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Past Lecture Events

February 16, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 211 Dickinson Hall and Zoom

The Cryptographic Renaissance: Early Modern Ciphers and the Modern Search for Meaning

Bill Sherman, The Warburg Institute, University of London


October 24, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 219 Aaron Burr and Zoom

The Royal Mint at Potosí: Inside a Global Seventeenth-Century Cash Machine

Kris Lane, France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History, Tulane University


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


November 12, 2019 · 7:30 pm9:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Beyond the canon: Anne Conway on sense perception

Sarah Hutton, University of York


April 10, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 127 East Pyne

Transnationality and Cultural Mobility in the Netherlands

Jan Bloemendal, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, 2018 Visiting Professor in the Humanities Council and Stewart Fellow in CREMS


November 27, 2017 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Ghetto Urbanism in Early Modern Venice

Dana Katz, Reed College


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

Shakespeare Afoot

John Kerrigan, Professor of English, University of Cambridge


November 10, 2016 · 4:30 pm · 40 McCosh Hall

All Things with Double Terror: Nature as First and Last Judgment in Milton’s Paradise Lost

Presented by the Renaissance Colloquium and the Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Bjoern Quiring, Freie Universitat Berlin


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