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: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailto-3Aearlymod-40fas…> .
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Friday, March 20, 2015 - 5:30pm
Sponsored by Shakespearean Studies Seminar Series
Seminar, “Affective Entanglements and Alternative Histories in Samuel Rowley's 'If You See Me, You Know Me'",
Mario DiGangi, CUNY Graduate Center
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
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
Thursday, March 26, 2015 – 6:00pm
Sponsored by The Harvard Seminar on History and Policy
Seminar, "Accounting, Accountability, and the Struggle for Nation-Building"
Jacob Soll, University of Southern California, Comment: Alex Keyssar, Harvard Kennedy School
Room 219, Rubinstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
https://college.harvard.edu/college-events/harvard-seminar-history-and-poli…
For more information contact: elizabeth_steffen(a)hks.harvard.edu / (617) 495-5066
UPCOMING EVENTS (* indicates a new listing / ** indicates an updated listing / *** indicates a cancelled listing)
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, 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 – Friday, April 17, 2015 – Various times, as detailed below
Sponsored by The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Office of the President at Harvard
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Carlo Ginzburg, University of California, Los Angeles, “Casuistry, For and Against: Pascal's Provinciales and Their Aftermath”
Lecture 1, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 – 4:00pm
“Casuistry and Irony: Some Reflections on Pascal’s Provinciales”
Introductions by Drew G. Faust, President, Harvard University; and
Robert Darnton, Harvard University
Respondent: Robert Maryks, Boston College
Room 105, Emerson Hall, Harvard University, 19 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Lecture 2, Thursday, April 16, 2015 – 4:00pm
“Irony, Geometry, Casuistry: Two Case Studies”
Introduction by: Ann Blair, Harvard University
Respondent: Lowell Gallagher, University of California, Los Angeles
Room 105, Emerson Hall, Harvard University, 19 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Seminar, Friday, April 17, 2015 - 10:00am
Additional Participants:
Mark Jordan, Harvard Divinity School
Frances Kamm, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Room 110, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/casuistry-and-against-pas…
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 – 5:00-7:00pm. (date change)
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 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.
*Friday, April 24, 2015 - 4:00pm - 6:30pm; and Saturday, April 25, 2015, 10:00am - 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Department of English
Conference, "Shakespeare and Classical Literature: A Research Conference"
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This one-and-a-half-day conference brings together scholars working in the field of Shakespeare and classical antiquity to share research, discuss methodology and research practices, and facilitate collaboration. The conference will also feature a performance of Shakespeare scenes by Hyperion, Harvard's undergraduate Shakespeare company.
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,
With introduction by Robert Darnton (introduction info added)
Room, K354, CGIS Knafel Building, Harvard University 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA02138
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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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: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailto-3Aearlymod-40fas…> .
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
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
*Tuesday, March 10, 2015 – 6:00 – 8:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group and the History of Medicine Working Group
Lecture and Discussion, “Extravagance and Economy: Sixteenth-Century Anatomical Prints with Moveable Flaps”
Theresa Smith, Harvard University
Room 469, Science Center, History of Science Department, 1 Oxford Street, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/home
RSVP to dkennedy(a)fas.harvard.edu
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 (**titles and location added)
Sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium
Two paper presentations:
"Performance, Patronage, and Reputation: The Lost Overthrow of Turnhout (1599)"
By Misha Teramura, Harvard University, and
"High Fidelity in Milton's Early Poems"
By Elizabeth Weckhurst, Harvard University
Room 024, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy 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)
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.
UPCOMING EVENTS (* indicates a new listing / ** indicates an updated listing / *** indicates a cancelled listing)
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
*Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar Series
Seminar, "Irregular and Extra-Regular: Fictive Histories and Penitential Disorder"
Alison More, Edinburgh University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
*Friday, March 20, 2015 - 5:30pm
Sponsored by Shakespearean Studies Seminar Series
Seminar, “Affective Entanglements and Alternative Histories in Samuel Rowley's 'If You See Me, You Know Me'",
Mario DiGangi, CUNY Graduate Center
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
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
*Thursday, March 26, 2015 – 6:00pm
Sponsored by The Harvard Seminar on History and Policy
Seminar, "Accounting, Accountability, and the Struggle for Nation-Building"
Jacob Soll, University of Southern California, Comment: Alex Keyssar, Harvard Kennedy School
Room 219, Rubinstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
https://college.harvard.edu/college-events/harvard-seminar-history-and-poli…
For more information contact: elizabeth_steffen(a)hks.harvard.edu / (617) 495-5066
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, 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 – Friday, April 17, 2015 – Various times, as detailed below
Sponsored by The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Office of the President at Harvard
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Carlo Ginzburg, University of California, Los Angeles, “Casuistry, For and Against: Pascal's Provinciales and Their Aftermath”
Lecture 1, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 – 4:00pm
“Casuistry and Irony: Some Reflections on Pascal’s Provinciales”
Introductions by Drew G. Faust, President, Harvard University; and
Robert Darnton, Harvard University
Respondent: Robert Maryks, Boston College
Room 105, Emerson Hall, Harvard University, 19 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Lecture 2, Thursday, April 16, 2015 – 4:00pm
“Irony, Geometry, Casuistry: Two Case Studies”
Introduction by: Ann Blair, Harvard University
Respondent: Lowell Gallagher, University of California, Los Angeles
Room 105, Emerson Hall, Harvard University, 19 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Seminar, Friday, April 17, 2015 - 10:00am
Additional Participants:
Mark Jordan, Harvard Divinity School
Frances Kamm, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Room 110, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/casuistry-and-against-pas…
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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