Med / Ren events around New York ...

Monday, April 4 [at Penn]
History of Material Texts Seminar
ROLENA ADORNO (Yale)
"Ink and Incas: Manuscript Histories from Early Colonial Peru"
5:15 PM
Martin and Margy Meyerson Conference Room, diagonally across from the
elevator bank on the second floor of Van Pelt Library, Penn.

Tuesday, April 5 [at NYU]
The Medieval & Renaissance Center & The Humanities Initiative, NYU
PETER LAKE (Vanderbilt)
"The Political Origins of the History Play"
6-8 PM
Humanities Initiative, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
Contact: MARC 212-998-8698 mar.center@nyu.edu
http://marc.as.nyu.edu/page/home or www.humanitiesiniative.org

Wednesday, April 6 [at NYU]
CLAUDIO GIGANTE (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
"Writing Strategies and Paths of Invention in the Autograph Manuscript
of the Gerusalemme Conquistata" 6:30 PM
NYU Humanities Initiative
The talk will be in Italian, though an English version of the paper
will be available several days prior. To request a copy please email
Bryan Brazeau:
bryan.brazeau@nyu.edu . Hard copies of the English version will be
available at the
Humanities Initiative one hour prior to the talk.
Sponsored by: The NYU Department of Italian Studies, The NYU
Department of Comparative
Literature, M.A.R.C., NYU Office of Residential Life and Housing
Services and the NYU
Humanities Initiative

Thursday, April 7-Friday, April 8
A Franco-American Graduate Student Workshop
under the auspices of the Alliance Program
COMPETITION IN MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
The workshop features History students from
Columbia University and the UniversitÈ de Paris-I.
Thursday 7 April 2:00-5:00
Friday 8 April 9:00-11:00, 1:30-5:45
Sessions in 411 Fayerweather Hall
For information, contact ajkosto@columbia.edu

Thursday, April 7 [at Rutgers]
The Rutgers British Studies Program
CHRIS GIVEN-WILSON (University of St Andrews)
"Chivalric Biography and Medieval Life-Writing"
4:30 PM
Plangere Annex, 510 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ

Thursday, April 7 [at Rutgers]
Exhibition Curator Lecture
THOMAS FULTON (Rutgers)
"John Milton and the Cultures of Print"
4:30 PM
Scholarly Communication Center, Fourth Floor,
Archibald S. Alexander Library, Rutgers University

Thursday, April 7 [at NYU]
Medieval Studies Seminar
JOSEPHINE LIVINGSTON (New York University)
"Alexander B in its Tradition, or: What do we do with India?"
5-6 PM
19 University Place, Room 305
Contact: Emile Young emy213@nyu.edu

Thursday, April 7-Friday, April 8
A Franco-American Graduate Student Workshop
under the auspices of the Alliance Program
COMPETITION IN MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
The workshop features History students from
Columbia University and the UniversitÈ de Paris-I.
Thursday 7 April 2:00-5:00
Friday 8 April 9:00-11:00, 1:30-5:45
Sessions in 411 Fayerweather Hall
For information, contact ajkosto@columbia.edu

Friday, April 8 [at NYU]
WHY STUDY THE COUNTER-REFORMATION?
A panel discussion with
CLAUDIO GIGANTE (Universite Libre de Bruxelles): "Torquato Tasso and
the Counter-Reformation"
VIRGINIA COX (NYU): "An age of misogyny? Gender and the Counter-Reformation"
JACQUES LEZRA (NYU): "Martyrs' values: Spain-England, 1604-1614"
JANE TYLUS (NYU): "The Counter-Reformation Sublime"
12:30 PM
NYU Casa Italiana Library, 24 West 12th Street, 2nd Fl.
Lunch will be provided.
Contact Bryan Brazeau at bjb320@nyu.edu.

Friday, April 8
The Gallatin Arts Festival
THE HAMLET RAVE
5-9 PM
See: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191623274213237

Monday, April 11 [at NYPL]
New York Public Library
MATTHEW ZARNOWIECKI (Auburn)
"The End of Shakespeare's Sonnets"
1.15 PM
South Court Auditorium, NYPL, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth
Avenue at 42nd Street

Monday, April 11
Columbia University Seminar on Studies in Religion
CAROLINE WALKER BYNUM (Columbia)
"Living Synecdoche: Parts and Wholes in Medieval Devotion"
4:15 PM
Faculty House, 117th St. and Morningside Dr. (entrance on 116th St.)
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to our rapporteur Ivan Lupic
(il2177@columbia.edu)
by Thursday, April 7, indicating whether you wish to attend the
seminar dinner as well.
Please note that the cost of dinner is $24 and that payment is cash or
check only.

Tuesday, April 12 [at NYPL]
New York Public Library
BERNICE W. KLIMAN
"Hamletworks.org for Everyone!" (illustrated lecture)
1.15 PM
South Court Auditorium, NYPL, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth
Avenue at 42nd Street

Tuesday, April 12
The Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance
HEATHER DUBROW (Fordham) "'Of Future Depths': Futurity in Shakespeare,
Donne, and Heaney"
5.45 drinks, 6.30 dinner, 7.30 talk
Faculty House
Contact: Ivan Lupic at il2177@columbia.edu or 646-387-2407

Wednesday, April 13 [at NYPL]
New York Public Library
GAVIN HOLLIS (CUNY-Hunter)
"Shakespeare's Mappery"
1.15 PM
South Court Auditorium, NYPL, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth
Avenue at 42nd Street

Wednesday, April 13 [at NYU]
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
PATRICIA DAILEY (Columbia University)
"Naming and Unknowing: Responding to the Exeter Book Riddles"
5:30 PM
New York University, Room TBD

Wednesday, April 13 [at Barnard]
Gildersleeve Public Lecture
SARAH HUTTON (Aberystwyth)
"Liberty in Mind: Women Philosophers from Margaret Cavendish to Mary
Wollstonecraft"
4 PM
Julius Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall

Thursday, April 14 [at NYPL]
New York Public Library
NAOMI CONN LIEBLER (Montclair State)
"Reading (Between) the Lines: Shakespeare's Old Ladies"
1.15 PM
South Court Auditorium, NYPL, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth
Avenue at 42nd Street

Thursday, April 14
Columbia Early Modern Seminar
TIFFANY STERN (Oxford)
"'This paper has undone me': documents as props in early modern drama"
6.15 PM
509 Hamilton

Friday, April 15 [at NYPL]
New York Public Library
SCOTT TRUDELL
"Hamlet: Poetry That Doesn't Matter"
1.15 PM
South Court Auditorium, NYPL, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth
Avenue at 42nd Street

Friday April 15
The Columbia Shakespeare Seminar
JEREMY LOPEZ (Toronto)
"Collecting Early Modern Drama from Dodsley to Norton: Parables of the Canon"
Social hour 5-6; dinner 6-7; and the talk 7-8:30
Faculty House
Contact: Ashley Brinkman columbiashakespeareseminar@gmail.com

Saturday, April 16 [at Princeton]
Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies at Princeton University
ILLNESS, HEALING AND THE BODY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Contact: Rebecca Johnson (rwjohnso@princeton.edu)