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.
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thanks to those who contributed to this effort.
*New listing
** Updated listing
***CANCELLED Cancelled listing
EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
**Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 5:00pm
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 Talk Postponed - New Date and Time
TBD
Sponsored by the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Talk, "English Literature -- Insular or Continental? A Renaissance Position"
Marc Shell, Harvard University
Barker Center, Room 018, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135
*Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m
Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard
University
Lecture, "Efşancı Garden: Questioning the Ideal of Ottoman Garden Design in
the Sixteenth Century"
B. Deniz Çaliş Kural, Harvard AKPIA Associate / Istanbul Bilgi University
Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 318, Harvard University, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge MA 02138
http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69205
<http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69205&tabgroupid=icb.tab
group104234> &tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup104234
Lectures are free and open to the public. For further information, call
617-495-2355 or email <mailto:agakhan@fas.harvard.edu>
agakhan(a)fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 7:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Seminar, Eighteenth-century studies: "Trompe l'oeil with Dead Bird"
Lynn Festa, Rutgers University
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Friday, November 20, 2015, 4:00pm
Cosponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard and Renaissance
Studies Seminar
Seminar, Cartography: "The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers' Map of 1550"
Chet Van Duzer, University of Mississippi
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
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-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 Woman's 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 renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
Friday, November 30, 2015, 4:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Seminar, Renaissance Studies: "New World Mining in the Humanist
Anthropocene"
Phillip John Usher, New York University
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/renaissance-studies
*Monday, November 30, 2015, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Pre-Lecture reception at
5:00 p.m. in the Edison and Newman Room)
The HBS Medici Collection: Understanding Renaissance Business
Sponsors: Harvard Business School; the Houghton Library, Harvard College;
the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University; and the
Department of History, Harvard University
Registration link for workshops included on website.
Lecture,"The HBS Medici Collection: Florence and International Trade,
1400-1600"
William Caferro, Vanderbilt University
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard College, Harvard Yard,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Professor Caferro will speak about the HBS Medici Collection and larger
issues in the economic history of Renaissance Italy and the Mediterranean.
Registration required, to register visit:
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/medici/
*Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Seminar, Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium: "An Archeology of
Transfers: the Emergent Superintendency of Painting in the Renaissance"
Alexander Nagel, New York University
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/visual-representation-mate
riality-and-medium
*Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
The HBS Medici Collection: Understanding Renaissance Business
Sponsors: Harvard Business School; the Houghton Library, Harvard College;
the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University; and the
Department of History, Harvard University
Lecture, "The HBS Medici Collection: Merchants, Markets, and Business
Practices in the Renaissance"
William Caferro, Vanderbilt University
Baker Library, Bloomberg Center, Room 102 Harvard Business School, 25
Harvard Way, Boston, MA 02163
Professor Caferro will present on the HBS Medici Collection, the light it
can shed on Renaissance business practices, and the early history of
accounting and bookkeeping.
Registration required, to register visit:
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/medici/
*Thursday, December 3rd, 2015, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The HBS Medici Collection: Understanding Renaissance Business
Sponsors: Harvard Business School; the Houghton Library, Harvard College;
the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University; and the
Department of History, Harvard University
Workshop, "The HBS Medici Collection: Reading Account Books as Texts and
Historical Sources"
Introductory remarks by William Caferro, Vanderbilt University
Baker Library Bloomberg Center, Room 101, Harvard Business School, 25
Harvard Way, Boston, MA 02163
A selection of volumes from the HBS Medici Collection will be on display,
along with other treasures from Baker Library's Kress Collection, including
a first edition of Luca Pacioli's 1494 Summa de Arithmetica and other
important pre-1600 Italian works of economic theory and commercial practice.
At these workshops, following introductory remarks by Prof. Caferro and
other experts, attendees will have a chance to view, handle, and ask
questions about these documents. This workshop will feature issues of book
history, paleography, and codicology in relation to the HBS Medici
Collection. Graduate students are especially welcome to the workshops.
