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.
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
*Tuesday October 10, 2017, 4:15
Harvard Medieval History Workshop
Katherine Park (Harvard): "Rethinking the 'one-sex' body: a critique and a replacement narrative."
Robinson Hall’s Basement Seminar Room, Harvard Yard
Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Wednesday, October 11, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Bridgett Marshall (UMass Lowell): "Witch Trials in Western MA".
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman's Club
Thursday, October 12, 2017, 5:30-7:00 pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, co-chairs Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
Mary C. Fuller, Literature, MIT, "Looking for the Women in Early Modern Travel Literature”
Room 133, Barker Center,12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Thursday October 12, 4pm
Science, Religion, and Culture; Mahindra Humanities Seminar
Projit Mukharji (University of Pennsylvania): “Islamicate Embryology in the Early Modern Arakan: A Politico-Economic History
Registration required; location sent in registration confirmation.
Registration link: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/science-religion-and-cult…
Friday October 13, 5:30 Reception, 6:00 Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Macbeth’s Burning Issue”
Anston Bosman (Amherst College)
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
*Friday October 13, 6-7:30pm
Saturday October 14, 10am-5pm
Symposion: The Room Where It Happened: On the Agency of Interior Spaces
about the Philosophy Chamber
This symposium explores the spaces of artistic, artisanal, and intellectual production. From the artist’s studio to the alchemist’s lab, the stateroom to the secret chamber, the brick-and-mortar hall to the winding corridors of cyberspace, rooms and their contents have long influenced history and transformed their inhabitants. Held in conjunction with the special exhibition The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820<http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/4916/the-philosophy-cham…> (May 19–December 31, 2017), this symposium brings together artists, architects, and historians to consider the spaces where objects and ideas are generated
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums
URL and Registration Link<http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/the-room-where-it-happens-o…>
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday October 17, 5:00 Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar co-sponsored with “Rethinking Translation” Seminar
“Shakespeare and Translation: A Transnational Culture, Literary Histories and Theatre Practice”
Pavel Drabek (Hull University)
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
October 18, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Jane Bernstein, Tufts University on "The New Way:" Engraving and Music Books in Sixteenth-Century Rome.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 5:30PM
Wellesley College Departments of History and Religion
Lecture: "Commemorating Martin Luther After 500 Years: A First Assessment"
Hartmut Lehmann (University of Kiel)
with commentary by Harvey Cox (Harvard University)
Wellesley College, Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/124161
Wednesday, October 18, 12:30-1:00 pm
Gallery Talk
Danielle Carrabino, Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This talk will explore a selection of prints and drawings from the collection that imitate, copy or are variations of the art of Leonardo da Vinci.
Website URL – http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-after-leonardo…
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
**Saturday, 21 October, 10am to 6:30pm
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC)
2017 Annual Conference, “Deception, Deceit, and Dishonesty in the Early Modern Era”
Organized by Lorenzo Buonnano and Shannon McHugh
Speakers include: Touba Ghadessi (Wheaton College), Lauren Jacobi (MIT), Jessica Maratsos (American University of Paris), Robert Lublin (UMass Boston), Patricia Emison (UNew Hampshire, Durham), Anna Wainwright (UNew Hampshire, Durham), Michael Randall (Brandeis), Sanam Nader-Esfahani (Amherst College), Elizabeth Hart (UConnecticut, Storrs), Jeffrey Muller (Brown), Olivia Weisser (UMass Boston), Matteo Casini (Suffolk), Elizabeth McCahill (UMass Boston), Katharina Piechocki (Harvard), Sarah Ross (Boston College)
University Hall Auditorium 2300, University of Massachusetts Boston
Schedule: http://www.new-england-renaissance-conference.org/?page_id=175<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.new-2Dengland-2Dren…>
Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/zNMeiT3ecMovo7ZF3<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__goo.gl_forms_zNMeiT3ec…>
Tues Oct 24, 4–6pm
Early Modern Workshop, Harvard, co-sponsored with the Early Sciences Working Group.
Edna Bonhomme (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin) "Ports, Risk, and Death: Mapping the Rise and Fall of Epidemics in Tunisia, 1705-1820."
Science Center 469, Harvard, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
October 25, 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Karen Cook, University of Hartford presents “Twenty-First-Century Renaissance: Representations of the Past in Modern Media,"
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
No reservations. Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored.
