October 5 | David Reher
Ph.D. Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
“Anti-Judaic Rhetoric in the Cantar del mio Cid.” (Harper 141, at 10:45AM)

November 2 | Thomas James Dandelet
Associate Professor, History, University of California Berkeley
“Fabrizio Colonna, Machiavelli, and the Rise of Imperial Political Culture in the Renaissance Mediterranean.”

November 16 | Luke A. Fidler
Ph.D. Student, Art History, University of Chicago
“B.I.B.L.E. (Byzantine Instructions Before Leaving Earth).”

December 7 | José Estrada
Ph.D. Student, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
“‘El monstro con su figura’: la autofiguración transatlántica en el teatro de Ruiz de Alarcón.”


All events happen on Mondays at 10:30 AM in Harper 141, unless otherwise noted.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Robert Kendrick and Niall Atkinson, we want to invite you to an upcoming event.

May 18, 2015 at 12:00 PM in Rosenwald 405 – Basile Baudez, Histoire de l’art et Archéologie Department, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), presents “Genealogies of Beaux-Arts draftsmanship.” Prof. Niall Atkinson of the Department of Art History, University of Chicago, will be our respondent. The paper will be pre-circulated (accessible on our blog).

We hope to see you there!

Best regards,

Sarah Atkinson and Anatole Upart

Graduate Student Coordinators

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

The University of Chicago

PS: Please, note that we are also co-sponsoring another event that same evening, at 5pm, in the same room.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Robert Kendrick and Niall Atkinson, we want to invite you to an upcoming event.

May 18, 2015, Rosenwald 405 at 5pm – Ingrid Greenfield, Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, University of Chicago, presents “‘There is no other law than the king’s appetites’: Conspicuous collecting on the Guinea coast, 1450-1650” at the Renaissance Workshop.

The paper will not be circulated.

Co-sponsored with the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop.

We hope to see you there!

Best regards,

Sarah Atkinson and Anatole Upart

Graduate Student Coordinators

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

The University of Chicago

PS: Please, note that we will also have another event that same morning, at 12:00pm, in the same room.

May 4 | Katrina Powers
Ph.D. Student, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
“Susanna’s Bath: Blaming the Blameless in Francisco de la Torre’s La justicia y la verdad.”(12:00 PM in Rosenwald 405)

May 18 | Basile Baudez
Histoire de l’art et Archéologie Department, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
Title TBA, (12:00 PM in Rosenwald 405)

May 18 | Ingrid Greenfield at the Renaissance Workshop
Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, University of Chicago
“‘There is no other law than the king’s appetites’: Conspicuous collecting on the Guinea coast, 1450-1650.”
Co-sponsored with the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop | Rosenwald 405 at 5pm.

***Please note unusual time***

June 1 | Mayte Green-Mercado
Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
“Morisco Prophecies in the French Court (1602-1607).” (12:00 PM in Rosenwald 405)

All events happen on Mondays at 12:00 PM in Rosenwald 405, unless otherwise noted.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Robert Kendrick and Niall Atkinson, we want to remind you of an upcoming event.

April 17 | The Symposium “Renaissance Poetry and the Material Turn.” Participans: Miguel Martínez (University of Chicago), Ana María Gómez-Bravo (University of Washington), Albert Lloret (UMass, Amherst), and Spain” by Andrew Cashner (University of Chicago), Richard Strier (University of Chicago).

Classics 110, University of Chicago, 1050 E 59th St. 9am – 4:45pm

Co-sponsored by the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Program of Catalan Studies, the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop, the Poetry and Poetics Workshop, and the Early Modern Workshop.

***Please note unusual date, time, and location***

Sarah Atkinson and Anatole Upart

Graduate Student Coordinators

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

The University of Chicago