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SUMMARY:Metropolises in the Mud: lnnovation in Building Technology in the Low Countries
DESCRIPTION:Join the Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies for an afternoon seminar with Merlijn Hurx\, Professor of Architectural History at KU Leuven.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/metropolises-in-the-mud-lnnovation-in-building-technology-in-the-low-countries/
LOCATION:Art Museum\, Room 375
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SUMMARY:New Books Forum - Rhodri Lewis
DESCRIPTION:The Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies presents Shakespeare’s Tragic Art by Rhodri Lewis\, a lunchtime conversation about Shakespearean tragedy now\, then\, and into the future.  \nOur discussants on this subject will be: \nLauren Robertson\, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature\, Columbia University  \nDaniel Heller-Roazen\, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature \nThis event marks the launch of the New Books Forum\, a series of conversations about new books by members of the Princeton community. It is free and open to the public. Please register in advance for lunch by emailing renaissance@princeton.edu and to receive the pre-circulated chapter. 
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/new-books-forum-rhodri-lewis/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:Spring Exhibition Preview - Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftmanship
DESCRIPTION:Join the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies program for a Spring Exhibition Preview lunchtime seminar with Femke Speelberg\, Curator of Historic Ornament\, Design\, and Architecture\, Metropolitan Museum of Art. \nRead more about the upcoming Met exhibition on their website.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/lunch-seminar-femke-speelberg/
LOCATION:Art Museum\, Room 132
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SUMMARY:TO BE RESCHEDULED: “Jesuits and the Circulation of Objects in the Hispanic World”
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event has been canceled due to weather and will be rescheduled for a later date. \nLuisa Elena Alcalá’s work examines the history of religious images\, painting\, and the Jesuits in the Spanish American viceroyalties\, especially New Spain. Her lecture is drawn from her ongoing\, nationally funded research project “Agents: Jesuit Procurators and Alternative Channels for Artistic Circulation in the Hispanic World.” \nA light lunch will be provided to attendees.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/jesuits-and-the-circulation-of-objects-in-the-hispanic-world-2/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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SUMMARY:Florentine Republicanism and Humanist Platonism: On the Origins of Modern Constitutionalism
DESCRIPTION:Over the last 50 years\, the belief that civic republicanism originated with the reception of Aristotelianism in the early Italian renaissance has flipped into the opposite claim that modern constitutionalism is due to the reception of Plato and Platonism in the Italian humanist movement. What difference does it make whether republicanism is Aristotelian or Platonic? In this paper I discuss James Hankins’ hypothesis that the reception of Plato introduces a “virtue politics” in which constitutionalism is a mechanism that favors the rule by the virtuous parts of the city. I oppose to this view my hypothesis that Machiavelli’s republicanism is also strongly marked by his reception of Platonic constitutionalism\, but the outcome is a democratic rather than aristocratic conception of republicanism. My discussion draws from recent path-breaking interpretations of Plato’s Laws by André Laks and by Melissa Lane. \nLunch will be provided.  There is no pre-reading: the paper will be presented during the session. \nAll welcome; registration is not required.  For questions: contact Kim Girman\, kgirman@princeton.edu \nCo-sponsored by the Forum for the History of Political Thought and the Program in Classical Philosophy
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/florentine-republicanism-and-humanist-platonism-on-the-origins-of-modern-constitutionalism/
LOCATION:Wooten Hall\, Room 301 (Kerstetter Room)
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SUMMARY:The Essay’s Literary Dimensions (ESSAY WEEK)
DESCRIPTION:This week-long celebration of the essay genre brings together scholars and practitioners of the form for a range of lectures\, conversations\, and experimental activities. To celebrate the release of The Cambridge History of the American Essay\, this series of events pays tribute to the richness and variety of the essayistic spirit across centuries\, continents\, and cultures. For information regarding the undergraduate and graduate essay contest\, visit Essay Week Essay Contest. \nOrganizer\nChristy Wampole\, Princeton University \nSponsors\nEssay Week is presented by the Department of French and Italian with support from the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council and is co-sponsored by: \nDepartment of African American Studies\nDepartment of Comparative Literature\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of German\nEuropean Cultural Studies\nIHUM (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities)\nPrinceton Public Library\nProgram in Journalism\nRenaissance and Early Modern Studies
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/the-essays-literary-dimensions-essay-week/
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SUMMARY:Imaginations of the Womb – Uterine Imaginaries
