Renaissance and Early Modern Discussion Group
The Renaissance and Early Modern Discussion Group
is open to all staff and postgraduates carrying out
research in the period in any discipline.
This informal group meets fortnightly during semester
on Thurs 1pm-2pm in the common room of the Institute
for Advanced Study in the Humanities. Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided and you are welcome to bring your lunch.
Each meeting is chaired by people with a special interest in the week's theme (see timetable below). Please contact the chair of the relevant meeting if you would like to discuss your work. If you have suggestions for themes for future meetings, please contact Elizabeth Elliott (Elizabeth.Elliott@ed.ac.uk).
Semester 2, 2011-2012
Thurs 26 Jan - Early Modern Texts in Performance
An open
discussion focusing on Early Modern Texts in Performance. Speakers
include Simon Malpas (English Literature, Edinburgh).
Thurs 23 Feb - Reformation aesthetics
This session will look at the impact of the Reformation on aesthetic
practice, in the light of Alex Nagel's recent study, The Controversy
of Renaissance Art (2011), with contributions from Michael Bury
(History of Art) and Christopher Black (History, University of Glasgow).
Thurs 22 Mar - Emblems
Laurence Grove (French, University of Glasgow), 'How the Renaissance
Code was Broken'
Miranda Anderson (English Literature), 'Thinking with Emblems'
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