This is the second of two talks that this year’s Distinguished Visiting Scholar Bruce Smith will present this month. The talk will begin at 4PM in the Victoria College Chapel. His first talk, “What Makes Shakespeare so Inspiring,” will be held on March 19 at the same location. About Professor Bruce Ray Smith: Professor Bruce [...]
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March 19, 2013
Distinguished Visiting Scholar Bruce Smith, “What Makes Shakespeare So Inspiring?”
This is the first of two talks that this year’s Distinguished Visiting Scholar Bruce Smith will present this month. The talk will begin at 4PM in the Victoria College Chapel. Professor Smith will deliver another public lecture entitled “Making the Scene,” on March 21st 2013 also to be in the Chapel of Old Victoria College [...]
March 1, 2012
DVS Lecture, John T. Paoletti, “‘Learn my Language’: Medici Artistic Patronage during the Fifteenth Century”
The second of two lectures art historian John T. Paoletti (Kenan Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus and Professor of Art History, Emeritus, Wesleyan University) will deliver as the 2012 Distinguished Visiting Scholar. His first lecture, “‘Learn my Language’: Medici Artistic Patronage during the Fifteenth Century” will be held on February 28, 2012.
February 28, 2012
DVS Lecture, John T. Paoletti, “Michelangelo’s David: Nakedness as Civic Metaphor”
The first of two lectures art historian John T. Paoletti (Kenan Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus and Professor of Art History, Emeritus, Wesleyan University) will deliver as the 2012 Distinguished Visiting Scholar. His second lecture, “‘Learn my Language’: Medici Artistic Patronage during the Fifteenth Century” will be held on March 1, 2012.
February 17, 2011
CRRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar John Martin (Duke University) “The Confessions of Michel de Montaigne”
Michel de Montaigne was reluctant to repent an act he judged, at least in his own peculiar case, of little use. But we might nonetheless read his Essays as a kind of confession. By focusing on Montaigne’s associations with his books, with his friends, with his wife, and with his lovers, this presentation argues [...]
February 15, 2011
CRRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar John Martin (Duke University) “Marranos and Nicodemites in Sixteenth-Century Venice”
As a center of European and Mediterranean trade, Venice remained remarkably open to Jews and Protestants in the midst of the Counter Reformation. But the Republic’s Holy Office proved especially concerned by the presence in the city of Marranos and Nicodemites whose religious identities were ambiguous and difficult to categorize. This presentation explores some of [...]
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