Comparative Crossings Announced for 2007-2008

Comparative Crossings for Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 will be a public lecture and seminar series on Visual Culture. 

The series will culminate with the English Department Petrou Lecture and Seminar on April 8 and 9 with Joseph Roach, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of English and Theater at Yale University.

November 29, 2007, 4:30 PM, Susquehanna 3105

Ana María Dopico (New York University).  "So Much Beautiful Light:  Revolution, Uneven Development, and Visual Culture in the Caribbean"

(Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the College of Arts & Humanities)

March 31, 2008, Time and Place TBA

Harry Berger, Jr. (The University of California, Santa Cruz).  "Cybernetic Alienation: Prosthetic Strategies in Alberti, Leonardo, Castigllione, and Machiavelli"

(Co-sponsored by Renaissance Reckonings, the Center for Baroque and Renaissance Studies, the Department of French and Italian, and the College of Arts & Humanities)

April 8, 2008, 3:30 PM, Susquehanna 1120

Joseph Roach (Yale University).  The Petrou Lecture "Unpath'd Waters, Undream'd Shores: Shakespeare in the Correspondence of Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams"

(Co-sponsored by the Eighteenth-Century Reading Group, Renaissance Reckonings, the Department of English, and the College of Arts & Humanities)

April 9, 2008, 10:00 AM - Noon, Susquehanna 3105

The Petrou Seminar: "On It and Cities of the Dead"

For further information, contact Priyanka Pvora, pvora@umd.edu.