Archived Events

Archived Events

Fall 2023

All regular meetings will be Wednesdays at noon with lunch served.

Wednesday, September 20, 12:30pm

Mihoko Suzuki: “The Culture and Status of Japanese Women according to Portuguese Jesuit Luis Frois (1532-1597)”

Location: Richter Library (first floor), Center for the Humanities Conference Room

Wednesday, October 11, 12:30pm

Linde Brocato: “The 1449 Toledo Rebellion”

Location: Richter Library (third floor), Faculty Exploratory Room

Wednesday, November 8, 12:30pm

Charlie Bartlett: “Roman law at the origins of political economy: Antonio Serra's Breve Trattato (1613)"

Location: Richter Library (first floor), Center for the Humanities Conference Room

Spring 2023

Thursday, February 16, 4:00 pm

Molly Warsh: ““Harpies”, “Caribs” and “Beasts of the Sea”: Thinking about Itinerancy Across the Species Boundary in the Early Modern Iberian Tuna Fisheries”

Location: 3rd Floor Conference Room, Richter Library

Register here.

Thursday, February 23, 12:00 pm

Jessica Rosenberg: “From Variety to Variation in Early Modern Botanical Writing”

Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100

Monday, April 13, 12:00 pm

Mary Lindemann: “Coming Out of War(s): The Experiences of Brandenburg-Prussia in the Seventeenth Century”

Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100

Fall 2022

Location: Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100

Monday, October 24, 12:00 pm

Charles Bartlett: "Law, Rhetoric, and Criminal Investigation in the Venetian Terraferma: Francesco Casoni's De Indiciis (1557)"

Monday, November 14, 12:00 pm

Susanne Woods: "Freedom and Liberty in Lanyer and Milton"

Thursday, December 4, 12:00 pm

Gila Iloni: “Between Traveling Itinerary and Exile. Geoffrey Chaucer’s Constance in ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’”

SPRING 2022

SPRING 2020

Monday, February 24, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
Mary Lindemann (UM History)
"The Waters of Brandenburg, 1627-1721"

Thursday, March 19, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
Pam Hammons (UM English)
"Mothers and Widows: Worldmaking against Stereotypes in Early Modern English Women’s Manuscript"

Monday, April 13, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
Nelson Marques (UM History)
"Fictions from the battlefield:war stories from 17th century Brazil"

Fall 2019

Monday, September 23, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
Anna Bennett (UM History)
"TBD"

Friday, November 1, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
Frank Palmeri (UM English)
"TBD"

SPRING 2019

Monday, February 11, 2019
4:30pm
Third Floor Conference Room, Richter Library
Bill Bulman, Associate Professor of History & Global Studies, Lehigh University: "The Rise of the Majority in Revolutionary England and its Empire"

Monday, February 25, 2019
12:00pm
Law School
Miranda Spieler (American University of Paris) 

Thursday, March 7, 2019
12:30-2:00pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Karen Matthews (UM Art History)

Monday, April 15, 2019
12:30-2:00pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Bianca Premo (FIU History)

FALL 2018

Tuesday, September 18, 2018
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
Karl Gunther (UM History)
"Vengeful Martyrs and England’s Long Reformation"

Monday, October 15, 2018
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
Mary Lindemann (UM History)
"The Ecological and Environmental Consequences of the Thirty Years War: Longue durée and histoire événementielle"

Tuesday, November 13, 2018
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Richter Library
Jesse Izzo (UM History)
"Performing Consent and Consensus in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Royal Entry Ceremony in Context"

FALL 2017

Wed. October 11, 2017
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Otto G. Richter Library, 
Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Maria Stampino (UM, MLL)

Tues. November 7, 2017
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Otto G. Richter Library, 
Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Logan Connors (UM, MLL)

FALL 2016

Tuesday, September 27, 2016
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Otto G. Richter Library, 
Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
Stephanie Skenyon (UM History)

Tuesday, October 18, 2016
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Otto G. Richter Library, 
Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
Karen Matthews (UM Art History)

Wednesday, November 2, 2016
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Otto G. Richter Library, 
Third Floor Conference Rm
Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford)

SPRING 2017

Wednesday, February 1, 2017
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Otto G. Richter Library, 
Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
Karl Gunther (UM History)

Wednesday, March 8, 2017
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Otto G. Richter Library, 
Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
Mihoko Suzuki (UM English)

Thursday, April 6, 2017
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Otto G. Richter Library, 
Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
Dabney (Bud) Park

SPRING 2016

Tues. February 23, 2016, 12pm - 1pm
Otto G. Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Mary Lindemann (UM History), "Reconstructing Landscapes, Rebuilding Identities in an Age of Unending War: Brandenburg, 1627-1680” 

Wed. March 23, 2016, 12pm - 1pm
Otto G. Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Karen Matthews (UM Art History), "Materiality and the Social Agency of Small-scale Luxury Objects in the Italian Maritime Republics, 1100-1400”