DESCRIPTION:This two-day event fosters graduate-led research and discussions in the humanities on the ethical\, symbolic\, and cultural meanings of the womb across traditions and epochs. The womb has long been a site where competing values around autonomy\, gender\, sexuality\, and power converge. Participants will explore how womb-related knowledge—spanning literature\, philosophy\, the history of medicine\, religion\, art\, music\, and law—shapes understandings of personhood\, agency\, and moral authority. At its core\, the workshop undertakes a sustained inquiry into how human societies have imagined reproduction and human difference. The workshop features a variety of formats\, including graduate student research presentations\, roundtables\, and a keynote lecture by Professor Terri Kapsalis (School of the Art Institute of Chicago). \nTerri Kapsalis is the author of Jane Addams’ Travel Medicine Kit (commissioned by the Hull-House Museum\, a collaboration with forensic scientists\, installed in Jane Addams’ bedroom as an alternative label alongside her kit for a “slow museum” experience)\, Hysterical Alphabet (WhiteWalls\, based on primary medical writings on hysteria from ancient Egypt to the present and written like a Victorian children’s alphabet book\, also a multi-media performance with film and live soundtrack performed with John Corbett and Danny Thompson throughout the U.S.)\, and Public Privates:  Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum (Duke University Press – the only book reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine\, The Village Voice\, and a medical fetishist site The Amateur Gynecologist.) \nThis workshop is open to the public and to all Princeton graduate and undergraduate students regardless of identity. \n\n\n\nHosted by the Department of German\, Princeton University. \nCo-sponsored by:\nCenter for Culture\, Society\, and Religion\nCommittee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies\nDepartment of Anthropology\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of French and Italian\nDepartment of German\nDepartment of Music\nDepartment of Religion\nHumanities Council\nProgram in European Cultural Studies\nProgram in Medieval Studies\nUniversity Center for Human Values \nContributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers or views presented.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/imaginations-of-the-womb-uterine-imaginaries-3/
LOCATION:103 Chancellor Green
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SUMMARY:The Essay Film (ESSAY WEEK)
DESCRIPTION:What is an essay film? How can a film be essayistic? Contributors to The Cambridge History of the American Essay Nora Alter (Temple University) and Florian Fuchs (Princeton University) attempt to answer these questions following a screening of a short essay film by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki. Through this conversation\, a clearer picture of the essay film’s form\, common themes\, and its potential uses will begin to emerge. \n\n\n\nNora Alter (Temple University) “The American Essay Film: A Neglected Genre”\nFlorian Fuchs (Princeton University) “Germans in Amerika: Written Possibility\, Uninhabitable Reality”\nModerator – Moad Musbahi (Princeton University)\n\n\n\nThis week-long celebration of the essay genre brings together scholars and practitioners of the form for a range of lectures\, conversations\, and experimental activities. To celebrate the release of The Cambridge History of the American Essay\, this series of events pays tribute to the richness and variety of the essayistic spirit across centuries\, continents\, and cultures. For information regarding the undergraduate and graduate essay contest\, visit Essay Week Essay Contest. \nOrganizer\nChristy Wampole\, Princeton University \nSponsors\nEssay Week is presented by the Department of French and Italian with support from the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council and is co-sponsored by: \n\nDepartment of African American Studies\nDepartment of Comparative Literature\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of German\nEuropean Cultural Studies\nIHUM (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities)\nPrinceton Public Library\nProgram in Journalism\nRenaissance and Early Modern Studies\n\n 
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/the-essay-film/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Imaginations of the Womb – Uterine Imaginaries
DESCRIPTION:This two-day event fosters graduate-led research and discussions in the humanities on the ethical\, symbolic\, and cultural meanings of the womb across traditions and epochs. The womb has long been a site where competing values around autonomy\, gender\, sexuality\, and power converge. Participants will explore how womb-related knowledge—spanning literature\, philosophy\, the history of medicine\, religion\, art\, music\, and law—shapes understandings of personhood\, agency\, and moral authority. At its core\, the workshop undertakes a sustained inquiry into how human societies have imagined reproduction and human difference. The workshop features a variety of formats\, including graduate student research presentations\, roundtables\, and a keynote lecture by Professor Terri Kapsalis (School of the Art Institute of Chicago). \nTerri Kapsalis is the author of Jane Addams’ Travel Medicine Kit (commissioned by the Hull-House Museum\, a collaboration with forensic scientists\, installed in Jane Addams’ bedroom as an alternative label alongside her kit for a “slow museum” experience)\, Hysterical Alphabet (WhiteWalls\, based on primary medical writings on hysteria from ancient Egypt to the present and written like a Victorian children’s alphabet book\, also a multi-media performance with film and live soundtrack performed with John Corbett and Danny Thompson throughout the U.S.)