Global Antiquities & Early Modernisms Lightning Talks

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Join us for an informal meet-and-greet and lightning talk roundtable featuring scholars from across the University of Washington and Washington state whose research engages the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds.

Designed to spark conversation and new collaborations across disciplines, regions, and traditional period boundaries, the event will feature short presentations on current and emerging research in literature, history, religion, performance, material texts, and cultural exchange. Topics range from Sanskrit court and temple poetry, Roman slavery and emotional labor, Dante and the manuscript roots of print culture, and medieval German and Yiddish literature to premodern Scandinavia in global perspective, shipboard Shakespeare, classical reception, and East Asia in the Renaissance world.

Featuring scholars from Asian Languages & Literature, Classics, English, French & Italian Studies, German Studies, Scandinavian Studies, and Central Washington University, the roundtable will highlight both new research and opportunities for building a stronger interdisciplinary community around the study of earlier periods at UW and across Washington’s high education landscape.

Come meet colleagues, pitch your own work, and explore possibilities for future research, teaching, and collaboration. We’ll have a light reception following the roundtable. Join us for refreshments, new ideas, and inspiring conversation!

Speakers:

Beatrice Arduini Associate Professor of French and Italian Studies, UW

Timothy Bourns Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies, UW

Sarah Levin-Richardson Associate Professor of Classics, UW

Annegret Oehme Associate Professor of German, UW

Heidi Pauwels Professor of Asian Languages & Literature, UW

James Seth Associate Professor of English, Central Washington University

Chris Waldo Assistant Professor of Classics, UW

Moderator:

Rhema Hokama Associate Professor of English and Chair of Religious Studies, UW