Events
2013 Renaissance Studies Graduate Conference
Renaissance Orientations: East and West, North and South
April 19, 2013
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM, McCormick 106
Keynote Speaker: Adam Beaver, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University
The cultural moment of the Renaissance can be characterized not only as a movement in time - as artists and writers looked back to and marked a new sense of temporal displacement from the cultural and political forms of classical antiquity - but also as a set of real and imagined passages through space. These geographical transits often seem to fall along the lines of the compass rose: we might think here of the movement from East to West of Greek art, texts and intellectuals and its mythic-historical corollary in the translatio imperii; or of the spread of cultural forms and discourses northward from Florence, Venice, and Rome through the period.
“Renaissance Orientations: East and West, North and South” aims to bring together graduate students from across the disciplines to explore and interrogate the usefulness and importance of these conceptual axes for the study of Renaissance cultural space, broadly conceived and at any scale, from the local to the global. We welcome papers offering new perspectives on traditional lines of interaction, as well as those which expand or destabilize prevailing structures of Renaissance cultural geography.
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For any questions, please contact: renaissanceorientations@gmail.com
Princeton University Department of Art & Archaeology Graduate Student Symposium
"Why Art History Matters: Politics, Ethics, Objects"
Friday, March 8 - Saturday, March 9, 2013
The Program in Renaissance Studies proudly contributed to this exciting event. For more information, please review the following Call for Papers.
To all new and returning folks interested in Renaissance Studies, please come join us at our:
Renaissance Studies Welcome Party
Wednesday, September 19th
6:00 PM
209 Scheide Caldwell House
The Renaissance Studies Program invites you to our welcome party to celebrate the beginning of a new academic year! Pizza and soda will be served. All are welcome. New undergraduate and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend, so please do feel free to forward this to any students that might be interested. This is your chance to meet our Director, Professor Marina Brownlee, and to find out about our upcoming lectures, events, and activities. No need to RSVP. Just come!
2012-13 Lecture Series
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Thursday, October 4th
Adrian Randolph, Dartmouth College
“Before the Reclining Nude”
4:30 PM, 127 East Pyne
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Tuesday, October 23rd
Alan Stahl, Firestone Library
“Wealth and Power in Early Renaissance Venice: The Condulmer Family in the First Century After the Black Death"
6:00 pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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Tuesday, November 20th
Alvaro Enrigue Soler, Princeton University
“Unworthy Usury in the Gods: Money, Credit and Love in Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz”
4:30 PM, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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- Wednesday, December 5th
Valeria Finucci, Duke University
“The Aesthetic Cure: Skin Disease, Noses, and the Invention of Plastic Surgery”
4:30 PM, 127 East Pyne
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- Tuesday, February 19th
William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University
“The Invention of Fiction”
4:30 PM, 127 East Pyne
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- Wednesday, February 20th
Roger Chartier, Director d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Professeur in the Collège de France, and Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania
"Oráculo manual y Arte de prudencia: Gracián, Amelot de la Houssaie, Courbeville, Savage"
A Lecture in Spanish, sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies, the Program in Renaissance Studies, and the Department of Spanish and Portueguese Languages and Cultures
12:00 PM Lunch, Prospect House Library
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- Thursday, March 7th
Giuseppe Gerbino, Columbia University
“Epistemologies of Sound in Renaissance Italy: A Musical Perspective”
4:30 PM, 127 East Pyne
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- Monday, April 8th
Paula E. Findlen, Stanford University
“Seeing Fossils: Art and Science in Seventeenth-Century Messina”
Lecture supported by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council
4:30 PM, 106 McCormick Hall
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- Tuesday, April 16th and Wednesday, April 17th
Mercedes García-Arenal, Center for Human and Social Sciences, Madrid
April 16th: "Chivalric Fictions and "True" Historical Chronicles: Miguel de Luna's Historia verdadera del rey don Rodrigo"
April 17th: "Doubt and Unbelief: Early Modern Iberia"
Lectures sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages & Cultures
Both lectures will take place at 4:30 PM in 105 Chancellor Green.
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Tuesday, April 23rd
Anston Bosman, Amherst College
“Translating Renaissance Drama: Network, Platform, Apps”
4:30 PM, 127 East Pyne
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Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Convivium
The Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Convivium provides graduate students with a chance to present a work in progress and receive feedback from colleagues already familiar with a pre-circulated version of the work. Presentations are approximately 30 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute question-and-answer session. The Convivium is an excellent opportunity to present a paper or article before a friendly audience before delivering it at a conference or submitting it for publication.
If you would like to participate as a presenter in an upcoming meeting of the Convivium, please contact: Marina Brownlee (msb@princeton.edu)