Booking and details
Dates Thurs, Nov 21 at 4:30pm ET
Venue The Great Hall
Tickets Free
Folger Salon
Learn about research happening at the Folger in real time! Each month, Folger Institute scholar and artist fellows will share their most exciting finds and thought-provoking challenges, followed by casual open conversation. Tea and coffee will be provided.
This is a free event. No registration required.
About Folger Institute
The Folger Institute is a center for early modern research at the Folger Shakespeare Library that brings public audiences together with researchers to explore the cultures and legacies of the early modern world. Learn more.
Speakers
Patricia Ann Lott
Dr. Patricia Ann Lott is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at the Gilder Lehrman Center (GLC) for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.
Suzette Marie Martin
Suzette Marie Martin is a mixed media painter based in New England.
KhoKhoi (mary alinney villacastin)
KhoKhoi (mary alinney villacastin) is a movement-based artist and a plant, body & cultural worker.
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See what our fellows are researching
Folger Deep Dives: Memory, marginalia, and the art of reading, V.b.32 and beyond
Folger fellow Amy Cooper explores the relationship between memory and the doodles of faces, dragons, and people in the margins of books.
Making Meaning of Adapted Shakespeare: White Femininity in Re-Imaginings of Measure for Measure
Fellow Vanessa Corredera examines the use of color in adaptations of Measure for Measure
The Meaning of Mining from Agricola to Zárate
Fellow Anita Raychawdhuri explores how mining was imagined in the Early Modern world by examining images and tales of colonial Peru.
Better than a Pound of Sorrow: Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England
Fellow Andrés Gattinoni looks at Early Modern collections of music and jokes intended to cure melancholy.