Dear Colleagues,
Please join us for our first meeting of the year on Wednesday, October 13th, at 12:00pm in Wieboldt 207!
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce that the Western Mediterranean Workshop is ready to kick off a new academic year with a great group of University of Chicago faculty and graduate student speakers, as well as distinguished invited presenters.
We will be posting further information on our schedule, presenters and papers to be read for our meetings on the workshop’s blog at http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/westmedcult/. Please check our webpage regularly for updates and materials.
A few changes: 1) Our meeting time has changed! This year our workshop will meet on alternate Wednesdays at 12:00 in Wieboldt Hall, Room 207. We hope that this new day will be easier for most of your schedules. 2) The WMW now has a yearly topic. We have invited speakers to address an overall theme this year. The idea behind this change is to foster continuity and develop discussions across the various presentations. Our topic this year, broadly conceived, is “Frontiers.” 3). Due to budgetary restrictions, we will unfortunately no longer be able to provide lunch, only light refreshments. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience.
We look forward to seeing you in the first meeting of our workshop on October 13th featuring Jesús Botello, PhD candidate at the Romance Languages Department, who will talk on “Cervantes, Phillip II, and the Dialectics of Power.”
Best wishes,
Ryan Giles, Faculty Co-Sponsor
Justin Steinberg, Faculty Co-Sponsor
Erika Tanács, Graduate Coordinator
Erik Thomson is a Harper Fellow, Co-chair of Social Sciences, and Assistant Professor of Social Sciences. His presentation is titled “Early Modern Elite Culture and the roots of Cosmopolitanism.”
Wed Apr 2 in CWAC 157 at 4:30 (reception to follow). Cristelle Baskins, Associate Professor of Art & Art History at Tufts University, will present her paper, “The Renaissance as Montage in Luis Trenker’s Condotierre (1937).
April 2. Cristelle Baskins (Art History, University of Chicago)
April 7. Lia Markey (Art History, University of Chicago)
April 11. Josiah Blackmore (Portuguese, University of Toronto), “Reading the World in Renaissance Portugal.” Co-sponsored by the Lusophone World Project, the Renaissance Workshop, Comparative Literature.
April 25. Felipe Rojas (Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago), “The Devil Made Me Do It: Devilish Humor in Sendebar.”
May 9. Nukhet Varlik (NELC, University of Chicago), “Extending the boundaries of the Imperial Project: Ottoman experimentation for ‘public health.’”
May 23. Erik Thomson (Harper Fellow, University of Chicago)
Ryan Giles (Professor of Spanish, University of Chicago) will present his paper, “‘Santa Nefija’: Christianizing a Muslim Saint in the ‘Retrato de la Lozana andaluza’ (1528)” on March 14 at 12 pm in Wb 207. A light lunch will be served.
Kristine Hess, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
will discuss her paper:
“From Icon to Print: Depicting Place at the Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai”
Friday February 1, 200712 pm – Wb 207
For a copy of the paper, please email hallen@uchicago.edu or rainbow@uchicago.edu.