Spring 2025
March 6 | 5 pm | Wheeler Hall, Room 300
Milton and the Majesty of Darkness, Ethan Guagliardo (University of British Columbia)
March 14 | 5:00-7:00 pm | 308A Doe Library
March 15 | 9:30-12:30 and 2-5 pm | Social Sciences Building, Room 749
Guicciardini's Dialogue at 500: a Workshop on Renaissance Political Thought: Natasha Piano (UCLA) and Mark Jurdjevic (York University, Toronto).
March 18 | 4-6 pm | Howison Library (Philosophy Hall 305)
Why read Spinoza's Ethics? A conversation with John Carriero (UC Berkeley), Josefine Klingspor (Stanford), Russ Leo (Princeton), and Samuel Newlands (Notre Dame)
April 15 | 4 pm | Wheeler 330
Alison Peterman (University of Rochester): Title TBA
April 22-24 | Toll Room, Alumni House
Annabel Brett (Cambridge), Tanner Lectures: The Times of Possibility
For more information, please see: Annabel Brett, 2025 Tanner Lectures, The Time of Possibility.
May 3
Graduate Conference organized by the REMS Graduate Working Group Human Nature, the Passions, and Early Modern Politics.
Fall 2024
October 30 | 5 pm | Dwinelle 6331
Roundtable with Jonas Roelens (University of Ghent) and Thomas W. Laqueur (UC Berkeley), around Jonas Roelens, Citizens and Sodomites: Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700)
November 7 | 5 pm | Wheeler 300
"The Principal Ruffian," a talk by Professor Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard). "The Principal Ruffian" is a story about a con man in New York City who is made to confront his own underlying nihilism. The story is also about a country cut adrift from awareness of its own historical content--and about my experiments, as a scholar of ancient and early modern literature, to depict the subjective experience of this national psychic self-ignorance. Homer and Shakespeare figure prominently.
Sponsored by the Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English.
November 13 | 5 pm | Dwinelle 6331
Arielle Saiber (Jonhs Hopkins), A Psychedelic Renaissance: Contemporary Psychopharmacology Meets Premodernity
November 15-16 | Berkeley-Stanford Symposium
Braudel’s La Méditerranée (1949): Paradigms and Possibilities after 75 Years. See Full Program here.
(2 day conference: Friday 15 at Stanford CMEMS and Saturday 16 the Townsend Center)
November 20 | 5:00 - 6:30 pm | Institute of South Asian Studies (10 Stephens Hall)
Tamara Sears (Rutgers University), Wilderness Urbanisms: On Politics, Nature, and Travel in the Peripheries of Premodern India