Renaissances

The Renaissances Group brings together faculty members and students from over a dozen departments at Stanford to consider the present and future of early modern studies (provisionally framed as a period spanning the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries) within the humanities. Taking seriously the plural form of the group's name, we seek to explore the early modern period from the widest range of disciplinary, cultural, linguistic, and geographical perspectives possible. Working in close collaboration with MEMS (the graduate student workshop in medieval and early modern studies) and CMEMS (the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies), we discuss work in progress, sponsor lectures and seminars, and convene monthly as a research workshop.

Chairs:

Roland Greene

Vincent Barletta


Workshop by Vincent Barletta: Dissertation Prospectus	19 April 2012
Lecture by Mia Mochizuki: Mundus and the Mundane	5 March 2012
Workshop by Roland Greene: The Baroque	23 January 2012
Workshop by Shahzad Bashir, Professor of Islamic Studies: Poetry and Writing of the Past in Persianate Societies	14 May 2012
Workshop by Seth Kimmel (Stanford University, Iberian and Latin American Cultures): Arabic in the Margins	14 November 2011
Meeting by : CMEMS/Renaissances/MEMS Open House	10 October 2011
Workshop by Michel Jeanneret, Timothy Hampton, and Cécile Alduy on Rabelais: What's Next? A Workshop on New Approaches to Early Modern Studies	14 April 2011
Lecture by Morten Steen Hansen (Department of Art History, Stanford University): Eschatology in the Market: Pellegrino Tibaldi and the Loggia de' Mercanti in Ancona	13 May 2011
The Baroque	8 April 2011
Lecture by Ann Blair (Department of History, Harvard University): "What Was an Author? Some Practices of Attribution in Early Modern Europe"	24 January 2011
Lecture by Alexander Kulik: Jews Between Slavia Orthodoxa and Latin Europe: A Case of Rus' and England	14 January 2011
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Lecture by Giuseppe Gerbino - "The Musical Language of Desire: Emotion and Cognition in Renaissance Italy"	22 April 2010
CANCELLED: Ann Blair, Harvard University: "Methods of Information Management in Early Modern Europe"	18 February 2010 (All day)
Lunch workshop with John Slater: "Preaching Alchemy: Palingenesis and Power in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Sermons"	8 May 2009
Lecture by John Slater: 'Cultivating an Anti-Machiavellian Garden: The Politics of Plants in Baroque Spanish Poetry'	7 May 2009
Lunch Workshop with Timothy Hampton: "Hamlet's Diplomacy"	29 May 2009
Workshop with Carla Freccero: "Humanism in the Making: Animals Before Descartes"	13 February 2009
Lecture by Carla Freccero: "Figural Historiography: Dogs, Humans, and Cynanthropic Becomings"	12 February 2009

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