The Humanities Center, New Swan Shakespeare Center, Center for Early Cultures, Classics,
Art History, Religious Studies, and Comparative Literature invite you to the:
2025 UCI Premodern Graduate Humanities Conference
"Corporeality and Incorporation: The Body in Literature and Culture Pre-1800"
Friday, February 14 (8:45am - 6:00pm)
Saturday, February 15 (9:00am - 5:00pm)
Humanities Gateway 1010
Please RSVP
https://forms.gle/JHSGgTJ9DWrrQaxF8
Join us for this two-day, in-person graduate student conference bringing together scholars from
across the UC system and universities worldwide.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Maggie Vinter (Case Western Reserve University)
The conference explores the centrality of embodiment in early cultures' conceptualization of human relationships—political, social, religious, economic, and affective. This conference will be focused on the centrality of embodiment to the way in which early cultures conceptualized human relationships—political, social, religious, economic, and affective. The body appears in global literature and culture pre-1800 as a tool for political creation, a vessel for religious experience, a space for identity construction and conflict, and a catalyst for community, among myriad other functions. It is central to the formation of developing sociopolitical categories like race, gender, and class, raising fraught questions about agency, boundedness, and vulnerability. Presentations will explore this theme from the perspectives of disciplines across the humanities, including literature (in any language), visual arts, history, drama, anthropology, classics, and more.
Organized by: The Method & Madness Premodern Reading Group and the UCI English
Department
Supported by: The Humanities Center, New Swan Shakespeare Center, Center for Early
Cultures, Classics, Art History, Religious Studies, and Comparative Literature
For more information and the full conference schedule, please visit:
https://sites.uci.edu/methodandmadness/annual-conference/
"By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world."
- Portia, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice