Please join us next week for a talk in collaboration with the Smart Museum of Art.

Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 4pm (Note the odd time and day)

We are happy to welcome Patricia Simons (Professor Emerita, History of Art and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan) and Jill Burke (Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures, University of Edinburgh) who will be conversing about the construction of gender-based narratives and power dynamics in early modern European art.

There will be no pre-circulated papers for this talk. Registration in advance is required. For more information and to register for this event please click here.

We hope to see you there!

Image: Luca Cambiaso, Venus and Cupid (detail), c. 1570, Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger Collection, 1942.290.

Please join us next week for our next meeting of the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop!

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 3pm (CDT)

We are excited to welcome Yunning Zhang (PhD Student, Comparative Literature) who will be presenting her current work-in-progress. Sizhao Yi (PhD Candidate, Art History) will join us as the respondent. The reading material will be shared via the workshop mailing list.

You may join our meeting at the following link:

https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91943281003?pwd=WTZWZUZvYjR2N3JmZ3haMTBNSnFHUT09

We hope to see you there!

Please join us next week for the spring quarter’s first meeting of the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop!

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 3:30pm (note the odd time and day)

We are excited to welcome Nora Lambert (PhD Candidate, Art History, and Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Smart Museum of Art) who will be talking about her work as curator of the exhibit entitled Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe. Joining the conversation will be Cosette Bruhns (Humanities Teaching Fellow, RLL) and Christine Zappella (PhD Candidate, Art History).

Please note, there will be no pre-circulated paper. For more information about the exhibit, please visit: https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/lust-love-and-loss-in-renaissance-europe/.

You may join our meeting at the following link:

https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91943281003?pwd=WTZWZUZvYjR2N3JmZ3haMTBNSnFHUT09

We hope to see you there!

Top image: Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend, Daphne Fleeing from Apollo, c. 1500, Oil, formerly on panel, transferred to canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1973.45.

Please join us for our next meeting of the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop, co-sponsored with the Renaissance Workshop!

Monday, March 8, 2021 at 4:30pm (Note the odd time and day)

Beatrice Fazio (PhD Student, RLL) will be presenting her paper entitled,

“Redrawing Perspective: Literary Representation of Cartographic Rationale in Machiavelli’s Prince”

Reading materials will be circulated one week in advance via e-mail.

You may join the meeting at the following link:

https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91653111944?pwd=OCticnNyQUtHRTk5eUdlYjFlWUpJdz09

Password: 037397

We hope to see you there!

Please join us for our next meeting of the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop!

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 3pm

We are happy to welcome Lexie Cook (PhD Candidate, Columbia University). Kate Randazzo (PhD Student, History) will be serving as respondent. Reading materials will be circulated one week in advance via e-mail.

You may join our meeting at the following link:

https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/92587265300?pwd=U01UR0pxYStjR3p5dDh4UGVIZXBPQT09

We hope to see you there!

Please join us for our next meeting of the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop!

Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 3pm

We are happy to welcome Robert Kendrick (Professor, RLL/Music). Darren Kusar (PhD Candidate, RLL) will offer a response. Reading material and accompanying slides will be circulated via e-mail. In addition, please see the following link for one of the texts to be discussed: https://books.google.com/books?id=tB0YyEXZz54C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

You may join our meeting at the following link:

https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/92587265300?pwd=U01UR0pxYStjR3p5dDh4UGVIZXBPQT09

We hope to see you there!

Please join us next week for the winter quarter’s first meeting of the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop!

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 3pm (CST)

We are happy to welcome John Harpham (Harper Schmidt Fellow, UChicago), who will be presenting a chapter of his current book project. Isabela Fraga (PhD Candidate, RLL) will be responding. Reading materials will be circulated via e-mail.

You can join the session at the following link:

https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/92587265300?pwd=U01UR0pxYStjR3p5dDh4UGVIZXBPQT09

We hope to see you there!

Please join us next week for the fall quarter’s final session of the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop!

Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 3:00pm (CST)

We are happy to welcome Enrico Carnevali (PhD Student, RLL), who will be presenting his current work-in-progress. Reading materials will be circulated one week in advance via e-mail.

You may join our Zoom meeting at the following link:

https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/97427293491?pwd=V0xFbWtTLzNIbHlBYlNzdDdXZmxaQT09

Password: 545907

We hope to see you there!