Professor Patricia Fumerton – Masterclass and Public Lecture at USyd

Masterclass with Professor Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“The Digital Recovery of Moving Media: EBBA and the Early English Broadside Ballad”

Date: 30 July
Time: 10:30am-12:00pm
Venue: Rogers Room, Woolley Building, University of Sydney

In this presentation, Patricia Fumerton places the creation of the online English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), http://ebba.ucsb.edu, within the history of scholarly criticism of broadside ballads. It explores the impact of digital media on the understanding of early modern broadside ballads as experienced in their own time.

This masterclass is presented by “Putting Periodization to Use: Testing the Limits of Early Modernity”, an interdisciplinary research group funded by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Collaborative Research Scheme. It is open to all, but places are limited so prior registration is required. Please contact Nicola Parsons (nicola.parsons@sydney.edu.au) to register your interest in attending, or for any further information.


Public Lecture: “Broadside Ballads and Tactical Publics, ‘The Lady and the Blackamoor’, 1570-1789”, Professor Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Date: 29 July
Time: 5.00-6.30pm
Venue:Woolley Common Room, Woolley Building, University of Sydney

In this lecture, Patricia Fumerton tracks the multiple media (text, art, and tune) that made up one of the early modern period’s most popular and most violent broadside ballads. She follows the ballad’s media over 200 years, two continents, and several genres. In the process, she demonstrates how the broadside ballad can only be understood as an interdisciplinary, lived experience which spoke compellingly and multifariously to different historical social groups.

This public lecture is presented by the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions. For any enquiries please contact Cassie Charlton (cassie.charlton@sydney.edu.au). All welcome.

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Patricia Fumerton is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Director of UCSB’s award-winning English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA). In addition to numerous articles, she is author of the monographs, Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England (Chicago, 2006) and Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament (Chicago, 1991). She is also editor of Broadside Ballads from the Pepys Collection: A Selection of Texts, Approaches, and Recordings (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2012) as well as co-editor of Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 (Ashgate, 2010) and Renaissance Culture and the Everyday (Pennsylvania, 1999). She is currently working on her new book, Moving Media, 1679-1789: Broadside Ballads, Cultural History, and Protean Publics.