SYMPOSIUM: Straws in the Wind:
Ballads and Broadsides, 1500 – 1800
Friday, February 24 & Saturday, February 25
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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UCSB’s Early Modern Center is hosting an interdisciplinary conference, “Straws in the Wind: Ballads and Broadsides, 1500 - 1800,” examining the aesthetic, political, and cultural import of these street artifacts of early popular print culture. The conference derives its title from a comment made by John Selden touting the importance of ballads “Though some make slight of ballads, you may see by them how the wind sits: As take a straw, and throw it up into the air.” The conference includes two days of formal panels and papers, as well as A Night of Songs (Free to UCSB students, $35 general admission) which will provide a unique perspective on the ballad experience of the time. To register and for more information please visit emc.english.ucsb.edu/conferences/2005-2006 or contact lstanavage@earthlink.net

Sponsored by the UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI); The Early Modern Center; The College of Letters and Sciences, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts; English, Art History, Comparative Literature, Dramatic Arts, French and Italian, History, Spanish and Portuguese, Women’s Studies and the IHC.

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