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CEMH Calendar
Spring 2012
- Thursday, January 26:
“Climate Change, Crisis, and Resilience: Perspectives from History”
- Sam White, History, Oberlin College
Cosponsored with the Institute for Advanced Study
4:00 to 5:30 PM, 125 Nolte Center
East Bank
- Friday, January 27:
“A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and the First European Colonies in North America”
- Sam White, History, Oberlin College
Cosponsored with the Institute for Advanced Study - 12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank
- Friday, February 3:
“The Great Convergance: Dissecting the Nature of Japan's Historical Ascendancy”
- Brett Walker, History and Philosophy, Montana Sate University,
Visiting Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, 2011-12
- 12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank - Friday, February 17: “Elizabeth I on Rebellion in England and Ireland: semper eadam?”
- Brendan Kane, History, University of Connecticut
Cosponsored by Carleton College
- 12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank - Thursday, February 23: TEMS Work-in-Progress Seminar - "The Second French Geodesic Mission to Ecuador: A Visual Culture of Triangulation, Territorialization, and Tourism"
- Ernesto Capello, History, Macalester College.
Cosponsored by the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative of the Institute for Advanced Study
5:00-6:30 p.m., 235 Nolte Center.
East Bank - Friday, March 2: “Keeping and Losing One's Head: Composure and Emotional Outbursts as Political Performance in Late-Colonial Mexico”
- Andrew Fisher, History, Carleton College
- 12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank
- Monday, March 26:
“Why did Roman Catholicism become the First World Religion?”
- Simon Ditchfield, History, University of York, Editor, Journal for Early Modern History
- 3:30 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank
- Thursday, April 19:
“On the Mar del Sur: Early Spanish Trade in Pacific South America”
- Kris Lane, Frances V. Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History, Tulane University
Celebration of the CEMH 25th Anniversary and Keynote Lecture at the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI), cosponsored by the James Ford Bell Library.
- 7:30 PM, Fourth Floor, Wilson Library
West Bank
- Friday, April 27:
“Masonry, Memory, and Meaning in Inka Rockwork”
- Carolyn Dean, History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California - Santa Cruz
Cosponsored with the Department of Art History, the Weisman Art Museum, the Department of Art History at the University of St. Thomas, and the Maya Society of Minnesota
- 7:00 PM, Shepherd Room, Weisman Art Museum
East Bank
Fall 2011
- Friday, September 9: Joint Open House Center for Early Modern History-Center for Medieval Studies
- 12:00 to 2:00 PM, 1022-30 Heller Hall
West Bank
- Friday, September 23: "The Struggle for the South Atlantic: Text and Context Regarding the Armada of the Strait, 1581-1584"
- Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank
- Friday, October 7: "The Civil War of 1812: Citizens, Subjects, Rebels, Slaves, and Allies"
- Alan Taylor, University of California-Davis
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank
Click here to download Prof. Taylor's reading for this week, Chapter Five from his new book, The Civil War of 1812.
- Friday, October 14: "Arabic Studies and the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern England"
- Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank - Monday, October 31: "Learning How to be Ill in Early Modern England"
- Olivia Weisser, Princeton University
Cosponsored with the History of Medicine Colloquium
12:20 PM, 555 Diehl Hall
East Bank - Friday, November 11: "Crossing Borders in Transnational Gender History"
- Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank
Click here to download Professor Wiesner-Hanks's reading for this week.
