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Early Mod Events, 18 September 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: <mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu> earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu. 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 Friday, September 18, 2015 - Sunday, September 20, 2015, 8:30pm - 9:30pm Sponsored by UMass Amherst and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies International Shakespeare Conference Integrated Science Bldg., 661 N. Pleasant St., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Reception on Friday evening. Registration is Saturday and Sunday from 8:30 to 9:30 at the door, or online at <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_shakespea re_index.html&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvP gojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=KWPo7ixtPM AQOL3Id3u00cAy0Lh2Te_WiKo2nNlmqeU&e=> http://www.umass.edu/shakespeare/index.html. Open to the public. This conference is located at the Integrated Science Building on the campus of UMass Amherst, NOT at the Renaissance Center. For more information contact: (413) 577-3600 or at <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu RSVP at the door or at <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_shakespea re_index.html&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvP gojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=KWPo7ixtPM AQOL3Id3u00cAy0Lh2Te_WiKo2nNlmqeU&e=> http://www.umass.edu/shakespeare/index.html Friday, September 18, 2015, 4:00pm-6:30pm Saturday, September 19, 2015, 8:45am - 5:45pm Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, Amherst College, and Smith College Symposium, Books and Print between Cultures, 1500-1900 Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA; and 17 other participants Converse Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, MA Free and open to the public <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__booksandprint.sites.am herst.edu_&d=BQMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPgoj b45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=f2FgoeGbfft4xbEhdVONyPYOy8HfCw-trFJ2cgpN2fg&s=ZjLYeJRO0NbIs cdNp2DoxkdKsu3xAbvW7ZCvfzlSSpY&e=> https://booksandprint.sites.amherst.edu/ Advanced registration is appreciated: <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__booksandprint.sites.am herst.edu_registration_&d=BQMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGp cmPpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=f2FgoeGbfft4xbEhdVONyPYOy8HfCw-trFJ2cgpN2fg&s= 5FfRsl9OkG9YNp2QdJbRDySDZIAj4yNzgUZ5U0rlRhs&e=> https://booksandprint.sites.amherst.edu/registration/ *Saturday, September 19, 2015, 8:30am-5:30pm - Sunday, September 20, 2015, 12:00pm-4:30pm Sponsored by The Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Symposium, Between the New World and Asia: Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic Exchanges in the Early Modern Era Saturday, September 19, 2015 Location: Harvard University, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Sunday, September 20, 2015 Location: Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 Free and open to the public Sundays program is free and open to the public, but a reserved ticket is required. To reserve a ticket, please visit http://www.mfa.org/programs/lecture/betweenthe-new-world-and-asia-trans-paci fic-and-trans-atlantic-exchange-in-the-earlymodern-era. To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975; to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk. See full schedule at: http://haa.fas.harvard.edu/files/hoart/files/symposium_schedule.pdf Wednesday, September 23, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard International & Global History Seminar Talk, The Nomos of the Island: Law and Geography in the Anglo-Portuguese Transfer of Bombay in the Late Seventeenth Century Philip J. Stern, Duke University Lower Library, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 20138 Please read the pre-circulated paper for this meeting, available one week before from: <http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu> http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu. *Wednesday, September 23, 2015, 6:00pm Sponsored by The Early Sciences Working Group Lecture, "Curing in the Backyard: Recipes and the Animal Body in Cookery, Chymistry, and Medicine in the Ancien Régime" Kathryn Heintzman, Harvard University Science Center 469, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 20138 Please RSVP to Ardeta Gjikola at agjikola(a)fas.harvard.edu *Thursday, September 24, 2015, 5:30pm Sponsored by the Graduate Student Lecture Series of the History of Art and Architecture and the Harvard Art Museums Material Lab Lecture, Historians in the Laboratory: The making and knowing project Pamela Smith, Columbia University Harvard Art Museums, Deknatel Hall (Use Broadway St. Entrance), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Thursday, September 24, 2015, 4:15pm Sponsored by Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Seminar, If Aristotle Were Alive: Scientific and Religious Debates in the Late Renaissance" Eva del Soldato, University of Pennsylvania (Squash) Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Kristine Schiavi by phone: (860) 685-2830, or e-mail: <mailto:kschiavi@wesleyan.edu> kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed u_&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498 iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=TnG5k-KRVtSE2oqEn52Ql kuzWYfgq-N2Pu9P1jdELKY&e=> http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ Thursday, September 24, 2015, 5:30pm-7:00pm Sponsored by the Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard, Co-Chairs, Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie Talk, The Regina dAlgiero (1587): Image and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean Cristelle Baskins, Tufts University Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA For more information, please call 617-495-0738 <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/emregina-d%E2%80%99algier oem-1587-image-and-identity-early-modern-mediterranean> http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/emregina-d%E2%80%99algiero em-1587-image-and-identity-early-modern-mediterranean Thursday, September 24, 2015 Thursday, October 1, 2015 Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Scholar in Residence Harry Berger, University of California, Santa Cruz. Please call the Center at (413) 577-3600 to arrange for a time slot during his office hours. Free and open to the public. UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) Saturday, September 26, 2015, 9:00am - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Celebrating Shakespeare Conference Harry Berger, University of California, Santa Cruz; Jane Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts Amherst; William Oram, Smith College; Naomi Miller, Smith College; and many more. Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. Lunch is provided. Register by September 25th at 413-577-3600 or <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu. Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 4:00pm Talk, A Wholly Other Face of the Mohammedan Religion: Europeans Reinterpret Islam, 1650-1734 Alexander Bevilacqua, Harvard Society of Fellows Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Please read the pre-circulated paper for this meeting, available one week before from: <http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu> http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu. Tuesdays beginning September 29, 2015, 7:00pm - 9:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class, Shakespeare with Tony Burton: Measure for Measure and The Tempest Lecturer TBA Location: TBA Pious rulers let the reins slip away, with a variety of unexpected results. Please read the texts first, and have questions and biases ready to discuss. Free and open to the public. Runs 9 weeks. Pre-registration required at 413-577-3600 by September 18th. Wednesday, September 30, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series: Reflections on Don Quixote. Harry Berger, University of California, Santa Cruz Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Sunday, October 4, 2015, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Concert, The Springfield Mandolin Orchestra Adam R. Sweet, Springfield Mandolin Orchestra Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA The orchestra will present a program of an Anthony Holborne Suite, Vivaldi's "La Folia," and Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is very limited. Donations are welcome. Mondays October 5, 19, 26, and November 2, 2015, 10:00am - 11:00am Sponsored by The UMass Renaissance Center Community Class, The Hand-Press Book Jeff Goodhind, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA An introduction to early printed books including paper, typesetting, printing, illustration, and binding. No knowledge of book history required. Class will take place in the upstairs classroom. Free event, handicapped Accessible. Contact: Jeff Goodhind 413-577-3600 Pre-register by October 4th at 413-577-3600 or at <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu. *Wednesday, October 7, 2015 5:00pm Sponsored by The Renaissance Colloquium, Harvard University Lecture, "Tottel Today" Gordon Teskey, Harvard Barker 018, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 20138 Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer. Robin Varnum, American International College Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Thursday, October 8, 2015 4:15pm Sponsored by Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Seminar, "The Humanist Anthropocene. Part 1: The Exterranean Renaissance" Phillip Usher, New York University (Squash) Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Kristine Schiavi by phone: (860) 685-2830, or e-mail: <mailto:kschiavi@wesleyan.edu> kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed u_&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498 iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=TnG5k-KRVtSE2oqEn52Ql kuzWYfgq-N2Pu9P1jdELKY&e=> http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ Friday October 9, 2015, 6:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Seminar, Shakespearean Studies Seminar Jane Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Reception is at 5:30pm <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month?date=2015-10> http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month?date=2015-10 Saturday, October 10, 2015, 9:00am - 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Conference, Graduate Conference Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College. Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA $10.00 includes admission to all sessions, breakfast, lunch, and afternoon coffee. Advance registration is required. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__renaissanceconference.w ordpress.com&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPg ojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=mf4y1xa32d- YTBIyHwkC4MoVdObEscn-lqbzGvpI2kk&e=> http://renaissanceconference.wordpress.com Sunday, October 11, 2015- Monday, January 18, 2016 Sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Exhibition, Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ann and Graham Gund Gallery (Gallery LG31) 465 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA Featuring 75 masterpieces by artists including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jan Steen, and Frans Hals from European and North American public and private collections, this exhibition is the first to consider 17th-century Dutch painting through the lens of the social classes. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mfa.org_exhibitions _class-2Ddistinctions&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcm PpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=m3 pI-mwQUtfRQ6xZPSn_vqKXU9LTngCNO_ETHxVg9Zc&e=> http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/class-distinctions *Wednesday, October 14, 2015 5:00pm Sponsored by The Renaissance Colloquium, Harvard University Lecture Jessica Wolfe, UNC Barker 018, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 20138 Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series: Muse of the Dance: Instrumental Music of the High Renaissance. David Gruender, Boston Symphony Orchestra Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Mondays, October 19, 26, and November 2, 9, 2015, 3:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class, The Madrigal Emiliano Ricciardi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Location: TBA The goal of this class is to develop a musical and historical understanding of the madrigal, one of the most important genres of vocal music in the late Renaissance. In the class we will examine select works by prominent practitioners of this genre, such as Willaert and Marenzio, placing them in the context of larger musical and cultural trends. No musical background is required. Pre-registration is required at 413-577-3600 or <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu. Tuesday, October 20, 2015 4:00pm Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Lecture, The 36th William F. Church Memorial Lecture: Revealed Beauty and Hidden Danger: On Jewish Books of Time in Early Modern Europe Elisheva Carleback, Columbia University Winnick Chapel, Brown/RISD Hillel Building, 80 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 5:30pm-7:00pm Lecture, Tomasso Lecture: Inhabited Architecture: A Pervasive Motif in Medieval Art and Modern Theory. Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University Tufts University *Wednesday, October 21, 5:00pm Cosponsored by The History of the Book at Harvard, and the 18th Century Studies seminar. Lecture, "The Choirbook Tradition in France from the Early 17th Century to the Eve of the Revolution (ca. 1780)" Jean-Paul Montagnier, Université de Lorraine, France, McGill University Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 12:00pm Talk, Historical Expertise and the Production of Almanacs in the Age of Enlightenment Jennifer C. Blanke, University of Göttingen Lower Library, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, The Impact of Natural History on Renaissance Art and Literature. Marion Copeland, Dakin Humane Society Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Thursday October 22, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Fine Arts Department, Boston College Lecture, Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art: "Baroque Makeovers: Style Change in Seventeenth-Century Italian Painting Catherine Puglisi, Rutgers University Devlin Hall, Room 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 The von Henneberg lecture and the reception immediately following are free and open to the public. Visitor parking information and additional information can be found at <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bc.edu_schools_cas_ finearts_upcomingevents.html&d=BQMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S 3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=YyTHbGt59FLLJy1opF_s5iui4H3zD8ArUO-0-VB-Q UI&s=UGstm6ThdRFtS73EUVm9khEUPfVsWjESAffyQW7gTJ0&e=> http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/upcomingevents.html Please RSVP by October 1, 2015: 617-552-4295 or <mailto:elliotj@bc.edu> elliotj(a)bc.edu Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, "Fake It Till You Make It: A Modern Medievalist Meets Renaissance Pseudo-hieroglyphs." Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Sunday, November 1, 2015, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Concert, First Sunday Concert Series, AyreCraft Donnie Cotter, Robert Castellano and Meg Pash Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is very limited. Donations welcome. Monday, November 2, 2015, 5:00pm Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, the Robert C. Smith, Jr. Fund for Portuguese Studies, and the Brazil Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Talk, Slave Trade, Ethnicity and Ethnonym: Southeastern Brazil and the African West Coast Aldair Rodrigues, Yale University Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA *Wednesday, November 4, 2015 5:00pm Sponsored by The Renaissance Colloquium, Harvard University Lecture, "Appetite, Moral Order, and the Nature of Things: Hamlet and Hunting" Rhodri Lewis, Oxford Kresge Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 20138 Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, Rare Book Show and Tell. Jeff Goodhind, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Saturday, November 7, 2015, 6:00pm 9:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Festival, French Renaissance Harvest Banquet Marriott Center, 11th Floor, Campus Center (UMass Amherst, main campus) Join us for a festive evening celebrating Renaissance France! Enjoy authentic Renaissance food prepared using produce