\, and Public Privates:  Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum (Duke University Press – the only book reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine\, The Village Voice\, and a medical fetishist site The Amateur Gynecologist.) \nThis workshop is open to the public and to all Princeton graduate and undergraduate students regardless of identity. \n\n\n\nHosted by the Department of German\, Princeton University. \nCo-sponsored by:\nCenter for Culture\, Society\, and Religion\nCommittee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies\nDepartment of Anthropology\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of French and Italian\nDepartment of German\nDepartment of Music\nDepartment of Religion\nHumanities Council\nProgram in European Cultural Studies\nProgram in Medieval Studies\nUniversity Center for Human Values \nContributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers or views presented.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/imaginations-of-the-womb-uterine-imaginaries-2/
LOCATION:46 McCosh Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T160000
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SUMMARY:Imaginations of the Womb – Uterine Imaginaries
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Marie-Louise James and Erica Passoni \n\nThis two-day event fosters graduate-led research and discussions in the humanities on the ethical\, symbolic\, and cultural meanings of the womb across traditions and epochs. The womb has long been a site where competing values around autonomy\, gender\, sexuality\, and power converge. Participants will explore how womb-related knowledge—spanning literature\, philosophy\, the history of medicine\, religion\, art\, music\, and law—shapes understandings of personhood\, agency\, and moral authority. At its core\, the workshop undertakes a sustained inquiry into how human societies have imagined reproduction and human difference. The workshop features a variety of formats\, including graduate student research presentations\, roundtables\, and a keynote lecture by Professor Terri Kapsalis (School of the Art Institute of Chicago). \nTerri Kapsalis is the author of Jane Addams’ Travel Medicine Kit (commissioned by the Hull-House Museum\, a collaboration with forensic scientists\, installed in Jane Addams’ bedroom as an alternative label alongside her kit for a “slow museum” experience)\, Hysterical Alphabet (WhiteWalls\, based on primary medical writings on hysteria from ancient Egypt to the present and written like a Victorian children’s alphabet book\, also a multi-media performance with film and live soundtrack performed with John Corbett and Danny Thompson throughout the U.S.)\, and Public Privates:  Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum (Duke University Press – the only book reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine\, The Village Voice\, and a medical fetishist site The Amateur Gynecologist.) \nThis workshop is open to the public and to all Princeton graduate and undergraduate students regardless of identity. \n\n\n\nHosted by the Department of German\, Princeton University. \nCo-sponsored by:\nCenter for Culture\, Society\, and Religion\nCommittee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies\nDepartment of Anthropology\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of French and Italian\nDepartment of German\nDepartment of Music\nDepartment of Religion\nHumanities Council\nProgram in European Cultural Studies\nProgram in Medieval Studies\nUniversity Center for Human Values \nContributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers or views presented.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/imaginations-of-the-womb-uterine-imaginaries/
LOCATION:Rocky/Mathey Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T190000
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SUMMARY:Montaigne\, The Man Who Named the Essay
DESCRIPTION:Professors Kritzman and Stout will discuss the 16th – century French intellectual who gave the essay its name.  Montaigne’s digressive ruminations covered a wide range of topis\, from friendship to cannibals\, from sleep to thumbs\, from cruelty to drunkenness\, changing genres from passage to passage:  anecdotes\, quotes from the ancients\, memories\, poetic musings\, aphorisms\, dialogues.  Attendees will learn about Montaigne’s life and his motivations for championing this loose form of writing centered on the self. \nModerated by Bill Hamlett (French and Italian) \nFull program available at ESSAY WEEK | French & Italian \n 
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/montaigne-the-man-who-named-the-essay/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T180000
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SUMMARY:Bramante’s Obsolescence: Drawing Architecture in Time
DESCRIPTION:Against dominant interpretations that equate Western classicism with permanence and durability\, the work of Donato Bramante—unanimously acknowledged as one of the founders of this tradition—points in a different direction. Seen through the eyes of his contemporaries and across a broader temporal frame\, his method demonstrates a consciously transformational approach to construction: one that values the potential of impermanence and exposes architecture to a constant process of mutation. Especially in his late projects\, which responded to the ever-changing ruined landscape of Rome\, time itself became a material of design. This lecture will explore Bramante’s shockingly open-ended approach\, focusing on drawings that responded to the transient nature of his architecture and the new notions of authorship these experiments produced. \n Dario Donetti is a historian of Renaissance art and architecture\, whose research examines the interplay between drawing practice\, authorship\, and the materiality of the building site\, with a secondary interest in the twentieth-century avant-gardes. Trained at the Scuola Normale Superiore\, he has held positions at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz\, Columbia University\, the University of Chicago\, and Villa Medici. He is Associate Professor at the University of Verona and currently the Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. \nABOVE: New York\, the Pierpont Morgan Library\, Codex Mellon fol. 70v.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/bramantes-obsolescence-drawing-architecture-in-time/
