Fall 1991

Wednesday, October 2

4:15 p.m. Public Affairs Center, Room 413

Paula Findlen, Department of History, University of California, Davis

Humanism, Politics, and Pornography in Renaissance Italy

Wednesday, October 9

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center Dining Room

Lynn Enterline, Department of English, Yale University

Melancholia and Sexual Difference in Early Modern Writing

Wednesday, October 16

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center Dining Room

John Klause, Department of English, Hofstra University

The Two Occasions of Donne’s Lamentation of Jeremy

Wednesday, November 13

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center Dining Room

Gordon DesBrisay, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan and Department of History, Columbia University

Fornication, Illegitimacy and Godly Discipline in the Early Modern Scottish Town

Wednesday, November 20

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center Dining Room

Renee Baernstein, Department of History, Harvard University

“The refuge of girls who cannot marry”: Nuns, Class, and Honor in Renaissance Italy