Presentations

1: African Slavery and Racial and Gender Crossings in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Abdulhamit Arvas, U of California, Santa Barbara

2: Gynecocracy and Inconstancy: Sycorax and Female Leadership in The Tempest

Leighla Khansari, Ohio State U, Columbus

3: Emilie du Châtelet and the Physics of Happiness

Tracy Rutler, Penn State U, University Park

4: Shakespeare’s Invention of Stigma: Richard’s Deformity, Aaron’s Race, Faulconbridge’s Bastardy, and Beyond

Jeffrey Wilson, Harvard U

Presider

Ashley Williard, U of South Carolina, Columbia