Sabine McCormack,Dec 3-4: three events presented by Humanities Center at Pitt

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The Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh presents

Sabine MacCormack

Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C. College of Arts and Letters Chair, History and Classics, University of Notre Dame

 

Colloquium discussion of chapters 1 and 5 of her book

On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru

Responses from Gonzalo Lamana (Hispanic), Bruce Venarde (History), and Lara Putnam (History).

Thursday, December 3, 12:30 PM

602 Cathedral of Learning

Lecture, “The Poetics of Representation in Viceregal Peru: A Walk Round the Cloister of San Agustín in Lima”

Thursday, December 3, 5:00 PM

501 Cathedral of Learning

Abstract: In the early seventeenth century, the Andean painter Basilio Pacheco painted a cycle of images depicting the life of Saint Augustine for the cloister of San Agustín in Lima. Many of the episodes depicted are easily recognizable for any reader of Augustine's Confessions. Other episodes are legendary, and were incorporated into his biography during the Middle Ages. In this talk, I discuss the message that will have been conveyed by these remarkable images in their New World setting, and for the friars who were walking through their cloister day by day. 

Colloquium discussion on José de Acosta’s travel narrative

Friday, December 4, 1:00PM

602 Cathedral of Learning

 

Readings for the two colloquia can be obtained by emailing humctr@pitt.edu with the subject heading “MacCormack Readings.”  Co-sponsored by Medieval and Renaissance Studies.