Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Morning Session - Graduate Papers 9:30 A.M.- 1:15 P.M.
NYU Casa Italiana – 24 W 12th Street, 2nd Floor
Painting, Performance and Pirouette 9:30-11:00 A.M.
Leslie A. Geddes (Princeton – Art and Archaeology)  Undercurrents: Approaching Leonardo and his Water Studies
Olivia Powell (Columbia – Art History) Painter/Choreographer: an experiment in the study of figural composition
Elizabeth Blake (NYU – English) Deus ex Machina: Chance Effects and Accidental Stage Machinery in Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women

11:00-11:15 A.M. Break

Italian Intertextuality 11:15 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.
Kristen Renner Swann (Columbia – Italian)
“E quivi partorì un altro figliuol maschio”: Historicizing Maternity and the Child in Boccaccio’s Ninfale Fiesolano and Decameron.
Leah Whittington (Princeton – Comp. Lit) Petrarch’s Africa and the Truth Claims of Poetry
Alana Shilling (Princeton – Comp. Lit) Angelica’s Bracelet: The Problem (and Promise) of Invented Etiologies

Afternoon Session - Invited Speakers 2:30-6:00 P.M. 
NYU Humanities Initiative – 20 Cooper Square (@ East 5th St.), 5th Fl.

Moderator: Professor Jane Tylus (NYU – Italian)

2:30 – 4:00 P.M.
Denise Budd (Columbia Art History) “Leonardo in Milan, before Milan?  A Reconsideration of the Artist's Early Chronology”
Emily Wilbourne (Columbia Musicology) “Performance anxiety and the historical record”   

4:00 – 4:15 P.M. Break

4:15 – 6:00 P.M.
Lynn Catterson  (Columbia Art History) “Donatello and the Cortona Sarcophagus. Towards a Simulation of Antiquity in the Renaissance”
Gerry Milligan (Staten Island College-CUNY Department of Modern Languages) “Spectacular War: The Beloved's Gaze and Renaissance Manhood”

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