LOCATION:016 Robertson Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T180000
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SUMMARY:Wickerwork: A Poetry-in-Translation Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by:  Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. \nThis conversation brings Christian Lehnert\, winner of the Hölderlin Prize 2025\, and Richard Sieburth together for a fruitful exchange between poet and translator and thereby promises to be an especially stimulating opportunity for participants to gain rare insights into the craft of lyric poetry and its move into another verbal and cultural idiom. The dialogue will be centered on the poetry of Christian Lehnert and its recent series of English translations by Richard Sieburth. The event will be the first time Lehnert has appeared in the United States. \nThroughout\, Lehnert’s interventions\, tinged with Eckhartian mysticism\, exhibit a provocative engagement with twentieth-century\, post-Heideggerean thinkers\, with Emmanuel Levinas\, Jacques Derrida\, Giorgio Agamben and Jean-Luc Nancy. While clearly relating to this important work\, Lehnert’s poetry offers singular reflections on a broad array of themes in ways that are at once deeply personal and environmentally attuned\, surprising and challenging. \nRichard Sieburth\, by far one of the most astute and prolific translators of German and French literature and poetry working today\, has prepared a vibrant collection of Lehnert’s lyrics in a single volume entitled Wickerwork (spring 2025) with Archipelago Books\, New York. As Rosanna Warren comments\, “Richard Sieburth creates an intricate music for Christian Lehnert’s crystalline poems. An incandescent experience\,” while Peter Cole views the Lehnert volume as a literary success that culminates a brilliant career: “Richard Sieburth stands among the truly masterful English translators of our time. […] Sieburth’s latest translational revelation comes in the form of Christian Lehnert’s Wickerwork\, the supple\, metaphysicianal weave of which seems to emerge from several lifetimes of looking and reflection.” \nBios: \nBorn in 1969 and raised in Dresden in the former German Democratic Republic\, Christian Lehnert was trained as a Lutheran pastor and\, after the fall of the Berlin Wall\, appointed as professor of theology in Wittenberg and Leipzig. For the past thirty years\, in addition to eight volumes of lyric poetry and epigrams\, Lehnert has consistently published book-length essays and articles on theological themes\, including the History of Angels and Liturgical Poetics\, as well as commentaries on Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians and the Book of Revelations. \nRichard Sieburth’s translations from the German include Oswald von Wolkenstein\, Hölderlin\, Büchner\, Benjamin\, Scholem\, and Bobrowski.  His translations from the French include Scève\, Labé\, Nostradamus\, Nerval\, Baudelaire\, Michaux\, Cendrars\, and Leiris.  He has also edited a number of Ezra Pound’s works for New Directions and Library of America \n 
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/wickerwork-a-poetry-in-translation-conversation/
LOCATION:205 East Pyne
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251002T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251002T180000
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SUMMARY:PROBLEMATIZING POLYMATHY: NICOLAUS STENO AND THE INTERSECTIONS OF DISCIPLINES IN EARLY MODERN SCIENCE
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsors:  Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and the Program in the History of Science  \nIn 1667\, Nicolaus Steno published a new history of the Earth that made him known today as the founder of modern geology. The title of the book\, however\, had little to do with geology. Instead\, it announced a study of myology\, the science of muscles. Yet\, rather than muscle drawings and descriptions\, it is filled with geometrical diagrams and axioms that make it look like Euclid’s Elements. Strikingly\, it was also in this book that Steno named—for the first time in print—the previously known female testicles as ovaries. How did this heterogenous book come about? And why did the anatomist Steno go from performing dissections to working on mathematics and writing about rocks? These questions speak to broader themes in the history of science related to interdisciplinarity. How have different areas of knowledge intersected throughout history? And\, perhaps more important\, how well do modern views of polymathy apply to the early modern period? Historians have rightly spoken of the seventeenth century as “a golden age of polymaths”—and Steno’s breadth of knowledge seems to fit this description. But was Steno really a polymath in his time? This talk argues that while at the surface early modern scholars were polymaths\, at a deeper level polymathy meant different things. It challenges the assumption that everyone was a polymath through the notebooks\, publications\, and correspondence of a seventeenth-century anatomist and his networks. \n  \n 
