Booking and details
Dates Thurs, Oct 17 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
Tiffany Bragg
Tiffany Bragg is a PhD candidate researching early modern England, with emphasis on Anglo-Spanish diplomacy, at the University of California, Riverside.
Alex Lewis
Originally from Australia, Alex Lewis received his PhD in English from Johns Hopkins in 2022.
Simon Smith
Simon Smith is Associate Professor at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Jennifer Wu
Jennifer Wu is an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in art history at American University in Washington, DC.
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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.