Thurs Oct 26 5–7pm – Fri Oct 27 9–6pm
Early Modern Workshop, Harvard
Conference: Invention of Byzantine Studies in Early Modern Europe
110, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Conference Registration, program, and additional information at https://inventionofbyzantium.com/
October 28, 9:00 a.m.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Graduate Conference
Keynote: Jennifer Waldron - University of Pittsburgh. Director of the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies author of “Reformations of the Body: Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early Modern Theater" 2013 & 2nd book project, “Shakespeare and the Senses,” charts Shakespeare’s diverse experiments with cross-modal sensory and linguistic effects in relation to recent developments in historical phenomenology and current research in cognitive neuroscience.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Tuesday, October 31, 3:00-3:30 pm
Gallery Talk
Danielle Carrabino, Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
On the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 theses, this talk will feature works from the collection related to the Protestant Reformation.
Website URL - http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-the-500th-anni…
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
Wed Nov 1, 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Rachel Young will present “Paintings of Boticelli”
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
No reservations. Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club
Tuesday Nov 7, 12-1:30pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Maryam Patton (Harvard, History & CMES): "Copernicus in Istanbul: Transmission and Translation in the 17th Century"
Room TBA
Thurs Nov 9, 4pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center and the Early Modern History Workshop
Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia University) "Archive Envy: An Early Modern Jewish Community and its Records."
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
The formation of archives has become the object of critical historical inquiry. This lecture explores dimensions of Jewish communal archives from the early modern period with particular emphasis on the rich archive of the Hamburg-Altona community and its fate.
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 5:30-7:00 pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, co-chairs Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
Erin Murphy, Department of English, Boston University
"The Soldier’s Two Bodies: Margaret Cavendish, Singularity, and Wartime Violence”
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Thursday Nov 9, 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Steven Mentz, from St Johns University TOPIC: TBD.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Friday Nov 10, 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Classical Legacy Lecture
Jessica Wolfe (UNC- Chapel Hill) presents, “Homer and Milton”.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
No reservations. Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club.
Friday November 10, 5:30 Reception, 6:00 Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Literature and Carnival, New Orleans Style”
Richard Rambuss (Brown University)
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Tuesday Nov 14, 12-1:30pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Joshua Ehrlich (Harvard, History): "Between Corporation and State: The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth Century."
Room TBA
Thursday, November 16, 2017, 4:30 pm
Wellesley College Music Department
Lecture: “Italian Songs from the Time of Christopher Columbus”
Anne MacNeil, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Pendleton West Room 101, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley MA 02482
For further information call Claire Fontijn at 781-283-2072
Thursday Nov 16, 4:30 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar in Book History
Doctoral Candidate Amy Sopcak-Joseph (UCONN) presents, "Combating Swindlers and Borrowers: Buying and Selling Godey's Lady's Book in the Nineteenth Century"
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Free and open to the public. No reservations.
Saturday, Nov 18, 6-9 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Italian Renaissance Harvest Banquet, Tickets are $75 per person, $125 per couple, *Student Discount* $35 per person at the Great Hall on the, 2nd Floor of the Old Chapel at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Come for an evening of juggling, music, food, theater, door prizes, and more! Call the Renaissance Center Program Director at 577-3603 for more information. Ticket purchase required prior to event.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Mon Nov 20, 4–6 pm
Early Modern Workshop, Harvard
Conference "New Approaches to Early Modern Political Economy," featuring Sophus Reinert (Harvard Business School) "Political Economy and the Medici," and Doohwan Ahn (Seoul National University) "Bringing International Relations Back In: Anglo-French Relations and the Financial Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Britain."
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Mon Nov 27, 6-8 pm
History of Medicine Working Group
"The Utility of Medicine: Medicine and the Printed Book in Early Modern Europe."
Hannah Marcus, Harvard University
Science Center 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Thursday, November 30, 2017, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “What is an author? Rabelaisian avatars”
Virginia Krause, Professor of French Studies, Brown University
Boger Hall 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 email at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Friday December 1, 5:30 Reception, 6:00 Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“New Work in Early Modern Drama: A Graduate Symposium”
Dianne E. Berg (Tufts University)
Deanna Malvesti (Boston College)
Bailey Sincox (Harvard University)
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Thursday, December 14, 2017, 5:30 -7:00 pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, co-chairs Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
Emily Fine, Department of English, University of Alabama, ‘“The Law of Thy Mother’: Women and Inheritance in 17th-Century Mother’s Legacy Texts”
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Exhibition:
May 19, 2017–December 31, 2017
The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums
Between 1766 and 1820, Harvard College assembled an extraordinary collection of paintings, portraits, and prints; mineral, plant, and animal specimens; scientific instruments; Native American artifacts; and relics from the ancient world.
