March 2023
S茅raphine Nzu茅-Agbadou (精品成人福利在线 University)
Enemy! Enemies!听 Staging the Enemy and Demonizing the Enemies in Th茅odore B猫ze’s听Abraham Sacrifant听(1550)
Wednesday, March 29, 4-5:30pm, SBUS 524
February 2023
Pamela Patton (Princeton University)
The Ethiopian at the Door:听Fantasy, Literality, and Race in the听Cantigas de Santa Mar铆a
Wednesday, February 22, 4-5:30pm on Zoom
November 2022
Thomas Vozar (University of Hamburg)
The Anne Hutchinson Tragedy in Seventeenth-Century European Thought: Greg Horn and His Readers
Thursday, November 10, 1-2:30pm on Zoom
October 2022
Minji Lee (精品成人福利在线 University)
Women’s Reproductive Body: the Porous and Sealed Womb in Premodern Medicine and Religion
Wednesday, October 26, 4-5pm 鈥 School of Business 412
April 2022
David Sterling Brown (Binghamton University and The Racial Imaginary Institute)
Just Us: An Early Modern Critical Race Studies Conversation
Wednesday, April 20, 4-5pm 鈥 Cole 141
Dr. David Sterling Brown鈥攁 Shakespeare and premodern critical race studies scholar鈥攊s Assistant Professor of English at Binghamton University. His antiracist research, which centers on pedagogy and on how racial ideologies circulate in and beyond the early modern period, is published or forthcoming in numerous peer-reviewed and public venues such as Shakespeare Bulletin, Literature Compass, Radical Teacher, Shakespeare Studies, Hamlet: The State of Play, White People in Shakespeare and Los Angeles Review of Books. His forthcoming book projects, one of which is under contract with Cambridge University Press, examine how whiteness operates in Shakespearean drama. Through his current Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship, Dr. Brown has a residency with The Racial Imaginary Institute, founded by Claudia Rankine.
February 2022
Francesco Toto (University Roma Tre)
Rousseau and Revolution in the Second Discourse
Wednesday, February 23, 10-11am, on Zoom at
Francesco Toto is Assistant Professor at the University Roma Tre, where he works in anthropological, ethical, and political thought. His research has been focused on Hobbes, Spinoza, Helv茅tius and Rousseau, but he has also been interested in other well-known (Adam Smith, Sade) and lesser-known (Jean Meslier, Dom Deschamps) authors. He is the author of two books, one on Spinoza (L’individualit脿 dei corpi. Percorsi nell’ Etica di Spinoza, Milan, 2015), and one on Rousseau (L’origine e la storia. Il Discorso sull’ineguaglianza di Rousseau, Pisa, 2019); has published many articles and book chapters in Italian, French, English and Spanish; and has edited several books and journal issues. He is a member of the research group focused on the topic of “Compassion in Action: Theories of Sympathy and Construction of Otherness in the Long Eighteenth Century,鈥 and co-directs the journal “Consecutio rerum” ().
October 2021
Jeff Horn (Manhattan College)
The Making of Terrorist: Alexandre Rousselin and the French Revolution
Wednesday, October 27, 4-5pm
Dr. Jeff Horn is Professor of History at Manhattan College.听 He is the author or editor of seven books, including The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830 (MIT Press, 2006) and Economic Development in Early Modern France, 1650-1800: The Privilege of Liberty (Cambridge University Press, 2015).听 He is the Co-President of the Society for French Historical studies (2020-2021).听 In this talk, Dr. Horn will discuss his new book, The Making of a Terrorist: Alexandre Rousselin and the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2021).
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2020-21 Special Series: “Social Distance / Remote Intimacy”
May 2021
Nicholas McDowell (University of Exeter)
Reading Milton Reading Shakespeare Politically: What the Discovery of Milton’s Copy of the First Folio Does and Does Not Tell Us
Wednesday, May 19, 4pm
Nicholas McDowell is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Thought at the University of Exeter.听 An award-winning scholar who has received such honors as听 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Modern European Languages, he is the author of several books, including The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660 (2003), Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit (2008), and most recently, Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton (2020). He is also the editor, with Nigel Smith, of The Oxford Handbook of Milton (2009) and, with N. H. Keeble, of Milton鈥檚 Vernacular Regicide and Republican Writings (2013) in Oxford University Press鈥檚 ongoing Complete Works of John Milton.
