The Annual CEMERS Workshop Lecture Series
and Calender of Events

Spring 2008

Wednesday, February 13, at 12:00 noon in Library North 1128
Giancarlo Casale - History, University of Minnesota
"Ottoman Corsairs and the Global Economy of the Sixteenth Century."

Wednesday, February 20, at 12:00 noon in Library North 1128
John Starks - Classics, Binghamton University
"Was Black Beautiful in Vandal Africa?"

Wednesday, February 27, at 5:15 p.m. in Fine Arts 258
Miguel Léon - History, SUNY Oneonta
"Tribute and Textile Production in Early Colonial Peru:
The Case of Huanuco, 1539-1640."

Wednesday, March 5, at 5:15 p.m. in Fine Arts 258
Ana Isabel Perez-Gavilán - Art History, Binghamton University
"The ‘Via Crucis' of the Heart and the Shaping of Devotion
at the Mexican Sanctuary of Atotonilco, Guanajuato."

Wednesday, March 12, at 12:00 noon in Library North 1128
Frederick S. Paxton - History, Connecticut College
"The Early Growth of the Medieval Economy of Salvation."

Wednesday, March 19, at 5:30 p.m. in Fine Arts 258
Jongsook Lee - English, Seoul National University
"Lucrece's Hecuba: Ekphrasis and the History of Emotion."

Wednesday, April 9, at 5:30 p.m. in Library North 1128
Albrecht Diem - History, Syracuse University
"Constructed Past: Benedict of Aniane and the Origins of Monasticism."

Annual Ferber Lecture

Thursday, April 17, at 5:30 p.m. in Fine Arts 258
Irene Bierman - Art History, UCLA
"Cairo: Making a City through Motion."

Wednesday, April 23, at 12:00 noon in Library North 1128
Jonathan Karp - Judaic Studies, Binghamton University
"Discourse on Jews, Nobility, and Usury in Luther's Germany."

Spring 2008 Conference

"Venus and the Venereal"
Friday & Saturday, April 25 -26
Plenary Speakers: Guido Ruggiero - History, University of Miami
Louise Stein - Musicology, University of Michigan

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