Monthly Archives: March 2010

Spring 2010

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 4:30pmProfessor 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, 2010Professor 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”

Anita Damjanovic on The Prodigious Magician and his Servants

For our last meeting of the quarter, we are pleased to announce that we will be discussing a paper by our colleague, Anita Damjanovic, Ph.D. Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Spanish, at the University of Chicago.  Anita’s paper, to be read ahead of time, is on:


“The Prodigious Magician and his Servants:

The Role of Clarin and Moscon”

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Friday, March 5, 2010 at 12:00pm in Wieboldt 207.

Light lunch and great discussion – come join us for our final meeting of the quarter!