Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

For our fifth meeting of the quarter, Maggie Fritz-Morkin, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, presents on excrement and water politics in Boccaccio’s Decameron in her paper:

“Andreuccio at the Well”*

 Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:00pm in Wieboldt 207.

*A more comical look at the subject is available here.

Intellectual Exchange and

Networks in Europe, 1500-1660:

 
Approaches from the Humanities and Social Sciences

May 7-8 2010

For More Information, visit the Conference Site:

http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/ren/intellectualexchange.html 

For our next meeting, we are pleased to welcome David Arbesú, Assistant Professor of Medieval and Golden Age Peninsular Studies at Augustana College, who will speak on:

“Towards a Reconstruction of Spain’s Lost Epic Poems”

Friday, 11/6/2009, 12:00-1:30pm in Wieboldt 207.

For our third meeting, which will be held on a Monday, the Workshop is excited to feature a presentation by María José Álvarez Faedo, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Oviedo, who will speak on:

“Don Quixote’s Voyage to Perfidious Albion: The Translation of Humour and Satire in 18th-Century English Versions of Cervantes’s Masterpiece”

As always, light refreshments and conversation will follow the presentation.

Monday, 10/19/2009, 4:30-6:00pm in Wieboldt 207.

Our second meeting will feature a presentation by renowned Renaissance scholar Lina Bolzoni, Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and at NYU, who will share her recent work on the intersection of word and image in a talk on:

“A Window into the Heart: Double-sided Portraits and Literary Models”

As always, light refreshments and enlightening discussion to follow.

Friday, 10/16/2009, 12:00-1:20pm in CWAC 156.

For our first workshop meeting of the year, Katie Chenoweth, Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Humanities, offers a look into the complexities of language and the development of Montaigne’s language.

As always, light refreshments to follow, along with stimulating discussion.

10/9/2009: Wieboldt 207, 12:00pm-1:20pm

The new quarter is here, and the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop is gearing up for an exciting roster of presentations and workshop events.  Below is the schedule for this fall, 2009.

Friday, October 9 (WB 207, 12:00-1:20pm)

Katie Chenoweth, Harper and Schmidt Fellow in the Humanities at The University of Chicago, will be presenting her work on “The Definition of Montaigne’s Language.”

Friday, October 16 (CWAC 156, 12:00-1:20pm)

Lina Bolzoni, Global Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at New York University and Professor of Italian Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, will be presenting on “A Window into the Heart: Double-sided Portraits and Literary Models.”  This event is co-sponsored with the Department of Art History.

Monday, October 19 (WB 207, 4:30-6:00pm)

María José Álvarez Faedo, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Oviedo, will speak on “Don Quixote’s Voyage to Perfidious Albion: The Translation of Humour and Satire in 18th-Century English Versions of Cervantes’s Masterpiece.”

Friday, November 6 (WB 207, 12:00-1:20pm)

David Arbesú, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Augustana College, will present on his work in a talk titled “Towards a Reconstruction of Spain’s Lost Epic Poems,” on the identification and reconstruction of the lost poems in the Estoria de Espanna.

Friday, November 20 (WB 207, 12:00-1:20pm)

Maggie Fritz-Morkin, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at The University of Chicago, will workshop a chapter from her dissertaion, “Andreuccio at the Well,” on Boccaccio’s Decameron, excrement, and early-modern water politics.

Friday, December 4 (WB 207, 12:00-1:20pm)

Larry Norman, Associate Professor of French Literature at The University of Chicago, will present a chapter from his book-in-progress, “Being Modern in Early-Modern France: Antiquity after Humanism.”

Erik Thomson is a Harper Fellow, Co-chair of Social Sciences, and Assistant Professor of Social Sciences.  His presentation is titled “Early Modern Elite Culture and the roots of Cosmopolitanism.”

Wed Apr 2 in CWAC 157 at 4:30 (reception to follow).  Cristelle Baskins, Associate Professor of Art & Art History at Tufts University, will present her paper, “The Renaissance as Montage in Luis Trenker’s Condotierre (1937).

April 2. Cristelle Baskins (Art History, University of Chicago)

April 7. Lia Markey (Art History, University of Chicago)

April 11. Josiah Blackmore (Portuguese, University of Toronto), “Reading the World in Renaissance Portugal.” Co-sponsored by the Lusophone World Project, the Renaissance Workshop, Comparative Literature.

April 25. Felipe Rojas (Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago), “The Devil Made Me Do It: Devilish Humor in Sendebar.”

May 9. Nukhet Varlik (NELC, University of Chicago), “Extending the boundaries of the Imperial Project: Ottoman experimentation for ‘public health.’”

May 23. Erik Thomson (Harper Fellow, University of Chicago)

June 6. George Hoffman (French, University of Michigan), “Who Were Christians?”