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
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 5:30pm
Talk, "Thinking Again about the First Printing Revolution with Both Eyes on
the Books: Venetian Evidence for Prices, Trade, and Use"
Cristina Dondi, Consortium of European Research Libraries(CERL)
Edison & Newman Rm., Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
Which were the distribution and trade-routes, national and international, of
15th-c. Venetian printed books? Who purchased them? How were they used and
read? What was the books' contemporary market value? Can we trace the
transmission and dissemination of the texts they contain? Some fundamental
questions relating to the introduction of printing in the West and the
Renaissance booktrade still await an answer. The evidence is plentiful, over
a million incunabula survive today; at last we also have adequate tools to
convert the physical evidence they contain into new historical evidence.
For details call Monique Duhaime, Ph. (617) 495-2441
*Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - 5:00 - 7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Presentation, "Illustrating Darkness: Perspectival Snares in Spenser's
Allegory"
Craig Plunges, Harvard University
Plimpton Rm. (133), Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 3, - Sunday, October 6, 2013
Newport Historical Society and partners
"No Person Shall Bee Any Wise Molested: Religious freedom, cultural
conflict, and the moral role of the state" Conference to mark the 350th
anniversary of the 1663 Rhode Island Charter
Various speakers
Various locations in Newport and Providence, Rhode Island
Complete details and registration information:
<http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/conference/about-the-conference/>
http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/conference/about-the-conference/
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 4:15pm - 6:00pm
Sponsors, Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, International History
Seminar, Department of History
Talk, "Global 'Unsocial Sociability' in Enlightenment Political Thought"
Sankar Muthu, University of Chicago
Cabot Seminar Room, Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Peter Gordon, pgordon(a)fas.harvard.edu
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 8:30am-4:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Italy, the Office of the Dean of
Arts and Humanities, and the Mahindra Humanities Center
Conference, "Heavenly Imperfection: Galileo's Discovery of Sunspots,"
Various speakers
Conference: Rm. Beren Hall, Riesman Center for Harvard Hillel, Rosovsky
Hall, 52 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/heavenly-imperfection-gali
leos-discovery-sunspots
*Friday, October 4, 2013 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Workshop on Venetian books, their production, and their dissemination
Cristina Dondi, Consortium of European Research Libraries(CERL)
Seminar Room, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA
Space is limited, to reserve a spot please contact Monique Duhaime:
duhaime(a)fas.harvard.edu
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"Collecting 'Shakespeare' Before the First Folio: New Genealogies of Printed
Drama in Collection"
Tara Lyons, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
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)
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, "Interpreting symbolism and allegory in the public spectacles of
Renaissance Florence"
Louis Gerdelan, University of Auckland - New Zealand
Basement Seminar Rm., Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 5:00-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
***CANCELLED: Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 4:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
"Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular: New Perspectives on Renaissance
Intellectual History"
Marco Sgarbi, Department of Philosophy, University of Verona
41 Wyllys (Squash Court Building), Room 113, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
For a copy of this paper, please contact Ester Moran, by telephone at
860-685-2682 or by email at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu.
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Thursday, October 17, , 2013 - 5:30 pm
"Tragedy, Transgression, and Women's Voices: The Cases of Eleanor Cobham and
Margaret of Anjou"
Kavita Mudan Finn, Simmons College; Southern New Hampshire University
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 5:00-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Mary Crane, Boston College
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 4pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, "Global Cross-Cultural Dissemination of Indigenous Medical Knowledge
and Practices through the Portuguese Colonial System: Evidence from
16th-18th Century Ethno-Botanical Manuscripts"
Timothy Walker, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
Friday, October 25, - Saturday October 26, 2013 - Various times
Symposium, "Venice Unbound: Things, Texts, Women, a Renaissance Symposium in
Honor of Ann Rosalind Jones"
Various speakers
Keynote Lecture (to be held on Oct. 26 from 10:30am-12:00pm),
"Venetian Women Writers and the Material Life of the Floating City"
Keynote Lecturer: Margaret (Tita) Rosenthal, University of Southern
California
Neilson Browsing Rm, 1st Fl., Neilson Library, Smith College, 7 Neilson Dr.,
Northampton, MA
For complete program contact Jennifer Roberts, jroberts(a)smith.edu
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop and the Humanities
Center Seminar in Book History
Talk, "Fixed like a ballad on the wall: printed lobbying and public
persuasion in the seventeenth century"
Jason Peacey, University College London
Basement Seminar Rm., Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, MA
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
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 - 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, (Title TBA)
Ida Pugliese, University of Cambridge
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
*Saturday, November 16, 2013 - 9:15am - 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:
Pamela Jones, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University
Kenneth Gouwens, University of Connecticut
Oliver Tostmann, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Michael Randall, Brandeis University
Nadja Aksamija, Wesleyan University
Tom Conley, Harvard University
Jodi Cranston, Boston University
Leonard Barkan, Princeton University - Keynote Speaker
Mandel Center for the Humanities, Brandeis University, 415 South St.
Waltham, MA 02453
For complete program with room details visit: http://nercblog.wordpress.com/
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 at Brandeis affiliates are free.
To register e-mail: NERCregistration2013(a)brandeis.edu by Nov. 8.
Friday December 6, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"New Work in Early Modern Drama: A Graduate Symposium"
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
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.
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR LOCAL CONFERENCE
Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh: Medieval and Early Modern Captivity An
Interdisciplinary Symposium at Brown University, 21 February 2014
We invite submissions for a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to take
place at Brown University on February 21, 2014, 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. Our theme will be "Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh:
Medieval and Early Modern Captivity." Professor Adam Kosto (History,
Columbia University), author of Hostages in the Middle Ages (Oxford
University Press, 2012), will serve as the keynote speaker.
Submissions are sought from graduate students, faculty members, and other
scholars in fields including, but not limited to, history, literature,
languages, philosophy, religious studies, art and
architectural history, and music. Particularly welcome are submissions which
offer new methodological or theoretical approaches to issues of medieval and
early modern captivity, or which examine the relationship of captivity to
cultural production and/or intercultural exchange.
Papers should be no more than twenty minutes in length and should be in
English. Please send a 250-word abstract, along with brief contact
information, to John Moreau, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in French Studies
and Comparative Literature, at <mailto:John_Moreau@Brown.edu>
John_Moreau(a)Brown.edu. The submission deadline is November 1, 2013.
*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
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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
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
EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Brown University Department of History
The 34th William F. Church Memorial Lecture, Vesuvius and Pompeii: Travel,
Tourism, Science and the Imagination in the Early Nineteenth Century
John Brewer, California Institute of Technology
Rm. 001, Salomon Center for Teaching, 69-91 Waterman St., Providence, RI
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/2013/08/18/september-24-2013-the-church-memoria
l-lecture-by-john-brewer/
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 6:009:00pm
Newport Historical Society
Book Talk, The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native
Cultures in Early America
Linford D. Fisher, author and Brown University Professor
Saylesville Meeting House, 374 Great Road, Lincoln, RI
http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/ai1ec_event/the-indian-great-awakeningr
eligion-and-the-shaping-of-native-cultures-in-early-america/?instance_id=
To register contact, Dan Santos, (401) 728-9696
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies seminar, the Committee on Medieval
Studies, and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Talk, Beyond Use: A Digital Tool for the Analysis of Late Medieval
Manuscript Books of Hours
Gregory T. Clark, University of the South
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Chairs: Sean Gilsdorf, Luis Girón Negrón, Katharine Park, Daniel Smail,
Nicholas Watson
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 5:00pm
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art, Fine Arts
Department
"'Devouring Marble': Bernini and His Portrait of Costanza"
Sarah McPhee, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Art History
Department, Emory University
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Newton, MA
For directions and parking: www.bc.edu/content/bc/az/maps/s-approach.html
RSVP by Sept. 13 to (617) 552-6459 or elliotj(a)bc.edu
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Harvard Humanities
Center
"Loose gossips, cunning men: gender and garrulity in the late plays of Ben
Jonson."
Catherine Rockwood, Independent Scholar
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
*Thursday, September 26th, 6:00pm
Early Sciences Working Group
Curious Creatures: Seeing, Classifying, and Imagining Whales in Early
Modern Japan
Bina Arch, Harvard, EALC
Rm. 469, Science Center, Department of the History of Science, Harvard
University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg
RSVP to savoia(a)fas.harvard.edu or allyssa.metzger.harvard(a)gmail.com
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
Monday, September 30, 2013 5:30pm
Talk, Thinking Again about the First Printing Revolution with Both Eyes on
the Books: Venetian Evidence for Prices, Trade, and Use
Cristina Dondi, Consortium of European Research Libraries(CERL)
Edison & Newman Rm., Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
Which were the distribution and trade-routes, national and international, of
15th-c. Venetian printed books? Who purchased them? How were they used and
read? What was the books' contemporary market value? Can we trace the
transmission and dissemination of the texts they contain? Some fundamental
questions relating to the introduction of printing in the West and the
Renaissance booktrade still await an answer. The evidence is plentiful, over
a million incunabula survive today; at last we also have adequate tools to
convert the physical evidence they contain into new historical evidence.
