Saturday, September 13, 2008

olumbia University Seminar on the Renaissance, Fall 2008.

Posted on behalf of the Columbia University Seminar on the
Renaissance, Fall 2008. Everyone welcome!

This seminar covers all aspects of Renaissance culture, from
political and social history to art history, literature, languages
classical and vernacular, music, philosophy, religion, science and
learning. The Renaissance is taken to begin about the time of
Petrarch and to end-according to the field examined-at various points
in the seventeenth-century. Later scholars who conceptualized the
Renaissance are also discussed.


Seminar: #407 Founded: 1945
Chair:
Elizabeth Hill
St. John's University
hillchas3@aol.com

The Seminar normally meets in the Columbia University Faculty House.
However, the Faculty House is undergoing renovation, so we will be
meeting elsewhere on campus, precise locations to be announced. We
generally meet for drinks at 5:45, have dinner at 6:30 and start our
program at 7:30pm.

Campus map
University Seminars Office: 212.854.2389


September 9, 2008, 7:30 Richard Peterson, University of
Connecticut. "A New Poem for Edmund Spenser"

Meeting for drinks 5:45, dinner, 6:30, Common Room, 2nd floor, at the
Heyman Center for Humanities , just across from Faculty House, to the
left as you face Morningside Park.


October 14 Pamela Smith, Columbia. "Making and Knowing:
Reconstructing Knowledge in a Renaissance Goldsmith's Workshop."
Joint meeting with the Medieval Studies Seminar.

Meeting for drinks 5:45, dinner, 6:30, Common Room, 2nd floor, at the
Heyman Center for Humanities , just across from Faculty House, to the
left as you face Morningside Park.


November 11 Sarah Covington, Queens College. "The Wounded
Body in Early Modern England: Interdisciplinary Approaches and
Problems."

Check with chair/University Seminar office for place/time.

December 8 To Be Announced

Check with chair/University Seminar office for place/time.


Proposals for future programs are always welcome. Those interested in
participating should communicate with the Chair at hillchas3@aol.com.

Elizabeth K. Hill, Chair

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