PSU Committee for Early Modern Studies

Also next week, we will welcome the brilliant @ProfBetancourt for a lecture on "Byzantine Camp Aesthetics and Queer Approaches to Antiquity in Byzantium." Thursday 3/30 @ 6pm. Info on poster. NOT to be missed!

Join us next Tuesday (3/28) for our annual grad student roundtable. Noon in 121 Borland. This year participants ask "What is Missing from the Early Modern World?" Organized by Holli Turner and Brooke Tybush + featuring Héctor Linares, Taylor O´Connor, Amy Orner, and Kyle Marini.

.@PSU_CVMS will host a lecture by Dr. Elena Phipps: Woven Brilliance: the subtle art of Andean textile traditions Thurs, March 23, 6:PM 102 Animal, Veterinary, and Biomedical Sciences Bldg The lecture will explore special textiles, such as Lipi or Tornesol in Andean culture.

Our Spring 2023 Events Calendar. Lots of exciting events lined up. All welcome!

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Join us for Taylor Hare's work-in-progress talk, "I place it at your fingers ends': N.B. Kreass Jr.'s Merchant of Venice and the History of Shakespeare in Raised Letter," next Wednesday, November 2 at 12pm noon in 157 Burrowes.

“The Committee for Early Modern Studies at Penn State. Taylor Hare. Department of English. Work-in-Progress Talk. ‘I place it at your fingers ends’: N. B. Kneass Jr.’s Merchant of Venice and the History of Shakespeare in Raised Letter. Wednesday November 2 at noon. 152 Burrowes.”

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Join us next Thursday (10/27) for our annual faculty roundtable. This year we'll be discussing "Early Modern Care." Borland 121 at noon. All welcome!

Join Us For A Work-In-Progress Talk by C. Libby, "Androgyne, Androgynous, Nonbinary: Rethinking Radical Feminist Theology." The date has been changed to OCTOBER 20 at noon in 226 Burrowes.

Join us this Wednesday for a lecture by Professor Lu Ann Homza, "Intimate Yet Indifferent? Child-Witches in Early Modern Spain." 5:30PM in Weaver 102. All welcome!

You are invited to the @PSU_CVMS lecture by Lisa Pon, Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California. "Raphael Working Remotely: Handiwork and Manufacture of the Acts of the Apostles Tapestries" Thursday, September 22, 6:15 PM 112 Borland

Schedule of our Fall 22 programming! Come one, come all! #cems #earlymodern

Our last event of the semester will be next Mon., 2pm in Weaver 102! Brooke Tybush (French, WGSS) will be presenting on “The Cocotte and the Courtesan: Women’s Resistance to Sexist, Racist, and Economic Oppression in Haitian Literature of the Long 18th Century" See you there!

This Wednesday, April 13, 12:15-1:15 Francesco Lacopo, History Department “Jesuit, Jew, Prostitute, Pope: Conversion, Crisis, and the Family in Sixteenth-Century Rome.” All welcome! psu.zoom.us/j/95729610939?… @PSUHistory @PSUHistoryGrad @PSUHumanities

CALENDAR UPDATE: Lu Ann Homza's lecture and workshop for next week have been cancelled. We will work on rescheduling these for the fall, and keep everyone posted

This Wednesday is our annual grad student roundtable! Join Rick Yoder, Emily Hagen, Cassie Florian, Danielle Ryle, and Benjamin Rhine to discuss their projects relating to "Anxieties of the Early Modern World." 12noon in Borland 121

Reminder! ImagineRio events today, co-sponsored with the Sawyer Seminar. Register here: sites.psu.edu/earlymoderncit…

We have two Zoom events next week, co-sponsored with PSU Sawyer Seminar. Farès el-Dahdah will lecture on mapping early modern Rio de Janeiro on Thursday and then giving a DH workshop with other members of the #imagineRio team on Friday Links & registration sites.psu.edu/earlymoderncit…

Our first event of the semester is tomorrow! Prof. Richard Conway will be speaking on Native American crafts and commerce in colonial Mexico 5:30pm Borland 121. See you there!