{"id":12035,"date":"2021-04-20T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=12035"},"modified":"2021-04-20T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:03:00","slug":"performing-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/performing-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | Performing Objects and the Objects of Performance in the Global Early Modern: A Virtual Interdisciplinary Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/05\/eventminassianimage-533x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12037\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Join the John Hay Library and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World fo<a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">r<em>\u00a0Performing Objects and the Objects of Performance in the Global Early Modern: A Virtual Interdisciplinary Symposium<\/em><\/a>, taking place over two sessions on\u00a0<strong>June 14 and 15, 2021 from 9 a.m. \u2013 12:20 p.m<\/strong>. Professor Holly Shaffer of Brown\u2019s Department of the History of Art and Architecture will moderate.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/brown.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJclcOuqrTIoHdcOxd_fSvTjJ7LMgmn8DdY4\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Register to attend<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit the<em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/\" target=\"_blank\">Performing Objects and the Objects of Performance<\/a><\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/\" target=\"_blank\"> website<\/a>\u00a0for more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Symposium<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Symposium participants will convene to bring forward new or under-explored theories of performance in the study of the global early modern, with a focus on performance in relation to objects of historical analysis. These objects may be archival materials, the individuals or collectivities that produced these materials, or conceptual and abstract knowledge-objects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papers by invited scholars will be published on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/performing-objects\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Performing Objects and Objects of Performance<\/em> website<\/a> in advance. Each of the two symposium sessions will be divided between discussion of the papers and presentations by participants on relevant objects digitized from the John Hay Library\u2019s collections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Panelists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Claire M. L. Bourne (Penn State)<\/li><li>Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden University)&nbsp;<\/li><li>Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina)&nbsp;<\/li><li>Anthony Ossa-Richardson (UCL)&nbsp;<\/li><li>Kishwar Rizvi (Yale University)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Discussion topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How can performance, as a theoretical rubric, illuminate the interaction within and among such categories of object, as well as between object and subject \u2014 both historical subjects and historian subjects? <\/li><li>How do objects represent, enact, or mediate performance? In what ways can one object surrogate or perform as another? <\/li><li>How do objects circulate performances across distances of space and time?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kenneth Molloy, John Hay Library\/Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Fellow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The symposium is the culmination of a fellowship project by Kenneth Molloy, PhD Candidate in the Department of Theater Arts &amp; Performance Studies, the fourth John Hay Library\/Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Fellow. Kenneth&#8217;s fellowship was conducted with support from Holly Snyder, Curator of American Historical Collections, Lincoln and Hay Collections, and History of Science at the John Hay Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the John Hay Library and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World for\u00a0Performing Objects and the Objects of Performance in the Global Early Modern: A Virtual Interdisciplinary Symposium, taking place over two sessions on\u00a0June 14 and 15, 2021 from 9 a.m. \u2013 12:20 p.m. Professor Holly Shaffer of Brown\u2019s Department of <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/performing-objects\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Event | Performing Objects and the Objects of Performance in the Global Early Modern: A Virtual Interdisciplinary Symposium<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,5,34,35,155,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-projects","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-general-interest","category-home-page","category-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}