Booking and details
Dates Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 4:30pm
Tickets Free
Folger Salon
Learn about research happening at the Folger in real time! Each month, Folger Institute scholar and artist fellows will share their most exciting finds and thought-provoking challenges, followed by casual open conversation. Tea and coffee will be provided, but arrive early to purchase treats from the Folger’s new cafe, Quill & Crumb!
This is a free event. No registration required.
Speakers
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva is Associate Professor of History at the University of Rochester.
Ania Upstill
Ania (they/them) is a queer and trans theatre maker, educator, and clown.
They hold a Master of Arts in Applied Theater from the City University of New York, and are a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre (Professional Training Program). As a theater maker Ania’s work celebrates LGBTQIA+ artists with a focus on gender diversity, and through their company Butch Mermaid Productions Ania seeks to make queer joy irresistible and contagious, envisioning a world where all queer people experience joy and belonging. As a teaching artist and facilitator, Ania works for institutions including Lincoln Center Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, Theater of the Oppressed NYC and New Victory Theater. Ania also co-owns GenderWise, a gender diversity training company that aims to upskill educators, administrators and arts workers to better support gender diverse young people and audiences.
About Folger Institute
The Folger Institute is a center for early modern research at the Folger Shakespeare Library that brings public audiences together with researchers to explore the cultures and legacies of the early modern world. Learn more.
See what our fellows are researching
“A smale remembrance”: Elizabethan Posy Rings
A closer look at 17th century engraved rings in the Folger’s collection
North Africa Through the Eyes of England
A look at some of the colonial sources that informed the understanding that 17th century English people had of North Africa.
What of Shakespeare?
Findings from a 1945 survey asking patrons of a library about their experiences reading, watching, and performing Shakespeare.
“I have lately been promoted to the ‘big douche’”
Through her correspondence, Delia Salter Bacon reveals what it was like to undergo a 19th century “water-cure”
Performing Race in the London Lord Mayors’ Show, 1660-1708
Fellow Jamie Gemmell explores how race was performed in the annual London Lord Mayor’s Show