April 15 | Globalizing Perspectives from Masaryk University and the Bibliotheca Hertziana at CUNY

April 15 | Globalizing Perspectives from Masaryk University and the Bibliotheca Hertziana at CUNY

Please join us for a series of short talks in-person celebrating the visiting medievalist scholars from the Conques In The Global World project at CUNY! Discussions will begin…

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Apr 8 | Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe: A Bird’s-Eye View

Apr 8 | Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe: A Bird’s-Eye View

Friday, April 8, 2022 at 9:30 am on Zoom. Registration: https://translation_in_early_modern_europe.eventbrite.com This talk will explore the translation of Latin texts into Jewish languages between the…

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Mar 15 | Portuguese Converso Paths Between Italy and Brazil

Mar 15 | Portuguese Converso Paths Between Italy and Brazil

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Feb 17 | Pamela Brown, "Dark Lady, White Mask, or 'Fair Portia's Counterfeit'"

Feb 17 | Pamela Brown, “Dark Lady, White Mask, or ‘Fair Portia’s Counterfeit'”

“Fair Portia ” of The Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare ’ s simulation of the brilliantly willful innamorata invented by the groundbreaking diva of Italy…

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Nov 11 | "Montaigne in Pascal: From Citation to Versioning"

Nov 11 | “Montaigne in Pascal: From Citation to Versioning”

November 11, 2021, 6:30pm  Montaigne in Pascal: From Citation to Versioning Featured speaker: Professor Erec R. Koch This talk examines the incorporation of excised segments…

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Oct 21 | "A History of Medieval Falconry in the 21st Century" (online)

Oct 21 | “A History of Medieval Falconry in the 21st Century” (online)

Thursday, October 21, 6:30pm Featured speaker: Professor Anna Akasoy Falconry often appears as iconic of the premodern world with its arcane social structures and where people…

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Sep 24 | "The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender before Modernity"?

Sep 24 | “The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender before Modernity”?

September 24, 2021, 5:00pm – 6:30pm  “The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender before Modernity”? Speaker: Leah DeVun (Rutgers University) This talk explores ideas and individuals who…

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April 30 | Gold, Sugar, Tobacco: The Stuff of the Early Modern Atlantic World

April 30 | Gold, Sugar, Tobacco: The Stuff of the Early Modern Atlantic World

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April 9 | Ferdinand Columbus' Library Catalogues (Seth Kimmel)

April 9 | Ferdinand Columbus’ Library Catalogues (Seth Kimmel)

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Nov 20 | Teaching in the CUNY Classroom

Nov 20 | Teaching in the CUNY Classroom

For graduate students who will be teaching for the first time in Fall 2021 or those who feel they might benefit from insight into CUNY,…

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