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Thursday, February 6: Sarah Spence Lecture, “Prophecies of Power: The Poetry of Lepanto” 3:30 Classics 21

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The Renaissance Workshop, the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop, and the Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop 
are proud to present a lecture by 
 
SARAH SPENCE
Medieval Academy of America
 
PROPHECIES OF POWER:
THE POETRY OF LEPANTO

THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY 
3:30 PM
CLASSICS 21
 
Reception to follow!


 

On October 7, 1571, the Holy League Alliance of Spain, Venice, and the papacy achieved a decisive and unexpected victory over the Ottoman navy in the battle of Lepanto. Hundreds of poems in both Latin and the vernacular were circulated immediately after the battle. While studies have shown how the vernacular poetry of Lepanto informed distinct national identities, this paper will consider a counterbalancing phenomenon: why large numbers of Italian poets from diverse social contexts and regions wrote Latin poems about the battle. Their efforts to articulate the significance of the victory in Latin seem to stem from a renewed imperial vision to the shared inheritance of Rome to the continued complexities of empire.

Teofilo Ruiz presents “The Western Mediterranean and the World: From the Western Mediterranean to the Atlantic, Ca. 1300 – 1650″

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Friday February 7th at 4:30 in Classics 110–Co-sponsored by the Neubauer Collegium for culture and society and with the Medieval Studies Workshop.  Teofilo Ruiz, Professor of Spanish cultural history at UCLA, presents “The Western Mediterranean and the World: From the Western Mediterranean to the Atlantic,  Ca. 1300 – 1650″

Quoted from the Neubaur Collegium page: “In this lecture, I would like to explore the complex reasons which led to a shift from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. I contend that the opening of the Atlantic for exploration and the encounter with the New World, although having an impact on Mediterranean societies, was not the sole determinant for the slow demise of the former sea as the center of European civilization.”  Light reception to follow.

Please see more information at : http://neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/events/uc/Ruiz/

Winter Quarter Schedule

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Dear Colleagues,

 

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Robert Kendrick and Niall Atkinson, it is our pleasure to announce the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop schedule for the Winter quarter 2013.  Most meetings will be held in Wieboldt 207 at the time indicated on the schedule.

 

Friday January 17th at 12:00 in Wieboldt 207--Edward Muir, Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, presents “‘People Who Believe in Nothing:’ Intolerable Thoughts in Late Renaissance Italy”

 

Friday January 31st at 12:00 in Wieboldt 207--Co-sponsored with Caribbean Studies Workshop. David Craig Recksieck, Ph. D. student in Art History, presents “Depicting the Brazilian Engenho: Representations of Race, Religion, and Economic Exchange in the Works of Frans Post”

 

Friday February 7th at 4:30 in Classics 110–Co-sponsored by the Neubauer Collegium for culture and society and with the Medieval Studies Workshop.  Teofilo Ruiz, Professor of Spanish cultural history at UCLA, presents “The Western Mediterranean and the World: From the Western Mediterranean to the Atlantic,  Ca. 1300 – 1650”  Please see more information at http://neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/events/uc/Ruiz/

 

Friday February 21st at 12:00 in Wieboldt 207--Ryan Giles, associate professor of Spanish and Core faculty of the Medieval studies Institute at the University of Indiana–Bloomington, presents  “Converting the Saracen: The Historia del emperador Carlomagno and the Christianization of Granada”

 

Friday February 28th at 12:00 in Wieboldt 207--Muhammet Zahit Atcil, Ph D. student in Near Eastern Languages and Culture, presents Ottoman Fiscal Institutions and Economic Policies during the Grand Vizierates of Rustem Pasha (1544-1561)”

 

We look forward to seeing you at our meetings!

 

Sincerely,

 

David Reher, Jose Estrada, and Medardo Rosario

Graduate Student Coordinators

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

 

PS: Those requiring assistance to attend these events should contact the Graduate Student Coordinator David Reher at dmreher@uchicago.edu.

James Nemiroff presents, “Generic crypto-narrations in Lope de Vega’s El Niño Inocente de la Guardia.”

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Thursday December 5th at 2:30 PM in Wieboldt 207—Please note the change of time.

James Nemiroff, Ph. D. Candidate in Romance Languages, presents portion of his dissertation chapter entitled: “Generic crypto-narrations in Lope de Vega’s El Niño Inocente de la Guardia.”

A late lunch from Potbelly’s will be served.

 

Enrique García Santo-Tomás presents “Glass Matters: Science (and) Fiction in the Spain of Cervantes”

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Friday November 22nd at 4:30 in Wieboldt 207

Enrique García Santo-Tomás, Professor at the University of Michigan, presents “Glass Matters: Science (and) Fiction in the Spain of Cervantes”

Poster attached:  Enrique García Santo-Tomás

Please note: a Reception will follow, and there will be no paper pre-circulated.  This talk will be presented on the same day as Sharon Stocchia’s.

CANCELED: Jeffrey Coleman presents “Immigration Perspectives in Juan Diego Botto’s El privilegio de ser perro”

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Friday November 8th at 12:00 PM in Wieboldt 207–Jeffrey Coleman, Ph. D candidate in Romance Languages presents a dissertation chapter entitled  “Immigration Perspectives in Juan Diego Botto’s El privilegio de ser perro”

 

PLEASE NOTE: Eric Dursteler’s lecture at the Newberry institute entitled A place that very well represents the Tower of Babel”: Linguistic Pluralism and the Ecology of Language in the Early Modern Mediterranean.  Please see more here: http://www.newberry.org/11082013-eric-dursteler

We will organize a carpool to leave U-Chicago at 1:15; please contact dmreher@uchicago.edu if you’re interested.

Luciano García Lorenzo presents “Torcuato Tarragó y la pasión amorosa del clérigo Antonio Mira de Amescua”

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Tuesday October 15th at 3:00 PM in Wieboldt 207

Luciano Garcia Lorenzo, Professor and investigator at the Institute of Language, Literature and Anthropology at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, presents “Torcuato Tarragó y la pasión amorosa del clérigo Antonio Mira de Amescua”