November 20, 2013 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Music Theorists in the Age of Empfindsamkeit
Darrell Berg, Music, Washington University in St. Louis
Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Past Event
November 1, 2013 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Discussion of Common Sense: A Political History and presentation of “The Choices We Make: The Roots of Modern Freedom”
Guest Speaker Sophia Rosenfeld, Professor of History at the University of Virginia
Eads 217
A discussion of Sophia Rosenfeld's recent book Common Sense: A Political History (Harvard, 2011) and an overview of her current research entitled "The Choices We Make: The Roots of Modern Freedom.
October 24, 2013 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Public Lecture: The Science, Art and Politics of the Enlightenment Body
Rebecca Messbarger, Romance Languages and Literatures (Italian), Washington University in St. Louis
Danforth University Center 276
October 15, 2013 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Sound and Silence: The Politics of Revolt in the Art of Lucas de Heere and Joris Hoefnagel
Marisa Bass, Art History, Washington University in St. Louis
Eads 217
September 11, 2013 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Patriarchy, Celibacy, and Marriage: Subversion and Religious Education in Early Nineteenth-Century France
Jen Popiel, History, St. Louis University
Center for the Humanities Conference Room
October 3, 2013 to October 6, 2013
Consuming Passions: Economies of Desire in French Literature and Arts, 1100-1815
Conference sponsored by the Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Clayton
Consuming Passions engages a range of topics involving the treatment of desire, obsession, and appetites as expressed in texts, images, and music in the early modern period. All conference participants will focus on issues related to France, and many will choose to connect France in two or more periods (medieval through the eighteenth century) and/or to make connections between France and other countries.
April 22, 2013
Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the World
Discussion with author Mark Elliott.
Mark Elliott, the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History at Harvard University, is the author of The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China (Stanford, 2001). He will be discussing his recent biography Emperor Qianlong: Son of Heaven, Man of the World (Pearson-Longman, 2009) with the Salon and giving a public lecture entitled “Was China an Empire?” on April 22nd and 23rd. (http://harvardealc.org/biography.php?personId=222)
March 21, 2013 - 12:00pm
The Enlightenment: A Geneology
A lunchtime discussion with the author, Dan Edelstein.
Dan Edelstein, Associate Professor of French and, by courtesy, Professor of History at Stanford University is the author of The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution (Chicago, 2009). He will be discussing his still more recent book The Enlightenment: A Geneology (Chicago, 2010) over lunch at noon on Thursday, March 21st. His public talk entitled “In the Name of Revolution: Reflections on Political Authority” is scheduled for that afternoon at 4:30 in Hurst Lounge. (http://humanexperience.stanford.edu/edelstein)
January 31, 2013 - 3:00pm
Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America
Discussion with author Wendy Bellion.
Eads 217
Wendy Bellion, Associate Professor of American Art of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century at the University of Delaware will discuss her book Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America (UNC, 2011) and present her new research project entitled What Statues Remember: Iconoclasm and Ritual in Early New York on Thursday, January 31st from 3-5:30 in Eads 217, followed by dinner. (http://www.udel.edu/ArtHistory/faculty/bellion.html)