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“Calculated for 30 Years”: Lefevre’s French Revolutionary Calendar

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
5:15pm - 6:15pm
Macksey Seminar Room (M2043), Brody Learning Commons

Rena Hoisington, curator and head of the department of old master prints at the National Gallery of Art, will give a talk titled "“Calculated for 30 Years”: Lefevre’s French Revolutionary Calendar" for the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance.

Stern Center lectures are directed toward Hopkins graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.

To request an accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility, please email sterncenter@jhu.edu. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.

The Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance was established with a permanent endowment in 2017 to support lectures, fellowships, master classes, symposia, and publications related to the Sheridan Libraries' premodern and early modern rare book and manuscript collections. The center’s focus encompasses the historical reception of classical and medieval thought and the culture and influence of the Renaissance throughout the early modern period.