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Early Mod events, 12 November 2013

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This list announces talks pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>. If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort. *New listing ** Updated listing ***CANCELLED Cancelled listing EARLYMOD THIS WEEK Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 7:00pm Talk, "Dogs, Guns, and Men in Eighteenth-Century France" Amy Freund, Texas Christian University Room 110, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 4:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar "Performing Humanism: The Andreini Family and the Republic of Letters in Counter-Reformation Italy" Sarah Ross, Department of History, Boston College 41 Wyllys (Squash Court Building), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT For a copy of this paper, please contact Ann Tanasi by telephone at 860-685-2392, or by email at atanasi(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:atanasi@wesleyan.edu>. http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 4:30pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Center for the Humanities and the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University: Lecture, "The historian as exile: Luke Wadding's Franciscan annals between global and local affiliations" Clare Carroll, Queens College, CUNY Kates Room (Rm. 201), Warren House, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 5:00pm Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop Talk, (Title TBA) Ida Federica Pugliese, National University of Ireland, Galway Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 5:30pm Mahindra Harvard Humanities Center, Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar Co-chairs, Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie Seminar, "Chain'd up in Alabaster': Alice Spencer and the Shape of Remembrance" Patricia Phillippy, Kingston University, London Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 5:30 pm Harvard Renaissance Studies Seminar Talk, "La Fontaine and the Chora" Jeffrey N. Peters, University of Kentucky Rm 203, Boylston Hall, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 Thursday, November 14th, 2013 - 6:00pm Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group Talk, "Training for the Abstract: Visualizing geometria in the 16th century German Lehrbuch" Noam Andrews, Harvard University Room 469, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA RSVP to savoia(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:savoia@fas.harvard.edu> or allyssa.metzger.harvard(a)gmail.com<mailto:allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com> **Saturday, November 16, 2013 - 10:00am - 7:00pm Sponsored by the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Brandeis University /The Poses Grants for the Arts, administered through the Dean of Arts and Sciences / Brandeis Arts Council 2013 New England Renaissance Conference - Theme: Thresholds of Faith and Fantasy: Spiritual Journeys and Real Spaces Moderators and Speakers Include: Leonard Barkan, Princeton University - Keynote Speaker Tom Conley, Harvard University Nadja Aksamija, Wesleyan University Jodi Cranston, Boston University Kenneth Gouwens, University of Connecticut Pamela Jones, University of Massachusetts, Boston Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University Oliver Tostmann, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Michael Randall, Brandeis University Concert by Nota Bene viol consort Mandel Center for the Humanities, Brandeis University, 415 South St. Waltham, MA 02453 For complete program with room details visit: http://www.brandeis.edu/mandelhumanities/images/NERC%20Brandeis%202013.JPG Please note that pre-registration is requested by November 8. There is a $10 registration fee for faculty and professionals, to be paid at the door; students are free. To register e-mail: NERCregistration2013(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:NERCregistration2013@brandeis.edu> by Nov. 8. UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 5:30pm 99th George Parker Winship Lecture, "The Reader's Eye: Between Annotation and Illustration" William Sherman, University of York (UK) Edison & Newman Rms, Houghton Library, Harvard University Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA Recent scholarship in the lively field of marginalia has treated readers' marks almost exclusively as a verbal phenomenon--as words, that is, next to other words. But in doing so we have lost sight of sight itself, and I have now begun to recover the ways in which readers responded with images as well as words. Between medieval illumination and modern illustration, there are many traces of reading as a visual mode, signs that we have been slow to see and study and for which we are poorly served by both methodology and terminology. This illustrated lecture will consider the range of images produced by readers between 1450 and 1750, and will suggest that reading was closely bound up with seeing--and even drawing--across the Medieval/Renaissance divide. ** Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 5:00 pm Sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, Harvard A session on Ottoman book history Talk, "The Art of Commentary