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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
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 comments by Cynthia Brokaw, Brown
University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
Monday, February 24, 2014 5:30pm
Hosted by the Renaissance Studies seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center,
Harvard University
Talk, "Guillaume le Testu et la terre australe" (in French)
Frank Lestringant, University of Paris 4 - Sorbonne
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
Chairs: Tom Conley and Sylvaine Guyot
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 12:00-2:00pm
Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
Starr Seminar, Between Judengasse and the City: Jewish Perceptions of the
Medieval Past in Early Modern Worlds
Lucia Raspe, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main and University of
Pennsylvania
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street, Cabot
Room, Cambridge, MA 02318
Part of the Spring 2014 Starr Seminar Series, theme: Historical
Consciousness and the Jewish Historical Imagination
For information, queries or to receive pre-circulated materials, please
contact cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu
*Tuesday, February 25, 2014 4:30pm
Talk, Anglo-Portuguese relations and anti-Spanish propaganda, 1570-1640.
Elizabeth Evenden, Harvard University
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St.,
Providence, RI 02912
There is a pre-circulated paper for this talk, for a copy contact Maria
Sokolova: mehs(a)listserv.brown.edu
*Wednesday, February 26, 2014 4:00-6:00pm
Co-sponsored with the Department of Government
Talk, "Thomas Hobbes and Civil Conversation"
Quentin Skinner,Queen Mary, University of London
Center for European Studies, Lower Level Conference Room, Harvard
University, 27 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 4:30pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Suparna Roychoudhury, Mount Holyoke College.
Reading Room 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Event is free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Friday, February 28, 2014 Noon 2:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities
Center
Workshop, All about Networking?: Kinship, Mediation, and Knowledge
Production in Early Modern Istanbul
E. Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough, with comments by Dan
Smail, Harvard University
William James Hall, Room 1550, 15th Fl. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
Sunday, March 2, 2014 - 2:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for
Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert Series
Holyoke High School Madrigal group presents a set of Renaissance-era and
modern songs.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:00-2:00pm
Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
Starr Seminar, "A Fine Tale: Gender, Print, Folklore and an Early Modern
Origin Myth of Prague Jewry
Rachel Greenblatt, Harvard University
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street, Cabot
Room, Cambridge, MA 02318
Part of the Spring 2014 Starr Seminar Series, theme: Historical
Consciousness and the Jewish Historical Imagination
For or information, queries or to receive pre-circulated materials, please
contact cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu
* Thursday, March 6, 2014, 4:30 pm
University of Connecticut Gender and History Lecture Series
Public Lecture, "Male Same-Sex Relations and Masculinity in
Eighteenth-Century China"
Matthew Sommer, Stanford University
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Free and open to the public (no RSVP necessary)
Thursday, March 6, 2014 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown
University
2014 Anita Glass Lecture, "The Whisperers"
Christopher Wood, Yale University
List Art Center Room 120, 62 College Street, Brown University, Providence,
RI 02912
*Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 6:00 pm
Sponsored by Renaissance Studies Seminar of the Humanities Center:
Gina Rivera, Harvard University Talk, "On the Past Life of French Baroque
Opera Criticism"
Room 403, Boylston Hall, Harvard University, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
02138
*Friday, March 7, 2014, 10-11:30 am
University of Connecticut Gender and History Lecture Series
Public Workshop: Discussion of a chapter from Polyandry and Wife-Selling in
Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions
Matthew Sommer, Stanford University
History Department, Wood Hall basement, University of Connecticut, Storrs,
CT
RSVP by emailing cornelia.dayton(a)uconn.edu or allison.horrocks(a)uconn.edu
Saturday, March 8 & Sunday, March 9, 2014 9:00am4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for
Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Conference, Shakespeare in Translation
Keynote speakers include:
Anston Bosman, Amherst College
Jean-Michel Déprats, Université Paris X Nanterre
Peter S. Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Saturday to be held in the Renaissance Center, Reading Room, 650 East
Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Sunday to be held in Herter Hall, 161 Presidents Dr, UMass Amherst, Amherst
MA 01002
This is a unique event that has so far gathered the support of the Five
Colleges and many departments at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
National and international keynotes and presenters will be giving papers on
Shakespeares translation, adaptation, and performance. For more information
please check our website: http://internationalshakespeare.wordpress.com/
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Registration is required by March 6. Call the Center at 413-577-3600. Free
and open to the public.
Monday, March 10, 2014 6:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Performance and Talk by the Shakespeare Performance Workshop Community Class
Director Dori Robinson and her class will perform what they have been
studying all semester. Dori will present a short talk centered upon how
Shakespeare plays were performed in 1599.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:00-2:00pm
Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
Starr Seminar, "The greatest problem that there is in Scripture:" The Threat
of History and the Authority of the Bible in Early Modern Europe
Ben Fisher, Towson University
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street, Cabot
Room, Cambridge, MA 02318
Part of the Spring 2014 Starr Seminar Series, theme: Historical
Consciousness and the Jewish Historical Imagination
For or information, queries or to receive pre-circulated materials, please
contact cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:15pm
Talk, On the Origins of Bubble Economics: The Company of the Indies and
Eighteenth-Century France
Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland
St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop
Simon Grote, Wellesley College
Talk, "Why Study German Pietism?"