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/4916/the-philosophy-cham…
Sept 6-Dec 15, 2017
Exhibit: Reformation: Dialogue and Identity, Opening Reception
Andover-Harvard Theological Library (2nd floor), 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA
Focusing on the exchange of ideas between Luther, his contemporaries, and subsequent generations of reformers, on display are foundational texts, popular printed images, and objects that reflect the connection between texts and their readers. The exhibit also highlights examples of how books and images influenced and reflected religious and social identity in early Protestant communities. Michelle C. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Theology, will offer brief introductory remarks at the reception. Watch for other Reformation-themed events in October, sponsored by Andover-Harvard Theological Library as part of Theological Libraries Month.
More Information: ncarlson(a)hds.harvard.edu
September 19 - December 17, 2017
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College
Exhibit: "Martin Luther: Protest in Print"
Morelle Lasky Levine '56 Works on Paper Gallery
Wellesley College, Davis Museum, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
http://www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/whats-on/upcoming/node/118061
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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<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>.
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
*Tuesday, October 3, 12-1:30pm
Early Science Working Group
Christopher Rudeen (Harvard, History of Science): “Disorder in the Court: Adjudicating Insanity in the Early American Republic.”
Science Center 252, Harvard, Oxford Street 1, Cambridge MA
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to receive the pre-circulated paper by emailing Shireen atshireenhamza(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, October 3, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar
Anna Berman (McGill University): "The Family Novel: england to Russia"
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
October 3-5, 2017
University of Connecticut
Conference: "Re-Reading the Revolution": A Conference Launching Léamh: Learn Early Modern Irish (Leamh.org)
UConn Humanities Center, 4th Floor, Homer Babbidge Library, 369 Fairfield Way, Storrs
Conference Registration, program, and additional information may be found at www.regonline.com/leamhlaunchconference<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.regonline.com_leamh…>
The “Re-Reading the Revolution” conference marks the launch of the website, Léamh: Learn Early Modern Irish, a web-based tutorial and resource for learning how to read and translate Early Modern Irish. This is a “working” launch consisting of three complementary sections: a workshop to produce a new text selection for the website www.leamh.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.leamh.org&d=DwMFaQ&…>, research panels consisting of leading scholars in Celtic languages speaking to recent research on the "revolutionary" years 1630-1660, and roundtables that explore the ways by which the Celtic languages can be used to reorient our thinking about major historical events.
Contact: brendan.kane(a)uconn.edu<mailto:brendan.kane@uconn.edu>
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 4:00 p.m.
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Lecture, Feore Family Lecture Series
John W. O'Malley, S.J.: “Past, Present, and Future of Jesuit Studies: Historiographical Thoughts"
Corcoran Commons, Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave. Chestnut Hill, MA.
John O’Malley, S.J., University Professor in the theology department at Georgetown University, will deliver the third annual Feore Family Lecture on Jesuit Studies.
Website URL: www.bc.edu/iajs<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bc.edu_iajs&d=DwMFa…>
RSVP Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeD67gQ-B6pQEWlWCgvHxuKde72rc_Km7H…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_…>
Wed Oct 4, 1–2:30 PM
Harvard Divinity School
David Hall, Bartlett Professor of New England Church History Emeritus (Harvard): Re-Visiting the Origins of the Puritan Movement in Early Modern Britain and its later life in New England (Lecture)
Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Rabinowitz Room, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge MA
Thursday, October 5th at 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Amanda Henrichs, a new postdoc at Amherst College presents “Visualizing Absence: Broken (hyper)Links between Mary Wroth and Mary Sidney Herbert”
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
UPCOMING EVENTS
October 11, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Bridgett Marshall (UMass Lowell): "Witch Trials in Western MA".
