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From: Renaissance Society of America <[log in to unmask]>
New York 2004
Fiftieth Anniversary of the RSA
by Martin Elsky, Conference Co-Chair
I am pleased to update members about the RSA Conference of 2004, which
will be held in New York from Thursday, 25 March, to Saturday, 27 March,
at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
Benjamin Ravid, the Bennett Lecturer, will speak on "Hebraica, Judaica,
and the Renaissance."
The conference coincides with a particularly joyous occasion, the fiftieth
anniversary of the RSA's founding.
We'll be celebrating the event in the Trends Panel, "Changing Models of
Renaissance Scholarship: A Fifty Year Retrospective." In "Spain, Spanish
America, and the Renaissance: Problems and Prospects," Richard Kagan will
discuss how North American scholars of the Renaissance in Spain and its
American colonies have changed the traditional view that Spain, having
turned its back on most European intellectual developments, had no
Renaissance. In "Seeing Things," Rona Goffen will describe how Italian art
history, traditionally central to Renaissance studies, but also one of the
more conservative disciplines, has developed a new paradigm of
multidisciplinary study. Eugene Rice, a distinguished former president of
the RSA, will treat us to a fifty-year history of the organization.
As the host institution of the RSA, The Graduate School and University
Center of The City University of New York is planning a gallery exhibit
and related sessions, as well as an opening night reception.
We urge you to start thinking about organizing panels, which should be
submitted on the RSA website, www.rsa.org. We also of course welcome
individual papers. As always we will need members to volunteer to chair
sessions. Let the RSA office know your institutional position and your
range of interests, and we will do our best to match chair and panel.
We hope this will help members obtain funding to attend the conference. We
look forward to wide participation for an exciting conference in the city
that never sleeps.
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