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By the early modern "new," we mean new ways the Renaissance through the Eighteenth Century thought about itself; new material and market cultures; new world discoveries (including the newly strange); the fashion for recycling or rethinking the old; novelties; new technologies; new religions; new literatures/genres; new notions about authorship and copyright, etc. The Center is fielding five courses on "the new" in 2000-2001. The collective course investigations are capped by a conference at the end of the year, featuring both undergraduate and graduate students from "new" courses together with keynote speaker, Professor Jean Howard (Department of English, Columbia University).

The Early Modern 'New': Discoveries and Rediscoveries Courses

(Fall 2003) ENG 101S Seminar for English Literature from the Medieval Period (Undergraduate)
This one-unit honors seminar for students in English 101 will be devoted to reading and discussing a selection of brief medieval and Renaissance works from The Norton Anthology of English Literature. I'll bring a list of possible works to our first meeting, and the students in the class will decide together what we will be reading.
   
(Spring 2001) ENGL0 The Old and the New: Medieval and Renaissance Drama (Undergraduate)
   
(Spring 2001) ENGL0 The Old and the New: Medieval and Renaissance Drama (Graduate)
   
(Spring 2001) ENGL0 New Identities: Incorporation, Inscription, and Life Stories (Graduate)
   
(Fall 2000) ENGL265 New Worlds (Graduate)
   
(Fall 2000) ENGL131 The American Newness: Studies in Enlightenment and Revolution (Undergraduate)
   

The Early Modern 'New': Discoveries and Rediscoveries Events

(5/5/2001 10:00:00 AM) THE EARLY MODERN 'NEW'

An Undergraduate/Graduate Student Conference, featuring Professor Jean E. Howard of Columbia University, along with faculty and students from several English Department early modern courses

Saturday, May 5 / 10 am to 3 pm
McCune Conference Room, 6th Floor HSSB

PROGRAM:

10 am
Welcome and Introduction / Richard Helgerson

10:15 am
"New Worlds" (grad students from Comp Lit 265: Elizabeth Freudenthal, Geoffrey Bateman, Jeannie Provost, Gina Valentino, and Jeen Yu)

10:45 am
Break

11 am
Keynote talk: "New Geographies of the Early Modern Stage," Jean Howard

Noon Catered lunch

1 pm
"The Old in the New: Medieval and Renaissance Drama" (featuring undergraduate and graduate students from Michael O'Connell's current English 197 and 230)

1:30 pm
"New Identities: Incorporation, Inscription, and Life Stories"
(presenting the work of David Marshall and Everett Zimmerman's English 232)

2 pm
Panel Discussion on the Early Modern "New" (Elizabeth Cook, Patricia Fumerton, Robert Erickson, Jean Howard, Mark Rose, and William Warner)
   

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