Individual Talks Posters

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