Please join us on Friday, Oct. 26, from 3-5 PM for
Corpus: a symposium sponsored by The George Washington University Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute
Moderted by Gil Harris, The George Washington University
This event will be followed by a reception.
Symposium presenters:
Zeb Tortorici:
"Surgeons, Medical Examinations, and Criminalized Sexuality in New
Spain"
Zeb Tortorici is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literature, NYU. He recently
co-edited, with Martha Few, Centering Animals in Latin American History
(2013) and has
published essays in Ethnohistory, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, History Compass, and Death and Dying in
Colonial Spanish America. He is currently co-editing a special issue of Radical
History Review on
the topic of "Queering Archives," and is working on a book
manuscript on desire, colonialism, and the "sins against nature" in
New Spain.
Henry S. Turner:
"Universitas: On Corporations"
Henry S. Turner, an Associate
Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University, has authored two
books: Shakespeare’s Double Helix (2008)
and The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the
Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630
(2006). He is the editor of The
Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (2002).
Turner is the recipient of the ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship and
is spending the 2012-2013 academic year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study.
Marcy Norton:
"Shape-shifting: Permeable Bodies in Native South America"
Marcy Norton is an Associate
Professor of History at The George Washington University. Her most recent
work focuses on human-animal relationships. She is the author of Sacred
Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic
World (2008).
Lara Farina:
"The Disaggregate Body: Some Problems and Promise”
Lara Farina, an Associate Professor
in the Department of English at West Virginia University, is currently working
on a book project about the sense of touch in medieval culture. She is the author of Erotic
Discourses and Early English Religious Writing
(2006). Farina co-edited (with Holly Dugan) a special issue of Postmedieval entitled, The Intimate Senses: Taste,
Touch, and Smell (Winter 2012). Her other
research interests include medieval piety and histories of gender and
sexuality.
The symposium will take place from 3-5 PM on Friday, October 26, in Rome 771. There will be a reception after this event.
