Schedule of Lectures for 2019-2020
Shahzad Bashir (Brown, Islamic Humanities)
Oct 11
Imagining Time in India: Persian Chroniclers and their Interpreters. Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster and MEMRC.
5:00pm-6:30, Choi 120
Erik Kwakkel (UBC ISCHOOL)
Oct 24
Medicine at Monte Cassino: Copying and Disseminating Constantine the African’s Medical Translations.
12:30-2, BuTo 1197
Felipe Valencia Caicedo (UBC, Vancouver School of Economics)
Nov 22
The Mission: Human Capital Transmission, Economic Persistence and Culture in South America.
2-4, BuTo 1197
Margaret Schabas (UBC, PHILOSOPHY)
Jan 16
Before Economics Became the Dismal Science: Hume on the Rise of Capitalism. MEMRC and STS Event.
5-6:30 – BuTo 1197
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld (Independent Scholar)
Feb 27
Withdrawn and Secretive: Privacy among Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam’s Golden Age.
12:30-2 – BuTo 1197
Leo Shin (UBC, History & Asian Studies)
Mar 12
How Lies Bind: Genealogies of a “National Hero.”
12:30-2 – BuTo 1197
Luke Clossey (SFU, History)
Apr 2
The Cult of Jesus, the Topology of Time, and the Zen of History.
12:30-2 – BuTo 1197
