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emc event schedule, 2006-2007:

september

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th, 2006, 4-6PM, 3222 ANGELL HALL. Patricia Fumerton (English, University of California, Santa Barbara) leads a graduate student workshop on popular print, broadside ballads, and digital archiving in early modern studies. This event is part of the Graduate Student Workshop series and is open to graduate students only.  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. www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/conference.

Students from all departments are encouraged to attend. Participants should read Chapter 8 (“The Ballad’s Seamen”) of Fumerton’s recent book, Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England. Copies will be available in the English Department Graduate Student Lounge, 3rd floor, Angell Hall. In addition, participants should browse the Pepys Ballad Archive website prior to attending the workshop:http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/images/index.asp Please contact Laura Williamson (lauraaw@umich.edu) for more information.

november

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, 2006, 9-11am, 3222 ANGELL HALL. MJ Kidnie (English, University of Western Ontario) and Carol Rutter (English, University of Warwick) lead a graduate student workshop 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.

This event is part of the Graduate Student Workshop series and is open to graduate students only.  Students from all departments are encouraged to attend. Papers will be pre-circulated, with hard copies available in the English graduate student lounge (3rd Floor, Angell Hall) in a file cabinet marked "Early Modern Colloquium." If you would like to receive copies electronically or further information about the workshop, please contact Amy Rodgers at ajrodger@umich.edu.

january

MONDAY, JANUARY 29th, 2007, 3-4:30pm, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY LOUNGE (3rd FLOOR, ANGELL HALL). The EMC Graduate Student Spotlight focuses on Laura Ambrose, who will present a chapter of her dissertation to workshop. Hard copies are available in the English graduate student lounge (3rd Floor, Angell Hall) in a file cabinet marked "Early Modern Colloquium," or available via email. If you would like to receive a copy electronically, or further information about the workshop, please contact Rebecca Wiseman at rwiseman@umich.edu.

february

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1st, 2007, 4:30-6:30pm, 3222 ANGELL HALL. 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." Author of Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind (1985) and Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance (1995), her most recent work reconsiders scholarship on the history of subjectivity.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd, 2007, 10am-12pm, 3222 ANGELL HALL. Katharine Eisaman Maus (James Branch Cavell Professor of English and American Literature, University of Virginia) leads a graduate student workshop on the practice of scholarly editing. This event is part of the Graduate Student Workshop series and is open to graduate students only. Students from all departments are encouraged to attend. For further information about the workshop, please contact Amy Rodgers at ajrodger@umich.edu.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9th, 2007, 9am-5pm, 3222 ANGELL HALL. Conference: Moving Texts: Manuscript & Print Culture, 1400-1700. Printed matter, literary and otherwise, traveled within communities and across continents during the medieval and early modern periods. How and why did manuscripts, books, pamphlets, dramatic literature, music, and other texts move between individuals and societies? What can our investigations of printing practices tell us about book use and material culture? Has print shaped history--or is it the reverse? This one-day interdisciplinary symposium will feature papers presented by graduate students and work by David Scott Kastan (English, Columbia University) and Bradin Cormack (English, University of Chicago). To view the official Call for Papers, please go here. For further information or to submit a paper proposal, please contact Kathryn Will at willkath@umich.edu.

march

THURSDAY, MARCH 8th, 2007, 4-6pm, 3222 ANGELL HALL. Debora Shuger (English, UCLA) presents a talk on Reformation penitential theology, purgatory, and the law in early modern England. A prolific writer, she is the author of Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance (1990), The Renaissance Bible (1994), and, most recently, Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England (2006). For more information about this event, please contact Jonathan Smith at jonws@umich.edu.

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