Thursday, February 6
4:30 p.m. Davison Art Center, Room 300
Jacques Lezra, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University
Mourning as Reason of State: Cervantes’ Sonnet to the Catafalque of Philip II
Wednesday, Feb 12
8:00 p.m. Wesleyan University Chapel
James Nicolson, Longy School of Music
Concert of Organ Music
Wednesday, February 26
4:30 p.m. Davison Art Center, Room 300
Mirka Benes, Department of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
The King’s Facade: Why did the Palaces of Versailles and the Louvre Have Flat Roofs?
Wednesday, March 4
4:30 p.m. Davison Art Center Dining Room
Gary Spear, Department of English, Wesleyan University
Resigning Manhood: Paradise Lost
Monday, April 6
4:30 p.m. Davison Art Center Dining Room
Benjamin Kohl, Department of History, Vassar College
Understanding a Renaissance Despotism: the Carrara of Padua
Tuesday, April 28
4:30 p.m. Davison Art Center Dining Room
Lorenzo Polizzotto, Department of Italian, University of Western Australia
Savonarola’s Nuns after Savonarola
Tuesday, May 5
4:30 p.m. Davison Art Center Dining Room
Virginia Reinburg, Department of History, Boston College