Summer Lecture Series: Keeping Time in Early Modern Europe
When: Sun., Aug. 3, 10:15-11:15 a.m., Sun., Aug. 10, 10:15-11:15 a.m., Sun., Aug. 17, 10:15-11:15 a.m. and Sun., Aug. 24, 10:15-11:15 a.m. 2014
UA Late Medieval and Reformation Studies together with St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church present four lectures on consecutive Sundays. Aug. 3: “Life’s ‘Strange Eventful History’: Navigating the Early Modern Life-Cycle,” with Kristen Coan, M.A. student. Aug. 10: “How to Reform a Dragon: Church Calendars and Catholic Ritual in Protestant England,” with Cory Davis, M.A. student. Aug. 17: “George Washington Was Really Born on February 11! The Disruption of the New Gregorian Calendar 1582,” with Susan Karant-Nunn, Division Director and Regents’ Professor of History. Aug. 24: “‘The Stars above us, Govern our Condition’: Seeking Signs of Order in Celestial Bodies in the Early Modern Period,” with David Neufeld, Ph.D. student.