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Welcome to the Pre-Modern Studies Colloquium

We hope that this website can serve as a useful addition to the growing interest and resources in Premodern studies at Temple University. Like the appearance of the grail to the fellowship of King Arthur's Round Table (pictured to the left), a website can serve to instruct, guide, direct, and, most importantly, inspire, the study of premodernity from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Events Calendar

January 31, 2008 / CHAT: 11:40-1PM, 10th Floor of Gladfelter Hall
Teresa Scott Soufas, Spanish and Portuguese, Dean, CLA
"Isabel I and the Queen's Three Bodies"

A specialist in Golden Age Spanish literature, Prof. Soufas has authored three books: Melancholy and the Secular Mind in Spanish Golden Age Literature, Dramas of Distinction: Plays by Spanish Golden Age Women, and Women’s Acts: Plays by Women Dramatists of Spain’s Golden Age. She is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Spanish.

English Renaissance Lectures

Feb. 6th (Wednesday), 3:30, Anderson 1123

  • Trish Henley, Florida State University, will speak on:
  • "'Lay Down the Treasures of Your Body'": The Sexual Fantasies of the State
    in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.

Feb. 8th (Friday), 3:30, Anderson 1123

  • Simone Chess, UC Santa Barbara, will speak on:
  • "'His son instead of his daughter': Crossdressing in a Gendered Economy"

Feb. 11th (Monday), 3:30, Anderson 1123

  • Nichole Miller, UC Irvine, will speak on:
  • "Sacred Life and Sacrificial Economy in Shakespeare's Coriolanus"

All talks will be at 3:30 and will take place in Anderson 1123.

Other Pre-Modern Activities

March 20th, Thursday, 4 pm, CHAT Lounge (Gladfelter, 10th floor)

Pre-modern graduate students present on their on-going dissertation projects.

Future Pre-Modern Activities

May 1st , Thursday, 4:15 pm, CHAT Lounge (Anderson 1042)


Pre-Modern Reading Group: the group will be discussing Mystifying the Monarch, a collection of essays that continues the group's year long discussions on the role of, and the problematics of, sovereignty in the pre- and early modern periods.
For more information on the group's book selection, see http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/226178.ctl

Fall Conference: Premodern Sovereignty and the Discourses of Political Theology and Biopolitics

Save the Date: September 5th, 2008

Speakers will include Julia Lupton (UC Irvine), Kathleen Davis (Princeton) and Walter Mignolo (Duke).