2001-2002 CRBS Calendar of Events

2001 | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec
2002 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July

Selected Previous Conferences and Symposia

2001

September

September 13, 2001. Discussion Group.
Talk About Teaching the Greeks
.
Moderator: Lillian E. Doherty, Department of Classics.
4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

September 20, 2001. Lecture.
"Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Research with the Index of Elizabethan Verse."
Steven W. May, Folger Research Fellow.
3:30 p.m to 5:30 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.
Co-sponsored with the Department of English.

October

October 15, 2001. Lecture.
"'Suche newes as on the Quenes hye wayes we have Mett': The News and Intelligence Networks of Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1527-1608)."
James Daybell, Research Fellow in History, University of Reading, UK.
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.
Co-sponsored with the Department of English.

October 16, 2001. Colloquium.
Works-in-Progress.
The Oldest Theatre in Spain, the Corral de Comedias at Almagro.
Frank Hildy, Department of Theatre.
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

October 25, 2001. Discussion Group.
Talk About Teaching Censorship
.
Moderator: Patricia Gafford, Montgomery County Public Schools.
4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

October 26, 2001. Lecture.
Renaissance Reckonings.
"Passages to Surinam."
David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania.
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
1117 Susquehanna Hall.
Co-sponsored with the Department of English

November

November 3, 2001. Symposium.
"Shakespeare in Performance".
Speakers include Aaron Posner, Arden Theatre; Frank Hildy, Department of Theatre; Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University.
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Lab Theater, Room 2740 in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland.

November 9-10, 2001. Performance.
The Edda.
Directed by Ping Chong.
8 p.m.
Ina and Jack Kay Theater, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland.

November 12, 2001. Lecture.
"Booking the Cooking: Literature and Gastronomy in Molière's Theater."
Ronald W. Tobin, Professor of French, University of California at Santa Barbara.
1 p.m
St. Mary's Hall.
Sponsored by the Department of French and Italian.

November 13, 2001. Colloquium.
Works-in-Progress.
"The Political Implications of Early American Humor in the English Colonies."
Alison Olson, Department of History.
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

November 16, 2001. Symposium.
"Reading Renaissance Ethics"

Speakers include Lynn Enterline, Vanderbilt University; David Lee Miller, University of Kentucky; Gordon Teskey, Cornell University; Richard Strier, University of Chicago; Katharine Eisaman Maus, University of Virginia; Ken Gross, University of Rochester; David Norbrook, University of Maryland.
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Atrium, Stamp Student Union.
Co-sponsored with the Department of English

November 29, 2001. Discussion Group.
Talk About Teaching Shakespeare
.
Moderator: Jackson Barry, Department of English.
4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

 

December

December 4, 2001. Colloquium
Works-in-Progress.
"Sex and Repentance in Renaissance Venice."
Laura McGough, College of Charleston and Affiliate of the Department of History.
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

2002

January

January 13, 2002. Performance.
Orfee at Euridice
.
3 p.m.
Concert Hall of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland.


February

February 12, 2002. Lecture.
"Atrocity and History: Grey, Spenser, and the Massacre at Smerwick."
Vincent Carey, Folger Fellow.
3:30 p.m.
1117 Susquehanna Hall.
Sponsored by the Department of English.

February 14, 2002. Reception.
For the colleagues of the Center.
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall

February 19, 2002. Colloquium.
Works-in-Progress.
"Foundations for Music in Fifteenth-Century Ghent."
Barbara Haggh-Huglo, School of Music.
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

February 21, 2002. Colloquium.
Works-in-Progress.
"Revising the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain: John Hamilton Mortimer and Francis Williams as Case Studies."
William Pressly, Department of Art History and Archaeology.
Vincent Carretta, Department of English.
5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall

February 26, 2002. Lecture.
"Worldly Goods, Envy, and the Rise of Competition."
Dennis Romano, Department of History, Syracuse University.
4:00 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

February 28, 2002. Lecture.
Renaissance Reckonings.
"The Unfixed Text of Donne's Naughty Elegy 'To his Mistress Going to Bed.'"
Randall BMcLeod, University of Toronto.
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
1119 Susquehanna Hall.
Co-sponsored with the Department of English.

February 28, 2002. Discussion Group.
Talk About Teaching the Harlem Renaissance.
Moderator: Scot Reese, Department of Theatre.
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

March

March 1, 2002. Performance.
The Academy of Ancient Music.
8 p.m.
Concert Hall of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland.

March 5, 2002. Colloquium.
Works-in-Progress.
"'The detestable,' 'the clumsy,' and 'the superlatively odious': Victorian Writers and the Declining Taste for the Baroque."
Leonee Ormond, King's College, University of London.
Affiliate of the Department of Art History and Archaeology.
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

March 6, 2002. Panel.
Meet the Director.
Michael Kahn, director of The Duchess of Malfi
at The Shakespeare Theatre.
Theodore Leinwand, Department of English.
Franklin Hildy, Department of Theatre.
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall.

March 13, 2002. Symposium.
"Research Perspectives on The Duchess of Malfi."
2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Jane Donawerth, Department of English (in collaboration with Karen Nelson, Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies)
Theodore Leinwand, Department of English.
William Sherman, Department of English.
Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall.

March 15, 2002. Performance.
Tallis Scholars
.
8 p.m.
Concert Hall of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland.

March 19, 2002. Colloquium.
Works-in-Progress.
"Perceptions and Depictions of Women on the French Renaissance and English Restoration Stages."
Heidi Castle-Smith, Carrie Cole, Ben Fisler.
Department of Theatre.
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

March 21, 2002. Discussion Group.
Talk About Teaching the Wife of Bath and Her Sisters.
Moderator: Charles Rutherford, Department of English.
4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

March 29 and 30, 2002. Performance.
Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610.
Folger Consort.
8:00 p.m.
With Pre-Concert discussion at 6:30 p.m. on March 29.
The Clarice Smith Center for Performing Arts.

 

April

April 11, 2002. Lecture.
"Images of Renaissance Art in Victorian Fiction and Poetry."
Leoneé Ormond
King's College, University of London.
Affiliate of the Department of Art History and Archaeology.
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
3215 Art-Sociology Building.

April 16, 2002. Colloquium.
Works-in-Progress.
"'Diverse Bookes of Diverse Sortes': A Gentry Family and Its Reading in Early Seventeenth-Century England."
Eric Lindquist, Libraries.
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.

April 25, 2002. Lecture.
Renaissance Reckonings.
Victoria Kahn, University of California Berkeley .
4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
1103 Susquehanna Hall.
Co-sponsored with the Department of English.

April 25, 2002. Discussion Group.
Talk About Teaching Writing.
Moderator: Jeanne Fahnestock, Department of English
4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall.


July

July 8-15, 2002. Institute.
"Crossing Borders/Breaking Boundaries: The Arts of Ancient Greece."
For Fine Arts Teachers.
Sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education.


October 2002

October 26, 2002. Symposium.
"Shakespeare in Performance."
Speakers include Professor Maynard Mack, Jr., Department of English and University Honors.
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location to be announced.