(conference archives)

• Tuesday, October 25th
  Richard Halpern, Johns Hopkins University
  "The Same Old Grind: Milton as Sub-Tragic Hero"
  4:30 PM, McCosh 40
  This paper explores the strains endured by classical conceptions of tragedy when a protagonist who labors is forced upon it. Milton’s Samson, chained to his giant mill wheel, is trapped at a level below that of heroic action, history, and even genuine tragic suffering. At the same time, his labor adumbrates a universalism that, for later thinkers such as Hegel and Kierkegaard, characterizes all genuine tragic fictions.  The torsion exerted on tragic drama  by Milton’s laboring hero is symptomatic, I claim, of a dilemma afflicting tragedy more broadly in the modern era.

• Monday, November 14th
  David A. Boruchoff, McGill University
  "The Three Greatest Inventions of Modern Times: An Idea and Its Public"
  4:30 PM, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
  Important ideas are usually simple and seductive, able to catch and hold the imagination of a public, which then makes the idea its own.  One especially long-lived example is the claim that divine providence reserved certain key discoveries and inventions for modern times.  This idea--which arose in conjunction with the European Reconnaissance of the fifteenth centuries, cut across political and religious divisions, and assisted self-proclaimed Moderns to assert their independence from intellectual and cultural forebears---soon crystallized about three inventions in particular: the magnetic compass, the printing press, and firearms.  For unlike eyeglasses, distillation, the water mill, or the mechanical clock, these three inventions enlarged the horizons of European society, and changed how peoples and nations would henceforth relate to one another.  In this paper, I seek to trace the amazingly swift dissemination of the commonplace of the three greatest inventions and its use by a "who's who" of European letters.
  

• Tuesday, December 6th
  Gary Tomlinson, Yale University
  
  2011-2012 Eberhard Faber Lecture
  "Music, Affect, and Sign: A Ficinian Genealogy"
  4:30 PM, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
  Current speculation on the nature of musical effect and expression takes off from terms defined in a post-Romantic musical discourse exemplified by the opposed positions of Wagner and Eduard Hanslick.   Behind this discourse, however, there extends a hidden history reaching back through Vico’s New Science to the musical psychologism of Marsilio Ficino.   This lecture will describe a constellation of cultural topoi not usually juxtaposed, discovering in the process unexpected affinities between premodern magic and postmodern cognitivism, between occult similitudes and Peircean semiotics, and between pre- and post-Cartesian conceptions of the human imagination.  

• Wednesday, February 15th
  Joost Keizer, Yale University
  
  "Piero's Realism"
  4:30 PM, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
  A cult of realism re-emerged in European art in the fourteenth centuries and fifteenth centuries, at the same time that artworks began to be attributed to individual artists. Paintings produced under the conditions of verisimilitude - literally, resemblance to truth - deny the fact that they are made things in order not to destroy the illusion that they perfectly imitate the real. In this talk, I will argue that painting?s concern with hiding its manufacture prevented the period from formulating a strong model of individual style. Rather than understanding the authorship of painting by looking at how a picture showed, early Renaissance culture looked at what it showed. Using the art of Piero della Francesca as a relevant testcase, my presentation explores the possibility that the artist's contemporaries understood painting as an index of the artist's lifeworld.

• Wednesday, March 7th
  Leah Chang, George Washington University
  "Mother's Blood: The Political Authority of Catherine de Médicis" 
  4:30 PM, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
  Focusing on the 1575 Discours merveilleux, an anonymously-authored pamphlet attacking Catherine de Médicis, this talk will explore how the figure of the Queen Mother serves as a focal point of discourses struggling with changing concepts of ethnic, national, and gender difference in the second half of the century.  In particular, I will discuss how the pamphlet deals with the complex problem of blood. On the one hand the text grapples with the authority of maternal blood that has sustained Catherine’s position as regent and counselor to the crown.  On the other, it levels an insidious blood accusation against the Queen Mother: Catherine is accused of defiling the maternal blood bond and perverting the royal bloodline through violence and murder. Inflamed by religious polemic and xenophobia, the Discours’s portrait of Catherine marries a version of blood libel with a deep-seated misogyny that rears its head in the face of violent conflict between differing cultures within France. 

