Monday May 2, 2022, 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Gayle Karch Cook Center at Maxwell Hall, Seminar room 222
Please join us on Monday May 2nd for two roundtables with early career scholars doing exciting work, exploring new frontiers, bringing new energy to Renaissance and early modern studies.
Teaching the Renaissance NOW
Mini-master classes where each presenter will share an example of how to make the study of the Renaissance relevant today, with a focus on one specific innovative approach or classroom tool.
Abdulhamit Arvas (Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania)
“Thinking Sexuality and Race with the Early Moderns”
Jane Mikkelson (Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar in Religious Studies, UVA)
“Against Metageography”
Chad Córdova (Assistant Professor of French, Emory University)
“Assignments, Untimely and Awkward: The ‘Relevance’ of Early Modern Texts In (and Beyond) the Classroom”
Discussion, short break
Alani Hicks-Bartlett (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies, Brown University)
“Omnia mutantur...?”
Fabrizio Baldassarri (Post-Doctoral Fellow, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, IU)
“Teaching Students of Medicine in the Botanical Garden: Renaissance Therapies Today”
Nasser Meerkhan (Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures, UC Berkeley)
“Beyond Exams: Cultural ePortfolios and the Skills of (re)Writing”
Discussion
Renaissance Studies NOW
Each presenter will give a brief example of the best work they do before we open for a general discussion of the state of the field.
Alani Hicks-Bartlett (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies, Brown University)
“On Plastics and Shadows: Renaissance Paradigms of Embodiment and Desire”
Nasser Meerkhan (Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures, UC Berkeley)
“Moriscos NOW: Snakes, Saints and Spells among Early Modern Spanish Muslims”
Fabrizio Baldassarri (Post-Doctoral Fellow, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, IU)
“An Overlooked Section of Renaissance Studies: A Philosophy of Botany”
Discussion, short break
Chad Córdova (Assistant Professor of French, Emory University)
“An Old That is Newer than the New: On the Historicity of Early Modern Thinking”
Jane Mikkelson (Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar in Religious Studies, UVA)
“Taste as Method: The Arabic Concept of Direct Experience (Dhawq) and 17th-Century English and Persian Thought”
Abdulhamit Arvas (Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania)
“The Homoerotics of Race and Empire in the Global Renaissance”
Discussion, followed by a festive reception
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