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Performing Objects and the Objects of Performance

Symposium Program

Please click on the date to view the recording of that day’s conversations.

June 14th (9:00 AM EDT – 12:20 PM EDT) 

9:00 AM EDT: Welcoming Remarks (5 Minutes) by Amanda Strauss, Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Kenneth Molloy, John Hay/EMS Center Fellow

9:10 AM EDT: Moderator-Lead Discussion (1.5 Hours) Professor Holly Shaffer will lead a conversation among the invited participants around their pre-circulated papers, engaging continuities and shared themes as well as points of difference. 

10:40 AM EDT: Break (20 minutes)  

11:00 AM EDT: Object Presentation by Matthew Melvin-Koushki [Spiritualistic Books, coll. Samuel Zwemer, early 20th-century Cairo] (30 Minutes)

11:30 AM EDT: Presentation Q&A (10 Minutes) 

11:40 AM EDT: Object Presentation by Frans-Willem Korsten [Joost van den Vondel’s De getemde Mars] (30 Minutes)

12:10 PM EDT: Presentation Q&A (10 Minutes)

June 15th (9:00 AM EDT – 12:20 PM EDT) 

9:00 AM EDT: Introductory Remarks (5 Minutes) by Professor Andrew Laird, Director of the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

9:05 AM EDT: Recap of Day One (5 Minutes) Kenneth Molloy will summarize the previous day’s discussion and presentations.

9:10 AM EDT: Object Presentation by Anthony Ossa-Richardson [Leo Africanus’ A geographical historie of Africa, John Pory trans.] (30 Minutes)

9:40 AM EDT: Presentation Q&A (10 Minutes) 

9:50 AM EDT: Break (10 Minutes)

10:00 AM EDT: Object Presentation by Claire M. L. Bourne [Edward Capell’s Prolusions] (30 Minutes)

10:30 AM EDT: Presentation Q&A (10 Minutes) 

10:40 AM EDT: Break (10 Minutes)

10:50 AM EDT: Moderator-Lead Wrap-Up Discussion (One Hour) Professor Holly Shaffer and Kenneth Molloy will lead a second conversation among the invited participants, taking up topics of discussion brought out over the course of the symposium. 

11:50 PM EDT: General Q&A (Half Hour)