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UPCOMING EVENTS IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES
**Thursday, April 26, 4:30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Dan S. Collins Memorial Lecture: “How to be Happy in Shakespeare and Hobbes”
Katherine Eggert, University of Colorado Boulder organized by the English Literary Renaissance Journal
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Reception to follow
Thursday, April 26, 2018 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
"Spaces of Property in Colonial North America"
Allan Greer, McGill University
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
**Thursday, April 26, 5pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Babbling Bishops and 'Scurvy Jack-Dog Priests': Representing the Clergy in Early English Drama"
Jay Zysk (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
Room 112, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Medieval Colloquium
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…>
Friday, April 27, 2018, 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
Seminar Discussion: Land
Boston College, 10 Stone Ave, Room 201, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Registration required: http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html
The Early Americas Seminar - Institute for the Liberal ...<http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html>
www.bc.edu
The Early Americas Seminar aims to highlight ongoing scholarship on the intertwined histories and cultures of the Americas from the late-fifteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. The Seminar brings in four speakers a year, from different fields and specializations, but all committed to making ...
Friday, April 27, 2018, 5:45 pm Reception, 6:15 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: William C. Carroll and Coppelia Kahn.
"Why Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies"
Paul Kottman, New School for Social Research
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
*Friday, April 27, 2018, 4-6 pm
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series
“The Business of Astrology in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”
A. Tunç Şen, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University
CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/business-astrology-early-modern-ottoman-…
The Business of Astrology in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/business-astrology-early-modern-ottoman-…>
cmes.fas.harvard.edu
The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents A. Tunç ŞenAssistant Professor of History, Department of History, Columbia University
Monday, April 30, 11am to 1pm
Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
Digital Humanities Colloquium “Roads, Routes and Networks: Visualizing Art Historical Information”
Jodi Cranston, Professor of Renaissance Art, Boston University: “Mapping Paintings: Tracking the Lives of Artworks”
Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Valencia: “SILKNOW: Improving the Access to Digitized Silk Heritage”
Sharon C. Smith, Program Head, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT: “Capturing the Past: Collaborative Projects and the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT”
Location: RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA
Free registration and more information at https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/digital-humanities-colloquium-roads-routes-an…
Three case studies will provide an update on new and ongoing projects in this area, and introduce a shared reflection about the possibilities of digital information within art history.
**Monday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"'Look, Yorick, can't you give us nothin' but them poems?' : Shakespeare and the American Civil War"
Elizabeth Samet (West Point)
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Monday, April 30, 2018, 6:30-8 pm.
Boston College Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series
"The Coming of the Italian Baroque to America: The Case of the Metropolitan Museum"
Andrea Bayer, Wrightsman Curator of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston College, 140 Comm Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA, Devlin Hall 101
Reception to follow. No RSVP necessary.
For further info: Franco Mormando (mormando(a)bc.edu)
http://events.bc.edu/event/andrea_bayer_the_coming_of_the_italian_baroque_t…
Monday, May 7, 2018, 12pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Lunchtime Talk, TBD
Maria Devlin (Independent Scholar)
Room 018, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Cancelled Event: Monday May 7: A workshop on “Religion and the printed image in the 16th century” Featuring prof Olivier Christin (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris and Université de Neuchâtel). details TBA.
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Greetings! 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.
If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort.
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UPCOMING EVENTS IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES
*Monday, April 16, 4pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Cartography
Lecture: “‘With Savage Pictures Fill their Gaps’: On Cartographers’ Fears of Blank Spaces”
Chet van Duzer, John Carter Brown Library
Room 250, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 6-8pm
Harvard Divinity School
Public Conversation: “Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind”
Michael Massing (Author, contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review)
14 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA, 02138 United States
RSVP at https://www.ministryofideas.org/events/fataldiscord
[http://static1.squarespace.com/static/58de7f181e5b6ce8febe661a/5978e3fe2e69…]<https://www.ministryofideas.org/events/fataldiscord>
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the ...<https://www.ministryofideas.org/events/fataldiscord>
www.ministryofideas.org
Join us for a public conversation with Michael Massing, the author of Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind which explores the enduring fault line in Western thinking between Christian humanism and evangelical Christianity.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 – 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “Images of Oblivious Memory: Ritual Lament from Ancient Greece to El Greco”
Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Harvard 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
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Thursday, April 19, 5:30pm
John Carter Brown Library: Vasco da Gama Lecture
“Navigation and Narrative: The Epic Seas of Luís de Camões”
Josiah Blackmore (Harvard)
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI
Reception to follow. RSVP to jcb-events(a)brown.edu not necessary but appreciated.
