Excited to have copies of Rick López’s new book *Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914* for the first Five College Renaissance Seminar meeting on 10/23, when Rick will be in conversation with art historian Nicola Courtright.

Making the most of the remainder of Winter term.

On December 6th (4:30pm), the UMass Kinney Center and the School of Earth & Sustainability are co-sponsoring a talk at the Kinney Center with Annette Kehnel, author of The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability (2024) and Professor and Chair of Medieval History at University of Mannheim.

Getting things lined up for a productive week.

Jumped into Rogier van der Weyden’s portrait of Jean Gros during last weekend’s #AMS2024 meeting

The third & final meeting of this fall’s Five College Renaissance Seminar this Thursday features historian of medicine Alisha Rankin (Tufts Univ.)! “The Witches’ Brew: Potions & Poisons in Renaissance Europe” Thu 11/21 4:30PM @ Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at UMass Amherst