Dear Colleagues,

Please join the Western Mediterranean and Renaissance Workshops for our joint meeting on next Monday, January 24th, at 5:00pm in Rosenwald 405 (please note the change of time and place for this meeting!!).

Kathryn Swanton (PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago) will be presenting a chapter of her dissertation, titled “Fore-giving: The place of witness in King Lear and Los comendadores de Córdoba.”

Light refreshment will be provided. Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join the Western Mediterranean and Medieval Studies Workshops for our last meeting of the quarter on next Friday, December 3rd, at 12:00 in Wieboldt 207.

Prof. Ryan Szpiech (Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan) will be presenting a paper titled “Hermeneutical Muslims? Islam as Witness in Christian Anti-Judaism.”

Respondent: Uri Shachar

Coffee and tea will be provided, and we invite you to bring your lunch. Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

Look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us in our next meeting (please note the time change) on Thursday, November 18th, at 4:30 in Wieboldt 207.

Professor Carla Rahn Phillips (Department of History, University of Minnesota) will be presenting a paper titled, “Ladies at War: Aristocratic Women during the War of the Spanish Succession.”

Professor Phillips is the Union Pacific Professor in Comparative Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota, specializing in the social, economic, and maritime history of Early Modern Europe and the Iberian world.

Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us in our next meeting on Wednesday, November 10th, at 12:00 in Wieboldt 207!

Professor Thomas Christensen (Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities; Associate Dean and Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division, Department of Music, University of Chicago) will be presenting a paper on “Medieval Music Literature:  A Taxonomy.”

Coffee and tea will be provided, and we invite you to bring your lunch.

Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us in our next meeting on Wednesday, October 27th, at 12:00 in Wieboldt 207!

Professor Justin Steinberg (Department of Romance Languages, University of Chicago) will be presenting on “Dante’s Writ of Safe Passage through Hell.”

The workshop discussion will focus on the first 30 pages, but we would like to encourage everyone to read the whole paper.

Persons needing assistance in order to attend this event, please contact Erika Tanacs (etanacs@uchicago.edu).

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us for our first meeting of the year on Wednesday, October 13th, at 12:00pm in Wieboldt 207!

Jesús Botello (PhD Candidate, Department of Romance Languages, University of Chicago) will be presenting a chapter of his dissertation: “Cervantes, Philip II, and the Dialectics of Power.”

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Erika Tanács at etanacs@uchicago.edu.

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

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!