The EMC Colloquium is an ongoing resource for graduate students and faculty with early modern interests, where they present work in progress, such as dissertation chapters and conference papers, as well as workshop fields lists, prospectuses, job letters and talks, and so forth.
Upcoming Events:
Friday, March 13, 2009: Reading as a Social Technology Conference
Past Events:
Friday, February 20, 11-1:30 in SH 2635: EMCC meeting, details TBA
Friday, March 6, 2009: EMC Winter Conference - "Before Environmentalism"
Friday, February 6, 11-1:30 in SH 2635: EMCC Brown Bag
Friday, January 9 at NOON in the EMC: EMC Winter Conference Committee meeting
Friday, November 14, 2008: Early Modern Center Fall Colloquium
This year's EMC Fall Colloquium will feature speakers Professor Robert Watson and Professor Beth Tobin, both of whom will present work that illuminates this year's theme, "Before Environmentalism." The Colloquium will take place in the McCune Conference Room in the HSSB at UCSB from 1:00-4:00.
Robert N. Watson is a Professor of English at UCLA, and author of Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance (Pennsylvania UP, 2006), named the Best Book of Ecocriticism of 2005-2006 by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. He was the winner of the 2006 Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize for the year's best book in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, by the editors of Studies in English Literature. Professor Watson's presentation for this EMC event is entitled "The Ecology of Self in 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'"
Beth Fowkes Tobin is a Professor of English at Arizona State University, and the author of Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 (Pennsylvania UP, 2005) and Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting (Duke UP, 1999). Professor Tobin's presentation for the Colloquium is entitled "The Duchess's Shells: Natural History Collecting, Gender, and Scientific Practice."
Friday, October 24, 2008: EMCC Brown Bag Lunch
Friday, November 7, 2008: Robert Watson and Beth Fowkes Tobin Pre-Colloquium Reading
Please join E. Heckendorn Cook and Ken Hiltner for a discussion of selected readings from Robert Watson and Beth Fowkes Tobin's work. We will meet in South Hall 2635 from 11:00-1:30. Readings will be available in the Early Modern Center. Email Cat Zusky at zusky@umail.ucsb.edu for more information. This event is optional for EMCC participants.
Thursday, October 16 and Friday, October 17, 2008: Professor Thomas Pettitt Lecture and Brown Bag
Renowned folklore and media studies scholar Thomas Pettitt (University of Southern Denmark) will present a lecture titled "The Gutenberg Parenthesis (Renegotiating Mediaeval Studies and Media Studies)" on Thursday, October 16. All interested persons are invited to attend.
A Brownbag Lunch with Thomas Pettitt
Friday, October 17, 2008, 12-2pm; SH 2635.
Renowned folklore and media studies scholar Thomas Pettitt (University of Southern Denmark) will present an informal talk on "Ballads before Broadsides" - all interested persons are invited to attend.
For more information on Thomas Pettitt, please visit his homepage.