Nov 26 2010
Dear Colleagues, Please join the Western Mediterranean and Medieval Studies Workshops for our last meeting of the quarter on next Friday, December 3rd, at 12:00 in Wieboldt 207. Prof. Ryan Szpiech (Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan) will be presenting a paper titled “Hermeneutical Muslims? Islam as Witness in Christian Anti-Judaism.” Respondent: Uri Shachar [...]
Nov 23 2010
All sessions meet in Wieboldt 207 on alternate Wednesdays at 12 pm unless otherwise indicated. Wednesday, October 13. Jesús Botello (PhD candidate, Romance Languages Department, University of Chicago); on “Cervantes, Philip II, and the Dialectics of Power.” Wednesday, October 27. Justin Steinberg (Associate Professor of Italian Literature, University of Chicago); on “Dante’s Writ of Safe Passage through Hell.” [...]
Nov 11 2010
Dear Colleagues, Please join us in our next meeting (please note the time change) on Thursday, November 18th, at 4:30 in Wieboldt 207. Professor Carla Rahn Phillips (Department of History, University of Minnesota) will be presenting a paper titled, “Ladies at War: Aristocratic Women during the War of the Spanish Succession.” Professor Phillips is the [...]
Nov 04 2010
Dear Colleagues, Please join us in our next meeting on Wednesday, November 10th, at 12:00 in Wieboldt 207! Professor Thomas Christensen (Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities; Associate Dean and Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division, Department of Music, University of Chicago) will be presenting a paper on “Medieval Music Literature: A Taxonomy.” Coffee and tea will be [...]