For details call Monique Duhaime, Ph. (617) 495-2441
Thursday, October 3, - Sunday, October 6, 2013
Newport Historical Society and partners
No Person Shall Bee Any Wise Molested: Religious freedom, cultural
conflict, and the moral role of the state Conference to mark the 350th
anniversary of the 1663 Rhode Island Charter
Various speakers
Various locations in Newport and Providence, Rhode Island
Complete details and registration information:
<http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/conference/about-the-conference/>
http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/conference/about-the-conference/
*Thursday, Oct 3rd, 2013 - 4:15pm - 6:00pm
Sponsors, Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, International History
Seminar, Department of History
Talk, Global 'Unsocial Sociability' in Enlightenment Political Thought
Sankar Muthu, University of Chicago
Cabot Seminar Room, Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Peter Gordon, pgordon(a)fas.harvard.edu
Friday, October 4, 2013 8:30am4:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Italy, the Office of the Dean of
Arts and Humanities, and the Mahindra Humanities Center
Conference, Heavenly Imperfection: Galileos Discovery of Sunspots,
Various speakers
Conference: Rm. Beren Hall, Riesman Center for Harvard Hillel, Rosovsky
Hall, 52 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/heavenly-imperfection-gali
leos-discovery-sunspots
Friday October 4, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"Collecting 'Shakespeare' Before the First Folio: New Genealogies of Printed
Drama in Collection"
Tara Lyons, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center), Harvard
University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, Interpreting symbolism and allegory in the public spectacles of
Renaissance Florence
Louis Gerdelan, University of Auckland - New Zealand
Basement Seminar Rm., Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 5:00-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 10, 2013 4:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular: New Perspectives on Renaissance
Intellectual History
Marco Sgarbi, Department of Philosophy, University of Verona
41 Wyllys (Squash Court Building), Room 113, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
For a copy of this paper, please contact Ester Moran, by telephone at
860-685-2682 or by email at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu.
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
*Thursday, October 17, , 2013 - 5:30 pm
"Tragedy, Transgression, and Women's Voices: The Cases of Eleanor Cobham and
Margaret of Anjou"
Kavita Mudan Finn, Simmons College; Southern New Hampshire University
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 5:00-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Mary Crane, Boston College
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 24, 2013 4pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, Global Cross-Cultural Dissemination of Indigenous Medical Knowledge
and Practices through the Portuguese Colonial System: Evidence from
16th-18th Century Ethno-Botanical Manuscripts
Timothy Walker, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
Friday, October 25, - Saturday October 26, 2013 Various times
Symposium, Venice Unbound: Things, Texts, Women, a Renaissance Symposium in
Honor of Ann Rosalind Jones
Various speakers
Keynote Lecture (to be held on Oct. 26 from 10:30am-12:00pm),
Venetian Women Writers and the Material Life of the Floating City
Keynote Lecturer: Margaret (Tita) Rosenthal, University of Southern
California
Neilson Browsing Rm, 1st Fl., Neilson Library, Smith College, 7 Neilson Dr.,
Northampton, MA
For complete program contact Jennifer Roberts, jroberts(a)smith.edu
Monday, November 4, 2013 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop and the Humanities
Center Seminar in Book History
Talk, Fixed like a ballad on the wall: printed lobbying and public
persuasion in the seventeenth century
Jason Peacey, University College London
Basement Seminar Rm., Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, MA
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
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 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, (Title TBA)
Ida Pugliese, University of Cambridge
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
Friday December 6, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"New Work in Early Modern Drama: A Graduate Symposium"
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
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.
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR LOCAL CONFERENCE
Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh: Medieval and Early Modern Captivity An
Interdisciplinary Symposium at Brown University, 21 February 2014
We invite submissions for a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to take
place at Brown University on February 21, 2014, 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. Our theme will be "Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh:
Medieval and Early Modern Captivity." Professor Adam Kosto (History,
Columbia University), author of Hostages in the Middle Ages (Oxford
University Press, 2012), will serve as the keynote speaker.
Submissions are sought from graduate students, faculty members, and other
scholars in fields including, but not limited to, history, literature,
languages, philosophy, religious studies, art and
architectural history, and music. Particularly welcome are submissions which
offer new methodological or theoretical approaches to issues of medieval and
early modern captivity, or which examine the relationship of captivity to
cultural production and/or intercultural exchange.
Papers should be no more than twenty minutes in length and should be in
English. Please send a 250-word abstract, along with brief contact
information, to John Moreau, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in French Studies
and Comparative Literature, at <mailto:John_Moreau@Brown.edu>
John_Moreau(a)Brown.edu. The submission deadline is November 1, 2013.
*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.
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
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
EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:00-2:00pm
Sponsored by the History Department, Early Modern Workshop, Medieval History
Workshop, and International & Global History; with the financial support of
GSAS
Seminar Discussion, When Is Global History? A Graduate Student
Conversation,
Led by Prof. Carol Symes, University of Illinois - with remarks by:
Eva Bitran, History Department and Harvard Law School
Shane Bobrycki, History Department
Devin Fitzgerald, History and East Asian Languages
Stuart McManus, History Department
Lydia Walker, History Department
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Global history, in its many forms, has been one of the most dynamic areas of
historical research and teaching in recent years. But the rise of the global
perspective has brought some challenges to the practice of history insofar
as history is a discipline concerned with time. Is the global perspective
limited to modernity, or is all history global history? Has the geographical
breadth of the global perspective been gained at the expense of
chronological depth? Join us as our five panelists lead off a graduate
student discussion about the meeting point of time and space. Luncheon will
be provided.
