1999-2000 CRBS Calendar of Events

1999-| Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec
2000 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July | Aug

1999

28 September: Works-in-Progress Colloquium
Title: The Rhetoric of Feminine Priority in Paradise Lost
Marshall Grossman, English
12:30 pm in the Conference room of the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies

14 October: Mini-Symposium
Title: New Directions: Exploring Identity in the Early Modern Period
Susan Amussen, History, Graduate College, The Union Institute
Ralph Bauer, English
David Norbrook, English
1 to 4 pm in the Atrium of the Adele H Stamp Student Union

26 October: Works-in-Progress Colloquium
Title: Theatre Archaeology: The Reconstructing of Shakespeare's
Globe in London
Frank Hildy, Theatre
12:30 pm in the Conference room of the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies

4 November: Meet the Director: Michael Kahn's King Lear
Artistic Director Michael Kahn, Ted Leinwand, and Frank Hildy discuss the recent production of King Lear at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC.
12:30 pm in the Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall

11 November: Technology Training Session for DuVal High School
8:30 am to 3:30 pm in the Faculty Technology Training Center, room 4404, Computer and Space Sciences Building

30 November: Works-in-Progress Colloquium
Title: "Even I will sing": Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern Texts
Michele Osherow, English
Title: Pedro de Valencia: Royal Iconographer to Philip III of Spain
Andrea Van Houvten, Art History
12:30 pm in the conference room of the Center for Renaissance anf Baroque Studies

2 December: Graduate Reading Group
Text: Elizabeth Brackley and Jane Cavendish's The Concealed Fancies
2:30 pm in the conference room of the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies

2 December: University Theatre presents Julius Caesar
8:00 pm Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 2:00 pm on Sunday
Tawes Theatre

3 December: Renaissance Reckonings
Topic: The Future of Renaissance Studies
3:30 to 5:00 pm in the MEO lounge, 3101 Susquehanna Hall

6 December: Special Guest Speaker
Title: Old Media in the New Millennium
Elizabeth Eisenstein
4:00 pm in McKeldin Library, room 4137

11 December: Music for Instruments and Voices from Northern Italy, 1490-1550
Presented by the School of Music, and performed by the Collegium Musicum
8:00 pm at Ulrich Recital Hall, admission free

2000

10 February: Graduate School Distinguished Lecture Series
Title: Literary History and Racial Memory
Stephen Greenblatt, English, Harvard University
4:00 pm at LeFrak Hall, room 2205

23-26 February: University Theatre presents The Fable of MacBeth
8:00 pm at Tawes Theatre

28 February: Graduate Reading Group
Text: Lodovico Aristo's Orlando Furioso
12:30 pm in the conference room of the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies (bring your own lunch)

10 March: Carmina Quartet
The Inn and Conference Center
8:00 pm. Pre-concert discussion at 6:30 pm.

11 March: Symposium
Title: Rethinking the Popular in Early Modern England
10:00 am to 5:00 pm, McKeldin Library, Special Events Room

11 March: Collaborative Teaching in Middle School Reading and Language Programs
First of this three session program sponsored by the Baltimore City Schools.

27 March: Renaissance Reckonings
Title: Religious Toleration and the Renaissance Theater
Jeffrey Knapp, University of California, Berkeley
3:30 - 5:00 pm, Room 1117 Susquehanna Hall

28 March: Works-in-Progress Colloquium
Title: French Revolutionary Opera by Women
Jacqueline Letzter, French and Italian
12:30 pm in the conference room of the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies

30 March: Special Guest Speaker
Title: Richard II and the Production of French Culture.
Lynn Staley
3:30 pm in Susquehanna Hall, room 1117

30 March: Graduate Reading Group
Text: Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches)
12:00 pm in the conference room of the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies (online text available)

25 April: Works-in-Progress Colloquium
Title: Amazing and Tragic Stories: Two Popular Literary Genres and their
Influence on Early Modern French Culture
HervŽ Campagne, French and Italian
12:30 pm in the conference room of the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies

1 May: Renaissance Reckonings
Title: Periodization and Hamlet in 2000
Margreta de Grazia, University of Pennsylvania
4:00 pm in Susquehanna Hall, room T.B.A.

2 May: Morales' Requiem for Philip II
Gabrieli Consort, director Paul McCreesh
Perry Auditorium, Washington National Cathedral
8:00 pm. Pre-concert discussion at 6:30 pm

6 May: In Praise of Folly: A Renaissance Faire
Cambridge Community Quad - behind Cambridge dorm
1:00 - 4:00 pm, free to the public
Sponsored by College Park Scholars in the Arts

10 May: Special Guest Speaker
Title: Fictions of Privacy: The Accomodation of Religious Dissent in Early Modern Europe
Benjamin J. Kaplan, Harvard University
4:00 to 5:30 pm, 1102 Francis Scott Key Building

12 May: Concert: Music from the Spanish Renaissance
Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Theatre. 8:00 pm.

9-22 July: Arts Institute 2000
Crossing Borders/Breaking Boundaries: A Multidisciplinary Summer
Institute for Arts Educators
A two-week residential summer institute for Maryland's secondary school arts educators, including dance, music, theater, and the visual arts

24-28 July: In Pursuit of the American Dream of Equality
Summer Institute: Native American Culture

31 July - 4 August: Baltimore City Public School System Summer Workshop
Reading Strategies for Secondary English: Exploration

29 August: Baltimore City Public School System Staff Development
Contemporary Grammar

21 October: Baltimore City Public School System Staff Development
Reading Strategies for Secondary English: Implementation I

9-11 November: Attending to Early Modern Women:
Gender, Culture, and Change
A conference exploring the lives and work of early modern women from an interdisciplinary perspective
All meetings, meals, and lodgings are at the Inn and Conference Center

2 December: Baltimore City Public School System Staff Development
Reading Strategies for Secondary English: Implementation II