USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute

Renaissance Literature Seminar

Saturday, November 14, as Harry Berger, Jr (Emeritus Professor of Literature and Art History, UC Santa Cruz) speaks at our "Word & Image" series for the Renaissance Literature Seminar on "The Drama of Competitive Posing: Portrait Plots in Hals and Rembrandt." The seminar will run 10:00 to noon in Seaver 3 at the Huntington Library. Coffee, tea, and scones will be available at 9:30, and everyone is welcome to join us for lunch at the cafe after the seminar.

Jan 30 – Patricia Fumerton, "Transatlantic Crossings: The Makings of History, Aesthetics, and Blackness, 1570-1789" / to be followed in the afternoon by a Graduate Student Panel

Mar 20 – Ann Rosalind Jones, "Ut Pictura Poesis: Rhymed Commentaries on Prints in Sixteenth-Century Costume Books"

Apr 10 – Jody Greene, "I Heart George Herbert"

May 1 – Carla Mazzio, "Euclid in Ruins: Language and Math c. 1600"