and herbs from the Renaissance Centers own kitchen garden. Revel in the sounds of Renaissance France brought to you through lutes, sackbuts, singing, harps and more. With entertainment ranging from juggling to theater to door prizes, you are bound to have an evening of excitement and fun! Costumes encouraged! Reservations must be made by November 2nd. Call 413-577-3600 to reserve your tickets. $75/each or $125/couple. *New* Student Discount: $35/person *Wednesday, November 11, 2015 5:00pm Sponsored by The Renaissance Colloquium, Harvard University Lecture, "Physical Manuscripts, Digital Databases, and the Art of the Trouvaille: Some Renaissance Resources and How to Use Them" Misha Teramura, Harvard Barker 018, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 20138 Wednesday, November 11 Friday, November 13, 2015 Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Scholar in Residence Leah Whittington, Harvard University. Please call the Center at 413-577-3600 to arrange for a time slot during her office hours. Free and open to the public. Thursday, November 12, 2015 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Classical Legacy Lecture, "Performing the Past: Shakespeare and Classical Literature from Humanist Schoolroom to Early Modern Stage." Leah Whittington, Harvard University Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Friday, November 13, 2015, 7:00pm 9:00pm Co-sponsored by The Renaissance Centers Reading Group and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Festival, Renaissance Games Night Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Join us for an evening of Renaissance-era board games, door prizes, refreshments, and more! Families and kids are welcome! Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 4:30pm Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar Lecture, De-localizing Medicine in the English East India Company's Medical Service, 1730-90 Zachary Dorner, Brown University Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 *Wednesday, November 18, 2015 5:00pm Sponsored by The Renaissance Colloquium, Harvard University Lecture Marc Shell, Harvard Barker 018, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 20138 *Friday, November 20, 2015, 6:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Seminar, Shakespearean Studies Seminar: "'And must we be divided?: Commemorating Shakespeare in America, 1864" Douglas Lanier, University of New Hampshire Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Reception is at 5:30pm http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/and-must-we-be-divided-com memorating-shakespeare-america-1864 Saturday, November 21, 2015, 9:00am 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Conference, Early America Conference Alden Vaughan, Columbia University; Abby Chandler, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and more. Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. Lunch is provided. Register by November 20th at 413-577-3600 or <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu *Thursday, December 3, 2015, 6:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Seminar, Shakespearean Studies Seminar: Annual Graduate Symposium: "New Work on Early Modern Drama" Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Reception is at 5:30pm http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/graduate-symposium Sunday, December 6, 2015, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Concert, First Sunday Concert Series, The Amherst Recorder Consort Bob Leitch Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA The Amherst Recorder Consort will perform a program of Byrd, Verdelot, Tallis, Crecquillon, Josquin and more! Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is very limited. Donations welcome. Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 4:30pm Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar Lecture, Building Empire in West Africa: Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) and the Foundation of the Portuguese Fort of Uidá (1721) Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 *If you would like to request that your announcement be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events e-mail: Please send your listing to: <mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu> earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu It would be a great help if you could follow the format below. To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place in the greater Boston area. 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, 11 September 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: <mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu> earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu. 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 *Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 4:30pm Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar Seminar, Demand and Threaten: Christian and Muslim Narratives of Violence Daniel Hershenzon, University of Connecticut Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 Please consult <https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ to access the pre-circulated paper of the talk Friday, September 18, 2015 - Sunday, September 20, 2015, 8:30pm - 9:30pm Sponsored by UMass Amherst and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies International Shakespeare Conference Integrated Science Bldg., 661 N. Pleasant St., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Reception on Friday evening. Registration is Saturday and Sunday from 8:30 to 9:30 at the door, or online at <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_shakespea