Symposium: Rights, the Human, and Literature in Early Modernity

Description

The Johns Hopkins English Department presents an all-day conference entitled "Rights, the Human, and Literature in Early Modernity" with speakers from Johns Hopkins and other universities. Reception to follow. The schedule is online. The conference takes place in Levering Hall, Sherwood Room, from 8:30 a.m.-12 and in Gilman Hall, Room 130D, from 1-5:30 p.m.

The symposium has been organized by Sharon Achinstein, professor of English at Johns Hopkins, and is co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for Pre-Modern Europe and the Alexander Grass Humanities Center.