Writing: Legal Commentaries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Ottoman Empire" Himmet Taskomur, Harvard University And, Talk, "Books and Their Readers in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul" Meredith Quinn (Harvard University), Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 6:30-8:30 pm, Reception to follow Presented by Mosaïque and Boston University Art Gallery Talk, "Collecting French Antique Astronomy Maps and Their Relation to Modern Space Science" Michael Mendillo, Boston University French Cultural Center, 53 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA Discussion of the historical importance of his collection of 17th and 18th century French antiquarian astronomical maps and its relation to modern science. www.frenchculturalcenter.org<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001vtlrrUK9IDtfSPlfc2H7ylpnwFpz-PSPnDphI_xmNQC8…> Members: Free / Non-Members: $5.00 For additional info contact: Ph. (617) 912-0400 Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 7:30 pm Talk, "Between Byzantium and Modern Greece: Recapturing the Legacy of Homer in Nikolaos Loukanes' 1526 'Iliad'" Calliopi Dourou, Harvard University Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Thursday, November 21,2013 - 5:00 pm Co-sponsored by the France and the World seminar Talk, "Spaces for a Queen: Physical and Imagined Architecture in 17th c. France" Nicola Courtright, Amherst College Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 5:30pm Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop Talk, "African Stonehenge. Early Modern Science and the Mediterranean Consular network" Cornel Zwierlein, Harvard University Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA Thursday, December 5th, 2013 - 6pm Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group Talk, "Knowledge on the Move: Scientific Encounters in the Muslim and Christian Worlds 500-1500" Katharine Park, Harvard University and Ahmed Ragab, Harvard University Room 469, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA RSVP to savoia(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:savoia@fas.harvard.edu> or allyssa.metzger.harvard(a)gmail.com<mailto:allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com> Friday, December 6, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar Graduate Symposium, "New Work in Early Modern Drama" James Beaver, Brown University Joanna Grossman, Harvard University Martin Moraw, Brandeis University Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center), Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Monday, December 9, 2013 - 4pm Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History workshop, the Center for Jewish Studies and the Humanities Center Seminar on Jewish Cultures & Societies "Entangled Traditions: Jews and Christians in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia," Featuring: Pavel Sládek, Charles University in Prague "A Catholic priest is ordained as a Rabbi: Studying with Jews during the Counter-Reformation in Bohemia" Rachel L. Greenblatt, Harvard University "A Judeo-Christian Performance? Biblical Themes in Prague Jews' Procession Honoring the Birth of a Habsburg Heir (1716)" Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA Friday, February 21, 2014 - Time TBA Hosted by the Cogut Center for the Humanities and sponsored by the Department of French Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Medieval Studies Program, and the Department of History Interdisciplinary Symposium , "Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh: Medieval and Early Modern Captivity" Keynote Speaker: Adam Kosto, Columbia University Brown University (exact location TBA) *If you would like to request that your announcement be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events e-mail: Please send your listing to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu> It would be a great help if you could follow the format below. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. Day, date, time Sponsor (if available) Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable) Location (Room, Building, Street Address, Institution, City, State) Additional info (no more than a couple sentences) Website URL RSVP or Registration information/link

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Early Mod Events, 4 November 2013

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This list announces talks pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: <mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu> earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu. If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort. *New listing ** Updated listing ***CANCELLED Cancelled listing EARLYMOD THIS WEEK *Sunday November 2- December 2, 2013 - Gallery Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9am-9pm; Fri. by appointment; Sat. 9am-5pm Exhibit, Visions Célestes: Antiquarian Charts and Maps from the Mendillo Collection French Cultural Center, 53 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA This exhibit offers a rare glimpse of antiquarian maps of the stars and charts of planetary systems which were produced in France, or commissioned from artists in other countries by French royalty. Cost: Free URL: Exhibit: Visions Célestes: Antiquarian