Festive Cultures Seminar

Co-sponsored by the Newberry Library Division of Research and Education & Northern Illinois University


The Center for Research in Festive Culture at Northern Illinois University fosters research about the world's past and present festive cultures by means of conferences and other communications among interested scholars or informed amateurs of festivities. Its programs are designed to answer three needs:

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2010 Fall Seminars § Past Seminars



Current Seminars: Fall 2010

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1:00-4:00 P.M.
Paul F. Gehl, Custodian, John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing: The Newberry Library, Chicago: The Variability of Festival Book Genres in Early Modern Europe, Illustrated by the Newberry Library Collections

Note that this will be a special seminar given by Paul F. Gehl, curator at the Newberry Library, and will begin at 1PM. Gehl invites all those who have used festival books at the Newberry to send him the names of books that they would like to see included in his presentation


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2:00-5:00 P.M.

Jill Ingram, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio: The Funding of Misrule; Festivity and the Forced Loan in the Production of the Gesta Grayorum and The Christian Prince.

Ted McGee, University of Waterloo, Canada: Longleat News: Elizabethan Entertainments of the French Ambassadors, 1560-1580.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2:00-5:00 P.M.

Barry Ancelet, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette: The Unbearable Lightness of Begging; Strategies for Generating Carnivalesque Laughter in the Louisiana French Mardi Gras

Dorothy Noyes, Ohio State University, Columbus: Cheres Reliques, Chers Oriflans: Provincial Consciousness and Festive Invention in Seventeenth-Century Languedoc.


Past Seminars: Fall 2009

Fall 2008


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