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/problematizing-polymathy-nicolaus-steno-and-the-intersections-of-disciplines-in-early-modern-science/
LOCATION:Laura Wooten Hall # 201
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SUMMARY:Reimagining the Baroque: Global Perspectives and New Directions
DESCRIPTION:About the Speakers: \nRoland Greene is a scholar of early modern poetics. He has recently completed a book titled Apollo Barroco: Inceptions of the Baroque in Seventeenth-Century Europe and the Americas. He is the Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and\, since 2019\, Director of the Stanford Humanities Center at Stanford University. \nGiuseppe Marcocci  is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the University of Oxford. His research has mostly focused on the historical experience of those who lived in the global empires of Spain and Portugal during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Large part of his work is concerned with issues of power relations as diffracted through sources and materials produced at a time of change\, instability\, and weak legitimacy. He is also strongly interested in reconsidering established interpretations of early modern epistemologies from alternative geographies and perspectives. His latest book The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas (2020) traces how overseas exploration transformed historical writing across the Atlantic and beyond. He is currently completing the first monograph on the Lisbon massacre of 1506 and collaborating with Professor Jorge Flores (University of Lisbon) on a book project about visual dissent in Iberian colonial society. \nBarbara Nagel is Associate Professor of German at Princeton University; her research focuses on the relation between rhetoric\, violence\, and affect in German literature and thought\, with a historical emphasis on early modernity (Reformation to the Baroque)\, literature around 1800\, and nineteenth-century realism. Barbara works on revising the inherited categories of literary history in the German canon: the Baroque in her first book (Der Skandal der Literalen\, Fink\, 2012) and realism in her second book (Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond\, Bloomsbury\, 2019); her current book project “The Mighty Hater: The Metaphysics of Rage in Martin Luther’s Rhetoric” offers a critical counter-reading of the national-literary monument. Barbara is the recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship and the Berlin Prize from the American Academy. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/reimagining-the-baroque-global-perspectives-and-new-directions/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson International Building
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SUMMARY:Freedom and Obligation in the Seventeenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by: Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies \nThis workshop will bring Princeton faculty and graduate students together with scholars from outside institutions to consider the “freedom of philosophizing” at work in the early Enlightenment and late Reformation\, exploring “economies of obligation” and ideas of kinship\, exchange\, and patronage. \nFull Details Here
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/freedom-and-obligation-in-the-seventeenth-century/
LOCATION:Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building – 399
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SUMMARY:Architecture According to Artists ∙The Intersection of Art and Architectural Practice in Renaissance Italy
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by the Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies \nThis talk explores the role artists played in the development of architectural practice during the Italian Renaissance. Centered around my book\, Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy(Link is external) (Harvey Miller\, Brepols\, 2024)\, this presentation problematizes interpretations based on pictorial space and perspective\, emphasizing the architectural value of buildings in narrative painting. While other publications on architecture in painting have focused on single individuals (for example Giotto)\, or on art produced from the late fifteenth century onwards\, my book discusses three case studies by different artists produced within the first fifty years of the Quattrocento. It highlights the architectural experimentation artists carried out in this period as fundamental to the development of representational strategies\, the elaboration of new structural and ornamental solutions\, and the reinvention of antiquity. Rather than seeing two-dimensional buildings as inferior cognates of their large-scale three-dimensional counterparts\, artists exploited the freedom afforded by their media\, including luxurious materials and imaginative ornament. They therefore engage in a competitive comparison with built architecture\, long before the theorization of the paragone. \nAs it highlights the fluidity with which art and architectural practice informed each other during the early Renaissance\, the book offers a contribution towards a better understanding of the broad cultural value attached to architectural forms\, and encourages us to reconsider the emergence of the architect as a new kind of professional. This work also questions the art historical category of the “painter-architect\,” often used uncritically to the detriment of art forms other than painting. I addressed this in a digital exhibition for the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London\, Beyond the Painter-Architect: Artists Reinventing Architecture in Renaissance Italy\, which I will also discuss during this talk. Showing that