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Ting Chang (University of Nottingham)
The King’s Docile Body? The Role of Maps, Games, and Globes in the 17th and 18th Centuries in France
Co-sponsored by the Department of World Languages and Culture and the Institute for the Humanities
Wednesday, May 5, 5:30pm
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听is Lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Nottingham, UK. She completed her PhD in modern European art history at the University of Sussex, England. Her book titled 鈥淭ravel, Collecting, Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris鈥 was published by听 in 2013. 鈥淭ravel, Collecting, Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris鈥 is a historical study that brings together the political, economic, and cultural relations underlying Euro-Asian contact. She argues that the cultural history of modern France is written through art collecting and interpretation. Her book highlights previously unexamined issues of the social relations, foreign labours, and somatic experiences of travel by Europeans in East Asia in the nineteenth century.
April 2021
Mordechai Feingold (Caltech)
The Freedom to Philosophize in Early Modern England
Wednesday, April 28, 4-5:30pm
Remote meeting: See Zoom link and password below
Mordechai Feingold is the Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of the History of Science and the Humanities at Caltech. 听He is the author of such landmark books as听The Mathematicians’ Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640听(1984);听The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture听(2004);听and, with Jed Z. Buchwald,听Newton and the Origin of Civilization听(2013). 听He has also edited many collections of essays, including recently听Labourers in the Vineyard of the Lord:听Scholarship and the Making of the King James Version of the Bible听(2018), and among the scholarly journals he edits are听Erudition and the Republic of Letters听and听History of Universities.
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December 2020
Aminah Hasan-Birdwell (Columbia University)
The Ethics of Imagination in Cavendish鈥檚 Orations of Diver Sorts
Wednesday, December 9, 4-5pm
Remote meeting: See Zoom link and password below
Aminah Hasan-Birdwell is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor and Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and is the Alva and Beatrice Bradley Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Furman University. Her research attends to marginalized figures in early modern philosophy and their contributions to philosophical issues of ontology, political thought, and ethics, as well as their relevance to combating the presence of racism and misogyny in the philosophical canon.
Margaret Cavendish understood imagination to hold potential therapeutic qualities for those who have experienced violence and destruction. The productive use of imagination is central not only to Cavendish鈥檚 natural philosophy and literary works, but also to her presentation of the varied ethical responses to the tragedies of war in Part III of Orations of Diver Sorts. In this text, Cavendish鈥檚 advice to individuals 鈥渞uined by war鈥 is to rid their mind of fears, grief, and terrors and inspire hope by entertaining themselves with 鈥減leasing imaginations.鈥 Cavendish recommends the power of imagination to inspire the hope of the populace and catalyze the rebuilding of a city or a commonwealth after war, either in the capacity of electing new magistrates, building statues, or staging theatrical performances. Ultimately, drawing on these examples and Cavendish鈥檚 other works, I argue that Cavendish demonstrates an ethical dimension of imagination that is essential to human flourishment after the experience of tragedy.
October 2020
Christopher Hutchinson (University of Mississippi)
The English Sweating Sickness and the Rhetoric of Virality
Co-sponsored by the Medical Humanities program
Wednesday, October 28, 4-5pm
Remote meeting: See Zoom link and password below
Christopher Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on early modern German literature, print history, and the history of disease. He holds a Ph.D from Stanford in German Studies and a B.A. in Modern and Medieval Languages听from Cambridge.
When a deadly new epidemic, the English sweating sickness, struck Germany in the Summer of 1529, it sparked a wave of short, vernacular, printed pamphlets on the disease, which some writers and doctors accused of spreading fear and lies. In this talk, I argue that this spread of harmful information on the sweating sickness is indicative of medical writers鈥 growing anxieties about the spread of cheap, vernacular pamphlets in first century of print. In their responses to the sweating sickness, these writers draw parallels between the spread of the disease and the spread of fear and misinformation on the disease, suggesting the pamphlets might be taking more lives than the sweating sickness itself. In doing so, they develop what I call a 鈥渞hetoric of virality鈥 to give voice to their anxieties about the printed word.
