The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Department welcomes Paola Ugolini and Marco Faini from the University at Buffalo and director Fred Kudjo Kuwornu for a mini-conference, "New Views on the Renaissance." Events will take place in the Community Foundation Theater and Kresge Classroom 101.
The Renaissance, also known as part of the early modern period, continues to attract attention for its art, literature, history and thought, despite overshadowing interests in the Enlightenment and in contemporary affairs. This mini-conference brings the Renaissance back into consideration at Kenyon. It offers a sample of current research on a period which dealt with the question of what it means to be human in the context of complex social, political and economic relations. It indicates the relevance of what has been learned about the period in recent decades. We hope that the event will stimulate your thinking about this period and what it may suggest about our present.
Schedule of Events
- 3:10 - 4 p.m. Faculty panel with Piers Brown, Katherine Calvin, Simone Dubrovic, Dani Ezor and Justin Rivest in The Gund's Kresge Classroom 101
- 4:10 - 4:45 p.m. Lifting the Veil: Sincerity and Secrecy in Early Modern Italy with Paola Ugolini in The Gund's Community Foundation Theater
- 4:50 - 5:25 p.m. Renaissance True Crime: Moral Monsters, Ephemeral Print, and Otherness in Early Modern Italy with Marco Faini in the Community Foundation Theater
- 5:25 - 5:45 p.m. Q&A with Paola Ugolini and Marco Faini in the Community Foundation Theater
- 7 - 7:30 p.m. Reception in The Gund's Fischman Lobby
- 7:30 - 8:45 p.m. "We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe" film screening in the Community Foundation Theater
- 8:45 - 9 p.m. Q&A with film director Fred Kudjo Kuwornu led by Jon Tazewell in the Community Foundation Theater
The conferences is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the MLL Cowles-Laskin Fund, the Art & Art History Mesaros Fund and the Department of History.