"Word & Image"

Under the aegis of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, the Renaissance Literature Seminar will host the following speakers for 2009-10:

Oct 17 – Margaret Ferguson, "Cries and Whispers: Early Modern Debates about the Hymen"

Nov 14 – Harry Berger, "The Drama of Competitive Posing: Portrait Plots in Hals and Rembrandt"

Jan 30 – Patricia Fumerton, "Transatlantic Crossings: The Makings of History, Aesthetics, and Blackness, 1570-1789" / to be followed in the afternoon by a Graduate Student Panel

Mar 20 – Ann Rosalind Jones, "Ut Pictura Poesis: Rhymed Commentaries on Prints in Sixteenth-Century Costume Books"

Apr 10 – Jody Greene, "I Heart George Herbert"

May 1 – Carla Mazzio, "Euclid in Ruins: Language and Math c. 1600"