• Tuesday, March 27th
  Denis Nosnitsin, University of Hamburg
  "Preserving the African Archive: Field Research on Early Manuscripts and Monasteries in Northern Ethiopia" 
  4:30 PM, 127 East Pyne
   
• Wednesday, April 25th
  Christiane Frey, Princeton University
  "Sensus Spiritualis: Secularisms from Dante to Spinoza" 
  4:30 PM, 209 Scheide Caldwell House 

Schedule of Colloquium Events, Spring 2011

• Tuesday, October 5th
  Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
  "Humanists with Inky Fingers: The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe" 
  5:00 pm, 010 East Pyne

• Thursday, November 11th
  Jane Tylus, New York University
  "Gaspara Stampa and the Discovery of the Sublime"
  4:30 pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
• Tuesday, November 16th
  Hester Schadee, Society of Fellows
  "Caesar and the Renaissance Commentary: A Typology of Imitation" 
  5:00 pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
• Thursday, December 9th
  Stephen Campbell, Johns Hopkins University
  "Place/Portal/Screen: Mantegna and the 15th Century Altarpiece" 
  5:00 pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
• Tuesday, February 22
  Tom Conley, Harvard University
  “Lyrical Topographies:  Poetry and Geography in Renaissance France”
  5:00 pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell House 
• Thursday, March 3
  Margreta De Grazia, University of Pennsylvania
  “Re-enchanting the Reformation”
  5:00 pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell House 

* Indicates part of the Renaissance and Early Modern Colloquium

Schedule of Colloquium Events, Spring 2010

• Friday, February 12th
  Renaissance Studies Convivium (see below)
  
• *Monday, February 22nd
  Adam Beaver, Department of History
  "Pietro Martire in the Levant: Spain and Egypt ca. 1500"
  5:00pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
  
  In August 1502, the Italian-turned-Spanish humanist Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (1457-1526) was summoned to the Alhambra for an audience with his adopted patrons, Fernando and Isabel. There he was given the assignment of a lifetime: effective immediately, he was to depart for Venice, whence he should proceed with haste to Egypt. There, he was to represent the Catholic Monarchs in diplomatic negotiations with the Mamluk Sultan Qansuh al-Ghawri. After months filled with fraught negotiations and antiquarian excursions, Martire returned to Spain, where he collected his epistolary reflections on his travels into an elegant narrative in good humanist Latin, published several times from 1511 forward as the Legatio Babylonica. The Legatio and its companion documents are remarkably rich texts, overflowing with observations about everything from classical antiquities to Muslim dress to crocodile hunting on the Nile. For the purpose of this talk, however, the main interest in Martire's embassy lies in what it has to tell us about the impact of the eastern Mediterranean world at a key moment in the development of the Spanish Monarchy. 
• Tuesday, March 2nd
  John Rogers, Yale University
  "Coming Out in Milton's Lycidas"
  4:30pm, 40 McCosh Hall
  Reception to follow in the Thorp Library
  
• *Thursday, March 11th
  Valentin Groebner, University of Lucerne
  “Fleisch:  The Human Body as a Commodity in Renaissance Europe”
  4:30pm, 010 East Pyne
  
• Tuesday, March 23rd
  Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture
  Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
  "Early Modern (French) Views of Medieval Jews: A Forgotten Legend about the Origins of Financial Capitalism"
  4:30pm, 010 East Pyne
  Poster  
• Monday, March 29th
  Berthold Kress, Index of Christian Art
  "Paul Lautensack's Letter to the Lady Gundelfingerin"
  5:00pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell 
• Tuesday, March 30th
  Alan Stahl, Firestone Library
   "Renaissance Numismatics"
  5:00pm, Firestone Library's Department of Coins and Medals  
• *Thursday, April 1st
  François Rigolot, Department of French and Italian
  "March 6th, 1581: Montaigne Visits the Vatican Library"
  5:00pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
  Poster
  
