2015-2016 Colloquia

The colloquium meets generally three times per quarter on Thursdays at 4:30
in the Lane History Building, Room 307, unless noted below.

Past Events

May
16

Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University

Date
Monday, May 16, 2016, 4:30pm
Location:
History Room 307
The Trouble with World Orders - Maps and Enlightenment in the Early Modern Pacific
May
13

Renaissance of Letters Workshop

Date
Friday, May 13, 2016, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
Speaker
Brian Brege (Stanford lecturer), Bill Connell (Seton Hall University), Filippo De Vivo (Birbeck College, University of London), Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University), Rosemary Lee (University of Virginia), Jeff Miner (Western Kentucky), Meredith Ray (University of Delaware), Sarah Ross (Boston College), Deanna Shemek (UC Santa Cruz), Roberto Vetrugno (University of Pavia)
With a panel by Stanford graduate students Rachel Midura, Chris Bacich and Demetrius Loufas
April
28

Michael Alan Ryan, University of New Mexico

Date
Thursday, April 28, 2016, 4:30pm
Location:
History Department, Building 200 room 307
Discerning Deceit in Late Medieval Venice: On Alchemy and Cristoforo di Parigi
April
22

Crystal Hall, Bowdoin College

Date
Friday, April 22, 2016, 12:00pm
Location:
History Building Room 307
Creating an Early Modern Database for Galileo's Library
April
21

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, University of California, Santa Cruz

Date
Thursday, April 21, 2016, 4:30pm
Location:
History Building Room 307
When Maps Become the World
April
12

Digital Perspectives on Imperial Chinese Political History, with Hilde de Weerdt, Leiden University

Date
Tuesday, April 12, 2016, 4:15pm
Location:
CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th floor
March
29

Peter Taylor, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Date
Tuesday, March 29, 2016, All day
What to do if we think that researchers have overlooked a significant issue for 100 years? The case of quantitative genetics and underlying heterogeneity
March
9

Brad Bouley, Pennsylvania State

Date
Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 12:00pm
Location:
Building 260, room 252
Not by Bread Alone: Meat, Murder, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy
March
7

Bernard Geoghegan, Humboldt University, "Techniques of Mediation" as part of the Stanford Humanities Center Geballe Workshop

Date
Monday, March 7, 2016, 4:15pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Stanford Humanities Center
The Family as Machine: Cybernetic Kinship in Postwar America
March
3

Chris Smeenk, Western Ontario

Date
Thursday, March 3, 2016, 4:30pm
Location:
History room 205
Gaining Access to the Early Universe