Symposium on Premodern Race and Sexuality

Friday, March 30, 2007

This symposium is sponsored by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. To view the description of the symposium from the Robert Penn Warren Center, click here.

See bottom of this page for details on registration.  

Schedule

Welcome
Leah S. Marcus, English, Vanderbilt University
Holly Tucker, French-Italian and Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University 

9:00 am        Opening remarks

Houston A. Baker, English, Vanderbilt University

 9:30-10:45     Session I:  Race and Racism in the European Middle Ages 
                        Speakers: David Nirenberg, Social Thought, University of Chicago  
                        Geraldine Heng, English and Medieval Studies, University of Texas 
                        Moderator: Lynn Ramey, French-Italian, Vanderbilt University

 11:00-12:15   Session II:   Issues in Pre-Modern Sexuality

                        Speakers:  Dyan Elliott, History, Northwestern University

                        Katherine Crawford, History, Vanderbilt University

                        Moderator:  Lynn Enterline, English, Vanderbilt University

 
1:30-2:45        Session III:  Early Modern Race, Colonization, and the Americas

                        Speakers:  Kim Hall, English, Fordham University

                        Carlos Jauregui, Spanish-Portuguese, Vanderbilt University

                        Moderator:  Jean Feerick, English, Brown University

 
3:15-4:45        Session IV:  Theorizing Race and Sexuality                    

                        Speakers:  Jeffrey Masten, English, Northwestern University

Margo Hendricks, Literature and Pre- and Early Modern Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

                        Francesca Royster, English and African/Black Diasporic Studies, DePaul University

                        Moderator:  Kathryn Schwarz, English, Vanderbilt University


4:45                 Closing remarks 
                        David Wasserstein, History and Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University

Registration

While there is no fee to attend this event, participants should register in advance. To register please call the Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514, or send an e-mail to renaissance@newberry.org.

Funds may be available for graduate students and faculty of Consortium institutions to travel to the Newberry Library to attend the Symposium on Premodern Race and Sexuality. If you have any questions, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies.

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