Spring 2010:
Friday, April 9, 2010
Heather Allen, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Spanish; on “Cannibalizing the Text: Transcription as Commentary in New Spain”
Friday, April 23, 2010
Michael Subialka, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian, and the Committee on Social Thought; on “Transforming Plato: Tommaso Campanella’s La città del sole, the Republic, and the New Science”
Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 4:30pm
Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Professor of Medieval History, l’Université Paris-Sorbonne; title forthcoming
Friday, May 7 – Saturday, May 8, 2010 in Rosenwald 405
Conference on “Intellectual Exchange and Networks” in collaboration with Renaissance Workshop and Early Modern Workshop
Friday, May 21, 2010
Carmela Mattza, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Spanish; title forthcoming
Friday, June 4, 2010
Robert Kendric, Professor of Music, The University of Chicago; on “What’s in the Letters? Early Modern Exegesis and Music in Lamentations”
Winter 2010:
(All Meetings in WB 207 from 12:00-1:20pm unless otherwise noted)
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
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”
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”
Fall 2009:
(All Meetings in WB 207 from 12:00-1:20pm unless otherwise noted)
Friday, October 9, 2009
Katie Chenoweth, Harper Fellow in Romance Languages and Literatures, French; on “The Definition of Montaigne’s Language”
Friday, October 16, 2009 (In CWAC 156)
Guest Speaker Lina Bolzoni, Global Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at New York University and Professor of Italian Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa; on “A Window into the Heart: Double-sided Portraits and Literary Models;” co-sponsored with the Department of Art History
Monday, October 19, 2009 (From 4:30-6:00pm)
Guest Speaker María José Álvarez Faedo, Professor of Comparative Literature, Universidad de Oviedo; on “Don Quixote’s Voyage to Perfidious Albion: The Translation of Humour and Satire in 18th-Century English Versions of Cervantes’s Masterpiece”
Friday, November 6, 2009
David Arbesú, Professor of Spanish, Augustana College; “Towards a Reconstruction of Spain’s Lost Epic Poems” on the identification and reconstruction of the lost poems in the Estoria de Espanna
Friday, November 20, 2009
Maggie Fritz-Morkin, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian; “Andreuccio at the Well,” on Boccaccio’s Decameron, excrement, and early-modern water politics
Friday, December 4, 2009
Larry Norman, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, French, The University of Chicago, on “Being Modern in Early-Modern France: Antiquity After Humanism”