Category Archives: Announcements

December 7: José Estrada

Dear All,

Please join us this Wednesday, December 7th, for our last meeting of the quarter.

José Estrada, a PhD candidate in the RLL Department will be presenting his dissertation chapter titled “…hasta que con la distancia las especies se confunden”: The Sea, Distance, and Shipwreck in Alarcòn’s Self-Fashioning. Medardo Rosario of RLL will be responding.

The event will take place at 4:30 PM in Wieboldt 106, and there is a pre-circulated paper. Please email me for access (cmpelletier@uchicago.edu).

We hope to see you on Wednesday!

 

CFP & Upcoming Events

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Dear all,

On behalf of the Western Mediterranean Cultures workshop, we would like to welcome our returning students and new arrivals to campus. For those unfamiliar, this workshop aims to bring together faculty and graduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences in order to create a new inter-cultural dialogue among those working on Western Mediterranean cultures during the medieval and early modern periods. It is a useful forum for works-in-progress to be discussed in a stimulating intellectual environment of your peers. We meet on Wednesdays at 4:30 PM.

Call for papers

We are now accepting presentation proposals for the year (the deadline for presenting Autumn quarter is October 1st). Submissions should include your name,department info, the project’s title, and a short description of the project (around 3-4 sentences). Please email submissions to cmpelletier@uchicago.edu. Additionally, whether or not you wish to present, please do let me know if you are interested in serving as a respondent at some point.

Upcoming events

  • October 5th at 5PM, we invite you to kick off the year with a sponsored happy hour at Woodlawn Tap! This is a great opportunity to get to know your colleagues in an informal setting while enjoying refreshments courtesy of the workshop.
  • October 26th Richard Neer of the University of Chicago’s art history department will be giving a talk at the R.A.V.E. workshop. This is a co-sponsored event.
  • October 31st We team up with the Renaissance Workshop for a presentation by Katrina Powers, a PhD candidate in the Romance Languages and Literature Department.

Please mark your calendars for these dates and stay tuned for details. We look forward to working with you all in the upcoming year and hope to see you on October 5th!

Best regards,

Chloé M. Pelletier

Graduate Student Coordinator​

 

MONDAY, April 4, at 12 PM (noon) in Harper 102, Chloe Pelletier, University of Chicago, “The Pilgrim’s Badge: rivers, bells, and the flow of sacred matter.”

 

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On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Robert Kendrick and Niall Atkinson, we want to invite you to an upcoming event.

On Monday, April 4, at 12 PM  in Harper 102, Chloe PelletierPh.D. Student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago, will present her paper, “The Pilgrim’s Badge: rivers, bells, and the flow of sacred matter.” (Note the different time: 12:00pm).

We hope to see you there!

Best regards,

Anatole Upart

Graduate Student Coordinator

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

The University of Chicago

Spring Quarter 2016

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop Schedule

Spring Quarter 2016

 

April 4 | Chloe Pelletier
Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
“The Pilgrim’s Badge: rivers, bells, and the flow of sacred matter.”
(Note the different time: 12:00pm).

April 18 | Jesús Escobar
Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Chair, Department of Art History, Northwestern University. (Note the different time and location: 3pm at Rosenwald 301)
“Halls and Spaces of Justice in Seventeenth-Century Madrid”

April 19 | Symposium The Inquisition and Information Control Before and After Galileo
This event was made possible with support from the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Lumen Christi Institute, the University of Chicago Council on Advanced Studies Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop and Early Modern Workshop, the University of Chicago History Department, the University of Chicago Divinity School, and the University of Chicago Libraries Special Collections Research Center (Note the different location and time: The Franke Institute, 12 noon – 5pm).

May 9 | Ayesha Ramachandran
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University.
“Between Epic & Lyric: Petrarch and the Poetics of Thought” at the Renaissance Workshop of the University of Chicago, co-sponsored by the Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop. (Note the different location and time: Rosenwald 405; 5 pm-6:30 pm).

May 16 | Ji Gao
Ph.D. Student, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
“Les libraires et la production littéraire à Lyon au XVIe siècle: Guillaume Rouillé et Benoît Rigaud.”

June 6 | Felipe Rojas
Spanish Instructor, University of Chicago.
“‘Más a Cristo has de imitar’: Franciscquito’s (Homo)Erotic Role in Cervantes’ Los baños de Argel.”

 
All events happen on Mondays at 1:30 PM in Harper 102, unless otherwise noted.

Monday: November 2 | 10:30AM in Harper 141 |Thomas James Dandelet, University of California Berkeley, “Fabrizio Colonna, Machiavelli, and the Rise of Imperial Political Culture in the Renaissance Mediterranean.”

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Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Robert Kendrick and Niall Atkinson, we want to invite you to an upcoming event.

On Monday, November 2, at 10:30AM in Harper 141, Thomas James Dandelet, Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of California at Berkeley, will present his paper, “Fabrizio Colonna, Machiavelli, and the Rise of Imperial Political Culture in the Renaissance Mediterranean.” The paper is available via this blog. The respondent is Miguel Martínez, Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature and the College, University of Chicago. The event is cosponsored by the Renaissance Workshop of the University of Chicago.

We hope to see you there!

Best regards,

Sarah Atkinson and Anatole Upart

Graduate Student Coordinators

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

The University of Chicago

Monday, October 5 | 10:45AM in Harper 141 | David Reher, University of Chicago, “Anti-Judaic Rhetoric in the Cantar del mio Cid.”

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Robert Kendrick and Niall Atkinson, we want to invite you to an upcoming event.

On Monday, October 5, at 10:45AM in Harper 141, David Reher, Ph.D. Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, will present “Anti-Judaic Rhetoric in the Cantar del mio Cid.” The paper will be made available via this blog, starting on Friday, October 2. Our respondent will be José Estrada, PhD student in Spanish Literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago.

We hope to see you there!

Best regards,

Sarah Atkinson and Anatole Upart

Graduate Student Coordinators

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

The University of Chicago

June 1, 2015 | 12:00PM in Rosenwald 405 | Prof. Mayte Green-Mercado, University of Michigan, “Morisco Prophecies in the French Court (1602-1607).”

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of our faculty sponsors, Professors Robert Kendrick and Niall Atkinson, we want to invite you to an upcoming event.

On June 1, 2015, at 12:00PM in Rosenwald 405 –  Mayte Green-Mercado, Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, will present “Morisco Prophecies in the French Court (1602-1607).” The paper will be pre-circulated (please, contact Prof. Green-Mercado directly at mgreenme[at]umich[dot]edu to receive the paper). The respondent is Ji Gao, PhD student in French Literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Chicago.

We hope to see you there!

Best regards,

Sarah Atkinson and Anatole Upart

Graduate Student Coordinators

Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop

The University of Chicago