Early Modern Visual and Material Culture 2012-2013

Seminar Leader: Daniela Bleichmar, USC

Model Lives: Saintly Anatomy, Moving Automata, and Ideal Societies in Early Modern Europe

Model Lives: Saintly Anatomy, Moving Automata, and Ideal Societies in Early Modern Europe

Wednesday, October 31, 2012
USC, University Park Campus
SOS 250
12-2pm

Lunch will be provided to those who rsvp to emsi@usc.edu by October 25, 2012.

EVENT SPEAKERS

Brad Bouley, Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar, USC History
"You Gotta Have Guts: Anatomy as Proof of Sanctity in Early Modern Europe"

Jessica Keating,
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Visual Culture, USC Art History
"Empire on the Move: Early Modern German Automata"

Julianne Werlin,
Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar, USC English
"Francis Bacon and the Misinterpretation of Reality"


Event is co-sponsored by the USC Research Cluster in Science, Technology, and Society, and the Visual Studies Research Institute.


Proving the Supernatural: Belief and Nature in Early Modern Europe

Proving the Supernatural: Belief and Nature in Early Modern Europe

Saturday, February 2, 2013
Huntington Library
Seaver Classrooms 1 & 2
10am-1:30pm

Lunch will be provided to those who rsvp to emsi@usc.edu by Monday, January 28, 2013.
Program flyer

EVENT SPEAKERS
Brad Bouley (organizer), University of Southern California
A. Katie Harris, UC Davis
Jonathan Seitz, Drexel University
Lydia Barnett, University of Michigan


Animals and Anthropocentrism in the Early Modern World

Animals and Anthropocentrism in the Early Modern World

Friday, February 8, 2013
Huntington Library
Seaver Classrooms 1 & 2
9:30am-1:30pm


EVENT SPEAKERS

Jessica Keating, (organizer) University of Southern California
Katie Chenoweth, Washington and Lee University
Holly Dugan, George Washington University
Christina Normore, Northwestern University
Zeb Tortorici, New York University