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Early Mod Events, 21 March 2014

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This list announces talks pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: <mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu> earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu. If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort. *New listing ** Updated listing ***CANCELLED Cancelled listing EARLYMOD THIS WEEK *Monday, 24 March 2014 - 12:00pm Sponsored by the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Lunchtime Talk, Globalization in the Early Modern World: New Evidence from Dutch Asiatic Trade, 1608-1800 Pim de Zwart, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam CGIS Knafel, Room K450, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Lunch available. Sign-ups to jbernard(a)fas.harvard.edu appreciated but not required. **Monday, March 24, 2014 - 5:00pm 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 Boylston Hall Room 203, 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 Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 5:30pm Sponsored by the Printing and Graphic Arts Department, Houghton Library The Qianlong Emperor's Copper-Plate Engravings Marcia Reed, Getty Research Institute Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room, Harvard University, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions/index.cfm#lectures 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, Hamlets No: The Readiness is All Sally Sutherland 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, March 26, 2014 - 5:00-7:00pm Sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium Talk, "Names, Dates, and History: Hugh Broughton and the Hebrew Bible Jeffrey Shoulson, University of Connecticut Warren House, Kates Room, Harvard University, 1 Prescott St., Cambridge, Ma 02138 Prof. Shoulson is the author of Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity (2001) and co-author with Alison P. Coudert of Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists, Jews, and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe (2004). In advance of his talk, Prof. Shoulson asks that we read the third chapter (e-mail eweckhurst(a)gmail.com to request the reading) of his most recent book, Fictions of Conversion: Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern Europe (2013), as his latest project grows out of material presented in that chapter, which is called "'The Meaning, Not the Name I Call': Converting the Bible and Homer." *Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 5:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center / Philosophy, Poetry, and Religion Chairs: Martin Cohen, Peter Sacks Seminar, "Unfelt Affect: Non-Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century British Writing" James Noggle, Wellesley College Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 6:00pm Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG) The Road from Damascus: Travel and Knowledge in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire Nir Shafir, University of California Los Angeles) Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Please RSVP: to <mailto:allyssametzger@fas.harvard.edu> allyssametzger(a)fas.harvard.edu. UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) *Monday, March 31, 2014 - 4:00pm, Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center / China Humanities Chair: James Robson Seminar, "Of Corpsely Chaos and Necropolitical Order: Or, Who Really Ruled the Roost in 1730s China?" Helen Dunstan, University of Sydney CGIS South, Room S030, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 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 5:30pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center / Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Chairs: Diana Henderson, Marina Leslie Talk, Benevolent Slavery and Other Oxymorons: The Case of Black-African Women in Early Modern Portugal Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg Barker Center Room 128, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 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 12:00pm Sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies The Parry Lecture, Katrina's Roots: Slavery, Race and the Politics of Caribbean Hurricanes 1780- 1840 Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University CGIS South, Room S050, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 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 Friday April 4, 5:00-6:30pm, and Saturday, April 5, 9:00am-6:00pm Co-sponsored by the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Brown University Global Lowlands Conference: The global lowlands in the early modern period: 1300-1800 a conference on dutch and flemish history and culture in a worldwide perspective Speakers: Karel Davids,Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Mariët Westermann,The Mellon Foundation, Claudia Swan, Northwestern University and the Max Planck Institute, Dániel Margócsy, Hunter College, Mark Meuwese, University of Winnipeg, Julie Hochstrasser,University of Iowa, Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington, Anne Goldgar, King's College, London, and Lissa Roberts, University of Twente. Starr Auditorium, 117 MacMillan Hall, Brown University, 167 Thayer St., Providence, RI 02912 Pre-registration is required for everyone (and includes lunch and receptions), and the conference is free for students. To register and to see the full program, please go to: https://sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/the-global-lowlands-conference/home 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. Monday, April 7, 2014 - Thursday, April 10, 2014 Various times, as detailed below Sponsored by Brandeis University, Mandel Center for the Humanities Third Annual Mandel Lectures in the Humanities -Monday, April 7, 2014 4:30pm, followed by a reception at 6:00pm Lecture, Divine Spark of Syracuse, Plato in Syracuse Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame Lecture: Room G3, Mandel Auditorium Reception, Mandel Atrium -Tuesday, April 8, 2014 12:30-2:00pm Lunch Symposium, Divine Spark of Syracuse Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame Mandel Reading Room -Wednesday, April 9, 2014 4:30pm Lecture, Archimedes in Syracuse Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame G3, Mandel Auditorium -Thursday, April 10, 2014 4:30pm Lecture, Caravaggio in Syracuse Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame Room G3, Mandel Auditorium All events will be held at the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Mandel Quad MS 092, Brandeis University 415 South St, Waltham, MA 