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Past Lecture Events


Wed, 4/24 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Louis A. Simpson International Building – A71

Dangerous Flight: Amerindian Featherwork, Michelangelo, and the Violence of Natural History




March 23, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Green Hall 0-S-9

Venetian Air and the Avatars of Disegno in Sixteenth-Century Art Theory


September 19, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Leonardo Sciascia: The Man and the Writer


November 13, 2019 · 1:30 pm4:20 pm · 023 East Pyne

Rileggere il Cortegiano


April 3, 2019 · 7:30 pm8:50 pm · A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz

Faber Lecture: Only In Naples



February 20, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 106 McCormick Hall

Orlando Furioso as Paradoxical Source of Early Italian Epic Theory


November 27, 2017 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Ghetto Urbanism in Early Modern Venice


October 17, 2017 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Queer Filiation from Virgil to Dante


April 6, 2017 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 205 East Pyne

Homer is a vague, and hence poetic, idea. Leopardi and the Homeric Question.


February 24, 2017 · 2:30 pm4:00 pm · 106 McCormick Hall

The Third Science: Chivalry as Conduct, Honor, and Choice


December 12, 2016 · 4:30 pm5:30 pm · 106 Woolworth

“Singing” and “Speaking” in Monteverdi’s Operas


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