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic356034.files/1378483587/Global%20
History%20Poster.JPG
*Wednesday, September 18, 2013 5:00-7:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Roundtable Discussion, Topic: What is the Renaissance?
Kresge Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, MA
All are invited to participate in a roundtable conversation on the topic
"What is the Renaissance?" How has the term been used historically? How do
historians, art historians, literary critics, and practitioners of related
fields understand the term differently? How do we distinguish the
Renaissance from the periods before and after it? When we invoke the
Renaissance as an explanatory category, to identify important features of
art or literature, what are we assuming holds true for this period?
It may be helpful to read these two articles before the meeting:
1) James Simpson, on periodization:
http://ecolloquia.btk.ppke.hu/index.php/2005/leader
2) Giuseppe Mazzotta's review of William Kerrigan and Gordon Braden's
1989 work, The Idea of the Renaissance: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3200449
.
*Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:30pm
Sponsored by Harvard University History of Art + Architecture Graduate
Student Lecture Series
Talk, Painting against Nature: Pollaiuolo, Leonardo, Signorelli
Michael Cole, Columbia University
Rm. 318, 3rd Fl., Sackler Museum, Harvard University, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
* Friday, September 20, 2013 12:00pm
Sponsored by the History, Culture, and Society Interdisciplinary Graduate
Workshop.
Talk, Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of
Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence
John Padgett, University of Chicago
Room 1550, William James Hall, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St.,
Cambridge, MA
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
Monday, September 23, 2013 12:00pm
Presented by the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Lunchtime Seminar: Thetford Tomb Raiders
Richard Adair, University of Leicester, UK
Classroom B, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, 26
Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us on a journey to discover more about the art, politics, religion, and
lives of the Tudors through the 3D scanning of archaeological monuments; see
how art meets science; and learn how to engage the public in research
projects. Bring your own lunch; cookies and beverages provided.
*Tuesday, September 24, 2013 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Brown University Department of History
The 34th William F. Church Memorial Lecture, Vesuvius and Pompeii: Travel,
Tourism, Science and the Imagination in the Early Nineteenth Century
John Brewer, California Institute of Technology
Rm. 001, Salomon Center for Teaching, 69-91 Waterman St., Providence, RI
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/2013/08/18/september-24-2013-the-church-memoria
l-lecture-by-john-brewer/
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 6:009:00pm
Newport Historical Society
Book Talk, The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native
Cultures in Early America
Linford D. Fisher, author and Brown University Professor
Saylesville Meeting House, 374 Great Road, Lincoln, RI
http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/ai1ec_event/the-indian-great-awakeningr
eligion-and-the-shaping-of-native-cultures-in-early-america/?instance_id=
To register contact, Dan Santos, (401) 728-9696
*Wednesday, September 25, 2013 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies seminar, the Committee on Medieval
Studies, and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Talk, Beyond Use: A Digital Tool for the Analysis of Late Medieval
Manuscript Books of Hours
Gregory T. Clark, University of the South
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Chairs: Sean Gilsdorf, Luis Girón Negrón, Katharine Park, Daniel Smail,
Nicholas Watson
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 5:00pm
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art, Fine Arts
Department
"'Devouring Marble': Bernini and His Portrait of Costanza"
Sarah McPhee, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Art History
Department, Emory University
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Newton, MA
For directions and parking: www.bc.edu/content/bc/az/maps/s-approach.html
RSVP by Sept. 13 to (617) 552-6459 or elliotj(a)bc.edu
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Harvard Humanities
Center
"Loose gossips, cunning men: gender and garrulity in the late plays of Ben
Jonson."
Catherine Rockwood, Independent Scholar
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
*Monday, September 30, 2013 5:30pm
Talk, Thinking Again about the First Printing Revolution with Both Eyes on
the Books: Venetian Evidence for Prices, Trade, and Use
Cristina Dondi, Consortium of European Research Libraries(CERL)
Edison & Newman Rm., Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
Which were the distribution and trade-routes, national and international, of
15th-c. Venetian printed books? Who purchased them? How were they used and
read? What was the books' contemporary market value? Can we trace the
transmission and dissemination of the texts they contain? Some fundamental
questions relating to the introduction of printing in the West and the
Renaissance booktrade still await an answer. The evidence is plentiful, over
a million incunabula survive today; at last we also have adequate tools to
convert the physical evidence they contain into new historical evidence.
