2004-2005 CRBS Calendar of Events

2004 :: Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec
2005 :: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug
Selected Previous Programs

2004
September
September 9, 2004
Table Reading: Translations, by Brian Friel (1980)
Directed by Michael Olmert, Department of English
3 :30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
1120 Susquehanna Hall
 
October
October 21, 2004
Table Reading: Shakespeare and Doctor Lopez, by Michael Olmert (2004)
Directed by Michael Olmert, Department of English
3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
1120 Susquehanna Hall
 
October 30, 2004
Teaching East and West: Establishing Historical Context through a Comparison of Tokugawa Japan and Elizabethan England
Follow-up Session
 
November
November 6, 2004
Crossing Borders/Breaking Boundaries
The Impact of Islamic Culture on the Arts of the Renaissance
Follow-up Session
Sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education
 
November 9, 2004
Works-In-Progress
"Rubens in America: The Role of an Exiled Art Collection in the Creation of a Belgian Cultural Consciousness, 1794-1816"
Jacqueline Letzter, French & Italian
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall
 
December
 
 
2005
January
 
 
February
Friday, February 4 , 2005
The Impact of Islamic Culture on the Arts of the Renaissance
Keynote: Esin Atil, Former Curator, The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Art-Sociology Building
Sponsored by the Maryland Humanities Council
 

February 8 , 2005
Works-In-Progress: Dissertations
Dissertations in Progress

"Let these their heads / Preach upon poles": Spectacles of Decapitation in Edward II
Meg Pearson, Department of English

"Automatons and Automatisms in Eighteenth-Century French Libertine Novels"
Dorothée Polanz, Department of French & Italian

"The Golden Chain: Royal Slavery, Sovereignty, and Servitude in Early Modern English Literature"
Ray Bossert, Department of English

"Imagining Oneself Dead: Suicide and Subjectivity in the English Renaissance"
Angelique Wheelock, Department of English

3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall

 
February 17, 2005
Middle School Shakespeare Monologue Contest
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Imagination Stage
Co-sponsored with Imagination Stage, The English-Speaking Union, and The Washington Episcopal School
 
February 26, 2005
Shakespeare and Popular Culture: Then and Now
Keynote: Thomas P. Cartelli, Muhlenberg College
8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
2203 Art-Sociology Building
Sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities
 
March
March 8 , 2005
Works-In-Progress
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall
 
April
April 12, 2005
Works-In-Progress
"The Myth of Paolo and Francesca: Poetry, Philosophy, and Adultery in Modern Times"
Peter Levine, School of Public Policy and Director of CIRCLE
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall
 
April 30, 2005
Teaching East and West: Establishing Historical Context through a Comparison of Tokugawa Japan and Elizabethan England
Follow-up Session
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The National Gallery of Art
 
May
 
 
June
June 13 through July 15, 2005
Inquisitions and Persecutions in Early Modern Europe and the Americas
A summer institute for college and university teachers
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities
 
July
July 5 through July 15, 2005
Shakespeare Summer Camp
For students ages 11 to 14.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Theatre and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Prince George's County, Department of Parks and Recreation
 
July 18 through July 25, 2005
Crossing Borders/Breaking Boundaries
"Looking East, Looking West: Europe and Arabia, 1450-1750'

A multidisciplinary institute for arts educators
Sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education
 
August