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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
*Thursday, May 7, 2015 – 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Visual Representation, Materiality and the Medium Seminar
Chair: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Seminar talk, “Grounds for power: royal monuments and the earth in Early Modern France”
Speaker, Étienne Jollet, Université Paris, Panthéon Sorbonne
Plimpton Room (133), Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
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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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