Booking and details
Dates Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 4:30pm
Venue Great Hall
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. Arrive early to purchase food and drink from the Folger’s new cafe, Quill & Crumb!
This is a free event. No registration required.
Speakers
Shaul Bassi
Shaul Bassi is Professor of English at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
Sylvia Korman
Sylvia Korman (they/them) is a doctoral student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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
Deep Dive into Gorakh Dhanda or what Partington thought of Indian Shakespeare in 1913
Fellow Anandi Rao takes a close look at a copy of an Urdu translation of The Comedy of Errors.
Finding Beulah
Fellow Sara Pennell hunts down the former owner of one the Folger’s many recipe books.
C. Walter Hodges and Reconstructed Shakespearean Theatres
Fellow Alex Baines looks at the drawings of C. Walter Hodges and how they continue to impact how we imagine the Globe Theatre
They Lied then, They Lie Now: A Native Perspective on Columbus and Current Events
Or else I’m a Jew | a series of abstractions
Artistic fellow Casey Carsel shares their process designing textile works in response to questions about the Early Modern Jewish experience