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TEMS 2003-2004

 

 


Fall 2003

October 2: Matthew Jones, History, Columbia University
“The Anthropology of Disproportion: Infinities, Self-Knowledge and Conversion in Blaise Pascal's Pensées ”

October 3: Matthew Jones, History, Columbia University
“Accounting for the Self: Leibniz' Quadrature of the Circle. and Perspective in Paris. ”
Co-sponsored with the University of Minnesota Program in the History of Science and Technology

November 6: Catherine Pulling, French & Italian, University of Minnesota
“(Dis)embodied Subjectivities: Cuckoldry in La Fontaine's Contes et Nouvelles en vers ”

December 4: Lyle Massey, Art History, Northwestern University
“Pathologies of Picturing: The Human Gravid Uterus and 18 th -century Obstetrical Atlases.”
Co-sponsored with the University of Minnesota Department of Art History.

Spring 2004

February 5: Claudia Swan, Art History, Northwestern University,
“On Art, Science and Collecting in the Netherlands”
Co-Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Department of Art History

February 26: Florence Hsia, History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Jesuit Science in China.”
Co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Center for Early Modern History

March 12: Symposium: “The Image as Evidence.”
In conjunction with the University of Minnesota Center for Early Modern History

March 25: J.B. Shank, History, University of Minnesota (J.B. also presented to TEMS in Spring 2001)
“Questions and Notes Toward an Analytic of Expertise in Early Modern Europe”

April 22: 1st Graduate Student Roundtable, Current Research in Early Modern Studies

  • Anne Good, Department of History
    “Primitive Man and the Enlightened Observer: Peter Kolb among the Khoikhoi”
    Laura Burch, Department of French & Italian
    “Translating Friendship: Literature, Gender and Community in Early Modern France”
    Miranda Mollendorf, Department of Art History
    “Charles Estienne's Le dissection and Mannerist Anatomy”

April 22: Lorraine Daston, Director, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
“Imagination and Other Subtle Effluvia in Early Modern Europe.”
Co-Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Program in the History of Science and Technology and the University of Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science

April 30: Gianna Pomata, History, University of Bologna
"Malpighi and the Holy Body: Secular Medicine and Miraculous Evidence in Early Modern Bologna"
Co-sponsored with the University of Minnesota Department of History, and the Workshop on Comparative Women's History and Gender.

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