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Lectures
CURRENT LECTURES
CURRENT LECTURES
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More Events @ Sheridan Libraries
Spring 2026 Lecture Series
MONIKA AMSLER, University of Bern, Johns Hopkins University
How Were Books of Encyclopedic Scope Produced in Late Antiquity? Literary Data Management and the Babylonian Talmud
Tuesday, January 27, 5:15 PM\ Brody Learning Commons, Macksey Seminar Room 2043
Co-sponsored by the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies
RICHARD CALIS, University of Utrecht
Grecia Illustrata: Early Modern Visions of Ottoman Greece
Tuesday, February 10, 5:15 PM Lecture\ Brody Learning Commons, Macksey Seminar Room 2043\
FRANCESCO BRENNA, Towson University
Tasso, Pilgrims, and Athletes: The Poetics of Play in the Renaissance
Tuesday, February 24, 5:15 PM Lecture\ Brody Learning Commons, Macksey Seminar Room 2043
Co-sponsored by the Italian Section of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
CLARISSA CHENOVICK, Florida Atlantic University
“My heart, my mouth, mine eyes still sucking be”: Visual and Tactile Devotions to the Wounds of Christ in Early Modern English Poetry
Tuesday, March 10, 5:15 PM Lecture\ Brody Learning Commons, Macksey Seminar Room 2043
Co-sponsored by the Department of English
DIEGO MOLDES, Nebrija University
Antonio de Nebrija: A Grammar, a Converso, and the Birth of an Empire
Tuesday, March 31, 5:15 PM Lecture\ Brody Learning Commons, Macksey Seminar Room 2043
Co-sponsored by the Spanish Section of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
JORAN PROOT, Cultura Fonds Library
The Early Modern Metamorphosis of the Handpress Book in the Southern Netherlands
Tuesday, April 7, 5:15 PM Lecture\ Brody Learning Commons, Macksey Seminar Room 2043
GENE MATANKY, Harvard University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Indexing Kabbalistic Knowledge: Jacob Poggetti’s Manuscript Copy of Moses Cordovero’s Pardes Rimonim at JHU
Tuesday, April 21, 5:15 PM Lecture\ Brody Learning Commons, Macksey Seminar Room 2043
Co-sponsored by the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, and the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe
PAST LECTURES
PAST LECTURES
Fall 2025 Lecture Series
HANNAH MCCLAIN, University of Texas at Austin
Wards of Christ: Women and Custodial Institutions in Early Modern Italy
Tuesday, September 2, 5:15 pm\ Macksey Seminar Room 2043\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
BRENT SEALES, University of Kentucky
On Virtually Unwrapping the Herculaneum Scrolls
Tuesday, September 9, 5:30 pm\ Macksey Seminar Room 2043\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies
EVELYN HU-DEHART, Brown University & DIEGO LUIS, Johns Hopkins University
Workshop on JHU’s Newly Acquired Cuban-Chinese Labor Archive
Thursday September 25, 3:00-5:00 pm\ Macksey Seminar Room 2043\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
Co-sponsored by the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center, and the Department of History
CONFERENCE
GREGSON DAVIS, Duke University\ JENNIFER FERRISS-HILL, University of Miami\ MARTIN W. MICHALEK, Johns Hopkins University\ K. SARA MYERS, University of Virginia\ PETER OSARIO, Harvard University\ JEFFREY ULRICH, Rutgers University
Horatian Sketches: Poetics, Composition, and Atmosphere in Horace
Friday, October 3, 9:00 am to 5:30 pm\ Evergreen Museum & Library (4545 North Charles Street, Baltimore)
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
ANTHONY GRAFTON, Princeton University
Joseph Scaliger and the della Scala of Verona: How the Greatest Scholar in Europe Became a Forger
Tuesday, October 14, 5:15 am\ Macksey Seminar Room 2043\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe, and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute
BRENT SEALES, University of Kentucky
“Calculated for 30 Years”: Lefevre’s French Revolutionary Calendar
Tuesday, November 11, 5:15 pm\ Macksey Seminar Room 2043\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
Spring 2025 Lecture Series
NICOLE HUGHES, Stanford
Disputed Martyrs and the End of Christian Antiquity in La Florida
Tuesday, February 25, 5:15 pm\ Macksey Seminar Room 2043\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute
SANDRO LA BARBERA, University of Trento
Like A Virgil: Culex and the Canon
Tuesday, March 11, 5:15 pm\ Macksey Seminar Room 2043\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
EARLE HAVENS, Johns Hopkins University, and JENNIFER JARVIS, Johns Hopkins University
Renaissance Sundials: A Paper Tool “Making Event”
Tuesday, March 25, 5:15 pm\ George Peabody Library\ Attendees learn about, assemble, and take home a 17th-century paper sundial.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Conservation & Preservation, Sheridan Libraries, JHU
RICHARD KAGAN, Johns Hopkins University
Book Launch: The Inquisition’s Inquisitor: Henry Charles Lea of Philadelphia
Tuesday, April 8, 5:15 pm\ Macksey Seminar Room 2043\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
Co-sponsored by the KSAS Dean’s Office and the JHU Academy
MASTER CLASS
Renaissance Humanist Print Culture, Washington DC (Folger Shakespeare Library, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, and a private rare book collection)
Friday, May 2, all day
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe
Interested faculty and graduate students must RSVP to sterncenter@jhu.edu by April 14 to enroll in this Master Class.
