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Theorizing Early Modern Studies
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TEMS 2007-2008
The Ineffable
Fall 2007
Thursday, September 13 – Opening Reception
Thursday, September 20 –Caroline Weber, French, Barnard College
Work in progress session: “The Bourgeois Drama's Disavowed Bien.”
Friday, September 21 – Caroline Weber, French, Barnard College
Lecture: “Queen of Fashion.”
Thursday, October 4 – Reading Group and Collective Book Review: Richard Scholar, The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something (Oxford, 2005). In conjunction with H-France Book Reviews.
The
review is available for download (.pdf).
Thursday, October 25 – Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, History, University of Texas, Austin
Lecture: “Early Modern Religious Cartographies in the New World.”
Friday-Saturday, October 26-27 – Three sponsored panels at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, General
Theme: “Metamorphosis: Describing the Indescribable in Early Modern Studies.”
- “Metamorphoses: The Poetics of Artistic Media”
- Chair: Michael Gaudio, Art History, University of Minnesota
Giles Knox, Art History, Indiana University, “De nada hace cosas preciosas: Velázquez and the Transformation of Paint
Christina Neilson, Curator, The Frick Collection, “‘Becoming Material: Transformative Techniques between Media in an Early Modern Workshop.”
Steven Ostrow, Art History, University of Minnesota, “Bernini and the Poetics of Sculpture.”
- Chair: Michael Gaudio, Art History, University of Minnesota
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“Material Metamorphoses and the Stakes of Narrative”
- Chair: Richard Scholar, French, Oxford University
Juliette Cherbuliez, French, University of Minnesota, “Ovid and the Morally Indescribable.”
Meg Pearson, English, University of West Georgia, ”'Chang'd by Fire': Manipulating Apotheosis in the Brazen Age.”
Patricia Zalamea, Art History, University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, “Actaeon’s Gaze: Metamorphosis as Specular Vision and Pictorial Narrative Structure.”
- Chair: Richard Scholar, French, Oxford University
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“Rendering Nature’s Metamorphoses in Text, Image, and Mathematics”
- Chair: Tara Nummedal, History, Brown University
Janice Neri, Art History, Boise State University, “The Instability of Insects in Early Modern Natural History Books.”
Maryse Simon, History, Oxford University, “Metamorphoses of Witches and the Devil.”
J.B. Shank, History, University of Minnesota, “Reckoning with Water in Renaissance Tuscany."
- Chair: Tara Nummedal, History, Brown University
Thursday, November 1 – Richard Scholar, French, Oxford University.
Book Discussion with the Author: “The Je-
Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something” (Oxford, 2005).
Friday, November 2 – Richard Scholar, French, Oxford University.
Lecture: “Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking.”
Thursday, November 15 – Anna Clark and Justin Biehl, History, University of Minnesota.
Lab Session: “The IIneffable God of the Hindus through British Eyes.”
Thursday, December 6 – Judy Dorn, English, St. Cloud State University.
Work in progress Session: “Vulnerable Arguments: Secret Histories and the Recovery of Women's History.”
Spring 2008
Thursday, January 31 – Reading Group: Hubert Damisch, “Theory of /Cloud/: Toward a History of Painting,” Janet Lloyd, trans. (Stanford, 2002).
Thursday, February 14 – Pamela Smith, History, Columbia University.
Lecture: “Tacit Knowledge and the Written Word: Reconstructing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.”
Friday, February 15 – Pamela Smith, History, Columbia University.
Book Discussion with the Author: “The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution” (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Respondent: Claudia Swan, Art History, Northwestern University.
Thursday, March 6 – Arun Saldanha, Geography, University of Minnesota.
Lab Session: “Traces of Travel: Marginalia in the Bell Library's Copy of Linschoten's Itinerario (1596),”
Thursday, March 27 – Marcela Kostihova, English, Hamline University.
Work in progress seminar: “Metamorphosed Subjectivity: Shakespeare’s Ovid in Venus and Adonis.”
Thursday, April 10 – Elena Russo, French and Italian, Johns Hopkins University.
Book Discussion with the Author: “Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).”
Friday, April 11 – Elena Russo, French and Italian, Johns Hopkins University.
Lecture: “The Naked Philosophe and the Shameless Prussian: Diderot's Portrait Sitting.”
Thursday, April 17 – Michael Gaudio, Art History, University of Minnesota, and Juliette Cherbuliez, French and Italian, University of Minnesota.
Lab Session: “Between Word and Image, Text and Print in the Seventeenth Century.”
Thursday, May 1 – 5th Annual Graduate Student Roundtable.
