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WEDNESDAY, 31 MARCH
Event Title	Room
5:30 - 7:00 PM
Opening Reception Sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America and CUNY, The Graduate Center Queens College Choir, Organized by José M. Martínez-Torrejón, CUNY, Queens College	CUNY, THE GRADUATE CENTER, CONCOURSE LEVEL
12:00-7:30 PM
Exhibition Splendors of the Renaissance: Princely Attire in Italy: Reconstructions of Historic Costumes By Fausto Fornasari, King Studio, Italy	CUNY, THE GRADUATE CENTER, THE ART GALLERY

THURSDAY, 1 APRIL
Event Title	Room
12:00-6:00 PM
Exhibition Splendors of the Renaissance: Princely Attire in Italy: Reconstructions of Historic Costumes By Fausto Fornasari, King Studio, Italy	CUNY, THE GRADUATE CENTER, THE ART GALLERY
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture Benjamin C.I. Ravid, Brandeis University, "Hebraica, Judaica, and the Renaissance" Sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America.	GRAND HYATT NEW YORK

FRIDAY, 2 APRIL
Event Title	Room
12:00-6:00 PM
Exhibition Splendors of the Renaissance: Princely Attire in Italy: Reconstructions of Historic Costumes By Fausto Fornasari, King Studio, Italy	CUNY, THE GRADUATE CENTER, THE ART GALLERY
5:15-6:15 PM
Margaret Mann Phillips Commemorative Lecture Ralph Keen, University of Iowa, "The Allure of the Past: Religious Reform and the Recovery of Ancient Ideals" Sponsored by The Erasmus of Rotterdam Society	GRAND HYATT NEW YORK, BROADWAY ROOM
6:00-7:45 PM
Lecture and Reception Alain Touwaide, Smithsonian Institution, "The Western Re-invention of Hippocrates"	THE LIBRARY OF NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, FIFTH AVENUE AND 103RD STREET
6:00-7:00 PM
Reception Sponsored by The Hispanic Society of America	AUDUBON TERRACE, 613 WEST 155TH STREET
5:15-6:45 PM
A Dramatic Reading of Samson Agonistes by John Milton Organized by Joseph Wittreich, CUNY, The Graduate Center Performed by The Lark Ascending, www.thelarkascending.org Join us for a dramatic reading of Samson Agonistes, John Milton's epic drama based on the biblical story of Samson. The reading will be done by The Lark Ascending, a New York based performance group (Nancy Bogden, artistic director), and will include newly commissioned preludes and postludes for old instruments by American composer Richard Brooks. Richard Edelman as Samson, Maurice Edwards as Chorus, Alfred Hyslop as Manoa and Samson=s father, Carlotta Sherwood as Dalila, Peter Ludwig as Harapha, Edgar Oliver as Public Officer, and George McGrath as Messenger. Also featuring Louise Shulman and William Zito. Co-Sponsored by The Renaissance Studies Certificate Program; CUNY, The Graduate Center; and supported by the New York State Council for the Arts	CUNY, THE GRADUATE CENTER, PROSHANSKY AUDITORIUM, CONCOURSE LEVEL

SATURDAY, 3 APRIL
Event Title	Room
12:00-6:00 PM
Exhibition Splendors of the Renaissance: Princely Attire in Italy: Reconstructions of Historic Costumes By Fausto Fornasari, King Studio, Italy	CUNY, THE GRADUATE CENTER, THE ART GALLERY
5:45-7:15 PM
Plenary Session: Studying the Renaissance: A Retrospective Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the RSA Organized by Martin Elsky, CUNY, The Graduate Center Eugene F. Rice, Jr., Columbia University, Emeritus, "The Early Years of the RSA" Richard Kagan, The Johns Hopkins University, "Can a Black Legend Have a Renaissance?: Perspectives on the Renaissance in Spain, and Its World" Rona Goffen, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, "Seeing Things" Sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America	GRAND HYATT NEW YORK
7:15-9:15 PM
Closing Reception Sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America	GRAND HYATT NEW YORK

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