a number of craftsmen applied themselves to architectural design much earlier than canonical figures like Raphael or Michelangelo\, my research underscores the intersection of art and architecture as a broad phenomenon that will help us bridge the historiographical gap between art and architectural history. \nLivia Lupi is a historian of art and architecture of early modern Europe\, currently lecturing at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on the intersection of artistic and architectural practice\, especially in Italy\, c. 1300 – c. 1500. This is the subject of her first book\, Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy\, and of a digital exhibition she curated for the Sir John Soane’s Museum: Beyond the Painter-Architect\, Artists Reinventing Architecture in Renaissance Italy. She is particularly interested in the relationship between design and craft\, the emergence of the architect as a new professional\, and the production of artistic and architectural knowledge\, exploring these issues both within Italy and in terms of its exchanges with wider Europe and the Byzantine and Ottoman empires. In addition to her research\, she works as a curator\, editor and translator. Her research has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council\, the Leverhulme Trust\, the University of Warwick and the Warburg Institute. \nAdditional Details Here
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/architecture-according-to-artists-%e2%88%99the-intersection-of-art-and-architectural-practice-in-renaissance-italy/
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SUMMARY:Early Modern (Dis)continuities: Iberian Colonialisms Across the Oceans
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by:  The Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies \nDetails\nEvent Description\n\n\nEarly Modern (Dis)continuities will host a series of lectures and panel discussions with the aim of de-centering\, reinterpreting\, and recontextualizing common discourses around subjection\, subalternity\, marginalization\, gender dynamics\, and other markers that have been widely used to approach the diverse set of experiences\, outlooks\, and cultural productions of individuals living in Early Modern Iberian societies. With this one-day conference\, we want to examine how scholarship produced in the field of Colonial Latin American Studies could transcend the geographical and historical boundaries that traditionally have defined the field; we aim to do this by establishing productive and diverse conversations between scholars working on different regions under Iberian rule or influence. \nWe will have three panels with professors and graduate students presenting their research on the Western Coast of Africa\, the Andes\, the Caribbean\, Mexico\, the Pacific Coast of Canada\, Brazil\, the Philippines\, and Japan. \nPlease see event details here!
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/early-modern-discontinuities-iberian-colonialisms-across-the-oceans/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240422T163000
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SUMMARY:On Albrecht Dürer: A Public Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a public conversation between these two early modern historians as they discuss their shared subject. \nSusan Dackerman is the author of the forthcoming Dürer’s Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East (Princeton University Press\, Sept. 2024). \nUlinka Rublack is the author of Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World (Oxford University Press\, 2023). \nLight Reception to Follow \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/on-albrecht-durer-a-public-conversation/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Annual Meeting for the Society of Seventeenth-Century Music
DESCRIPTION:Department of Music\, please visit their website for details
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/annual-meeting-for-the-society-of-seventeenth-century-music/
LOCATION:Taplin Auditorium\, Fine Hall\, Washington Road
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SUMMARY:A German Vasari? Johann Neudörffer’s “Notes on Nuremberg’s Artists and Craftsmen” (1547)
DESCRIPTION:The earliest German collection of artistic biographies\, Johann Neudörffer’s “Notes on Nuremberg’s Artists and Craftsmen” (1547) has frequently (and not always favourably) been compared to Giorgio Vasari’s seminal “Lives of the Artists”\, as the two texts appeared within three years of each other. This lecture will highlight how the format\, scope and purpose of Neudörffer’s manuscript differed from its Italian print cousin and re-contextualise the “Notes” in both Nuremberg’s literary traditions and sixteenth-century historiography. \n  \nSusanne Meurer received her PhD from the Warburg Institute\, University of London. She has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Houghton Library and a postdoctoral fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max-Planck Institute)\, Florence and the Warburg Institute in London.  As a senior lecturer in the History of Art at UWA (School of Design) she teaches classes on Renaissance and Baroque Art and Curatorial Studies. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/a-tale-of-two-experts-johann-neudorffer-georg-romer-and-the-origins-of-german-art-historiography/
LOCATION:3-S-15 Green Hall\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Prado at Princeton
