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Early Mod Events, 13 April 2015

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This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailto-3Aearlymod-40fas…> . If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort. *New listing ** Updated listing ***CANCELLED Cancelled listing Call for Papers *Deadline: May 15, 2015 Theme: Renaissance Now! A New England Renaissance Conference Discussion: A series of five panels sponsored by the NERC at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting - Boston, to be held March 31-April 2, 2016, comprising five panels: Panel 1: "Assessing the ‘Cultural Turn’: Where Do We Go >From Here?” Panel 2: “Renaissance and the Public” Panel 3: Artifacts Pageant - “Renaissance and New Epistemologies” Panel 4: Graduate student panel - “Global Renaissance” Panel 5: Roundtable conversation - NERC Stakeholders' discussion Submissions should: • Indicate preferred panel (if your presentation fits in more than one panel, please indicate order of preference) • Include a paper abstract (150 words maximum) • Include keywords • Include a curriculum vitae (300 words maximum) Please contact Gen Liang (ygliang(a)wheatonma.edu) and Touba Ghadessi ( <mailto:ghadessi_touba@wheatonma.edu> ghadessi_touba(a)wheatonma.edu) for more information and to submit a proposal. EARLYMOD THIS WEEK UPCOMING EVENTS (* indicates a new listing / ** indicates an updated listing / *** indicates a cancelled listing) 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 – 5:30pm Renaissance Colloquium Meeting Talk, “Radically Reading John Davenport: Scripture and Utopia in Puritan America” Hudson Vincent, Harvard Rm. 024, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 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. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. Day, date, time Sponsor (if available) Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable) Location (Building, Room, St., Address, Institution, City, State) * Event must take place in the greater Boston area. Additional info (no more than a couple sentences) Website URL RSVP or Registration information/link

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Early Mod Events, 3 April 2015

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This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailto-3Aearlymod-40fas…> . If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort. *New listing ** Updated listing ***CANCELLED Cancelled listing EARLYMOD THIS WEEK 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. *April 7-9, 2015 - 4:15pm Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures: “Where in the World? Mapmaking at the Asia-Pacific Margin, 1600-1900” Kären Wigen, Stanford University CGIS South Building, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Drawing chiefly on Japanese examples, but with reference to the broader East Asian world during the early modern era, these presentations highlight three developments: the representation of oceans, the cartography of continents, and the mapping of the past. Lectures are free and open to the public. http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/2015-Reischauer-Lectures-01 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 UPCOMING EVENTS (* indicates a new listing / ** indicates an updated listing / *** indicates a cancelled listing) 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. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. Day, date, time Sponsor (if available) Type of event (ex. 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