2020 Virtual Graduate Symposium



August 16-22 
Prerecorded presentations are available to registered attendees via the JHI Blog.


Texts Without End

Daniel A. Nelson, “‘Allied to Life’: The Non-Teleological Poetics of Thoreau’s Journal” (University of Rochester)

Na’ama Zussman, “Book 91: Where a Text Ends and Begins” (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)


The Shape of the Page

Honglan Huang, “Beyond the Binding: Theatricality of Text in Tristram Shandy and Blue to Blue” (Yale University)

Xin Yu, “Illustration Matters: The Reconfiguration of the Genealogy in Late-Ming China, 1500–1644” (Washington University in St. Louis)



August 22

Q&A Session.
Registered attendees will receive a Zoom invite in advance to attend the Q&A Session.


10-11 AM (EDT): Workshops

Discussants:
Texts Without End
Maryanne Horowitz (Occidental College and UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)

The Shape of the Page
Ann Blair (Harvard University)

Speakers and discussants only.


11 AM-12 PM (EDT): Virtual Q&A Session


REGISTER HERE to receive access to prerecorded presentations and the Q&A session.
Registration closed on August 22, 2020.
Limited space available.