Seminars

The Renaissance

Year Founded 1945

Seminar # 407

StatusActive

The Seminar in the Renaissance, founded in 1945 by Paul Oskar Kristeller and John Herman Randall, Jr., hosts presentations of about 50 minutes on various aspects of Renaissance thought (including Renaissance humanism) and its ramifications in the arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, music, literature) and the sciences (physical, natural, historical, and philological), as well as history and philosophy. The Renaissance is taken to include the period from about 1350 to about 1650. We usually have met in Faculty House at 5:30 pm on the second Tuesday of each academic month (except January). Since April 2020, during the pandemic, we have been meeting earlier via Zoom, and in the future we will be meeting in a hybrid format, i.e. in person and by Zoom, at 4 pm, New York (US Eastern) Time, allowing until 6:00 for the talk and ample discussion of the talk, followed by dinner at Faculty House and further informal discussion. We have found that this allows colleagues from other parts of the globe to join the talk and discussion, to our great mutual profit.

Chair/s

Cynthia M. Pyle

Alan Stewart

Rapporteur/s

Mackenzie Fox

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Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

12
Nov

November 12, 20244:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Zoom

Animating Person-Fictions in the Early Novel

Speaker/s

Virginia Krause, Brown University

Scheduled

10
Dec

December 10, 20244:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

Was Pollaiuolo an Engraver?

Speaker/s

Suzanne Boorsch, Yale University Museum

Scheduled

11
Feb

February 11, 20254:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

On Writing a Long-Range, Historical Synthesis: Technology in Mediterranean and European Lands, 600-1600

Speaker/s

Pamela Long, Independent Scholar

Scheduled

11
Mar

March 11, 20254:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

Charles V and the Tunis Tapestries: Inhabiting the Landscape of the Battle

Speaker/s

Diane Bodart, Columbia University

Scheduled

08
Apr

April 8, 20254:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

A Theatre of Tea? Reflections on Athanasius Kircher’s ‘Tea Herb’ (1667)

Speaker/s

Romita Ray, Syracuse University

Scheduled

13
May

May 13, 20254:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

Thomas More’s Utopia in the Italian Renaissance

Speaker/s

Antonio Donato, Queens College CUNY

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

08
Oct

October 8, 20244:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

Women Intellectuals in Renaissance Dubrovnik

Speaker/s

Luka Boršić, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia

Ivana Skuhala Karasman, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia

Scheduled

10
Sep

September 10, 20244:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

The Elusive Saint Hippolytus and His Statue in the Vatican

Speaker/s

William Stenhouse, Yeshiva University

Scheduled

07
May

May 7, 20244:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Zoom

A Time Capsule of Late Renaissance Botanical Publishing: Caspar Bauhin (1560-1624) and the De Bry Family

Speaker/s

Karen Reeds, Princeton Research Forum

Davina Benkert, University of Basel, Switzerland

Scheduled

09
Apr

April 9, 20244:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

Animals on Maps and Our Views of the World

Speaker/s

Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester

Scheduled

05
Mar

March 5, 20244:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

The Renaissance Question in Petrarch

Speaker/s

H. Wayne Storey, Indiana University

Scheduled

13
Feb

February 13, 20244:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Zoom

Sun Worship in Fifteenth Century Rome? Bessarion and the Worship of the Sun/Son

Speaker/s

Scott Kennedy, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Scheduled

12
Dec

December 12, 20234:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

Celibacy, Scholarship, and Service to the State in Quattrocento Venice: The Case of Ermolao Barbaro

Speaker/s

Gareth Williams, Columbia University

Scheduled

14
Nov

November 14, 20234:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Zoom

Scholarship as a Philosophical Way of Life: The Case of Leon Battista Alberti

Speaker/s

John Sellars, Royal Holloway, University of London

Scheduled

10
Oct

October 10, 20234:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

Pier Vettori and Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics

Speaker/s

Christopher Rowe, Durham University

Scheduled

12
Sep

September 12, 20234:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

Leo Steinberg (1920-2011), Controversial Historian of Renaissance and Baroque Art

Speaker/s

Francis Randall, Sarah Lawrence College

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