Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Robert Kendrick and Niall Atkinson, we would like to announce our schedule of some of the activities planned for the Winter Quarter. We hope to see you there!

Wednesday February 18, 2015 at 12:00 PM in Wieboldt 207— Areli Marina, Associate Professor of Art History and Medieval Studies at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, presents “The Italian Baptistery 1000-1600: Towards a Diachronic History of a “Medieval” Monument.”

Respondent: Niall Atkinson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College

Wednesday February 25, 2015 at 10:30 AM in Wieboldt 207— James Nemiroff, PhD Candidate in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies, presents “Toledo and the Lead Books of Sacramonte: Performing Judaism in Lope de Vega’s Auto de Fe Comedias.”

Respondent: David Reher, PhD Student, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Monday March 2, 2015 at 12:00 PM in Rosenwald 405– Ada Palmer, Assistant Professor of History and the College at The University of Chicago, presents “Pythagoras in the Renaissance Imagination.”

Best regards,

 

José Estrada and Medardo Rosario

Graduate Student Coordinators

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

University of Chicago