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The University of Pittsburgh’s Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Events Fall/Spring 2009
Thursday and Friday, December 3&4 SABINE MACCORMACK (Notre Dame) Short-term fellow at the Humanities Center Thursday 12:30, 526 CL Colloquium discussion of a chapter from her book In The Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru Thursday, 5pm, 501 CL Lecture, “The Poetics of Representation in Viceregal Peru: A Walk Round the Cloister of San Agustin in Lima” Friday, 1pm, 526 CL Discussion on José de Acosta’s travel narrative, led by Prof. MacCormack Humanities Center Event Thursday, January 28, 4pm 202 Frick Fine Arts JEAN GIVENS (History of Art, University of Connecticut ) "Picturing the Healing Arts: Illustrating a Medieval Book of Remedies." Jean Givens is Professor of Art History. Her research centers on medieval England and France, the history of history of visual and verbal literacy, and design initiatives in twentieth-century Denmark and Sweden. Her books include Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art (Cambridge University Press, 2005)--awarded the Medieval Academy of America’s John Nicholas Brown Prize for 2009—and Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1220-1550 (Ashgate, 2006) co-edited with historians of science, Karen Reeds and Alain Touwaide. A new book on medieval and early modern scientific illustration, Reading Beyond the Text: Image, Word, and the Illustrated Tractatus de herbis, is nearing completion. Her current project, Marketing Modernism: Sweden, Denmark, and the Good Life, addresses a formative alliance between design theoreticians and Nordic policy makers between 1920 and 1960. Thursday and Friday, Feb. 25-26 AYANNA THOMPSON (English, Arizona State) Thursday, Feb. 25, 4:30 "Othello in the 21st Century" Friday, Feb. 26, 11:00 Faculty/Grad seminar: "Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America" Ayanna Thompson is an Associate Professor of English and an affiliate faculty in Women and Gender Studies and Film and Media Studies. She specializes in renaissance drama and focuses on early depictions of race. She is the author of two books: Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (in press, Oxford University Press) and Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (Routledge, 2008). She is the editor of two books: Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (co-edited with Scott Newstok) and Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance (Routledge, 2006). Thompson is the guest editor of two special editions of scholarly journals: "Shakespeare, Race, and Performance," Shakespeare Bulletin (27.3: 2009) and "Actors of Color in Shakespeare," Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation (4.1, 2008). AMNON RAZ-KRAKOTZKIN (History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Date and Title TBA
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin is Senior Lecturer in History at Ben-Gurion University. Raz-Krakotzkin has written and lectured widely on various topics of Jewish history: the history of Zionism; the Holocaust; issues of nationalism and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. His most recent book, The Censor, the Editor and the Text (Penn, 2007), examines the impact of Catholic censorship on the publication and dissemination of Hebrew literature in the early modern period. he is currently a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Friday, April 16, 3:00 GONZALO LAMANA (Hispanic, Pitt) "Truth, Self-Evidence, and the Colonial Question (ca. 1500)” Gonzalo Lamana's research and teaching explore themes of colonialism and subalternity, cultural contact, meaning-making, and historical change. He is the author of several articles and a recent book, Domination without Dominance: Inca-Spanish encounters in Early Colonial Peru (Duke, 2008). Lamana is currently working on two new research projects at the juncture of de-colonial attempts. The first examines colonial acts of reality-making through the lens of magic, while the second examines the emergence of a colonial grammar of difference in the second half of the sixteenth century in the Andes. Questions? Please contact Program Director Jen Waldron (jwaldron@pitt.edu)
For a list of past events please see the Events Archives.
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