Last Year’s Schedule
For the record…
Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop Calendar
All sessions will meet in Wieboldt Rm. 207 at 12 pm unless otherwise indicated
Spring 2009
Friday, April 17. Elizabeth Anderson (graduate student, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago), “Friendship and Petrarch’s Poetics of Love in the Triumphus Cupidinis.”
Friday, April 24. Daniel K. Gullo (graduate student, History, University of Chicago), “Indulgences, Images and the Reform of the Confraternity of Montserrat.”
Monday, May 4 at 4:30 pm. Erminia Ardissino (Associate Professor, Università di Torino), “Scrittura visiva e musicale nelle lettere di Galileo.” Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Thursday, May 7. Julian Weiss (Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish and Director of the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, King’s College, London), “Between the censor and the critic: the emergence of the literary subject in Early Modern Spain.” Co-sponsored by the Committee on Social Thought.
Friday, May 8. Sherry Roush (Associate Professor of Italian, Penn State University), “Tommaso Campanella’s Humanistic Imperative.”
Friday, May 15 at 2 pm. Joan Lluis Llinàs (Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago, Professor in the Dept. of Philosophy at the University of the Balearic Islands), “Machiavelli and the Dawn of the Modern Thinking.”
Friday, May 22. 12:30 pm. Carmela Mattza (graduate student, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago), “From Estrella to Elisabeth of France: Reading La vida es sueño as Speculum Reginae.”
Winter 2009
Friday, January 30. Bernard McGinn (Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity, The Divinity School, University of Chicago), “Miguel de Molinos: A Theological Reappraisal.”
Friday, February 13. noon. Iva Olah (graduate student, Art History, University of Chicago), “Memory, magic, and magi: the ars memoria in late fifteenth-century Italian print culture.”
Friday, February 13. 4 pm. WB 408. José Antonio Rodríguez Garrido (Profesor principal de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), “El teatro cortesano en la Lima colonial: recepción y prácticas escénicas.”
Friday, February 20. Jorge Abril Sánchez (graduate student, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago), “Don Quixote as a hueste antigua: A Pastoral Wild Hunt Leading to the Underworld.”
Friday, February 27. Jean Balsamo (Professor of French Literature, Université de Reims), “Three French travellers in Malta (1588-1616).”
Wednesday, March 11. Shawn Keener (graduate student, Music, University of Chicago), “The giustiniana as everyday practice: male conviviality in Venetian life,” a chapter from her dissertation entitled “The giustiniana phenomenon and Venetian cultural memory, 1400-1600.”
Fall 2008
Wednesday, October 8 at 5:30 pm. Marco Arnaudo (Assistant Professor of Italian, Indiana University-Bloomington), “Reading the Invisible Text: Accetto, Pallavicino, Machiavelli.” Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Friday, October 10. Martha Feldman (Professor of Music, University of Chicago), “Castrato De Luxe: Blood, Gifts, and Goods.”
Friday, October 24. Enrique García Santo-Tomás (Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), “Galileo in Spain: Science and Fiction(s).”
Friday, November 14. Jennifer Haraguchi (graduate student, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago), “Theater and Mortification for Rich and Poor Girls in Seventeenth-Century Florence.”
Friday, December 5. Rivi Handler-Spitz (graduate student, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago), “Unsteady Signification in Social and Material Life: Clothing, Money, and Books,” a chapter from her dissertation entitled “Diversity, Deception, and Discernment in the Late Sixteenth Century: A Comparative Study of Li Zhi’s A Book to Burn and Montaigne’s Essays.” Co-sponsored by the Workshop on Literature and Cultural History in Pre-Modern East Asia.