For details call Monique Duhaime, Ph. (617) 495-2441
Thursday, October 3, - Sunday, October 6, 2013
Newport Historical Society and partners
No Person Shall Bee Any Wise Molested: Religious freedom, cultural
conflict, and the moral role of the state Conference to mark the 350th
anniversary of the 1663 Rhode Island Charter
Various speakers
Various locations in Newport and Providence, Rhode Island
Complete details and registration information:
<http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/conference/about-the-conference/>
http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/conference/about-the-conference/
Friday, October 4, 2013 8:30am4:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Italy, the Office of the Dean of
Arts and Humanities, and the Mahindra Humanities Center
Conference, Heavenly Imperfection: Galileos Discovery of Sunspots,
Various speakers
Conference: Rm. Beren Hall, Riesman Center for Harvard Hillel, Rosovsky
Hall, 52 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/heavenly-imperfection-gali
leos-discovery-sunspots
Friday October 4, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"Collecting 'Shakespeare' Before the First Folio: New Genealogies of Printed
Drama in Collection"
Tara Lyons, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center), Harvard
University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
*Tuesday, October 8, 2013 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, Interpreting symbolism and allegory in the public spectacles of
Renaissance Florence
Louis Gerdelan, University of Auckland - New Zealand
Basement Seminar Rm., Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 5:00-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 10, 2013 4:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular: New Perspectives on Renaissance
Intellectual History
Marco Sgarbi, Department of Philosophy, University of Verona
41 Wyllys (Squash Court Building), Room 113, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
For a copy of this paper, please contact Ester Moran, by telephone at
860-685-2682 or by email at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu.
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 5:00-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Mary Crane, Boston College
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
*Thursday, October 24, 2013 4pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, Global Cross-Cultural Dissemination of Indigenous Medical Knowledge
and Practices through the Portuguese Colonial System: Evidence from
16th-18th Century Ethno-Botanical Manuscripts
Timothy Walker, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
*Friday, October 25, - Saturday October 26, 2013 Various times
Symposium, Venice Unbound: Things, Texts, Women, a Renaissance Symposium in
Honor of Ann Rosalind Jones
Various speakers
Keynote Lecture (to be held on Oct. 26 from 10:30am-12:00pm),
Venetian Women Writers and the Material Life of the Floating City
Keynote Lecturer: Margaret (Tita) Rosenthal, University of Southern
California
Neilson Browsing Rm, 1st Fl., Neilson Library, Smith College, 7 Neilson Dr.,
Northampton, MA
For complete program contact Jennifer Roberts, jroberts(a)smith.edu
*Monday, November 4, 2013 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop and the Humanities
Center Seminar in Book History
Talk, Fixed like a ballad on the wall: printed lobbying and public
persuasion in the seventeenth century
Jason Peacey, University College London
Basement Seminar Rm., Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, MA
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
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 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, (Title TBA)
Ida Pugliese, University of Cambridge
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
Friday December 6, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"New Work in Early Modern Drama: A Graduate Symposium"
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
*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.
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR LOCAL CONFERENCE
Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh: Medieval and Early Modern Captivity An
Interdisciplinary Symposium at Brown University, 21 February 2014
We invite submissions for a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to take
place at Brown University on February 21, 2014, 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. Our theme will be "Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh:
Medieval and Early Modern Captivity." Professor Adam Kosto (History,
Columbia University), author of Hostages in the Middle Ages (Oxford
University Press, 2012), will serve as the keynote speaker.
Submissions are sought from graduate students, faculty members, and other
scholars in fields including, but not limited to, history, literature,
languages, philosophy, religious studies, art and
architectural history, and music. Particularly welcome are submissions which
offer new methodological or theoretical approaches to issues of medieval and
early modern captivity, or which examine the relationship of captivity to
cultural production and/or intercultural exchange.
Papers should be no more than twenty minutes in length and should be in
English. Please send a 250-word abstract, along with brief contact
information, to John Moreau, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in French Studies
and Comparative Literature, at <mailto:John_Moreau@Brown.edu>
John_Moreau(a)Brown.edu. The submission deadline is November 1, 2013.
*If you would like request your announcement posted in an upcoming Early Mod
Events e-mail:
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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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ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization.
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*New listing
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
May through Sunday, September 15, 2015
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library and supported by the Program in
Science and Technology Studies, Brown University, and the German Consulate
General Boston
Exhibition, "Neue Welt: Germans and the Americas, 1493-1830
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Brown
University, Providence, RI
This exhibition is in conjunction with the, "German Science and the Creation
of Knowledge in the Atlantic World," series of events being held September
12-13, 2013
<http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/german/index.html
>
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/german/index.html
Registration not required for exhibition (some events in the series require
registration, as indicated below)
Wednesday, Sept 11, 2013 - 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Early Sciences
Working Group
"The Unexpected Descartes: Exile in The Netherlands?"
