MEASURE FOR MEASURE: INVESTIGATING HISTORIES OF METROLOGY AND MODERNITY
...and engraving technologies; we will ong>exam ong>ine instruments of measure, whether made ong>for ong> surveying, navigating or plotting the night’s sky; we will investigate attempts to map language in grammars and rhetorics;...
The Invention of Religion in Early Modern Europe
...of enormous cultural flux in which ong>com ong>peting conceptions of religion were canvassed and power in the world was reorganized around conflicting visions of the human relationship with the divine. This...
17 & 18th Century French Theater
...social ong>com ong>position, censorship practices, etc.). We will think about the role and the effects of genre (tragedy vs. ong>com ong>edy; the rise of “drame”). We will study contemporary debates about the...
Symposium: Professor Sal Nicolazzo
Please join us ong>for ong> a symposium with Prof. Sal Nicolazzo (Literature, UCSD) on their ong>new ong> book, Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police (Yale University Press, 2021)....
Welcome to REMS
Welcome to the Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies’ website. Our D.E. builds on UC Berkeley’s traditional strengths in this period, and develops them in ong>new ong> and exciting...
“Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics”
Sandra Field (Yale – NUS College) Discussing her ong>new ong> book: “Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics”...