A Celebration of Early Modern Studies
Date and time
A diverse group of local scholars present recent and emerging scholarship on the early modern period.
About this event
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Coffee & Pastries (9am)
Opening remarks (9:30am-9:40am)
Session I (9:40 – 11:10am)
Isabelle Cochelin, “The History of Servants and Service, 1000-1700”
Noa Yaari, “Welcome to Multiform Grammar: Welcome to the CRRS Library!”
Jean-Olivier Richard, “Thales Redivivus: Was There a Neo-Thaletan Tradition”
Mary Nyquist, “East is East and West is West?”
Coffee Break (11:10-11:30)
Session II (11:30-1pm)
Matt Kavaler,” Realism and the Demise of the Gothic”
Leslie Korrick, “Federico Zuccaro's Genealogy of the Arts: Some Politics”
Rachel Stapleton, “Epistolary Personas in Early Modern Women's Letters”
Jeremy Lopez, “Does Emilia Love Desdemona?”
Lunch (1-1:45pm)
Session III (1:45-3:15)
Elizabeth Cohen, “A Seventeenth-Century #MeToo? Art and History”
Katherine Williams, “Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama”
Elizabeth Rice Mattison, “Sculpting Stories in the Sixteenth Century”
Paul Stevens, “Sola Gratia: The Mystical Uses of History in Post-War Britain”
Coffee Break (3:15-3:35)
Session IV (3:35-5:05)
Giancarla Periti, “Moving Forward”
Deanne Williams, “Renaissance Girl Cultures”
Jordana Lobo-Pires, "Forensic Rhetoric and its Discontents"
Samantha Chang
Closing remarks (5:05 -5:10)
CRRS Holiday Reception to follow, 5:15 until 7pm in the Victoria University Common Room
