The Center for Print, Networks, and Performance (CPNP)
A locus for pre-modern researchers from CMU and the greater Pittsburgh area.
The Center for Print, Networks, and Performance (CPNP) is a research hub collectively organized by CMU scholars whose work focuses on pre-modern art, culture, and politics. In addition to fostering a robust environment for pre-modern studies on campus, the Center also serves as key hub for pre-modernists based in Pittsburgh and the surrounding area. A key initiative in this respect is our speaker series, which typically entails four talks per term from a combination of local and out-of-town presenters.
To join the CPNP email list, or to make enquiries about CPNP activities, please contact Dr. Stephen Wittek (swittek@andrew.cmu.edu)
Upcoming Events
LAURA ENGEL (Duquesne University)
“The Art of the Actress: The Paradox of Pearls”
Thursday, October 3, 4:30 to 6:00
Posner Hall 234
Laura Engel is a Professor of English and Theater at Duquesne University. She is the author of The Art of the Actress (Cambridge University Press Elements Series, 2024), Women Performance and the Material of Memory: The Archival Tourist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Austen, Actresses, and Accessories (Palgrave Pivot Series, 2015), and Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century Actresses and Strategies for Image Making (Ohio State University Press, 2011). Her exhibition, “The Paradox of Pearls: Accessorizing Eighteenth-Century Identities,” is currently on view at The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
MATTIE BURKERT (University of Oregon)
“Not acted these twenty years”: What eighteenth-century theater can teach us about sustaining digital humanities
Thursday, November 7, 4:30 to 6:00
Posner Hall 234
Mattie Burkert is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Minor in Digital Humanities at the University of Oregon. In this talk, she will discuss her work as Project Director for the London Stage Database, a groundbreaking digital project that compiles information about more than 52,000 theatrical performances recorded and advertised between 1660 and 1800.
“What Happens in the Classroom Stays in the Classroom? Pedagogy and Networks in Early Medieval Europe”
Thursday, November 14, 4:30 to 6:00
Posner Hall 234
Schoolbooks from early medieval Europe offer a glimpse of learning in action, preserving “student-teacher” dialogues on elementary topics. But the roles of “student” and “teacher” – and the underlying pedagogy – are more complex than they appear. Examination of these early classroom discussions reveals a surprisingly dynamic educational philosophy at work as well as a robust European network of shared pedagogy.
Elizabeth Archibald is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the history of education and transmission of knowledge in medieval Europe.
