CELCE

Accessorizing the Renaissance Body Conference

2008-09-03T15:33:34Z

It is my pleasure to announce the following conference happening on Friday, September 26, organized by the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. All sessions will be held at the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 715 Broadway. As the conference promises to be an exciting one, we hope to see the audience packed with CELCE members! A program can be downloaded by clicking here.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

Session I: Working with Accessories
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Chair: Richard McCoy
Natasha Korda: “Stiff and Starchy Accessories: Froes, Rebatoes and Other ‘Outlandish Comodityes’”
Beth Holman: “Papal Dress and Accessories in the Renaissance”
Adam Smyth: “Functional Ornaments: Early Modern Scissors”

Session II: Renaissance Erotics
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Chair: Juliet Fleming
Anne Jones: “Busks and Bodices: The Bound Renaissance Body”
Will Fisher: “‘Had it a codpiece, ’twere a man indeed’: The Codpiece as a Constitutive Accessory”
Elizabeth Blake: “Renaissance Dildos and Accessories: The Functions of Early Modern Strap-Ons”

Break: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Session III: Dressing Up
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Chair: Virginia Cox
Evelyn Welch: “Perfumed Buttons and Scented Gloves: Smelling Things in Renaissance Italy”
Karen Raber: “Chains of Pearls: Gender, Property, Identity”
Bella Mirabella: “Embellishing Herself with a Cloth: The Double Life of the Handkerchief”
Eugenia Paulicelli: “From the Sacred to the Secular: The Gendered Geography of Veils in Italian Cinquecento Fashion”

Session IV: Taking Accessories Seriously
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Chair: Georgina Dopico
Jane Tylus: “The Garment of Translation”
Karen Newman: “Accessories and the Sartorial Economy of Secondariness”
Joseph Loewenstein: “Hamlet's Mourning Garment”

Response: 6:00 p.m.
Peter Stallybrass

Reception: 6:30 p.m.

"Accessorizing the Renaissance Body" is cosponsored by the NYU Department of English, the NYU Department of Italian, and the NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center. If you have questions, contact Nicole DeRise, nicole[dot]derise[at]nyu[dot]edu.

First Early Modern Forum Event: John Archer

2008-09-02T19:55:38Z

"Islam and Tamburlaine's World-Picture."

John Archer
Professor of English, NYU

Thursday, Sept. 18, 6:30 pm
Room 224 of 19 University Place
(non-NYU visitors, bring a photo ID to sign into the building)

Professor Archer will give a brief presentation then lead a discussion of his paper "Islam and Tamburlaine's World-Picture." Professor Archer has pre-circulated the paper to be discussed. To pick up a copy, go the the NYU English Department (5th floor of 19 University Place). The papers can be found in the pigeon hole labeled "CELCE" directly across from the elevators. If the supply is exhausted or you would like the paper over email, please email us at the address(es) given below.

This is the inaugural event in the NYU English Department's Early Modern Forum. The Early Modern Forum will meet fortnightly on Thursday evenings (a full schedule of speakers and events will follow).

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

First Medieval Forum Event: Mary Carruthers

2008-08-25T15:19:58Z

"'Variety': a study in pre-modern aesthetic values."

Mary Carruthers
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature, NYU; Professor of English, NYU

Thursday, Sept. 11, 6:30 pm
Room 224 of 19 University Place
(non-NYU visitors, bring a photo ID to sign into the building)

Professor Carruthers will deliver the inaugural talk in the NYU English Department's Medieval Forum. The Medieval Forum will meet fortnightly on Thursday evenings (a full schedule of speakers and events will follow).

If you have questions, please contact Liza Blake, eab429[at]nyu[dot]edu.

Welcome, new CELCE members!

2008-06-30T17:07:43Z

Dear members of CELCE,

On behalf of my co-coordinator and myself, I’d like to welcome you to another exciting year with the Colloquium on Early Literature and Culture in English. We’ll be putting out our full schedule soon, but in the meantime, make sure to keep your Thursday evenings free in Fall 2008, as we’ve got space reserved on Thursdays from 6-8pm. Details to follow.

As a way of welcoming all those you soon-to-be-new to NYU grad students, we've prepared a list of resources that might be helpful to you as an incoming med/ren student.

CELCE blog. If you’re already here, this probably seems obvious, but make sure to check back or add us to your blogroll as we’ll use this space to announce upcoming events, CFPs, and other useful info for CELCE members.

NYU listservs. These will keep you up to date on upcoming area events and relevant CFPs. You can add yourselves to lists from the NYU homepage. “medren-nyu” pertains to events in the greater New York area. “margnet” is the list for MaRGiN, the interdisciplinary med/ren graduate group at NYU. And don’t forget to sign up for “celce”!

Medieval and Renaissance Center (MARC). This is an interdisciplinary center that organizes speakers and events throughout the academic school year. Their website sometimes helpfully collects courses of interest across departments and schools in the doctoral consortium. The graduate student portion of MARC, the Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Information Network (MaRGiN), brings together graduate students from across disciplines for events.

The Medieval Club of New York (MCoNY). Run out of CUNY, but connecting medievalists across the city, the MCoNY organizes speakers and other events throughout the year. They also operate a blog.

New York Libraries. We’re in the middle of university central: take advantage of it. The Columbia Library, CUNY grad center library, and New York Public Library (just to name a few!) all provide great backup to our own NYU library. Don’t forget also opportunities to access rare books at the libraries already mentioned, as well as at the Morgan and, for those interested in history of science and medicine, the New York Academy of Medicine Library.

We'll be back on this blog with a list of events later in the summer. In the meantime, keep checking back and we look forward to seeing you this fall!

Liza and Katie

The Changing of the Guard

2008-05-15T03:33:48Z

As the 2007-8 academic year winds down, Lea Puljcan Juric and Ruth Simon would like to thank all the presenters, collaborators, and audience members for their help and support this year at CELCE events. We thoroughly enjoyed our year as the CELCE graduate coordinators. Your involvement in the events made them a success and we greatly appreciate that.

For the 2008-9 academic year, two new graduate coordinators will be assuming the reins for CELCE. Kathryn Vomero and Liza Blake, two early modern scholars, will be bringing new panels, presentations, and speakers to the community. Lea and Ruth ask that you give Kathryn and Liza the support and encouragement you showed us.

All the best,
Lea and Ruth

Periodization Roundtable May 1 at 3:00pm

2008-04-14T15:59:49Z

CELCE is exceptionally pleased to announce our final event of the academic year: a roundtable on the problem of periodization in medieval and early modern studies. Join us, and take part in what is bound to be a lively and informative debate on some of the key issues in current scholarship.

Discussants:
Professor Haruko Momma
Professor Christopher Cannon
Professor Karen Newman
Angie Bennett, master’s student
Jennie Votava, doctoral candidate
Ross Knecht, doctoral candidate

Moderator:
Professor Ernest Gilman

Thursday, May 1
3-5 pm
Room 222, 19 UP

As always, fine refreshments will be served.

Folger Dissertation Seminar

2008-04-01T22:08:42Z

Applications for next year's dissertation seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library are due June 2. For those of you unfamiliar with this program, it is jointly run by a faculty member from History and from English. For the 2008-09 academic year, Jean Howard (Columbia) and Linda Levy Peck (George Washington University) will lead the seminar entitled "Researching the Archives" which is designed for doctoral candidates at work on their dissertations. Grants-in-aid to cover expenses to travel to and from the monthly seminar, and for two nights' accommodation, is available. For further information, consult the Folger Institute website on line, or see NYU's Folger liaison, Professor Karen Newman, in the Department of English.