DESCRIPTION:Featuring four scholars who will present their research in connection with the current exhibition: \nThe Lost Mirror:  Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain\n \nMuseo Nacional del Prado\, Madrid\nOctober 10\, 2023­­—January 14\, 2024 \nParticipants: \nCloe Cavero de Carondelet\nFellow\, Center for Research on Global Catholicism\nSaint Louis University \nYonatan Glazer-Eytan\nAssistant Professor of History\nPrinceton University \nDavid Nirenberg\nDirector and Leon Levy Professor\nInstitute for Advanced Study \nPamela Patton\nDirector\, The Index of Medieval Art\nPrinceton University \n  \nLunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP here\, to confirm attendance.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/the-prado-at-princeton/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green\, 105 Chancellor Green\, Princeton\, NJ\, 05844\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fictional Realism–What our Relationship to the Non-Existing Teaches Us About Reality
DESCRIPTION:Lunch talk with Marcus Gabriel. \nPlease RSVP to blleavey@princeton.edu if you plan to attend.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/fictional-realism-what-our-relationship-to-the-non-existing-teaches-us-about-reality/
LOCATION:Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building – A17\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, United States
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SUMMARY:Confusion\, Nonsense\, and Consciousness: Poetry as a Source for a Novel Theory of Subjectivity
DESCRIPTION:For millennia\, philosophers have dedicated themselves to advancing understanding of the nature of truth and reality. In the process they have amassed a great deal of epistemological theory—knowledge about knowledge. But negative epistemological phenomena\, such as ignorance\, falsity\, illusion\, and delusion\, are persistently overlooked. This is surprising given that we all know how fallible humans are. An important exception to this rule is Spinoza who offers important resources for a novel theory of subjectivity according to which to be a subject is to be wrong about some parts of reality (including oneself as a subject). In my lecture\, I will argue that Spinoza was right to establish a connection between confusion and human mindedness. Moreover\, I will follow in his footsteps by showing how poetic speaking and thinking are able to articulate the nature of human subjectivity (being wrong) by sidestepping the standard conditions of sensemaking. \nMarkus Gabriel holds the chair for epistemology\, modern\, and contemporary philosophy at the University of Bonn. At Bonn he is the director of the International Center for Philosophy and the interdisciplinary Center for Science and Thought. He earned both his Dr. phil. and his habilitation from the University of Heidelberg. Before moving to Bonn\, he taught at the New School for Social Research. He has been a visiting professor and a fellow at UC Berkeley\, Stanford\, NYU\, Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne\, among other places. He is a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for experienced researcher and of the Paolo Bozzi award for ontology. His most recent books include Fictions (Cambridge: Polity\, 2023) and his forthcoming Sense\, Nonsense\, and Subjectivity (Cambridge\, MA: Harvard University Press). \nSponsored by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/confusion-nonsense-and-consciousness-poetry-as-a-source-for-a-novel-theory-of-subjectivity/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Cryptographic Renaissance: Early Modern Ciphers and the Modern Search for Meaning
DESCRIPTION:Committee for the Study of Books and Media hosts Bill Sherman\, The Warburg Institute\, University of London \nPlease find the details here
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/the-cryptographic-renaissance-early-modern-ciphers-and-the-modern-search-for-meaning/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall and Zoom
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SUMMARY:"'Poor Tom's a cold': Shakespeare and Ecological Catastrophe"
DESCRIPTION:Dear CREMS Graduate Students\, \n  \nYou are invited to a lunch talk with Walter Cohen on Wednesday\, February 8\, at noon in 209 Scheide Caldwell.  Professor Cohen’s talk is entitled “‘Poor Tom’s a cold’: Shakespeare and Ecological Catastrophe.”  There is a short essay on the topic\, optional reading\, that I can send to you.  The first part of the talk will summarize the essay\, and the discussion following will depend on what you would like to talk about. \n  \nIf you would like to attend the lunch\, please RSVP to blleavey@princeton.edu by Friday\, February 3\, and indicate if you have any dietary concerns. \n 
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/poor-toms-a-cold-shakespeare-and-ecological-catastrophe/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:5000 Years of African Literature
DESCRIPTION:2022-2023 CREMS Faber Lecture \nThis talk’s central claim is that Africa has a 5000-year literary history. Why does such a possibility remain almost entirely unrecognized? How well does the extant evidence support such a claim? And what difference might the answers to these questions make? The presentation takes up each of these matters in turn. It approaches the first by looking at the organization of academic programs—what they enable and obscure. The second follows the successive fortunes of various African writing systems\, from ancient Egyptian to the present\, including indigenous and imported literary languages. Transmission is traced via direct connections among these languages; through the reconstruction of oral linkages\, where possible\, and utilizing extra-African relays\, with the African literary diaspora constituting a brief if recurrent\, motif. Finally\, the conclusion reviews several issues raised by the preceding survey—the rationale for disciplinary divisions\, the ethical and political resonances (if any)\, the (un)importance of contributions to