The University of Pittsburgh's Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Spring Events 2008
NANCY WICKER
(Department of Archaeology, University of Mississippi)
“Who Made It and Who Wore It? Agency and the Individual in Early Medieval Scandinavian Gold Bracteate Jewelry”
Friday, January 25th at 5:00 pm
Room 202 Frick Fine Arts Building
This talk is sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture
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TIMOTHY HAMPTON at Carnegie Mellon
(University of California at Berkeley)
“The Useful and the Honorable:
Literature, Diplomacy, and the Ethics of Mediation in the Late Renaissance”
Friday, February 8th
Time and location TBA
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EDITH BALAS
(Art History, Carnegie Mellon University)
The Mother Goddess in Italian Renaissance Art
Friday, February 15th at 4:00
Frick Fine Arts Building, Room 202
This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture
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SARA LIPTON
(Department of History, SUNY Stony Brook)
Title TBA
Friday, February 29th at 4:00 in The University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning, room 501
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FRANÇOIS RIGOLOT
(Department of French and Italian, Princeton University)
"Rabelais and the Renaissance Interpretation of Dreams"
Monday, March 17th at 4:00 in The University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning, room 501
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RICHARD STRIER
(Department of English, University of Chicago)
Tentative Topic: Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors
Friday, March 21st at 4:00 in The University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning, room 501
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PAMELA SHEINGORN
(Department of History, Baruch College)
Title TBA
Thursday, March 27th at 4:00 in The University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning, room 501
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JEAN HOWARD at Washington & Jefferson
(Department of English, Columbia University)
Monday, April 14th
Time, location, and directions TBA
Professor Howard will speak on the topic of her most recent book, Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642.
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Questions? Comments? Please contact Jen Waldron (jwaldron@pitt.edu)
