CFP: 2016 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference@The Newberry Library (Deadline: Oct. 15)

Call for Papers: 2016 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Submission deadline: October 15
https://www.newberry.org/01282016-2016-multidisciplinary-graduate-student-conference
Conference dates: January 28 to 30, 2016

We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers from master's or PhD students from any discipline on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe, the Americas, or the Mediterranean world. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, anthropology, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, political science, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies. Because of the conference's multidisciplinary nature, all papers must be in English.

Eligibility: Proposals are accepted only from students at member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium. Students who presented a paper at the previous year's conference are given lower priority, though they are still eligible to submit a proposal.

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For all these programs, students from Center for Renaissance Studies consortium schools ( http://www.newberry.org/center-renaissance-studies-consortium-members) have priority, in accordance with the consortium agreement. Fees are waived for students from consortium institutions. Such students may be eligible to apply for travel funds to attend ( http://www.newberry.org/newberry-renaissance-consortium-grants). Each member university sets its own policies, limitations, and deadlines, and some may limit eligibility to certain departments or units within the institution; contact your Representative Council member in advance for details.

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Ellis Series Kick-off Event: New Discussion Forum

New Issue of Comparative Drama

Comparative Drama is pleased to announce publication of our Spring 2015 issue. Volume 49.1 includes the following contributions:

Essays

Moscow, St Petersburg, London: Hubert Griffith and the Search for a Russian Truth
Claire Warden

The Tragicomic Moment: Republicanism in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Philaster
Judy Park

Vondel’s Brothers and the Power of Imagination
Stijn Bussels

Brothers and ‘Gentles’ in The Life of King Henry the Fifth
Maurice Hunt

Reviews

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553, by Tamara Atkin
reviewed by Clifford Davidson

Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater, by Jacqueline O'Connor
reviewed by Leopold Lippert

The Ingenious Simpleton: Upending Imposed Ideologies through Brief Comic Theatre, by Delia Méndez Montesinos
reviewed by Corey A. Reed

Moving Shakespeare Indoors: Performance and Repertoire in the Jacobean Playhouses,
edited by Andrew Gurr and Farah-Karim-Cooper
reviewed by Joel Benabu

Singing Simpkin and other Bawdy Jigs: Musical Comedy on the Shakespearean Stage: Scripts, Music and Context, by Roger Clegg and Lucie Skeaping
reviewed by Catherine Henze

The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare, by Heather Hirschfeld reviewed by William Junker

Shaw’s Settings: Gardens and Libraries, by Tony Jason Stafford
reviewed by Christopher Wixson

New Issues 20th Anniversary

Please join us for this special gathering of the Kalamazoo community, writers, and Creative Writing and English alumni to celebrate 20 years of New Issues Poetry & Prose. Featuring music, readings, and an art sale. Sunday, August 30th, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. $10 suggested donation / $5 students

Anthony Ellis Scholarly Speakers Series 2015-16 Events

The Department of English is proud to announce the schedule for the Anthony Ellis Scholarly Speakers Series for 2015-16, an exciting list which includes internationally-acclaimed scholars whose work has had broad influence within and beyond English Studies:

David Bleich, Professor of English at the University of Rochester (and winner of the 2015 CCCC Outstanding Book Award for The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University): TUES., OCTOBER 13, 2015, 7:00pm

Carol Symes, who will be the next Comparative Drama Distinguished Lecturer, teaches in History, Medieval Studies, and the Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: THURS., NOVEMBER 12, 2015, 7:00pm


n.b.: Spring dates are still tentative (To Be Confirmed)**

Deidre Lynch, Professor of English at Harvard University and Chancellor Jackman Professor at the University of Toronto (and award-winning scholar with a new critically acclaimed book, Loving Literature: A Cultural History): THURS., FEB. 11, 2016, 7:00pm

David Gerstner, Professor of Cinema Studies at CUNY Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, will be rescheduled for this coming season after being unable to travel as originally anticipated last year: THURS., MARCH 17, 2016, 7:00pm

Our own Casey McKittrick will deliver the Spring Keynote Lecture (THURS., JANUARY 28, 2016, 7:00pm) in conjunction with the publication of his new scholarly monograph, Hitchcock’s Appetites.

Stay tuned for details about the subjects of all talks, as well as related events, including our Fall kickoff event on Friday, September 25 (TBC, with more info TBA), and a Hitchcock screening in January prior to the Spring Keynote.