December 2019
Laura Stevens (University of Tulsa)
Hieroglyph, Treasure Chest, Prayer Book, Poem: Learning to Read the English Bible
Thursday, December 5, 4-5:30pm
Schmitt Hall, Room 104
Laura M. Stevens is Chapman Associate Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, where she teaches English, American, transatlantic, and Native American literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A past president of the Society of Early Americanists and former editor of听Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature,听she is the author of听The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility听(UPenn Press, 2004)听and of the forthcoming book听Friday鈥檚 Tribe: Eighteenth-Century听English Missionary Fantasies听(Upenn Press).
That the English Bible, especially the King James translation, was a cornerstone of early modern English literature, is undisputed, as is the importance of the Protestant Reformation to rising literacy rates. But how exactly did ordinary, minimally educated people understand the task of reading the Bible? How did they fit scripture into the activities of everyday devotion and moral development? What images and words emerged to describe the intimacies or estrangements that governed the relationship between scripture and individual Christian? And what role did books as material objects play in developing this relationship? This talk will explore three texts that fit under the broad category of what David Hall has termed 鈥渄evotional steady sellers鈥 of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, along with a fourth text that was central to English missionary, diplomatic, and colonizing efforts among the Haudenosaunee people of the American northeast. These include extracts of the Bible in verse, the first Bible-verse-a-day publication, the first 鈥渉ieroglyphic鈥 bible, which provides illustrations for each word in selected verses, and a selective translation of the Book of Common Prayer into Mohawk. These publications simultaneously gesture to the particularities of the London book trade but also to an international, transatlantic Protestant network of publishers, authors, and readers. This talk will consider these texts within the frameworks of book history but also of emotion studies, asking in particular how these texts structured individual readers鈥 affective relationship to the Bible and to Protestant Christianity.
April 2019
Gail Kern Paster (Director Emerita, Folger Shakespeare Library)
Instrumentalizing Emotion: Henry V and the Surprising Uses of Anger
Wednesday, April 24, 4-5:30pm
School of Business 210
Gail Kern Paster is Director Emerita of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC and Editor Emerita of Shakespeare Quarterly. She has written widely on the history of the body and the history of emotions in the early modern period, including Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage (2004). She has served as Trustee and President of the Shakespeare Association of America and was named to the Queen鈥檚 Honours List in 2011 as a Commander of the British Empire.
April 2019
Deborah Steinberger (University of Delaware)
鈥淏efriending the Female Reader: Women鈥檚 Stories in听Le Mercure Galant, 1672-1710.鈥
Wednesday, April 10, 4-5:30 p.m
Schmitt 110
Deborah Steinberger is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Delaware, where she chairs the French Faculty and directs the program in Comparative Literature. Her research areas include seventeenth-century theater and writing by early modern women. She has published articles on these subjects, as well as critical editions of epistolary and dramatic works by the 17th-century writer and painter Fran莽oise Pascal. Her current research focus is early modern French journalism, and she has published several articles and is currently writing a book on the early French newspaper听Le Mercure Galant. She is also collaborating on a digital humanities project headed by a team at the Universit茅 de Fribourg (Switzerland), on Donneau de Vis茅鈥檚Les Nouvelles nouvelles.
March 2019
Henry S. Turner (Rutgers University)
“Race, Experience, and the Early Modern World in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors“
Wednesday, March 20, 4-5:30 p.m.
Center for Environmental and Life Sciences, 207
March 2019
Richard Conway (精品成人福利在线 University)
“Aztec Merchants, Silver Mines, and the Provisioning of Spanish Cities in Early Colonial Mexico”
Wednesday, November 28, 4-5:30 p.m.
Center for Environmental and Life Sciences, 207
Richard Conway is a historian of colonial Latin America, whose research interests include the social and environmental history of Mexico.听 He received his PhD from Tulane University and teaches courses on Early Latin America, the History of Mexico, and Indigenous Societies in Latin America at 精品成人福利在线 University.听 He has published articles such as 鈥淰iolence and Vigilance in Nahua Communities of Seventeenth-Century Central Mexico鈥 (2017), 鈥淭he Environmental History of Colonial Mexico鈥 (2017) and Spaniards in the Nahua City of Xochimilco: Colonial Society and Cultural Change in Central Mexico, 1650-1725鈥 (2014).听 He is currently revising his book manuscript, entitled Islands in the Lake: Environment and Ethnohistory in Xochimilco, New Spain.听 He also serves as the book editor of the academic journal Ethnohistory.
