Open Fulbright Lectures
at the Medical University of Warsaw
Summer Semester Series

Friday, February 21, 2020

Topic: “Studia Humanitatis: The Intellectual Contributions of the European Renaissance”

What do we owe to the intellectual thought of the Renaissance? This question has pervaded the research of Intellectual Historians since the 19th century. In this lecture, the speaker will discuss Renaissance Humanism, the central intellectual and educational discipline of the Renaissance in Europe. In so doing, he will discuss how our historical interpretation has changed over time and what research there is yet to be done to understand this crucial period in our shared past with specific attention drawn to East Central Europe and its role in the European Renaissance at large.

Presenter: Michael Lo Piano

Michael Lo Piano is a graduate student at Yale in History and Renaissance Studies.  His research focuses on Renaissance Humanists in the latter half of the 15th century and first half of the 16th century in Italy and Central Europe. He is interested in examining Humanist personal networks across church, state, and university boundaries, in particular through the humanist sodalities between Krakow and the Papal court at Rome.

Michael is currently conducting research with the Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Języka Polskiego in Krakow on a Fulbright award for the 2019-2020 academic year. Michael is proficient in Italian, French, German, Latin, and Polish.

Venue: Main Library, room 23

Time: 5:00pm

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Schedule:

February 28      

Gregory Hoke

Topic: “Measuring how mountains evolve from tens of years to millions of years, examples from the Andes of Argentina and Chile “
17:00     Main Library, room 23. 

March 6 

Jin Choi  

Topic: "Parallels Between the Beginning and End of Life in Health Care"

17:00         Main Library,  room 23

March 13 

Alex Riddell   Topic: “Comfort Women: The Unrelenting Oppression During and After World War II.”

17:00, Main Library, room 23