  Montaigne's Journal de voyage en Italie, written between June 1580 and November 1581, raises a number of questions about its authorship. The manuscript was not discovered until 1770, when it was almost immediately co-edited by the chief custodian of the king's papers at the French Royal Library, and an Italian scholar who worked for the Acad&eacutemie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. The discovery was enthusiastically heralded by the French philosophes, and no less than three editions were published in 1774. Although the manuscript disappeared during the French Revolution and has never been recovered, an incomplete 18th-century hand-written copy (the "Leydet Copy") was discovered in the 1980's. One of the key episodes of Montaigne's stay in Rome is his visit to the Vatican Library, which he narrates in detail. It sheds light on the manuscripts and printed material he was able to consult there in conjunction with the 1580 edition of the Essais, and the following editions he was to publish after his return from Italy.
• Wednesday, April 21st
  Peter Miller, Bard College
  "The Mediterranean as a Problem for the History of Antiquarianism"
  12:00 noon, 210 Dickinson Hall
• April 24th and 25th
  2010 Princeton University Renaissance Studies and Italian Studies Graduate Conference
  More Details
• Monday, April 26
  The English Renaissance Colloquium and the Princeton Renaissance Studies Colloquium
  Russ Leo , Society of Fellows
  "Milton With Spinoza:  Affect, Substance, and Samson Agonistes"
  4:30pm, McCosh 26
• *Thursday, April 29th
  Patricia Fortini Brown, Department of Art and Archaeology
  "Venice Outside Venice: Toward a Cultural Geography of the Venetian Republic"
  5:00pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
  
  Assembled over time for purposes of military defense and economic security, the Venetian empire once stretched from the Italian mainland to the islands and coastlines of the Mediterranean. Cities as disparate as Padua, birthplace of Palladio, and Candia, birthplace of El Greco, were made to express a common Venetian identity through  emblematic structures - fortifications, civic buildings, fountains, portals - constructed by a succession of rotating officials, who sought to fashion their personal identities as well. This paper is a first attempt to explore the tension between public concerns and private interests in the expression of Venetian hegemony both at home and abroad.

* Indicates part of the Renaissance and Early Modern Colloquium

Schedule of Colloquium Events, Fall 2009

• Monday, September 21st
  Renaissance Gathering - Welcome Party
  Come meet fellow faculty and graduate students of the Princeton Renaissance Program.
  4:30pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Tuesday, October 6th
  Paola Baseotto, Insubria University (Como, Italy)
  "Playing the Machiavellian Prince? Elizabeth I, Machiavelli and Realpolitik"
  Co-sponsored with the Program in Italian Studies
  5:00pm, 203 Scheide Caldwell
• Thursday, October 8th
  Giovanni Zanovello, Indiana University
  "Impossible Decorum: Humanism and Frottole in the Manuscript Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Alpha F.9.9"
  Co-sponsored with the Department of Music
  4:30pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Thursday, October 15th
  Kathy Eden, Columbia University
  "Liquid Fortification and the Law in King Lear"
  4:30pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Monday, November 9th
  Meredith Gill, University of Maryland
  "'Closer Than the Shirt on Our Body': Lucifer and the Fall of the Rebel Angels"
  5:00pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Thursday, November 12th - Saturday, November 14th
  Hellenic Studies 30th Anniversary Conference
  Renaissance Encounters: Greek East and Latin West
  See program for details.
• Monday, November 16th
  Oliver Arnold, Department of English
  "Freedom Delivered: The Glorious Revolution, John Dennis, and the Anxiety of Empire"
  5:00pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Monday, December 7th
  Christina Lee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
  "The Quest for Purity in Cervantes' World"
  4:30pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Tuesday, December 15th
  Don Skemer, Curator of Manuscripts, Firestone Library
  "The Renaissance Book from Manuscript to Print"
  4:30pm, Rare Books Division, Firestone Library

Schedule of Colloquium Events, Spring 2009

• Thursday, February 19th
  "Our Friend Venus Performed to a Miracle": Anne Bracegirdle, John Eccles, and Creativity
  Amanda Eubanks Winkler
  Syracuse University
  5:00pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Thursday, March 26th
  Becoming a Numismatic Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Naples
  John Moore
  Smith College
  5:00pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Thursday, April 23rd
  Late Renaissance Natural Theology: Between Natural History and Apologetics
  Brian Ogilvie
  University of Massachusetts
  5:00pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Thursday, April 30th
  Monsieur Colbert's Notebooks and the State Culture of Expertise in Europe, 1650-1750
  Jacob Soll
  Rutgers University
  5:00pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Friday-Saturday, May 8th-9th
  Expertise in the Early Modern World
  Graduate Student Conference

Schedule of Colloquium Events, Fall 2008

• Thursday, October 2nd
  The Logic of Sovereignty
  Jacques Lezra
  New York University
  4:45pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Thursday, October 16th
  A Real Page-Turner: Renaissance Poets Reading and (Re-)Writing
  JoAnn DellaNeva
  University of Notre Dame
  5:00pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Tuesday, November 11th 
  Before Italian Poets Had to Reckon with Genre: Ariosto, Virgil, and the Last Part of Orlando furioso
  Daniel Javitch
  New York University
  5:00pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Thursday, November 20th
  Milton's Lycidas: Primitive Art?
  Gordon Teskey
  Harvard University
  4:30pm, 010 East Pyne
  Poster

