B7: Crossing the Pre-Modern and the Post-Modern:  Challenges to Global Ethnic Networks

Seminar Leader: Brenda Machosky, Stanford University

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM  – 12:30 PM, Westminster 2

Annika Farber, Pennsylvania State University: “Stendhal’s Andreas: From De Amore to De l’amour”

Elizabeth Coker, University of Texas at Dallas: “‘With Skin Wrought Like the Britons’: Margaret Cavendish and the Color-Coded Other”

Margaret Wickins Lynch, University of Michigan: “Whose Nation, World and God? William of Rubruck’s Subjective Christianity”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Westminster 2

Brenda Machosky, Stanford University: “Global Players in a Staged World: Shakespeare at the Crossroads”

Marcella Munson, Florida Atlantic University: “Spheres of Influence: Astrology and Political Subjectivity in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othea”

Chris K. Lee, University of California – Santa Barbara: “Title To Be Announced”

Nina Berman, Ohio State University: “Medieval Chronicles: Connecting Histories and Territories”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Westminster 2

Randall J. Pogorzelski, University of California – Santa Barbara: “A Failure to Communicate in Aeneid Six”

Assimina Karavanta, University of Athens, Greece: “From Plato’s Sin-oikia to the Global Polis: The Ontological Bearings and Political Praxis of Community in a Global Era”

Masako Ono, Teikyo University, Tokyo Japan: “‘Post-Texts’ of The Tale of the Genji”