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Friday February 27, 2015 - 5:30pm reception / 6:00pm seminar
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Lecture, "MOOC Ado About Nothing"
Yu Jin Ko, Wellesley College
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month?date=2015-02
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.
Monday, March 2, 2015 – Time TBA
Talk, "Fiscal Struggles and the Rise of Civic Equality in Old Regime France"
Guest Speaker, William Sewell, University of Chicago; Faculty Comment: Mary Lewis (Harvard University); Student Comment: Manuel Rincon-Cruz (Harvard University)
For more information visit: <http://studyofcapitalism.harvard.edu/workshop> http://studyofcapitalism.harvard.edu/workshop
Tuesday March 3, 2015 – 12:00 – 1:30pm
Talk, “Anecdote, Experience, and Trial: Methods of Drug Testing in Early Modern Europe”
Alisha Rankin, Tufts University
Room 469, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 – 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center – Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminars
Seminar, "Revolutions Between Nations, 1776-1789"
Janet Polasky University of New Hampshire
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
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
Book talk, "John Donne and the Art of Holy Attention."
David Marno (UC Berkeley), guest speaker
Room 24, Barker Center, Harvard University, 11 Prescott St., Cambridge, MA 02138
<http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179> http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179
Professor Marno's current work examines changing religious ideals and practices in the Renaissance and focuses on the intersection between literature and religious practice.
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.
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Monday, March 9, 2015 – 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Afro-Latin American Research Institute and The Early Modern Europe Workshop
Talk, "Negotiating Citizenship through the Market: 'New Citizens' and the Atlantic Trade in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue”
Manuel Covo, John Carter Brown Library
To be held in the Basement seminar room, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
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 17, 2015 - 4:30-6:00pm
Sponsored by the Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Series
Seminar, Title TBA
Carol Pal, Bennington
Pavilion Room, Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912
For more information contact: memhs(a)listserv.brown.edu
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, March 25, 2015 -5:00 pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern Europe Workshop
Talk, "Missed Chances and Bad Bets: Speculation and Bankruptcy in Premodern Europe,"
Christine Zabel, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center – Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminars
Seminar, "Artists' Graffiti"
Charlotte Guichard, French Academy in Rome
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
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 – 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center – Cartography Seminars
Seminar, "Ceci n'est pas Damas: Arabic Prose Topographies of Damascus, 12th-18th Centuries"
Dana Sajdi, Boston College
Room 201, Warren House, Barker Center, Harvard University, 11 Prescott St., Cambridge, MA 02138
For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
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 - 4:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Afro-Latin American Research Institute and The Early Modern Europe Workshop
Talk, "From Brazil to West Africa: Dutch-Portuguese rivalry and African politics in the Bight of Benin (ca. 1637- ca. 1750),"
Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
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.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 – 6:00pm
Seminar, "Revisiting the NYPL Berg Collection Dunciad[s]: 'Vociferation' in Manuscript, Typescript, Print, and Digital Media"
Paula McDowell, English, NYU
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
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 – 4:00pm & 5:30pm
4:00pm - "Manipulating Information in the Ancien Régime: The View from the Provinces"
Giora Sternberg (University of Oxford),
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminars in Eighteenth-Century Studies and History of the Book (but talk will be held at MIT address listed below)
5:30pm –"Manipulating Information in the Ancien Régime: The View from the Provinces”
Antoine Lilti, Centre de Recherches Historiques
Co-sponsored by MIT, Global Studies and Languages Section and History Faculty
Both talks will be held in Building E51-095, MIT, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
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
Thursday, April 16, 2015 – 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center - Cartography Seminars
Seminar, "Discontinuous Continents: Rethinking Macrocartography"
Benjamin Braude, Boston College
Location TBA
For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
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
Tuesday, April 21, 4:30-6:00pm
Sponsored by the Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Series
Seminar, Title TBA
Jonathan Conant, Brown University
Pavilion Room, Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912
For more information contact: memhs(a)listserv.brown.edu
**Wednesday, April 22, 2015 -5:00pm
Talk, “Multinormativity in Early Modern World: Canon Law in Seventeenth Century Chile”
Thomas Duve, Max Planck Institute for Legal History, Germany
Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Harvard University, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge 02138
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
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 – 4:30 pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern Europe Workshop
Talk, "Window Gazes and World Views: A Chapter in the Cultural History of Vision”
Daniel Jütte, Harvard University
Room, K354, CGIS Knafel Building, Harvard University 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA02138
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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Thursday, February 19, 2015 – 5:00-7:00pm
