Past Seminars
Sloth, Idleness, and Witchcraft in Renaissance Thought and Art
Jennifer Lewis, University of Kentucky (now at Boston University)
Prince Carlo Gesualdo Battles the Witches: The Evolving Attitudes of Church and State toward Prosecuting Witchcraft
Annibale Cogliano, Liceo Scientifico Calitri, Italy
Magic and Superstitution in the Fifteenth Century
Michael D. Bailey, Iowa State University
Occult Manuscripts and Everyday Knowledge in Ancient China
Donald Harper, University of Chicago
Mythologies of Witchcraft in the Fifteenth Century
Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern University
Commanding Voices and Sights “Full of Terror”: Witch-Speak at Court on the Jacobean Stage
Katy Stavreva, Cornell College
Entangled Knowledge: Medicine and the Occult in de Lancre, Paré, and Furetière
Harriet Stone, Washington University in St. Louis
Francis Bacon, Imagination, and the Monarchy of Magic
Todd Butler, University of Tennessee-Martin (now at Washington State University)
Representations of Evil and the Devil in Colonial Amerindian Documents
Rocio Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University
Magic as a Liberal Art
John Friedman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, emeritus
How Charming is Divine Philosophy! Music, Magic, and Thought in Milton’s Maske
Stephen Buhler, University of Nebraska
Painting Devils and Melancholic Witches: Early Modern Demonology and Fantasia
Claudia Swan, Northwestern University
Signs of Power: Cornelius Agrippa and the Semiotics of Magic
Christopher I. Lehrich, Boston University
Medical Astrology and Astral Talismans at Montpellier in the Later Middle Ages
Ralph Drayton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The World’s Ceremonies: Natural and Unnatural Language According to De incantionibus seu ensalmis by Emanuel do Valle de Moura, 1620
Armando Maggi, University of Chicago