CELCE

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!

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!

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.

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.