October 2018
David Sedley (Haverford College)
“Sense Variously Drawn Out”: Algorithmic Epic from Leviathan to Paradise Lost”
Wednesday, September 26th, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Center for Environmental and Life Sciences (CELS), Room 207
David Sedley is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Haverford College. He has written a book entitled *Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton* (Michigan, 2005). His current project, from which this talk is drawn, is tentatively called “Race to Infinity: Distinctions between Science and Literature in Early Modern Culture.” A piece of this project, about and Madame de Lafayette and Blaise Pascal, has appeared in *Modern Language Quarterly*; another piece, about Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon, is forthcoming in *Romanic Review*.
September 2018
Jesus Velasco (Columbia University)
“The Affinity Between Legal Science and the Science of the Soul in the Middle Ages”
Wednesday, October 9th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Schmitt 104
Jes煤s R. Velasco teaches Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Columbia. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Universidad de Salamanca, Universit茅 de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), and the 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure (Lettres et Sciences Humaines). Among his publications are books and articles on Medieval and Early Modern knighthood, history of the book and reading, medieval political theory, law and culture, Occitan poetry, etc. He has been one of the executive directors of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies and a member of the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions. He was the recipient of the 2010 John K. Walsh award for his article “La urgente presencia de las Siete Partidas”. He writes the column “Isla Fluvial” for El Norte de Castilla, Spain’s oldest daily newspaper, founded in 1854. He has been elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the MLA LLC Occitan Forum. He is one of the fellows of the 2015 The Op-Ed Project. He served as Chair of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures between 2013 and 2016.
April 2018
Pascale LaFountain (精品成人福利在线 University)
鈥淔eeling Righteous: Gesture, Evidence, and Law in Heinrich von Kleist鈥檚 Romantic-Medieval-Shakespearean Tragedy The Schroffenstein Family鈥
Wednesday, April 11, 4 p.m.
Center for Environmental and Life Sciences (CELS), Room 110
Pascale LaFountain received her PhD in German Studies from Harvard University in 2011 and has since then been Assistant Professor of German and French at 精品成人福利在线 University. Her publications on theater, gender and performance include articles and book chapters on G.E. Lessing, Heinrich von Kleist, Elfriede Jelinek, and Heiner M眉ller. Her book Theaters of Error: Problems of Performance in French and German Enlightenment Theater is currently forthcoming with Palgrave MacMillan Press.
February 2018
Paul Kottman (New School for Social Research)
鈥淲hy Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies鈥
Tuesday, February 20th, 4 p.m.
Center for Environmental and Life Sciences (CELS), Room 110
Paul A. Kottman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the New School for Social Research, and Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts. He is a member of the and is affiliated with the . He holds the Abilitazione, Professore Ordinario in Filosofia, Estetica (Professor of Philosophy, Aesthetics) in Italy. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Tokyo; the Universit脿 degli studi di Verona; Instituto per gli studi filosofici, Naples; and the International Chair in Political Languages, Dipartimento di Politiche Pubbliche e Scelte Colletive (POLIS), Universit脿 del Piemonte Orientale. He has been awarded residential fellowships at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (Institute for Research in the Humanities) and Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Universit盲t zu K枚ln.
December 2017
Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University鈥擭ewark)
“Conduct and the Cultivation of Difference”鈥屸
Tuesday, December 5th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Center for Environmental and Life Sciences (CELS), Room 110
This event is co-sponsored by the English Department’s Visiting Writers Committee
Patricia Akhimie is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, where she teaches Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and early modern women鈥檚 travel writing. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World (Routledge, forthcoming 2018). She is co-editor, with Bernadette Andrea of Traveling/Travailing Women: Early Modern England and the Wider World (U of Nebraska, forthcoming 2018). Her most recent publications include 鈥溾楤ruised with Adversity鈥: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors,鈥 in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race, and 鈥淕alleries and Soft Power: The Gallery in The Winter鈥檚 Tale鈥 in Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power: The Making of Peace.
