print, broadside ballads, and digital archiving in early modern studies. The workshop is also being offered in conjunction with the Text Creation Partnership Project’s conference “Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication” held on September 15-17.
EVENTS, 2005-2006
FEBRUARY:
TUESDAY, February 21st: “Tips of the Trade: Researching Early Modern Archives.” This symposium will gather graduate students, faculty and librarians from the Clements Library and Hatcher Graduate Library’s Special Collections to develop a shared body of knowledge about how to do research in the archives. This will be a collective undertaking in which each participant offers a five-minute presentation on particular research strategies, and will share tips for researching at particular libraries. This event is part of Spotlight Symposia series, which offers graduate students a unique opportunity to gather the resources of the University of Michigan ‘s premodern faculty and graduate students, to present work-in-progress, and to share research strategies and knowledge.
OCTOBER:
THURSDAY, October 20th: Frances Dolan (English, UC Davis) leads a graduate student workshop at 12pm in 3222 Angell Hall that will introduce strategies for researching early modern non-literary (legal and popular print) archives. Professor Dolan will also discuss her rigorously feminist, historical approach to the history of gender, religion and violence, which will have a broad appeal to students who share an interest in undertaking interdisciplinary work.
SEPTEMBER:
THURSDAY, September 15th and FRIDAY, September 16th: Mary Bly (English, Fordham University) presents a talk entitled, “Consuming London: Mapping Plays, Puns and Tourists in the Early Modern City” at 2pm in 3222 Angell Hall. The next day, at 10am in 3222 Angell Hall, Bly (English, Fordham University) leads a graduate student workshop on seventeenth-century city comedy.
EVENTS, 2004-2005
APRIL:
THURSDAY, April 7th and FRIDAY, April 8th: Jacqueline Vanhoutte (English, North Texas) presents ” ‘She lingers my desires / like to a stepdame’ : Elizabeth I, Surrogate Parenthood, and Political Tyranny” at 3pm in Angell Hall 3222. The next day, at 10am in Angell 3222, Vanhoutte leads a graduate student workshop on academic writing and publishing.
FEBRUARY:
FRIDAY, February 18th: One-day graduate student conference: “Medieval and Early Modern Spatial Epistemologies.” Our 6th annual conference aims to foster interdisciplinary conversation about the various forms of spatial knowledge that emerge in the medieval and early modern periods.
NOVEMBER:
THURSDAY, November 11th and FRIDAY, November 12th: Professor Garett Sullivan (English, Penn State) presents “Sleep and Passions in Sir Philip Sidney’s The Old Arcadia” at 2pm in 3222 Angell Hall. The next day Sullivan leads a graduate student workshop on Space and Geography in Early Modern England at 10am in 806 Hatcher Library (Map Library Conference Room).
EVENTS, 2003-2004
MARCH:
FRIDAY, March 5: Tricia McElroy presents “Creating Mary Queen of Scots: Strategies of Representation in Sixteenth-Century Scotland” at 12pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
TUESDAY, March 30: John N. King (Ohio State), the Humanities Distinguished Professor of English & Religious Studies at Ohio State, author of the influential English Reformation Literature, and editor of several critical modern volumes of Renaissance texts, presents “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: The History of a Book and the History of the Book” at 4pm in th Osterman Room, Institue for the Humanities (0520 Rackham Building).
JANUARY:
FRIDAY, January 16th: Conference: Premodern Bodies and the Wünderkammer of Queer Objects.This one-day conference (Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League) rethinks histories of sexuality, gender, and the premodern body by exploring the wide variety of ways that desire — for love, sex, money, status — coalesced around its virtual and supplemental parts, such as relics, statues, sacred and secular images, blood, beards, dildos, perfume, skin, and certain articles of clothing.
NOVEMBER:
FRIDAY, November 21st: Professor Peter Holland (Notre Dame) presents “Theatre Without Drama: Reading REED (Records in Early English Drama)” at 12pm in the Osterman Room. Professor Holland is the former Judith E. Wilson Reader in Drama and Theatre at the University of Cambridge (1996-7), former director of the Shakespeare Institute at University of Birmingham (1997-2002), and author of English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s, as well as numerous articles on Renaissance drama in performance.
OCTOBER:
FRIDAY, October 24th: Professor Carla Mazzio (University of Chicago) presents “The Three-Dimensional Self: Geometry, Melancholy, Drama” at 10am in 3222 Angell Hall. Please join us as for a pre-circulated presentation of work from Carla Mazzio (University of Chicago), former member of the Michigan Society of Fellows, co-editor of Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, and author of articles on language, print, and the tongue.
EVENTS, 2002-2003
MARCH:
THURSDAY, March 6th: Professor Elizabeth Harvey (University of Toronto) will present a talk entitled “Lethe’s Body: Forgetting Sex in Early Modern Medicine and Literature” at 4pm in Lane Hall, Seminar Rooms A and B. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.
