Fall 2010 Events:

Anthony Grafton (Princeton) Wednesday and Thursday, November 3 & 4 at the University of Pittsburgh.

Wednesday, Nov. 3, 5:00 pm
Public Lecture in Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
"How Jesus Celebrated Passover: Renaissance Scholarship and the Jewish Origins of Christianity"
The talk will focus on scholarly efforts to see Jesus as part of a Jewish world, and the Last Supper has the central role in the story.
A reception will follow in the Frick Fine Arts Cloister, 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 4, 12:30 pm
Humanities Center Seminar CL 602 
"Humanities and Inhumanities"
We will discuss Grafton's review of Louis Menand's book, The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in The American University. The review is from the February 17, 2010, issue of The New Republic: 
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/humanities-and-inhumanities

Anthony Grafton is one of the world’s most influential scholars of Renaissance humanism and the early modern European “Republic of Letters.” As author, coauthor, editor, or translator, he has published close to twenty books on a variety of topics concerning early modern European culture. He writes about subjects such as footnotes and forgeries, the history of books and readers, Renaissance magic and the legend of Doctor Faustus, and the significance of technical details in early modern astrology, chronology, and science. Three collections of essays, Defenders of the Text (1991), Bring Out Your Dead (2001), and Worlds Made by Words (2009), cover most of the topics and themes that appeal to him. A regular contributor to The New Republic and The New York Review of Books, Grafton has taught at Princeton University since 1975. Professor Grafton has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1993), the Balzan Prize for History of Humanities (2002), and the Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award (2003). He was recently elected President of the American Historical Association for 2011.

This talk is generously co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Humanities Center and the University of Pittsburgh's Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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