More Information<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2018/04/1…>
Thursday, April 19, 5-7pm
De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies 2018, Harvard University
“Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy (University of Toronto Press).” IN ENGLISH.
Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College); respondent: Sarah Axelrod, second respondent: Corrado Confalonieri.
Boylston Hall, Room 403, Harvard Yard
More information: https://debosiscolloquium.wordpress.com/program/
* Thursday, April 19, 12-1:30pm
Environmental History Working Group
Lecture: “An American Colony in 18th-century France: Les Nantuckois of Dunkirk and the Spread of Enlightened Illumination”
Darrin M. McMahon (Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College)
Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE), 26 Oxford St.,
4th floor, Museum of Comparative Zoology.
For more information or to be added to our mailing list, please email Daniel Zizzamia
at zizzamia(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:zizzamia@fas.harvard.edu>.
*Monday, April 23, 2018, 4-6pm
Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
2nd international Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650)
Panelists:
Cristina Morilla, Associate Paintings Conservator, Harvard Art Museums: “Replicating the Royal Image: Philip III's portrait at Harvard Art Museums”
Jessie Park, Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art, Harvard Art Museums: “Alliance, Emulation and Competition in the Habsburg Netherlands: The Case of a 16th-Century Alabaster Funerary Monument in Heverlee”
Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Valencia: “Sofonisba Anguissola’s Self-Portraiture, from Court Propaganda to Meta-Artistic Sign”
Location: RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA
Free registration. Please RSVP at
https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/2nd-international-workshop-art-and-court-cult…
2nd International Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the ...<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/2nd-international-workshop-art-and-court-cult…>
rcc.harvard.edu
2nd International Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650)
The advent of the Monarchia Hispanica under Habsburg rule required careful elaborations of national, religious, racial, and gender identities, across a mosaic of multilingual and multiethnic populations. This second workshop aims to highlight some of these strategies, and to consolidate a forum for discussion of further research avenues, under the guidance of scholars from Spanish and American universities.
April 23, 25, 27, 2018 4-6pm
The Robert P Benedict Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
"Thomas Hobbes on History, Politics, and Philosophy"
Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley)
Boston University, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
For more information see https://sites.bu.edu/benedict/
Monday, April 23, 12pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Lunchtime Discussion of "How to Theorize the World: An Early Modern Manifesto"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University)
Room 018, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
*Monday, April 23, 5pm
Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Cartography, Harvard University
Lecture: “Making Universals: Portuguese Manuscript Atlases, 1550-1580”
Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale University
Room 354, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Tuesday, April 24, 12-1:30 pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard, History of Science): “Who is an Expert in Taste?”
Room 259, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here <https://goo.gl/forms/vhScARAQ4xE8wN8s1> to receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper.
**Thursday, April 26, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Dan S. Collins Memorial Lecture: “How to be Happy in Shakespeare and Hobbes”
Katherine Eggert, University of Colorado Boulder organized by the English Literary Renaissance Journal
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Reception to follow
Thursday, April 26, 2018 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
"Spaces of Property in Colonial North America"
Allan Greer, McGill University
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Thursday, April 26, 5pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Babbling Bishops and 'Scurvy Jack-Dog Priests': Representing the Clergy in Early English Drama"
Jay Zysk (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Medieval Colloquium
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Friday, April 27, 2018, 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
Seminar Discussion: Land
Boston College, 10 Stone Ave, Room 201, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Registration required: http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html
The Early Americas Seminar - Institute for the Liberal ...<http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html>
www.bc.edu
The Early Americas Seminar aims to highlight ongoing scholarship on the intertwined histories and cultures of the Americas from the late-fifteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. The Seminar brings in four speakers a year, from different fields and specializations, but all committed to making ...
