Booking and details
Dates Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 3pm
Tickets Free; registration required
Duration 2 hours
A Zoom access link will be provided to registered participants closer to the date. This virtual event will take place in Eastern Time (ET).
This virtual conversation brings literary scholars and historians together with participants to reflect on the history of consent. This session will ask how early modern ideas about consent — in sexuality, servitude, labor, and politics — might inform our modern understandings.
Graduate students are encouraged to join a separate breakout Q&A at the conclusion of the session.
The Folger Institute is a center for advanced research in the early modern humanities at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Learn more.
About the “What is…?” Series
The “What is…” series of virtual afternoon workshops invites you to join an open conversation on important early modern ideas and how they relate to our modern world. In this first round of workshops, scholars from a range of disciplines will guide individual sessions on “Secularity,” “Consent,” “Iconoclasm,” and “Revolution.” Their conversation will be followed by space for participant discussion and questions.
Other events in the series
What is...Secularity?
What is...Iconoclasm?
What is...Revolution?
Invited Speakers
Urvashi Chakravarty
is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto.
Amanda Bailey
is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Maryland.
Carissa Harris
is Associate Professor of English at Temple University.
Kirsten Mendoza
is Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Human Rights Studies at the University of Dayton.
Sonia Tycko
is Lecturer in the History of Labour at the University of Edinburgh.