02/09/12
Early Modern Masculinities: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable – February 24
On Friday, February 24, a round table discussion will be held in 532 Park Hall to “ investigate the struggles and anxieties generated by the attempt at constructing a successful model of manhood and selfhood through an interdisciplinary analysis of representations of masculinity.” This event will feature speakers from Cornell University, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, College of Staten Island-CUNY. A schedule can be found below.
12pm
Welcome, coffee, opening remarks
12:15pm
Gerry Milligan, World Languages and Literatures, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
“The Soldier Manqué: Militarism and Italian Renaissance Masculinity”
respondent: Paola Ugolini, Romance Languages, University at Buffalo
1pm
Lunch
1:45pm
Elizabeth Lehfeldt, History, Cleveland State University
“Una rustica simplicidad: San Isidro, Masculinity, and the Spanish Court”
respondent: David Castillo, Romance Languages, University at Buffalo
2:30pm
Kathleen Perry Long, Romance Languages, Cornell University
“Meddling with Masculinity in Alchemical Treatises”
respondent: James Bono, History, University at Buffalo
3:15
Coffee break
3:30pm
James Kuzner, English, Case Western Reserve University
“Monism and Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Lucrece”
respondent: Graham Hammill, English, University at Buffalo
4:15pm
Katherine Paugh, History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Father-Rights and Master-Rights: Masculinity in the British Caribbean and the Atlantic World during the Age of Abolition”
5pm
Closing remarks
Event sponsored by the Cultures and Texts Strategic Strength Initiative, the Early Modern Research Workshop, the Humanities Institute, the Feminist Research Alliance, the Gender Institute, the Melodia E Jones Chair, the Division of Transnational Studies, the Department of History, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
