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EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR BUNDLE | “Thursdays in November”

1. Thursday, November 4, 2021 | “Borromini, Bernini, and Maderno: Building a Baroque City” with Dr. Rocky Ruggiero | 11:30am – 12:30pm ET | 8:30 – 9:30am PT | 3:30 – 4:30pm London
2. Thursday, November 11, 2021 | “What Does it Mean to be Modern?” with Dr. Mary Ann Calo | 11:30am – 12:30pm ET | 8:30 – 9:30am PT | 4:30 – 5:30pm London
3. Thursday, November 18, 2021 | “Dottore Dante: Dante as Physician and Medicine in the Early Renaissance” with Dr. Jeremy Wasser | 11:30am – 12:30pm ET | 8:30 – 9:30am PT | 4:30 – 5:30pm London

Each webinar will include a 45-minute lecture followed by 15-minutes of Q&A.

Please note:

• Your participation for all three exclusive webinars is confirmed once you have purchased your bundle. You will receive a reminder 24 hours before each event and the Zoom link to join each presentation circa 30 minutes before the start time.
• VIDEO RECORDINGS of the webinars will be available for unlimited streaming at your convenience until December 2, 2021.

Webinar 1

EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR | “Borromini, Bernini, and Maderno: Building a Baroque City”
Presented by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero

The architectural and urban patronage of Popes Sixtus V, Paul V, Urban VIII, and Innocent X transformed Rome into the magnificent city that, in large part, we still see today. The creative vision of their respective architects produced some of the most exquisite architecture in history. This exclusive webinar will explore those monuments in Rome produced by the three greatest architects of the 17th Century and which define our understanding of the Roman Baroque architecture.

The webinar will include a 45-minute lecture followed by 15-minutes of Q&A.

Webinar 2

EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR | “What Does it Mean to be Modern?”
Presented by Dr. Mary Ann Calo
with Additional Commentary by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero

In the first decades of the twentieth century, European art underwent a period of profound structural and philosophical change. As it sought relevance in this creative landscape, Italy found itself in a complicated position. Many of the radical aesthetic ideas coming out of Paris, Germany, and the Soviet Union struggled for legitimacy in a country that remained steeped in history and deeply attached to an artistic legacy that had been admired for centuries. Italian modernism thus took shape in the context of a constant dialog between the demands of historical continuity and the influx of new ideas from abroad. This talk with introduce some of the major changes that emerged in early twentieth century European art, with special emphasis on how Italy’s most progressive artists negotiated this space.

Mary Ann Calo, Batza Professor, Emerita, joined the Colgate University faculty in 1991 as a member of the Department of Art and History. During her 25 years at Colgate, Prof. Calo taught courses on modern and contemporary art history, the arts and public policy, and American art. She also served as Chair of the Art and Art History Department, Associate Dean of the Faculty, Director of the Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts, and Director of the Division of Arts and Humanities. Calo spent many years living and working in Italy, initially as a student and then later as a professor, serving several times as a visiting professor of modern art at Syracuse University in Florence. Since retirement, Calo has led academic tours focused on modern art for the Smithsonian (France) and for Colgate alumni groups (Italy).

The webinar will include a 45-minute lecture followed by 15-minutes of Q&A.

Webinar 3

EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR | “Dottore Dante: Dante as Physician and Medicine in the Early Renaissance”
Presented by Dr. Jeremy Wasser
with Additional Commentary by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero

Dante has been honored for centuries as il Sommo Poeta (the Supreme Poet). But was he also il Sommo Dottore (the Supreme Doctor)? Although there is no firm evidence that Dante ever formally attended university, this gap in his education did not prevent him from having a deep understanding of complex medical concepts for his time. He even included thousands of anatomical, physiological, and medical references in his literary works including his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. It is clear that he possessed an extraordinary knowledge and understanding of how the human body and the human psyche worked. Let physiologist and medical historian, Dr. Jeremy Wasser, be your guide, not through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, but through Dante’s medical literary legacy. Learn how patients and physicians of his day understood what Hippocrates called “the Nature of the Body” and how medicine was practiced at the transition point between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Jeremy Wasser, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Physiology at Texas A&M University. Dr. Wasser serves as the program leader for study abroad programs in Germany, focused on the history of medicine, providing future doctors and biomedical science researchers with a foundation in physiology and the medical humanities. Along with his scientific publications he has written and lectured on the culture of disease, the history of public health and health policy, the history of human experimentation, and the role of physiological education in contemplative practices. Additionally, Wasser’s training in opera and theatre inform the unique personas that he creates for lectures in the history of medicine and performances related to science and storytelling.

The webinar will include a 45-minute lecture followed by 15-minutes of Q&A.