Fall 2024 Lecture Series
GERARD GONZÁLEZ GERMAIN, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Modern Books on Ancient Stones: The Development and Reception of Printed Collections of Inscriptions in the 16th Century
Tuesday, September 3, 5:15 pm\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe, and the Department of Classics, JHU
KELSEY CHAMPAGNE, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Keeper of the Crèche: Religion, Economics, and Material Culture in an Early Modern Tuscan Convent
Wednesday, September 25, 5:15 pm\ Macksey Seminar Room 2043\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, JHU
JOSÉ MONTELONGO, Brown University
In Search of the Intended Reader: Historical Reading Practices in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Tuesday, October 15, 5:15 pm\ Macksey Seminar Room 2043\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
Co-sponsored by the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, JHU
JARED HICKMAN, Johns Hopkins University
Maryland as New Ireland: The Landscape, Language, and Legacy of Charles Carroll the Settler
Tuesday, November 12, 5:15 pm\ Macksey Seminar Room 2043\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, JHU
NICHOLAS JONES, Yale University
A Provocation on the State of the Field: Cervantine Blackness
Tuesday, December 3, 5:15pm\ Macksey Seminar Room 2043\ Brody Learning Commons, JHU Homewood Campus
Co-sponsored by the Spanish and Portuguese Section of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, JHU
Spring 2024 Lecture Series
OLIVIA WEISSER, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Shopping for Pox Cures in Early Modern London
Tuesday, March 7, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Medicine,\ and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, JHU
MATTEO VENIER, University of Udine
Another Side of Italian Humanistic Literature: The 1493 Manuscript Nova de miraculis disputatio of Petrus Haedus at JHU
Tuesday, March 26, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of\ Premodern Europe, and the Italian Section of the Department of\ Modern Languages & Literatures, JHU
EMILY WILSON, University of Pennsylvania
Emily Wilson on the Iliad
Wednesday, March 27, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored with the Department of Classics, JHU
Round Table Discussants:\ ANN BLAIR (Harvard), ANTHONY GRAFTON (Princeton),\ EARLE HAVENS (JHU), WALTER STEPHENS (JHU),\ Chaired by Krieger School of Arts & Sciences Dean\ CHRISTOPHER CELENZA (JHU)
Book Launch: Walter Stephens, How Writing Made us Human, 3000 B.C. to Now
Tuesday, April 2, 5:30 pm
Co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Press
JENNIFER JARVIS (JHU) and EARLE HAVENS (JHU)
The Terrestrial and Celestial Globe Gores of François Demongenet (1552) at JHU
Tuesday, April 16, 5:15pm: A Rare Book “Making” Event
Co-sponsored by the Department of Conservation and Preservation\ of the Sheridan Libraries, JHU
CAROL BAXTER, Trinity College, Dublin
Networking for Success: Early Modern Nuns and Their Support Networks
Tuesday, April 30, 5:15 pm
Fall 2023 Lecture Series
NOEL BLANCO MOURELLE, University of Chicago
The Art of Knowing Everything. The Afterlives of Ramon Llull
Tuesday, September 5, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Spanish Section of the Department of\ Modern Languages & Literatures
PETER DAVIDSON, Campion Hall, Oxford
Robert Southwell SJ, An Early Modern Catholic Poet and his Protestant Afterlives
Tuesday, October 3, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe,\ the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and the Department of Classics
JANE STEVENSON, Campion Hall, Oxford
Invisible Women: Female Latinists after the Renaissance
Thursday, October 5, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe,\ the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and the Department of Classics
JAN GRAFFIUS, Stonyhurst College
Clandestine Survivals of Medieval and Early Modern Catholic Memory in England and the Spanish Netherlands
November 7, 5:15 pm
ERIN GIFFIN, Skidmore College
Tangible Abstractions: Holy Lengths on Textile and Paper in the Catholic Cult of Loreto
November 14, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art
Spring 2023 Lecture Series
LAWRENCE PRINCIPE, History of Science & Technology, JHU
Recovering John of Rupescissa’s Liber lucis: Medieval Alchemy, Philology, and the Antichrist
Wednesday, March 1, 5:15 pm
