New Book Salon

The CMRS Center for Early Global Studies hosts New Book Salons aimed at fostering intellectual community by engaging faculty authors about their recently published books. Each salon features an author’s presentation and commentary, followed by general discussion.

Upcoming Events:

Past Events:

November 13, 2025
Claire Farago (University of Colorado Boulder)
“Writing Borderless Histories of Art– Human Exceptionalism and the Climate Crisis”

April 14, 2025
Roberta Morossini (ELTS)
“Dante, Moses, and the Book of Islam. Visualizing the Qur’an from Byzantium to Filippino Lippi’s Adoration of the Golden Calf”

May 16, 2023
Johanna Drucker (Information Studies)
“Inventing the Alphabet”

October 17, 2022
Boyd Morrison and Elizabeth Morrison (J. Paul Getty Museum)
“The Lawless Land”

April 25, 2022
Robert N. Watson (English)
“Throne of Blood”

February 17, 2022
Zrinka Stahuljak (Director CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, COMPLIT)
“Les Fixeurs au Moyen âge – Histoire et littérature connectées”

December 1, 2021
Carla Gardina Pestana (History)
“The World of Plymouth Plantation”

May 19, 2021
Domenico Ingenito (NELC)
“Beholding Beauty: Sa’di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry”

April 28, 2021
Anurima Banerji (World Arts and Cultures/Dance)
“Dancing Odissi: Paratopic Performances of Gender and State”

March 3, 2021
Andrea Moudarres (ELTS)
“The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic”

February 2, 2021
Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Occidental College) and Louise Arizzoli (University of Mississippi)
“Bodies and Maps”

December 2, 2020
Erica Weaver (English)
“Dating Beowulf”