Comparative Studies in Romance Literatures and Cultures — The Learned Academies of Early Modern France, Italy and Spain and the Emergence of New Understandings of Language and Literature (1500-1800)
This seminar ong>com ong>paratively investigates the major learned academies of early modern France, Italy and Spain (1500-1800), focusing specifically on their contributions to the development and study of vernacular languages, as...
Program
...ong>Exam ong> To qualify ong>for ong> the DE, students must have at least one faculty member affiliated with REMS on their Qualifying ong>Exam com ong>mittee and must be ong>exam ong>ined in a field within...
Authors, Readers and Censors in Early Modern Europe: From the Printing of Books to the Management of Information (1450-1800)
...ong>new ong> strategies to gather, store and appropriate knowledge. Particular attention will be dedicated to ong>exam ong>ining how information (mundane, political, literary and artistic, scientific, etc.) was produced and circulated, the guises...
Erotic Renaissance
...aim is to ong>test ong> the hypothesis of my recent reong>search ong> – that an “erotic revolution” transformed Italian art and art writing – and to explore how far it applies to...
Church Reform, the Virgin Mary, and Mysteries Unravelled: The Apocalypsis Nova and the Narration of a New Theology
Please join us ong>for ong> a talk by Mirjam Wulff (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) entitled, “Church Reform, the Virgin Mary, and Mysteries Unravelled: The Apocalypsis Nova and the Narration of a ong>New ong>...
Graduate Proseminar in the Interpretation of Art Historical Materials
...to be a ong>com ong>prehensive survey of the history of the discipline. The selected topics and readings are in no way entirely inclusive of contemporary practitioners and their respective fields. Once...
Machines and Organisms in Early Modern Thought
...are available ong>online ong> through the library). Students may write either a reong>search ong> paper on an early modern figure (not limited to those discussed in class) OR a critical paper ong>exam ong>ining...
Colonial technologies
...as in the latter case, ong>new ong> methods (evangelization, ong>training ong> in alphabetic writing, etc.) were devised as means to particular ends (conversion, transformation), we could consider that the whole colonial enterprise...
The Jurisprudence of Conquest
...of arguments about the right of war, the justifications of empire, and legal titles over other lands and peoples. We will ong>exam ong>ine claims that were sometimes rivals to and sometimes...
Silent Archive/s
The 1980s arrival of an archive fever, le mal d’archive, saw the development of ong>new ong> methods of fieldwork and reong>search ong> in visual studies and art history. This, in turn, provoked...