- Tuesday, November 29: "Material Culture, Memory, and Family Dynamics in Late Medieval London"
- Katherine French, University of Michigan
Cosponsored with the Department of History and the Center for Medieval Studies
4:00 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank
Spring 2011
- Friday, February 11: "Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman Empires"
- Stephen Blake, St. Olaf College
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank - Friday, February 18: "Constructing Han Legal Identity in Yuan, Ming, and Qing China"
- Jiang Yonglin, Bryn Mawr College
Co-sponsored with the Program in Legal History
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank
- Friday, February 18-Saturday February 19: History with Chinese Characteristics: From Ming to Globalization
- A Conference to Honor Edward (Ted) Farmer's Retirement
- 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank
- Friday, February 24- February 25: "Islam & the West in Arts and Sciences"
- A Conference Sponsored by Religious Studies and Co-Sponsored with CEMH
- Thursday, March 3: "Titian's Poesie for Philip II: The Triumph of the Brush"
- Steven Ostrow, University of Minnesota
6 PM, Minnesota Institute of Arts (MIA), Tickets Required: $15 - Friday, March 25:"Informing Early Modern Science: London's Royal Society and English Colonial Pursuits, 1660-1700"
- Eric Otremba, University of Michigan
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank - Friday, April 1: “Bad Bread and the ‘Outrageous Drunkenness of the Turks’: Food and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
- Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Advanced Study
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank - Friday, April 7- 9: Mediterranean Identities: From the Middle Ages to the Present
- An IAS Collaborative Conference Co-Sponsored by CEMH
- Friday, April 8: “Matteo Ricci: His Map and Music”
- A Performance by ¡Sacabuche! (Linda Pearse, Artistic Director) and Ann Waltner
Co-Sponsored with the Society for 17th Century Music,
1 PM, Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall
West Bank - Friday, April 8: “Slavic Wonders: Feasts and Saints in Early Russia, Poland & Bohemia”
- Rose Ensemble Concert
8 PM, Norwegian Memorial Lutheran Church, Tickets Required: $25
Call 651.225.4340 or visit roseensemble.org for tickets
- Friday, April 15: “Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Photographs’: The Temporally-Evolving Chemical Objects in the British Enlightenment”
- Matthew Hunter, California Institute of Technology
Co-Sponsored with Theorizing Early Modern Studies
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank - Friday, April 29: “Visible Empire: Visual Culture and Colonial Botany
in the Hispanic Enlightenment” - Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California
Co-Sponsored with Theorizing Early Modern Studies
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank
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Fall 2010
For additional information about these CEMH events, as well as other early modern events on campus, contact the Center for Early Modern History at cemhnews@umn.edu.
- Friday, September 17: "Mapping Meaning: Jesuit Cartographic Visions of 'All Under Heaven'"*
- Florence Hsia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank - Friday, September 17: "Telling Scientific Lives and the Return of Biography"
- Florence Hsia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Co-sponsored with the Program in History of Science and Technology
3:30 PM, 131 Tate Laboratory of Physics
East Bank
- Thursday, October 21: "Who (Still) Needs the Black Legend? Perspectives from and about Contemporary Art"
- Dana Leibsohn, Smith College
- Co-Sponsored with Theorizing Early Modern Studies (TEMS)
5 pm, 235 Nolte Hall
East Bank
- Friday, October 22: "Trans-Pacific: From China to Mexico in Early Modernity"*
- Dana Leibsohn, Smith College
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank - Friday, October 29: "Plantation Empire: Slavery, Plantation Agriculture, and the British Empire in America"
- Russell Menard, University of Minnesota
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank - Friday, November 12: "The Illusion of Empire: Missionaries, Maps, and the Spatial Logic of European Discovery and Colonization in the Great Lakes"*
- Michael Witgen, University of Michigan
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank - Friday, November 19: "Obituaries for Poetry: Dead Poet Love, the Life of the Author, and Photographed Romanticism"
- Deidre Shauna Lynch, University of Toronto
Noon, 207a Lind Hall
East Bank - Friday, December 3: "Mapping the 'Palaos Islands': Geographical Imagination and Knowledge Transfer Between German Jesuits and Oceanic Islanders Around 1700"*
- Ulrike Strasser, University of California-Irvine
12:15 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
West Bank
Events
Contact Information
Center for Early Modern History
1030 Heller Hall
271 - 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612.625.6303
Fax: 612.624.9813
Email: cemh@umn.edu