Harold Cook, Brown University
Thompson Room, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center),
Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday,September 12, 2013 - 3:30-4:30pm
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library and supported by the Program in
Science and Technology Studies, Brown University, and the German Consulate
General Boston
Rare book workshop
Led by Dennis C. Landis
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Brown University, Providence,
RI
This workshop is part of the, "German Science and the Creation of Knowledge
in the Atlantic World," series of events being held September 12-13, 2013.
Registration Required: <http://www.german-atlantic.eventbrite.com>
www.german-atlantic.eventbrite.com
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 5pm
"Masculine Hierarchies in Roman Ecclesiastical Households."
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Lauro de Bosis
lectureship in the history of Italian civilization
Laurie Nussdorfer, Wesleyan University
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
Precirculated paper with comment by Joseph Connors (History of Art and
Architecture, Harvard). For a copy of the paper and figures please visit
<http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=earlymod&pageid=icb.page195317
>
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=earlymod&pageid=icb.page195317
PW: baroque
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 5:30-6:30pm
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library and supported by the Program in
Science and Technology Studies, Brown University, and the German Consulate
General Boston
Lecture, "New Worlds of Stuff: Nature, Books and Things in Early Modern
German," reception to follow
Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University Professor
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Brown
University, Providence, RI
This lecture is part of the, "German Science and the Creation of Knowledge
in the Atlantic World," series of events being held Sept 12-13, 2013.
<http://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2013/09/12
/lecture>
http://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2013/09/12/
lecture
Registration not required for lecture
**Friday, September 13, 2013 - 9:00am-2:30pm
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library and supported by the Program in
Science and Technology Studies, Brown University, and the German Consulate
General Boston
Symposium, "German Science and the Creation of Knowledge in the Atlantic
World"
Co-chaired by Tara Nummedal, Brown University and Pamela H. Smith, Columbia
University - with speakers:
Christine Johnson, Washington State University in St. Louis
Alisha Rankin, Tufts University
Ulrike Strasser, University of California, San Diego
Alix Cooper, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Music Room, Rochambeau House, 84 Prospect Street, Brown University,
Providence, RI
This symposium is part of the, "German Science and the Creation of Knowledge
in the Atlantic World," series of events being held September 12-13, 2013.
For Registration (required) and program visit:
<http://www.german-atlantic.eventbrite.com>
www.german-atlantic.eventbrite.com
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
*Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 12:00-2:00pm
Sponsored by the History Department, Early Modern Workshop, Medieval History
Workshop, and International & Global History; with the financial support of
GSAS
Seminar Discussion, "When Is Global History? A Graduate Student
Conversation,"
Led by Prof. Carol Symes, University of Illinois - with remarks by:
Eva Bitran, History Department and Harvard Law School
Shane Bobrycki, History Department
Devin Fitzgerald, History and East Asian Languages
Stuart McManus, History Department
Lydia Walker, History Department
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Global history, in its many forms, has been one of the most dynamic areas of
historical research and teaching in recent years. But the rise of the global
perspective has brought some challenges to the practice of history insofar
as history is a discipline concerned with time. Is the global perspective
limited to modernity, or is all history global history? Has the geographical
breadth of the global perspective been gained at the expense of
chronological depth? Join us as our five panelists lead off a graduate
student discussion about the meeting point of time and space. Luncheon will
be provided.
<http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic356034.files/1378483587/Global%2
0History%20Poster.JPG>
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic356034.files/1378483587/Global%20
History%20Poster.JPG
*Monday, September 23, 2013 - 12:00pm
Presented by the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Lunchtime Seminar: "Thetford Tomb Raiders"
Richard Adair, University of Leicester, UK
Classroom B, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, 26
Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us on a journey to discover more about the art, politics, religion, and
lives of the Tudors through the 3D scanning of archaeological monuments; see
how art meets science; and learn how to engage the public in research
projects. Bring your own lunch; cookies and beverages provided.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 6:00-9:00pm
Newport Historical Society
Book Talk, "The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native
Cultures in Early America"
Linford D. Fisher, author and Brown University Professor
Saylesville Meeting House, 374 Great Road, Lincoln, RI
<http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/ai1ec_event/the-indian-great-awakening
religion-and-the-shaping-of-native-cultures-in-early-america/?instance_id>
http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/ai1ec_event/the-indian-great-awakeningr
eligion-and-the-shaping-of-native-cultures-in-early-america/?instance_id=
To register contact, Dan Santos, (401) 728-9696
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 5:00pm
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art, Fine Arts
Department
"'Devouring Marble': Bernini and His Portrait of Costanza"
Sarah McPhee, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Art History
Department, Emory University
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Newton, MA
For directions and parking:
<http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/az/maps/s-approach.html>
www.bc.edu/content/bc/az/maps/s-approach.html
RSVP by Sept. 13 to 617-552-6459 or <mailto:elliotj@bc.edu> elliotj(a)bc.edu
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Harvard Humanities
Center
"Loose gossips, cunning men: gender and garrulity in the late plays of Ben
Jonson."
