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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)
a preview of this paper is available |
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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
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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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