November 2017
Christopher M. Bellitto (Kean University)
鈥淟uther and Church Reform:
Catholic and Protestant Perspectives鈥
Wednesday, November 8th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Center for Environmental and Life Sciences (CELS), Room 120
Christopher M. Bellitto is Professor of History at Kean University, where he specializes in the study of church history and reform. He is the author of ten books, including the companion volumes Renewing Christianity: A History of Church Reform (2001) and The General Councils (2002). He also serves as Academic Editor at Large of Paulist Press and series Editor in Chief of Brill鈥檚 Companions to the Christian Tradition, and he is the past recipient of grants from the Fulbright Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities. A member of the Public Scholar Speakers Bureau of the NJ Council for the Humanities and frequent media commentator on church history and contemporary Catholicism, his latest book is Ageless Wisdom: Lifetime Lessons from the Bible (2016).
October 2017
Meghan Robison (精品成人福利在线 University)
“Moving Limbs: On the Movement of Life in Hobbes’ Leviathan“鈥屸赌
Wednesday, October 11th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Center for Environmental and Life Sciences (CELS), Room 110
Meghan Robison is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at 精品成人福利在线 University. She received her PhD from The New School for Social Research in 2016. Her work mainly focuses on political philosophy, early modern philosophy, and aesthetics. She is currently at work on a book on Thomas Hobbes鈥 Leviathan which offers an original reading of the exit from the State of Nature by reexamining the role of Hobbes鈥 conception of life as 鈥渁 motion of limbs,鈥 and its connection to the contracts that form the basis of the Commonwealth. Her talk will be drawn from this work.
September 2017
Ann Marie Rasmussen (University of Waterloo)
“The Polyfunctionality of Script on Medieval Badges”鈥屸
Wednesday, September 27th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Center for Environmental and Life Sciences (CELS), Room 110
Ann Marie Rasmussen joined the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) on January 1, 2015 as the John G. Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies after having been a faculty member in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at Duke University in North Carolina for twenty-five years. She was born and raised in the southern Willamette Valley of Oregon and received her BA from the University of Oregon and her PhD from Yale University, both in the field of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Her areas of expertise are medieval studies, German studies, and gender studies. She is the author of Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature (1997); and co-editor of Medieval Woman鈥檚 Song (with Anne Klinck, 2002); Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Sourcebook in Courtly, Religious, and Urban Cultures of Late Medieval Germany, with Introductory Essays (with Sarah Westphal-Wihl, 2010), and Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde (with Jutta Eming and Kathryn Starkey, 2012), as well as numerous essays. Her monograph on medieval badges is under review at a scholarly press.
May 2017
Daniel Shore (Georgetown University)
鈥淢aking Bacon: A Digital Reconstruction of the Early Modern Social Network鈥
Tuesday, May 2nd, 4-5:30 p.m.
Schmitt Hall, Room 104
Daniel Shore, Provost鈥檚 Distinguished Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University, is currently completing his second book project, Cyberformalism, which will be out with Johns Hopkins University Press later this year. His first book, Milton and the Art of Rhetoric, appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2012, and he has published articles in such journals as PMLA, Critical Inquiry, Modern Philology, Shakespeare Quarterly, Milton Studies, DHQ, and others. His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and he is the co-founder of the Six Degrees of Francis Bacon project, which has been funded by Google, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the NEH.
April 2017
Caroline Castiglione (Brown University)
鈥淎 Death is a Death: Monuments to Loss and Solutions to Domestic Abuse in Moderata Fonte’s The Worth of Women鈥
Tuesday, April 18th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Schmitt Hall, Room 104
Caroline Castiglione is a Professor of Italian Studies and History at Brown University. She received her PhD from Harvard University. Her research interests are political, legal, gender, and women’s history in Italy and Europe between 1500-1800. Her first book, Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1650-1760 (Oxford University Press, 2005) won the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies in 2006. Her second book, Accounting for Affection: Mothering and Politics in Rome, 1630-1730 (Palsgrave Macmillan, 2015) examines the symbiotic evolution of politics and mothering in early modern Rome. Seminar conveners: Alison Beringer (Classics and General Humanities), Raul Galoppe (Spanish and Italian), Kathleen Loysen (Modern Languages and Literatures), Jeffrey Alan Miller (English), Megan Moran (History), and Adam Rzepka (English).
March 2017
Markus Cruse (Arizona State University)
鈥淢arco Polo and the Global Middle Ages鈥
Wednesday, March 22nd, 4-5:30 p.m.