re_index.html&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvP gojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=KWPo7ixtPM AQOL3Id3u00cAy0Lh2Te_WiKo2nNlmqeU&e=> http://www.umass.edu/shakespeare/index.html. Open to the public. This conference is located at the Integrated Science Building on the campus of UMass Amherst, NOT at the Renaissance Center. For more information contact: (413) 577-3600 or at <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu RSVP at the door or at <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_shakespea re_index.html&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvP gojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=KWPo7ixtPM AQOL3Id3u00cAy0Lh2Te_WiKo2nNlmqeU&e=> http://www.umass.edu/shakespeare/index.html *Friday, September 18, 2015, 4:00pm-6:30pm Saturday, September 19, 2015, 8:45am - 5:45pm Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, Amherst College, and Smith College Symposium, Books and Print between Cultures, 1500-1900 Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA; and 17 other participants Converse Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, MA Free and open to the public <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__booksandprint.sites.am herst.edu_&d=BQMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPgoj b45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=f2FgoeGbfft4xbEhdVONyPYOy8HfCw-trFJ2cgpN2fg&s=ZjLYeJRO0NbIs cdNp2DoxkdKsu3xAbvW7ZCvfzlSSpY&e=> https://booksandprint.sites.amherst.edu/ Advanced registration is appreciated: <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__booksandprint.sites.am herst.edu_registration_&d=BQMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGp cmPpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=f2FgoeGbfft4xbEhdVONyPYOy8HfCw-trFJ2cgpN2fg&s= 5FfRsl9OkG9YNp2QdJbRDySDZIAj4yNzgUZ5U0rlRhs&e=> https://booksandprint.sites.amherst.edu/registration/ UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) Wednesday, September 23, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard International & Global History Seminar Talk, The Nomos of the Island: Law and Geography in the Anglo-Portuguese Transfer of Bombay in the Late Seventeenth Century Philip J. Stern, Duke University Lower Library, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Please read the pre-circulated paper for this meeting, available one week before from: <http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu> http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu. Thursday, September 24, 2015, 4:15pm Sponsored by Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Seminar, If Aristotle Were Alive: Scientific and Religious Debates in the Late Renaissance" Eva del Soldato, University of Pennsylvania (Squash) Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Kristine Schiavi by phone: (860) 685-2830, or e-mail: <mailto:kschiavi@wesleyan.edu> kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed u_&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498 iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=TnG5k-KRVtSE2oqEn52Ql kuzWYfgq-N2Pu9P1jdELKY&e=> http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ *Thursday, September 24, 2015, 5:30pm-7:00pm Sponsored by the Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard, Co-Chairs, Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie Talk, The Regina dAlgiero (1587): Image and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean Cristelle Baskins, Tufts University Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA For more information, please call 617-495-0738 <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/emregina-d%E2%80%99algier oem-1587-image-and-identity-early-modern-mediterranean> http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/emregina-d%E2%80%99algiero em-1587-image-and-identity-early-modern-mediterranean Thursday, September 24, 2015 Thursday, October 1, 2015 Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Scholar in Residence Harry Berger, University of California, Santa Cruz. Please call the Center at (413) 577-3600 to arrange for a time slot during his office hours. Free and open to the public. Saturday, September 26, 2015, 9:00am - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Celebrating Shakespeare Conference Harry Berger, University of California, Santa Cruz; Jane Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts Amherst; William Oram, Smith College; Naomi Miller, Smith College; and many more. Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. Lunch is provided. Register by September 25th at 413-577-3600 or <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu. Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 4:00pm Talk, A Wholly Other Face of the Mohammedan Religion: Europeans Reinterpret Islam, 1650-1734 Alexander Bevilacqua, Harvard Society of Fellows Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Please read the pre-circulated paper for this meeting, available one week before from: <http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu> http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu. Tuesdays beginning September 29, 2015, 7:00pm - 9:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class, Shakespeare with Tony Burton: Measure for Measure and The Tempest Lecturer TBA Location: TBA Pious rulers let the reins slip away, with a variety of unexpected results. Please read the texts first, and have questions and biases ready to discuss. Free and open to the public. Runs 9 weeks. Pre-registration required at 413-577-3600 by September 18th. Wednesday, September 30, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series: Reflections on Don Quixote. Harry Berger, University of