Western Europe

Too Much to Know: Information Management in Comparative Perspective- Ch.1 Seminar

Presenter: 
Adam Shear (Humanities Center)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 09/11/2012 - 12:30

Adam Shear will lead an informal seminar on chapter one of Ann Blair's Too Much to Know: "Information Management in Comparative Perspective," as a lead-up to the author's visit in October.

Contact Person: 
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email: 
jwaldron@pitt.edu

Science in the Mirror of Enlightenment Europe: Francesco Algarotti and the Remaking of a Cosmopolitan Book

Presenter: 
Paula Findlen (Stanford)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 10/25/2012 - 17:00

*Part of the The A. W. Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the History of Science

"Newton’s Shadow: Francesco Algarotti and the Passion for Science in the Eighteenth Century"

Paula Findlen is the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University.

Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (Reception to follow in the Cloisters)
Contact Person: 
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email: 
jwaldron@pitt.edu

Writing A Scientific Bestseller: The Making of Newtonianism for Ladies

Presenter: 
Paula Findlen (Stanford)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 10/24/2012 - 17:00

*Part of the The A. W. Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the History of Science

"Newton’s Shadow: Francesco Algarotti and the Passion for Science in the Eighteenth Century"

Paula Findlen is the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University.

Location: 
Center for Philosophy of Science, 817 Cathedral of Learning
Contact Person: 
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email: 
jwaldron@pitt.edu

Newton’s Prisms: Why Francesco Algarotti Became an Experimental Philosopher

Presenter: 
Paula Findlen (Stanford)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Mon, 10/22/2012 - 17:00

*Part of the The A. W. Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the History of Science

"Newton’s Shadow: Francesco Algarotti and the Passion for Science in the Eighteenth Century"

Paula Findlen is the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University.

Location: 
Center for Philosophy of Science, 817 Cathedral of Learning
Contact Person: 
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email: 
jwaldron@pitt.edu

Colloquium- Evidence of Things Not Seen: History, Subjectivities, Music- Critical Musicological Reflections

Presenter: 
Susan McClary (Case Western)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 09/20/2012 - 12:30 to 14:00

With responses by Nancy Condee (Global Studies), Kathryn Flannery (English), Andrew Weintraub (Music)

Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Contact Email: 
humctr@pitt.edu

Salome in the Court of Queen Christina

Presenter: 
Susan McClary (Case Western)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 09/18/2012 - 17:00

The lurid biblical story of John the Baptist, King Herod, and Herod’s precocious stepdaughter became an operatic hit in 1905 with Richard Strauss’ Salome. The lecture presents an earlier musical version of this character, la Figlia in Alessandro Stradella’s oratorio San Giovanni Battista (1675), and considers the reasons why femmes fatales ruled the operatic stage in the seventeenth no less than in the late nineteenth century.

Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Contact Email: 
humctr@pitt.edu

Linking Language and Literary-Cultural Content: A Multiliteracies Approach to Advanced Collegiate FL Teaching

Presenter: 
Heather Allen (Wisconsin)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 09/22/2012 - 10:00 to 15:00

*Lunch provided*
RSVP to losagio@pitt.edu by Monday, September 17, 2012

Graduate students and faculty are invited to participate in this workshop, which will provide training in the theory and application of the multiliteracies approach to teaching advanced-level foreign language courses. Participants will have the chance to develop their own teaching materials.

Location: 
Martin Room, 4127 Sennott Square
Contact Email: 
losagio@pitt.edu

Tahiti and the Global Eighteenth Century

Presenter: 
Lynn Festa (Rutgers)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 11/13/2012 - 17:00

Lynn Festa is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers. Her publications include Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (John Hopkins University Press, 2006) and, as co-editor, The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialisms and Postcolonial Theory (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602

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