Monthly Archives: April 2014

Bereiter Presentation Today at the Newberry Library

Posted on April 23, 2014 by briansandberg

Originally posted on Cluster for the Study of Religious Violence:
Greg Bereiter, “Clerical Combatants: Clergy and Armed Conflict During the French Wars of Religion” Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4 pm Towner Fellows’ Lounge, Newberry Library Greg Bereiter (Ph.D. candidate in History at…

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Early Colonial Latin America Conference

Posted on April 22, 2014 by briansandberg

Symposium on Latin America in the Early Colonial Period 9 am to 3 pm, Saturday, April 11, 2015 Keynote speaker: Laura Matthew, Marquette University This symposium aims to explore the complexities of Latin America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, … Continue reading →

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Bereiter Presentation on Clerical Combatants

Posted on April 17, 2014 by briansandberg

Originally posted on Cluster for the Study of Religious Violence:
Greg Bereiter, “Clerical Combatants: Clergy and Armed Conflict During the French Wars of Religion” Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4 pm Towner Fellows’ Lounge, Newberry Library Greg Bereiter (Ph.D. candidate in History at…

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Nina Dubin Lecture

Posted on April 11, 2014 by briansandberg

The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies presents: Saturday, April 19, 2014, 2:00 pm Eighteenth-Century Seminar Nina Dubin, University of Illinois at Chicago “Love, Trust, Risk: Painting ‘The Papered Century’” http://www.newberry.org/04192014-nina-dubin The precirculated paper for this seminar will be delivered electronically … Continue reading →

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Rethinking State Trials

Posted on April 9, 2014 by briansandberg

Symposium on Rethinking the State Trials: The Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England Organized by Brian Cowan (McGill University) and Scott Sowerby (Northwestern University) and sponsored by the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Thursday, April 10 (at Northwestern University) … Continue reading →

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Cosimo I de’ Medici in Chicago

Posted on April 9, 2014 by briansandberg

Early Modern Workshop Christine Zappella, PhD Student in Art History, will present a paper on “Bronzino’s Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici as Orpheus: Erotic Furor and Florence’s Perfect Prince” in the The Early Modern Workshop at the University of Chicago. … Continue reading →

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Problems with Big Data

Posted on April 7, 2014 by briansandberg

Big Data is touted as revolutionary by many media pundits and computer enthusiasts, but there are serious limitations to the uses of so-called Big Data. An op-ed in the New York Times discusses the many problems with Big Data. The … Continue reading →

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Early Modern Domestic Space

Posted on April 5, 2014 by briansandberg

A lecture on “Illuminating Early Modern Domestic Spaces” by Professor Ann Smart Martin Stanley and Polly Stone Professor Director, Material Culture Program and Department of Art History University of Wisconsin, Madison Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 5:30 PM DePaul Art … Continue reading →

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