As part ot the on-going reserach collaboration between Med/Ren and the Early Modern Worlds Iniative, we are pleased to welcome Prof. Juliette Cherbuliez who will speak to us about violence in the early modernity. Prof. Cherbuliez notes that 

"What often goes without saying is that tragedy is about physical violence in its many forms. I take up Medea, figure of barbarism, passion, and infanticide, to show how and why we should attend to tragedy's persistent engagement with violence. My foundational text is Corneille's 1634 Médée, from which I develop a way of thinking about the politics of violence's persistence in literature and art." 

Juliette Cherbuliez is Professor and Chair of the Department of French and Italian and Interim Director of UMN's Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World