Lectures

The Center hosts individual talks, as well as talks in the lecture series listed below.

Past Events

Upcoming Events

  • 17 Jan

    Works-in-Progress Session: Earth and Exchange: Tapia and the Construction of Early Modern Iberia

    Friday, January 17, 2025
    3:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST

    Presented by Rachel Schloss, Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvduquqzsjEtcWPt8b5SESANbtE3vKFz4d Earthen materials have played a critical role in political and social development on the Iberian Peninsula. The unique geology of the Peninsula harbors rich soils, minerals, and clays that have featured in the...

  • 27 Jan

    Works-in-Progress Session: Drawings for the Medici Trionfi da Tavola (1646–1670) and the Corporeal Nature of Vessels in Early Modern Florence

    Monday, January 27, 2025
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    Presented by Emily Ann Ostlander, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by the Early Modern Research Group Online event via Zoom To register, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtc-2vpj0oEtEnrJdCJuoDudU5rn4nCj7B A drawing in ink and blue wash from a series of table-top creations known as the Trionfi da Tavola presents viewers with a design for a fantastic ewer. The vessel is devised...

  • 25 Feb

    ‘Wild and Ungovernable Passions’: Emotional Scripts and the Fate of U.S. Expansion in the Vigilante Rocky Mountain West, 1864–1866

    Tuesday, February 25, 2025
    12:00 pm PST – 1:00 pm PST

    Lecture by Abby Gibson, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Southern California. Recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship During the first two months of 1864, Montana Territory was in the throes of a violent spate of "vigilante justice" that resulted in the hangings of twenty-two men, including the Sheriff of Bannack City, Idaho Territory, and what...

  • 10 Mar

    Katherine Philips, Meta-Metaphysical Poet

    Monday, March 10, 2025
    12:00 pm PDT – 1:00 pm PDT

    Lecture by Arya Sureshbabu, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of California, Berkeley. Recipient of the 2024–25 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship Katherine Philips (1632–64) occupies an unusual place in the canon of seventeenth-century poetry. Now alternatively billed as an apostle of female friendship or a proto-sapphic icon, she was also known in her own time as an exemplary practitioner...