October 22-29 Center for Renaissance Studies presents Speech as Protest: Being Heard and Taking up Space in the Premodern World Roundtables

Panels on Censorship, Dissent, Representation in Time and Space, and Bringing the Premodern into Conversation with the Modern include presentations such as:

·         Saving Face, Early-Modern Musicians and Their Bodies

·         Testimonies of the Enslaved: Speaking within the Fraught Legal Terrain of Race Governance

·         Moderating Speech in the Feminine Counterpubilc: Eighteenth-Century Britain and the Bluestockings

·         “Traces of the Past”: Public Writing and Public Space in Southwest China

·         Contextualizing Sex Work in Early Modern Venice

·         A World on the Margins: Court Records and Sensory Experiences in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul

Cost and Registration Information 

This virtual event will be free and open to the public. Space for some events will be limited, and priority will be given to scholars from CRS consortium institutions. To register, complete this online submission form.