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:
November 13, 2025
“Writing Borderless Histories of Art– Human Exceptionalism and the Climate Crisis,” by Claire Farago

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

May 16, 2023
“Inventing the Alphabet,” by Johanna Drucker

October 17, 2022
“The Lawless Land,” by Boyd Morrison and Elizabeth Morrison

April 25, 2022
“Throne of Blood,” by Robert N. Watson

February 17, 2022
“Les Fixeurs au Moyen âge – Histoire et littérature connectées,” by Zrinka Stahuljak

December 1, 2021
“The World of Plymouth Plantation,” by Carla Gardina Pestana

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

April 28, 2021
“Dancing Odissi: Paratopic Performances of Gender and State,” by Anurima Banerji

March 3, 2021
“The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic,” by Andrea Moudarres

February 2, 2021
“Bodies and Maps,” by Maryanne Cline Horowitz and Louise Arizzoli

December 2, 2020
“Dating Beowulf,” by Erica Weaver