Charts and Maps from the Mendillo Collection * Monday, November 4, 2013 - 5:00 pm Co-sponsored by the Renaissance, and Architecture and Knowledge seminars Talk, "Urban Design and the Genius of the Site: From André Le Nôtre to Today" Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, University of Paris - La-Villette Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA * Monday, November 4, 2013 - 5:00 pm Co-sponsored with the Early Modern European History Workshop Talk, "'Fixed Like a Ballad on the Wall': Printed Lobbying and Public Persuasion in the Seventeenth Century" Jason Peacey, University College London Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA *Wednesday, November 6, 2013 5:00-7:00pm Talk, The Flowers and the Bees: More's Utopia in the Context of Humanist Theories of Reading" Taylor Cowdery, Harvard University Kates Room, Warren House, Harvard University, 11 Prescott St., Cambridge, MA Refreshments will be available *Wednesday, November 6, 6:00 pm Talk, "Music and the Aesopic Tradition in Fifteenth-Century Italy" Evan Angus MacCarthy, College of Holy Cross Room 316, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA *Thursday, November 7, 2013 6pm Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group Talk, Admirable Harmonie: Utilitarian Curiosity and Astrological Explanation in Seventeenth-Century Popular English Medical Advice Literature Allyssa Metzger, Harvard University Room 469, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA RSVP to <mailto:savoia@fas.harvard.edu> savoia(a)fas.harvard.edu or <mailto:allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com> allyssa.metzger.harvard(a)gmail.com Friday November 8, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar "Shakespeare, Anecdotally" Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center), Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) * Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 7:00 pm Talk, "Dogs, Guns, and Men in Eighteenth-Century France" Amy Freund, Texas Christian University Room 110, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Performing Humanism: The Andreini Family and the Republic of Letters in Counter-Reformation Italy Sarah Ross, Department of History, Boston College 41 Wyllys (Squash Court Building), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT For a copy of this paper, please contact Ann Tanasi by telephone at 860-685-2392, or by email at atanasi(a)wesleyan.edu. http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 4:30pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Center for the Humanities and the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University: Lecture, The historian as exile: Luke Wadding's Franciscan annals between global and local affiliations Clare Carroll, Queens College, CUNY Kates Room (Rm. 201), Warren House, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Thursday, November 14, 2013 5:00pm Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop Talk, (Title TBA) Ida Federica Pugliese, National University of Ireland, Galway Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 5:30pm Mahindra Harvard Humanities Center, Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar Co-chairs, Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie Seminar, Chain'd up in Alabaster': Alice Spencer and the Shape of Remembrance" Patricia Phillippy, Kingston University, London Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 5:30 pm Harvard Renaissance Studies Seminar Talk, "La Fontaine and the Chora" Jeffrey N. Peters, University of Kentucky Rm 203, Boylston Hall, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 * Thursday, November 14th, 2013 - 6pm Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group Talk, Training for the Abstract: Visualizing geometria in the 16th century German Lehrbuch Noam Andrews, Harvard University Room 469, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA RSVP to <mailto:savoia@fas.harvard.edu> savoia(a)fas.harvard.edu or <mailto:allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com> allyssa.metzger.harvard(a)gmail.com **Saturday, November 16, 2013 10:00am 7:00pm Sponsored by the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Brandeis University /The Poses Grants for the Arts, administered through the Dean of Arts and Sciences / Brandeis Arts Council 2013 New England Renaissance Conference - Theme: Thresholds of Faith and Fantasy: Spiritual Journeys and Real Spaces Moderators and Speakers Include: Leonard Barkan, Princeton University - Keynote Speaker Tom Conley, Harvard University Nadja Aksamija, Wesleyan University Jodi Cranston, Boston University Kenneth Gouwens, University of Connecticut Pamela Jones, University of Massachusetts, Boston Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University Oliver Tostmann, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Michael Randall, Brandeis University Concert by Nota Bene viol consort Mandel Center for the Humanities, Brandeis University, 415 South St. Waltham, MA 02453 For complete program with room details visit: http://www.brandeis.edu/mandelhumanities/images/NERC%20Brandeis%202013.JPG Please note that pre-registration is requested by November 8. There is a $10 registration fee for faculty and professionals, to be paid at the door; students are free. To register e-mail: NERCregistration2013(a)brandeis.edu by Nov. 8. Tuesday, November 19, 2013 5:30pm 99th George Parker Winship Lecture, The Reader's Eye: Between Annotation and Illustration William Sherman, University of York (UK) Edison & Newman Rms, Houghton Library, Harvard University Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA Recent scholarship in the lively field of marginalia has treated readers' marks almost exclusively as a verbal phenomenon--as words, that is, next to other words. But in doing so we have lost sight of sight itself, and I have now begun to recover the ways in which readers responded with images as well as words. Between medieval illumination and modern illustration, there are many traces of reading as a visual mode, signs that we have been slow to see and study and for which we are poorly served by both methodology and terminology. This illustrated lecture will consider the range of images produced by readers between 1450 and 1750, and will suggest that reading was closely bound up with seeing--and even drawing--across the Medieval/Renaissance divide. ** Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 5:00 pm Sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, Harvard A session on Ottoman book history Talk, "The Art of Commentary Writing: Legal Commentaries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Ottoman Empire" Himmet Taskomur, Harvard University And, Talk, "Books and Their Readers in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul" Meredith Quinn (Harvard University), Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA * Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 6:30-8:30 pm, Reception to follow Presented by Mosaïque and Boston University Art Gallery Talk, Collecting French Antique Astronomy Maps and Their Relation to Modern Space Science Michael Mendillo, Boston University French Cultural Center, 53 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA Discussion of the historical importance of his collection of 17th and 18th century French antiquarian astronomical maps and its relation to modern science. www.frenchculturalcenter.org Members: Free / Non-Members: $5.00 For additional info contact: Ph. (617) 912-0400 * Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 7:30 pm Talk, "Between Byzantium and Modern Greece: Recapturing the Legacy of Homer in Nikolaos Loukanes' 1526 'Iliad'" Calliopi Dourou, Harvard University Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA * Thursday, November 21,2013 - 5:00 pm Co-sponsored by the France and the World seminar Talk, "Spaces for a Queen: Physical and Imagined Architecture in 17th c. France" Nicola Courtright, Amherst College Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA * Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 5:30pm Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop Talk, "African Stonehenge. Early Modern Science and the Mediterranean Consular network" Cornel Zwierlein, Harvard University Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA * Thursday, December 5th, 2013 - 6pm Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group Talk, Knowledge on the Move: Scientific Encounters in the Muslim and Christian Worlds 500-1500 Katharine Park, Harvard University and Ahmed Ragab, Harvard University Room 469, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA RSVP to <mailto:savoia@fas.harvard.edu> savoia(a)fas.harvard.edu or <mailto:allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com> allyssa.metzger.harvard(a)gmail.com Friday, December 6, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar Graduate Symposium, "New Work in Early Modern Drama James Beaver, Brown University Joanna Grossman, Harvard University Martin Moraw, Brandeis University Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center), Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA *Monday, December 9, 2013 - 4pm Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History workshop, the Center for Jewish Studies and the Humanities Center Seminar on Jewish Cultures & Societies Entangled Traditions: Jews and Christians in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia, Featuring: Pavel Sládek, Charles University in Prague A Catholic priest is ordained as a Rabbi: Studying with Jews during the Counter-Reformation in Bohemia Rachel L. Greenblatt, Harvard University A Judeo-Christian Performance? Biblical Themes in Prague Jews Procession Honoring the Birth of a Habsburg Heir (1716) Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA Friday, February 21, 2014 Time TBA Hosted by the Cogut Center for the Humanities and sponsored by the Department of French Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Medieval Studies Program, and the Department of History Interdisciplinary Symposium , Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh: Medieval and Early Modern Captivity Keynote Speaker: Adam Kosto, Columbia University Brown University (exact location TBA) *If you would like to request that your announcement be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events e-mail: Please send your listing to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu It would be a great help if you could follow the format below. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. 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