Past Event Category: 2008-2009
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Apr 7Plato’s Noble Lie
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: David Williams Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) Political Science and Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point
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Apr 6Plato’s Noble Lie
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: David Lay Williams Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) Political Science and Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point The tradition of the political lie infamously commences with Plato’s Noble Lie in the Republic. The lie is woven with great care into his utopian state on the premise that Philosopher-Rulers are incorruptible wielders of political power. Most treatments of …
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Apr 2The Sanctifying Serpent: Christ’s Pictured Body as a Source of Healing
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L150
Lecture: Herbert Kessler Medieval Art, Johns Hopkins University The lecture will explore ways in which the Brazen Serpent trope gets mapped onto images of the Crucifixion, from the ninth-century through the twelfth, to trigger the notion of spiritual and carnal curing through the process of looking at art. A graduate of the University …
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Apr 2Conversation and Lunch with Herbert Kessler
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Co-Sponsored Luncheon: Herbert Kessler Medieval Art, Johns Hopkins University Professor Kessler will speak for about 5 minutes about his current work to open up a discussion in which all are urged to participate. Sponsored by Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Medieval Studies Program, Art History Department, and the Religious Studies Program. Catered …
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Mar 31Virgil’s Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Latin Poetry and Ethnohistory in Colonial Mexico
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Lecture: Andrew Laird Classical Literature, Warwick University Virgil’s epic on the fall of Troy and foundation of Rome came to Mexico in the wake of the Spanish conquest. The poem had a role in the earliest accounts of Aztec traditions compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and his native collaborators, and in the transmission …
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Mar 31Clothing Saints in the Carolingian World
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Valerie Garver Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) History, Northern Illinois University
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Mar 30Clothing Saints in the Carolingian World
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Valerie Garver Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) History, Northern Illinois University Both religious and laypeople wished to clothe saints appropriately in the Carolingian world. Whether describing the appropriate dress of saints in vitae, making and selecting textiles to support or wrap the relics of saints, or depicting saints’ clothing in pictorial form, conscious choices …
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Mar 24Catholic and Reformed: John Milton and Italian Religion
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Tuesday Discussion Lunch: Catherine Martin Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) English, University of Memphis
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Mar 23Catholic and Reformed: John Milton and Italian Religion
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Catherine Martin Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) English, University of Memphis The paper asks a question that hasn’t been addressed for over 50 years: how and why did a young, virtually unknown, and staunchly Protestant poet manage to make so many friends among aristocratic and famous Italian Catholics, including several priests, during his year-long …
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Mar 9Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: School Foodservice and Public Health Nutrition in Early Twentieth-Century America
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Andrew Ruis William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2008-2009) History of Science, UW–Madison