CELCE

We are pleased to announce the list of spring semester events for the NYU English Department Colloquium for Early Literature and Culture in English (CELCE). Unless otherwise noted, events are held Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. in 19 University Place; rooms are noted below. Visitors from outside NYU should bring photo ID to sign into NYU buildings. All are welcome!

If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, Katie Vomero Santos, kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Sarah Ostendorf, sco229[at]nyu[dot]edu.

January 28
CELCE Spring Kick-Off Happy Hour
The Wine Spot, 127 Macdougal Street (below The Tea Spot)
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

February 4
Paris is Worth a Massacre: Marlowe and the Death of Ramus
(pre-circulated paper; email the organizers for a copy)
John Guillory
(NYU)
Room 222

February 25
The Poetics of Praise
Cary Howie
(Cornell)
Room 222

March 12 (Friday)
The Untimely Mammet of Verona
Gil Harris
(GWU)
Room 222

April 8
Feeling Time: Prose Aesthetics in the Cloud of Unknowing
Eleanor Johnson
(Columbia)
Room 224

April 22
Keeping Things Still in Renaissance England
Julian Yates
(Delaware)
Room 224

Please join us for our next event:

"The Sorrow of Being"
Nicola Masciandaro (CUNY)

Thursday, November 12th, 6:30 p.m.
19 University Place, room 224
(non-NYU guests, please bring photo ID to sign into the building)

From Professor Masciandaro:
Sorrow seems universally related, in one way or another, to the principle of evil or privation. Sorrows of love, of loss, of pain, of disappointment, of conscience—all are barely thinkable without reference to some problematic object, the negative thing that one sorrows over. This relation is exemplified by Augustine’s definition of sorrow as counter-volition or refusal: “cum . . . dissentimus ab eo quod nolentibus accidit, talis voluntas tristitia est” [sorrow is the will’s disagreement with something that happened against our will]. But is there a form of sorrow that remains or emerges when all possible objects of sorrow are taken away, when there is nothing to sorrow over, a sorrow of being? The idea of such sorrow, a sorrow that takes sorrow beyond its own possibility, appears at once obvious and absurd. Existence simultaneously is and is not the greatest “something that happened against our will.” A pure sorrow, a perfect sorrow, a sorrow whose meaning is infinite? In dialogue with The Cloud of Unknowing and other late-medieval mystical texts, this lecture speculates about the nature of such sorrow and its relations to facticity, actuality, work, interpretation, and ecstasy.

We regret to announce that Jonathan Gil Harris's untimely mammet lecture scheduled for tonight, Oct. 8, has been cancelled, due to the sudden and untimely onset of flu-like symptoms. There will be no CELCE or Early Modern Forum meeting tonight.

We will work to reschedule this event. To learn the new date and details of the event, you can join our mailing list, or check for updated information here at the CELCE blog.

Our apologies for this last-minute cancellation.

We are pleased to announce the list of the Fall semester events for the NYU English Department Early Modern Forum. The Early Modern Forum meets on Thursday evenings at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. All events are held in 19 University Place, and rooms are noted below (visitors from outside NYU should bring photo ID to sign into the building). All are welcome!

If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, Katie Vomero Santos, kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Sarah Ostendorf, sco229[at]nyu[dot]edu.

September 10
CELCE Fall Kick-Off Reception
6pm
Great Room

September 17
The French Disease
Karen Newman
(NYU)
Room 224

October 8 -- POSTPONED!!
The Untimely Mammet of Verona
Gil Harris
(GWU)
Room 222

November 2 (Monday)
Renaissance Typos and Philosophies of Chance: A Colloquium
Jacques Lezra and Juliet Fleming
(NYU)
Room 224

December 3
Romance Ekphrasis: A Language of Sociability
Elizabeth Bearden
(University of Maryland)
Room 222
Co-sponsored with the Comparative Literature Department

We are pleased to announce the list of the Fall semester events for the NYU English Department Medieval Forum. The Medieval Forum meets on Thursday evenings at 6:30pm. All events will be held in 19 University Place, room 224, unless otherwise noted (visitors from outside NYU should bring photo ID to sign into the building). All are welcome!

If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, Katie Vomero Santos, kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Sarah Ostendorf, sco229[at]nyu[dot]edu.

