Schedule of Speakers Academic Year 2009-2010

Spring 2010:

Friday, April 9, 2010

Heather Allen, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Spanish;  on “Cannibalizing the Text: Transcription as Commentary in New Spain”

Friday, April 23, 2010

Michael Subialka, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian, and the Committee on Social Thought; on “Transforming Plato: Tommaso Campanella’s La città del sole, the Republic, and the New Science”

Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 4:30pm

Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Professor of Medieval History, l’Université Paris-Sorbonne; title forthcoming

Friday, May 7 – Saturday, May 8, 2010 in Rosenwald 405

Conference on “Intellectual Exchange and Networks” in collaboration with Renaissance Workshop and Early Modern Workshop

Friday, May 21, 2010

Carmela Mattza, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures, Spanish; title forthcoming

Friday, June 4, 2010

Robert Kendric, Professor of Music, The University of Chicago; on “What’s in the Letters?  Early Modern Exegesis and Music in Lamentations”

Winter 2010:

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

Friday, January 15, 2010

Rebecca Zorach, Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Chicago; on “Turning the Triangle Upside Down in Quattrocento Florence”

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 3:00pm

Beth Anderson, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian, The University of Chicago; on “Can We Just Be Friends?  The Relationship Between Petrarch and Laura in the Triumphs and the Canzoniere

Friday, February 12, 2010

Nancy Canepa, Associate Professor of French and Italian, Dartmouth College; on “Once Upon a Time, in Naples: Crisis of Exemplarity and Enchantment of the Everyday in Basile’s cunti

Friday, February 26, 2010

Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor of English, The University of Chicago; on “Earthly Petrarch”

Friday, March 5, 2010

Anita Damjanovic, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Chicago; on “The Prodigious Magician and His Servants: the Role of Clarin and Moscon”

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”

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