ASSC: David Damrosch "A Rune of One's Own: Negotiating Latinity in Medieval Iceland and Colonial New Spain"

2008-04-01T17:55:54Z

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
Presents, with special sponsorship from the
Medieval and Renaissance Center, NYU, and the
Department of English, NYU,

David Damrosch
(Columbia University)

"A Rune of One's Own: Negotiating Latinity in
Medieval Iceland and Colonial New Spain"
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Thursday, April 3
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5:30 pm Reception
6:00 pm Lecture

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13 University Place, Room 222
New York University

ASSC Sponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; Dean for the Humanities, New York University; The Department of English, Princeton University; The Medieval Studies Program, Princeton University; The Department of English, Rutgers University.

Writing Women 1700-1800

2008-03-28T01:46:59Z

The New York University Transatlantic Long Eighteenth-Century Group presents:

Writing Women 1700-1800:
Literary History at the Crossroads

A Symposium at New York University
Fales Library and Special Collections
10-11 April, 2008

THURSDAY 10 APRIL
4:00: Welcoming Remarks: Catherine R. Stimpson, Dean and University Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Science
Introduction: Paula McDowell and Bryan Waterman, New York University
4:15 - 5:45: Plenary Lecture: Paula R. Backscheider, Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar, Auburn University: "Where Method Leads Us"
5:45 - 7:00: Wine and Cheese Reception

FRIDAY 11 APRIL
9:15: Welcoming Remarks: Jane Tylus, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Director, Humanities Initiative at NYU
9:30 - 12:00: Session 1
Chair: Dustin Griffin, Department of English, NYU
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Department of English, Northeastern University: "Category Crises and Gender in the New World"
Joanna Brooks, Department of English, San Diego State University: "Feelings are not a Luxury: Phillis Wheatley, Poetry, Women, and Empire"
April Alliston, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University: "Questions at the Crossroads of Women’s Literary History: 'Why Did the Comparatist Cross the Road?'; or, 'What Do You Compare (in the Age of the Digital Archive)?'"

12:00 - 2:15: Break for lunch (on your own)

2:15 - 4:00: Session 2
Chair: Nicole Eustace, Department of History, NYU
Simon Dickie, Department of English, University of Toronto: "Fielding, Rape Jokes, and Local Justice"
Toni Bowers, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania: "Tory Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance"
4:00 - 4:15: Coffee break
4:15 - 5:30: Session 3: Concluding Response and Group Discussion
Respondent and Chair: Mary Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities, New York University

All events will be held at the Fales Library and Special Collections, Bobst Library, 3rd floor, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. Registration is not required; however, you will have to present a valid photo ID in order to enter the library. For more information, please visit: http://nyu-18c.pbwiki.com/Women+Writing

The "Writing Women 1700-1800: Literary History at the Crossroads" symposium has been made possible by the sponsorship of Fales Library and Special Collections, the NYU Humanities Council, the Graduate School of Arts and Science, the Dean of the College of Arts and Science, the Department of English, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and the Atlantic History Workshop at NYU.

Crossing Borders: CELCE's first Graduate Conference

2008-03-05T12:45:35Z

Please join us for Crossing Borders, CELCE's first Graduate Conference, to be held Thursday and Friday, March 13 and 14, in the Great Room of 19 University Place at NYU.

The conference features five graduate student panels with papers by graduate students from around the country, and a keynote address by distinguished NYU professor Carolyn Dinshaw.

For complete conference details and a schedule of panels, please visit the conference website.

CELCE event on Friday, February 8, 3:30-5:30 pm, Room 222

2008-01-24T17:44:46Z

Presenter:
Cody Brooks Reis, “Monism and the rhetoric of personality: De Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost”
Cody works on Renaissance studies, rhetoric, and theory, and on the problem of materialism in the comparative histories of literature, science, religion, philosophy, and politics. He is a third-year PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a visiting fellow at NYU for 2007-2008.

Respondent:
Professor John Guillory

Join us for great scholarship and fine refreshments!

CELCE's Last Event in 2007! Join us!

2007-11-19T17:51:48Z

Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Location: 13-19 University Place, Room 222

Dear colleagues,

CELCE is pleased to invite you to our final event of the fall 2007 semester! Please join us in supporting the work of two of our doctoral students and a distinguished faculty, all specialists in the early modern period.

