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.
Spring 2009 Events
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