02453 For driving directions to Brandeis: http://www.brandeis.edu/about/visiting/directions.html On campus directions/parking: Once at the main entrance Brandeis entrance on South Street, proceed to the right of the small information booth and continue to follow the campus loop road up the hill. You will pass a stone Castle on your left and curve to the left as you approach the summit of the hill. Pass through the center of the upper campus and you will come to the Mandel Center for the Humanities, a new four story glass structure, with a projecting triangular glass pavilion, on your right at the summit of the hill. Park in the lot immediately past the building, to the right. Walk back to the main front entrance, which leads to auditorium G-3. http://www.brandeis.edu/mandelhumanities/events/index.html 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. *Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 4:30pm Sponsored by Heinz Blum Memorial Lectures in European Literature, Boston College Lecture, Renaissance Creators and Moderns: The Cases of Dante, Ariosto, and Michelangelos Sistine Chapel David Quint, Yale University. Devlin Hall, Room 101, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA For further information contact, Prof. Alan Richardson, 617-552-3713, <mailto:alan.richardson@bc.edu> alan.richardson(a)bc.edu *Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 5:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center / France and the World Chairs: Verena Conley, Sylvaine Guyot Seminar, "Transcribing India: François Bernier and the Art of Conversation in Seventeenth-Century France" Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College Barker Center, Room 128, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 *Thursday, April 10th, 2014 6:00pm Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group Talk, Saving Faces: Surgery and Masculinity in Early Modern Italy Paolo Savoia, Harvard University Science Center Rm 469, Dept. of the History of Science, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 RSVP to <mailto:allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com> allyssa.metzger.harvard(a)gmail.com 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 *Friday, April 11, 2014 - 4:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center / Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome Chairs: David Elmer, Richard Thomas Seminar, "Love's Bargain: Virgil and Garcilaso de la Vega" J. D. Reed, Brown University Boylston Hall, Room 203, Harvard University, 5 Harvard Yard, 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 Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center / Shakespearean Studies Chairs: William Carroll, Coppélia Kahn Seminar, "'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 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. Friday, April 25, 2014 Sunday, April 27, 2014 Various times Conference, Visualizing revolt and punishment in early modern times: conflict- and contact-zones between different visual cultures and policies Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 For further details visit: http://revolt.hypotheses.org/102 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. *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 (Building, Room, Street Address, Institution, City, State) Additional info (no more than a couple sentences) Website URL RSVP or Registration information/link

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Early Mod Events, 11 March 2014

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This list announces talks pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: <mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu> earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu. If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort. *New listing ** Updated listing ***CANCELLED Cancelled listing EARLYMOD THIS WEEK 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, "Shakespeare's Irish Lives: The Politics of Biography" 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 UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) 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 *Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 5:30pm Sponsored by the Printing and Graphic Arts Department, Houghton Library The Qianlong Emperor's Copper-Plate Engravings Marcia Reed, Getty Research Institute Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room, Harvard University, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions/index.cfm#lectures 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. *Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 6:00pm Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG) The Road from Damascus: Travel and Knowledge in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire Nir Shafir, University of California Los Angeles) Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Please RSVP: to <mailto:allyssametzger@fas.harvard.edu> allyssametzger(a)fas.harvard.edu. 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 5:30pm 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 Barker Center Room 128, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 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 12:00pm Sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies The Parry Lecture, Katrina's Roots: Slavery, Race and the Politics of Caribbean Hurricanes 1780- 1840 Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University CGIS South, Room S050, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 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 **Friday April 4, 5:00-6:30pm, and Saturday, April 5, 9:00am-6:00pm Co-sponsored by the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Brown University Global Lowlands Conference: The global lowlands in the early modern period: 1300-1800 a conference on dutch and flemish history and culture in a worldwide perspective Speakers: Karel Davids,Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Mariët Westermann,The Mellon Foundation, Claudia Swan, Northwestern University and the Max Planck Institute, Dániel Margócsy, Hunter College, Mark Meuwese, University of Winnipeg, Julie Hochstrasser,University of Iowa, Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington, Anne Goldgar, King's College, London, and Lissa Roberts, University of Twente. Starr Auditorium, 117 MacMillan Hall, Brown University, 167 Thayer St., Providence, RI 02912 Pre-registration is required for everyone (and includes lunch and receptions), and the conference is free for students. To register and to see the full program, please go to: https://sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/the-global-lowlands-conference/home 