early modern group

coordinators:

Barrett Kalter, English
Tanya Tiffany, Art History

2007-08
on hiatus, please check back in the fall!

Spring 2007

Friday, March 2, 11-12:30, Curtin 939
topic, t.b.a.

Friday, April 27, 1:30, Curtin 939
Guest speaker: Lynn Festa, English, UW-Madison
paper on 18th century productions of Macbeth

(Fall 2006 meetings)

Wednesday, October 25, 3:15 - 4:45 , Center Conference Room, Curtin 939

Speaker: Tanya Tiffany (Art History, UWM)

Friday, October 6, 11-12:30, Center Conference Room, Curtin 939

Topic: Early Modern Performance
Readings: Jean-Christophe Agnew, "Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750," and
Joseph R. Roach, "Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance"

The readings are available at the Center main office, Curtin 929. Please call ahead: 229-4141

Please spread the word, especially to graduate students you think might be interested!

First organized in Fall 2001, the early modern group provides a forum for interdisciplinary discussion among faculty members with research interests in the early modern period (ca. 1500-1800). Participating faculty are drawn from a number of departments: Art History, English, French, History, the Honors Program, Music, Philosophy, and Spanish. The group is composed of UWM faculty members as well as faculty from other institutions in the area such as Marquette, Lawrence, and UW-Whitewater. Testifying to the relatively expansive and porous boundaries of the period, the research interests of group members encompass a wide range of disciplinary, geographic, and chronological contexts (e.g., the medieval period).

The group typically holds three meetings each semester. In the past, our 90-minute meetings have discussed a pre-circulated work-in-progress from a group member. Papers have treated a range of topics: suicide in eighteenth-century France, Descartes's theories of vision, Luther and sexuality, internal colonialism in early modern England, and the materiality of voice in English Renaissance drama. In addition, the group will host invited speakers beginning in Fall 2003.

The early modern group welcomes new participants; please contact one of the coordinators.

Center for 21st Century Studies

Daniel J. Sherman, Director