CGIS South Bldg. Rm. 153, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture, Winged Words: one chapter in the history of a Homeric trope.
Jessica Wolfe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Free and open to the public. No reservations required
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 5:00pm
Sponsored by Book Studies and the Department of History at Wellesley College
Talk, "How to Build an Imaginary Cabinet of Curiosities: Lessons in
Entrepreneurship for Gallant Youth, c. 1700"
Kelly Whitmer, Sewanee: the University of the South
Clapp Library, Library Lecture Room, 1st Fl, Wellesley College, Wellesley,
MA 02481
This lecture will investigate the history of a puzzling type of early modern
cabinet of curiosities: the type that existed only in the pages of
"museological handbooks" and in the imaginations of readers, designed to
help young people improve their capacity to think critically and creatively
about new technologies, new materials, and their commercial applications.
Friday, March 14, 2014 - 5:30pm
Talk, Title TBA
Andrew Murphy, University of St. Andrews,
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
Saturday March 15, 2014 8:00amNoon
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Annual Dakin Pancake Breakfast,What foods these morsels be!
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
The breakfast features syrup tapped from the Centers own maple trees (a
tradition begun by Janet Dakin) and donated by local sugarer Robert
McIntyre. This all you can eat breakfast features pancakes, sausage and
bacon cooked up by volunteer chefs and served in the Reading Room, with a
beautiful view of the meadow and surrounding hills.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Suggested donation is $10 for adults and $5 for children. No reservations
required
Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, Teaching Early Modern Womens Writing in the 21st Century: The
Evolution of the Women Writers Project
Julia Flanders, Northeastern University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
**Monday, March 24, 2014 - 5:00 pm
Sponsored by Renaissance Studies Seminar of the Humanities Center
Presentation of L'Atelier de la Renaissance
Mireille Huchon, Trung Tran, and Company, University of Paris, Sorbonne
Room 403, Boylston Hall, Harvard University, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
02138
*Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop
Talk,Gibbon's mind and libraries in European context"
Robert Mankin, Université Paris Diderot
Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 4:00pm
Co-Sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for
Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture by Sally Sutherland, Hamlets No: The Readiness is All
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture by, John Robison, Skepticism, Faith, and Reason in Marie de
Gournays, Equality of Men and Women.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Free and open to the public. No reservations required
Thursday, April 3, 2014 Time TBD
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, Benevolent Slavery and Other Oxymorons: The Case of Black-African
Women in Early Modern Portugal
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg
Location TBD
Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:15pm
Sponsored by the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Talk, Renaissance Music as Art-ifact: An Early 16th-Century Mass for
Margaret of Austria in Context
M. Jennifer Bloxam, Williams College, Yale
41 Wyllys Ave. (Squash), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
For a copy of this paper, please contact Sandra Brough by telephone at
860-685-2594 or by email at: sbrough(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 4:30pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Molly Murray, Columbia University
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Friday, April 4, 2014 2:15pm
Talk, Violence in the French and Haitian Revolutions
Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky
Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland
St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Sunday April 6, 2014 - 2:00 4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert Series
Performance, by the Second Wind Renaissance Wind Ensemble (Susan Galereave,
sackbut, Eric Kernfeld, sackbut, Rigel Lustwerk, cornetto, and John Maloney,
dulcian)
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
In their first appearance at the Center, will present "Music from the
Workshop of Andrea Gabrieli," a compilation of Renaissance polyphony
focusing on the music of Andrea Gabrieli and composers who studied with him,
including his nephew Giovanni Gabrieli, Hans Leo Hassler, and Jan
Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Donations Accepted.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Talk highlighting the seminars, conferences, and workshops on offer at the
Folger for 2014-2015.
Owen William, Folger Institute
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Talk by Anna Strowe, Translating the Historia Della Fine Del Monde
manuscript.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Friday, April 11, 2014 Noon2:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities
Center.
Workshop, "From Status to Contract? Commerce and Cosmopolitanism in Early
Modern Europe"
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
William James Hall, Room 1550, 15th Fl. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Talk by Marie Roche, All is Well that Ends Well: Parolles Theological.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
*Wednesday, April 16, 2014 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Center for African
Studies
Talk,The Kingdom of Kongo and the Thirty Years War
John Thornton, Boston University
CGIS South Bldg. Rm. 030, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
*Thursday, April 17, 201 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, the Humanities Center
Seminar in Book History and the Early Sciences Working Group
Talk, "What is a Werewolf? Genres, Practices and Cataloguing Monsters from
the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution"
Surekha Davies, Western Connecticut University
Science Center 469, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Friday, April 18, 2014 - 5:30pm
Talk, "'Thrilling regions': Shakespeare, Dante and Dan Brown"
Graham Holderness, University of Hertfordshire
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Collins Lecture
Margaret Ezell, Texas A&M.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Talk, Rare Book Show and Tell presented by
David Katz, Renaissance Center Curator
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Saturday, April 26, 2014 - 9:00am 4:00pm
Co-Sponsored by The Association for Renaissance Medieval Swordsmanship and
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
10th Annual Historical Swordsmanship Conference
Presentations at the conference will feature a combination of academic
scholarship and demonstrations, including talks by ARMS on the later German
longsword tradition, demonstrations by Phoenix swords of historical
techniques, the manuscript tradition, and the guild structure of Renaissance
Europe and its relation to the development of Western martial arts. The
Renaissance Center currently maintains an online collection of historical
combat treatises and fencing manuals dating primarily from the Renaissance.
