Past events (lectures, seminars, workshops, reading groups, public exchanges, etc.) organized or sponsored by the Early Modern Conversions project.
Montreal, Quebec
Thomson House, Ballroom, 3650 McTavish Street (Friday am and Saturday all day) – Elizabeth Wirth Music Building (A832), 527 Sherbrooke West (Friday pm)
Abstracts and bios available here
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
The Colgate Room, 4th floor McLennan Library
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McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
Moyse Hall, McGill University
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McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
McGill University
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Montreal, Quebec
By Repercussion Theater
McGill campus, 7pm-10pm
Montreal, Quebec
By Patrick Hansen (Director, Opera McGill) and Paul Yachnin (Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies)
Café du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 5pm
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Stanford, California
A talk hosted by Stanford University’s Renaissances Graduate Research Series
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“The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere. Founded in October 2007 in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council’s program on Religion and the Public Sphere, The Immanent Frame features invited contributions and original essays, and serves as a forum for ongoing exchanges among leading thinkers from the social sciences and humanities.” (“About.” The Immanent Frame. Social Science Research Council. Web. 9 May 2018.)
Montreal, Quebec
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Montreal, Quebec
McGill University
A talk delivered by Professor Douglas Hedley, Fellow of Clare College and Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Cambridge University
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Los Angeles, California
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) & Early Modern Conversions
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click here for CMRS’s event page and schedule
Toronto, Ontario
A two-day workshop and workshop performance on The Tempest, the histories of conversion and slavery, and Shakespeare’s theatre of freedom.
A collaboration of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the Ryerson School of Performance, and the Early Modern Conversions Project (McGill University)
Ryerson University
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McGill University
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Montreal, Quebec
McGill University
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Durham, North Carolina
Duke University & Franklin Humanities Institute
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Montreal, Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
McGill University
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Chicago, Illinois
Montreal, Quebec
McGill University
click here for more information and here for a downloadable team meeting program
Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
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Montreal, Quebec
The Early Modern Conversions project is bringing Repercussion Theatre’s production of Much Ado About Nothing to the McGill campus! Performance @7 pm. Come early for a pre-show (6:30 pm) featuring Fiona Ritchie and Paul Yachnin—Can You Forgive Him?
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Stratford, Ontario
A talk by Sarah Beckwith that explores the relationship between identity and misanthropy in Shakespeare.
Sarah Beckwith is the Katherine Everitt Gilbert Professor of English, Religious Studies and Theater at Duke University. Sponsored by the Early Modern Conversions Project.
11 a.m. – 12 p.m. (Free Admission)
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Montreal, Quebec
It’s Montreal Baroque’s 15th anniversary! Come celebrate with us. Early Modern Conversions is pleased to host two events at this year’s festival:
Music, Travel, and the Renaissance Ear (23 June, 5 p.m.) & Circus of Conversion Roundtable (24 June, 12:30 p.m.).
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Stratford, Ontario
click here for more information and here to purchase tickets via the Stratford Festival website
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London, England
A workshop performance presented by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Early Modern Conversions Project, and Opera McGill (Schulich School of Music, McGill University).
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Los Angeles, California
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA
Symposium organized by team members Bronwen Wilson and Angela Vanhaelen.
more information to come
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Ithaca, New York
Cornell University
Symposium organized by team member Kathleen Perry Long and presented by the Early Modern Conversions Project and Cornell University.
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Coventry, England
University of Warwick
Symposium featuring keynote speakers Alex Bamji, Nancy Caciola and Andrew Redden.
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Listen to Prof. Valerie Traub on this episode Emotions Make History, a podcast sponsored by The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
“This paper, ‘Becoming Converted: Sex, Knowledge and the Religious Body Politic’ was delivered at a symposium on ‘Shakespeare and the Body Politic’ at The University of Queensland on 28 November 2016. In the paper, [Prof. Traub] advances a queer and intersectional analysis to expand our notion of the body politic from one of state formation to one that is dynamic and takes account of embodiment” (Emotions Make History).
