lease join us this Monday, November 1st at 4pm for the British Studies Colloquium at The Yale Center for British Art. Although we’re eager to host our first in-person event this year, our goal is to keep everyone safe and healthy. There will be a cap on attendance;please pre-register for the event here: Pre-Registration Form. Registration will close Friday, October 29th at midnight.
We are thrilled to welcome Devi Nayar (School of Architecture) who will present on “Gendered Space in Colonial Kerala” while Zoë Burgard (Comparative Literature) will speak about “Variations on Translation: Reading, Performing, and Empathizing with Shakespeare.” The presentations will be followed by a lively Q&A session; we anticipate the event will last roughly one hour.
Speaker bios are below:
Devi is a second-year Master of Environmental Design candidate at the Yale School of Architecture. Her research interests include gendered spaces in 15th century Kerala, gender and sexuality in domestic architecture and the intersection of religion, geography, gender and the built environment.
Zoë is a third-year PhD student in Comparative Literature. She works on Early Modern and Modernist English, Italian, German, and French literature, with a particular focus on translation theory, authorial agency, disability studies, and issues of genre.
