Winter 2025 Schedule

January 24, 11:30am-1:00pm (Rosenwald 405) | Noel Blanco Mourelle
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures
“The Geometry of Thought. On Ramon Llull and the Cubic Figure”
*Cosponsored Session with the Medieval Studies Workshop

January 28 | Maureen McCord
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History
“Building Bombay’s Church: Religion, Governance, and Infrastructure”

 February 4 | Richard Strier
Emeritus Professor, University of Chicago, English Language and Literature
“George Herbert and Renaissance Poetry” (accompanied by poetry selections)
*Cosponsored Session with the Renaissance Workshop

February 18 | Baz Bowdler
PhD Candidate, University of St. Andrews, School of History
“The Nine Years’ War and News Culture in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere, 1688-1697”

February 25, 2:30-4:00pm (SSRB 224) | Olivia Young
PhD Student, University of Chicago, History
“‘A Religion of Trade’: The Jew Bill of 1753 Reassessed”

March 4 | Tingfeng Yan
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, History
“Administration and Constitution in Early Modern Anglo-American Political Thought”

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”

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”