Schmitt Hall, Room 104
Mark Cruse received his PhD from New York University and is Associate Professor and Head of the French and Italian Faculty in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. His publications cover topics including medieval theater manuscripts, ivory writing tablets, heraldry, the senses in medieval culture, the Louvre of Charles V, and Haitian literature. His first book was a study of an illuminated copy of the Old French Romance of Alexander. His current book project focuses on the Old French manuscripts of Marco Polo’s description of the world.
Seminar conveners: Alison Beringer (Classics and General Humanities), Raul Galoppe (Spanish and Italian), Kathleen Loysen (Modern Languages and Literatures), Jeffrey Alan Miller (English), Megan Moran (History), and Adam Rzepka (English).
November 2016
Jorge Latorre (Universidad de Navarra)
鈥淒on Quixote: A Bridge Between the Far East and the Wild West鈥
Wednesday, November 30th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Schmitt Hall, Room 104
Seminar conveners: Alison Beringer (Classics and General Humanities), Raul Galoppe (Spanish and Italian), Kathleen Loysen (Modern Languages and Literatures), Jeffrey Alan Miller (English), Megan Moran (History), and Adam Rzepka (English).
October 2016
Elizabeth Valdez del 脕lamo (精品成人福利在线 University)
鈥淢ourning and Remembrance in the Twelfth Century: The Sarcophagus of Queen Blanca of N谩jera鈥
Wednesday, October 19th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Schmitt Hall, Room 104
September 2016
Naomi Conn Liebler (精品成人福利在线 University)
鈥溾楿nless …鈥: Prospero, Gonzalo, and the Shakespearean Monument in The Tempest鈥
Wednesday, September 28th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Schmitt Hall, Room 104
May 2016
Graduate Student Panel
Wednesday, May 4th, 4-5:30 p.m.
- Carole Reading (精品成人福利在线 University, English)
“‘What hinders then / To reach and feed at once both body and mind?’: Temptation and the Moral Emotions in Milton鈥 - Cameron Smith (精品成人福利在线 University, History)
鈥淰lad Tepes, his military campaign against the Ottoman Empire in 1462, and the forging of a Romanian national identity鈥 - Reyther Ortega (精品成人福利在线 University, Spanish and Italian)
鈥淲riting the Wardrobe, Fashioning the Text: A Study of the Armor in Don Quixote鈥
February 2016
Jeremy Lopez (University of Toronto)
鈥淪hakespeare’s Life鈥
Wednesday, February 17th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Schmitt Hall 104
November 2015
Elizabeth Hyde (Kean University)
鈥淥f Monarchical Climates and Republican Soil: Andr茅 Michaux and Franco-American Botany in the Eighteenth Century鈥
Wednesday, November 18th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Schmitt Hall 104
October 2015
Richard Strier (University of Chicago)
“Paleness versus Eloquence: The Ideologies of Style in the English Renaissance”
Wednesday, October 28th, 3:30-5 p.m.
Schmitt Hall 104
September 2015
Alan Cottrell (精品成人福利在线)
“Hippolytus Restored: Angelo Poliziano and Creating Classical Scholarship
in the Italian Renaissance”
Wednesday, September 30th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Schmitt Hall 104
April 2015
Graduate Student Panel
Wednesday, April 15th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Dickson Hall, Room 179
- Tiffany Errickson (精品成人福利在线 University, English)
鈥淭he Lady鈥檚 Logos: Speech as Action in Comus鈥 - S茅raphine N鈥檢ue-Agbadou (精品成人福利在线 University, Modern Languages and Literatures)
鈥淗ow Did the Reformation Influence 16th-Century French Literature?鈥 - Beth Tippenreiter (精品成人福利在线 University, English)
鈥淗ot and Bothered: The Beelzebub-Satan Consort Relationship in John Milton鈥檚 Paradise Lost鈥
March 2015
Julia Landweber (精品成人福利在线)
“Embracing the ‘Queen of Beans’: How Coffee was Adopted into French Fashion, Medicine, and Diet, 1660-1780”
Wednesday, March 18th, 4-5:30 p.m.
Dickson 179
February 2015
Bradin Cormack (Princeton University)
“In the Time of Example: Being Unruly in Shakespeare”
Thursday, February 26th, 5-6:30 p.m.
Cohen Lounge, Dickson Hall
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