Archived events, September, 2007-present
SEPTEMBER 2007
Sept. 25, 2007, Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 6-8 pm. Barbara Weinstein, Professor of Latin American History, New York University, President of the American Historical Association: "Erecting and Erasing Boundaries: Can We Combine the 'Indo' and the 'Afro' in Latin American Studies?" Reception to follow the lecture. Sponsored by the History Department, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.
Sept. 27, 2007, Lownes Room, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 4pm. Greg Moynahan, Assistant Professor of History; Co-director, Science, Technology, and Society Program , Bard College: "The Politics of Science in Cassirer and Heidegger's 1929 Davos Disputation." Sponsored by the History Department, and the Faculty Committee on Science and Technology Studies.
OCTOBER 2007
Oct. 20, 2007, Starr Auditorium, MacMillan Hall 117, 324 Brook Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 9am-6pm. New England Renaissance Conference: Nature's Disciplines. For information about the program and registration, see the conference website. Sponsored by The Cogut Center for the Humanities, The Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Program and The Committee on Science and Technology Studies.
Oct. 22, 2007, McMillan Hall, Rm. 117, 324 Brook Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 4pm. Paul Nugent, Professor of Comparative African History, University of Edinburgh: "Writing Comparative Histories of Contemporary Africa: Avoiding the Lowest Common Denominator." Sponsored by the Goldberger lectureships fund, the Africa Group of the Watson Institute, the Dean of the College Office, the Wayland Collegium, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Department of History.
October 23, 2007, John Carter Brown Library, Lower Seminar Room, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Brown University, Providence, RI, 3-5pm. History Department Faculty Workshop. The Department of History offers a workshop on the Atlantic World. Refreshments will be served.
October 24, 2007, Smith-Buonanno, Rm. 201, 95 Cushing Street, Brown University, Providence, RI, 4pm. Paul Bushkovitch , Professor of History, Yale University: "Moscow to St. Petersburg. " Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages, Department of History and The Watson Institute for International Studies.
NOVEMBER 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. List 120, 64 College Street, Brown University The 27th William F. Church Memorial Lecture: Edward Muir, Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Northwestern University: "The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance." The “culture wars” refers to a series of conflicts in the early seventeenth century between the papacy, the Jesuits, and the Spanish monarchy, on the one hand, and a group of cultural critics, often called the libertines, on the other. Libertines from all over Europe found a home in Venice between 1607 and 1657, a period when press censorship was relatively light. The University of Padua during the time of Galileo was the nesting ground for skeptics and libertines who established the famous Academy of the Unknowns as a vehicle for a cultural program that included publishing novels, moral commentaries, histories, dialogues, and opera librettos. This talk focuses on the final phase of the culture wars that pitted commercial opera, with its classical plots, women singers on stage, and often racy plot lines against the decorous model of Jesuit theater.
DECEMBER 2007
Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 4:00 p.m., MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Brown University. The Marjorie Harris Weiss Lecture: Susan D. Amussen, Graduate College, Union Institute and University, author of : "Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society" will offer a lecture, "'If her son is living with you, she sends her love': The Caribbean in England, 1640-1700." Sponsored by the Department of History, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Program and the John Carter Brown Library.
FEBRUARY 2008
February 4, at 4:00 pm in the Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute for International Studies, 111 Thayer Street. Stephen Ellis, Senior Researcher at the African Studies Center, Leiden, will present the second lecture in a series on "Contemporary Africa: Writing Its History." His talk is titled "Histories of Invisible Africa." This series is sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of History, the Wayland Collegium, the Africa Group of the Watson Institute, the Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureship Fund and a Saloman Grant from the Dean of the College.
APRIL 2008
April 17 at 5:30pm, MacMillan Reading Room in The John Carter Brown Library. Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Department of History, UCLA) will present the inaugural "Gulbenkian-Vasco da Gama Lecture on Portugal and the Early Modern World." The title of his talk is "Disturbing Old Bones: Old and New Myths about Vasco da Gama." The lecture will take place on the occasion of the opening of the book exhibition "Portugal and the European Renaissance" in The John Carter Brown Library. This event is jointly organized by the Department of History and the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and it is sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, with additional sponsorship from The John Carter Brown Library and the Center for Latin American Studies at Brown.