October:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5th, 2009, 4-5:30pm, 3222 ANGELL HALL. Bruce Holsinger (English and Music,
University of Virginia) presents a lecture entitled: "Liturgy, Latinity, and the Prosaic: The Case of William Caxton."
Bruce Holsinger is Professor of English and Music and Associate Dean for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Virginia. Professor Holsinger, who received both his B.A. and his B.Mus.A. from the University of Michigan, is one of this institution's most distinguished scholarly alumni. His monographs include Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer (2001); The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory (2005); and Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror (2007). He has co-edited History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person (2007) and "The Marxist Premodern," a special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Vol. 34, Fall 2004). Professor Holsinger has received research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Please contact Angela McClain (amariem@umich.edu) with questions.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 2009, 5-6:30pm, 3154 ANGELL HALL.
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).
This chapter reads the opening poem in Spenser's Complaints in the context of a rhetorical tradition linking early modern England with Jerusalem. Writers from the late Henrican through the Elizabethan periods interpellated English subjects by warning them of the dire consequences of their "unthankefullnesse," while interjecting this same term into Christ's prophesy of Jerusalem's destruction in Luke 19. As such, they constructed a parallel between the two civilizations, employing the ancient Jewish city as a cautionary example and an historical precedent. Spenser's poem offsets the threat of this parallel through its Christological evocation of Philip Sidney's spectacular London funeral. In the poem's closing pageant, London inherits the dubious mantle of the biblical capital that spurned Christ, but endeavors to avoid repeating its predecessor's failure and doom by celebrating Sidney as an imitatio Christi.
Please contact Ari Friedlander (arifried@umich.edu) with questions or to receive a pre-circulated copy of this chapter.
November:
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16th, 2009, 4-5:30pm, 3154 ANGELL HALL. Bruce R. Smith (Dean's Professor of English, University of Southern California) leads a graduate student workshop discussion.
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. 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. Please contact Andrew Bozio (bozio@umich.edu) to receive a copy of the chapter.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 2009, 4-5:30pm, 3222 ANGELL HALL. 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". Smith's talk is drawn from his
forthcoming book Phenomenal Shakespeare. A prolific and inflential critic, Professor Smith's other books include
Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics (1991),
The Acoustic World of Early Modern England:Attending to the O-Factor (1999),
Shakespeare and Masculinity (2000), and, most recently,
The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture (2009). Please contact Andrew Bozio (bozio@umich.edu) with any questions.
January:
FRIDAY, JANURARY 29th, 2010, 1-2:30pm, 3222 ANGELL HALL. 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). 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. Please contact Andrew Bozio (bozio@umich.edu) with any questions.
February:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4th, 2010, 5-6:30pm, 3222 ANGELL HALL. 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". A distinguished and prolific scholar, Professor Garber has published works on a wide variety of topics. Her monographs include: Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (1992); Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (1995); Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses (2000); Shakespeare After All (2004); and On Shakespeare and Modern Culture (2008). Please contact Leila Watkins (lrwatkin@gmail.com) with any questions.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19th, 2010, 4:30-6:00pm, & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, 2010, 9:30am-6:00pm, 3222 ANGELL HALL. Conference:
"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". Other presentations include papers on the works of John Ford, William Harvey, John Milton, John Donne, George Puttenham, Rembrandt, and Shakespeare. This conference is free and open to the public. To see a listing of the full conference schedule, please click here. For questions or further information, please contact either Rebecca Wiseman (rwiseman@umich.edu), Kathryn Will (willkath@umich.edu) or Andrew Bozio (bozio@umich.edu).
March:
FRIDAY, MARCH 26th, 2010, 4:30-6:00, 3222 ANGELL HALL.
Valerie Wayne (English, University of Hawai'i at Manoa) presents a lecture entitled "Cervantes & Shakespeare:
Metatextualities in Don Quixote and the Late Plays."
By 1613, Shakespeare had collaborated with John Fletcher on a play called
Cardenio based on a story from Don Quixote, but how much earlier were
English dramatists aware of Cervantes' novel? This talk proposes that
Quixote was known in England shortly after its 1605 publication and that
the Spanish parody of chivalric romance played a part in the King's Men's
turn to dramatic romance in Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The
Tempest.
Valerie Wayne
has edited or co-edited four books about Early Modern literature, most
recently Staging Early Modern Romance (Routledge 2009) and Thomas
Middleton: The Collected Works (Oxford 2007). She is a trustee of the
Shakespeare Association of America and serves on the editorial board of Shakespeare Quarterly.
For a listing of past EMC events, 1999-2009, please click here.
Events Around Campus:
Links to information about events around campus, including performances of early modern materials:
Institute for the Humanities - calendar of talks presented by the Institute.
University Productions - listing of the current season of drama, dance, opera and musical student performances.
University Musical Society - the UMS offers performances of various musical artists and groups.
University of Michigan Museum of Art - information about current and future exhibits at the museum.
Arts at the University of Michigan - university listing of art events.
Michigan Union Ticket Office - information on tickets for local events.
M-Live - offers a searchable database of events going on around Ann Arbor