Protected: Katrina Powers presents her dissertation proposal, “‘El no querer no es culpa’: Biblical and Ovidian Images in Golden Age Spanish Tales of Unrequited Love”
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Protected: Mari Jo Velasco presents, “Moving Mountains: Music of Spiritual Renewal in the French Pyrénées, 1780-1830.”
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Protected: Anatole Upart presents “’Unus sed tricolor’: Zyrowice, SS. Sergio e Bacco and a Belarusian Madonna in Rome.”
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Protected: Muhammet Zahit Atcil presents Ottoman Fiscal Institutions and Economic Policies during the Grand Vizierates of Rustem Pasha (1544-1561)”
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Protected: Ryan Giles presents “Converting the Saracen: The Historia del emperador Carlomagno and the Christianization of Granada”
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Thursday, February 6: Sarah Spence Lecture, “Prophecies of Power: The Poetry of Lepanto” 3:30 Classics 21
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
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″
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/
Protected: David Craig Recksieck presents “Depicting the Brazilian Engenho: Representations of Race, Religion, and Economic Exchange in the Works of Frans Post”
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Protected: Edward Muir presents: “People Who Believe in Nothing:” Intolerable Thoughts in Late Renaissance Italy
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James Nemiroff presents, “Generic crypto-narrations in Lope de Vega’s El Niño Inocente de la Guardia.”
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.