Autumn 2009
October 2, 2009
Fall Reception and Welcome
5621 S. University Ave.
5:30-7:30 PM
October 12, 2009
William Monter
Northwestern University
Female Rulers and the Eclipse of Husbands in Sixteenth-Century Europe
October 26, 2009
Paul Cheney
University of Chicago
Bordeaux / Glasgow: The Port City as Intellectual Milieu
October 30, 2009
James Simpson
Harvard University
Chapter from Burning to Read
SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE
12:00 PM, Rosenwald 405
Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Workshop and the Nicholson Center
November 9, 2009
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
University of Chicago
Neo-Feudal Edinburgh: The Enlightenment at War 1754-1775
November 16, 2009
Abdurrahman Atcil
University of Chicago
Religious Scholars in Mehmet II’s Nascent Imperial Bureaucracy, 1451-1481
Winter 2010
January 4, 2010
Spencer Leonard
University of Chicago
Enlightenment (Anti-)Imperialism: Adam Smith, the East India Company, and the Project of Empire
January 11, 2010
Nikolay Antov
Safavids, Ottomans, and Nomads: the “Confessionalization” of the Central Islamic Lands
and the Definitive Emergence of the Ottoman Bureaucratic State
University of Chicago
January 25, 2010
Sean Dunwoody
University of Chicago
Civic Peace as a Spatial Practice: Calming Confessional Tensions in Augsburg, 1547-1600
February 8, 2010
John Padgett
University of Chicago
Open Elite? Social Mobility, Marriage and Family in Florence, 1282-1494
February 22, 2010
Lee Palmer Wandel
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fragmentation and Presence: Reformation Debates and Cultural Theory
SPECIAL LOCATION
Rosenwald 405
Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Workshop
March 8, 2010
Elisa Jones
University of Chicago
French Revolutionary Citizenship in Action: Political Rights, Civil Rights, and Émigré Property
March 15, 2010
Colin Wilder
University of Chicago
Deciding on the Exception: Privileges, Commands and the Rule of General Law in Hesse (Germany) in the Eighteenth Century
Spring 2010
March 29, 2010
Brad Gregory
University of Notre Dame
The World We Have Lost? The Deep Past and the Present, or
Another Way to Think about the Last Five Hundred Years of Western History
SPECIAL LOCATION
John Hope Franklin Room
April 12, 2010
Christopher Fletcher
University of Chicago
Holy Urgency: Gerhoh of Reichersberg’s Epistolae and the World of Theology in the Twelfth Century
April 19, 2010
Torsten Edstam
University of Chicago
From Twelfth-Century Renaissance to Fifteenth-Century Religiosity:
The Reception of Hugh of St. Victor in the Later Middle Ages
April 20, 2010
Amartya Sen
Harvard University
Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
4:30 pm, Swift Lecture Hall
April 21, 2010
Jean-Robert Armogathe
École Pratique des Hautes Études
From the Eye of the Fly to the Eye of God: Vision and Theology in Early Modern Europe
4:30 pm, Swift Commons
Co-sponsored with the Lumen Christi Institute
April 26, 2010
Nicholson Center for British Studies Lecture
Emma Rothschild
Harvard University
Title TBA
SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION
4:30 pm, Classics 110
Reception to Follow
May 7-8, 2010
A Graduate Student Conference Presented in Cooperation with the Renaissance and Western Mediterranean Workshops, the Nicholson Center, the Franke Institute, and the France Chicago Center
May 17, 2010
Jeff Collins
Queen’s University
Restoration Anti-Catholicism: A Prejudice in Motion
SPECIAL LOCATION
John Hope Franklin Room
May 24, 2010
Jonathon Lyon
University of Chicago
The Sibling Bond in the Political Culture of the Western Empire, 1138-1250