Category Archives: Cultural History

Cervantes and Shakespeare Symposium

Posted on April 14, 2016 by briansandberg

The Newberry Library is hosting a symposium on “Cervantes and Shakespeare: A Transnational Conversation” on Thursday, April 14 – Friday, April 15, 2016. The Newberry Library announcement reads: A Joint Cervantes/Early Modern Studies Symposium “Cervantes and Shakespeare: A Transnational Conversation” … Continue reading →

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Penis Politics and Gender History

Posted on March 6, 2016 by briansandberg

My friend and colleague, Rachel Hope Cleves, has written a commentary on the history of penis politics in the American presidential politics. This piece responds to the recent allusions to Donald Trump’s phallus in the United States presidential primaries by … Continue reading →

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Italian Paleography Seminar

Posted on February 28, 2016 by briansandberg

2016 Mellon Summer Institute in Italian Paleography at the Newberry Library Application deadline: March 1 The Newberry Library is offering a Summer Institute in Italian Paleography on Monday, June 27-Friday, July 15, 2016. The summer institute will be directed by … Continue reading →

Posted in Cultural History, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, Graduate Work in History, Italian History, Lectures and Seminars, Renaissance Art and History | Leave a comment

Femmes à la cour de France

Posted on October 7, 2015 by briansandberg

I will be participating in a conference on Femmes à la cour de France, hosted by Cour de France and the Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris, this week. I will be presenting a paper on “‘Je ne vis jamais cette … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Cultural History, Early Modern Europe, European History, French History, Paris History, Political Culture, Reformation History, Religious History, Renaissance Art and History, Women and Gender History | 1 Comment

Roger Chartier Lecture at DHIP

Posted on May 29, 2015 by briansandberg

Roger Chartier (EHESS) presented a lecture yesterday on “Traduire l’intraduisible. L’homme de cour chez Baltasar Gracián, Amelot de la Houssaie et Norbert Elias,” at the Institut Historique Allemand de Paris (DHIP). The lecture explored translations and appropriations of Baltasar Gracián’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Cultural History, Early Modern Europe, European History, Historiography and Social Theory, History of the Book, Noble Culture and History of Elites, Political Culture, Translations | Leave a comment

Symposium on Latin America in the Early Colonial Period

Posted on April 4, 2015 by briansandberg

The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies is offering a Symposium on Latin America in the Early Colonial Period, which will be held on Saturday, 11 April from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM. The Newberry Library website provides an announcement: “This … Continue reading →

Posted in Atlantic World, Conferences, Cultural History, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, Empires and Imperialism, European History, Globalization, Renaissance Art and History | Leave a comment

Suffragettes: Women, Politics, and Violence

Posted on February 23, 2015 by briansandberg

Physical violence is often assumed to be a properly—or even exclusively—masculine domain. Yet, women have at times played very active roles in exercising physical violence. In the early twentieth century, some Suffragette activists carried out violent attacks in England as … Continue reading →

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War Diaries and Digital Humanities

Posted on February 12, 2015 by briansandberg

The growing pace of archival digitization is creating tensions in communities of researchers and archivists. Digital Humanities projects hold great promise, but also substantial risks for today’s researchers and for future generations of scholars. Andrew Hoskins (Interdisciplinary Research Professor at … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival Research, Cultural History, Current Research, Digital Humanities, European History, European Union, Globalization, History in the Media, Humanities Education, Information Management, War, Culture, and Society | 1 Comment

Summer Program in Early Modern Digital Humanities

Posted on February 10, 2015 by briansandberg

A summer program in early modern digital humanities is being offered by the Folger Shakespeare Library. “Following on the success of the first “Early Modern Digital Agendas” institute—an intensive survey of the most current resources and methods in digital research … Continue reading →

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Fear and Racism in Film

Posted on February 8, 2015 by briansandberg

Racism seems to feed on intense fears, portraying ethnic groups as representing an exaggerated threat to social order, employment, and family life. For over a hundred years, films have played an important role in the construction of racial stereotypes, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cultural History, European History, Historical Film, History of Violence, Human Rights, Noble Culture and History of Elites, Political Culture, Religious Politics, Religious Violence, War in Film, War, Culture, and Society | Leave a comment