Washington and Lee University
September 30, MRST Luncheon, 12:00-12:55 PM, Elrod Commons, Chavis Room: MRST graduate Matt Petrusek ('02) will make an informal presentation on how the MRST major looks to him three years after graduation.
October 26, MRST Luncheon, 12:00-12:55 PM, Elrod Commons, Chavis Room: Matt Miller will present on the work he did as an R. E. Lee Scholar this summer studying the inquisition, heresy and religious deviance in late medieval Europe.
November 14, Colloquium, 4:00 PM, Law School, Classroom B: Professor Paul A. Brand, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford: "Reconstructing What Went On in the English Medieval Courtroom: The Role of Lawyers, Justices and Litigants in the English Royal Courts c. 1300." Sponsored by the Center for Law and History, the Overseas Scholar Colloquium highlights the work in progress of an internationally distinguished historian from outside the United States
December 1, MRST Luncheon, 12:00-12:55 PM, Elrod Commons, Chavis Room: Professor Edward Muir of Northwestern University will join us to discuss his latest work on the theory of "culture wars" in the Renaissance - and his experience in writing the Renaissance chapters of a recent Western Civilization textbook.
December 1, Public Lecture, 7:00 PM, Leyburn Library, Northen Auditorium: Professor Edward Muir, Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University: "The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Galileo's Telescope and Cremonini's Headache." Sponsored by MRST and the History Department. Professor Muir is the author of Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (1981), Mad Blood Stirring. Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance (1993), Ritual in Early Modern Europe (1997), and co-editor with Guido Ruggiero of Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective (1990) and Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe (1991).
January 10, MRST Luncheon, 12:00-12:55 PM, Elrod Commons, Chavis Room: Professor Samual K. Cohn, Jr. of Glasgow University will discuss his recent work on peasant uprisings in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.
January 10, Public Lecture, 7:00 PM, Leyburn Library, Northen Auditorium. Professor Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. of Glasgow University will speak on "The Black Death, Jews, and Revolt."
January 31, MRST Luncheon, 12:00-12:55 PM, Elrod Commons, Chavis Room. Professor Edwin Craun of the English department will make a presentation on his current project, "Wycliffism: Trashing Ethics in the Name of Truth."
March 15, MRST Luncheon, 12:00-12:55 PM, Elrod Commons, Chavis Room. Professor Holly Pickett of the English Department will speak on "Reading Augustine REading: Protestant and Catholic Confessions in Early Modern England."
March 27, Public Lecture, 12:00 PM, Law School, Moot Courtroom. Professor Richard H. Helmholz, Ruth Wyatt Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago, will speak on "Natuarl Law and Judicial Review of Legislation: Bonham's Case Yet Again." Sponsored by the Center for Law and History.
April 20, MRST Luncheon, 12:00-1:30, Morris House Atrium. Visiting evaluators Nancy Vandeusen of Claremont Graduate University and Carol Neel of Colorado College with speak with students in the MRST program about its offerings and activities.
April 21, MRST Luncheon, 12:00-1:30, Morris House Atrium. Professors Vandeusen and Neel will speak with members of the faculty about the MRST Program.
May 10, MRST Luncheon, 12:00-1:30, Morris House Atrium. Professor David Peterson of the History Department will discuss his current work on "Machiavelli, the Papacy, and the Petrine Succession."