Fall 2015 Colloquia
A 14th-century image of a medieval oyster from The Hague, KA 16.
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their fall 2015 colloquia.
All are welcome.
Wednesday, September 30
Medieval Oysters!
- Associate Professor Karl Steel, English—Medieval Oysters: Bare Life, Posthuman Ethics, and the Problem of Agency
- Associate Professor Andrew Arlig, Philosophy—Commentary
5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)
Thursday, October 2
Theorizing "Race" in Early Modern Spain
- Associate Professor William Childers, Modern Languages and Literatures—The Past as Mirror to the Present and the Bugbear of Anachronism: Theorizing 'Race' in Early Modern Spain
5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)
Thursday, November 19
Dante in the Interwar Period
- Professor Marty Elsky, English—Who Owned Dante?: Literary Appropriation and the Consolation of Philology in the Aftermath of War
12:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)
Wednesday, December 2
Zoroastrians!
- Associate Professor David Brodsky, Judaic Studies—Resistance and Appropriation: The Zoroastrian Context of the Book of Tobit
5:30 p.m.
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)