September 10
CELCE Fall Kick-Off Reception
6pm
Great Room

October 1
In the Merchant's Bedchamber
Glenn Burger
(CUNY)

November 12
The Sorrow of Being
Nicola Masciandaro
(CUNY)

November 19
Trojan Itineraries: The Fall of Troy and the Francophone Court of Robert of Anjou, King of Naples
Marilynn Desmond
(Binghamton University)
Room 222
Co-sponsored with MARC and with the NYU French Department

The NYU Comparative Literature Department and CELCE are pleased to announce a new event for the Spring semester:

Monday, March 30, 7pm
Silver Center, Room 503, Department of Classics, 100 Washington Square East

Professor Trüstedt will be speaking about Carl Schmitt's essay "Hamlet or Hecuba: The Intrusion of Time in the Play." She has pre-circulated a copy of the Schmitt essay; if you would like a copy, please email us at the address(es) given below.

All are welcome!

If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Katie Vomero, kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot[edu].

We are pleased to announce the list of the Spring semester events for the NYU English Department Early Modern Forum. Unless otherwise noted, the Early Modern Forum meets on Thursday evenings at 6:30pm.

Please note that our talks will be held in various locations around NYU this semester. (Visitors from outside NYU should bring photo ID to sign into NYU buildings.)

All are welcome!

If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Katie Vomero, kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot]edu.

February 12
"The Portingale: exploring the Portuguese community in late Elizabethan London"
Alan Stewart
(Columbia University)
Silver Center, Room 503, Department of Classics, 100 Washington Square East
Co-sponsored with CELCE

March 12
"Kermes Trismegistus: Dyes and Deceit in Chapman's Hellespont"
Miriam Jacobson
(Wake Forest University)
Silver Center, Room 503, Department of Classics, 100 Washington Square East

March 24 (Tuesday)
"Richard Hakluyt, Translator, and the Early Modern Global Imaginary"
Henry Turner
(Rutgers University)
19 University Place, Great Room (first floor)
6:00pm
Co-sponsored with the Medieval and Renaissance Center (MARC)

March 30 (Monday)
"Hamlet against Hecuba: Carl Schmitt and the Stake of Modern Tragedy"
Katrin Trüstedt
(Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder))
7pm
Silver Center, Room 503, Department of Classics, 100 Washington Square East
Co-sponsored with the NYU Comparative Literature Department

April 30
"Marlowe's Last Poem"
Dympna Callaghan
(Syracuse University)
19 University Place, Room 225 (French Seminar Room)
Co-sponsored with CELCE

We are pleased to announce the list of the Spring semester events for the NYU English Department Medieval Forum. Unless otherwise noted, the Medieval Forum meets on Thursday evenings at 6:30pm.

Please note that our talks will be held in various locations around NYU this semester. (Visitors from outside NYU should bring photo ID to sign into NYU buildings.)

All are welcome!

If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu.

February 5
"The Weight of the Past"
Jeffrey Cohen
(George Washington University)
19 University Place, Room 222
Reception at 6pm; lecture at 6:30pm
Co-sponsored with the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium

February 19
"Wondering through the World: Ibn Battuta among the Mongols"
Christine Chism
(Rutgers University)
To be held at 754 Schermerhorn, Columbia University
Reception at 6pm; lecture at 6:30pm
Co-sponsored with Columbia University

March 10 NEW DATE! Tuesday, March 10
"Cures and Closures: Surgery, Intersex, and the Demands of Difference"
Leah DeVun
(Texas A&M University)
IHPK Conference Room, 285 Mercer Street, 10th Floor
Co-sponsored with CELCE

April 2
"Mythic Capital: Medievalism, Heritage Culture and the Order of the Garter, 1348-2008"
Stephanie Trigg
(University of Melbourne)
19 University Place, Room 222
Co-sponsored with the Medieval and Renaissance Center (MARC)

April 23
"The Politics of the Subjunctive"
Paul Strohm
(Columbia University)
Department of Classics, 100 Washington Square East, Silver Center 503

The NYU English Department's Early Modern Forum and the Colloquium on Early Literatures and Cultures in English (CELCE) present:

Thursday, Feb. 12, 6:30pm
PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION:
Silver Center 503, Department of Classics, 100 Washington Square East
(visitors from outside NYU should bring photo ID to sign into the building)

A schedule of Spring Early Modern Forum events will follow shortly. If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu, or Katie Vomero, kathryn[dot]vomero[at]nyu[dot]edu.

The NYU English Department's Medieval Forum and the Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium present:

Thursday, Feb. 5
Reception 6:00pm
Lecture 6:30pm

Room 222 of 19 University Place
(visitors from outside NYU should bring photo ID to sign into the building).

A schedule of Spring Medieval Forum events will follow shortly. If you have questions, contact Liza Blake, elizabeth[dot]blake[at]nyu[dot]edu.