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*Sunday, February 1, 2015, 2:00-4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club and
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert Series
Peter Blanchette, internationally acclaimed musician and inventor of the archguitar will play a selection of Renaissance music
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 / renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Refreshments available after the concert. For more information on Blanchette, visit http://archguitar.com/
* Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 - 4:00-5:30pm
Sponsored by the UConn Humanities Institute
Talk, “’A Beautiful and Costly Procession’: Jewish Quest for Cultural Belonging in Frankfurt and Prague (c. 1680-1750)”
Rachel Greenblatt, University of Connecticut
Austin Building, Room 301, University of Connecticut-Storrs, 215 Glenbrook Road ,Storrs CT 06269
Light refreshments will be served
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*Thursday, February 19, 2015 – 5:00pm
Humanities Center seminar on Book History, "Cyberformalism and the Philology of Things, 1557-1798"
Daniel Shore (Georgetown University)
Barker Center, Room 133 Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Thursday, February 19, & Friday February 20, 2015 – Times TBA
Sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium
Renaissance Colloquium Events with guest speaker Dan Shore (Georgetown) (more information forthcoming)
Location to be announced on the below website,
<http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179> http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179
*Thursday, February 26, 2015 – 4:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “Seeing Red: Rubrication as Writing in Blood (& Vice Versa) on the Early Modern Page"
Bianca F.-C. Calabresi, Independent Scholar, History of the Book
(Squash) Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Liz Tinker by phone: (860) 685-2360, or e-mail: etinker(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
*Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 4:30pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “How the Elizabethan Monarchical Republic Failed to Build a Republican Monarchy: The Earl of Leicester and the Netherlands, 1586-7”.
Malcolm Smuts, (UMass Boston)
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
*Thursday February 26, 2015 – 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Shakespeare “Pub Trivia” Night
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
This February, we are bringing back Shakespeare Pub Quiz Night, and we invite Shakespeare fans of all ages to participate in a new round of Bard-related trivia, riddles, and puzzles. This year will feature video clues, sound bites, and opportunities to win cash prizes! Non-alcoholic beverages, and light snacks will be served. Free and open to the public.
*Sunday, March 1, 2015 - 2:00-4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club and
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert Series
Performance of, “Praetorius, Terpsichore dances, and Musae Sioniae.” by
Ensemble Musica Humana
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Refreshments available after the concert.
*Wednesday, March 4, 2015- 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture, “A Seventeenth-Century Deerfield Mystery”
Else Hambleton, (Amherst Historical Society)
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
*Wednesday, March 4, 2015 – 5:00-7:00pm
Renaissance Colloquium Meeting
David Marno (UC Berkeley), guest speaker
Location to be announced on the below website,
<http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179> http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179)
*Saturday, March 7, 2015 - 9:00am – 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Galileo Conference
Mark Peterson, (Mount Holyoke College), and Marjorie Senechal (Smith College)
Includes a screening of Bertolt Brecht’s “The Life of Galileo”
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. Please pre-register by March 6th. Lunch is provided.
*Wednesday, March 11, 2015 – 4:00 p.m.
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture, “Shakespeare and Aging”
Susan Whitbourne, Professor of Psychology at UMass Amherst
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
*Wednesday March 11, 2015 – 5:00-7:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium
Roundtable with RSA panelists Elizabeth Weckhurst (Harvard) and Misha Teramura (Harvard)
Location to be announced on the below website,
<http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179> http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179)
*Saturday March 14, 2015 – 8:00am – 12noon
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Annual Dakin Pancake Breakfast
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
The breakfast features syrup tapped from the Center’s own maple trees (a tradition begun by Janet Dakin) and donated by local sugarer Richard McIntyre. This all you can eat breakfast features pancakes, sausage and bacon cooked up by volunteer chefs and served in the Reading Room. Revel in the view of the hills as you gobble up the fluffiest pancakes in the Valley! Suggested donation is $10 for adults and $5 for children.
No reservations required.
*Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Celebrity Lecture
Robert Eisenstein, (Five College Early Music Program)
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
*Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture, “Is There Romance in This Romance? The Enigma of Malory's Women”
Sheila M. Fisher, (Trinity College)
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
*Wednesday, March 25, 2015 – 4:15pm
Wesleyan Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
Lecture, "Race and Religion on the Front Line: Juan Latino's Epic of the Battle of Lepanto"
Elizabeth Wright, Department of Romance Languages, University of Georgia (Athens)
Common Room, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Wesleyan University, 300 High St., Middletown, CT 06457
The lecture is open to the public.
*Wednesday, April 1, 2015 – 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture, "Lyric Music for Dramatic Texts: Questions of Genre in the Late Italian Madrigal"
Seth Coluzzi, (Brandeis University)
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
*Wednesday April 1, 2015 – 5:00-7:00pm
Renaissance Colloquium Meeting
Will Porter (Harvard), guest speaker
Location to be announced on the below website,
<http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179> http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179
*Wednesday April 1, 2015 – 6:00- 8:00pm (1st of 6 class meetings)
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Community Class
Literature of the 16th Century with Marie Roche
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Readings will be provided.
Free and open to the public Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by March 31st.
*Monday, April 6, 2015 – Friday, April 10, 2015
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Scholars in Residence
Ann Thompson, (Kings College London), and John O. Thompson, (University of Liverpool)
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Call the Renaissance Center at 577-3600 to schedule an appointment for office hours.
*Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 7:00pm-9:00pm (1st of 4 class meetings)
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Community Class, Shakespeare with Normand Berlin
We will be discussing King Lear in our four evenings together. "Is this the promis'd end?" "Or image of that horror?"
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by April 6th
*Wednesday, April 8, 2015 -4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture on, Hamlet
Ann Thompson, (Kings College London)
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
*Wednesday April 8, 2015 - 6:00- 8:00pm (2nd of 6 class meetings)
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Community Class
Literature of the 16th Century with Marie Roche
Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by March 31st.
Readings will be provided. Free and open to the public
*Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 4:30pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, "Catastrophizing: The Disaster of Renaissance Materialism"
Jerry Passannante, (University of Maryland)
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
*Sunday April 12, 2015 - 2:00 – 4:00pm (Please note the date is the second Sunday of April so as not to conflict with Easter)
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club and
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
“Second” Sunday Concert Series
Nota Bene ~ A cappella singing trio of Annie Phillips, Elizabeth Chilton, and Nina Wurgaft
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Refreshments served after the concert.
*Tuesday, April 14, 2015 – 4:00 pm
Co-sponsored by History of the Book
Eighteenth-century studies seminar, "Manipulating Information in the Ancien Régime: The View from the Provinces"
Giora Sternberg (University of Oxford),
Location TBA (at MIT)
*Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 7:00pm-9:00pm (2nd of 4 class meetings)
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Community Class, Shakespeare with Normand Berlin
We will be discussing King Lear in our four evenings together. "Is this the promis'd end?" "Or image of that horror?"
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by April 6th
*Wednesday, April 15, 2015 – 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Lecture, “Rare Book Show and Tell”
David Katz, (The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies)
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
*Wednesday April 15, 2015 - 6:00- 8:00pm (3rd of 6 class meetings)
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Community Class
Literature of the 16th Century with Marie Roche
Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by March 31st.
Readings will be provided. Free and open to the public
*Tuesday, April 21, 2015 – 7:00pm-9:00pm (3rd of 4 class meetings)
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Community Class, Shakespeare with Normand Berlin
We will be discussing King Lear in our four evenings together. "Is this the promis'd end?" "Or image of that horror?"
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by April 6th
*Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 4:00 pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Dan S. Collins Lecture
Laura L. Knoppers, (University of Notre Dame)
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. No reservations required
*Wednesday April 22, 2015 - 6:00- 8:00pm (4th of 6 class meetings)
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class
Literature of the 16th Century with Marie Roche
Readings will be provided.
Free and open to the public. Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by March 31st.
*Saturday, April 25, 2015 – 9:00am – 4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Association for Renaissance Medieval Swordsmanship
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Annual Historical Swordsmanship Conference
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
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
Must call the Center to register by April 24. Free and open to the public. Lunch is provided. Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
*Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 7:00pm-9:00pm (4th of 4 class meetings)
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Community Class, Shakespeare with Normand Berlin
We will be discussing King Lear in our four evenings together. "Is this the promis'd end?" "Or image of that horror?"
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by April 6th
*Wednesday April 29, 2015 – 5:00-7:00pm.
Renaissance Colloquium Meeting
Billy Junker (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota), guest speaker
Location to be announced on the below website,
<http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179> http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179)
*Wednesday April 29, 2015 - 6:00- 8:00pm (5th of 6 class meetings)
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class
Literature of the 16th Century with Marie Roche
Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by March 31st.
Readings will be provided. Free and open to the public
*Thursday, April 30, 2015 – 4:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “Charity's Constructs: The Edifices of the Monti di Pietà and the Treasury of Merit, ca. 1460-1600"
Lauren Jacobi, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Squash) Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Esther Moran by phone: (860) 685-2682, or e-mail: emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
*Friday May 1, 2015 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Sonnetfest, our annual reading aloud of sonnets followed by white wine and strawberries.
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Call the Center to sign up to read a sonnet. Free and open to the public.
*Sunday May 3, 2015 - 11:00am – 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
13th Annual Community Renaissance Festival
The Renaissance Center and surrounding grounds and meadow
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
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.
We’ll have theater, music, falconry with Chris Davis of New England Falconry, juggling, sword demonstrations from Phoenix Swords, Renaissance games, ‘hobby horses’ for the kids, dancing, and more! While you’re 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.
Admission is free although donations are welcome.
*Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - 6:00- 8:00pm (6th of 6 class meetings)
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class
Literature of the 16th Century with Marie Roche
Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by March 31st.
Readings will be provided. Free and open to the public
*Saturday June 20, 2015 - 12noon – 2:00pm.
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Third Annual Gardeners’ Guild Lunch and Talk
Speaker, Ellen Kosmer
Back patio, Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Enjoy a lunch on our back patio followed by a presentation given, Renaissance Center Ellen Kosmer Historical Garden Designer.
Members only – Invitation only! Not a member? Pick up a form in our lobby today!
*Tuesday, August 4, 2015 – 11:00am – 1:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Enchanted Circle Theater ~ Acting Shakespeare
Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
Student actors from Holyoke school system’s summer acting program will present scenes from a Shakespeare play, using the Hampshire Shakespeare Company’s main stage. Stay for a light picnic lunch afterwards!
Free and open to the public.
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