Schedule of Speakers for the Fall Quarter 2011

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Ryan Giles and Niall Atkinson, I would like to present the new Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop schedule for Fall Quarter 2011.  Please note that meetings will take place in Wieboldt 207 at noon unless otherwise indicated on the schedule.  Any changes to the schedule will be announced  in advance to the Workshop list-serv at western-mediterranean-culture-workshop@lists.uchicago.edu and posted here on this blog.

 

Friday, October 7, 2011

James Nemiroff, (Ph.D Student, The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Chicago) will present a paper entitled “Esther as Crypto-Jew: Hermeneutics “in reverse” in Lope de Vega’s La hermosa Ester (1610).

Respondent: Victoria Grefer (Ph.D Student, The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the University of Chicago)

Friday, October 14, 2011

Andrew Cashner (Ph.D Student, History and Theory of Music, The University of Chicago) will present a paper entitled “Playing Cards at the Eucharistic Table: The Surprising Theology of a Mexican Villancico for Corpus Christi 1628 and its Social Implications.”

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Professor Celso Martins Azar Filho  (Department of Philosophy, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) will present a paper entitled “The Idea of Reform in Montaigne’s Essays

*** Please note the unusual day of the week***

Friday, October 28, 2011

Professor Emilio Ros Fabregas (2011-2012 Joan Corromines Visiting Chair of Catalan Studies; Permanent Researcher in Musicology at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Barcelona)  Title of Paper TBD.

Thursday November 10 and Friday November 11, 2011 (Locations TBD)

Leonard Barkan (Class of 1943 Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University) Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Workshop.  

November 10:  Lecture on Michelangelo and Poetry.

November 11 : Workshop: Selections from Unswept Floor: Food Culture and High Culture, Antiquity and Renaissance

***Please note the unusual day of the week***

 

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Ingrid Greenfield (Ph.D Student, Department of Art History, The University of Chicago) Title of Paper TBD

 

***Please note the unusual day of the week***

 

People having any questions or concerns about the Workshop or needing any assistance in attending this event should contact the Graduate Student Coordinator James Nemiroff (jnemiroff@uchicago.edu). We look forward to seeing you at our meetings.

 

Sincerely Yours,

James Nemiroff

Graduate Student Coordinator

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

2011-2012 Academic Year

 

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