Dear All,

This year I am organizing a lecture series in our field that may be of 
interest to some of you.  Funded by the McClellan Fund, the series is 
entitled New Perspectives on the Early Modern World: Intellectual, 
Artistic, & Geographic Frontiers.  The events are the following:

1)      Wednesday, September 27, 2006: Benjamin Kaplan, "Muslims in Early 
Modern Europe."  4:00 p.m., Room 1 Law
Professor Kaplan is Professor of History at University College London.  His 
numerous publications include a monograph on the Dutch Reformation and a 
book (forthcoming from Harvard University Press) on religious toleration in 
Early Modern Europe.

2)      Thursday, October 12, 2006: Catherine Scallen, "Rembrandt 100 Years 
Ago and Today: A Picture of Change," 4:00 p.m., Miami University Art Museum
This lecture is our way of celebrating the fourth centenary of the birth of 
Rembrandt (1606-1669).  Professor Scallen, a prominent Rembrandt 
specialist, teaches art history at Case Western Reserve University, 
Cleveland.  Her publications include the recent volume, Rembrandt, 
Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship.

3)      Monday, April 9, 2007: Benjamin Schmidt, title, time and location TBA.
Professor Schmidt, Associate Professor of History at the University of 
Washington and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 
will lecture on his new book project, Inventing Exoticism: The Project of 
Globalism Circa 1700.

I hope many of you will be able to come.  I would also encourage you to 
recommend the lectures to your students, and forward the message to 
interested colleagues.  I will notify you in advance about social events 
associated with the lectures.

I apologize if you received this notice more than once.

Thanks,

Wietse




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Wietse de Boer
Department of History
254 Upham Hall
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-5146
(513) 529-3224 FAX
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