Each semester nationally-prominent historians join us at UVU to share their ideas and work with our students, faculty, and the surrounding community. All are welcome to attend this upcoming lecture.

 

Turning Points in History Lecture Series

"An Accidental Voyage? Francesco Carletti's Circumnavigation of the World, ca. 1600"

Lecture by Dr. Paula Findlen, Stanford University

Tuesday, March 14, 4-5:30 p.m.

CB 511

Dr. Paula Findlen is a professor of early modern intellectual and cultural history and has authored and edited several books including Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (1996), Italy’s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour (2009), Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World (2018), and Florence After the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790 (2019). Possessing Nature won the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society and the Marraro Award for best book on Italian history from the American Historical Association.