Art Between Europe and Asia in the First Age of Global Trade
Timothy Brooks, “China on Vermeer’s Table: The Cultural Impact of Early Global Trade”
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, “Reflections on World Art History”
September 30, 3 PM

Mellon Early Modern Research Initiative Inaugural Event
Ari Friedlander, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor, UC Davis
“Promiscuous Generation: Sex, Beastliness, and Social Status in Early Modern England”
October 3, 5 PM

Suspicious Illustrations
Ann Rosalind Jones (Smith College), “Past and Present in Costume Books: Anachronism, Moralization, and Suspicious Reading”
Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania), “Image Against Word: Why Illustrations Don’t Illustrate”
November 3, 4 PM

The Lascivious Career of B Flat: Expressing Gender and Sex in Early Music
Bonnie Blackburn (Oxford University)
November 14, 4 PM

Salem Witchcraft and the Birth of American Supernaturalism
A talk by Sarah Rivett, Professor of English, Princeton University
5 p.m. Reception, with talk to follow at 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center

Abducting Reputation: Gender and Honor in the Early Modern World
Leslie Peirce, Professor of History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU
“Captive Bodies: Histories of Abduction in the Ottoman World”
AND
Kathryn Schwarz, Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
“Eccentric Necrologies: The Curious Pleasures of the Heroic Corpse”
4 p.m., February 23, 2012
Putah Creek Lodge

Wolf, or homo homini lupus
Carla Freccero, Professor of Literature, Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
4-6 p.m., April 10th, 2012
Voorhies 126

EMPIRE AND EPISTEMES:  WRITING SPACE, ERASING HISTORY
Tom Conley
(Visual and Environmental Studies & Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University)
“Montaigne que voicy: Torsion and Vision of the Essais”
AND
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
(History, University of Texas at Austin)
“How Imperial Historiographies Silence the Past: The Case of the Old Testament in the Spanish Monarchy.”
Monday, April 23, 4 PM
Putah Creek Lodge

“Three Pigs, a Manatee, and Lots of Parrots: Modes of Interaction and the Columbian Exchange”

A talk by Marcy Norton, professor of history George Washington University

Monday, May 21st, 2012
12:10-1:30 p.m., SS&H 2203

Please join the UC Davis History Department Colloquium for a talk by Marcy Norton, professor of history at George Washington University.

Norton is the author of Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World, an award-winning history of these influential commodities. This event is part of the UCD History Department Colloquium series and is co-sponsored by the Mellon Research Initiatives in Early Modern Studies and Environments and Societies.