Friday, 10 October 2008 Russell House
3:00 Welcome: President Michael Roth, Wesleyan University
Laurie Nussdorfer, Wesleyan University
3:30 Francesca Trivellato (History, Yale)
“Renaissance Italy and the Muslim Mediterranean in Recent Historical Work”
4:15 Sean Gallagher (Music, Harvard)
“Acquired Tastes: Collecting Northern Music and Painting in Quattrocento Italy”
5:00 Break
5:15 Susanne Wofford (Dean, Gallatin School, NYU)
“Translating Festivity: Ovid, Bellini, and Shakespeare Feast with
the Gods”
6:15 Cocktails Exhibition Gallery, Davison Art Center
7:15 Dinner and Musical Intermezzo, Daniel Commons, Usdan University Center
Saturday, 11 October 2008 Russell House
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Sarah McHam (Art History, Rutgers)
“The Armchair Traveler’s Guide to the Ancient World: Renaissance
Readers and Pliny’s Natural History”
9:45 Henry Turner (English, Rutgers)
“Travel, Trade, and ‘Translation’ in the work of Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616)”
10:30 Break
10:45 Jacques Lezra (Comparative Literature, NYU)
“Trade in Exile: The Fetishism of Translation(s) and the Secret Thereof.”
11:30 General Discussion, Moderator: Judith Brown, Wesleyan University
