All sessions meet in Wieboldt 207 on alternate Wednesdays at 12 pm unless otherwise indicated.

Wednesday, October 13. Jesús Botello (PhD candidate, Romance Languages Department, University of Chicago); on “Cervantes, Philip II, and the Dialectics of Power.”

Wednesday, October 27. Justin Steinberg (Associate Professor of Italian Literature, University of Chicago); on “Dante’s Writ of Safe Passage through Hell.”

Wednesday, November 10. Thomas Christensen (Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities; Associate Dean and Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division, Department of Music, University of Chicago); on “Medieval Music Literature:  A Taxonomy.”

Thursday, November 18, at 4:30. Carla Rahn Phillips (Professor at the Department of History, University of Minnesota); on “Ladies at War: Aristocratic Women during the War of the Spanish Succession.”

Friday, December 3, at 12:00. Ryan Szpiech (Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan); on “Hermeneutical Muslims? Islam as Witness in Christian Anti-Judaism.” Event co-sponsored with the Medieval Workshop.