We are delighted to announce the schedule for Spring 2027, designed to deepen and contextualize our understanding of the Renaissance. We hope you will be able to join us for lively discussion of issues that invigorate our various fields.
As is our custom, the seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. Please email in advance for the paper(s) if you are not already on our campus distribution list and would like to attend (contact information below).
Papers can only be made available by pdf with the express permission of the author. We ask that participants exercise the utmost discretion and confidentiality with the speaker’s work. Please refrain from circulation of any form. Many thanks.
Tuesday, February 16, 2027
4:30 p.m., Boger Hall, Room 315
Lisa Voigt (Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University)
“Singular but Familiar: The Recycled Rhinoceros, the Curtailed Crocodile”
Tuesday, March 30, 2027
4:30 p.m., Boger Hall, Room 315
Elizabeth Rice Mattison (Andrew R. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College)
“The Cracking Statue: Metallic Corrosion, Ecology, and the Value of Decay, ca. 1450-1600”
For a copy of the seminar paper(s), please contact the Renaissance Seminar coordinator, Maryam Patton, at mpatton@wesleyan.edu.