Mahindra 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, 2015 – 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy
Talk, “Thomas Jefferson & the French Revolution”
Jonathan Israel, Princeton University
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Please RSVP to: clough.center(a)bc.edu
For more information visit: www.bc.edu/cloughcenter
* Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center - Women And Culture In The Early Modern World Seminar Series
Seminar, “Marlowe and the Sibyl's Scattered Leaves”
Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College
Barker Center, Room 128, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Thursday, February 19, 2015 -9:00am – 3:00pm; and Friday, February 20, 2015 10:00am-4:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard History and Harvard German Departments
Conference, “Ignorance, Nescience, Nonknowledge: Late Medieval and Early Modern Coping with Unknowns”
History Department, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge 02138
Full program available online: http://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/nescience-nonknowledge-late-medieval-a…
To register please contact: zwierlein(a)fas.harvard.edu
This is an interdisciplinary two-place conference on Historicizing Ignorance in Late Medieval and Early Modern History will take place at Harvard University, Robinson Hall and the German Historical Institute, Paris.The conference seeks to address how ignorance about phenomena in different epistemic fields of the late medieval and early modern world was recognized (or not), used and coped with, differently from modern times. The Harvard part is devoted to the fields of historiography, the information management of early modern states and empires, on decision making under ignorance, political discourses dealing with and reacting to unknowns, early modern natural science, the coping with ignorance and silence from canon law to continental common law, and in several case studies on humanism, coping with ignorances in travel writing and translations as well as in the visual arts.
*Thursday, February 19, 2015 & Friday, February 20, 2015 – Various Times
Sponsored by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation <http://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events-publicati…> and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation <http://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events-publicati…>
Symposium, “Merchants of the Printed Word: The Circulation and Commerce of Books in the Americas and Beyond”
Keynote Lecture by Roger Chartier (Thursday evening)
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 94 George St, Providence, RI 02906
For full program and registration information click here <http://blogs.brown.edu/merchants-of-the-printed-word/>
For more information, please contact jcb-events(a)brown.edu
On the occasion of its latest exhibition, “ <http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/regal/index.html> Printers’ Devils and Printers’ Delights: The Book in Spanish America,” the John Carter Brown Library invites you to a symposium commemorating the 475th anniversary of the introduction of the printing press to America, with presentations by leading scholars whose research focuses on the circulation of print in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. One hundred years before a printing press was brought to North America, European printers and their apprentices were already busily producing printed matter of all shapes and sizes throughout the Spanish empire, from Mexico City to Lima and beyond. Our hope is that the meeting will generate new insights into the collective history of the Americas as relate to the worlds of print.
* Friday February 20, 2015 –1:00-3:00pm
Sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium
Graduate Workshop on advanced digital corpus search tools, entitled "Prosthetic Formalism"
Led by, Daniel Shore, Georgetown University
Barker Center, Room 133 Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
This workshop is intended for all graduates and faculty with an interest in digital humanities, regardless of their level of experience with these methods. For the workshop, Prof. Shore has asked that you bring your laptop with you, if possible.
*Friday, February 20, 2015 – 1:00pm
Sponsored by the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Demonstration of Live Electrical Experiments
Room C, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Ever wonder what it was like to attend Harvard College in the mid-1700s? Join us when CHSI will recreate some 18th century electrical experiments straight out of the lecture notes of Professor John Winthrop and the demonstrations at Faneuil Hall by Ebenezer Kinnersley, Benjamin Franklin’s friend. Witness the surprising effects of electrical attraction and repulsion! A fire lit by water! Bells rung by an invisible, imponderable fluid! And a warning to all who do not have lightning rods: the blowing up of the Thunder House! Experiments will be performed with vintage and replica instruments from Lecture Demonstrations with the help of Daniel Rosenberg and Sara Schechner. Rare 18th-century apparatus from the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments will be on exhibit during the lecture.
http://chsi.harvard.edu/index.html
*Friday, February 20, 2015 – 4:00pm
Talk, "Credit, blame, and thanks: some impacts of printing on collaborative authorship in early modern Europe”
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Weatherhead Center Seminar in Cultural Politics, Bowie-Vernon Room (Room K262), CGIS Knafel Building, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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*Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 5:15-6:45pm
Sponsored by the Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Series
Seminar, "The Pursuit of Priority in the Horological Arts"
Rachel Gostenhofer, Brown University
Pavilion Room, Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912
For more information or access to the paper contact: memhs(a)listserv.brown.edu
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 – 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center – Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminars
Seminar, "Print and Personhood in the Early Caribbean Rhetoric of the Runaway"
Srividhya Swaminathan, Long Island University
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
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.