FEBRUARY:
FRIDAY, February 7th: Professor Arthur Marotti (Wayne State University) will present a talk entitled “The Personal Anthology of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England” at 12pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
JANUARY:
FRIDAY, January 24th: Conference: Reinventing Early Modern Technologies. This one-day conference will explore the status of early modern technological innovations as it seeks to recast previous discussions about fields such as artillery, metallurgy, alchemy, medicine, gardening, and navigation by blurring the commonplace distinctions between the old and the new, the elite and the popular, the theoretical and the practical, and the scientific and the magical.
NOVEMBER:
FRIDAY, November 8th: Professor James Shapiro (Columbia University) will present his new work entitled “Jessica, the Jew’s Daughter” at 12pm in the Pendleton Room, Michigan Union. Co-sponsored by the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.
OCTOBER:
FRIDAY, October 25th: Professor Richard Rambuss (Emory University) will present a lecture entitled “What it Feels Like for a Boy: Shakespeare’s Adonis” at 2pm in 1014 Tisch Hall. Sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI).
SEPTEMBER:
FRIDAY, September 27th: Professor Michael Murrin (University of Chicago) will present his new work, “A Romance Version of the Spice Route Before the Portuguese Discovery: Huon of Bordeaux and its Commercial Context” at 2:30pm in 3222 Angell Hall. Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages.
EVENTS, 2001-2002
MARCH:
FRIDAY, March 15th: Symposium: “Legal Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Europe” at 12pm in 3222 Angell Hall. This panel on early modern literature and law will feature Barbara Shapiro and Luke Wilson.
FEBRUARY:
FRIDAY, February 8th: Professor Michael MacDonald (University of Michigan) will present his new work, “Interpretation of Dreams in Early Modern England” at 12pm in 3222 Angell Hall. Co-sponsored by the Department of History.
FRIDAY, February 15th: Professor Leah Marcus (Vanderbilt) will present her new work titled “Reading Elizabeth Writing” at 12pm in 1014 Tisch Hall. Co-sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
JANUARY:
FRIDAY, January 25th: Conference: Changing States: Travel and Conversion in the Early Modern Period. This one-day, faculty and graduate student conference will explore issues of religion and global contact in the early modern period, and interrogate the relationship between European colonialism and conversion in the New World and in the East.
NOVEMBER:
FRIDAY, November 9th: Professor Richard Firth Green (University of Western Ontario) will present his new work on medieval literature and the law at 1pm in 3222 Angell Hall. Sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
OCTOBER:
FRIDAY, October 5th: Professor Douglous Biow (University of Texas) will present his new work titled, “Three Reactions to Plague: Marvels and Commonplaces in Medicine and Literature” at 12pm in 1014 Tisch Hall. Co-sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
SEPTEMBER:
FRIDAY, September 14th: Professor Richard Rambuss (Emory University) will present his new work titled, “Hating the Metaphysicals: Crashaw, Serrano, and Ofili” at 12pm in 1014 Tisch Hall. Co-sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
EVENTS, 2000-2001
APRIL:
MONDAY, April 2nd: Andrew Murphy (University of St. Andrews, Scotland) presents a talk, “Caviare to the general”: Shakespeare and Popular Print” at 4pm in Angell Hall. Co-sponsored with MEMS.
FRIDAY, April 20: Symposium: “Unfamiliar Paradigms: Gender and Domesticity Inside-Out” at 12pm in the Rackham Assembly Hall. Participants include Wendy Wall (Northwestern University) “Canning and the Uncanny” and Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University) “The Lover’s Complaint.”
MARCH:
FRIDAY, March 23rd: Panel: “Contemporary Approaches to Drama” at 12pm in 3222 Angell Hall. Short precirculated papers by Sabiha Ahmad, Holly Dugan, Jennie Evenson, and Maureen McDonnell (doctoral candidates at the University of Michigan).
FEBRUARY:
FRIDAY, February 16th: Caroline Walker Bynum (Columbia University), gives a talk, “The Bodies and Bloods of Christ in the Middle Ages: An Asymmetry” at 12pm in the Clements Library. Organized by Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Reception to follow.
MONDAY, February 19th: Shakespeare Lectures in anticipation of the Royal Shakespeare Company Visit to Ann Arbor, presented in Rackham Auditorium. Part I (4-6:30pm): Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University) presents a talk, “Dreams of Kingship: Ghostly Terror in Shakespeare’s Richard III.” Part II (7-8:30pm): Ralph Williams (University of Michigan) presents, “God say Amen: Richard III.”
JANUARY:
FRIDAY, January 19th: Conference: “New Formalisms and the Lyric in History” in the Anderson Room, Michigan Union, 9am-5:30pm. This one-day conference will explore new approaches to form in studies of the lyric in a range of historical periods. Keynote Speakers: Heather Dubrow (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Marjorie Levinson (University of Michigan).