California, Santa Cruz Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Sunday, October 4, 2015, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Concert, The Springfield Mandolin Orchestra Adam R. Sweet, Springfield Mandolin Orchestra Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA The orchestra will present a program of an Anthony Holborne Suite, Vivaldi's "La Folia," and Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is very limited. Donations are welcome. Mondays October 5, 19, 26, and November 2, 2015, 10:00am - 11:00am Sponsored by The UMass Renaissance Center Community Class, The Hand-Press Book Jeff Goodhind, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA An introduction to early printed books including paper, typesetting, printing, illustration, and binding. No knowledge of book history required. Class will take place in the upstairs classroom. Free event, handicapped Accessible. Contact: Jeff Goodhind 413-577-3600 Pre-register by October 4th at 413-577-3600 or at <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu. Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer. Robin Varnum, American International College Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Thursday, October 8, 2015 4:15pm Sponsored by Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Seminar, "The Humanist Anthropocene. Part 1: The Exterranean Renaissance" Phillip Usher, New York University (Squash) Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Kristine Schiavi by phone: (860) 685-2830, or e-mail: <mailto:kschiavi@wesleyan.edu> kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed u_&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498 iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=TnG5k-KRVtSE2oqEn52Ql kuzWYfgq-N2Pu9P1jdELKY&e=> http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ *Friday October 9, 2015, 6:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Seminar, Shakespearean Studies Seminar Jane Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Reception is at 5:30pm <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month?date=2015-10> http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month?date=2015-10 Saturday, October 10, 2015, 9:00am - 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Conference, Graduate Conference Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College. Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA $10.00 includes admission to all sessions, breakfast, lunch, and afternoon coffee. Advance registration is required. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__renaissanceconference.w ordpress.com&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPg ojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=mf4y1xa32d- YTBIyHwkC4MoVdObEscn-lqbzGvpI2kk&e=> http://renaissanceconference.wordpress.com **Sunday, October 11, 2015- Monday, January 18, 2016 Sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Exhibition, Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ann and Graham Gund Gallery (Gallery LG31) 465 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA Featuring 75 masterpieces by artists including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jan Steen, and Frans Hals from European and North American public and private collections, this exhibition is the first to consider 17th-century Dutch painting through the lens of the social classes. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mfa.org_exhibitions _class-2Ddistinctions&d=BQMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S3UhGpcm PpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=5IdhtAGq8diifBUtntgbw0E-J2g6jneIKR0ro-f0XRM&s=m3 pI-mwQUtfRQ6xZPSn_vqKXU9LTngCNO_ETHxVg9Zc&e=> http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/class-distinctions Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series: Muse of the Dance: Instrumental Music of the High Renaissance. David Gruender, Boston Symphony Orchestra Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Mondays, October 19, 26, and November 2, 9, 2015, 3:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class, The Madrigal Emiliano Ricciardi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Location: TBA The goal of this class is to develop a musical and historical understanding of the madrigal, one of the most important genres of vocal music in the late Renaissance. In the class we will examine select works by prominent practitioners of this genre, such as Willaert and Marenzio, placing them in the context of larger musical and cultural trends. No musical background is required. Pre-registration is required at 413-577-3600 or <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu. **Tuesday, October 20, 2015 4:00pm Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Lecture, The 36th William F. Church Memorial Lecture: Revealed Beauty and Hidden Danger: On Jewish Books of Time in Early Modern Europe Elisheva Carleback, Columbia University Winnick Chapel, Brown/RISD Hillel Building, 80 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 *Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 5:30pm-7:00pm Lecture, Tomasso Lecture: Inhabited Architecture: A Pervasive Motif in Medieval Art and Modern Theory. Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University Tufts University Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 12:00pm Talk, Historical Expertise and the Production of Almanacs in the Age of Enlightenment Jennifer C. Blanke, University of Göttingen Lower Library, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, The Impact of Natural History on Renaissance Art and Literature. Marion Copeland, Dakin Humane Society Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. *Thursday October 22, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Fine Arts Department, Boston College Lecture, Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art: "Baroque Makeovers: Style Change in Seventeenth-Century Italian Painting Catherine Puglisi, Rutgers University Devlin Hall, Room 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 The von Henneberg lecture and the reception immediately following are free and open to the public. Visitor parking information and additional information can be found at <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bc.edu_schools_cas_ finearts_upcomingevents.html&d=BQMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=bkJM19n7Y3S 3UhGpcmPpMfpdvPgojb45Xd498iQIPZ4&m=YyTHbGt59FLLJy1opF_s5iui4H3zD8ArUO-0-VB-Q UI&s=UGstm6ThdRFtS73EUVm9khEUPfVsWjESAffyQW7gTJ0&e=> http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/upcomingevents.html Please RSVP by October 1, 2015: 617-552-4295 or <mailto:elliotj@bc.edu> elliotj(a)bc.edu Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, "Fake It Till You Make It: A Modern Medievalist Meets Renaissance Pseudo-hieroglyphs." Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Sunday, November 1, 2015, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Concert, First Sunday Concert Series, AyreCraft Donnie Cotter, Robert Castellano and Meg Pash Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is very limited. Donations welcome. Monday, November 2, 2015, 5:00pm Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, the Robert C. Smith, Jr. Fund for Portuguese Studies, and the Brazil Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Talk, Slave Trade, Ethnicity and Ethnonym: Southeastern Brazil and the African West Coast Aldair Rodrigues, Yale University Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, Rare Book Show and Tell. Jeff Goodhind, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Saturday, November 7, 2015, 6:00pm 9:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Festival, French Renaissance Harvest Banquet Marriott Center, 11th Floor, Campus Center (UMass Amherst, main campus) Join us for a festive evening celebrating Renaissance France! Enjoy authentic Renaissance food prepared using produce and herbs from the Renaissance Centers own kitchen garden. Revel in the sounds of Renaissance France brought to you through lutes, sackbuts, singing, harps and more. With entertainment ranging from juggling to theater to door prizes, you are bound to have an evening of excitement and fun! Costumes encouraged! Reservations must be made by November 2nd. Call 413-577-3600 to reserve your tickets. $75/each or $125/couple. *New* Student Discount: $35/person Wednesday, November 11 Friday, November 13, 2015 Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Scholar in Residence Leah Whittington, Harvard University. Please call the Center at 413-577-3600 to arrange for a time slot during her office hours. Free and open to the public. Thursday, November 12, 2015 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk, Classical Legacy Lecture, "Performing the Past: Shakespeare and Classical Literature from Humanist Schoolroom to Early Modern Stage." Leah Whittington, Harvard University Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Friday, November 13, 2015, 7:00pm 9:00pm Co-sponsored by The Renaissance Centers Reading Group and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Festival, Renaissance Games Night Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Join us for an evening of Renaissance-era board games, door prizes, refreshments, and more! Families and kids are welcome! Free and open to the public. No reservations required. *Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 4:30pm Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar Lecture, De-localizing Medicine in the English East India Company's Medical Service, 1730-90 Zachary Dorner, Brown University Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 Saturday, November 21, 2015, 9:00am 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Conference, Early America Conference Alden Vaughan, Columbia University; Abby Chandler, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and more. Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. Lunch is provided. Register by November 20th at 413-577-3600 or <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Sunday, December 6, 2015, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Womans Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Concert, First Sunday Concert Series, The Amherst Recorder Consort Bob Leitch Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA The Amherst Recorder Consort will perform a program of Byrd, Verdelot, Tallis, Crecquillon, Josquin and more! Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is very limited. Donations welcome. *Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 4:30pm Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar Lecture, Building Empire in West Africa: Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) and the Foundation of the Portuguese Fort of Uidá (1721) Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 *If you would like to request that your announcement be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events e-mail: Please send your listing to: <mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu> earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu It would be a great help if you could follow the format below. To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place in the greater Boston area. 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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