MEMHS: 18 Sept., 4:30 P.M. - Daniel Jütte (Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University,) ”Why Did the Thirty Years’ War Begin with a Defenestration? A New Window on Windows.” There is no pre-circulated paper for this lecture.
Note: change of venue. Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St.
MEMHS: 16 Oct., 4:30 P.M. – Palmira Brummett (Visiting Professor of History, Brown University), “Vincenzo Coronelli, the Lion of San Marco, and the Image of ‘The Turk’ in Early Modern Italy.” Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St. There is a pre-circulated paper (Palmira_Brummett) for this talk.
14 Nov., 5:30 PM, The 32nd William F. Church Memorial Lecture, Jonathan Israel, Professor of History (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.) “Democratic Republicanism and the Making of the French Revolution (1770-1792).” MacMillan Hall, 117 (167 Thayer St.) A small reception will follow the lecture. Free and open to the public.
MEMHS: 20 Nov., 4:30 P.M. - Christopher MacEvitt (Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Dartmouth College,) ”Friars before the Qāḍī: Memorializing Martyrs in the Fourteenth Century.” (paper) Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
MEMHS: 26 Feb., 4:30 P.M. - Jeremy Mumford (Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Brown University,) ”Ana of Austria, Philip II, Sayri Topa and Cusi Huarcay: Royal
Kin-Marriage in the Sixteenth-Century Hispanic World.” Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
CANCELLED
MEMHS: 12 Mar., 4:30 P.M. - Laura Perille (Graduate Student, History, Brown University,) “‘Calling Down the Turke’: Elizabeth I and the Ottoman Alliance Against Spain.” Paper Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
Note: change of date.
MEMHS: 16 Apr., 4:30 P.M. - Jennifer Wells (Graduate Student, History, Brown University,) ” Millenarianism and Empire-Building in the Early Modern Atlantic.” (Paper) Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
MEMHS: 7 May, 4:30 P.M. - Sharon Farmer (UC Santa Barbara.) “Public Welfare Vs. Private Charity: Some Lessons from Medieval and Early Modern Europe.” Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St. There is a pre-circulated paper (Sharon_Farmer) for this talk.