“Comparative Lit at Fifty: Early Modern Studies.”

Symposium held in 177 Goldwin Smith Hall, German Studies Lounge.

3:00 p.m. Walter Stephens (Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University), "Otherworlds and Their Early Modern Visitors"

4:00 p.m. Catherine Bates (English and Comparative Literature, Warwick University), "Synecdochic Structures in the Sonnets of Sidney and Spenser"

5:00 p.m. Ayesha Ramachandran (Comparative Literature, Yale University), “Petrarch Beyond Petrarchism: Lyric Thinking in the Fragmenta”

6:00pm Roundtable Discussion

We will then retire to the Comparative Literature lounge and terrace for a reception and toasts in honor of Bill Kennedy. Our lounge is located in Klarman Hall KG311

Street level (south wing of Klarman Hall) up the stairs or elevator to the third floor.