Loretta Freiling, vital IRH staff person for over 50 years, recently passed away. A memorial service will be held on October 13, 2018 at the Ryan Funeral Home. For more information on the service and Loretta’s full obituary, see here. To read more about Loretta’s remarkable role at IRH, see here.
The IRH is pleased to announce a new post-doctoral fellowship opportunity in peninsular Spanish poetry, made possible by a generous bequest by the late Biruté Ciplijauskaité, Professor Emerita of Spanish. For more information, see here.
Former Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow Amanda Jo Goldstein was recently awarded the Kenshur Prize for an outstanding monograph of interest to eighteenth-century scholars. The prize honored her book Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life (University of Chicago Press, 2017). See press release here.
Former Solmsen Fellow Sara Trevisan has published the article “Genealogy and Royal Representation: Edmund Brudenell’s Pedigree Roll for Elizabeth I (1558–60),” based on her IRH research, in the Huntington Library Quarterly.
Former Solmsen Fellow, Nathanael Andrade of Binghamton University SUNY, has published The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity Networks and the Movement of Culture – now available from Cambridge University Press.
A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Elizabeth Lhost is organizing a workshop November 15–16, 2018 on the theme of “Little Technologies / Big Histories” and is seeking participants. The deadline for submissions is August 15. See here for more details.
The Institute for Research in the Humanities is pleased to announce the incoming and returning fellows for the 2018-2019 academic year. Click here for the full list.
The Political Thoery Review podcast recently featured a conversation with IRH Fellow Daniel Kapust about his new book, Flattery and the History of Political Thought: That Glib and Oily Art. Listen to the conversation here.
This April, Professor Costica Bradatan gave a series of lectures on his IRH project In Praise of Failure to graduate students in the Department of Religious and Cultural Studies of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. For more information, see here.
Former IRH Solmsen Fellow Matthew B. Roller of Johns Hopkins University has published a new volume, Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla, now available from Cambridge University Press.
