Symposium on Disease and Disability in the Middles Ages and Renaissance
http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/diseasedisability.html
Newberry Library
Center for Renaissance Studies
Symposium on Disease and Disability in the Middles Ages and Renaissance
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library
Due to space restrictions, registration in advance is required (see
below).
9:30 a.m. Coffee and continental breakfast
10:00 a.m.
Disability in the Middle Ages
Kings and Cripples: Royal and Eccentric Bodies in Medieval Europe
Christopher Baswell, Barnard College and Columbia University
Mephibosheth in the Middle Ages: Disabilities, Children, and the Most
Vulnerable of the Vulnerable in Medieval Europe
Walton O. Schalick III, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Does Sin Cause Disability? Some Medieval Perspectives
Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago
Chair: Sandra Sufian, University of Illinois at Chicago
11:15–11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. Roundtable discussion with morning speakers
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Lunch break
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2:30–3:45 p.m.
Disease and the Body in the Renaissance
Sickening India
Jonathan Gil Harris, Georgetown University
Lessons from the Body: Shakespeare and the Ethics of Disease
Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan
Scott Stevens, D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian Studies, The
Newberry Library
Chair: Wendy Wall, Northwestern University
3:45–4:00 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Roundtable discussion with afternoon speakers
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In conjunction with the symposium, the Newberry Consort early music
chamber ensemble will present:
Music Hath Charms: Disease and Disability in Music
7:00 p.m., Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library
Director David Douglass, along with soprano Ellen Hargis,
harpsichordist David Schrader, and viola da gambist Craig Trompeter,
will present a special program on how early modern people coped with
illness through the power of music, from the depths of melancholy to a
comic depiction of a gall bladder operation.
Everyone who registers in advance for the conference will receive a
voucher for one free admission to the concert.
A reception will follow the concert.
Registration
This conference will include a continental breakfast, as well as a
reception after the afternoon session. While there is no fee to attend
this event, participants must register in advance by calling the
Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514 or e-mailing
renaissance [at] newberry.org.
Funds may be available for graduate students and faculty of Consortium
institutions to travel to the Newberry Library to attend this program.
Contact your Representative Council member or the Center for
Renaissance Studies.
(h/t H-DISABILITY)