Past Event Category: Co-Sponsored Event
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Oct 21A Conversation with G. Willow Wilson
University Club, Room 212
G. Willow Wilson Author and journalist G. Willow Wilson is the acclaimed author of graphic novels and comics published by Vertigo, Marvel, and D.C. Comics. She spent her early and mid-twenties living in Egypt and working as a journalist. Her articles about the Middle East and modern Islam have appeared in the New York …
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Mar 22Array
Lunch Workshop/Seminar Niklaus Largier German, University of California-Berkeley Niklaus Largier will also give a lecture on “Bodies in Prayer: Sense, Sensation, and the Art of Desire” on Monday, March 22, 5:30pm, in 7191 Helen C. White Hall. Niklaus Largier is currently Chair of the German Department at the University of California-Berkeley. His recent …
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Mar 19Early Modern Humanism and the Humanities
Memorial Union
Center for Early Modern Studies Conference Friday, March 19, 2010 (All day) to Saturday, March 20, 2010 (All day). This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center for Early Modern Studies.
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Feb 25Symposium on Globalization and the Humanities: Then and Now, Here and There
Pyle Center
IRH 50th Anniversary Symposium: The Symposium will address a number of vital debates about globalization, focusing on what the humanities can contribute to understanding globalization as well as how the humanities are being reinvented as a result of globalization. The political, economic, and technological controversies about globalization often overshadow its cultural and philosophical …
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Apr 10Toleration and Persecution in the Early Modern Period
2009 Center for Early Modern Studies Conference: The conference aims to consider the definitions and limits of toleration in the early modern period, as well as the different kinds of religious persecution practiced during the early modern period. The conference will also consider some of the fierce debates and controversies that were stirred …
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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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Oct 20Conversation with Franco Moretti
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 332
Literature/s Research Workshop with Humanities without Boundaries Lecturer: Franco Moretti Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University; Brittingham Scholar in Residence This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center for the Humanities.
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Oct 3Discussion of Franco Moretti, “The Novel: History and Theory” (New Left Review, July/August 2008)
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 332
Literature/s Research Workshop with Humanities without Boundaries Lecturer: Franco Moretti Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University; Brittingham Scholar in Residence This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center for the Humanities.