Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities fellows program

Upcoming Events

Christopher Leslie Brown , Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, and Philip D. Morgan , Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, will present this year's annual Black Atlantic History Seminar. The joint lecture, entitled "British Slavery and the Struggle to End It: Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of British Abolition" will take place on Friday, February 16 th at 4:10 p.m. in the auditorium of the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center . Their talks will be followed by a reception and book signing of their co-edited volume Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age . This event is sponsored by the Warren Center's Circum-Atlantic Studies Group, with additional support from the Black Cultural Center and the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies.

Robert Schanke, Professor Emeritus of Theatre at Central College, Iowa, will give a public lecture entitled "Playing Sherlock: Why I Write Theatre History" at 4:10 p.m. on Thursday, March 22 in Buttrick 101 This talk is part of the Theatre History series coordinated by Edward Freidman (Spanish) and Terryl Hallquist (theatre), and sponsored by the Warren Center. For more information about the lecture click here. For more infromation on Professor Schanke, visit his website at www.robertschanke.com

Pre-Modern Others: Race and Sexuality

The Newberry Library
Chicago, Illinois

Friday, March 30, 2007

This symposium grew out of last year's Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Fellows Seminar and is designed to continue the lively interchange that was started there, but with a larger group of scholars. Each of the four conference sessions will be intense and wide-ranging discussion sessions focusing on some significant element of the topic. The symposium will be co-sponsored by the Newberry Library Renaissance Consortium and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.

Welcome
Leah S. Marcus, English, Vanderbilt University
Holly Tucker, French-Italian and Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University

9:00 a.m.
Opening remarks
Houston A. Baker, English, Vanderbilt University

9:30-10:45
Session I: Race and Racism in the European Middle Ages
Speakers: David Nirenberg, Social Thought, University of Chicago
Geraldine Heng, English and Medieval Studies
University of Texas
Moderator: Lynn Ramey, French-Italian, 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-Portuguese, Vanderbilt University
Moderator: Jean Feerick, English, Brown University

3:15-4:30
Session IV: Theorizing Race and Sexuality
Speakers: Jeffrey Masten, English, Northwestern University
Margo Hendricks, Literature and Pre- and Early Modern Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Francesca Royster, English and African/Black Diasporic Studies, DePaul University
Moderator: Kathryn Schwarz, English, Vanderbilt University

4:30
Closing remarks
David Wasserstein, History and Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University

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