Please join the Renaissance Society of America’s Graduate Student Advisory Committee on Thursday, February 24 for “Rethinking the Renaissance Archive.” The event will be held at 12:00 p.m. EST. Easily convert the time zone here. This event is open to all. Please register here.
Participants are encouraged to think about the nature of the Renaissance archive. Specifically, what constitutes a Renaissance archive and how can it be reimagined to account for a broader variety of experiences, traditions, ideas, and practices across time and space?
Event Program
12:00-12:10 p.m.: Introduction by Farah Bazzi
Panel 1: Network Theory and Renaissance Archives in the Age of Digitization(12:10-12:55 p.m. EST)
Caitlin Burge “Re-Mapping the Archive: British State Papers, 1523–40”
Paul Albert “Zipf’s Law in Early Modern Art Archives”
Kyle Dase “Networking the Archive: Linked Open Data and Collaborative Archiving”
Sara Mansutti “Reimagining Archival Research: How Can Handwritten Text Recognition Help Scholars?”
BREAK – 15 MINUTES
Panel 2: The Archive and Expanding the Renaissance World (1:10-1:55 p.m. EST)
Jonathan Egid “Three Kinds of Renaissance Archive in Seventeenth-Century Ethiopia”
Esteban Crespo “Refocusing the Queer Iberian Archive”
Katherine Ruckle “Towards a Globalized Pedagogy: Korean True-View Landscape Painting”
Kevin Tracey “Archiving Exilic Epistemology: Seventeenth-Century Irish Responses to the New Sciences”
BREAK – 15 MINUTES
Panel 3: Unconventional Renaissance Archives (2:10-2:55 p.m. EST)
Ambert Bird “Let Me Introduce Mrs. Diana Cecyll: Reading Poetic Form as a Lost Archive”
Juan Carlos Garzon Mantilla “Fossils in the Archive”
Chelsey Belt “Archiving Orality: Notation and Mimesis of Acts of Poetic Recitation in Musical Print”
Fayza Parviz Jazra “John Greaves’s Map: Archives of an Applied Historical Astronomer”
2:55-3:00 p.m.: Conclusion by Farah Bazzi