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”

Autumn 2023

October 4 | Joseph Torres

PhD Student, UCLA, English Literature

“Double Focalization in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World”

October 25 | Daria Berman

PhD Student, Washington University St. Louis, History

“Medical Landscapes of the Spanish and Mexican Inquisitions”

November 8 | Elizabeth Hines

PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History

“Royalism and Murder in the Outbreak of the First Anglo-Dutch War”

November 15 | Paulina León

PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures

“The Doctor’s Pen: Plague Tracts in Early Modern Spain”