Friday, April 27, 2018, 5:45 pm Reception, 6:15 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: William C. Carroll and Coppelia Kahn.
"Why Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies"
Paul Kottman, New School for Social Research
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
*Monday, April 30, 11am to 1pm
Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
Digital Humanities Colloquium “Roads, Routes and Networks: Visualizing Art Historical Information”
Jodi Cranston, Professor of Renaissance Art, Boston University: “Mapping Paintings: Tracking the Lives of Artworks”
Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Valencia: “SILKNOW: Improving the Access to Digitized Silk Heritage”
Sharon C. Smith, Program Head, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT: “Capturing the Past: Collaborative Projects and the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT”
Location: RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA
Free registration and more information at https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/digital-humanities-colloquium-roads-routes-an…
Digital Humanities Colloquium. Roads, Routes and Networks ...<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/digital-humanities-colloquium-roads-routes-an…>
rcc.harvard.edu
Digital Humanities Colloquium. Roads, Routes and Networks: Projects for the Visualization of Art Historical Information
Three case studies will provide an update on new and ongoing projects in this area, and introduce a shared reflection about the possibilities of digital information within art history.
Monday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBD
Elizabeth Samet (West Point)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Monday, April 30, 2018, 6:30-8 pm.
Boston College Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series
"The Coming of the Italian Baroque to America: The Case of the Metropolitan Museum"
Andrea Bayer, Wrightsman Curator of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston College, 140 Comm Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA, Devlin Hall 101
Reception to follow. No RSVP necessary.
For further info: Franco Mormando (mormando(a)bc.edu)
http://events.bc.edu/event/andrea_bayer_the_coming_of_the_italian_baroque_t…
Monday, May 7, 2018, 12pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Lunchtime Talk, TBD
Maria Devlin (Independent Scholar)
Room 018, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Cancelled Event: Monday May 7: A workshop on “Religion and the printed image in the 16th century” Featuring prof Olivier Christin (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris and Université de Neuchâtel). details TBA.
*If you would like to request that your announcement be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events e-mail:
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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
Greetings! 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.
If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort.
* indicates a newly announced event
** indicates an updated or corrected event
UPCOMING EVENTS IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES
**Wednesday, April 4, 4:30pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Elizabethan Boy Actors and the Archive"
Lucy Munro (King's College London)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Theater and Performance Colloquium
Website URL: https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 6pm-7pm
Lecture, “Deciphering Rome”
Professor Joseph Connors, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Professor Joseph Connors will explore the origins of the historic Renaissance center of Rome and its links to the papacy.
Website URL: https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/deciphering-rome
Deciphering Rome | Harvard Art Museums<https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/deciphering-rome>
www.harvardartmuseums.org
When you support the Harvard Art Museums, you’re enriching the experiences of thousands of students, scholars, and visitors at one of the world’s leading visual arts institutions.
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 5:30 pm
Women & Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
“Women and Witnessing: Reading Rape and Reformation in Spenser’s Faerie Queene”
Stephanie Bahr, Department of English, Hamilton College
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 4: 30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminars
"Of Keepers and Stewards, or the Princely Business of a Northern Renaissance Court"
Jeun Cho, History Dep. Amherst College
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Friday, April 6, 2018, 9 am - 6 pm
Fairfield University Art Museum
Symposium: "Art of the Gesù: Bernini and His Age"
Barone Campus Center, Oak Room, Fairfield University, 1073 North Benson Rd, Fairfield, CT
Free and open to public; reception to follow; for registration and further info:
https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/gesu/
April 6-8, 2018
Conference: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Healing Charms and Medicine
Harvard, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Website: https://harvardcharmsandmedicine.wordpress.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvardcharmsandmedici…>
Monday, April 9, 2018 - 6:00pm
Eighteen Century Studies, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University
“Materiality, Text and Image: What is Enlightened and Romantic Travel Literature?”
