B7: Crossing the Pre-Modern and the Post-Modern:� Challenges to Global Ethnic Networks

Seminar Leader: Brenda Machosky, Stanford University

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM� � 12:30 PM, Westminster 2

Annika Farber, Pennsylvania State University: �Stendhal�s Andreas: From De Amore to De l�amour�

Elizabeth Coker, University of Texas at Dallas: ��With Skin Wrought Like the Britons�: Margaret Cavendish and the Color-Coded Other�

Margaret Wickins Lynch, University of Michigan: “Whose Nation, World and God? William of Rubruck’s Subjective Christianity”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM � 12:30 PM, Westminster 2

Brenda Machosky, Stanford University: �Global Players in a Staged World: Shakespeare at the Crossroads�

Marcella Munson, Florida Atlantic University: �Spheres of Influence: Astrology and Political Subjectivity in Christine de Pizan�s Epistre Othea�

Chris K. Lee, University of California � Santa Barbara: �Title To Be Announced�

Nina Berman, Ohio State University: �Medieval Chronicles: Connecting Histories and Territories�

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM � 12:30 PM, Westminster 2

Randall J. Pogorzelski, University of California � Santa Barbara: �A Failure to Communicate in Aeneid Six�

Assimina Karavanta, University of Athens, Greece: �From Plato�s Sin-oikia to the Global Polis: The Ontological Bearings and Political Praxis of Community in a Global Era�

Masako Ono, Teikyo University, Tokyo Japan: ��Post-Texts� of The Tale of the Genji