Dear all,
Happy New Year! We are extremely happy to announce the winter schedule of the Early Modern & Mediterranean Worlds (1200-1800) workshop.
January 11 (Thursday) – cosponsored with the Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean (Kelly 114–PLEASE NOTE THE ODD DATE AND LOCATION):
Daniela Gutiérrez (Ph.D student, RLL) – “Fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s Nahua Proverbs and Spanish Humanist Paremiology.” Discussant: Jose Estrada (Ph.D student, RLL).
January 22 – cosponsored with the Renaissance Workshop (PLEASE NOTE THE ODD DATE):
Ada Palmer (Faculty, History) – “The Persecution of Lucretius’s Renaissance Readers Reexamined”
January 29: Brian Sandberg (Faculty, History, Northern Illinois University) – Title TBD
February 6: Lisa Scott (Ph.D student, History), Job Talk – “A Kingdom without a King: Power, Authority, and Sovereignty in Later Medieval Central Europe”
February 12 – co-sponsored with the Renaissance Workshop:
Beatrice Bradley (Ph.D student, English) – “Creative Juices: Sweat in Paradise Lost”
February 26 – Special panel on Cervantes’ Don Quijote:
Frederick De Armas (Faculty, RLL); Thomas Pavel (Faculty, Comparative Literature); David E. Wellbery (Faculty, German Studies). Discussant: Medardo Rosario (Ph.D student, RLL)
March 12 – Cornell Fleischer (NELC) – TBD
We will be meeting on alternate Mondays in Rosenwald 405 (5-6.30pm) unless otherwise noted. We’re looking forward to another great quarter of wonderful presentations, panels, and discussions. As always, feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Hope to see you at one of our events soon!
All the best,
Filippo and John-Paul