Mexico City
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City
more information to come
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Montreal, Quebec
A workshop performance based on The Changeling, written in 1622 by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
Presented by: The School of Performance at Ryerson University, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and the Early Modern Conversions Project. Featuring Stratford actors Brad Hodder, Ruby Joy, Tyrone Savage, and Robert King, along with guest participants from the University of Toronto and York University.
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click here for a full workshop report and here to view more photos from the workshop
Montreal, Quebec
Organizers: Professor Paul Yachnin and Dr. Stephen Wittek of McGill University represent the Early Modern Conversions project. They have developed this symposium in collaboration with Drs. Kathleen Lynch and Owen Williams of the Folger Institute.
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Vancouver, British Columbia
A Digital Humanities Workshop co-presented by Green College (UBC), The Early Modern Conversions Project (McGill), and the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium (UBC)
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Montreal, Quebec
3:00 PM — 688 Sherbrooke West, Room 1041, McGill University
The Conversions Project is happy to present lectures by Prof. Michael Gerli (University of Virginia) and Prof. Paul Yachnin (McGill University) on Shakespeare and Cervantes.
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Our partner at Cambridge University, CRASSH (Centre For Research In The Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), wishes to appoint two visiting fellows, each for a term, to research the topic of conversion in the Early Modern period. Conversion is to be understood in its broadest possible sense, and not merely as a religious phenomenon. Fellows will be expected to work on a project connected to the theme of conversion, to contribute to the interdisciplinary, collaborative international project Early Modern Conversions: Religions, Cultures, Cognitive Ecologies by participating in the events of the network sponsored by CRASSH, and to contribute to the interdisciplinary work of CRASSH through participation in its work in progress seminar. CRASSH will provide for the cost of return travel to the Centre, accommodation and a workspace. There is no salary attached to these positions.
For further information and application procedures, please click here.
Dr. Stelling has received a 2016 Veni award from the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) for her project “Faith in Jest: Humour and the Literature of the English Reformation.”
Her project description reads: “Humour and religion are often seen as uneasy bedfellows, but the imaginative literature of the English Reformation abounded in jokes about contentious religious issues. This project investigates how humour made people feel strong in the face of religious anxiety and contributed to a more peaceful society.”
Montreal, Quebec
McGill University
A free performance of Julius Caesar, presented by Repercussion Theatre and hosted by IPLAI and the Early Modern Conversions Project (McGill).
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Stratford, Ontario
Forum Workshop: ‘Art in Arden’.
Spend a morning with artists from the Stratford Festival learning – from the inside – how they create the magic of As You Like It.
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Montreal, Quebec
McGill University
Click here for more information, here for CFP, here for a full report on the workshop, and here to view more photos from the workshop.
Montreal, Quebec
McGill University
5pm, Redpath Museum: ‘Work and Play in The Tempest’. With Michael Bristol, Shakespeare’s specialist.
7pm, Redpath Hall: ‘Prospero’s Tempest’. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with Prospero’s philosophic end-of-life tempest, music by Purcell and friends. Bande Montréal Baroque, Lina Tur Bonet, Passiflore, Flûte Alors!, Pallade Musica, Paul Hopkins (actor), Jean Asselin (stage director), Hélène Brunet (soprano), Michael Taylor (countertenor), Philippe Gagné (tenor), Clayton Kennedy (bass).
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Stratford, Ontario
Free Forum: ‘The Sublime Power of Conversion’ with Paul Yachnin.
An exploration of how the history of conversion has shaped modern culture and how plays like Henry IV and As You Like It can illuminate the continuing power of conversion up to and including the 21st century.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
program, full team meeting report, more photos from the meeting.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Montreal, Quebec
Early Modern Conversions project and Repercussion Theatre have co-organized two events on Saturday 16 April for the Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal: ‘Bloody Caesar: Gender, Revolution, Violence’ at 12pm and ‘the Women of Will: Silent No More’ at 2:20pm.
Crawley WA, Australia
Paul Yachnin (McGill University), ‘Caliban and Conversion: Race, Recognition and Modernity’ from History of Emotions on Vimeo.
The paper was delivered at the “Emotions, Materiality and Transformations in the Colonial Contact Zone” Shaping the Modern Program collaboratory at The University of Western Australia on 7 March 2016. Discussing Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Yachnin suggests that the 1611 play presents the promise of a new world where all people are entitled to respect and recognition, and yet is also a progenitor of modern ideas of racial difference.
