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

Spring 2024 Schedule

April 10 | Wassem Ahmed

PhD Student, UCL, History

“Negotiating loyalty in Revolutionary England, 1649-1660: The Case of Thomas Violet”

April 17 | Julia Tomasson

PhD Candidate, Columbia University, History

“Visions of Geometry and Knowledge in Post-classical Islamic Manuscript Culture”

April 24 | Boone Ayala

PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History

“A Scourge for Our Miscarriages: Local Support for the London Quo Warranto, 1681-1683”

May 1| Hannah Marcus

John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University, History of Science

TBD

May 22| Kate Randazzo

PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History

“They Fell into the Hands of the Arabs: Narrativizing Violence Against Morisco Refugees in Northwestern Algeria”