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TEMS 2004-2005

 

 


Fall 2004

October 7: Anthony Grafton, History, Princeton University
“Girolamo Cardano and the Practice of Renaissance Science”
Co-Sponsored by the Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine and the University of Minnesota Center for Early Modern History

November 11: Katherine Park, History of Science, Harvard University
“Nature in Person: Renaissance Allegories and Emblems”
Co Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Program in the History of Medicine and the Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine

December 2: Abby Zanger, History, Tufts University
“Passing to Print in Early Modern France: Recycled Images and the Nature of the Book in the Sixteenth Century”

December 3: Abby Zanger, History, Tufts University
Co-sponsored with the University of Minnesota Department of French and Italian

December 10: Margaret Jacob, History, University of California, Los Angeles
“Science and the Origins of Western Cosmopolitanism”
Co Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Program in the History of Science and Technology.

Spring 2005

January 27: Reading group: Frederic Jameson, A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present. London: Verso, 2002.

February 24: 2nd Graduate Student Roundtable, Current Research in Early Modern Studies

  • Andrew Dach, History and French Major
    “François Quesnay's Tableau économique : an essay at courtly science”
    Jessica Jones, Program in the History of Medicine
    “A Medical Marketplace without Medicine? The Forgotten Commodities of Early Modern European Medicine”
    Sara Wellman, Department of French & Italian
    “Uses of the Pastoral in 17 th -century France”

April 11: John Guillory, English, New York University
“The Bachelor State: Philosophy and Sovereignty in Bacon's New Atlantis”

April 14: John Watkins, English, University of Minnesota
“Shakespeare and the Decline of the Venetian Republic”

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