DECEMBER:
FRIDAY, December 1st: Jonathan Gil Harris (Ithaca) presents, “Shakespeare’s Hair: The New New Historicism’s Wunderkammer of Objects” at 12pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
NOVEMBER:
FRIDAY, November 17th: Panel: “Climate Theory, Race, and Physiology: Rethinking the History of Science” at 12pm in the Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union, at 12pm.Participants include, Valerie Traub (University of Michigan), Panel Chair; Mary Floyd-Wilson (Yale University), “Strong Limbs and Spongy Brains: The Ethnography of English Humoralism”; Ian MacInnes (Albion College), “‘The men do sympathize with the mastiffs’: Animal Physiology, Climate Theory, and English National Identity”; and Scotti Parrish (University of Michigan), “Poisoned Knowledge and the Curious Body in America.”
OCTOBER:
THURSDAY, October 12th: Richard Strier (University of Chicago) presents a talk titled, “Shakespeare and Skepticism” at 4pm in the Wolverine Room, Michigan Union.
FRIDAY, October 27th: Ania Loomba (University of Illinois) presents a talk entitled, “Shakespeare and Postcolonial Authenticity” at 12pm in 3222 Angell Hall. Organized by MEMS.
EVENTS, 1999-2000
APRIL:
THURSDAY, April 13th and FRIDAY, April 14th: Symposium: “Geography, Ethnicity, and the Question of Orientation.” Part I on Thursday at 4pm in Angell 3222: Steven Mullaney (University of Michigan) presents “Colonizing Consciousness: Technologies of Affect and the Colonial Mirror Stage.” Part II on Friday at 12pm in 3222 Angell: Panel: chair, Valerie Traub (University of Michigan). Speakers: Jennie Evenson (University of Michigan), “Wonders of the Bounty: Plenitude and Diversity in Mandeville’s Travels“; Jyotsna G. Singh (Michigan State), “Disorientations of Nation-formation: The ‘Discovery’ of England in Travel Narratives of Edward Terry’s Voyage to East India (1655)”; Goran Stanivukovic (St. Mary’s University, Halifax), “Erotic Ethnography: Renaissance Romances and Geographies of the Eastern Mediterranean.”
MARCH:
THURSDAY, March 17th: Marjorie Garber (Harvard University), presents a talk, “Historical Correctness,” at 12pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
FEBRUARY:
THURSDAY, February 17th: Stephen Orgel (Stanford University), gives a talk entited, “Tobacco and Boys, Or How Queer was Marlowe?” at 4pm in the Osterman Conference Room, Rackham 1524.
JANUARY:
SATURDAY, January 29th and SUNDAY, January 30th: Conference: “On Religious Grounds: From Discipline to Disciplinarity in Medieval and Early Modern Studies.” How might we understand the recent resurgence of interest in religion in a number of disciplines within the humanities? This conference will draw together key scholars in medieval and early modern studies working on music, literature, historical narrative, philosophy, and the visual arts to discuss their work on histories and practices of shared belief.
Participants include: Julia Adams (University of Michigan), Sarah Beckwith (Duke University), Gina Bloom (Univeristy of Michigan), James Borders (University of Michigan), Catherine Brown (University of Michigan), Celeste Brusati (University of Michigan), David Cressy (Ohio State), Diane Hughes (University of Michigan), Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont), Johnathan Freedman (University of Michigan), Elliot Ginsburg (University of Michigan), Linda Gregerson (University of Michigan), Elizabeth Ingram (Eastern Michigan), Ashby Kinch (University of Michigan), John Knott (University of Michigan), Arthur Marotti (Wayne State), Carla Mazzio (University of Michigan), Steven Mullaney (University of Michigan), Chris Olberding (University of Michigan), Sara Rubinstein (University of Michigan), Michael Schoenfeldt (University of Michigan), Debora Shuger (University of California, Los Angeles), Pat Simons (University of Michigan), Louise Stein (University of Michigan), Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania), Amanda Watson (University of Michigan), Jack Williamson (University of Michigan).
DECEMBER:
FRIDAY, December 10th: Carla Mazzio (University of Michigan) presetnes a talk, “Renaissance Self-Fractioning: Mathematics, Melancholy, and Literary Form” at 12pm in the Osterman Conference Room (1524 Rackham).
NOVEMBER:
FRIDAY, November 12th: Panel: “Historicizing Passions” at 12pm in the Osterman Conference Room (1524 Rackham). Chair: Steven Mullaney (University of Michigan). Speakers: Elise Frasier (University of Michigan), Jane Tylus (University of Wisconsin), Michael Schoenfeldt (University of Michigan).
OCTOBER:
FRIDAY, October 29th: Margreta deGrazia (University of Pennsylvania), presents “World History and Hamlet” at 2pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
SEPTEMBER:
FRIDAY, September 24th: Linda Gregerson (University of Michigan) presents a talk, “Staging the Text” at 12pm in 3222 Angell Hall.
University of Michigan Early Modern Colloquium 