Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities-Letters, Fall 2006

Members of the 2005-2006 Warren Center Fellows Program on "Pre-Modern Others: Race and Sexuality" are planning a one-day symposium to be held at the Newberry Library in Chicago on March 30, 2007. The symposium is co-sponsored by the library's Renaissance Consortium and by the Warren Center. The conference, entitled "Pre-Modern Race and Sexuality," will consist of four sessions:

Welcome
Leah S. Marcus, English, Vanderbilt University
Holly Tucker, French, Vanderbilt University

9:00	Opening Remarks by Houston Baker, English, Vanderbilt University

9:30-10:45	Session I: Race and Racism in the European Middle Ages
	Speakers:	David Nirenberg, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago Geraldine Heng, English, University of Texas
	Moderator:	Lynn Ramey, French, Vanderbilt University

11:00-12:15	Session II: Issues in Pre-Modern Sexuality
	Speakers:	Dyan Elliott, History, Northwestern University Katherine Crawford, History, Vanderbilt University
	Moderator:	Lynn Enterline, English, Vanderbilt University

1:30-2:45	Session III: Early Modern Race, Colonization, and the Americas
	Speakers:	Kim Hall, English, Fordham University Carlos Jauregui, Spanish, Vanderbilt University
	Moderator:	Jean Feerick, English, Brown University

3:15-4:45	Session IV: Theorizing Race and Sexuality
	Speakers:	Jeffrey Masten, English, Northwestern University Margo Hendricks, Literature, UC Santa Cruz Francesca Royster, English, De Paul University
	Moderator:	Kathryn Schwarz, English, Vanderbilt University

4:45	Closing remarks by David Wasserstein, History, Vanderbilt University

The Newberry Library, Chicago

For more information, contact the Center's executive director, Mona C. Frederick.

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