Winter 2025 Schedule
January 24, 11:30am-1:00pm (Rosenwald 405) | Noel Blanco Mourelle
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures
“The Geometry of Thought. On Ramon Llull and the Cubic Figure”
*Cosponsored Session with the Medieval Studies Workshop
January 28 | Maureen McCord
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History
“Building Bombay’s Church: Religion, Governance, and Infrastructure”
February 4 | Richard Strier
Emeritus Professor, University of Chicago, English Language and Literature
“George Herbert and Renaissance Poetry” (accompanied by poetry selections)
*Cosponsored Session with the Renaissance Workshop
February 18 | Baz Bowdler
PhD Candidate, University of St. Andrews, School of History
“The Nine Years’ War and News Culture in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere, 1688-1697”
February 25, 2:30-4:00pm (SSRB 224) | Olivia Young
PhD Student, University of Chicago, History
“‘A Religion of Trade’: The Jew Bill of 1753 Reassessed”
March 4 | Tingfeng Yan
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History
“Administration and Constitution in Early Modern Anglo-American Political Thought”
Autumn 2024 Schedule
October 8 | Nell Klinger
PhD Student, University of Chicago, History
“Of Petitioning Parliaments”: the Glorious Revolution, Empire, and Patterns of Petitioning, 1660-1725
October 22 (5:00-6:00 pm, Classics 110) | Paolo Cherchi
Emeritus Professor, University of Chicago, Italian and Spanish
Why so much love poetry? From the Troubadours to Marino (Percé tanta poesia d’amore: Dai Trovatori a Marino)
*Cosponsored Event with the Department of Romance Language and Literature
October 29 | Zackery Gostisha
PhD Student, University of Chicago, History
Building the British Empire in Jamaica
November 19 | Miguel Martinez
Professor, University of Chicago, Romance Language and Literature
Lyric and Migration: The Poetry of the Morisco Diaspora
December 3 | Rachel Tils
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History
Policing the Internal Economy: Enslaved Marketers in the Caribbean, 1760-1775