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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Mondays, October through November, 2014 - 3:00pm-4:30pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Community Class, “Non-Dramatic Prose and Verse of the Sixteenth Century with Marie Roche”
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass – Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002
Free and open to the public. Pre-registration by October 3rd required. For pre-registration or more information contact: Ph. (413) 577-3600 577-3600 / renaissance(a)english.umass.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailto-3Arenaissance-40…>
This is an 8-week survey class of the known and lesser-known works of the Sixteenth Century English Renaissance. No prior knowledge required. Weekly Readings provided. Every week will review different aspects of the English Renaissance literary corpus.
*Wednesday, November 12, 2014 – 5:00pm
Renaissance Colloquium
Lecture "Miltonic Mind"
Sanford Budick, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Kates Room, Warren House, Harvard University, 11 Prescott St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, Rare Book Show and Tell
Lecturer, David Katz
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Reading Room, UMass – Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
For more information contact: Ph. (413) 577-3600 / renaissance(a)english.umass.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailto-3Arenaissance-40…>
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 – 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Lecture, "Miltonic Mind"
Sanford Budick, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kates Room, Warren House, Harvard University, 11 Prescott St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Website: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179
**Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 4:30pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Russ Leo, Princeton University
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Reading Room, UMass – Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002
Free and open to the public. No reservations required. For more information contact: Ph. (413) 577-3600 / renaissance(a)english.umass.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailto-3Arenaissance-40…>
Thursday, November 13, 2014 – 6:00pm
Talk, “A Criollo Cicero: Reassessing the Bibliotheca Mexicana Controversy”
Stuart M. McManus, Harvard University
DRCLAS Seminar Room, CGIS South 2nd floor, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, November 13, 7:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanitites Center
Seminar, "Female Literacy Revisited: Women Reading in London, 1570-1640",
Eleanor Hubbard, Princeton University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
*Wednesday, November 14, 2014 - 4:00-6:00pm
Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Talk -, "The Politics of Identity in the History of the Mozarabic Rite: From Medieval to Early Modern Iberia and Beyond"
Susan Leslie Boynton, Columbia University
Room K354, Knafel Building, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
http://wcfia.harvard.edu/event/cultural-politics-interdisciplinary-perspect…
Friday, November 14, 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanitites Center
Seminar, "The Making of Shakespeare: Commemoration, Cultural Memory, and 'the Bard'
Coppélia Kahn, Brown University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Friday, November 14, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Renaissance Center’s Reading Group and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Family Renaissance Games Night
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Reading Room, UMass – Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002
Join us for an evening of Renaissance-era board games, door prizes, refreshments, and more! Families and kids are welcome! Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
For more information contact: Ph. (413) 577-3600 / renaissance(a)english.umass.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailto-3Arenaissance-40…>
Saturday, November 15, 2014 - 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Conference, "Muslims, Christians and Governance in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean"
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Free and open to the public. Please register by November 14th, renaissance(a)english.umass.edu<mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> / Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Monday, November 17, 2014 - 4:15pm
Sponsored by the Department of Music
Barwick Colloquia Series talk, “1,000,000 Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity
Gary Tomlinson, Yale University
Davison Room, Loeb Music Library, 2nd floor, Music Building, North Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Gary Tomlinson, is one of the foremost musicologists of Early Modern Europe, while his current research topic is all encompassing, it may be of interest for early modernists.
Free and open to the public
http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/calendar.html
Monday, November 17, 2014 – 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the workshop in Early Modern History, the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the Early Science Working Group.
Talk, "From a Medical Republic of Letters to the Index of Prohibited Books,"
Hannah Marcus, Stanford University
Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 4:30pm
Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Seminar, "A New Virgin Mary"
Tara Nummedal, Brown University
Pavilion Room, Brown University, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912
Wednesday, November 19, 4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Renaissance Center’s Reading Group and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Classical Legacy Lecture, The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists
Lecturer, James Hankins
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Reading Room, UMass – Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
For more information contact: Ph. (413) 577-3600 / renaissance(a)english.umass.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailto-3Arenaissance-40…>
UPCOMING EVENTS (* indicates a new listing / ** indicates an updated listing)
*Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 4:00-6:00pm
Graduate-Student Papers on Cultural Politics
Talk, "Translation Theory and Empire in Late Medieval England"
Taylor Cowdery, PhD candidate, Harvard University
Room S153, CGIS South, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
http://wcfia.harvard.edu/event/graduate-student-papers-cultural-politics
*Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 5:00 p.m.
Book Studies and the Department of History at Wellesley College
Lecture, "How Economic Ideas Travel: The Incredible Journey of Benjamin Franklin's "The Way to Wealth"
Kenneth E. Carpenter
Library Lecture Room (1st floor), Clapp Library, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Simon Grote (sgrote(a)wellesley.edu<mailto:sgrote@wellesley.edu>)
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 5:30pm Reception / 6:00pm Seminar
Sponsored by the Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Graduate Symposium: “New Work on Early Modern Drama”
Speakers:
Emma Atwood, Boston College: “The Architecture of Soliloquy in Early Modern Drama”
Josephine Hardman, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: “Tragicomic Transpositions: The Influence of Spanish Prose Romance on English Renaissance Tragicomedy”
Gregory Schnitzspahn, Tufts University: "‘What the Act Has Made You’: Approving Virginity in The Changeling”
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St Cambridge, MA 02138
See more at: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/new-work-early-modern-dra…
Sunday, December 7, 2014 2:00pm-4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert Series
Voces Feminae, directed by Catherine Bell
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Reading Room, UMass – Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002
Free and Open to the public. No reservations required. Donations welcome.
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