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman's Club
Thursday, October 12, 2017, 5:30-7:00 pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, co-chairs Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
Mary C. Fuller, Literature, MIT, "Looking for the Women in Early Modern Travel Literature”
Room 133, Barker Center,12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
*Thursday October 12, 4pm
Science, Religion, and Culture; Mahindra Humanities Seminar
Projit Mukharji (University of Pennsylvania): “Islamicate Embryology in the Early Modern Arakan: A Politico-Economic History
Registration required; location sent in registration confirmation.
Registration link: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/science-religion-and-cult…
Friday October 13, 5:30 Reception, 6:00 Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Macbeth’s Burning Issue”
Anston Bosman (Amherst College)
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Tuesday October 17, 5:00 Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar co-sponsored with “Rethinking Translation” Seminar
“Shakespeare and Translation: A Transnational Culture, Literary Histories and Theatre Practice”
Pavel Drabek (Hull University)
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
October 18, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Jane Bernstein, Tufts University on "The New Way:" Engraving and Music Books in Sixteenth-Century Rome.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 5:30PM
Wellesley College Departments of History and Religion
Lecture: "Commemorating Martin Luther After 500 Years: A First Assessment"
Hartmut Lehmann (University of Kiel)
with commentary by Harvey Cox (Harvard University)
Wellesley College, Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
http://www.wellesley.edu/event/node/124161<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.wellesley.edu_event…>
Wednesday, October 18, 12:30-1:00 pm
Gallery Talk
Danielle Carrabino, Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This talk will explore a selection of prints and drawings from the collection that imitate, copy or are variations of the art of Leonardo da Vinci.
Website URL – http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-after-leonardo…
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
*Saturday, 21 October, 10am to 6:30pm
New England Renaissance Conference, University of Massachusetts in Boston
“Deception, Deceit, and Dishonesty in the Early Modern Era”
Organized by Lorenzo Buonnano and Shannon McHugh, this conference will offer wonderful scholarly explorations and lively discussions.
Speakers include: Touba Ghadessi (Wheaton College), Lauren Jacobi (MIT), Jessica Maratsos (American University of Paris), Robert Lublin (UMass Boston), Patricia Emison (UNew Hampshire, Durham), Anna Wainwright (UNew Hampshire, Durham), Michael Randall (Brandeis), Sanam Nader-Esfahani (Amherst College), Elizabeth Hart (UConnecticut, Storrs), Jeffrey Muller (Brown), Olivia Weisser (UMass Boston), Matteo Casini (Suffolk), Elizabeth McCahill (UMass Boston), Katharina Piechocki (Harvard), Sarah Ross (Boston College)
University Hall Auditorium 2300, University of Massachusetts Boston
Tues Oct 24, 4–6pm
Early Modern Workshop, Harvard, co-sponsored with the Early Sciences Working Group.
Edna Bonhomme (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin) "Ports, Risk, and Death: Mapping the Rise and Fall of Epidemics in Tunisia, 1705-1820."
Science Center 469, Harvard, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
October 25, 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Karen Cook, University of Hartford presents “Twenty-First-Century Renaissance: Representations of the Past in Modern Media,"
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
No reservations. Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored.
Thurs Oct 26 5–7pm – Fri Oct 27 9–6pm
Early Modern Workshop, Harvard
Conference: Invention of Byzantine Studies in Early Modern Europe
110, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Conference Registration, program, and additional information at https://inventionofbyzantium.com/
October 28, 9:00 a.m.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Graduate Conference
Keynote: Jennifer Waldron - University of Pittsburgh. Director of the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies author of “Reformations of the Body: Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early Modern Theater" 2013 & 2nd book project, “Shakespeare and the Senses,” charts Shakespeare’s diverse experiments with cross-modal sensory and linguistic effects in relation to recent developments in historical phenomenology and current research in cognitive neuroscience.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Tuesday, October 31, 3:00-3:30 pm
Gallery Talk
Danielle Carrabino, Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
On the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 theses, this talk will feature works from the collection related to the Protestant Reformation.
Website URL - http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-the-500th-anni…
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
Wed Nov 1, 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Rachel Young will present “Paintings of Boticelli”
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
No reservations. Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club
Tuesday Nov 7, 12-1:30pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Maryam Patton (Harvard, History & CMES): "Copernicus in Istanbul: Transmission and Translation in the 17th Century"
Room TBA
Thurs Nov 9, 4pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center and the Early Modern History Workshop
Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia University) "Archive Envy: An Early Modern Jewish Community and its Records."
