Dear all,

We are excited to share the spring quarter schedule of the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds (1200-1800) workshop.
We will be meeting in Rosenwald 405 on alternate Mondays from 5 to 6:30 unless otherwise noted.
Refreshments and grapes will be provided. Please don’t hesitate to let me (jpheil@uchicago.edu) or Filippo (filippopetricca@uchicago.edu) know if you have any questions.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Filippo and John-Paul

EMMW Spring Schedule

March 28 (please note the odd date — cosponsored with the Political Theory Workshop and presented by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures)

Gabriele Pedullà (University of Roma 3) – Machiavelli’s Hidden Master: Rediscovering Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Respondent: Federica Caneparo (University of Chicago)

April 2: Panel — “Travel and Travelers in the 18th-century Middle East and North Africa”

Orit Bashkin (Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)

Basil Salem (Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences Division)

Moderator: Mohamad Ballan (PhD Candidate, Department of History)

April 5 (cosponsored with the Lumen Christi Institute- please note the odd date and location Swift Hall, Common Room):

David Lantigua (University of Notre Dame): “Early Modern Catholic Social Thought and World Order”

April 16: Craig Kallendorf (Texas A&M University) – On Censored Virgils

April 23 (Cosponsored with the Renaissance workshop): Richard Stier (University of Chicago) – “Devout Humanism’ and Its Problems: George Herbert and François de Sales”

April 30: Panel on Periodization II (more details to follow)

May 14: Armando Maggi (University of Chicago) – “Staging a Demonic Possession: Calderón’s auto sacramental El diablo mudo and Las cadenas del demonio”

May 22 (please note the odd date and location: Wieboldt 207): Már Jónsson (Institute of History – University of Iceland) – “The Victims of Witchcraft in 17th Century Iceland”

May 28: Ji Gao (PhD Student, University of Chicago): Publishing Illustrated Books in Sixteenth-Century France – the examples of Guillaume Roville and Benoît Rigaud.