Schedule of Colloquium Events, Spring 2008

• Thursday, March 6th
  Women's Musical Voices in Sixteenth-Century England
  Linda Austern
  Northwestern University
  4:45pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Thursday, March 13th
  Picturing the Renaissance: The Engravings of Perrissin and Tortorel as Sources for d'Aubigné's Tragiques
  Kathleen Long
  Cornell University
  4:45pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Friday, April 4th
  That old-time religion: Lord Baltimore and the Jesuits in Maryland, 1630-1645
  Antoinette Sutto
  Princeton University
  4:45pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Thursday-Friday, May 1st-2nd
  The Charlatan in Europe, 1500-1700
  Graduate Student Conference

Schedule of Colloquium Events, Fall 2007

• Friday, November 16th
  Envisioning Empire: Competing Cartographies in the Early Modern Hispanic World
  Ricardo Padron
  University of Virginia
  4:45pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Thursday, November 29th
  Inventing the History of the Future: Narrative Time and the Prophetic Present in Spenser's The Faerie Queene
  J.K. Barret
  Princeton University
  4:45pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Tuesday, December 4th
  Artisans and their Philosophers: Early Modern Calculating Machines and Natural Hierarchy
  Matthew Jones
  Columbia University
  4:45pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell

Schedule of Colloquium Events, Spring 2007

• Wednesday, February 14
  Words as Things: Speech and Writing in the Letters of Catherine of Siena
  Jane Tylus
  Professor of Italian, New York University
  4:45pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Wednesdsay, February 21
  Archipelagic Macbeth
  John Kerrigan
  University Professor of English 2000, University of Cambridge
  4:30pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
  Sponsored by the Department of English
• Thursday, March 1
  Why Milton is not a Religious Writer
  Stephen Fallon
  University of Notre Dame
  4:30pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
  Sponsored by the Department of Engliss
• Thursday, April 5 - NOTE NEW DATE
  Title TBA
  Bianca Calabresi
  Haarlow-Cotsen Fellow, Princeton University
• Thursday-Friday, May 4-5
  Questioning Renaissance Pieties
  Graduate Student Colloquium
• Monday, May 7
  Title TBA
  Julia Reinhard Lupton
  Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

Schedule of Colloquium Events, Fall 2006

• Wednesday, September 27
  Enlightened Patriarchs, Women Intellectuals and the Foundations of Renaissance Feminism
  Sarah Ross
  Institute for Advanced Study
  4:45 PM, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Thursday, October 19
  Butter and Mercury: Towards a History of Vernacular Science in Early Modern Europe
  Pamela Smith
  Professor of History, Columbia U
  4:45 PM, 209 Scheide Caldwell
• Monday, November 6
  Milton and the Natural Philosophy of Angels
  Joad Raymond
  Professor of History, University of East Anglia
  12:00pm, 105 Chancellor Green
  Co-sponsored by the Department of History
• Wednesday, November 15
  Seventeenth Century Body Language
  Lucy Worsley
  Chief Curator, Historic Royal Palaces, United Kingdom
  4:45pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell
  Co-sponsored by the Departments of English and History
• Monday, December 4
  Michelangelo: On Paper
  Leonard Barkan
  Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
  4:45 PM, 209 Scheide Caldwell