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
The formation of archives has become the object of critical historical inquiry. This lecture explores dimensions of Jewish communal archives from the early modern period with particular emphasis on the rich archive of the Hamburg-Altona community and its fate.
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 5:30-7:00 pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, co-chairs Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
Erin Murphy, Department of English, Boston University
"The Soldier’s Two Bodies: Margaret Cavendish, Singularity, and Wartime Violence”
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Thursday Nov 9, 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Steven Mentz, from St Johns University TOPIC: TBD.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Friday Nov 10, 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Classical Legacy Lecture
Jessica Wolfe (UNC- Chapel Hill) presents, “Homer and Milton”.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
No reservations. Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club.
Friday November 10, 5:30 Reception, 6:00 Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Literature and Carnival, New Orleans Style”
Richard Rambuss (Brown University)
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Tuesday Nov 14, 12-1:30pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Joshua Ehrlich (Harvard, History): "Between Corporation and State: The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth Century."
Room TBA
*Thursday, November 16, 2017, 4:30 pm
Wellesley College Music Department
Lecture: “Italian Songs from the Time of Christopher Columbus”
Anne MacNeil, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Pendleton West Room 101, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley MA 02482
For further information call Claire Fontijn at 781-283-2072
Thursday Nov 16, 4:30 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar in Book History
Doctoral Candidate Amy Sopcak-Joseph (UCONN) presents, "Combating Swindlers and Borrowers: Buying and Selling Godey's Lady's Book in the Nineteenth Century"
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Free and open to the public. No reservations.
Saturday, Nov 18, 6-9 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Italian Renaissance Harvest Banquet, Tickets are $75 per person, $125 per couple, *Student Discount* $35 per person at the Great Hall on the, 2nd Floor of the Old Chapel at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Come for an evening of juggling, music, food, theater, door prizes, and more! Call the Renaissance Center Program Director at 577-3603 for more information. Ticket purchase required prior to event.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Mon Nov 20, 4–6 pm
Early Modern Workshop, Harvard
Conference "New Approaches to Early Modern Political Economy," featuring Sophus Reinert (Harvard Business School) "Political Economy and the Medici," and Doohwan Ahn (Seoul National University) "Bringing International Relations Back In: Anglo-French Relations and the Financial Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Britain."
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Mon Nov 27, 6-8 pm
History of Medicine Working Group
"The Utility of Medicine: Medicine and the Printed Book in Early Modern Europe."
Hannah Marcus, Harvard University
Science Center 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Thursday, November 30, 2017, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “What is an author? Rabelaisian avatars”
Virginia Krause, Professor of French Studies, Brown University
Boger Hall 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 email at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>
Friday December 1, 5:30 Reception, 6:00 Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“New Work in Early Modern Drama: A Graduate Symposium”
Dianne E. Berg (Tufts University)
Deanna Malvesti (Boston College)
Bailey Sincox (Harvard University)
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Thursday, December 14, 2017, 5:30 -7:00 pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, co-chairs Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
Emily Fine, Department of English, University of Alabama, ‘“The Law of Thy Mother’: Women and Inheritance in 17th-Century Mother’s Legacy Texts”
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Exhibition:
May 19, 2017–December 31, 2017
The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums
Between 1766 and 1820, Harvard College assembled an extraordinary collection of paintings, portraits, and prints; mineral, plant, and animal specimens; scientific instruments; Native American artifacts; and relics from the ancient world.
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/4916/the-philosophy-cham…
Sept 6-Dec 15, 2017
Exhibit: Reformation: Dialogue and Identity, Opening Reception
Andover-Harvard Theological Library (2nd floor), 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA
Focusing on the exchange of ideas between Luther, his contemporaries, and subsequent generations of reformers, on display are foundational texts, popular printed images, and objects that reflect the connection between texts and their readers. The exhibit also highlights examples of how books and images influenced and reflected religious and social identity in early Protestant communities. Michelle C. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Theology, will offer brief introductory remarks at the reception. Watch for other Reformation-themed events in October, sponsored by Andover-Harvard Theological Library as part of Theological Libraries Month.
More Information: ncarlson(a)hds.harvard.edu
September 19 - December 17, 2017
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College
Exhibit: "Martin Luther: Protest in Print"
Morelle Lasky Levine '56 Works on Paper Gallery
Wellesley College, Davis Museum, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
http://www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/whats-on/upcoming/node/118061<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.wellesley.edu_davis…>
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