Professor Dursteler's lecture is entitled:

"To Piety More Prone:" Gender and Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean."

This lecture is free and open to the public.
Reception to follow.

About the speaker:
Dr. Dursteler is the author of  "Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean"  and  "Renegade Women: Gender, Identity and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean." He is currently co-authoring a book on  "The Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean World"  for the Johns Hopkins University Press.


***Members of the Seminar will be meeting on Friday, November 9 at 2 p.m. to discuss Prof. Dursteler's work prior to his visit. Any faculty or graduate student wishing to participate in this discussion should contact Prof. Christine Johnson (cjohns@wustl.edu) to rsvp and to obtain copies of the readings.

This event is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities.