2024

SCS-91: The Challenge and Alterity of Modernity

In-Person SCS Session Affiliated Group Panel

Salon A-2, Lower Level

Sponsored by:
The Society for Early Modern Classical Reception
Organizers
Pramit Chaudhuri, University of Texas at Austin; Caroline Stark, Howard University; Ariane Schwartz, Independent Scholar

01 - Classical Tradition and the Alterity of the New World in Peter Martyr’s Letters to Pomponius Laetus

Nicoletta Bruno, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies

02 - The Early Modern Re-Invention of Rome’s ‘African Monstrosities’

Elena Giusti, Warwick University

03 - Patagonian Giants, Orinocan Acephaloi: The Recursive Printed Legacy of the "Plinian Races" Transplanted to the Americas, Image and Text

Julia C. Hernandez, New York University

04 - Insolitum est feminam scire Latine: on the gender of Latin in early modern educational treatises

Irene Peirano Garrison, Harvard University