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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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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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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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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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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-3/
LOCATION:103 Chancellor Green
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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: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: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: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: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: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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T163000
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SUMMARY:Christian Converts to Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
DESCRIPTION:Join Renaissance and the Early Modern Studies for the next Faber Lecture\, featuring Sir Noel Malcolm.  \nRead Sir Malcolm’s biography on the University of Oxford website.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/save-the-date-faber-lecture/
LOCATION:NJ
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T131500
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SUMMARY:Jesuits and the Circulation of Objects in the Hispanic World
DESCRIPTION:Luisa 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.”  (this event has been rescheduled from the original February date). \nJoin us on Zoom.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/jesuits-and-the-circulation-of-objects-in-the-hispanic-world/
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SUMMARY:Colloquium: The French Revolution and the Sacred - Global and Contemporary Perspectives (18th c. – present)
DESCRIPTION:Details\n\nEvent Description\n\n“Revolution continues Christianity\, and it contradicts it. It is\, at the same time\, its heir and its adversary.” – Jules Michelet (1848) \nIn the years leading up to the bicentenary commemorations of 1989\, a new liberal interpretation of the French Revolution challenged a long-lived socialist one. In contrast to the Marxist view of a “bourgeois revolution” with popular support (Jaurès\, 1922-1924; Soboul\, 1974; Mazauric\, 1988)\, the liberal historiography has recurrently emphasized the role of “revolutionary ideology” and the “collective mentality” which led to the episode of the “Terror” (Furet\, 2009). While Michel Vovelle attempted to fill the gaps by writing a social history of religious conflicts (Vovelle\, 1988)\, we might take the end of Cold War binary frameworks as an opportunity to move beyond this long-lasting interpretive divide\, and to reinvestigate how the Revolution transformed ideas of the sacred and has itself been sacralized. \nMoreover\, while modernity has long been equated with the fading of the sacred from our “horizons of expectation” (Koselleck\, 1979) and with an increasingly disenchanted world (Gauchet\, 1985)\, the worldwide resurgence of religion over recent decades has profoundly unsettled that narrative. This development calls for a new genealogy of modernity\, to which this colloquium contributes by examining the role of the sacred both during the French Revolution and in its contemporary legacy\, from a global\, interdisciplinary\, and contemporary perspective—especially as 2026 will mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. \nThe colloquium will be held in two parts: at Princeton on 14–15 May and at Sciences Po on 26–27 May\, 2026. Presentations may be delivered in English or French\, at either institution. Participants are encouraged to attend both sessions if possible\, though a hybrid option will also be available.
URL:https://renaissance.princeton.edu/event/colloquium-the-french-revolution-and-the-sacred-global-and-contemporary-perspectives-18th-c-present/
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