BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:The Ones They Carried: Reimagining Communities of Care in Salv ador\, 1840 - 1920: Molly Ball X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260616T092758Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50569821520119 DTSTART:20260303T180000Z DTEND:20260303T193000Z DESCRIPTION:Jesse L. Rosenberger Work-In-Progress Seminar Series: The Ones They Carried: Reimagining Communities of Care in Salvador\, 1840-1920: Mol ly Ball\n\n- - - - -\n\n\nMolly Ball\n\nAssistant Professor of History\n\n PhD\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, 2013\n\n \n\nMolly Ball is an economic and social historian of modern Brazil and of immigration histo ry. Her research explores everyday experiences and choices from working-cl ass individuals and families. She brings social and economic history into concert to examine both how people adapted to economic constraints and opp ortunities and how\, when considered collectively\, these singular decisio ns affected larger trends. \n\nHer current research project\, “Moving Pa st GDP: Quality of Life as a Woman’s Measure\,” embraces feminist econ omic history. She explores how neonatal birth outcomes in Latin America ca n provide insight women’s changing standards-of-living in the 20th centu ry. This project addresses data constraints that often limit historic meas urement of Latin American standards of living.\n\nShe actively incorporate s digital humanities\, community-engaged coursework\, and public history i nto her teaching to foster a dynamic and welcoming learning environment. S he also serves as the coordinator of the Latin American Studies minor.\n\n d Renaissance Europe\, centering around two major themes: astrology and ap ocalyptic prophecy\, and saints and miracles. My first book\, History\, Pr ophecy\, and the Stars: The Christian Astrology of Pierre d’Ailly\, 1350 -1420 (Princeton: Princeton University Press\, 1994)\, explores a French c ardinal’s use of astrology to investigate the time of the world’s End. She argues that d’Ailly\, worried about intractable papal Schism and ho ping that a church council could bring the crisis to an end\, turned to as trology as a way to silence the numerous forces that saw the Great Schism as a preamble to Antichrist’s reign and thus\, by implication\, incapabl e of resolution by human efforts. In 2014\, I published a second monograph : The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieva l and Early Modern Europe (Ithaca: Cornell University Press\, 2014)\, winn er of the 2016 La corónica International Book Award. Here I study the can onization and cult of the Valencian friar Vincent Ferrer\, a fiery apocaly ptic preacher of the Schism years who died in 1419 and was canonized in 14 55\, tracing the various meanings of the saint from the moment of his deat h in Brittany to his appropriation by Dominican friars in Spain’s New Wo rld colonies.\n\nMore recently\, she has returned to the interrelationship s between astrology and prophecy in a new book project\, tentatively title d “Astrology and the Sibyls\,” an investigation of ways of knowing the future ranging from around 1100 to around 1600\, research supported by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2022-23. In a ddition\, I have been exploring the connections between sanctity\, mendica nt reform\, and tales of the demonic in a series of papers\, articles\, an d book chapters focusing on the cults of Vincent Ferrer and Bernardino of Siena. GEO:43.128411;-77.628692 LOCATION:Rush Rhees Library\, Humanities Center\, Room 202\, Conference Roo m D SUMMARY:The Ones They Carried: Reimagining Communities of Care in Salvador\ , 1840 - 1920: Molly Ball URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/copy-of-humanities-center- work-in-progress-seminar-laura-smoller-star-gazers-from-the-mount-of-victo ry-the-magi-and-astrology-in-medieval-and-renaissance-europe CATEGORIES:Lectures & Talks END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR