ACMRS Public Programs

Distinguished
Lecture Series in Medieval
and Renaissance Studies

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Spring 2007
Ann Blair

The ACMRS Distinguished Lecture in Renaissance Studies

Professor Blair has published thirty-nine scholarly articles. She is the author of The Theatre of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Studies (1997) and the co-editor of The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe (1990). In addition, she has received several awards, including a Bourse Chateaubriand from the French government (1988-89), a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers - Paris (1995-96), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship at Harvard Divinity School (2004-05), and a MacArthur Fellowship (2003-07). She is the co-organizer of the Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar, "Opening up the Archives" (2006), which resulted in the resource website The Social History of Archives.

Dr. Blair’s distinguished lecture, entitled “Coping with Information Overload in Early Modern Europe”
is cosponsored by the ASU Department of History and will be held on Thursday, April 26, 7:00 PM, in Lattie F. Coor Hall, room 174. A reception will follow the lecture. For further details, contact ACMRS.

Both the lecture and receiption are free and open to the public. For more information, call 480-965-9323.