Registration required, to register visit:
<http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/medici/>
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/medici/
*Thursday, December 3rd, 2015, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The HBS Medici Collection: Understanding Renaissance Business
Sponsors: Harvard Business School; the Houghton Library, Harvard College;
the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University; and the
Department of History, Harvard University
Workshop, "The HBS Medici Collection: Florentine Business and Accounting
Practices"
Introductory remarks by William Caferro, Vanderbilt University
Baker Library, Bloomberg Center, Room 101, Harvard Business School, 25
Harvard Way, Boston, MA 02163
A selection of volumes from the HBS Medici Collection will be on display,
along with other treasures from Baker Library's Kress Collection, including
a first edition of Luca Pacioli's 1494 Summa de Arithmetica and other
important pre-1600 Italian works of economic theory and commercial practice.
At these workshops, following introductory remarks by Prof. Caferro and
other experts, attendees will have a chance to view, handle, and ask
questions about these documents. This workshop will feature the nature of
Renaissance account books and the bookkeeping and accounting practices used
in them, using volumes from the HBS Medici Collection.
Registration required, to register visit:
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/medici/
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
*Saturday, December 5, 9:15am-5pm and Sunday, December 6, 2015 - 9:15am-4pm
Supported by the Lauro De Bosis Fund and Villa I Tatti.
Conference: Building the Canon: Italian Renaissance and the Creation of a
Literary Tradition
Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Sat AM (9:15am-12:30pm)
Christopher Celenza, JHU: "Canons and the Language of the Italian
Renaissance"
M.G. Eisner, Duke: "Dante, Ovid, and the Making of Machiavelli's Prince:
Contaminating Canons in the Letter to Vettori"
F. Venturi, Durham: "Self-Exegesis and Self-Canonization in Renaissance
Poetry"
N. Cannata, Roma 1: "Building the canon in 1530s Rome: Colocci's
epigrammatari as a test case"
Sat PM (2-5pm)
J.S. Boparai, Cambridge: "Pindar, Tragedy and Poliziano's Notion of
'Classical' Greek"
M. De Caro, Roma 3: "Was Galileo a Platonist?"
F. Pagani, Dumbarton Oaks: "Re-establishing Plato in the Classical Canon"
Carlo Caruso, Durham: "Editing vernacular classics in the early sixteenth
century: ancient
models and modern solutions"
Sun AM (9:15am-12:15am)
V. Prosperi, Sassari: "The Place of the Father: The Reception of Homer in
the Renaissance Canon"
M. Signorini, Roma 2: "Boccaccio as Homer: a recently discovered
self-portrait and the 'modern' canon"
T. Juliani, Unicamp: "In the center of the kaleidoscope: Ovidian poetic
image and Boccaccio's self-representation in De mulieribus claris"
Daniel Javitch, NYU: "How (and why) did Oedipus tyrannus become part of the
canon?"
Sun PM (1:30-4pm)
G. Comiati, Warwick: "Horace's biographies as a means to legitimize the
inclusion of Horace in the fifteenth-century canon of classical authorities"
F. Caneparo, UPenn: "The Renaissance literary canon and the arts: Ariosto's
Orlando furioso as a turning point"
I. Fantappiè, HU Berlin: "Anticlassicists' Classical Canon. Pietro Aretino"
Sunday, December 6, 2015, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman's 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
Thursday, December 10, 2015, 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Seminar, Woman and Culture in the early modern world: "Vexed Rulership:
Ambiguous Valois Bodies (1494-1589)"
Touba Ghadessi, Wheaton College
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-mo
dern-world
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
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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
*Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Seminar, Opera: "The Operatic Worlds of the Orchestra"
Emily Dolan, Harvard University
Barker Center, Room 110, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/opera
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
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-mo
dern-world
Friday, November 6, 2015, 4:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Seminar, Celtic Literature and Culture: "'The Seven Journeys of the Soul':
Women, Manuscript Culture, and the Apocalypse in Medieval and Renaissance
Wales and Ireland"
Katharine Olson, Bangor University
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/celtic-literature-and-cult
ure
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
*Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 5:15pm
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Seminar, Boston Environmental History Seminar: André Michaux and the Many
Politics of Trees in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, a light buffet
supper will be provided after the seminar.
Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215
In 1785, French botanist André Michaux was dispatched to the United States
to study and collect North American specimens in an attempt to find trees
that could replenish French forests. This essay offers a new analysis of
Michauxs mission in the context of the geo-political and diplomatic
circumstances of his day. It demonstrates the importance of having botanical
knowledge of a realm, and the value of a scientist who could navigate and
communicate such information.
The seminar is free and open to the public. Each seminar consists of a
discussion of a pre-circulated paper provided to our subscribers. This paper
will be available for subscribers by Nov. 3. A $25 subscription will entitle
you to the full series of papers, as well as the papers for the Boston Area
Early American History Seminar and the Boston Immigration and Urban History
Seminar. To subscribe to the 2015-2016 series visit:
http://www.masshist.org/calendar/seminars/environmental-history. (Papers
will be available at the event for those who choose not to subscribe.)
RSVP required, email seminars(a)masshist.org or call 617-646-0568. In case of
inclement weather, phone 617-536-1608 for information.
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.
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
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
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 7:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Seminar, Eighteenth-century studies: Trompe l'oeil with Dead Bird
Lynn Festa, Rutgers University
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Friday, November 20, 2015, 4:00pm
Cosponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard and Renaissance
Studies Seminar
Seminar, Cartography: The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers Map of 1550
Chet Van Duzer, University of Mississippi
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
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
Friday, November 30, 2015, 4:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Seminar, Renaissance Studies: New World Mining in the Humanist
Anthropocene
Phillip John Usher, New York University
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/renaissance-studies
*Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Seminar, Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium: "An Archeology of
Transfers: the Emergent Superintendency of Painting in the Renaissance"
Alexander Nagel, New York University
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/visual-representation-mate
riality-and-medium
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
*Saturday, December 5, 9:15am-5pm and Sunday, December 6, 2015 - 9:15am-4pm
Supported by the Lauro De Bosis Fund and Villa I Tatti.
Conference: Building the Canon: Italian Renaissance and the Creation of a
Literary Tradition
Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Sat AM (9:15am-12:30pm)
Christopher Celenza, JHU: Canons and the Language of the Italian
Renaissance
M.G. Eisner, Duke: Dante, Ovid, and the Making of Machiavellis Prince:
Contaminating Canons in the Letter to Vettori
F. Venturi, Durham: Self-Exegesis and Self-Canonization in Renaissance
Poetry
N. Cannata, Roma 1: Building the canon in 1530s Rome: Coloccis
epigrammatari as a test case
Sat PM (2-5pm)
J.S. Boparai, Cambridge: Pindar, Tragedy and Polizianos Notion of
Classical Greek
M. De Caro, Roma 3: Was Galileo a Platonist?
F. Pagani, Dumbarton Oaks: Re-establishing Plato in the Classical Canon
Carlo Caruso, Durham: Editing vernacular classics in the early sixteenth
century: ancient
models and modern solutions
Sun AM (9:15am-12:15am)
V. Prosperi, Sassari: The Place of the Father: The Reception of Homer in
the Renaissance Canon
M. Signorini, Roma 2: Boccaccio as Homer: a recently discovered
self-portrait and the modern canon
T. Juliani, Unicamp: In the center of the kaleidoscope: Ovidian poetic
image and Boccaccios self-representation in De mulieribus claris
Daniel Javitch, NYU: How (and why) did Oedipus tyrannus become part of the
canon?
Sun PM (1:30-4pm)
G. Comiati, Warwick: Horaces biographies as a means to legitimize the
inclusion of Horace in the fifteenth-century canon of classical authorities
F. Caneparo, UPenn: The Renaissance literary canon and the arts: Ariostos
Orlando furioso as a turning point
I. Fantappiè, HU Berlin: Anticlassicists Classical Canon. Pietro Aretino
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
Thursday, December 10, 2015, 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Seminar, Woman and Culture in the early modern world: "Vexed Rulership:
Ambiguous Valois Bodies (1494-1589)"
Touba Ghadessi, Wheaton College
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-mo
dern-world
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
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