Presenters:

Kathryn Elizabeth Vomero -- “The Metamorphosis of Lucrece”

Ross M Knecht -- "Humanism, Geography, and the Racialized World Picture"

Respondent:

Professor Ernest Gilman

Let us celebrate our colleagues and the end of another exciting semester at NYU. Refreshments will be served in the holiday spirit! All welcome!

Mock MLA Panel

2007-10-23T00:47:58Z

CELCE - CRALS - Modern Colloquium present a Mock MLA Panel

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Location: 13-19 University Place, Room 222

Presenters:
Sara Landreth - Breaking the Laws of Motion: “Literary” Language and the Science of the Brain Sarah Nash - The Purifying Licenser: Creating the Sympathetic Reader for Dickens' Bentley's Miscellany Beth Kramer - Sensational Strategies: Fiction, Feminism and Victorian Employment Reform

Respondent: Professor Mary Poovey

Please mark your calendars and join us in providing a forum for these doctoral candidates to workshop their MLA papers.

Refreshments will be provided!

"Pleasure in Anglo-Saxon England" 4th ASSC Grad Student Conference

2007-09-24T15:12:57Z

"Pleasure in Anglo-Saxon England"

The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
4th Annual Graduate Student Conference

Saturday, February 16, 2008
at Yale University

Yale University, in partnership with the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium (Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, NYU), invites submissions for the fourth annual graduate student conference sponsored by the Colloquium.

The theme of this year’s conference is “Pleasure in Anglo-Saxon England.” We invite submissions addressing any and all manifestations of pleasure in Old English or Anglo-Latin texts, Anglo-Saxon history, art, religion, or archaeology. We welcome a variety of methodologies, being equally pleased by the philological delight of a word study as by a wide-ranging treatment of emotions in Anglo-Saxon society. We also invite papers on the particular pleasures that the Anglo-Saxon world offers post-medieval scholars, artists, and armchair antiquarians. In the tradition of the Colloquium, we will be having respondents for the paper presentations, which should be no longer than ten minutes.

Possible topics include:

- emotions in Anglo-Saxon England
- pleasure and religion
- word-play and language play
- the joy of objects
- Anglo-Saxon recreation
- food and feasting
- Anglo-Saxon music
- reception of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture
- Anglo-Saxon aesthetics
- pleasure of the exotic
- personal relationships
- depictions of heaven
- definition of the good
- luxury goods
- desire and appetite
- the senses
- the regulation of pleasure
- dreams

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words by November 26, 2007. Include your contact information, including active email address, street address, and phone number, and any requests for audio-visual equipment. You may submit abstracts via email to pleasureatyale@hotmail.com, or send paper submissions to P.O. Box 208302, New Haven, CT 06520. (Paper submissions should arrive by the deadline.)

Conference organizers: Irina Dumitrescu, Denis Ferhatovic, Jordan Zweck.

For other ASSC events and for further updates please visit the ASSC website at
www.columbia.edu/cu/assc

CELCE 2008 Graduate Student Conference: CROSSING BORDERS

2007-09-01T00:08:08Z

The Colloquium on Early Literature and Culture in English is pleased to announce our first graduate student conference, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, March 13 and 14, 2008. We invite papers that take interdisciplinary approaches to representations of borders (spatial, temporal, semiotic, and sensory), and the ways in which respecting or crossing them affected individuals and societies in English-speaking worlds from the medieval period up to the eighteenth century.

Some possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Cultural exchanges within the Old World (e.g. the French in medieval England; interactions between East and West; Africa in Europe, etc.)
- Trans-Atlanticism
- Slavery and captivity
- Cultural translation
- Early print culture and the changing face of literacy
- When language fails: Visual, aural, and other extra-linguistic representations in texts
- Cultural/Systemic change and representation of transitional periods

Please send your 250-word abstract to the CELCE coordinators by November 15, 2007.

Thank you,

Lea Puljcan Juric
lpj212@nyu.edu

Ruth F. Simon
ruth.simon@nyu.edu