We are pleased that for our sixth and final meeting of the fall quarter, Larry Norman, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French) and Theatre and Performance Studies will join us to share part of his forthcoming book on the Quarell of the Ancients and the Moderns.  His talk will be on:

“Being Modern in Early-Modern France: Antiquity after Humanism”

Click on link above to download the paper that we will discuss during the workshop.

December 4, 2009 at 12:00pm in WB 207.

Light lunch will be served.

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

A conference hosted by the Early Modern, Renaissance, and Western Mediterranean Workshops of the University of Chicago

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.