Founders Memorial Garden, Ballroom - 425 S Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA 30605
“Crusoe’s Absence: Sugar Economies and the Ingenuity of Realism,” Barbara Fuchs, professor of English and Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA.
Fuchs's lecture is hosted by the Early Modern Studies Research Group, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded research project in the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Matching funds are provided by Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the departments of English, History, Romance Languages, and Film Studies; as well as the Bulletin of the Comediantes, a journal devoted to the study of Spanish Golden Age Theater.
