We’ll be rounding out the academic year with another great quarter of student and faculty presentations – plus a spring guest speaker and a conference! Please join us.
Friday, April 9, 2010 – Heather Allen, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Spanish; on “Cannibalizing the Text: Transcription as Commentary in New Spain”
Friday, April 23, 2010 – Michael Subialka, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian, and the Committee on Social Thought; on “Transforming Plato: Tommaso Campanella’s La città del sole, the Republic, and the New Science”
Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 4:30pm – Professor Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Professor of Medieval History and Assistant Director of theUnités de Formation et de Recherche de Histoire, l’Université Paris-Sorbonne; on “Le crime et son châtiment: scénarios spatiaux dans l’Italie de la Renaissance”
Friday, May 7 – Saturday, May 8, 2010 – Conference on “Intellectual Exchange and Networks in Europe” in collaboration with Renaissance and Early Modern Workshops
Friday, May 21, 2010 – Carmela Mattza, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Spanish; on “(Re)Thinking the Pastoral, (Re) Shaping the Myth: The Myth and Mythmaking of Phyton in Calderon’s El laurel de Apolo”
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 – Diego Pirillo, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; on “Italians Outside of Italy: Giordano Bruno and the Italian Religious Exiles in Renaissance England”
Friday, June 4, 2010 – Professor Robert Kendrick, Chair of the Department of Music, The University of Chicago; on “What’s in the Letters? Early Modern Exegesis and Music in Lamentations”