Perth, Australia
Sydney, Australia
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Rackham School for Graduate Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities and organized by Valerie Traub; featuring presentations by Kathleen Perry-Long, Patricia Badir, and Valerie Traub (among others).
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Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
Research seminar convened by Yelda Nasifoglu, GSA, and sponsored by the Early Modern Conversions project.
Tuesday, 2 February, 4:00pm
Prof. Matteo Soranzo (Italian Studies, McGill)
“The Elixir of Conversion: G.A. Augurelli and Renaissance Alchemy”
Tuesday, 23 February, 4:00PM
Prof. Christina Contandriopoulos (Art History, UQAM)
“Shifting the Origins of Architecture: Primitive Stones and Fertility Cults as Illustrated in Late 18th Century Art and Architecture Publications”
Tuesday, 15 March, 4:00pm
Dr. Matt Milner (Digital Humanities, McGill)
“Identifying Early Modern People – Extraction, Disambiguation, and Names in EEBO TCP”
Tuesday, 5 April, 4:00pm
Prof. Dario Perinetti (Philosophy, UQAM)
“Hume at La Flèche: Scepticism and the French Connection”
Wednesday, 20 April, 4:00pm
Dr. Anna Winterbottom (Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill)
“Thomas Hyde (1636-1703) and the East India Company”
Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
Research seminar convened by Yelda Nasifoglu, GSA, and sponsored by the Early Modern Conversions project.
Monday, 14 September, 3:30pm
Dr. Gül Kale (Art Histories Program, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin (2015-16))
“Architectural Imagination and Cognitive Faculties in Books on Ethics in the Early Modern Ottoman World”
Tuesday, 6 October, 3:30pm
Prof. Marguerite Deslauriers (Philosophy, McGill)
“The Education of Women: Gender and Custom in Equicola (1470-1525) and Marie de Gournay (1565-1645)”
Monday, 19 October, 3:30pm
Prof. Joshua Calhoun (English, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
TBA
Monday, 2 November, 3:30pm
Prof. Sam Nelson (Religious Studies, McGill)
“Body and Soul: the Parochial Contradictions of Conversion in Early British Madras”
Monday, 16 November, 3:30pm
Prof. Torrance Kirby (Religious Studies, McGill)
“Cognition and Action: Conversion and ‘Virtue Ethics’ in the Thought of Peter Martyr Vermigli”
Monday, 30 November, 3:30pm
Dr. Allison Stielau (Early Modern Conversions, McGill)
“Auricular Ornament, Ovidian Metamorphosis, and the Transformational Potential of Silver, c.1600”
Cambridge, UK
University of Cambridge, UK
The 2015 Early Modern Conversions team meeting took place in Cambridge from Friday July 24 to Monday July 27, with an opening reception on Thursday July 23.
click here to view the meeting schedule , here to view more photos from the meeting, and here for the Cambridge team meeting report
Coventry, UK
University of Warwick
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Montreal, Quebec
McGill University, New Music Building
room A-832 (on the 8th floor)
527 Sherbrooke Street West (corner of Aylmer Street)
Montreal, QC H3A 1E3 (click to view on google map)
Please note that these events are free and do not require any tickets.
LECTURE
Ben Schmidt (University of Washington, Seattle)
Early Modern Conversions presents: “Alchemy at Meissen, Or How China Became china (and Europe Transmuted the World)
Saturday, June 27th, 12:30pm
ROUND TABLE
Paul Yachnin, Stephen Wittek, Ben Schmidt and Jane Daphne Hatter; Respondent: Julie Cumming
Early Modern Conversions presents: “Coin, candle, china, skull: Objects of conversion”
Sunday, June 28th, 12:30pm
WORKSHOP
Alexis Risler and Zoey Cochran
Early Modern Conversions presents: “‘Resveillez vous'”: chantons l’air
Sunday, June 28th, 5:30pm
Cambridge, UK
University of Cambridge
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Stratford, Ontario
Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Studio Theatre
Katherina Minola’s world bristles with ways to make people change — from animal training to the torture of women believed to be witches to poetry able to change the very meaning of what people do and say. But Kate has some strategies of her own — conversion tricks that are hers to play, to make herself her own person, and to shape her world.
