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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
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 English
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 Uni$
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 InterpretationSimone 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
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Tuesday, October 7
4:30 pm Dickinson 210 |
Magic and the Practices of Learning in Renaissance Europe
Anthony Grafton (Department of History) |
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Thursday, October 23
4:30 Dickinson 210 |
The Late Ming Calendar Crisis in China in Light of the Gregorian Reforms in Europe
Benjamin Elman (East Asian Studies) |
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Thursday, November 6
4:30 Dickinson 210 |
Turning inward, Communicating outward: Marguerite de Navarre’s Miroir as a two-fold reflection of the soul
Sinda Vanderpool (French and Italian) |
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Wednesday, November 19
4:30 McCormick 106 |
The Mirror of Ancient Ladies: Gendered Spaces in the Venetian Renaissance Palace
Patricia Fortini Brown (Department of Art and Archeology) |
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Tuersday, December 2
4:30 Dickinson 210 |
Joking in Renaissance Italy: Poggio Bracciolini's Facetiae, Castiglione's Il Cortegiano, and the Vernacular Tradition of Bawdy Humor
Elizabeth McCahill (History) |
| Schedule of Talks - Fall 2002 Series |
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| October 17, 2002 |
"Aesthetics and Desire: A Renaissance Meditation"
Leonard Barkan (Department of Comparative Literature) |
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| October 24, 2002 |
"Black Magic and White Magnets in the Early Modern Period"
Eileen Reeves (Department of Comparative Literature) |
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November 14, 2002
Princeton Rare Books, Firestone Library |
"Forms of Speaking Most in Fashion: The Academy of Compliments and the Degenerating Commonplace Book"
Amy Haley (Department of History) |
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| November 21, 2002 |
"Storming Minorca: Events, News, Spectacle, and Private Interest in the Making of French Public Opinion (1756)"
Thierry Rigogne (Department of History) |
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| December 5, 2002 |
"Christic and Chiastic Dialogues: Erasmus and Béroalde de Verville"
Philippe Baillargeon (Department of French & Italian) |
| Schedule of Talks - Spring 2002 Series |
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February 21, 2002
McCosh 40 |
"John Lyly's Anatomy of Experience"
Jeff Dolven (Department of English) |
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| February 28, 2002 |
"Re-Membering Montrose: Mercurius Caledonius
and the Restauration of Aristocratic Culture in Scotland, 1660-61"
John Hintermaeir (Department of History) |
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| March 14, 2002
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"Many Sisters Under the Skin: Old Testament
Women in thye Plays of Tirso de Molina"
Maryrica Lottman (Department of Spanish & Portuguese) |
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| April 11, 2002 |
"Art and the Conventual Life in Renaissance
Venice"
Francesca Toffolo (Department of Art & Archeology ) |
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| April 25, 2002 |
"Music and Allegory in Renaissance England"
Joe Ortiz (Department of English) |
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| 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 |
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| Tuesday, October 16, 2001 |
"Making Fire: Conflagration and Religious Controversy 1640-1680"
Nigel Smith (Department of English) |
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| October 25, 2001
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"The Ascetic Aesthetic of the Carthusians in Naples: The Certosa di San Martino in the History of Ornement"
Nick Napoli (Department of Art & Archeology) |
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| November 15, 2001
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"A Painter, a Cadaver, and a Portrait:Depicting Sanctity in Seventeenth-century Spain"
Amanda Wunder (Department of History) |
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| 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 |
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| Tuesday, February 20, 2001 |
"Dirty Amens: Coercion and Consent in Richard III"
Ramie Targoff (Department of English, Yale University) |
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| March 1, 2001 |
Manipulating Expertise: the Case of the Queen v. Northumberland
Eric Ash (Department of History; Program in the History of Science)
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| 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) |
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| Monday, April 9, 2001 |
"Language Questions in the Renaissance: The Latin Variant"
Ann Moss (Professor of French, University of Durham, UK) |
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| 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 |
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October 2, 2000
Dickinson 210 |
"Who Was Doctor Faustus? The Renaissance Magus in Context"
Anthony Grafton (Department of History) |
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| October 19, 2000 |
Selling Italy Abroad: "The Commercialization of the Madrigal in the Print World of Northern Europe"
Susan G. Lewis (Department of Music) |
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| November 9, 2000 |
"Awake remembrance of these valiant dead": Secular Memorialization in Shakespeare's Henry V
Harold Ramdass (Department of English) |
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| 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) |
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December 7, 2000
McCosh 40
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"From Playhouse to Printing House: or, Making a Good Impression"
David Scott Kastan (Department of English, Columbia University) |
| Schedule of Talks - Spring 2000 Series |
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| 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) |
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| February 22, 2000 |
“What is Prosification? Notes on Jean Wauquelin's Mid-15th Century Translations”
David Wrisley (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures) |
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| March 7, 2000 |
"Maps and Boundaries: Cosmo-Politics in Renaissance Editions of Ptolemy's Geography"
Zur Shalev (Department of History) |
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| March 28, 2000 |
"Locke and the Light of Nature"
Paul Bou-Habib (Department of Politics) |
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| April 11, 2000 |
“Listeners, Spectators, and Collectors: Music and Intellectual Life in Late Seventeenth-Century Rome”
Stefanie Tcharos (Department of Music) |
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April 25, 2000
12:30 p.m. |
" '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) |
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| 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 |
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| October 5, 1999 |
"Books in Books: Hiding Places in the Era of Printing"
Paul Needham (Scheide Librarian, Princeton University Library) |
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October 19, 1999
McCormick Hall, room 103 |
"The Visual Arts and Poetry in Seventeenth-Century Silesia"
Joshua Waterman (Department of Art and Archaeology) |
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| November 9, 1999 |
"Seventeenth-Century England: Her Gardens, Waters, and Imperial Sails"
Professor Earl Miner (Department of English) |
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November 16, 1999
McCormick Hall, room 106 |
"The Censorship of Images in the Renaissance: Art, Politics, and Religious Conflict"
Christiane Andersson (Institute for Advanced Study and Bucknell University) |
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November 23, 1999
McCormick Hall, room 106 |
"Charlatanry and Antiquarians in Eighteenth-Century Rome"
Tamara Griggs (Department of History) |
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| December 14, 1999 |
"The Rhetorical Background of the Praise of Rome in Cervantes' Last Novel, Persiles"
Yun Shao (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures) |
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