DRAMA, DEMONS, & KNOWLEDGE
KATHERINE WALKER VISITING LECTURER IN ENGLISH MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE OCTOBER 10 | 4:30 PM Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst
A Five College Book History and Renaissance of the Earth Seminar
CLIMATE IN WORDS AND NUMBERS: HOW EARLY AMERICANS RECORDED WEATHER IN ALMANACS
JOYCE CHAPLIN JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS PROFESSOR OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DECEMBER 1, 2022 5:00 PM VIA ZOOM Joyce Chaplin teaches the histories of science, climate, colonialism, and environment. Professor Chaplin’s publications include The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006), Round about the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit (2012), and (coauthored), The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population (2016).
To register visit www.renaissanceoftheearth.com
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Book Launch
Ari Friedlander University of Mississippi
with Mario DiGangi City University of New York
October 18, 2002 4:30pm To register: www.umass.edu/renaissance
A Five College Renaissance and Renaissance of the Earth Seminar
'THE SWEET MARJORAM OF THE SALAD’: ABORTIFACIENT PLANTS AND THE SHAKESPEAREAN BED TRICK
WILL STEFFEN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE
FEBRUARY 16, 2023 4:30PM
Will Steffen won the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize at the 2020 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America for his dissertation, Globalizing Nature on the Shakespearean Stage. His forthcoming book, Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage, positions the early modern stage as a key resource in evaluating the role of human agency in the narrative about global climate change.
KINNEY CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RENAISSANCE STUDIES
BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Adam Zucker Author, Shakespeare Unlearned Associate Professor of English University of Massachusetts
in conversation with
Joseph Gamble Associate Professor of English Language & Literature University of Toledo
Friday, April 4 | 3:30pm at the Kinney Center For more information visit: www.umass.edu/renaissance