Location: Red Gym, 716 Langdon St., Madison. Join us as we enjoy early modern banter, discuss GEMSS events, and dialogue on scholarly articles during the February GEMSS Monthly Meeting! Click here for details.
Events
GEMSS Roundtable: “Conflicts, Contests and Confrontations in the Early Modern World”
Location: Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191. The first official GEMSS Roundtable of early modern faculty and graduate students to discuss, “Conflicts, Contests and Confrontations in the Early Modern World.” Presentations will be 8-10 minutes …
“18th-century Italian Songs” (UW School of Music Concert)
Location: Gallery III. A concert of 18th-century Italian songs featuring students and faculty from the UW School of Music. Held in conjunction with the exhibition, In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de …
“Invention and Critique: The Trouble of Historical Fiction”
Location: Union South (check TITU for room). Keynote Speaker, English Department Graduate Student Association Conference, Dr. Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia). Dr. Holsinger’s talk will engage ideas of historicism, methodology, and disciplinarity as he discusses how …
“Machiavelli’s Tragic Geography”
Location: Institute for Research in the Humanities, University Club Building, 432 East Campus Mall, Room 221. Institute for Research in the Humanities Presentation by Dr. Kristin Phillips-Court (University of Wisconsin-Madison). My project investigates Machiavelli’s frequent recourse …
“Jonson’s Cicero: In His Own Times, In His Own Words”
Location: Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191. Renaissance Colloquium Presentation by Dr. John Curran, Professor of English (Marquette University). This paper examines Jonson’s Cicero as a case study from the 2014 book, Character and the …
“Francesco de Mura and Bourbon Naples”
Location: Chazen Museum of Art Auditorium Chazen Museum of Art Lecture by Dr. Robin L. Thomas, Associate Professor, Department of Art History (The Pennsylvania State University). Join us for “Francesco de Mura and Bourbon Naples,” …
Show and Tell: Evidence, Erotics, and Embodiment in the Premodern World
Location: Institute for Research in the Humanities, University Club Building, 432 East Campus Mall, Room 221 When researching the history of sexuality, or thinking about past desires, erotics, and intimacies, what counts as evidence? What …
Desiring History, Historicizing Desire
Location: Institute for Research in the Humanities, University Club Building, 432 East Campus Mall, Room 221 Ari Friedlander, assistant professor of English (University of Mississippi) and editor of the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies …