Next Wednesday (April 11), the Society and Honors College will proudly play host to a prominent intellectual historian of our generation: J.G.A. Pocock, author of Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law, Machiavellian Moment, and a multi-volume work on Edward Gibbon. An emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins, Pocock is noted for developing a novel approach to the study of history often referred to as the Cambridge School of intellectual history. His work encompasses a broad range of intellectual endeavors, including not only history, but also political science, philosophy, and literature.

Colloquium on Germany, Sabine Von Dirke (German), "White Collar Blues: Immaterial Labor and its Discontent,” with responses from Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon) and Lisa Brush (Sociology).

Colloquium, Ruth Bottigheimer (Stony Brook), “What’s Eastern and What’s Western in the Arabian Nights?” with responses from Susan Andrade (English) and Giuseppina Mecchia (French and Italian).

Colloquium, “To the Unknown Cinemagoers: German Cinema as an Occupation Cinema,” with responses from Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Lina Insana (French and Italian) and Barbara McCloskey (History of Art and Architecture).

Lecture “Mediascapes of the Cold War” by Short-Term Fellow Katie Trumpener (Yale).

Lecture by Horst Lange (Central Arkansas), "On the Complexities of Religious Discourse in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Goethe."

The great naval Battle of Lepanto of 1571 in which the Turkish armada was devastated by the combined fleet of the Papacy, Venice, and Spain was an event of enormous symbolic as well as military importance to the Catholic Church, because it briefly gained for the Christian Alliance control of most of the Mediterranean, temporarily eradicating the threat of the “infidel”. Several Italian and Spanish artists depicted the battle but none so splendidly as Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) in the Sala Regia of the Vatican Palace.

Sarah Alison Miller joined the Classics department at Duquesne University in 2008. Professor Miller received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008). Her book, Medieval Monstrosity and the Female Body (Routledge 2010), argues that the female anatomy and its physiological processes were marked as “monstrous”
in medieval medical, erotic, and religious literature.

James Knapp (English) and Peggy Knapp (Carnegie Mellon) will present:

"Aesthetics of Time: the Case of the Middle English Sir Orfeo,"
with responses from Ryan McDermott (English) and Daniel Selcer (Duquesne).

In the Renaissance, studying nature meant (most of the time) encountering nature. But these encounters, as Peter Dear has indicated, tended to generate a discussion (in the period and in the historiography) between unmediated sensory experiences and experiences organized by prior conceptual categories. This paper focuses on anatomical encounters, when anatomists articulated that distinction with clarity, in order to reconsider the significance of ephemeral and permanent anatomy theaters.

The relationship between the two is usually described chronologically: