Tuesday, January 12: Lisa Schwab on Humanist Descriptions of Rome

Please join the Renaissance Workshop
THIS Tuesday, January 12, when

Lisa Schwab
PhD Candidate
University of Goettingen

presents the paper:

“Bridging Past and Present Via Virgil in Humanist Descriptions of Rome”
TUESDAY 12 January
3:30 PM
Classics 21

This event is cosponsored by the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop. Please note the unusual date and time, and note that there is no pre-circulated paper for this presentation. 

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Winter Quarter Schedule

WINTER 2016

The Renaissance workshop meets alternate Mondays, 5-6:30 pm, Rosenwald 405, unless otherwise noted.

Tue., Jan. 12 | Lisa Schwab
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Goettingen
“Bridging Past and Present Via Virgil in Humanist Descriptions of Rome”
3:30 pm, Classics 21
Sponsored by the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop

January 19 and 20 | Gerard Passannante
Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
Lecture, Tue., January 19, 4:30 pm
Workshop, Wed., January 20, 10:30 am
Locations TBA

February 1 | Rana Choi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Title TBA

February 15 | Hilary Barker
Ph.D. Student, Art History, University of Chicago
“Inscriptions on Paper: Contemporary Annotations in Jacopo Mazzocchi’s Epigrammata antiquae urbis (1521)”

February 29 | Nicholas Bellinson
Ph.D. Student, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
“Cordelia”

March 14 | Sharon Achinstein
Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University
“Human Conditions in Milton”