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Stratford, Ontario
Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Paul D. Fleck Marquee, Festival Theatre
$25 Join McGill University’s Julie Cumming to experience the transformative power of music, just as the people of Shakespeare’s time might have heard it and felt it.
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Cambridge, UK
King’s College, Cambridge
click here for the description of the event on the CRASSH website
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
This talk is the third in a series presented by University of Michigan graduate students affiliated with the Early Modern Conversions project
click here for the description of the event on the Institute for the Humanities website
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
202 S. Thayer, #1022
This talk is the second in a series presented by University of Michigan graduate students affiliated with the Early Modern Conversions project.
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Vancouver, British Columbia
Green College, University of British Columbia
Part of the ‘Conversion and Religious Transformation: Ancient and Modern Experiences and Paradigms’ lecture series; all talks take place at the Green College Coach House and are open to the public.
click here to download the poster for the lecture series
Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Early Modern Colloquium
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Organized by the Early Modern Colloquium, a graduate interdisciplinary group at the University of Michigan, and by Maia Farrar, GSA, this conference will engage with issues of periodicity through questions of secular versus sacred authority both during and between these eras.
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Vancouver, British Columbia
Green College, University of British Columbia
Part of the ‘Conversion and Religious Transformation: Ancient and Modern Experiences and Paradigms’ lecture series; all talks take place at the Green College Coach House and are open to the public.
click here to download the poster for the lecture series
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
202 S. Thayer, #1022
This talk was the first in a series presented by University of Michigan graduate students affiliated with the Early Modern Conversions project.
click here to learn more
Vancouver, British Columbia
Green College, University of British Columbia
Part of the ‘Conversion and Religious Transformation: Ancient and Modern Experiences and Paradigms’ lecture series; all talks take place at the Green College Coach House and are open to the public.
click here for the video recording (via the Green College Youtube channel)
click here to download the poster for the lecture series
Vancouver, British Columbia
Green College, University of British Columbia
Part of the ‘Conversion and Religious Transformation: Ancient and Modern Experiences and Paradigms’ lecture series; all talks take place at the Green College Coach House and are open to the public.
click here to download the poster for the lecture series
Dr Douglas Hedley has been awarded a major AHRC research grant: The Cambridge Platonists at the origins of Enlightenment: texts, debates, and reception (1650-1730).
The research team will be led by Principal Investigator Douglas Hedley, with Co-Investigators Sarah Hutton and David Leech, Technical Adviser Mike Hawkins, and will employ two full-time research assistants. The grant will cover funding for extensive editorial work with both texts and manuscripts.
The project, worth £833,472 and shared between the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol, will start on 1 September 2016 and run for three years. Find out more from the Cambridge Platonist Research Group website.
Durham, North Carolina
Duke University
Sponsored by the Duke English Department and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Franklin Humanities Institute, and the Early Modern Conversions Project. Organized by Astrid Giugni and Will Revere, Duke CMRS postdoctoral fellows.
see the dedicated website for further details
Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
Research seminar convened by Yelda Nasifoglu, GSA, and sponsored by the Early Modern Conversions project.
website of the seminar series
Hasana Sharp (Philosophy, McGill), “Spinoza and the Command to Love Your Neighbor” – 16 September 2014
David A. Boruchoff (Hispanic Studies, McGill), “Renaissance Exploration and the Invention of a New World” – 30 September 2014
Virginia Kartini Preston (IPLAI, McGill), “Baroque Relations: Performing New World Silver and Gold” – 7 October 2014
Ted McCormick (History, Concordia), “Natural Philosophy, Quantification, and Colonial Projects in Seventeenth-Century Ireland” – 21 October 2014
Torrance Kirby (Religious Studies, McGill), “The Silenus of Alcibiades: Conversion in the Enchiridion of Erasmus” – 28 October 2014
Matthew C. Hunter (Art History and Communications, McGill), “Modeling and Following” – 11 November 2014
Matt Milner (Centre for Digital Humanities, McGill), “Vernacular Knowledge and the Senses in English Religious and Moral Guidebooks, c.1475-c.1600” – 25 November 2014
Paris, France
Université Paris Diderot
A workshop organized by Justin E. H. Smith, focusing on the reasons, nature, and consequences of the embodiment of subjects as conceived in the long history of Western philosophy, with forays into religion, art, medicine, and other domains of culture.