*Panel and “Making” Event*KAREN NÍ MHEALLAIGH, Classics, JHU\ EARLE HAVENS, Stern Center, JHU\ FILIP GEAMAN, History of Science & Technology, JHU\ JENNIFER JARVIS, Department of Conservation & Preservation, JHU
Cosmic Visions in Early Modern Italy: Vincenzo Coronelli’s Paper Supercomputer
Wednesday, March 15, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the 2022-23 JHU Discovery Award project “Cosmic Visions: Humanistic Engagements with the James Webb Space Telescope”
CATERINA MORDEGLIA, Literature and Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Trento
The Scribal Fortunes of Phaedrus’ Fables: Mysterious Disappearances and Unexpected Rediscoveries of an Ancient Latin Text in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Tuesday, March 28, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe
Fall 2022 Lecture Series
CARME FONT, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Cloistered Iconoclasts: Challenging Stereotypes of Early Modern Spiritual Women
Tuesday, September 27, 5:15 pm
CARME FONT, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Wisdom to be Found: Genealogies of Knowledge in Women’s Spiritual Writings of the Long Reformation
Tuesday, October 4, 4:00 pm
STEPHEN CLARKE, University of Liverpool
‘We saw churches, palaces, and pictures from morning to night’: New Manuscript Discoveries at JHU from Thomas Gray’s and Horace Walpole’s Grand Tour
Tuesday, October 11, 5:15 pm
MAXIM RIGAUX, Ghent University
Epic Echoes in JHU’s Women of the Book Collection: Towards a Gendered Approach to Early Modern Ibero-American Epic
Tuesday, October 18, 5:15 pm
SCOTT MANDELBROTE, Peterhouse College, Cambridge
Isaac Newton’s Lost Reading
Thursday, November 3, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe
Fall 2019 Lecture Series
PAULA FINDLEN, Stanford University
Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato’s Cabinet of Natural History in 16th-Century Naples
Thursday, September 17, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe
PAULA FINDLEN, Stanford University
Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato’s Cabinet of Natural History in 16th-Century Naples
Thursday, September 17, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe
JASON COHEN, Berea College
Illustrated Initials: Letters and Questions of Scale in Early Printed Books
Thursday, October 8, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe
JASON COHEN, Berea College
Illustrated Initials: Letters and Questions of Scale in Early Printed Books
Thursday, October 8, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe
SONJA DRIMMER, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Provisional Vision: Posters and Politics in Fifteenth-Century England
Thursday, October 22, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art,\ & the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe
SONJA DRIMMER, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Provisional Vision: Posters and Politics in Fifteenth-Century England
Thursday, October 22, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art,\ & the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe
SETH KIMMEL, Columbia University
Early Modern Iberia, Indexed: Hernando Colón’s Cosmography
Wednesday, November 13, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Science & Technology,\ and the Department of German & Romance Languages & Literatures
SETH KIMMEL, Columbia University
Early Modern Iberia, Indexed: Hernando Colón’s Cosmography
Wednesday, November 13, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Science & Technology,\ and the Department of German & Romance Languages & Literatures
ALISON SHELL,\ University College London
English Recusant Drama in Manuscript and Print: The Provocative Career of William Drury
Tuesday, November 19, 5:15 pm
ALISON SHELL, University College London
English Recusant Drama in Manuscript and Print: The Provocative Career of William Drury
Tuesday, November 19, 5:15 pm
Spring 2019 Lecture Series
LAUREN KASSELL, Cambridge University
Written in the Stars: Digitizing an Astrological Archive
Wednesday, February 13, 5:15 pm
Co-Sponsored by the Singleton Center and English Department\ See the Cambridge University Library “Casebooks” project
LAUREN KASSELL, Cambridge University
Written in the Stars: Digitizing an Astrological Archive
Wednesday, February 13, 5:15 pm
Co-Sponsored by the Singleton Center and English Department\ See the Cambridge University Library “Casebooks” project
MARK CABALL, University College Dublin
Reading Jamaica: Patrick Browne, an Early Modern Irish Botanist and Physician in the West Indies
Monday, March 25, 5:15 pm
MARK CABALL, University College Dublin
Reading Jamaica: Patrick Browne, an Early Modern Irish Botanist and Physician in the West Indies
Monday, March 25, 5:15 pm
HANNAH MARCUS, Harvard University
Forbidden Fruits: Books and their Censors in Early Modern Italy
Thursday, February 28, 5:15 pm
Co-Sponsored by the Singleton Center
HANNAH MARCUS, Harvard University
Forbidden Fruits: Books and their Censors in Early Modern Italy
Thursday, February 28, 5:15 pm
Co-Sponsored by the Singleton Center
Fifth Annual Bibliotheca Fictiva Lecture\ FREDERIC CLARK, University of Southern California
The First Pagan Historian: Dares Phrygius and the Forging of Troy from Isidore of Seville to Thomas Jefferson
Thursday, March 14, 5:15 pm
Co-Sponsored by the Singleton Center and Classics Department
Fifth Annual Bibliotheca Fictiva Lecture\ FREDERIC CLARK, University of Southern California
The First Pagan Historian: Dares Phrygius and the Forging of Troy from Isidore of Seville to Thomas Jefferson
Thursday, March 14, 5:15 pm
Co-Sponsored by the Singleton Center and Classics Department
SUREKHA DAVIES, John Carter Brown Library
Reading Nature and Culture: Richard Eden’s Marginalia in the Johns Hopkins Copy of Peter Martyr’s Decades of the New World (1533)
Wednesday, April 17, 5:15 pm
SUREKHA DAVIES, John Carter Brown Library
Reading Nature and Culture: Richard Eden’s Marginalia in the Johns Hopkins Copy of Peter Martyr’s Decades of the New World (1533)
Wednesday, April 17, 5:15 pm
Fall 2018 Lecture Series
STEPHEN CLARKE, University of Liverpool
“The Most Delicious Places I Ever Beheld”: Italy and Architecture in John Evelyn’s Grand Tour Diary, 1644-46
Thursday, September 13, 5:15 pm
STEPHEN CLARKE, University of Liverpool
“The Most Delicious Places I Ever Beheld”: Italy and Architecture in John Evelyn’s Grand Tour Diary, 1644-46
Thursday, September 13, 5:15 pm
MAUDE VANHAELEN, University of Warwick
Plato in the Place of Aristotle: The Teaching of Platonic Dialogues in 16th-century Universities
Tuesday, September 18, 5:15 pm
Co-Sponsored with the Department of German and\ Romance Languages and Literatures
MAUDE VANHAELEN, University of Warwick
Plato in the Place of Aristotle: The Teaching of Platonic Dialogues in 16th-century Universities
Tuesday, September 18, 5:15 pm
Co-Sponsored with the Department of German and\ Romance Languages and Literatures
HEATHER BAMFORD, George Washington University
Cultures of the Fragment: Intention, Reading, and Meaning in the Early Modern Iberian Manuscript
Thursday, October 18, 5:15 pm
HEATHER BAMFORD, George Washington University
Cultures of the Fragment: Intention, Reading, and Meaning in the Early Modern Iberian Manuscript
Thursday, October 18, 5:15 pm
GABRIELE FERRARIO, Johns Hopkins University
Alchemy in Motion: The Trilingual Tradition of an Alchemical Recipe Book
Wednesday, November 14, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Science and Technology
GABRIELE FERRARIO, Johns Hopkins University
Alchemy in Motion: The Trilingual Tradition of an Alchemical Recipe Book
Wednesday, November 14, 5:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Science and Technology
Spring 2018 Lecture Series
MARK RANKIN, James Madison University
Racking and Reading: Richard Topcliffe and the Book Culture of the Elizabethan Catholic Underground
Wednesday, February 21, 5:15 pm
MARK RANKIN, James Madison University
Racking and Reading: Richard Topcliffe and the Book Culture of the Elizabethan Catholic Underground
Wednesday, February 21, 5:15 pm
GAVIN SCHWARTZ-LEEPER, University of Warwick
Richard Grafton and John Stow: Plagiarism, Popular History, and the Book in 16th-Century England
Wednesday, April 4, 5:15 pm
GAVIN SCHWARTZ-LEEPER, University of Warwick
Richard Grafton and John Stow: Plagiarism, Popular History, and the Book in 16th-Century England
Wednesday, April 4, 5:15 pm
4th Annual Bibliotheca Fictiva Lecture on the History of Literary Forgery\ THOMAS HENDRICKSON, Stanford University
Forgery and the Rise of the Book in Classical Antiquity
Friday, April 6, 3:00 pm
4th Annual Bibliotheca Fictiva Lecture on the History of Literary Forgery\ THOMAS HENDRICKSON, Stanford University
Forgery and the Rise of the Book in Classical Antiquity
Friday, April 6, 3:00 pm
JOSHUA SMITH, Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins University
Homer’s Ocean: Concepts of Influence in Ancient Criticism
Tuesday, April 24, 5:15 pm
JOSHUA SMITH, Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins University
Homer’s Ocean: Concepts of Influence in Ancient Criticism
Tuesday, April 24, 5:15 pm