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. *Monday, April 7, 2014 - Thursday, April 10, 2014 Various times, as detailed below Sponsored by Brandeis University, Mandel Center for the Humanities Third Annual Mandel Lectures in the Humanities *Monday, April 7, 2014 4:30pm, followed by a reception at 6:00pm Lecture, Divine Spark of Syracuse, Plato in Syracuse Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame Lecture: Room G3, Mandel Auditorium Reception, Mandel Atrium *Tuesday, April 8, 2014 12:30-2:00pm Lunch Symposium, Divine Spark of Syracuse Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame Mandel Reading Room *Wednesday, April 9, 2014 4:30pm Lecture, Archimedes in Syracuse Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame G3, Mandel Auditorium *Thursday, April 10, 2014 4:30pm Lecture, Caravaggio in Syracuse Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame Room G3, Mandel Auditorium All events will be held at the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Mandel Quad MS 092, Brandeis University 415 South St, Waltham, MA 02453 For driving directions to Brandeis: http://www.brandeis.edu/about/visiting/directions.html On campus directions/parking: Once at the main entrance Brandeis entrance on South Street, proceed to the right of the small information booth and continue to follow the campus loop road up the hill. You will pass a stone Castle on your left and curve to the left as you approach the summit of the hill. Pass through the center of the upper campus and you will come to the Mandel Center for the Humanities, a new four story glass structure, with a projecting triangular glass pavilion, on your right at the summit of the hill. Park in the lot immediately past the building, to the right. Walk back to the main front entrance, which leads to auditorium G-3. http://www.brandeis.edu/mandelhumanities/events/index.html 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. *Friday, April 25, 2014 Sunday, April 27, 2014 Various times Conference, Visualizing revolt and punishment in early modern times: conflict- and contact-zones between different visual cultures and policies Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 For further details visit: http://revolt.hypotheses.org/102 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. *If you would like to request that your announcement be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events e-mail: Please send your listing to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu It would be a great help if you could follow the format below. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. 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Early Mod Events, 3 March 2014

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This list announces talks pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: <mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu> earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu. If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort. *New listing ** Updated listing ***CANCELLED Cancelled listing EARLYMOD THIS WEEK 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 <mailto:cjs@fas.harvard.edu> cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu *Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:00-7:00pm Sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium Talk, Double Agents and Pious Frauds: Lucy Hutchinson and the Identity Problems of the English Civil Wars Erin Murphy, Boston University Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St Cambridge, MA 02138 Prof. Murphy is the author of Familial Forms: Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (2010). Her talk will draw on her latest work in progress, Wartimes: Seventeenth-Century Women's Writing and its Afterlives. Refreshments will be served. Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 4:30pm 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 <mailto:cornelia.dayton@uconn.edu> cornelia.dayton(a)uconn.edu or <mailto:allison.horrocks@uconn.edu> 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/> http://internationalshakespeare.wordpress.com/ For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter Registration is required by March 6. Call the Center at 413-577-3600. Free and open to the public. UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 <mailto:cjs@fas.harvard.edu> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter Free and open to the public. No reservations required **Thursday, April 3, 2014 5:30pm 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 Barker Center Room 128, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 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: <mailto:sbrough@wesleyan.edu> sbrough(a)wesleyan.edu <http://rensem.site.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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 * Friday April 4, 5:00-6:30pm, and Saturday, April 5, 9:00am-6:00pm Co-sponsored by the Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Brown University Global Lowlands Conference: The global lowlands in the early modern period: 1300-1800 a conference on dutch and flemish history and culture in a worldwide perspective Speakers: Karel Davids,Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Mariët Westermann,The Mellon Foundation, Claudia Swan, Northwestern University and the Max Planck Institute, Dániel Margócsy, Hunter College, Mark Meuwese, University of Winnipeg, Julie Hochstrasser,University of Iowa, Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington, Anne Goldgar, King's College, London, and Lissa Roberts, University of Twente. Starr Auditorium, 117 MacMillan Hall, Brown University, 167 Thayer St., Providence, RI 02912 To register and to see the full program, please go to our website: <https://sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/the-global-lowlands-conference/home> https://sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/the-global-lowlands-conference/home 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 <http://www.umass.edu/arms/lord> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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: <mailto:kschiavi@wesleyan.edu> kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu <http://rensem.site.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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> 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 / <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu <http://www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter> www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter No reservations required. 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