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Other Early Modern Events

Please contact the event’s sponsor for full details on each event. If you would like to add an early modern event to this list or for additional information about these and other CEMH events, please contact cemhnews@umn.edu

Thursday, October 1: TEMS Reading Group
Martin Heidegger, “The Age of the World Picture”
Theorizing Early Modern Studies
www.tems.umn.edu
Friday, October 2: “Objects, Individuals and Structures: in Search of Fundamental Ontology”
Katherine Brading, University of Notre Dame
Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
www.mcps.umn.edu
Thursday, October 8: "Animals As Subjects & Objects: Hunting & Husbandry in Early Modern Europe"
Marcy Norton, George Washington University
Department of History, Carleton College
https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/UpcomingEvents/?story_id=551790
Please Note: NOT a University of Minnesota Event
Friday, October 9: TEMS Reading Group
Walter Benjamin, "The Origin of German Tragic Drama"
Theorizing Early Modern Studies
www.tems.umn.edu
Friday, October 9: "Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean"
Karla Mallette, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and the Center for Medieval Studies
http://events.tc.umn.edu/event.xml?occurrence=422685
Tuesday, October 13: Inquisition Documents Workshop
Roundtable presented by Michelle Hamilton, M.J. Maynes and Barbara Weissberger
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study and the Mediterranean Identities Collaborative
Thursday, October 15: "The Colonial Aesthetic: Slavery and the Culture of Taste"
Simon Gikandi, Princeton University
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study, CLA Scholarly Events Fund, the Department of English and the Office of International Programs
Tuesday, October 19: Anthropology Colloquium - "On Torture in Societies Against the State"
Severin Fowles, Columbia University
Anthropology Department
http://anthropology.umn.edu/events/
Thursday, October 22: “Albrecht Drer's Melancholy Mathematician”
J.B. Shank, History, University of Minnesota
Theorizing Early Modern Studies in conjunction with the Visualizing Evidence Research Partnership
www.tems.umn.edu
Friday, October 23: “Sanctuary for Crimes in the Western Legal Tradition: How to Get Away with Murder”
Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Legal History Workshop
http://www.law.umn.edu/law_history/index/hidden-descriptions.html%20#four
Saturday, October 24: Law and Religion in the Middle Ages
A conference presented by the Center for Medieval Studies
www.cmedst.umn.edu
Wednesday, November 4: "The Use of Documents of European Archives for the History of the Maghreb during the Colonial Period"
Dominique Valérian (Université de Paris Sorbonne - I)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Identity in the Mediterranean World Collaborative
http://events.tc.umn.edu/event?event=126246
Thursday, November 5: "Merchant Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean World"
Dominique Valérian (Université de Paris Sorbonne - I)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Identity in the Mediterranean World Collaborative
http://events.tc.umn.edu/event?event=125320
Thursday, November 5: “The Art of Listening: Audiences and the Proliferation of Meaning"
Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota
Theorizing Early Modern Studies
www.tems.umn.edu
Friday, November 13: TEMS Reading Group
Walter Benjamin, "The Origin of German Tragic Drama"
Sponsored by Theorizing Early Modern Studies in conjunction with the Dialectics and Society Research Group
www.tems.umn.edu
Tuesday, November 17: "Gender, Authorship and Social Injustice: Some Major Middle English Poetic Manuscripts and their Marginalia"
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, University of Notre Dame
Center for Medieval Studies
www.cmedst.umn.edu
Wednesday, December 2: “Reading Revelations: Reception Histories for Julian of Norwich"
Elissa Hansen, University of Minnesota
Center for Medieval Studies
www.cmedst.umn.edu
Tuesday, December 8: “Plagues, Expulsions and Death in Medieval Iberia”
Michelle Hamilton (University of Minnesota)
Center for Medieval Studies
www.cmedst.umn.edu
Friday, December 18: TEMS Reading Group
Walter Benjamin, "The Origin of German Tragic Drama"
Sponsored by Theorizing Early Modern Studies in conjunction with the Dialectics and Society Research Group
www.tems.umn.edu

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
E-mail: cemh@umn.edu