2016 Kennedy Lecture Series
Christine de Pizan, Le Livre de faits d’armes et de chevalrie (1410). Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Antigone’s Example: Early Modern Women’s
Political Writing in Times of Civil War
September 20 Christine de Pizan and the Origin of Early
Modern Women’s Political Thought
October 25 Political Writing High and Low: Women of
the French Fronde
November 29 The English Civil Wars: Margaret Cavendish
and her Contemporaries
All lectures take place on Tuesdays at 5 p.m., Seelye 201
For disability access information or accommodations
requests, please call (413) 585-2407. To request a sign
language interpreter, call (413) 585-2071 (voice or TTY) or
email [email protected] at least 10 days before the event.
Mihoko
Suzuki
This series is hosted by the Department of
English and made possible by the Ruth and
Clarence Kennedy Endowment for
Renaissance Studies.
2016–2017 Ruth
and Clarence
Kennedy Professor in
Renaissance Studies
Professor of English;
Director, Center for the Humanities, University
of Miami College of Arts & Sciences