The department is excited to introduce a new event this year. The Pre-Modern Research Symposium (PMRS) provides a venue in which medieval and renaissance scholars in our department can present and discuss works in progress. PMRS aims to foster conversation across what was once conceived as a rigid period divide. In fostering this conversation, PMRS will highlight both the continuities and disjunctures between medieval and renaissance literature.
PMRS will occur four times throughout the 2014/15 academic year. Our first meeting will take place in JHB 719 at 4 pm on Thursday, 30 October, and will feature presentations by Professors Jeremy Lopez and Lynne Magnusson.