Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Ryan Giles and Niall Atkinson, it is my pleasure to announce the schedule of speakers for the winter quarter 2012. Please note that meetings will take place in Wieboldt 207 at noon unless otherwise indicated on the schedule. Any changes to the schedule will be announced in advance to the Workshop list-serv at western-mediterranean-culture-workshop@lists.uchicago.edu and posted here on this blog.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Felipe Rojas (Ph.D Candidate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Chicago) will present and discuss a paper entitled: “Las mujeres sin hombre (1613-1618): A Metaphor of Habsburg Dynastic Marriages.” Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Workshop. A copy of the paper can be found here.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Marco Ruffini (Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Adjunct Professor in Art History, Northwestern University) will present and discuss a paper entitled: “Leon Battista Alberti on the Surface.” A link to the paper can be found here: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pd1g732
Friday, February 3, 2012
Daisy Delogu (Associate Professor of French Literature, The University of Chicago) will present and discuss a paper entitled: “From douce France to the dame renommée, Metaphors and Allegories of the French Body Politic.” Co-sponsored with the Medieval Workshop. A copy of Professor Delogu’s paper can be found here.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Jorge Abril-Sánchez (Ph.D Candidate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Chicago and Visiting Instructor of Spanish at Wake Forest University) will present and discuss a paper entitled “Spain’s First Renaissance Demonologist, Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella and his Tratado de la inmortalidad del anima (1503).”
People having any questions or concerns about the Workshop should contact the Graduate Student Coordinators, James Nemiroff (jnemiroff@uchicago.edu) and Diana Aramburu (diana1@uchicago.edu). We look forward to seeing you at our meetings.
Best Regards,
James Nemiroff
Graduate Student Coordinator
Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop