Category: Spring 2019

Spring Calendar

by Barbara Di Gennaro

Hello Early Modern Enthusiasts!

Below is the calendar for 2019 Spring. Please note, all meetings will take place from 12-1:30pm in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, room 105, except for our last meeting, which is 12-1:30pm in Whitney Humanities Center, room 208. Lunch will be provided. We look forward to seeing you all!

  • Date: Friday, 8 February, 2019
  • Speaker: Selin Unluonen, History of Art
  • Title: “With the eye of its heart: painted inscriptions of Khusraw and Shirin in the Shah Tahmasp Khamsa”
  • Respondent: Emily Glider, English
  • Date: Friday, 22 February, 2019
  • Speaker: Ian Hathaway, Renaissance Studies and History
  • Title: “The Veneto-Ottoman Mobility System: Navigating Bureaucracies Across the Sixteenth-Century Eastern Mediterranean”
  • Respondent: Alicia Petersen, Program in the History of Science and Medicine
  • Date: Friday, 8 March, 2019
  • Speaker: Tyler Kynn (formerly Conklin), History
  • Title: “Ties that Bind: The Imperial Surre Registers and the Seasonality of Ottoman Power”
  • Respondent: Selin Unlouen, History of Art
  • Date: Friday, 29 March, 2019
  • Speaker: Maria Del Mar Galindo, English
  • Title: “‘We to our selves will all our wishes grant’: Satire and the Ethics of Conquest in Dryden’s The Indian Emperour”
  • Respondent: Michael Lo Piano, Renaissance Studies and History
  • Date: Friday, 12 April, 2019
  • Speaker: Mallory Hope, History
  • Title: “Basque, Provençal, and Andalusian (Broken) Financial Connections in the Trade to America”
  • Respondent: Jacqueline Ly, History
  • Date: Friday, 3 May, 2019
  • Speaker: Sue Roberts, Former Librarian for European History
  • Title: “Stories from the Spinelli Archives, So What?”
  • Respondent: Abigail Fields, French