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Past OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Events

February 7, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 219 Aaron Burr

5000 Years of African Literature

Walter Cohen, University of Michigan


February 19, 2022 · 10:00 am6:00 pm · Virtual

Antiquity in Early Modern France – Forms, Ideas, and Media


November 19, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · Virtual

Environment and Observation in the Dutch Golden Age


May 12, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · Virtual

Why did Pierre Bayle believe in Virtuous Atheists? A Critique of Pure Reason “avant la lettre”

Dmitri Levitin, All Souls College, Oxford


April 2, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · Zoom

Creatures of the Imagination: Visualizing Monsters in the Early Modern Sciences

Surekha Davies, Utrecht University; Jennifer M. Rampling, History


November 18, 2020 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm ·

The Art of Glassmaking and the Nature of Stones

Sven Depré, Utrecht University; University of Amsterdam


October 2, 2020 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · Webinar

Martin Luther’s Pamphlet Wars: Owning Language, Dispossessing Speech

Barbara N. Nagel, Assistant Professor of German, Robert Remsen Laidlaw '04


March 1, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 127 East Pyne

Francis Bacon: Philosophy, Gender and Law


November 20, 2017 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm · 127 East Pyne

Lines of Freedom

Heather James, USC, Wendy Warren, Princeton, Leonard Barkan, Princeton,


October 11, 2017 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Shakespeare Afoot

John Kerrigan, Professor of English, University of Cambridge


February 24, 2017 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm · 127 East Pyne

Writing and Writing Surfaces in the Early Modern World: The Day of Lamination

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Juliet Fleming, New York University, Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University and Brian Steininger, Princeton University


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