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Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
3610 McTavish, Rm. 21-6
click here to learn more about “The Soul” research group
Vancouver, British Columbia
Green College, University of British Columbia
Part of the ‘Conversion and Religious Transformation: Ancient and Modern Experiences and Paradigms’ lecture series; all talks take place at the Green College Coach House and are open to the public.
click here for the video recording (via the Green College Youtube channel)
click here to download the poster for the lecture series
Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
3610 McTavish, Rm. 21-6
click here to learn more about “The Soul” research group
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022, Ann Arbor
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Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
3610 McTavish, Rm. 21-6
click here to learn more about “The Soul” research group
Kingston, Ontario
Grant Hall, Queen’s University
click here to download the symposium poster
Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
3610 McTavish, Rm. 21-6
click here to download the lecture poster
website of the seminar series
Toronto, Ontario
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS), Victoria University, University of Toronto
see dedicated page for the full schedule and participants’ biographies
click here to see more photographs from the workshop
Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
3610 McTavish, Rm. 21-6
click here to download the lecture poster
website of the seminar series
Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
3610 McTavish, Rm. 21-6
click here to download the lecture poster
website of the seminar series
Montreal, Quebec
CREOR, McGill University
Senior Common Room, Birks Building, 3520 University Street
Montreal, Quebec
McGill University, Room 461, 688 Sherbrooke St West.
For more information on this event, see: http://digihum.mcgill.ca/events/
Vancouver, British Columbia
Green College, University of British Columbia
Part of the ‘Conversion and Religious Transformation: Ancient and Modern Experiences and Paradigms’ lecture series; all talks take place at the Green College Coach House and are open to the public.
click here to download the poster for the lecture series
Vancouver, British Columbia
Green College, University of British Columbia
Coach House, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road
click here to view the lecture on Youtube
click here to download the poster for the lecture series
Washington, DC
Folger Shakespeare Library
Co-directed by Helen Smith and Simon Ditchfield
see the Folger Shakespeare Library 2014-2015 program for more information
Vancouver, British Columbia
University of British Columbia
Lillooet Room, Chapman Learning Commons, IKB Learning Centre
Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
see the dedicated page for the full schedule
click here to see more photographs from our meeting
Stratford, Ontario
The Stratford Festival Forum
Souls Under Pressure
Studio Theatre
“Where is the soul in Shakespeare?” Taking King Lear as their focus, Torrance Kirby and Paul Yachnin ask what happens to the human spirit, in Shakespeare’s time and in ours, when people are pushed to the limits of endurance. Colm Feore, playing Lear at the Festival this season, joins the discussion, offering insights from an actor’s point of view.
Montreal, Quebec
A Collaborative Public Event hosted by the Early Modern Conversions Project and Festival Montréal Baroque: Two panels featuring presentations on music, nature and nurture, and transformation by Julie Cumming, Anna Lewton-Brain, Catherine Motuz, Alexis Risler, and Paul Yachnin.
see the Montreal Baroque Festival programme for further information
Montreal, Quebec
A Collaborative Public Event hosted by IPLAI, Evergreen, and the Early Modern Conversions Project
see the dedicated page for further information
London, UK
A Workshop sponsored by the Early Modern Conversions Project and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
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York, UK
CREMS, University of York
A two day collaborative workshop sponsored by CREMS and HRC (University of York), and Early Modern Conversions (IPLAI, McGill University); click here for the full schedule.
Pre-circulated papers of work-in-progress by Torrance Kirby (McGill), Robin MacDonald (York), Steven Mullaney (Michigan), Emilie Murphy (York), Yelda Nasifoglu (McGill), Susan Royal (Durham), Helen Smith (York), Lieke Stelling (Leiden), Bronwyn Wallace (Penn), Stephen Wittek (McGill).
