“Epic Geographies” is a two-day international symposium, organized by the NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center as its annual conference. Coinciding with the 400th anniversary of the publication of Agrippa d’Aubigné’s epic, Les Tragiques, scholars from the United States and Europe will study ways in which early modern epic in English, French, Italian, and other languages plot and map both real and imaginary places.

Please note location for April 15 conference: 20 Cooper Square 5th Floor

Program:

3:00pm: Coffee and Welcome
Hal Momma, Director of Medieval and Renaissance Center (NYU)
Phillip John Usher, Associate Professor of French (NYU)
Joy Connolly, Professor of Classics and Dean of the Humanities (NYU)

3:20pm: Reading from Agrippa d’Aubigné, Les Tragiques

3:45pm-5:45pm: Panel 1— Ecolo- / Cosmo- / Meteorolo- gies
Chair: Penelope Meyers Usher (NYU)
Bryan Brazeau (U. of Warwick), Take me down to the Paradise City: An Ecological Approach to Paradise Spaces in Renaissance Epic
Seth Kimmel (Columbia U.), The Epic Register of Cartography and Collection
Frank Lestringant (U. de Paris-Sorbonne), Cosmotragiques
Phillip John Usher (NYU), Epic Meteorology

6:00-7:00pm: Keynote
David Quint (Yale U.), Epic Global Positioning