Professor Paula Findlen of Stanford University will be the Gender & History visiting scholar for the 2020-21 year. Her two events take place on Monday Feb 8 and Wednesday Feb 10.
In her Gender & History public talk (on Feb 8), she will tell us about her current book project, Inventing Medieval Women: History, Memory, and Forgery, exploring the origins and evolution of mythologies about Bologna’s women graduates between the 13th and 18th centuries. For more, see Prof. Findlen’s faculty webpage, https://history.stanford.edu/people/paula-findlen
Monday, February 8
Talk and Dialogue, 4:30-5:45 PM EST: "Inventing Medieval Women: History, Memory, and Forgery in Early Modern Italy." Prof. Findlen will speak for 15-20 minutes about her research, followed by a dialogue about it with a UConn faculty member, prior to Q&A with the audience. To access the event, use this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdOitrDkuGt3SZ2u_jlHKoYamPyVpZdHo
Wednesday Feb 10
Informal lunchtime seminar,12:15-1:30 PM EST, on "Aristotle in the Pharmacy: The Ambitions of Camilla Erculiani in Sixteenth-Century Padua." This essay explores why a woman apothecary in late sixteenth-century Padua published a rather unorthodox and interesting work of natural philosophy and was investigated by the Paduan Inquisition. Participants are asked to read a pre-circulated paper; email cornelia.dayton@uconn.edu to ask for a copy. To access the event, use this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvc-qtqjgrH9JJ0GUrdGgec84IyjwYg-Rc
Please register for either or both of Professor Findlen's events and all are welcome!
For more information, contact: Cornelia Dayton at cornelia.dayton@uconn.edu