Upcoming Events

 

Spring 2024  EVENT SCHEDULE 

Schedule of CEMMS Spring 2024 events

THURSDAY, January 25 @ 12:00 (102 Weaver Building)

Graduate Student Work-in-Progress with Rick Yoder

Abstract

“Using ‘intimacy’ as an analytical framework, this paper examines masculine ideals and bonds between men in the Jansenist convulsionary movement of the eighteenth-century. A rigorist Catholic sect, the persecuted convulsionaries of Enlightenment Paris nevertheless broke gender norms in salient and controversial ways. While most literature up to now has focused on the women who often led the movement, this paper will instead use a prominent case study from the parish of Saint-Séverin to unpack the question of convulsionary masculinity. The result is a distinctly queer articulation of Catholicism from the margins of the French Church.”

 

THURSDAY, February 9 @ 5:00-6:30 (124 Sparks Building)

Anna Rosenweig, University of Rochester

“PURITY CULTURE, PARENTS’ RIGHTS, AND THE AFTERLIVES OF EARLY MODERN RESISTANCE THEORY”

FRIDAY, February 10 @ 1:00-2:30 (121 Borland Building)

GRAD STUDENT PUBLISHING WORKSHOP WITH ANNA ROSENSWEIG

 

WEDNESDAY, February 21 @ 6pm (Foster Auditorium)

Sponsored Event

The Black Experiences in the Wider Atlantic Lectures Series
“Antonio/Victoria of Benin: Early Black Trans Life in Sixteenth Century Portugal”
Dr. Nicholas R. Jones, Yale University

 

THURSDAY, March 20 @ 12:00-1:30 (121 Borland Building)

Faculty Work-in-Progress with Lindsay Cook

“LIKE THE SUN AMONG STARS’: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN RESPONSES TO NOTRE-DAME OF PARIS”

TUESDAY, April 9 @ 12:00-1:30 (226 Burrowes Building)

Graduate Student Roundtable

“STRUCTURES OF EMPIRE”

Organized by Amy Orner and Kyle Marini

 

Fall 2023 EVENT SCHEDULE 

 

THURSDAY, October 12 @ 12:30 (335 Willard Building)

Faculty Work-in-Progress with Danielle Ryle

“Shameless Women: The Multigenerational Self-Fashioning Projects of Anne Clifford and Dorethy Philippes”

This talk considers what “self-fashioning” (creating a public version of self through artistic production such as writing, painting, and clothing) might look like for early modern women outside of traditional masculine parameters. The example of Anne Clifford shows a 17th-century woman participating in masculine habits of self-fashioning such as portraiture and chronicle writing. I place this in contrast with the lineage records of the Hanmer family that, while domestic and minimal, reveal the shifting self-concepts of women across three generations. The Hanmers provide evidence of how women might have navigated changes in self-concept during and after the English Civil War from subjects of the crown to astrological destinies to the privileging of emotional subjectivity.

 

THURSDAY, November 9 @ 5:00 (Foster Auditorium)

Julie Chamberlin, Loyola University

“Human Law, Animal Bodies: The Legacy of Medieval Animal Trials”

 

FRIDAY, November 10 @ 12:oo-1:30 (121 Borland Building)

Graduate Student Workshop with Julie Chamberlin

 

THURSDAY, November 30 @ 12:00 (102 Weaver Building)

Graduate Student Work-in-Progress with Hector Linares

“Claiming an Order for the Incas: Indigenous Nobility, Sovereignty and the Negotiation of Social Authority in Seventeenth-Century Perú”