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).
February:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4th, 2010. Marjorie Garber (William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University) presents a lecture. Further details are forthcoming.
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19-20th, 2010. Conference:
"The Renaissance Arts of Science and Nature". The keynote speakers for this event will be
Laurie Shannon (English, Northwestern University) and Carla Mazzio
(English, SUNY Buffalo). For a copy of the CFP, please click here.
March:
MARCH 22-26th, 2010.
Valerie Wayne (English, University of Hawai'i at Manoa) presents a lecture and a graduate student workshop. Further details are forthcoming.
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