* Friday February 27, 2015 - 5:30pm reception / 6:00pm seminar
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Lecture, "MOOC Ado About Nothing"
Yu Jin Ko, Wellesley College
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month?date=2015-02
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.
*Monday, March 2, 2015 – Time TBA
Talk, "Fiscal Struggles and the Rise of Civic Equality in Old Regime France"
Guest Speaker, William Sewell, University of Chicago; Faculty Comment: Mary Lewis (Harvard University); Student Comment: Manuel Rincon-Cruz (Harvard University)
For more information visit: <http://studyofcapitalism.harvard.edu/workshop> http://studyofcapitalism.harvard.edu/workshop
*Tuesday March 3, 2015 – 12:00 – 1:30pm
Talk, “Anecdote, Experience, and Trial: Methods of Drug Testing in Early Modern Europe”
Alisha Rankin, Tufts University
Room 469, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
*Tuesday, March 3, 2015 – 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center – Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminars
Seminar, "Revolutions Between Nations, 1776-1789"
Janet Polasky University of New Hampshire
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
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.
*Monday, March 9, 2015 – 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Afro-Latin American Research Institute and The Early Modern Europe Workshop
Talk, "Negotiating Citizenship through the Market: 'New Citizens' and the Atlantic Trade in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue”
Manuel Covo, John Carter Brown Library
To be held in the Basement seminar room, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
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 17, 2015 - 4:30-6:00pm
Sponsored by the Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Series
Seminar, Title TBA
Carol Pal, Bennington
Pavilion Room, Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912
For more information contact: memhs(a)listserv.brown.edu
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, March 25, 2015 -5:00 pm
Talk, "Missed Chances and Bad Bets: Speculation and Bankruptcy in Premodern Europe,"
Christine Zabel, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center – Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminars
Seminar, "Artists' Graffiti"
Charlotte Guichard, French Academy in Rome
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
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 – 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center – Cartography Seminars
Seminar, "Ceci n'est pas Damas: Arabic Prose Topographies of Damascus, 12th-18th Centuries"
Dana Sajdi, Boston College
Room 201, Warren House, Barker Center, Harvard University, 11 Prescott St., Cambridge, MA 02138
For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
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 - 4:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Afro-Latin American Research Institute and The Early Modern Europe Workshop
Talk, "From Brazil to West Africa: Dutch-Portuguese rivalry and African politics in the Bight of Benin (ca. 1637- ca. 1750),"
Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
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.
*Thursday, April 9, 2015 – 6:00pm
Seminar, "Revisiting the NYPL Berg Collection Dunciad[s]: 'Vociferation' in Manuscript, Typescript, Print, and Digital Media"
Paula McDowell, English, NYU
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
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 – 4:00pm & 5:30pm
4:00pm - "Manipulating Information in the Ancien Régime: The View from the Provinces"
Giora Sternberg (University of Oxford),
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminars in Eighteenth-Century Studies and History of the Book (but talk will be held at MIT address listed below)
5:30pm –"Manipulating Information in the Ancien Régime: The View from the Provinces”
Antoine Lilti, Centre de Recherches Historiques
Co-sponsored by MIT, Global Studies and Languages Section and History Faculty
Both talks will be held in Building E51-095, MIT, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
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
*Thursday, April 16, 2015 – 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center - Cartography Seminars
Seminar, "Discontinuous Continents: Rethinking Macrocartography"
Benjamin Braude, Boston College
Location TBA
For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
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
*Tuesday, April 21, 4:30-6:00pm
Sponsored by the Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Series
Seminar, Title TBA
Jonathan Conant, Brown University
Pavilion Room, Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912
For more information contact: memhs(a)listserv.brown.edu
*Wednesday, April 22, 2015 -5:00pm
Title: TBA
Thomas Duve, Max Planck Institute for Legal History, Germany
Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Harvard University, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge 02138
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
*Tuesday, April 28, 2015 – 4:30 pm
Talk, "Window Gazes and World Views: A Chapter in the Cultural History of Vision”
Daniel Jütte, Harvard University
Room, K354, CGIS Knafel Building, Harvard University 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA02138
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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