Jerry Brotton
English Department
University of London

"Managing the Infidel:
Renaissance Equestrian Art Between East and West"

Wednesday, September 20, 2000
3:30 pm
6191 Helen C. White Hall

Dr. Jerry Brotton, a young interdisciplnary scholar who teaches in the English Department at the University of London, will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday, September 20 and Thursday, September 21. Dr. Brotton is the author of Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World (Cornell, 1998) and the co-author, with Lisa Jardine, of Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West (Cornell, 2000).

On September 20, Dr. Brotton will give a lecture title "Managing the Infidel: Renaissance Equestrian Art Between East and West" in which he will discuss work Leonardo da Vinci, Sforza, Durer, Pisanello, and Titian in the context of Islamic-Christian cultural, religious, and racial dynamics.