Schedule of Colloquium Talks, Fall 2005

• Wednesday, October 5
  "Getting Stoned and Making Babies: Boccaccio's Decameron Between Ovidian and Biblical Interpretation
  Simone Marchesi
  Department of French and Italian, Princeton University
  4:45 PM, 203 Scheide Caldwell
  Lecture Reading: Decameron 8.3, Decameron 9.3
• Tuesday, October 11-Thursday, October 13
  Visit by Harry Berger (Council for the Humanities, Short-Term Visiting Fellow)
• Tuesday, October 11:
  "Women with Elbows: Reading Seventeenth-Century Dutch Pendants"
  4:30 PM, 106 McCormick
• Wednesday, October 12:
  "The Villain's Discourse in Richard III and Othello"
  8:00 PM, Dodds Auditorium
• Thursday, October 13
  "Reflections on Metaphor and Metonymy"
  4:30 PM, McCosh 40
• Wednesday, October 26
  "'Print Maketh the Man?': Early Modern Printed Editions of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley"
  Elizabeth Evenden
  History Faculty, Cambridge University
  4:45 PM, 203 Scheide Caldwell
• Wednesday, November 9-Thursday, November 10
  Faber Lectures: James Hankins (Department of History, Harvard University)
• Wednesday, November 9
  Lecture: "The Renaissance on the Renaissance: The Italian Humanists on Cultural Decline and Revival"
  4:30 PM, 010 East Pyne
• Thursday, November 10
  Lunchtime talk:"'Res publica' in the Italian Reniassance"
  12:00-1:30 PM, 203 Scheide Caldwell
• Wednesday, November 30
  "Maurophilia/Maurophobia"
  Barbara Fuchs
  Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania
  4:45 PM, 203 Scheide Caldwell
• Wednesday, December 14
  "'Philomele, whose tears must venge hir harms': Sympathy, Revenge, and Lyric Authorship"
  Abby Heald
  Department of English, Princeton University
  4:45 PM, 203 Scheide Caldwell

Renaissance and Early Modern Colloquium Program Fall 2003

• Tuesday, October 7
  Magic and the Practices of Learning in Renaissance Europe
  Anthony Grafton (Department of History)
  4:30 pm Dickinson 210
• Thursday, October 23
  The Late Ming Calendar Crisis in China in Light of the Gregorian Reforms in Europe
  Benjamin Elman (East Asian Studies) 
  4:30 Dickinson 210
• Thursday, November 6
  Turning inward, Communicating outward: Marguerite de Navarre’s Miroir as a two-fold reflection of the soul
  Sinda Vanderpool (French and Italian)
  4:30 Dickinson 210
• Wednesday, November 19
  The Mirror of Ancient Ladies: Gendered Spaces in the Venetian Renaissance Palace
  Patricia Fortini Brown (Department of Art and Archeology) 
  4:30 McCormick 106
• Tuesday, December 2
  Joking in Renaissance Italy: Poggio Bracciolini's Facetiae, Castiglione's Il Cortegiano, and the Vernacular Tradition of Bawdy Humor
  Elizabeth McCahill (History) 
  4:30 Dickinson 210  

Schedule of Talks - Fall 2002 Series

• October 17, 2002
  "Aesthetics and Desire: A Renaissance Meditation"
  Leonard Barkan (Department of Comparative Literature)
• October 24, 2002
  "Black Magic and White Magnets in the Early Modern Period"
  Eileen Reeves (Department of Comparative Literature)
• November 14, 2002
  "Forms of Speaking Most in Fashion: The Academy of Compliments and the Degenerating Commonplace Book"
  Amy Haley (Department of History)
  Princeton Rare Books, Firestone Library
• November 21, 2002
  "Storming Minorca: Events, News, Spectacle, and Private Interest in the Making of French Public Opinion (1756)"
  Thierry Rigogne (Department of History)   
• December 5, 2002
  "Christic and Chiastic Dialogues: Erasmus and Béroalde de Verville"
  Philippe Baillargeon (Department of French & Italian) 

Schedule of Talks - Spring 2002 Series

• February 21, 2002
  "John Lyly's Anatomy of Experience"
  Jeff Dolven (Department of English)
   McCosh 40
• February 28, 2002
  "Re-Membering Montrose: Mercurius Caledonius and the Restauration of Aristocratic Culture in Scotland, 1660-61"
  John Hintermaeir (Department of History)   
•  March 14, 2002
  "Many Sisters Under the Skin: Old Testament Women in thye Plays of Tirso de Molina"
  Maryrica Lottman (Department of Spanish & Portuguese)
• April 11, 2002
  "Art and the Conventual Life in Renaissance Venice"
  Francesca Toffolo (Department of Art & Archeology )
• April 25, 2002
  "Music and Allegory in Renaissance England"
  Joe Ortiz (Department of English)   
• May 9, 2002
  "Late Medieval Hybrid Books: A Case Study in the Transition from Hand-Produced Images to Printed Illustration"
  Todor Todorov (Department of Art & Archeology) 

Schedule of Talks - Fall 2001 Series

• Tuesday, October 16, 2001
  "Making Fire: Conflagration and Religious Controversy 1640-1680"
  Nigel Smith (Department of English)   
• October 25, 2001
  "The Ascetic Aesthetic of the Carthusians in Naples: The Certosa di San Martino in the History of Ornement"
  Nick Napoli (Department of Art & Archeology)   
• November 15, 2001
  "A Painter, a Cadaver, and a Portrait:Depicting Sanctity in Seventeenth-century Spain"
  Amanda Wunder (Department of History)   
• November 29, 2001
  "Honor and Nobility in Greville's Life of Sidney and O'cleirigh's Life of Red Hugh O Dombnaill"
  Brendan Kane (Department of History) 

