2005-2006 CRBS Calendar of Events

2005 :: Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec
2006 :: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul
Selected Previous Programs

2005
August
August 22, 2005
Submission deadline for workshop proposals for Attending to Early Modern Women
 
September

September 6, 2005
Rehearsed Table Reading: Talking to Terrorists, by Robin Soans (2005)
Directed by Michael Olmert, Department of English
3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
1120 Susquehanna Hall

 
September 15, 2005
Submission deadline for Volume One, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
 
October
October 20, 2005
Board meeting
EMW Journal
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
Atlanta, Georgia
 
November

November 5, 2005
Performances
UM Department of Theatre
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Directed by Jane Beard
Featuring Leigh Smiley
Clarice Smith Peforming Arts Center at Maryland

 

November 10, 2005
Crossing Borders/Breaking Boundaries
Looking East, Looking West: Europe and Arabia, 1450-1750

Follow-up Session
Sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education

 
November 10, 2005
Works-In-Progress
Ralph Bauer, Department of English
“A New World of Secrets: Occult Philosophy and Local Knowledge in the Sixteenth-century Atlantic World.”
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall
 

November 29, 2005
Play Reading: Renaissance Revels
The Knight of the Burning Pestle, by Francis Beaumont (1607)
Organized by Tim Crowley, Department of English
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 pm
0135 Taliaferro Hall

 
December
December 1, 2005
"Banquo's Progeny: Hereditary Monarchy, the Stuart Lineage and Macbeth"
Malcolm Smuts, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts
3:30 pm
McKeldin Library, Room 6137
Co-sponsored by the Center for Historical Studies and the University Libraries
 
December 3, 2005
Performance
UM School of Music: UM Collegium Musicum
Directed by Michael Holmes
6:00 pm
Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Recital Hall
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland
 
December 4, 2005
Performance
Measure for Measure
Directed by Heather Nathans
7:30 pm
Lab Theatre
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-serve basis.
 

December 5, 2005
Round table discussion
Performing Piety: Shakespeare and the Body in Measure for Measure
Featured presenters: Kent Cartwright, Simon DuToit, Donna Hamilton, Mitchell Hebert, Heather Nathans and Lindsey Snyder.
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Lab Theatre
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Sponsored by The Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies and Department of Theatre

 
December 5, 2005
Performance
Measure for Measure
Directed by Heather Nathans
7:00 pm
Lab Theatre
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Admission is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-serve basis.
 
December 7, 2005
Rehearsed Table Reading: Great Creating Nature, by Michael Olmert (2005)
Directed by Michael Olmert, Department of English
3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
1120 Susquehanna Hall
 
2006
January
January 24, 2006
Play Reading: Renaissance Revels
Measure for Measure
Organized by Adele Seef
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro
 
February
February 5, 2006
Middle School Shakespeare Monologue Contest Workshop
4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Imagination Stage, Bethesda
 
February 7, 2006
Middle School Shakespeare Monologue Contest Workshop
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Imagination Stage, Bethesda
 
February 7, 2006
Play Reading: Renaissance Revels
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, by Thomas Middleton (1613)
Organized by Tim Crowley and Lara Crowley, Department of English
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
0135 Taliaferro Hall
 

February 14, 2006
Rehearsed Table Reading: Agamemnon, by Aeschylus
Directed by Michael Olmert, Department of English
3:45 to 6:00 pm
1120 Susquehanna Hall

 
February 16, 2006
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 21, 2006
Works-In-Progress: Dissertations
Lara Crowley, Department of English
Catherine Field, Department of English
Margaret Morse, Department of Art History and Archaeology
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall

 
February 25, 2006
Shakespeare Fest
8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland
Sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities, with support from the Office of Undergraduate Studies, the Departments of Dance and Theatre, the School of Music, and the Pepsi Enhancement Fund
 
March

March 2, 2006
Rehearsed Table Reading: Sing Yer Heart out for the Lads, by Roy Williams (2002)
Directed by Michael Olmert, Department of English
3:45 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
1120 Susquehanna Hall

 
March 7, 2006
Works-In-Progress
Lauren Clay, Associate Professor of History, Texas A&M, and Center affiliate
2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.

0135 Taliaferro Hall
 
March 28, 2006
Works-In-Progress
Philip Soergel, Department of History
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.

0135 Taliaferro Hall
 
 
April
April 5, 2006
Performance
Academy of Ancient Music

8:00 pm
Dekelboum Concert Hall
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland
 
April 29, 2006
Crossing Borders/Breaking Boundaries
Looking East, Looking West: Europe and Arabia, 1450-1750

Follow-up Session
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
University of Maryland campus, College Park
 
April 29, 2006
Maryland Day
 
May
 
 
June
 
 
July
July 5 through July 15, 2006
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 17-25, 2006
Crossing Borders/Breaking Boundaries
A multidisciplinary institute for arts educators
Sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education

 
August