Wed. April 13, 2016, 12pm-1pm
Otto G. Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Erika Harlitz Kern (UM History), "Government Officials on the Periphery during Sweden's Age of Greatness. A Study of the Political Discourse between the Swedish Council of the Realm and the Governors of New Sweden and Narva with Ingria, 1620–1660”

FALL 2015

Mon. September 28, 2015, 12pm - 1pm
Ashe Building Room 523
Sarah Ritcheson (UM English)
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Thurs. October 29, 2015, 12pm - 1pm
Otto G. Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Eugene Marshall (FIU Philosophy)

Tues. November 17, 2015, 12pm - 1pm
Otto G. Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Suite 100
Jessica Rosenberg (UM English)

SPRING 2015

Tues. February 24, 2015
12:30-1:30pm in Ashe 621
Exclusion and Recuperation in the Seventeenth-Century French Novel: In Search of the Everyday by Barbara Woshinsky

Mon. March 23, 2015
12:30-1:30pm in Ashe 427
Jason Pearl (FIU, English)
  Pearl, Consolidator.pdf
  Pearl Peter Wilkins.pdf

Fri. April 24, 2015
12:30-1:30pm in Ashe 621
Laura Giannetti (UM, MLL)
   Revision 2 Renaissance Food Fashioning Chapter 1.pdf
   Italian Renaissance Food Fashioning Laura Giannetti Immagini (PPT)

Fall 2014

Monday, Sept 22, 2014
12:30 - 1:30pm
Physics Bldg. Room 334

Wednesday, Nov 19, 2014
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Ashe Building, Room 511

SPRING 2014

Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014
12:20pm-1:35pm
Erika Harlitz Kern, Ashe 511

Friday, Feb 28, 2014
12:20pm-1:35pm
Perri Lee Roberts, Ashe 511

Thursday, Mar 27, 2014
12:20pm-1:35pm
Carolyn Zimmerman, Ashe 511

Fall 2013

Friday, Sept 6th, 2013
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Tovah Bender (FIU), Ashe 511

Tuesday, Oct 8th, 2013
12:15pm-1:30pm
Ashe 511

Thursday, Nov 7th, 2013
12:15pm-1:30pm
Deborah Hamer (Columbia University), Ashe 511
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Spring 2013

Thursday, March 7th, 2013
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Indravati Felicite, Ashe 511

Spring 2012

Friday, February 24th, 2012
12:15pm - 1:30 pm 
Works-in-progress seminar
Carson Wilkie (FAU, History)
Memorial Classroom Building 125D

Tuesday, March 23, 2012
5:00 PM
Lecture by Anthony Cascardi (Center for the Humanities/Early Modern Studies Research Group)

Thursday, March 29th, 2012
4:30 pm
Lecture: William Sherman 
(University of York, Professor of Renaissance/Early Modern Studies)
"Of Anagrammatology: Decoding the Renaissance Text"
Richter Library Conference Room (3rd Floor)

Friday, March 30th, 2012
12:15-1:30pm
Works-in-progress seminar
William Sherman (University of York, Professor of Renaissance/Early Modern Studies)
"The Reader's Eye"
Memorial Classroom Building 125D
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Thursday, April 22, 2012
3:30 PM
Lecture by Laura Giannetti  (Center for the Humanities/Early Modern Studies Research Group)

Wed, April 25th, 2012
12:15-1:30pm
Works-in-progress seminar
Ashli White (UM, History)

Friday, February 26
12:15 PM 
Elizabeth Oldman "Illigitimate monarchy and legally-sanctioned king-killing in Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and Eikonoklastes"
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Thursday, February 18
3:30 PM
Lecture by Guido Ruggiero
(Center for the Humanities/Early Modern Studies Research Group

Fall 2012

Thursday, November 1, 2012
Stephen Lazer (UM, History)
Comm 5063

Friday, September 23, 2012
Pamela Hammons (UM, English)
MM 125K
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Monday, October 17
Erica Heinsen, MM125D
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Friday, December 2
Mihoko Suzuki, MM125K
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Thursday, February 24
Simonetta Marin (UM, History)
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Thursday, March 31
Silvia Mitchell (UM, History)
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Friday, April 29
Viviana Diaz-Balsera (UM, MLL)
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Thursday, October 21
Warren Dym (UM History)
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Thursday, November 11
Barbara Woshinsky (UM Modern Languages)

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September 10
Karl Gunther (UM), "The Vestments Controversy and the Origins of Puritanism"
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October 8
Jason Pearl (FIU), "Genre and Geography"
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November 12 
Allison Johnson (UM), "Virtue's Friends: Patronage, Religion, and Friendship in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer"
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Friday, January 29:  
Andrew Styrcharski, FIU, English
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Friday, February 26: 
 Elizabeth Oldmann, UM, English

Thursday, March 25:  
Rebecca Totaro, FGCU, English
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Thursday, April 29: 
Mary Lindemann, UM, History
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