This collection can be accessed at www.umass.edu/arms/lord. Lunch is
provided.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Must call the Center to register by April 24. Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Celebrity Lecture
Wayne Abercrombie, UMass Amherst
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Dr. Abercrombie will discuss the relationship between text and music in
Renaissance and early Baroque music.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required Free and open to the public.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 4:15pm
Sponsored by the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Talk, "Es cosa muy de ver: Urban Tableaux and Viewing Pleasure in Baroque
Madrid"
Laura Bass, Brown University
41 Wyllys Ave. (Squash), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
For a copy of this paper, please contact Kristine Schiavi by telephone at
860-685-2830, or by e-mail at: kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu
Friday May 2, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Sonnetfest, annual reading aloud of sonnets followed by white wine and
strawberries
Call the Center to sign up to read a sonnet
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Sunday May 4, 2014 - 11:00am4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Annual Community Renaissance Festival
Renaissance Center & surrounding grounds and meadow, 650 East Pleasant St,
UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Get your family and friends together and plan to enjoy this free festival
which is brimming with entertainment and education in a beautiful outdoor
setting.
Well have theater, music, falconry with Chris Davis of New England
Falconry, juggling, sword demonstrations from Phoenix Swords, Our
ever-popular Mud Man, juggling, hobby horses for the kids, dancing, and
more! While youre here, be sure to explore our new Italian Grotto, admire
the apple orchard, flower, herb, and vegetable gardens, and walk the meadow
and woodland trails. It is sure to be a fun day for the whole family. Rain
or shine. Plenty of on-site free parking. Food for sale from UMass
concessions.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Admission is free although donations are welcome.
Saturday June 21, 2014 - Noon2:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Third Annual Gardeners Guild Lunch and Talk
Talk given by, Wes Autio, UMass Amherst
Enjoy a lunch on our back patio followed by a presentation
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Members only Invitation only! Not a member? Pick up a form at 650 East
Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 11:00am1:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Enchanted Circle Theater ~ Acting Shakespeare
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Student actors from Holyoke school systems summer acting program will
present scenes from a Shakespeare play, using the Hampshire Shakespeare
Companys main stage. Stay for a light picnic lunch afterwards!
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
*Wednesday, February 19, 2014 5-7pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium
Talk, "'As right as a line his heart I have hit': Trajectories of Violent
Affect in Cambises."
Adam Rzepka, Montclair State University
Kresge Room, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St Cambridge, MA
02138
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Talk, "What's in a Musical Manuscript? MS Faenza 117 and its Newly Revised
Context"
Pedro Memelsdorff, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
New concordances, codicological and archival research uncover an unexpected
web of relationships between the Faenza copyists and the culture of Italian
Quattrocento.
Thursday, February 20, 2014 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, The Ins and Outs of Becoming a Buddha: Bodily Transformation and
Gender in the
Career of the Japanese Buddhist Nun Bunchi (1619-1697)
Gina Cogan, Boston College
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
*Thursday, February 20, 2014 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group
Talk, Big City Fires, Fire Insurance, and the Historical Narrative of Risk
Sociology (17th to 19th c.)
Cornel Zwierlein, University of Bochum/Harvard University
Science Center 469, Department of the History of Science, Harvard
University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP to <mailto:allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com>
allyssa.metzger.harvard(a)gmail.com
Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:30pm
Talk,"The Rabbinic and Patristic Castration and Exposure of Noah"
Benjamin Braude, Boston College
Rabinowitz Room, Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 3rd Fl., 45 Francis
Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 (The entrance to the Rabinowitz Room is through
the Divinity School library. People who would like to attend the meeting
but dont have a Harvard ID, will be asked to sign a visitor log at the
entrance of the library. Two-hour free parking is available on Beacon Street
on the Cambridge Somerville line, which is about five to ten minutes away by
foot.)
The meetings of Patristica Bostoniensia, a seminar of the Boston Theological
Institute (the consortium of nine local theological schools), are devoted to
a discussion of a pre-circulated paper.
