The UCI Group for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (GREMS) welcomes new members and old to indicate their interest in presenting talks, papers, chapters, etc. during this coming academic year. Our group includes graduate students and faculty and meets roughly twice a quarter to respond to graduate student and faculty works-in-progress. Contact swheaton@uci.edu

Round Table on the Early Modern Netherlands

7 November 2008
Humanities Instructional Building 137
10 am-6pm

Round Table Organizers:
Jane O. Newman, Comparative Literature
Amy Powell, Art History

flyer pdf with conference information

Friends, Fellows, and Forms of Freedom:
First Annual Graduate Student Conference

Friday, November 21 , 2008

This student-run conference seeks papers that attempt to discover the outlines, origins, or equivalents of civil society in the ancient, medieval, and Renaissance periods.
Key note speaker: Page Du Bois, University of California, San Diego

Conference organizers:
R. Jacob McDonie, Department of English
rmcdonie@uci.edu

Jesse Weiner, Department of Classics
weinerj@uci.edu

Points of Departure:
Political Theology on the Scenes of Early Modernity

Key note speakers: Etienne Balibar and Victoria Kahn
Friday, February 20-Saturday, February 21, 2009

contact info jrlupton@uci.edu