PLEASE NOTE: All sessions meet in Wieboldt 207 on alternate Wednesdays at 4:30 pm unless otherwise indicated.
Monday, January 24, 5:00, Rosenwald 405.
Kathryn Swanton (PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago); on “The place of witness in King Lear and Los comendadores de Córdoba.”
Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Workshop.
Monday, February 14, 5:00.
Roundtable conversation organized jointly with the Renaissance and the Early Modern Workshops.
Julius Kirshner (Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance History, University of Chicago); on “Jews as Citizens in Renaissance Italy.”
David Nirenberg (Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor, Committee on Social Thought, Department of History); on “Massacre or Miracle? Sovereign Indecision and the Forced Conversion of the Jews in 1391.”
Respondent: Richard Strier (Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English, Divinity School, University of Chicago).
Wednesday, February 16, 4:30, Classics 110.
Rita Copeland (Professor of Classical Studies and English, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania); on “Insinuating Authors.”
Organized in conjunction with the Nicholson Center for British Studies, the Department of English, and the Program in Medieval Studies.
Thursday, February 17, 4:30, Rosenwald 405.
David Wallace (Judith Rotin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania); on “Where Europe Begins and Ends: Conceptualizing Literary History, 1348-1418.”
Organized in conjunction with the Nicholson Center for British Studies, the Department of English, and the Program in Medieval Studies.
Friday, February 18, 12:30, Rosenwald 405.
Rita Copeland (Professor of Classical Studies and English, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania); on “Naming, Knowing, and the Object of Language in Alexander Neckam’s Grammar Curriculum;” and
David Wallace (Judith Rotin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania); on Introduction to “Strong Women: Life, Text, and Territory 1347-1645.”
Co-sponsored with the Nicholson Center for British Studies, and the Early Modern, Medieval Studies, and Renaissance Workshops.
Monday, February 21, 4:30, Wieboldt 207.
Giacomo Todeschini (Professor of Medieval History, University of Trieste); on “Judas and the Christian common people: infidelity and economic inaptitude in the Middle Ages.”
Co-sponsored with the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, the Committee on Social Thought, and the Medieval Studies Workshop.
Wednesday, February 23.
Karla Mallette (Associate Professor of Italian and Near Eastern Studies, Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies; University of Michigan); on “Lingua franca in the Mediterranean.”
Wednesday, March 2.
Mohamad Ballan (Graduate Student, Social Sciences, University of Chicago); on “Between Castilian Reconquista and Ottoman Jihad: A Reconsideration of the 1501 Hispano-Muslim Qasida to Sultan Bayezid II.”
Co-sponsored with the Middle East History and Theory Workshop.