knowledge\, the relationship between broad historical summary and close reading of texts\, the tension between continuity and rupture in literary traditions\, the importance of geography in literary networks\, and\, not least\, the relative hierarchy of African literary languages. \nRespondent: Wendy Laura Belcher\, Professor of Comparative Literature and African American Studies\, Princeton University \nChair: Ousseina Alidou\, Professor of African\, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures\, Rutgers University \nWalter Cohen is a Professor of English at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, after having taught from 1980 to 2014 in Comparative Literature at Cornell University\, where he received a distinguished teaching award and held various college and university administrative positions for two decades (including Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost of the University). He is the author of Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain (Cornell UP\, 1985)\,  A History of European Literature: The West and the World from Antiquity to the Present (Oxford UP\, 2017)\, and of numerous articles on Renaissance literature\, literary criticism\, the history of the novel\, and world literature. He is also one of the editors of The Norton Shakespeare (3rd ed.\, 2015). His current research interests include the literature on ecological catastrophe\, the history of African literature\, the languages of Jewish literature\, the social agency of written language\, and the role of social class in literary study. \nReception to follow the presentation\nPlease RSVP to blleavey@princeton.edu if you plan to attend\n 
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/5000-years-of-african-literature/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr\, 219 Aaron Burr\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:How did they learn? How did they teach?: Exploring Knowledge Transmission from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern
DESCRIPTION:Much of our modern knowledge is the result of centuries of experiments driven by human desire to record and pass down successes\, failures and lessons learned. The timespan from the periods often called “Late Antique” to that called “Early Modern” offers enormous scope to explore the historical record of knowledge transmission across diverse social contexts. \nThis conference will explore the many networks and forms of knowledge transmission active across the Late Antique and Early Modern periods. We will work within a wide span of geographical and chronological parameters as well as across disciplines. \nPlease visit the website for the schedule and registration. \n 
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/how-did-they-learn-how-did-they-teach-exploring-knowledge-transmission-from-late-antiquity-to-the-early-modern/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson International Building
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SUMMARY:The Royal Mint at Potosí: Inside a Global Seventeenth-Century Cash Machine
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid Event:\nIn Person: 219 Aaron Burr Hall-Register HERE \nZOOM: Register HERE \nThis presentation examines the world’s most productive mint at its height in the 1640s\, coincidentally a time of global crisis and severe\, nearly universal money troubles. How did the Potosí mint\, located high in the Andes mountains of what is today Bolivia\, influence world money flows by 1640? How did this geographically isolated colonial mint function? When mass debasement was discovered in the early 1640s\, how was it linked to credit structures in Potosí’s and greater Peru’s mining and commercial sectors\, and what does all this tell us about early modern imperial economies and the significance of hard silver cash just as paper credit grew more sophisticated and wartime borrowing ballooned? \nRespondent: Francesca Trivellato\, Andrew W. Mellon Professor\, Institute for Advanced Study\nChair: Yaacob Dweck\, Department of History and the Program in Judaic Studies \nKris Lane holds the France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University in New Orleans\, USA. He is author of Pandemic in Potosí: Fear\, Loathing\, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis (2021)\, Potosí: The Silver City that Changed the World (2019)\, Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas\, 1500-1750 (2015)\, Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires (2010)\, and Quito 1599: City & Colony in Transition (2002). Lane is currently writing a history of the great Potosí mint fraud of the 1640s. A documentary history of the Basque-Vicuña conflict of the 1620s is in press. \nReception to follow the presentation
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/the-royal-mint-at-potosi-inside-a-global-seventeenth-century-cash-machine/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr and Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Desert and the Lagoon\, a film essay by Giovanni Bellini
DESCRIPTION:In the fifteenth century\, the Venetian artist Giovanni Bellini painted his monumental work Saint Francis in the Desert (The Frick Collection\, New York City)\, arguably the most significant Renaissance painting in a North American collection. This experimental film essay uncovers the painting’s unexplored background and setting\, putting them in relation with the abandoned and deserted islands in the Venetian Lagoon. Shooting locations include New York\, Florence\, Pitigliano\, and Venice. \n 
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/the-desert-and-the-lagoon-a-film-essay-by-giovanni-bellini/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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