Catherine Rockwood, Independent Scholar
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 3, - Sunday, October 6, 2013
Newport Historical Society and partners
"No Person Shall Bee Any Wise Molested: Religious freedom, cultural
conflict, and the moral role of the state" Conference to mark the 350th
anniversary of the 1663 Rhode Island Charter
Various speakers
Various locations in Newport and Providence, Rhode Island
Complete details and registration information:
<http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/conference/about-the-conference/>
http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/conference/about-the-conference/
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 8:30am-4:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Italy, the Office of the Dean of
Arts and Humanities, and the Mahindra Humanities Center
Conference, "Heavenly Imperfection: Galileo's Discovery of Sunspots,"
Various speakers
Conference: Rm. Beren Hall, Riesman Center for Harvard Hillel, Rosovsky
Hall, 52 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/heavenly-imperfection-gal
ileos-discovery-sunspots>
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/heavenly-imperfection-gali
leos-discovery-sunspots
Friday October 4, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"Collecting 'Shakespeare' Before the First Folio: New Genealogies of Printed
Drama in Collection"
Tara Lyons, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center), Harvard
University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 5:00-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 4:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
"Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular: New Perspectives on Renaissance
Intellectual History"
Marco Sgarbi, Department of Philosophy, University of Verona
41 Wyllys (Squash Court Building), Room 113, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
For a copy of this paper, please contact Ester Moran, by telephone at
860-685-2682 or by email at <mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>
emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu.
<http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/> http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 5:00-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Mary Crane, Boston College
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
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
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 <mailto:atanasi@wesleyan.edu>
atanasi(a)wesleyan.edu.
<http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/> http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Friday December 6, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"New Work in Early Modern Drama: A Graduate Symposium"
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
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR LOCAL CONFERENCE
Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh: Medieval and Early Modern Captivity An
Interdisciplinary Symposium at Brown University, 21 February 2014
We invite submissions for a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to take
place at Brown University on February 21, 2014, 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. Our theme will be "Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh:
Medieval and Early Modern Captivity." Professor Adam Kosto (History,
Columbia University), author of Hostages in the Middle Ages (Oxford
University Press, 2012), will serve as the keynote speaker.
Submissions are sought from graduate students, faculty members, and other
scholars in fields including, but not limited to, history, literature,
languages, philosophy, religious studies, art and
architectural history, and music. Particularly welcome are submissions which
offer new methodological or theoretical approaches to issues of medieval and
early modern captivity, or which examine the relationship of captivity to
cultural production and/or intercultural exchange.
Papers should be no more than twenty minutes in length and should be in
English. Please send a 250-word abstract, along with brief contact
information, to John Moreau, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in French Studies
and Comparative Literature, at <mailto:John_Moreau@Brown.edu>
John_Moreau(a)Brown.edu. The submission deadline is November 1, 2013.
*If you would like request your announcement posted in an upcoming Early Mod
Events e-mail:
Please send your listing to: <mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
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.
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
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
EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
May through Sunday, September 15, 2015
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library and supported by the Program in
Science and Technology Studies, Brown University, and the German Consulate
General Boston
Exhibition, "Neue Welt: Germans and the Americas, 1493-1830
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Brown
University, Providence, RI
This exhibition is in conjunction with the, "German Science and the Creation
of Knowledge in the Atlantic World," series of events being held September
12-13, 2013
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/german/index.html
Registration not required for exhibition (some events in the series require
registration, as indicated below)
Friday, September 6, 2013 - 4:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center
Celtic Literature and Culture Seminar
"Robert Southwell and Welsh Printing in Paris, c. 1610"
Geraint Evans, Swansea University
Rm. 133, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center), Harvard
University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
*Monday, September 9, 2013 - 6:00-8:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Insert Here: the Case of Shylock"
Bradin Cormack, Princeton University
Thompson Room, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center),
Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, Sept 11, 2013 - 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Early Sciences
Working Group
"The Unexpected Descartes: Exile in The Netherlands?"
Harold Cook, Brown University
Thompson Room, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center),
Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 3:30-4:30pm
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library and supported by the Program in
Science and Technology Studies, Brown University, and the German Consulate
General Boston
Rare book workshop
Led by Dennis C. Landis
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Brown University, Providence,
RI
This workshop is part of the, "German Science and the Creation of Knowledge
in the Atlantic World," series of events being held September 12-13, 2013.
Registration Required: <http://www.german-atlantic.eventbrite.com>
www.german-atlantic.eventbrite.com
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 5pm
"Masculine Hierarchies in Roman Ecclesiastical Households."
