We are pleased to announce our next, and final, workshop event, a presentation by Professor Robert Kendrick, Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, who will share his recent work on:

“What’s in the Letters?

Early Modern Exegesis and Music in Lamentations”

Friday, June 4, 2010; 12:00pm in WB 207

For those who are interested in more background on the issues to be discussed in Professor Kendrick’s talk, here are excerpts from Linda Bisello’s article “Nel segno di Raziel.  Esegesi e simboli in eta tridentina” (Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa).

Light lunch will be served.

Please join us for the final workshop event of the year!

Please join us for a special guest presentation by Diego Pirillo, Researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, who will share his most recent work on:

“Italians Outside of Italy: Giordano Bruno and the Italian Religious Exiles in Renaissance England”

TUESDAY, May 25, 2010 at 4:30 pm

Wieboldt Hall 207

Join us for the next meeting of the quarter, featuring a presentation and discussion of work by Carmela Mattza, Ph.D., of the University of Chicago’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.  Her paper, to be read in advance, is on:

(Re)Thinking the Pastoral, (Re)Shaping the Myth:

Phyton in Calderon’s El laurel de Apolo

Friday, May 21, 2010 at 12:00pm in WB 207.

Light Lunch Will Be Served

Please note: Paper is to be read in advance.

We are very pleased to announce a special guest presenter, Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Professor of Medieval History at l’Université Paris-Sorbonne.  Professor Crouzet-Pavan will join us to share some of her most recent work at a special meeting (please note the irregular date and time).  We hope to see you there!

“Crime and Its Punishment:

Spatial Scenarios in Renaissance Italy”

Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 4:30pm in WB 207.

Wine and Cheese Reception to Follow!

Join us for the second meeting of the quarter, where we will discuss work by Michael Subialka, PhD Candidate with the Committee on Social Thought and Romance Languages and Literatures, on:

“Transforming Plato: Tommaso Campanella’s La città del sole, the Republic, and the New Science”

Friday, April 23, 2010 at 12:00 pm, in Wieboldt 207

Light lunch will be served.

Please Note: Paper is to be read in advance.

Please join us this Friday for the first workshop meeting of the quarter, where we will discuss work by Heather Allen, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Spanish, on:

“Cannibalizing the Text: Transcription as Commentary in New Spain”

Friday, April 9, 2010 at 12:00 pm, in Wieboldt 207

Light lunch will be served.

Please Note: Paper is to be read in advance.

For our last meeting of the quarter, we are pleased to announce that we will be discussing a paper by our colleague, Anita Damjanovic, Ph.D. Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Spanish, at the University of Chicago.  Anita’s paper, to be read ahead of time, is on:

“The Prodigious Magician and his Servants:

The Role of Clarin and Moscon”

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Friday, March 5, 2010 at 12:00pm in Wieboldt 207.

Light lunch and great discussion – come join us for our final meeting of the quarter!

For our next meeting, we are pleased to welcome Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, who will present part of a chapter from his latest work:

“Earthly Petrarch”

Friday, Feb. 26, 2010 at 12:00pm in Wieboldt 207.

Professor Strier’s presentation will focus on the following poems from the Canzoniere: 1, 129, 248, 264.

Light lunch will be served.

We are excited to welcome Nancy Canepa, Associate Professor of French and Italian at Dartmouth College, as our special guest for our third meeting of the quarter.  Professor Canepa will share her work on:

“Once Upon a Time, in Naples: Crisis of Exemplarity and Enchantment of the Everyday in Basile’s cunti”

Friday, February 12, 2010 at 12:00pm in Wieboldt 207.

Light lunch and great discussion included!