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* Monday, February 3, 2014 - 5:30pm
Talk, "Renaissance Humanists and the Study of Manuscripts"
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Houghton Library, Edison & Newman Room, Harvard University, Harvard Yard,
Cambridge, MA 02138
This lecture reconstructs the forgotten foundations on which the Maurists
built--the work of humanists, antiquaries and ecclesiastical scholars, who
had collected and assessed manuscripts for centuries, and whose ideas and
practices helped to shape the new structures that Mabillon and Montfaucon
built.
*Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 6pm
Sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
Talk, "Getting information from books: A view of the 18th century"
Paul Duguid University of California Berkeley
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 4pm
Hosted by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Talk, "Urban Imaginaries in the Early Modern Ottoman World: Exploring the
Dialogics of Word, Image, and Space"
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
Radcliffe Gym, Harvard University, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
* Thursday, February 6, 2014, 10:00am - 12 noon
Workshop, "Life in the Margins: Practices of Learned Annotation in Early
Modern Europe."
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Houghton Library, Seminar Room, Harvard University, Harvard Yard, Cambridge,
MA 02138
This workshop, will examine a number of printed books from Harvard's
collections, using their annotations to examine some of the ways in which
learned men and women read and annotated their books from the fifteenth to
the eighteenth century.
Space is limited; contact Monique Duhaime ( <mailto:duhaime@fas.harvard.edu>
duhaime(a)fas.harvard.edu) to reserve a place.
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)
* Monday Feb 24, 2014 - 4pm
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the China
Humanities Seminar, Fairbank Center
Talk, "Textual Collation and Its Guiding Principles in Eighteenth-Century
Evidential Scholarship: Illustrated with Lu Wenchao's (1717-1796) Work"
Lianbin Dai, Harvard University, with comment by Cynthia Brokaw, Brown
University
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
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