Additional information is available by contacting Dr. Annewies Van Den Hoek,
ahoek(a)hds.harvard.edu / The paper is available by contacting,
Braude(a)bc.edu
Friday, February 21, 2014 5:30pm
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
Pembroke Hall Rm 305, 172 Meeting Street Brown University, Providence, RI
02912
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
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 comments by Cynthia Brokaw, Brown
University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
*Monday, February 24, 2014 5:30pm
Hosted by the Renaissance Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center,
Harvard University
Talk, "Guillaume le Testu et la terre australe" (in French)
Frank Lestringant, University of Paris 4 - Sorbonne
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
Chairs: Tom Conley and Sylvaine Guyot
*Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 12:00-2:00pm
Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
Starr Seminar, Between Judengasse and the City: Jewish Perceptions of the
Medieval Past in Early Modern Worlds
Lucia Raspe, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main and University of
Pennsylvania
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street, Cabot
Room, Cambridge, MA 02318
Part of the Spring 2014 Starr Seminar Series, theme: Historical
Consciousness and the Jewish Historical Imagination
For information, queries or to receive pre-circulated materials, please
contact cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 4:30pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Suparna Roychoudhury, Mount Holyoke College.
Reading Room 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Event is free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Friday, February 28, 2014 Noon 2:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities
Center
Workshop, All about Networking?: Kinship, Mediation, and Knowledge
Production in Early Modern Istanbul
E. Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough, with comments by Dan
Smail, Harvard University
William James Hall, Room 1550, 15th Fl. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
Sunday, March 2, 2014 - 2:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for
Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert Series
Holyoke High School Madrigal group presents a set of Renaissance-era and
modern songs.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome.
*Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:00-2:00pm
Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
Starr Seminar, "A Fine Tale: Gender, Print, Folklore and an Early Modern
Origin Myth of Prague Jewry
Rachel Greenblatt, Harvard University
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street, Cabot
Room, Cambridge, MA 02318
Part of the Spring 2014 Starr Seminar Series, theme: Historical
Consciousness and the Jewish Historical Imagination
For or information, queries or to receive pre-circulated materials, please
contact cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, March 6, 2014 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown
University
2014 Anita Glass Lecture, "The Whisperers"
Christopher Wood, Yale University
List Art Center Room 120, 62 College Street, Brown University, Providence,
RI 02912
Saturday, March 8 & Sunday, March 9, 2014 9:00am4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for
Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Conference, Shakespeare in Translation
Keynote speakers include:
Anston Bosman, Amherst College
Jean-Michel Déprats, Université Paris X Nanterre
Peter S. Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Saturday to be held in the Renaissance Center, Reading Room, 650 East
Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Sunday to be held in Herter Hall, 161 Presidents Dr, UMass Amherst, Amherst
MA 01002
This is a unique event that has so far gathered the support of the Five
Colleges and many departments at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
National and international keynotes and presenters will be giving papers on
Shakespeares translation, adaptation, and performance. For more information
please check our website: http://internationalshakespeare.wordpress.com/
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Registration is required by March 6. Call the Center at 413-577-3600. Free
and open to the public.
Monday, March 10, 2014 6:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Performance and Talk by the Shakespeare Performance Workshop Community Class
Director Dori Robinson and her class will perform what they have been
studying all semester. Dori will present a short talk centered upon how
Shakespeare plays were performed in 1599.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
*Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:00-2:00pm
Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
Starr Seminar, "The greatest problem that there is in Scripture:" The Threat
of History and the Authority of the Bible in Early Modern Europe
Ben Fisher, Towson University
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street, Cabot
Room, Cambridge, MA 02318
Part of the Spring 2014 Starr Seminar Series, theme: Historical
Consciousness and the Jewish Historical Imagination
For or information, queries or to receive pre-circulated materials, please
contact cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:15pm
Talk, On the Origins of Bubble Economics: The Company of the Indies and
Eighteenth-Century France
Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland
St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture, Winged Words: one chapter in the history of a Homeric trope.
Jessica Wolfe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Free and open to the public. No reservations required
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 5:00pm
Sponsored by Book Studies and the Department of History at Wellesley College
Talk, "How to Build an Imaginary Cabinet of Curiosities: Lessons in
Entrepreneurship for Gallant Youth, c. 1700"
Kelly Whitmer, Sewanee: the University of the South
Clapp Library, Library Lecture Room, 1st Fl, Wellesley College, Wellesley,
MA 02481
This lecture will investigate the history of a puzzling type of early modern
cabinet of curiosities: the type that existed only in the pages of
"museological handbooks" and in the imaginations of readers, designed to
help young people improve their capacity to think critically and creatively
about new technologies, new materials, and their commercial applications.
Friday, March 14, 2014 - 5:30pm
Talk, Title TBA
Andrew Murphy, University of St. Andrews,
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
Saturday March 15, 2014 8:00amNoon
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Annual Dakin Pancake Breakfast,What foods these morsels be!
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
The breakfast features syrup tapped from the Centers own maple trees (a
tradition begun by Janet Dakin) and donated by local sugarer Robert
McIntyre. This all you can eat breakfast features pancakes, sausage and
bacon cooked up by volunteer chefs and served in the Reading Room, with a
beautiful view of the meadow and surrounding hills.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Suggested donation is $10 for adults and $5 for children. No reservations
required
Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, Teaching Early Modern Womens Writing in the 21st Century: The
Evolution of the Women Writers Project
Julia Flanders, Northeastern University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
*Monday, March 24, 2014 5:00pm
Hosted by the Renaissance Studies seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center,
Harvard University
Presentation of LAtelier de la Renaissance
Mireille Huchon, Trung Tran, and Company, University of Paris 4 - Sorbonne
Room 203, Boylston Hall, Harvard University, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
02138
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 4:00pm
Co-Sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for
Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture by Sally Sutherland, Hamlets No: The Readiness is All
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture by, John Robison, Skepticism, Faith, and Reason in Marie de
Gournays, Equality of Men and Women.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Free and open to the public. No reservations required
Thursday, April 3, 2014 Time TBD
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, Benevolent Slavery and Other Oxymorons: The Case of Black-African
Women in Early Modern Portugal
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg
Location TBD
Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:15pm
Sponsored by the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Talk, Renaissance Music as Art-ifact: An Early 16th-Century Mass for
Margaret of Austria in Context
M. Jennifer Bloxam, Williams College, Yale
41 Wyllys Ave. (Squash), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
For a copy of this paper, please contact Sandra Brough by telephone at
860-685-2594 or by email at: sbrough(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 4:30pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Molly Murray, Columbia University
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Friday, April 4, 2014 2:15pm
Talk, Violence in the French and Haitian Revolutions
Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky
Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland
St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Sunday April 6, 2014 - 2:00 4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert Series
Performance, by the Second Wind Renaissance Wind Ensemble (Susan Galereave,
sackbut, Eric Kernfeld, sackbut, Rigel Lustwerk, cornetto, and John Maloney,
dulcian)
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
In their first appearance at the Center, will present "Music from the
Workshop of Andrea Gabrieli," a compilation of Renaissance polyphony
focusing on the music of Andrea Gabrieli and composers who studied with him,
including his nephew Giovanni Gabrieli, Hans Leo Hassler, and Jan
Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Donations Accepted.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Talk highlighting the seminars, conferences, and workshops on offer at the
Folger for 2014-2015.
Owen William, Folger Institute
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Talk by Anna Strowe, Translating the Historia Della Fine Del Monde
manuscript.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Friday, April 11, 2014 Noon2:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities
Center.
Workshop, "From Status to Contract? Commerce and Cosmopolitanism in Early
Modern Europe"
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
William James Hall, Room 1550, 15th Fl. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Talk by Marie Roche, All is Well that Ends Well: Parolles Theological.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Friday, April 18, 2014 - 5:30pm
Talk, " 'Thrilling regions': Shakespeare, Dante and Dan Brown"
Graham Holderness, University of Hertfordshire
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Collins Lecture
Margaret Ezell, Texas A&M.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Talk, Rare Book Show and Tell presented by
David Katz, Renaissance Center Curator
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Saturday, April 26, 2014 - 9:00am 4:00pm
Co-Sponsored by The Association for Renaissance Medieval Swordsmanship and
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
10th Annual Historical Swordsmanship Conference
Presentations at the conference will feature a combination of academic
scholarship and demonstrations, including talks by ARMS on the later German
longsword tradition, demonstrations by Phoenix swords of historical
techniques, the manuscript tradition, and the guild structure of Renaissance
Europe and its relation to the development of Western martial arts. The
Renaissance Center currently maintains an online collection of historical
combat treatises and fencing manuals dating primarily from the Renaissance.
This collection can be accessed at www.umass.edu/arms/lord. Lunch is
provided.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Must call the Center to register by April 24. Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Celebrity Lecture
Wayne Abercrombie, UMass Amherst
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Dr. Abercrombie will discuss the relationship between text and music in
Renaissance and early Baroque music.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required Free and open to the public.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 4:15pm
Sponsored by the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Talk, "Es cosa muy de ver: Urban Tableaux and Viewing Pleasure in Baroque
Madrid"
Laura Bass, Brown University
41 Wyllys Ave. (Squash), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
For a copy of this paper, please contact Kristine Schiavi by telephone at
860-685-2830, or by e-mail at: kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu
Friday May 2, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Sonnetfest, annual reading aloud of sonnets followed by white wine and
strawberries
Call the Center to sign up to read a sonnet
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Sunday May 4, 2014 - 11:00am4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Annual Community Renaissance Festival
Renaissance Center & surrounding grounds and meadow, 650 East Pleasant St,
UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Get your family and friends together and plan to enjoy this free festival
which is brimming with entertainment and education in a beautiful outdoor
setting.
Well have theater, music, falconry with Chris Davis of New England
Falconry, juggling, sword demonstrations from Phoenix Swords, Our
ever-popular Mud Man, juggling, hobby horses for the kids, dancing, and
more! While youre here, be sure to explore our new Italian Grotto, admire
the apple orchard, flower, herb, and vegetable gardens, and walk the meadow
and woodland trails. It is sure to be a fun day for the whole family. Rain
or shine. Plenty of on-site free parking. Food for sale from UMass
concessions.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Admission is free although donations are welcome.
