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Early Modern Events, 01 October 2015

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This list announces talks in the greater Boston area 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 Sunday, October 4, 2015, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Concert, The Springfield Mandolin Orchestra Adam R. Sweet, Springfield Mandolin Orchestra Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA The orchestra will present a program of an Anthony Holborne Suite, Vivaldi's "La Folia," and Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is very limited. Donations are welcome. Mondays October 5, 19, 26, and November 2, 2015, 10:00am - 11:00am Sponsored by The UMass Renaissance Center Community Class, The Hand-Press Book Jeff Goodhind, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA An introduction to early printed books including paper, typesetting, printing, illustration, and binding. No knowledge of book history required. Class will take place in the upstairs classroom. Free event, handicapped Accessible. Contact: Jeff Goodhind 413-577-3600 Pre-register by October 4th at 413-577-3600 or at <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu. Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer. Robin Varnum, American International College Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. *Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Talk, "Tottel Today" Gordon Teskey, Harvard University Barker Center, Room 018, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 *Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 6:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard Humanities Center Talk, Eighteenth-Century Studies, "Meeting Mary Astell" Ruth Perry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Barker Center, Room 133, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 Thursday, October 8, 2015 4:15pm Sponsored by Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Seminar, "The Humanist Anthropocene. Part 1: The Exterranean Renaissance" Phillip Usher, New York University (Squash) Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Kristine Schiavi by phone: (860) 685-2830, or e-mail: <mailto:kschiavi@wesleyan.edu> kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed u_&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498 iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=TnG5k-KRVtSE2oqEn52Ql kuzWYfgq-N2Pu9P1jdELKY&e=> http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ Friday October 9, 2015, 6:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Seminar, Shakespearean Studies Seminar Jane Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Reception is at 5:30pm <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month?date=2015-10> http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month?date=2015-10 *Friday, October 9, 2015, 5:30pm Sponsored by the Harvard Humanities Center Talk, Shakespeare Studies, "Performing the Sea: Risk, Fortune, and the Ecology of Audience Engagement in Pericles" Jane Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Barker Center, Room 133, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) Saturday, October 10, 2015, 9:00am - 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Conference, Graduate Conference Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College. Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA $10.00 includes admission to all sessions, breakfast, lunch, and afternoon coffee. Advance registration is required. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__renaissanceconference.w ordpress.com&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPg ojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=mf4y1xa32d- YTBIyHwkC4MoVdObEscn-lqbzGvpI2kk&e=> http://renaissanceconference.wordpress.com **Sunday, October 11, 2015- Monday, January 18, 2016 Sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Exhibition, Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ann and Graham Gund Gallery (Gallery LG31) 465 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA Featuring 75 masterpieces by artists including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jan Steen, and Frans Hals from European and North American public and private collections, this exhibition is the first to consider 17th-century Dutch painting through the lens of the social classes. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mfa.org_exhibitions _class-2Ddistinctions&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcm PpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=m3 pI-mwQUtfRQ6xZPSn_vqKXU9LTngCNO_ETHxVg9Zc&e=> http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/class-distinctions Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series: Muse of the Dance: Instrumental Music of the High Renaissance. David Gruender, Boston Symphony Orchestra Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. *Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium TBA (re: Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica) Jessica Wolfe, UNC Barker Center, Room 018, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 Mondays, October 19, 26, and November 2, 9, 2015, 3:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class, The Madrigal Emiliano Ricciardi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Location: TBA The goal of this class is to develop a musical and historical understanding of the madrigal, one of the most important genres of vocal music in the late Renaissance. In the class we will examine select works by prominent practitioners of this genre, such as Willaert and Marenzio, placing them in the context of larger musical and cultural trends. No musical background is required. Pre-registration is required at 413-577-3600 or <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu. **Tuesday, October 20, 2015 4:00pm Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Lecture, The 36th William F. Church Memorial Lecture: Revealed Beauty and Hidden Danger: On Jewish Books of Time in Early Modern Europe Elisheva Carleback, Columbia University Winnick Chapel, Brown/RISD Hillel Building, 80 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 5:30pm-7:00pm Lecture, Tomasso Lecture: Inhabited Architecture: A Pervasive Motif in Medieval Art and Modern Theory. Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University Tufts University Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 12:00pm Talk, Historical Expertise and the Production of Almanacs in the Age of Enlightenment Jennifer C. Blanke, University of Göttingen Lower Library, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA *Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 5:00pm Co-sponsored by the 18th Century Studies seminar and the History of the Book seminar Seminar, "The Choirbook Tradition in France from the Early 17th Century to the Eve of the Revolution (ca. 1780)" Jean-Paul Montagnier, Université de Lorraine, France; McGill University Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, The Impact of Natural History on Renaissance Art and Literature. Marion Copeland, Dakin Humane Society Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Thursday October 22, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Fine Arts Department, Boston College Lecture, Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art: "Baroque Makeovers: Style Change in Seventeenth-Century Italian Painting Catherine Puglisi, Rutgers University Devlin Hall, Room 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 The von Henneberg lecture and the reception immediately following are free and open to the public. Visitor parking information and additional information can be found at <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bc.edu_schools_cas_ finearts_upcomingevents.html&d=BQMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S 3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=YyTHbGt59FLLJy1opF_s5iui4H3zD8ArUO-0-VB-Q UI&s=UGstm6ThdRFtS73EUVm9khEUPfVsWjESAffyQW7gTJ0&e=> http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/upcomingevents.html Please RSVP by October 1, 2015: 617-552-4295 or <mailto:elliotj@bc.edu> elliotj(a)bc.edu Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, "Fake It Till You Make It: A Modern Medievalist Meets Renaissance Pseudo-hieroglyphs." Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. *Friday, October 30, 2015 4:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard Humanities Center Talk, Renaissance Studies, "New World Mining in the Humanist Anthropocene" Phillip John Usher, New York University Barker Center, Room 133, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 Sunday, November 1, 2015, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Concert, First Sunday Concert Series, AyreCraft Donnie Cotter, Robert Castellano and Meg Pash Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is very limited. Donations welcome. Monday, November 2, 2015, 5:00pm Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, the Robert C. Smith, Jr. Fund for Portuguese Studies, and the Brazil Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Talk, Slave Trade, Ethnicity and Ethnonym: Southeastern Brazil and the African West Coast Aldair Rodrigues, Yale University Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, Rare Book Show and Tell. Jeff Goodhind, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. *Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Talk, "Appetite, Moral Order, and the Nature of Things: Hamlet and Hunting" Rhodri Lewis, Oxford Barker Center, Kresge Room (114), 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 *Thursday, November 5, 2015, 5:30pm-7:00pm Sponsored by the Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard, Co-Chairs, Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie Talk, Twice-Told Tales: Approaches to Gender in Shakespeares Histories and Transformative Works Kavita Mudan Finn, Independent Scholar Boylston Hall, Room 335, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA For more information, please call 617-495-0738 Saturday, November 7, 2015, 6:00pm 9:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Festival, French Renaissance Harvest Banquet Marriott Center, 11th Floor, Campus Center (UMass Amherst, main campus) Join us for a festive evening celebrating Renaissance France! Enjoy authentic Renaissance food prepared using produce and herbs from the Renaissance Centers own kitchen garden. Revel in the sounds of Renaissance France brought to you through lutes, sackbuts, singing, harps and more. With entertainment ranging from juggling to theater to door prizes, you are bound to have an evening of excitement and fun! Costumes encouraged! Reservations must be made by November 2nd. Call 413-577-3600 to reserve your tickets. $75/each or $125/couple. *New* Student Discount: $35/person Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Friday, November 13, 2015 Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Scholar in Residence Leah Whittington, Harvard University. Please call the Center at 413-577-3600 to arrange for a time slot during her office hours. Free and open to the public. *Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Talk, "Physical Manuscripts, Digital Databases, and the Art of the Trouvaille: Some Renaissance Resources and How to Use Them" Misha Teramura, Harvard University Barker Center, Room 018, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 Thursday, November 12, 2015 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Classical Legacy Lecture, "Performing the Past: Shakespeare and Classical Literature from Humanist Schoolroom to Early Modern Stage." Leah Whittington, Harvard University Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Friday, November 13, 2015, 7:00pm 9:00pm Co-sponsored by The Renaissance Centers Reading Group and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Festival, Renaissance Games Night Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Join us for an evening of Renaissance-era board games, door prizes, refreshments, and more! Families and kids are welcome! Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 4:30pm Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar Lecture, De-localizing Medicine in the English East India Company's Medical Service, 1730-90 Zachary Dorner, Brown University Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 *Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium TBA Marc Shell, Harvard University Barker Center, Room 018, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 *Friday, November 20, 2015 - Reception at 5:30pm, Seminar at 6:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Shakespearean Studies Seminar Reception and Seminar, "'And must we be divided?: Commemorating Shakespeare in America, 1864" Douglas Lanier, University of New Hampshire: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/and-must-we-be-divided-co mmemorating-shakespeare-america-1864> http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/and-must-we-be-divided-com memorating-shakespeare-america-1864 *Friday, November 20, 5:30pm Sponsored by the Harvard Humanities Center Talk, Shakespeare Studies, "'And must we be divided?': Commemorating Shakespeare in America, 1864" Douglas Lanier, University of New Hampshire Barker Center, Room 133, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 Saturday, November 21, 2015, 9:00am 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Conference, Early America Conference Alden Vaughan, Columbia University; Abby Chandler, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and more. Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. Lunch is provided. Register by November 20th at 413-577-3600 or <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu *Thursday, December 3, 2015, Reception at 5:30pm Symposium at 6:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Reception and Seminar, Shakespearean Studies Seminar Annual Graduate Symposium: "New Work on Early Modern Drama" Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/graduate-symposium> http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/graduate-symposium Sunday, December 6, 2015, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Concert, First Sunday Concert Series, The Amherst Recorder Consort Bob Leitch Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA The Amherst Recorder Consort will perform a program of Byrd, Verdelot, Tallis, Crecquillon, Josquin and more! Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is very limited. Donations welcome. *Thursday, December 10, 2015, 5:30pm-7:00pm Sponsored by the Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard, Co-Chairs, Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie Talk, Vexed Rulership: Ambiguous Valois Bodies (1494-1589) Touba Ghadessi, Department of Art History, Wheaton College Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA For more information, please call 617-495-0738 Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 4:30pm Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar Lecture, Building Empire in West Africa: Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) and the Foundation of the Portuguese Fort of Uidá (1721) Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 *If you would like to request that your announcement be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events e-mail: Please send your listing to: <mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu> earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu It would be a great help if you could follow the format below. To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place in the greater Boston area. 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, St., Address, Institution, City, State) * Event must take place in the greater Boston area. Additional info (no more than a couple sentences) Website URL RSVP or Registration information/link

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