For our second meeting, we are pleased to workshop a dissertation chapter by Elizabeth Anderson. The chapter, to be read ahead of time, is available by clicking the title:
Workshop on WEDNESDAY, January 27, 2010, at 3:00pm in Wieboldt 102.
Please take note of the unusual time and location!
For our first meeting of the new quarter, we are excited to have Rebecca Zorach, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, who will present her recent work on:
Friday, January 15, 2010 at 12:00pm in Wieboldt 207.
Light lunch will be provided.
We’re back and ready for another exciting quarter of Western Mediterranean Culture! Please take a moment to look over the presentations by students, faculty, and our winter guest speaker:
Friday, January 15, 2010
Rebecca Zorach, Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Chicago; on “Turning the Triangle Upside Down in Quattrocento Florence”
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 3:00pm in Wieboldt 102
Beth Anderson, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian, The University of Chicago; on “Can We Just Be Friends? The Relationship Between Petrarch and Laura in the Triumphs and the Canzoniere” – note unusual room, WB 102.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Nancy Canepa, Associate Professor of French and Italian, Dartmouth College; on “Once Upon a Time, in Naples: Crisis of Exemplarity and Enchantment of the Everyday in Basile’s cunti”
Friday, February 26, 2010
Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor of English, The University of Chicago; on “Earthly Petrarch”
Friday, March 5, 2010
Anita Damjanovic, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Chicago; on “The Prodigious Magician and His Servants: the Role of Clarin and Moscon”
All workshop meetings will be held in Wieboldt 207. Light lunch is also provided. If you have questions or believe that you are in need of assistance, please contact Michael Subialka.
We are pleased that for our sixth and final meeting of the fall quarter, Larry Norman, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French) and Theatre and Performance Studies will join us to share part of his forthcoming book on the Quarell of the Ancients and the Moderns. His talk will be on:
Click on link above to download the paper that we will discuss during the workshop.
December 4, 2009 at 12:00pm in WB 207.
Light lunch will be served.
For our fifth meeting of the quarter, Maggie Fritz-Morkin, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, presents on excrement and water politics in Boccaccio’s Decameron in her paper:
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:00pm in Wieboldt 207.
*A more comical look at the subject is available here.
Intellectual Exchange and
Networks in Europe, 1500-1660:
Approaches from the Humanities and Social Sciences
May 7-8 2010
A conference hosted by the Early Modern, Renaissance, and Western Mediterranean Workshops of the University of Chicago
For our next meeting, we are pleased to welcome David Arbesú, Assistant Professor of Medieval and Golden Age Peninsular Studies at Augustana College, who will speak on:
“Towards a Reconstruction of Spain’s Lost Epic Poems”
Friday, 11/6/2009, 12:00-1:30pm in Wieboldt 207.
For our third meeting, which will be held on a Monday, the Workshop is excited to feature a presentation by María José Álvarez Faedo, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Oviedo, who will speak on:
“Don Quixote’s Voyage to Perfidious Albion: The Translation of Humour and Satire in 18th-Century English Versions of Cervantes’s Masterpiece”
As always, light refreshments and conversation will follow the presentation.
Monday, 10/19/2009, 4:30-6:00pm in Wieboldt 207.
Our second meeting will feature a presentation by renowned Renaissance scholar Lina Bolzoni, Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and at NYU, who will share her recent work on the intersection of word and image in a talk on:
“A Window into the Heart: Double-sided Portraits and Literary Models”
As always, light refreshments and enlightening discussion to follow.
Friday, 10/16/2009, 12:00-1:20pm in CWAC 156.
For our first workshop meeting of the year, Katie Chenoweth, Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Humanities, offers a look into the complexities of language and the development of Montaigne’s language.
As always, light refreshments to follow, along with stimulating discussion.
10/9/2009: Wieboldt 207, 12:00pm-1:20pm