The Program Seminar serves to foster scholarly community among the faculty, students, and visiting fellows of the Program: we meet weekly to think and talk together, and this is a considerable pleasure (not to mention intellectually invigorating). Topics of the gathering vary. Often we discuss a pre-circulated work in progress, but other conversations are welcome – recent literature, events and trends in the profession, issues of common concern in the Program. The goal is to bridge the divisions and to counteract the centrifugal forces that tend to affect small programs with broad scope.
 

 

Date	Presenter	Commentator
January 31	Introductions and Organization
February 7	Renee Raphael, Mersenne as Editor and Annotator of Galileo's Two New Sciences	Dan Garber
February 14	Graham Burnett, "Who Says a Whale's a Bird?" Maurice v. Judd and the Classification of Leviathan	Tania Munz
February 21	Ingeborg Rocker	Joseph November
February 28	Donna Sy, Ties That Bind: Sex, Marriage and a Medical Anthology in the 17th-Century Leiden	Sultana Banulescu
March 7	Carla Nappi, Offspring of the Elements: Insects and Metamorphosis in Early Modern China	James Byrne
Spring Break
March 21	Tania Munz	Edward Eigen
March 28	James Byrne	Renee Raphael
April 4	Matt Wisnioski	Dan Bouk
April 11	Dan Bouk	Alistair Sponsel
April 18	Edward Eigen	Graham Burnett
April 25	Alistair Sponsel	Doogab Yi