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A Medieval and Early Modern Studies Conference
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Ruth Ahnert
Ruth Ahnert is a Lecturer in Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London. Her work focuses on the literature and culture of the Tudor period, with a specific emphasis on religious history, prison literature, and letter writing. She is the author of The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2013). In 2015-16 she will be a Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellow, and she has also been awarded a UK Research Council fellowship to work on 'Tudor Networks of Power', a collaborative project which applies quantitative network analysis to the study of large letter collections. Ruth is also currently working on an edition of The Letters of the Marian Martyrs with Thomas S. Freeman (Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming).
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Professor Ahnert will present on Saturday, October 10, between 2:15pm and 3:30pm. Click here for her abstract.
Sebastian Ahnert
Sebastian Ahnert is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. His research interests lie in interdisciplinary applications of algorithmic information theory and network analysis, primarily to biology, but also to the social sciences and the humanities. Research questions addressed in his work include the evolution of modularity and symmetry in biology, the classification of protein quaternary structure, algorithmic compression of genetic regulatory networks, flavour compatibility predictions based on network analysis of flavour chemistry data, and network analysis of historical correspondence data. His publications span a wide range of academic journals in physics, biology, and the humanities, including Science, Nature, Cell, Physical Review, and English Literary History.
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Professor Ahnert will present on Saturday, October 10, between 2:15pm and 3:30pm. Click here for his abstract.
Michiel van Groesen
Michiel van Groesen is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. In 2013 he was Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of Representations of the Overseas World in the DeBry Collection of Voyages, 1590-1634 (Brill, 2008; pbk 2012), and the editor of The Legacy of Dutch Brazil (Cambridge UP, 2014). His next book provisionally titled Amsterdam's Atlantic: Public Opinion and the Making of Dutch Brazil is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press. For his new research project he focuses on Atlantic news in early modern printed newspapers.
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Professor van Groesen will present on Friday, October 9, between 4:00pm and 5:30pm. Click here for his abstract.
Alicia Walker
Alicia Walker (PhD 2004, Harvard University) is assistant professor in the Department of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. She teaches broadly on topics of medieval art and architectural history as well as modern medievalism. Her current research focuses on cross-cultural artistic interaction between the Byzantine and medieval Islamic worlds and gender issues in Byzantine art and material culture. Her book, The Emperor and the World: Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Professor Walker’s research has appeared in journals such as Gesta, Studies in Iconography, Travaux et Mémoires, Art Bulletin, Muqarnas, and Ars Orientalis. She is the recipient of a 2015 ACLS Ryskamp Fellowship (which she will hold in 2016-2017) to conduct work on a book-length project provisionally titled Christian Bodies, Pagan Images: Women, Beauty, and Morality in Medieval Byzantium.
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Professor Walker will present on Friday, October 9, between 1:30pm and 3:30pm. Click here for her abstract.
David Wallace
David Wallace has been Judith Rodin Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn since 1996. His most recent books are Strong Women (2011) and Premodern Places (2004). He edited The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (1999) and is currently editing Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418, forthcoming from OUP later this year. This collaborative literary history attempts, in 82 chapters, to escape the nationally-restrictive bounds of nineteenth-century historiography by presenting nine itineraries of interconnected places: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~dwallace/europe/
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Professor Wallace will present on Saturday, October 10, between 4:00pm and 5:30pm. Click here for his abstract.
Colin Wilder
Colin Wilder is the associate director of the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina and a member of the library faculty there. He obtained his PhD in 2010 at the University of Chicago, focusing on the development of liberalism in politics and law in German society between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. At USC, he divides his times between three domains – designing and supervising the development of Digital Humanities/Digital History projects; writing about early modern liberal political thought; and teaching the history of business and capitalism.
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Professor Wilder will present on Friday, October 9, between 4:00pm and 5:30pm. Click here for his abstract.