SHAKSPER 1997: Announcements

From: Hardy M. Cook (editor@ws.bowiestate.edu)
Date: 09/29/97 

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0972.  Monday, 29 September 1997.

[1]     From:   Martin Elsky <melsky@email.gc.cuny.edu>
        Date:   Friday, 26 Sep 1997 12:58:00 -0400 (EDT)
        Subj:   CUNY Renaissance Schedule

[2]     From:   Western Canon University <crowsnest@www.bestware.net>
        Date:   Sunday, 28 Sep 1997 12:08:21 -0400 (EDT)
        Subj:   Western Canon University & The WWW Literary Renaissance


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From:           Martin Elsky <melsky@email.gc.cuny.edu>
Date:           Friday, 26 Sep 1997 12:58:00 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:        CUNY Renaissance Schedule

 [With apologies for cross-listings]

The following is the Fall 1997 SCHEDULE OF CUNY RENAISSANCE AND EARLY
MODERN EVENTS. Admission is free and open to the public.

CUNY Graduate School                            Martin Elsky, Coordinator
Renaissance Studies Program                             212-642-2346 (Phone)
33 West 42 Street                                       212-642-2205 (Fax)
New York, NY 10036                              <melsky@email.gc.cuny.edu>

For more information, consult
*******************************************
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/renai/ren.htm
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Thursday
September 25
Bernice W. Kliman (Nassau Community College), "Language and Gender in
Henry V." 7:00-9:00 p.m. Room 202, Graduate School (Sponsored by the
Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance; for further
information on SSWR events, contact Betty Travitsky
<2095890@mcimail.com> or  Susan O'Malley <SUOKB@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>)

Thursday
October 30
PAMELA ALLEN BROWN (Columbia University), "From Jest to Earnest: Women
as Players." 7:00-9:00 p.m. This event to take place at The Gallatin
School, NYU, 715 Broadway, 6th floor conference room. (Sponsored by the
Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance)

Wednesday
November 5
PAOLO FASOLI (Hunter College), "Against Love: Anti-erotic Treatises in
the Renaissance." 6:30-8:30p.m., Room 40-18, Grace Building (Sponsored
by The Graduate Colloquium in Comparative Literature and Italian
Studies)

Thursday
November 20
BETTY TRAVITSKY (Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY),
"Author and Subordinate: The Case of Elizabeth Egerton." 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Room 202 Graduate School (Sponsored by the Society for the Study of
Women in the Renaissance)

Friday
November 21
CUNY Renaissance Studies Colloquium Series: RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN
CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: THE PLACES OF IDENTITY, 1500-1700

Fall colloquium
NATION AND DYNASTY: ENGLAND AND THE HABSBURG EMPIRE
4:00-6:00p.m.
3rd-Floor Studio
Graduate School.

THOMAS KAUFMANN (Princeton University), " Nation and Ethnicity vs.
Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Central Europe"

MALCOLM SMUTS (University of Massachusetts-Boston), "Rituals of Power
and National Identities in Seventeenth-Century Britain"

Reception to follow

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From:           The Western Canon University <crowsnest@www.bestware.net>
Date:           Sunday, 28 Sep 1997 12:08:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:        Western Canon University & The WWW Literary Renaissance

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At these sites you'll find over 300 discussion rooms devoted to the
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Or sign up for the poem of the day at

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From The Western Canon University Convocation Speech

. . .Thomas Jefferson's original ideal conception of the University of
Virginia consisted of an institution where attendance would not be
taken, where there would be no formal classes, and where scholars and
students would be free to come and go during a perpetual conversation
centered about the Greats.  His ideal assumed a noble view of man's
natural intellectual inclinations, and we share Jefferson's fundamental
philosophy. We believe men are taught far more effectively by
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those who prostelytyze, but rather those who write the Great Books, or
humbly point us in their direction. . . At Western Canon University we
look forward to having volunteer tutors preside over the discussion
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criticism which might be of particular interest to scholars of the
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halls and precept areas as supplements to your college assignments. You
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. .If you would like to become a tutor at Western Canon University,
please let us know with which author or work your passions lie, and
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