La prochaine séance du séminaire conjoint Modernités 16-18 (Sorbonne Université) et PEARL (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) aura lieu le jeudi 22 mai de 17h00 à 19h00 à la Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 4 rue des Irlandais, Paris 5e, en salle Mezzanine. La séance sera consacrée à l’histoire de la peau et de ses représentations.
Nous y entendrons :
Craig Koslofsky: “’These exterior marks’? Royals Resisting Epidermalization in the Seventeenth Century.”
et
Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise: « John Webster’s Skin Works »
Nous espérons vous retrouver nombreuses et nombreux à ce dernier séminaire du semestre !
Bien cordialement,
Ariane Fennetaux, Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, Line Cottegnies et Alexis Tadié
* Craig Koslofsky teaches and supervises graduate research in early modern German, European, and Atlantic history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1994 after studies at Duke University, the University of Warwick, the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and the Freie Universität Berlin. His publications in Reformation history, the history of daily life, and the history of the body cover the period from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. In 2011 his study Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe was published by Cambridge University Press. More recently he has published two co-edited books on early modern skin: Stigma: Marking Skin in the Early Modern World (with Katherine Dauge-Roth, 2023) and A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger (with Roberto Zaugg, 2020). In 2022 he worked with the Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Düsseldorf) to produce a short documentary on the history of skin, available in German and English at https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/ein_ort_an_dem_geschichte_gemacht_wird. His global history of early modern skin, The Deep Surface: Skin in the Early Modern World, will appear with Cambridge University Press in 2026.
* Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise is Professor of Early Modern English Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her areas of research are in early modern poetry and drama, with a special interest for their interactions with material culture. She has notably co-edited Objets nomades : circulations matérielles, appropriations et identités à l’ère de la première mondialisation (Brepols, 2021) and The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