Presentations by Claire Canavan (York), Sheila Coursey (Michigan), Yelda Nasifoglu (McGill), Anastasia Stylianou (Warwick), Anna Reynolds (York), Lieke Stelling (Leiden), Bronwyn Wallace (Penn).
Cambridge, UK
CRASSH, University of Cambridge
29 May: Presentations by Mapping Horizons Leader Bronwen Wilson, Early Modern Cities Leaders José Jouve Martin and Stephen Wittek, and The Sense of Hearing Leader Carla Zecher.
30 May: The Soul Leader Torrance Kirby, Cognitive Ecologies Leader John Sutton, and Space of Conversion Leader Ben Schmidt.
Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
Marguerite DesLauriers, José R. Jouve-Martin, and Alberto Pérez-Goméz, “Conversion and Modernity” – 4 April 2014
Ernesto Felipe Fernández-Armesto, William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. “Change” – 27 March 2014
Elizabeth Elbourne, Associate Professor and Departmental Chair of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. “Emotion and the Conversion Narrative: Conversion and the Invention of the Self in the Early Protestant Missionary Movement, 1770-1830″ – 17 March 2014
Wayne Hankey, Carnegie Professor and Chair of Classics and Religious Studies at Dalhouise University and King’s College. “Conversions Ontological and Secular – From Plato to Tom Jones.” CREOR Lecture Series – 18 February 2014
Marcie Frank, Professor of English and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University. “The Reform of the Rake” – 22 January 2014
Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
Sense of Hearing – 13 January 2014
Spaces of Conversion and Conversion of Spaces – 27 January 2014
The Soul – 10 February 2014
Mapping Horizons – February 24 2014
Cities as Theatres of Conversion – 10 March 2014
Digital Humanities – 24 March 2014
Cognitive Ecologies – 14 April 2014
Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
Research seminar convened by Yelda Nasifoglu, GSA, and sponsored by the Early Modern Conversions project. Six of our team members presented papers of work-in-progress with members of the university.
Angela Vanhaelen, “Automata in the Labyrinth: Beast Machines in early modern Amsterdam” – 3 February 2014
Stephen Wittek, “Mapping the Public ‘Now’: Macroanalysis of Early Modern News and Drama” – 17 February 2014
Matteo Soranzo, “A New Look at Spirituality: Poetry for the Soul in Early Modern Italy” – 12 March 2014
Brian Cowan, “The Scribbler and the Doctor: Daniel Defoe’s Long Way with Dr. Henry Sacheverell” – 17 March 2014
José-Juan Lopez-Portillo, “A Biographical Approach to Exploring the Role of ‘Cultural Mediators’ as Agents of Conversion in Sixteenth Century New Spain” – 26 March 2014
Paul Yachnin, “Dreaming the Public Sphere” – 31 March 2014
Vasileios Syros, “Mercati Ex Machina: Greatness, Trade, and Economic Decline in Early Modern Jewish Thought and Giovanni Botero” – 9 April 2014
José R. Jouve-Martín, “Healers, Saints, and Doctors: Black Medical Practitioners and the Politics of Science in Colonial Lima” – 15 April 2014
Montreal, Quebec
IPLAI, McGill University
Early Modern Conversions Yearbook 2013
click to see more photographs from our first team meeting
Montreal, Quebec
CREOR, McGill University
Series announcement [pdf]. Video recordings of the lectures are available via CREOR’s Youtube channel.
Paul Yachnin, “Animal Dreams: Conversion and Metamorphosis” – October 3, 2012
Mark Vessey, “Erasmus and the Conversion of Latin Letters” – October 10, 2012
Iain Fenlon, “First Encounters: Music and Ritual in Early Spanish America” – October 17, 2012
Douglas Hedley, “Reflection and Conversion: Neoplatonism and early-modern Philosophy of Mind” – October 24, 2012
Bronwen Wilson, “Moving Pictures: Sketchbook of a journey from Vienna to Istanbul” – October 31, 2012
Sarah Beckwith, “Shakespeare, Sacrements and Conversion” – November 7, 2012
Emidio Campi, “The Italian convert: Marquis Galeazzo Caracciolo and the English Puritans” – November 14, 2012
Allan Greer, “Kateri Tekakwitha: the Mohawk who Converted the Jesuits” – November 21, 2012