Early Modern Women Conference Focuses on 16th - 17th Century Women

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Always wanted to know about Shakespeare's sisters? Curious about The Girl with a Pearl Earring and her contemporaries? Learn about the lives and artistic production of women around the world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict, Concord November 5-7, 2009, at the University of Maryland University College Inn and Conference Center.

Scholars, teachers, and graduate students explore four topics: Negotiations, Economies, Faiths and Spiritualities, and Pedagogies, all within the wider framework of Women, War, and Peace. Their collective gaze will be on many geographic regions, especially the Atlantic world, England, France, Italy, the Islamic east, and China.

Highlights include Silvia Evangelisti, University of East Anglia, who will deliver a keynote address on early modern women's experiences of religion on November 5 at 7:30 pm; Musicians in Ordinary, a Canadian group who will perform early seventeenth century music for lute and voice on Friday, November 6, at 8:00 pm at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland; and two round-table sessions on academic career development for both early and mid-career scholars at 8:30 am on Saturday, November 7, 2009. Registration is waived for all University of Maryland system students and reduced for all University of Maryland system faculty and staff, as well as for Maryland public school teachers.

This event has helped shape the field of early modern women's studies since 1990. Register today and join the conversation!

For More Information please contact:

Karen L. Nelson
Associate Director
Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
301-405-6830
knelson@umd.edu

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