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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Thursday, December 3, 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 Librarys Kress Collection, including
a first edition of Luca Paciolis 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 3, 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 Librarys Kress Collection, including
a first edition of Luca Paciolis 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, 5:00pm
Medieval Colloquium
Talk, "Copy and Copia in the Poetry of John Skelton"
Taylor Cowdery, Harvard
Kates Room, Warren House, Harvard University, 11 Prescott Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
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, 8:30am-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 (8:30am-9:15am) Breakfast
(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 (8:30am-9:00am) Breakfast
(9:00am-12:15pm)
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.
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
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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