Monthly Archives: November 2010

Ryan Szpiech on Hermeneutical Muslims

Dear Colleagues,

Please join the Western Mediterranean and Medieval Studies Workshops for our last meeting of the quarter on next Friday, December 3rd, at 12:00 in Wieboldt 207.

Prof. Ryan Szpiech (Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan) will be presenting a paper titled “Hermeneutical Muslims? Islam as Witness in Christian Anti-Judaism.”

Respondent: Uri Shachar

Coffee and tea will be provided, and we invite you to bring your lunch. Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Fall Schedule

All sessions meet in Wieboldt 207 on alternate Wednesdays at 12 pm unless otherwise indicated.

Wednesday, October 13. Jesús Botello (PhD candidate, Romance Languages Department, University of Chicago); on “Cervantes, Philip II, and the Dialectics of Power.”

Wednesday, October 27. Justin Steinberg (Associate Professor of Italian Literature, University of Chicago); on “Dante’s Writ of Safe Passage through Hell.”

Wednesday, November 10. Thomas Christensen (Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities; Associate Dean and Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division, Department of Music, University of Chicago); on “Medieval Music Literature:  A Taxonomy.”

Thursday, November 18, at 4:30. Carla Rahn Phillips (Professor at the Department of History, University of Minnesota); on “Ladies at War: Aristocratic Women during the War of the Spanish Succession.”

Friday, December 3, at 12:00. Ryan Szpiech (Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan); on “Hermeneutical Muslims? Islam as Witness in Christian Anti-Judaism.” Event co-sponsored with the Medieval Workshop.

Carla Rahn Phillips on Ladies at War

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us in our next meeting (please note the time change) on Thursday, November 18th, at 4:30 in Wieboldt 207.

Professor Carla Rahn Phillips (Department of History, University of Minnesota) will be presenting a paper titled, “Ladies at War: Aristocratic Women during the War of the Spanish Succession.”

Professor Phillips is the Union Pacific Professor in Comparative Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota, specializing in the social, economic, and maritime history of Early Modern Europe and the Iberian world.

Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Thomas Christensen on Medieval Music Literature

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us in our next meeting on Wednesday, November 10th, at 12:00 in Wieboldt 207!

Professor Thomas Christensen (Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities; Associate Dean and Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division, Department of Music, University of Chicago) will be presenting a paper on “Medieval Music Literature:  A Taxonomy.”

 

Coffee and tea will be provided, and we invite you to bring your lunch.

Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!