Schedule of Talks - Spring 2001 Series

• Tuesday, February 20, 2001
  "Dirty Amens: Coercion and Consent in Richard III"
  Ramie Targoff (Department of English, Yale University)   
• March 1, 2001
  Manipulating Expertise: the Case of the Queen v. Northumberland
  Eric Ash (Department of History; Program in the History of Science)
  a preview of this paper is available   
• Tuesday, March 13, 2001
  "Isabella's Rule: Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure "
  Natasha Korda (Assistant Professor of English, Wesleyan University)   
• Monday, April 9, 2001
  "Language Questions in the Renaissance: The Latin Variant"
  Ann Moss (Professor of French, University of Durham, UK)
• April 26, 2001
  "Curiosity and Self-Mastery: The Subject of Philosophy in Montaigne's 'Of Cannibals'"
  Zahi Zalloua (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures) 

Schedule of Talks - Fall 2000 Series    

• October 2, 2000
  "Who Was Doctor Faustus? The Renaissance Magus in Context"
  Anthony Grafton (Department of History)
  Dickinson 210
• October 19, 2000   
  Selling Italy Abroad: "The Commercialization of the Madrigal in the Print World of Northern Europe"
  Susan G. Lewis (Department of Music)
• November 9, 2000
  "Awake remembrance of these valiant dead": Secular Memorialization in Shakespeare's Henry V
  Harold Ramdass (Department of English)   
• November 30, 2000
  "The Indies of Knowledge: or, the Imaginary Geography of the Discoveries of Gold in Brazil"
  Junia Furtado (Princeton Department of History and Universidade Federale de Minas Gerais, Brasil)   
• December 7, 2000
  "From Playhouse to Printing House: or, Making a Good Impression"
  David Scott Kastan (Department of English, Columbia University) 

Schedule of Talks - Spring 2000 Series    

• February 8, 2000
  “The Glorious Revolution of 1688-89: Putting Political Economy Back In”
  Steven Pincus (Institute for Advanced Study and University of Chicago, Department of History)
• February 22, 2000
  “What is Prosification? Notes on Jean Wauquelin's Mid-15th Century Translations”
  David Wrisley (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures)   
• March 7, 2000
  "Maps and Boundaries: Cosmo-Politics in Renaissance Editions of Ptolemy's Geography"
  Zur Shalev (Department of History)
• March 28, 2000
  "Locke and the Light of Nature"
  Paul Bou-Habib (Department of Politics)   
•  April 11, 2000
  “Listeners, Spectators, and Collectors: Music and Intellectual Life in Late Seventeenth-Century Rome”
  Stefanie Tcharos (Department of Music)   
• April 25, 2000
  " 'And all was cold, cold as any stone': Metamorphic Statues and the Apparent Corpse in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale and Tirso de Molina's El Burlador de Sevilla"
  Susanne Wofford (University of Wisconsin, Department of English)   
• May 9, 2000
  "Cannibalism and Eroticism: Issues of Flesh and Taboo in South Pacific Travel Writing"
  Stephanie Smith (Department of English) 

Schedule of Talks - Fall 1999 Series 

• October 5, 1999
  "Books in Books: Hiding Places in the Era of Printing"
  Paul Needham (Scheide Librarian, Princeton University Library)   
• October 19, 1999
  "The Visual Arts and Poetry in Seventeenth-Century Silesia"
  Joshua Waterman (Department of Art and Archaeology)   
• November 9, 1999   
  "Seventeenth-Century England: Her Gardens, Waters, and Imperial Sails"
  Professor Earl Miner (Department of English)   
• November 16, 1999
  "The Censorship of Images in the Renaissance: Art, Politics, and Religious Conflict"
  Christiane Andersson (Institute for Advanced Study and Bucknell University)   
• November 23, 1999
  "Charlatanry and Antiquarians in Eighteenth-Century Rome"
  Tamara Griggs (Department of History)   
• December 14, 1999
  "The Rhetorical Background of the Praise of Rome in Cervantes' Last Novel, Persiles"
  Yun Shao (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures)