Fall 2009:

(All Meetings in WB 207 from 12:00-1:20pm unless otherwise noted) 

Friday, October 9, 2009

Katie Chenoweth, Harper Fellow in Romance Languages and Literatures, French; on “The Definition of Montaigne’s Language”

Friday, October 16, 2009 (In CWAC 156)

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

Monday, October 19, 2009 (From 4:30-6:00pm)

Guest Speaker María José Álvarez Faedo, Professor of Comparative Literature, Universidad de Oviedo; 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, 2009

David Arbesú, Professor of Spanish, Augustana College; “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, 2009

Maggie Fritz-Morkin, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian; “Andreuccio at the Well,” on Boccaccio’s Decameron, excrement, and early-modern water politics

Friday, December 4, 2009

Larry Norman, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, French, The University of Chicago, on “Being Modern in Early-Modern France: Antiquity After Humanism”