Gilman 479 Marked by the ‘mathematization’ of scientific knowledge, seventeenth-century European intellectual culture is also punctuated by profound skepticism about the stability, reliability, or calculability of numbers. Focusing on the natural philosopher and lay theologian Thomas Browne, who fluctuates puzzlingly between fascination and contempt for arithmology and numerology, this lecture will explore the seventeenth century’s […]
Krieger 306 Lecture by Urs Büttner
Hodson 210 Lecture by Sasha Tycko and Peter Habib. The 16th/17th-century Druze emir, Fakhr al-Din II, who is regarded as the founder of modern Lebanon, defied Ottoman authorities and was forced into exile with the Medici family in Florence. While in Tuscany, al-Din studied Italian political and social technology, which included forestry, and, upon his […]
Hodson 305 Lecture by Beatriz Rey
Gilman 479 With Naine Terena, Gustavo Caboco, and Jamille Pinheiro Dias. Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the Portuguese Program, and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. Voro'pi is an educational initiative that approaches the arts as a way to galvanize counter-histories, fight structural inequality, and learn about protagonists from different contexts. […]
Bird in Hand Bookstore Lecture by Ann Goldstein
Gilman 479 Lecture by Kate Tunstall
Gilman 132 German Graduate Student Conference
Gilman 479 Lecture by Sophie Nordmann
Gilman 479 Lecture by Sophie Nordmann
Maryland 110 Lecture by Sunny Yudkoff. This lecture will explore the evolving manifestations of Yiddish in the work of the contemporary artist Mel Bochner. One of the founding figures of American conceptual art, Bochner has continuously re-examined the unstable nature of language. The following presentation investigates how Bochner’s postvernacular invocation of Yiddish calls into crisis […]
