Date/Time
Date(s) - 24 Apr 2015
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Location
Butler Library, Columbia University
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“Early Modern Futures”: a conference and exhibition
Friday, April 24, 9am – 6pm, Columbia University, 523 Butler Library
earlymodernfutures.com
Keynotes by Frances Dolan and Valerie Traub, in conversation with J.K. Barret, Crystal Bartolovich, Julie Crawford, Drew Daniel, Russ Leo, Melissa Sanchez, Henry Turner, Brian Walsh, and W.B. Worthen.
The Columbia University Department of English and Comparative Literature, in conjunction with the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, invite you to attend Early Modern Futures, a conference that queries how prospective historical thinking was practiced through textual and literary forms. How did beliefs about future events (from the eschatological to the economic to the genealogical) shape people’s actions in the present? How did early modernity understand the past in relation to the future? How does present scholarship receive and use those many conceptions of futurity?