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Lauro de Bosis
lectureship in the history of Italian civilization
Laurie Nussdorfer, Wesleyan University
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
Precirculated paper with comment by Joseph Connors (History of Art and
Architecture, Harvard). For a copy of the paper and figures please visit
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=earlymod
<http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=earlymod&pageid=icb.page195317
> &pageid=icb.page195317
PW: baroque
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 5:30-6:30pm
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library and supported by the Program in
Science and Technology Studies, Brown University, and the German Consulate
General Boston
Lecture, "New Worlds of Stuff: Nature, Books and Things in Early Modern
German," reception to follow
Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University Professor
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Brown
University, Providence, RI
This lecture is part of the, "German Science and the Creation of Knowledge
in the Atlantic World," series of events being held Sept 12-13, 2013.
<http://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2013/09/12
/lecture>
http://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2013/09/12/
lecture
Registration not required for lecture
Friday, September 13, 2013 - 9:00am-2:30pm
Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library and supported by the Program in
Science and Technology Studies, Brown University, and the German Consulate
General Boston
Symposium, "German Science and the Creation of Knowledge in the Atlantic
World"
Various Speakers
Music Room, Rochambeau House, 84 Prospect Street, Brown University,
Providence, RI
This symposium is part of the, "German Science and the Creation of Knowledge
in the Atlantic World," series of events being held September 12-13, 2013.
Registration Required: www.german-atlantic.eventbrite.com
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 6:00-9:00pm
Newport Historical Society
Book Talk, "The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native
Cultures in Early America"
Linford D. Fisher, author and Brown University Professor
Saylesville Meeting House, 374 Great Road, Lincoln, RI 02865
http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/ai1ec_event/the-indian-great-awakeningr
eligion-and-the-shaping-of-native-cultures-in-early-america/?instance_id=
To register contact, Dan Santos, (401) 728-9696
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 5:00pm
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art, Fine Arts
Department
"'Devouring Marble': Bernini and His Portrait of Costanza"
Sarah McPhee, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Art History
Department, Emory University
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Newton, MA
For directions and parking: www.bc.edu/content/bc/az/maps/s-approach.html
RSVP by Sept. 13 to 617-552-6459 or elliotj(a)bc.edu
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Harvard Humanities
Center
"Loose gossips, cunning men: gender and garrulity in the late plays of Ben
Jonson."
Catherine Rockwood, Independent Scholar
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 3, - Sunday, October 6, 2013
Newport Historical Society and partners
"No Person Shall Bee Any Wise Molested: Religious freedom, cultural
conflict, and the moral role of the state" Conference to mark the 350th
anniversary of the 1663 Rhode Island Charter
Various speakers
Various locations in Newport and Providence, Rhode Island
Complete details and registration information:
<http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/conference/about-the-conference/>
http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/conference/about-the-conference/
*Friday, October 4, 2013 - 8:30am-4:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Italy, the Office of the Dean of
Arts and Humanities, and the Mahindra Humanities Center
Conference, "Heavenly Imperfection: Galileo's Discovery of Sunspots,"
Various speakers
Conference: Rm. Beren Hall, Riesman Center for Harvard Hillel, Rosovsky
Hall, 52 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/heavenly-imperfection-gali
leos-discovery-sunspots
*Friday October 4, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"Collecting 'Shakespeare' Before the First Folio: New Genealogies of Printed
Drama in Collection"
Tara Lyons, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center), Harvard
University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
*Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 5:00-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 4:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
"Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular: New Perspectives on Renaissance
Intellectual History"
Marco Sgarbi, Department of Philosophy, University of Verona
41 Wyllys (Squash Court Building), Room 113, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
For a copy of this paper, please contact Ester Moran, by telephone at
860-685-2682 or by email at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu.
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
*Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 5:00-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Mary Crane, Boston College
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
*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
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/
* Friday December 6, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"New Work in Early Modern Drama: A Graduate Symposium"
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
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR LOCAL CONFERENCE
Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh: Medieval and Early Modern Captivity An
Interdisciplinary Symposium at Brown University, 21 February 2014
We invite submissions for a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to take
place at Brown University on February 21, 2014, 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. Our theme will be "Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh:
Medieval and Early Modern Captivity." Professor Adam Kosto (History,
Columbia University), author of Hostages in the Middle Ages (Oxford
University Press, 2012), will serve as the keynote speaker.
Submissions are sought from graduate students, faculty members, and other
scholars in fields including, but not limited to, history, literature,
languages, philosophy, religious studies, art and
architectural history, and music. Particularly welcome are submissions which
offer new methodological or theoretical approaches to issues of medieval and
early modern captivity, or which examine the relationship of captivity to
cultural production and/or intercultural exchange.
Papers should be no more than twenty minutes in length and should be in
English. Please send a 250-word abstract, along with brief contact
information, to John Moreau, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in French Studies
and Comparative Literature, at <mailto:John_Moreau@Brown.edu>
John_Moreau(a)Brown.edu. The submission deadline is November 1, 2013.
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