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Early Mod Events, 8 April 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, 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:allyssametzger@fas.harvard.edu> allyssametzger(a)fas.harvard.edu 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, 12:00-2:00pm Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Department of English Talk, From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard University, 35 Quincy 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 UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) *Tuesday, April 15, 2014 4:30pm Sponsored by Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar on paper entitled, Searching the Dead and Burying the Bodies: Searchers and Sextonesses in London Wanda Henry, Brown University Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912 URL: http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/2013/08/11/april-15-2014-wanda-henry/ / password to open the paper is: Sharpe Contact: Maria Sokolova, maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu 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 Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 **Program available at: http://revolt.hypotheses.org/342 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. *Friday, May 2 + Saturday, May 3, 2014 Various times Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts, the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, the John Carter Brown Library, Université de Paris VIII, and the Consulate General of France Symposium, Early Modern France & the Americas: Connected Histories Speakers include: Keynote Speaker, David A. Bell, Princeton University Caroline Galland, Université de Paris Nanterre Christopher Hodson, Brigham Young University Neil Safier, John Carter Brown Library François Furstenberg, Johns Hopkins University Stokes Hall Room 195S, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 A Symposium to mark the Creation of the New England Pole of the Institut des Amériques at Boston College. Register by 4/28. For complete program and registration (required) please visit: http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/connected-histories.html 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. Friday, May 9, and Saturday, May 10, 2014 Various times Co-sponsored by the universities of Lancaster and York as a Northern Renaissance Roses Seminar Conference, Time in Early Modern Thought Speakers include: Keynote Speaker: Michael Edwards, University of Cambridge Zoe Gibbons, Princeton University Jane Desborough, University of Leeds Natalie Kaoukji, University of Cambridge Alexander Cummins, University of Bristol Denise Kelly, Queens University, Belfast Robert Stagg, Southampton University Helen Davies, Lancaster University Joanne Paul, New College of the Humanities Oliver Dubouclez, Université de Liège Grigol Gegelia, European University Institute L.D. Haydon, University of Kent Sharon Galbraith, Lancaster University Lucy Razzall. Cambridge University Sam Ellis, York University Harriet Phillips, Queen Mary University of London Lydia Janssen, KU Leuven Michal Choptiany, University of Warsaw Emily A.E. Thomas, University of Groningen Isabella Augart, Freie Universitat, Berlin Mathew Champion, Queen Mary University of London Rachel White, Lancaster University Florence Hazrat, University of St Andrews University of York - The first day will take place in the Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre, and the second in York Minster Old Palace Library, and will conclude with a concert given by the Minster Minstrels, a renaissance-baroque early music wind group. Please note disabled access is restricted for this historic venue. For complete program details visit: http://www.york.ac.uk/crems/events/events/2013-14/time-and-early-modern/ Event is free, registration required. To register contact: <mailto:kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk> kevin.killeen(a)york.ac.uk by Tuesday 22nd April. 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, 3 April 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 *Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:00pm Hosted by the France and the World seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Co-sponsored with the Medieval Studies seminar Talk, "Girls Interrupted: The Voice of the Possessed in Medieval French Theater" Andrea Marculescu, Harvard University Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Chairs: Verena Conley and Sylvaine Guyot 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. 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 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 days/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. UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) 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 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, 12:00-2:00pm Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Department of English Talk, From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard University, 35 Quincy 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. *Friday, May 9, and Saturday, May 10, 2014 Various times Co-sponsored by the universities of Lancaster and York as a Northern Renaissance Roses Seminar Conference, Time in Early Modern Thought Speakers include: Keynote Speaker: Michael Edwards, University of Cambridge Zoe Gibbons, Princeton University Jane Desborough, University of Leeds Natalie Kaoukji, University of Cambridge Alexander Cummins, University of Bristol Denise Kelly, Queens University, Belfast Robert Stagg, Southampton University Helen Davies, Lancaster University Joanne Paul, New College of the Humanities Oliver Dubouclez, Université de Liège Grigol Gegelia, European University Institute L.D. Haydon, University of Kent Sharon Galbraith, Lancaster University Lucy Razzall. Cambridge University Sam Ellis, York University Harriet Phillips, Queen Mary University of London Lydia Janssen, KU Leuven Michal Choptiany, University of Warsaw Emily A.E. Thomas, University of Groningen Isabella Augart, Freie Universitat, Berlin Mathew Champion, Queen Mary University of London Rachel White, Lancaster University Florence Hazrat, University of St Andrews University of York - The first day will take place in the Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre, and the second in York Minster Old Palace Library, and will conclude with a concert given by the Minster Minstrels, a renaissance-baroque early music wind group. Please note disabled access is restricted for this historic venue. For complete program details visit: http://www.york.ac.uk/crems/events/events/2013-14/time-and-early-modern/ Event is free, registration required. To register contact: <mailto:kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk> kevin.killeen(a)york.ac.uk by Tuesday 22nd April. 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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