*Saturday June 21, 2014 - Noon2:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Third Annual Gardeners Guild Lunch and Talk
Talk given by, Wes Autio, UMass Amherst
Enjoy a lunch on our back patio followed by a presentation
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Members only Invitation only! Not a member? Pick up a form at 650 East
Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 11:00am1:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Enchanted Circle Theater ~ Acting Shakespeare
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Student actors from Holyoke school systems summer acting program will
present scenes from a Shakespeare play, using the Hampshire Shakespeare
Companys main stage. Stay for a light picnic lunch afterwards!
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Talk, "What's in a Musical Manuscript? MS Faenza 117 and its Newly Revised
Context"
Pedro Memelsdorff, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
New concordances, codicological and archival research uncover an unexpected
web of relationships between the Faenza copyists and the culture of Italian
Quattrocento.
Thursday, February 20, 2014 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, The Ins and Outs of Becoming a Buddha: Bodily Transformation and
Gender in the
Career of the Japanese Buddhist Nun Bunchi (1619-1697)
Gina Cogan, Boston College
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
*Thursday, February 20, 2014 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group
Talk, Big City Fires, Fire Insurance, and the Historical Narrative of Risk
Sociology (17th to 19th c.)
Cornel Zwierlein, University of Bochum/Harvard University
Science Center 469, Department of the History of Science, Harvard
University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
RSVP to <mailto:allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com>
allyssa.metzger.harvard(a)gmail.com
*Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:30pm
Talk,"The Rabbinic and Patristic Castration and Exposure of Noah"
Benjamin Braude, Boston College
Rabinowitz Room, Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 3rd Fl., 45 Francis
Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 (The entrance to the Rabinowitz Room is through
the Divinity School library. People who would like to attend the meeting
but dont have a Harvard ID, will be asked to sign a visitor log at the
entrance of the library. Two-hour free parking is available on Beacon Street
on the Cambridge Somerville line, which is about five to ten minutes away by
foot.)
The meetings of Patristica Bostoniensia, a seminar of the Boston Theological
Institute (the consortium of nine local theological schools), are devoted to
a discussion of a pre-circulated paper.
Additional information is available by contacting Dr. Annewies Van Den Hoek,
ahoek(a)hds.harvard.edu / The paper is available by contacting,
Braude(a)bc.edu
Friday, February 21, 2014 5:30pm
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
Pembroke Hall Rm 305, 172 Meeting Street Brown University, Providence, RI
02912
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 comments by Cynthia Brokaw, Brown
University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
* Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 4:30pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Suparna Roychoudhury, Mount Holyoke College.
Reading Room 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Event is free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Friday, February 28, 2014 Noon 2:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities
Center
Workshop, All about Networking?: Kinship, Mediation, and Knowledge
Production in Early Modern Istanbul
E. Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough, with comments by Dan
Smail, Harvard University
William James Hall, Room 1550, 15th Fl. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
* Sunday, March 2, 2014 - 2:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for
Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert Series
Holyoke High School Madrigal group presents a set of Renaissance-era and
modern songs.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome.
*Thursday, March 6, 2014 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown
University
2014 Anita Glass Lecture, "The Whisperers"
Christopher Wood, Yale University
List Art Center Room 120, 62 College Street, Brown University, Providence,
RI 02912
*Saturday, March 8 & Sunday, March 9, 2014 9:00am4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for
Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Conference, Shakespeare in Translation
Keynote speakers include:
Anston Bosman, Amherst College
Jean-Michel Déprats, Université Paris X Nanterre
Peter S. Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Saturday to be held in the Renaissance Center, Reading Room, 650 East
Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Sunday to be held in Herter Hall, 161 Presidents Dr, UMass Amherst, Amherst
MA 01002
This is a unique event that has so far gathered the support of the Five
Colleges and many departments at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
National and international keynotes and presenters will be giving papers on
Shakespeares translation, adaptation, and performance. For more information
please check our website: http://internationalshakespeare.wordpress.com/
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Registration is required by March 6. Call the Center at 413-577-3600. Free
and open to the public.
* Monday, March 10, 2014 6:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Performance and Talk by the Shakespeare Performance Workshop Community Class
Director Dori Robinson and her class will perform what they have been
studying all semester. Dori will present a short talk centered upon how
Shakespeare plays were performed in 1599.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
* Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:15pm
Talk, On the Origins of Bubble Economics: The Company of the Indies and
Eighteenth-Century France
Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland
St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Wednesday, March 12, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture, Winged Words: one chapter in the history of a Homeric trope.
Jessica Wolfe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 /
renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Free and open to the public. No reservations required
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 5:00pm
Sponsored by Book Studies and the Department of History at Wellesley College
Talk, "How to Build an Imaginary Cabinet of Curiosities: Lessons in
Entrepreneurship for Gallant Youth, c. 1700"
Kelly Whitmer, Sewanee: the University of the South
Clapp Library, Library Lecture Room, 1st Fl, Wellesley College, Wellesley,
MA 02481
This lecture will investigate the history of a puzzling type of early modern
cabinet of curiosities: the type that existed only in the pages of
"museological handbooks" and in the imaginations of readers, designed to
help young people improve their capacity to think critically and creatively
about new technologies, new materials, and their commercial applications.
