Land, Property and Space

 

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CEMS Calendar 2001-2002

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2001/2002: Land, Property and Space in the Early Modern World

 

Co-Directors:

Prof. Dan Beaver, Assoc. Prof. Dept. of History
Prof. Garrett Sullivan, Assoc. Prof. Dept. of English  

Spring 2002 Speaker Series


March 14 and 15, 2002:  Dr. Mary Floyd-Wilson, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University.

Lecture on March 14, 112 Keller Building at 3:30.  Reception to follow in 102 Weaver Building.

Workshop on March  15,  124 Sparks Building at 11:00.


April 17 and 18, 2002: Dr.  Frühsorge, Professor of Landscape Architecture,   University  of  Hildesheim, Germany.

Lecture on April 17, 3:30, 115 EE West. All are invited to a reception following the lecture in 102 Weaver.

Workshop on April 18, 11:00, 124 Sparks Building.


 July 1-August 2, 2002:

Landscape, Power and Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic World.

A National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at Penn State

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Related Events:

Tuesday, February 19, 2002:  Bill Sherman, Professor of English, University of Maryland.  

Lecture, 5:00pm, 114 Agricultural Engineering Building    

"Dirty Books: Renaissance Marginalia and Modern Collectors"  

 


Thursday, April 11, 2002:   Richard Rambuss, Professor of English, Emory University

"Bad Taste, Bad Faith"

 4:00 pm, Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library, followed by a reception in the Mann Assembly Room.   


Speaker Series, 2001-2002
Spring, 2001
 

David Woodward, Arthur H. Robinson, Prof. of Geography, University of Wisconsin
Public Lecture: The Image of the Map in the Renaissance
Jan 25, 2001, 3.30 pm, Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum
Workshop: The ‘Two Cultures’ of Map History – Scientific and Humanistic Traditions: A Plea for Reintegration
Jan 26, 2001, 4.00 pm, 319 Walker Building

Jennifer Davis, Lecturer, Women’s Studies & the Dept. of History, Penn State
Lecture: Policing Taste: Labor Organization and Legal Strategies of Rouen’s Culinary Trades, 1779-1790
Feb. 22, 2001, 3.15 pm, 102 Weaver Building

John Walter, Prof. of History, University of Essex
Public Lecture: Sacred Space: Abolishing Superstition with Sedition? Popular
Iconoclasm in the English Revolution
April 26, 2001, 3.30 pm, Boardroom 3, Nittany Lion Inn
Workshop: Public Transcripts, Popular Agency & the Politics of Subsistence in Early Modern England
April 27, 2001,12.00 pm, 124 Sparks

 

Fall, 2001
 

Sept., 2001: Michael Braddick, Prof. of History, University of Sheffield
Public Lecture: Making Political Space in Early Modern Societies

Dec. 2001: Padhraig Higgins, Lecturer, Dept. of History, Penn State
Lecture: Consuming Patriotism: Gender & the Free Trade Movement in Ireland, 1778-1779”

 

Spring, 2002
 

Feb., 2002: Denis Cosgrove, Alexander von Humboldt Prof. of Geography
Public Lecture: Mapping New Worlds: 16th Century Cosmographies
Workshop: Globalism & Tolerance in Early Modern Geography, March 2002:

Mary Floyd-Wilson, Prof. of English, Yale University
Public Lecture: Henry V’s Mettle
Workshop: Othello’s Passion and Race, April 2002:

Dr. Gotthard Fruehsorge, Prof. of Landscape Architecture, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Public Lecture: The Philosophy of Landscape: The Transformation in Perceptions of the Aesthetics of Nature in the 18th Century.
Workshop: On Modern Gardening

July 1- August 2, 2002: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at Penn State on “Space & Society in the Past: Landscape, Power & Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic World”

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