TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Shakespeare wrote, “Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.” But scholars will take a stab at examining those follies Saturday, Oct. 25, when The University of Alabama’ s Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies hosts the symposium “Shakespeare’s Love Triangles.” The symposium will begin at 9 a.m. in 301 Morgan Hall.
The schedule for the symposium is as follows:
9 a.m.: Kathryn Schwarz of Vanderbilt University: “Monogamy and Death”
10 a.m.: Edward J. Geisweidt of The University of Alabama: “‘I have not Placed all my Treasures in One Bottom’: Triangulated Desire and Queer Kinship in ‘The Merchant of Venice’”
11 a.m.: Jonathan Goldberg of Emory University: “What Do Women Want?”
2 p.m.: Madhavi Menon of American University: “Coriolanus and I”
3 p.m.: Daniel Juan Gil of Texas Christian University: “Geometries of the Flesh: Humoral Bonding and the Breakdown of Sovereignty”
4 p.m: Carla Freccero of the University of California, Santa Cruz: “Romeo and Juliet Love Death.”
In addition to the symposium, the Strode Program will present a lecture series that begins with “Banish the World: A Project for Shakespearean Pastoral” by Aaron Kunin, assistant professor of 18th-century English literature at Pomona College. Kunin is a poet, novelist and literary critic. His most recent book is a novel titled “The Mandarin” (Fence Books, 2008). The lecture will be at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, in 301 Morgan Hall. For more information on upcoming lectures, phone 205/348-5065 or go to http://www.as.ua.edu/english/.
The Strode Program is a privately endowed program to promote the study of English literature. The endowment provides for lectures and residencies by distinguished scholars and for fellowships for graduate study at UA in the field of English Renaissance Literature. The program is named after Hudson Strode, a prolific author and celebrated teacher of Shakespeare and of creative writing who served on the UA faculty from 1916 to 1963.
The Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies is part of the English department in the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Alabama. The College of Arts and Sciences is the University’s largest division and the largest public liberal arts college in the state. Students from the college have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the USA Today Academic All American Team.
Contact
Richard LeComte, UA Media Relations, 205/348-3782, rllecomte@advance.ua.edu
Source
Dr. Sharon O'Dair, director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies, sodair@bama.ua.edu, 205/348-5949