*Friday, March 14, 2014 - 5:30pm
Talk, Title TBA
Andrew Murphy, University of St. Andrews,
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
*Saturday March 15, 2014 8:00amNoon
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Annual Dakin Pancake Breakfast,What foods these morsels be!
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
The breakfast features syrup tapped from the Centers own maple trees (a
tradition begun by Janet Dakin) and donated by local sugarer Robert
McIntyre. This all you can eat breakfast features pancakes, sausage and
bacon cooked up by volunteer chefs and served in the Reading Room, with a
beautiful view of the meadow and surrounding hills.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Suggested donation is $10 for adults and $5 for children. No reservations
required
Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, Teaching Early Modern Womens Writing in the 21st Century: The
Evolution of the Women Writers Project
Julia Flanders, Northeastern University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
*Wednesday, March 26, 2014 4:00pm
Co-Sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for
Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture by Sally Sutherland, Hamlets No: The Readiness is All
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
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Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
*Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture by, John Robison, Skepticism, Faith, and Reason in Marie de
Gournays, Equality of Men and Women.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Free and open to the public. No reservations required
Thursday, April 3, 2014 Time TBD
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, Benevolent Slavery and Other Oxymorons: The Case of Black-African
Women in Early Modern Portugal
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg
Location TBD
Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:15pm
Sponsored by the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Talk, Renaissance Music as Art-ifact: An Early 16th-Century Mass for
Margaret of Austria in Context
M. Jennifer Bloxam, Williams College, Yale
41 Wyllys Ave. (Squash), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
For a copy of this paper, please contact Sandra Brough by telephone at
860-685-2594 or by email at sbrough(a)wesleyan.edu.
*Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 4:30pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Molly Murray, Columbia University
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
* Friday, April 4, 2014 2:15pm
Talk, Violence in the French and Haitian Revolutions
Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky
Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland
St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Sunday April 6, 2014 - 2:00 4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert Series
Performance, by the Second Wind Renaissance Wind Ensemble (Susan Galereave,
sackbut, Eric Kernfeld, sackbut, Rigel Lustwerk, cornetto, and John Maloney,
dulcian)
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
In their first appearance at the Center, will present "Music from the
Workshop of Andrea Gabrieli," a compilation of Renaissance polyphony
focusing on the music of Andrea Gabrieli and composers who studied with him,
including his nephew Giovanni Gabrieli, Hans Leo Hassler, and Jan
Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Donations Accepted.
*Tuesday, April 8, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Talk highlighting the seminars, conferences, and workshops on offer at the
Folger for 2014-2015.
Owen William, Folger Institute
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
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No reservations required Free and open to the public.
*Wednesday, April 9, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Talk by Anna Strowe, Translating the Historia Della Fine Del Monde
manuscript.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Friday, April 11, 2014 Noon2:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities
Center.
Workshop, "From Status to Contract? Commerce and Cosmopolitanism in Early
Modern Europe"
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
William James Hall, Room 1550, 15th Fl. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
*Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Talk by Marie Roche, All is Well that Ends Well: Parolles Theological.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
*Friday, April 18, 2014 - 5:30pm
Talk, " 'Thrilling regions': Shakespeare, Dante and Dan Brown"
Graham Holderness, University of Hertfordshire
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
*Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Collins Lecture
Margaret Ezell, Texas A&M.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
*Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Talk, Rare Book Show and Tell presented by
David Katz, Renaissance Center Curator
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
*Saturday, April 26, 2014 - 9:00am 4:00pm
Co-Sponsored by The Association for Renaissance Medieval Swordsmanship and
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
10th Annual Historical Swordsmanship Conference
Presentations at the conference will feature a combination of academic
scholarship and demonstrations, including talks by ARMS on the later German
longsword tradition, demonstrations by Phoenix swords of historical
techniques, the manuscript tradition, and the guild structure of Renaissance
Europe and its relation to the development of Western martial arts. The
Renaissance Center currently maintains an online collection of historical
combat treatises and fencing manuals dating primarily from the Renaissance.
This collection can be accessed at www.umass.edu/arms/lord. Lunch is
provided.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Must call the Center to register by April 24. Free and open to the public.
*Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Celebrity Lecture
Wayne Abercrombie, UMass Amherst
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Dr. Abercrombie will discuss the relationship between text and music in
Renaissance and early Baroque music.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
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No reservations required Free and open to the public.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 4:15pm
Sponsored by the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Talk, "Es cosa muy de ver: Urban Tableaux and Viewing Pleasure in Baroque
Madrid"
Laura Bass, Brown University
41 Wyllys Ave. (Squash), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
For a copy of this paper, please contact Kristine Schiavi by telephone at
860-685-2830, or by email at kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu.
*Friday May 2, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Sonnetfest, annual reading aloud of sonnets followed by white wine and
strawberries
Call the Center to sign up to read a sonnet
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
*Sunday May 4, 2014 - 11:00am4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Annual Community Renaissance Festival
Renaissance Center & surrounding grounds and meadow, 650 East Pleasant St,
UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Get your family and friends together and plan to enjoy this free festival
which is brimming with entertainment and education in a beautiful outdoor
setting.
