Engineering the Renaissance in Fall 2018
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” -Leonardo Da Vinci LINK TO SYLLABUS
MEMS Grad Student Talks: Ioannes Dantiscus & the Reformation
Expanding Early Modern “Central” Europe: Dimensions of the Reformations in Poland-Lithuania Bryan Kozik, Ph.D. candidate in History Much of the scholarly treatment of early modern Central Europe has been divided anachronistically by modern geographical and linguistic boundaries, and it has fallen short of productively integrating the polities and peoples of “East” Central Europe into historical […]
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FFW + MEMS: Parody as Protest in the Inferno
Fabian Alfie, lecture, “Cannibalism in Dante’s Inferno,” Judaica Library, 11/9, 3-5 pm. Fabian Alfie is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on medieval comic literature, and he has published books on on Cecco Angiolieri (2001) and Dante (Dante’s Tenzone with Forese Donati: The Reprehension of Vice, University of Toronto […]
#HereIStand: Exhibit on the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation
Exhibit: “#Here I stand: Martin Luther, the Reformation and its Consequences” 2nd floor, Reitz Student Union. Now through October 31. These events are part of the FFW Campus Weeks events at UF, co-sponsored by MEMS For more information contact Will Hasty hasty@ufl.edu or join the FB Group: “Future of Freedom and Walls”
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FFW + MEMS: 500th Anniversary of the Reformation
Amy Nelson Burnett will lecture and participate in a panel discussion on Monday and Tuesday, November 13-14. There will also be an exhibit at the Reitz Union during this week. “Reform, Dissent, and Toleration: The Reformation as a Crisis of Authority,” Amy Nelson Burnett. Smathers 100, 11/13, 5 pm. “Freedom and Walls in Global Religious […]
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CFP: 2017-18 MEMS Graduate Student Talks
Matt Koval, the History PHD candidate who co-ordinated the MEMS Graduate Student talks in the past, is back from his Fulbright research year and will again organize this series! These are informal events, where you may discuss your research ideas with a multidisciplinary audience. You may present a paper or PowerPoint, or it may be […]
Landmark Achievement: Florin Curta marks a Quarter-Century Shaping Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the Kalamazoo International Congress on Medieval Studies.
After organizing another round of successful panels last May 2017 (click for details), this month Florin Curta marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of his intensive involvement in the International Congress for Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. During this quarter of a century, Professor Curta has annually organized multiple panels sponsored by UF’s Center for Medieval and Early […]
Call for Papers: UF Classics Graduate Student Symposium, “Translation, Adaptation, and Interpretation”
Call for Papers Translation, Adaptation, and Interpretation. October 21, 2017. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. First University of Florida Classics Graduate Student Symposium, Featuring keynote speaker Karl Galinsky, University of Texas. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: AUGUST 1st 2017 Every text is at the same time translatable yet impossible to transfer into another language in its entirety. […]
Oren Okhovat: Sor Juana Iñez de la Cruz
MEMS Graduate Student Talk: Oren Okhovat will speak on “Trapping Sor Juana: Sor Juana in the Contemporary Imagination” Pugh Hall 302 at 3:00PM on Friday, April 14th This is a survey of how the image and writings of Sor Juana have been appropriated out of its seventeenth century context for modern contemporary issues. It is based on […]
Game Boards in Counter-Reformation Italy
Kelli Wood: Parody, Pleasure, and Play in Print:Game Boards in Counter-Reformation Italy Thursday, April 6 Digital Worlds Institute–Norman Gym, Room 120 Refreshments will be served This talk explores the emergence of printed gameboards in Rome in the last decades of the sixteenth century in the context of a multiplicity of audiences engaged with both a […]