Erik Bleich is a Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College and will give a talk based on his book on this subject published this year by Oxford University Press.

A talk by influential senior scholar Valerie Traub of the University of Michigan entitled "Shakespeare's Sex" on Wednesday, November 16 at 3:00 in CL 332. Traub is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of *The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England*. Other books include *Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama* (1992) and two co-edited collections: *Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects* (1996) and *Gay Shame* (2009).

Historian Elina Gertsman will present a lecture entitled "Holy Anatomy, Animate Substance: the Shrine Madonna as a Performing Object" on October 27, 2011. Elina's work combines more traditional methods of art historical scholarship with an interest in performance studies and cognitive science (or "embodied cognition"). She is the author of *The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance* (2010) and has also published several articles and edited the collection, *Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts* (2008).

History Department Book Symposia Series: On Wednesday, October 26, 2011, between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. the Department of History will hold a symposium celebrating Bruce Venarde's Two Women of the Great Schism and The Rule of St. Benedict.

As a former Legal Counsellor at the Council of the European Union in Brussels, Dr BErnaard Schloh brings relevant perspective and insight to the current state of the European Union. Until his retirement in 1994, Dr. Schloh was also a faculty member of the School of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He has also been a visiting faculty member at the University of Georgia, Saint Louis University, Washington and Lee University, Santa Clara University, and Tulane University.

Rachel Epstein is associate professor of international political economy and European politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She has PhD from the Department of Government at Cornell and an AB in International Relations from Stanford University.
Sponsored by: European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, Russian and East European Studies Center (REES), Department of Political Science

Student International Relations Society Presents: Dr. Strangelove. A film by Stanley Kubrick set in 1960s amid the Cold War after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Foreign Visiting Professor Dr. Bernhard Schloh will present the first of this year’s two annual Jean Monnet lectures on European Union Law. The lecture is titled “The Present Situation of the European Union: Legal and Political Reflections.” Professor Dr. Bernhard Schloh is a former member of the Legal Service of the Council of Ministers of the European Union and is Professor Emeritus at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.

Over a period of more than twenty years, while residing mostly in England, the Italian writer, literary critic, and lexicographer Giuseppe Baretti (1719-1789) kept a personal reading and writing log. Surveying this 270-page zibaldone has helped to map out the cultural itinerary followed by this eighteenth-century intellectual immigrant, and has led into the exploration of such topics as the psychology of authorship, the role of memory in literature and in second language learning, the practice of translation and its uses and purposes.