Well have theater, music, falconry with Chris Davis of New England
Falconry, juggling, sword demonstrations from Phoenix Swords, Our
ever-popular Mud Man, juggling, hobby horses for the kids, dancing, and
more! While youre here, be sure to explore our new Italian Grotto, admire
the apple orchard, flower, herb, and vegetable gardens, and walk the meadow
and woodland trails. It is sure to be a fun day for the whole family. Rain
or shine. Plenty of on-site free parking. Food for sale from UMass
concessions.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Admission is free although donations are welcome.
*Saturday June 21, 2014 - Noon2:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Third Annual Gardeners Guild Lunch and Talk
Talk given by, Wes Autio, UMass Amherst
Enjoy a lunch on our back patio followed by a presentation
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Members only Invitation only! Not a member? Pick up a form at 650 East
Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
*Tuesday, August 5, 2014 11:00am1:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Enchanted Circle Theater ~ Acting Shakespeare
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Student actors from Holyoke school systems summer acting program will
present scenes from a Shakespeare play, using the Hampshire Shakespeare
Companys main stage. Stay for a light picnic lunch afterwards!
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
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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
*Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 5:30-7:00pm
Meeting, Renaissance Colloquium Roundtable
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
This meeting will be a roundtable on the state of the field of
Renaissance/early modern literary studies. Where is the field now and where
would we like it to go? We welcome all views and opinions on this topic, as
informal or personal as you wish - it will be a good chance for us to step
back from our individual projects for a moment and consider together what
larger task/tasks we are engaging and would like to engage. The discussion
will be framed with some positions taken by the SEL "Recent Studies in the
English Renaissance" of 2013, 2012, and 2010, available at
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_english_literature/. You may wish to
look these over before the meeting, the following sections in particular:
2010, Gordon Teskey - introduction and the last section, "Criticism as Art."
2012, John Watkins - introduction and conclusion
2013, David Hawkes - introduction and final paragraphs
Thursday, February 6, 2014, 10:00am - 12noon
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 (duhaime(a)fas.harvard.edu) to
reserve a place.
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
*Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Talk, "What's in a Musical Manuscript? MS Faenza 117 and its Newly Revised
Context"
Pedro Memelsdorff, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
New concordances, codicological and archival research uncover an unexpected
web of relationships between the Faenza copyists and the culture of Italian
Quattrocento.
*Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, "The Ins and Outs of Becoming a Buddha: Bodily Transformation and
Gender in the
Career of the Japanese Buddhist Nun Bunchi (1619-1697)"
Gina Cogan, Boston College
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
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 comments by Cynthia Brokaw, Brown
University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
* Friday, February 28, 2014 - 12 Noon - 2:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities
Center
Workshop, "All about Networking?: Kinship, Mediation, and Knowledge
Production in Early Modern Istanbul"
E. Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough, with comments by Dan
Smail, Harvard University
William James Hall, Room 1550, 15th Fl. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
*Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 5pm
Sponsored by Book Studies and the Department of History at Wellesley College
Talk, "How to Build an Imaginary Cabinet of Curiosities: Lessons in
Entrepreneurship for Gallant Youth, c. 1700"
Kelly Whitmer, Sewanee: the University of the South
Clapp Library, Library Lecture Room (1st floor), Wellesley College,
Wellesley, MA 02481
This lecture will investigate the history of a puzzling type of early modern
cabinet of curiosities: the type that existed only in the pages of
"museological handbooks" and in the imaginations of readers, designed to
help young people improve their capacity to think critically and creatively
about new technologies, new materials, and their commercial applications.
*Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, "Teaching Early Modern Women's Writing in the 21st Century: The
Evolution of the Women Writers Project"
Julia Flanders, Northeastern University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
*Thursday, April 3, 2014 - Time TBD
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, "Benevolent Slavery and Other Oxymorons: The Case of Black-African
Women in Early Modern Portugal"
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg
Location TBD
*Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 4:15pm
Sponsored by the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Talk, "Renaissance Music as Art-ifact: An Early 16th-Century Mass for
Margaret of Austria in Context"
M. Jennifer Bloxam, Williams College; Yale
41 Wyllys Ave. (Squash), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
For a copy of this paper, please contact Sandra Brough by telephone at
860-685-2594 or by email at sbrough(a)wesleyan.edu.
*Friday, April 11, 2014 - 12 Noon - 2:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities
Center.
Workshop, "From Status to Contract? Commerce and Cosmopolitanism in Early
Modern Europe"
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
William James Hall, Room 1550, 15th Fl. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
*Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 4:15 pm
Sponsored by the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Talk, "'Es cosa muy de ver': Urban Tableaux and Viewing Pleasure in Baroque
Madrid"
Laura Bass, Brown University
41 Wyllys Ave. (Squash), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
For a copy of this paper, please contact Kristine Schiavi by telephone at
860-685-2830, or by email at kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu.
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Location (Room, Building, Street Address, Institution, City, State)
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