John Brewer, California Institute of Technology
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
More information: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Monday, April 9, 5-7pm
De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies 2018, Harvard University
“Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 (University of California Press).” IN ENGLISH.
Ellen Lockhart (University of Toronto), respondent: Amelia Linsky, second respondent: Francesco Guzzetti.
Boylston Hall, Room 403, Harvard Yard
More information: https://debosiscolloquium.wordpress.com/program/
Monday, 9 April 2018, 5:00 PM
Sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Center for the Study of World Religions, and Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, Harvard University.
Lecture: “Female Sultan/Female Pope, Shajar and the Mamluk Origins of Pope Joan”
Benjamin Braude, Associate Professor of History, Boston College
CGIS South (1730 Cambridge Street), Cambridge MA 02138, Room S354, Harvard University.
Additional Info: From roughly the mid thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, Christians in the Latin West believed that a cross-dressing woman had been elected pope and that to avoid a repetition of the scandal the masculinity of popes was inspected.
Tues April 10, 4-6pm
Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard
"Apes, Slaves, and Global Markets: Boundaries of Humanity in Enlightenment Debates"
Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)
Goldman Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St, Cambridge
Apr 10, 2018, 6:00 pm
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
Lecture: “Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Discovers Himself: Excavations of the Great Aztec Temple” (in Spanish, with English Translation)
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Professor Emeritus, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico
Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard University, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
The 1978 discovery of the Great Aztec Temple in downtown Mexico City riveted the international archaeological world. This monumental shrine dedicated to the Aztec war and rain gods had been buried beneath the city’s main plaza since the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest. More information: https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Eduardo-Matos-Moctezuma-Discovers-Himself
Wed April 11, 5:30pm
Brown University
The 38th William F. Church Memorial Lecture
“Luther, Manhood and Pugilism.”
Lyndal Roper (Regius Professor of History, Oxford)
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106, Brown University, 95 Cushing St., Providence, RI
A reception will follow the lecture. More Information at https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
**Thursday, April 12, 3-5pm
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies in collaboration with Boston College Libraries
Colloquium: “Calamity from Within? Jesuits, Papal Legates, and Chinese Imperial Envoysin the Eighteenth Century”
Elisa Frei (IAJS Fellow, Boston College) and Eugenio Menegon (Dept. of History, Boston University & Collaborative Scholar IAJS, Boston College)
John J. Burns Library, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA
Website URL: http://www.bc.edu/centers/iajs/Programs/institute-colloquium-.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bc.edu_centers_iajs…>
Elisa Frei and Eugenio Menegon will focus their presentations on the lives of some Jesuits of the China mission during the notorious Chinese Rites Controversy (1635-1742), a theological and political struggle between Beijing and Rome. The experiences of these Jesuits represent a microcosm of the Controversy and reveal its global reach as a clash of cultures and a unique phenomenon in early modern intellectual and religious history.
Thursday, April 12, 4:30pm
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program
Lecture: “Shakespeare, Race, and Performance: What We Still Don't Know”
Ayanna Thompson, George Washington University
Collins Cinema, Wellesley College, 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA
Professor Thompson, 2018-19 President of the Shakespeare Association of America, will discuss non-traditional or so-called "race-blind" casting in contemporary Shakespeare performance. For more information, contact Sarah Wall-Randell at swallran(a)wellesley.edu<mailto:swallran@wellesley.edu>
Friday, April 13, 2018, 12pm
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
“Trans-Imperial Archives: Rethinking Spatial Knowledge Production in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands”
Natalie Rothman, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto
Brown University, Department of Italian Studies, 190 Hope Street, room 102, Providence RI
*Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 6-8pm
Harvard Divinity School
Public Conversation: “Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind”
Michael Massing (Author, contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review)
14 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA, 02138 United States
RSVP at https://www.ministryofideas.org/events/fataldiscord
[http://static1.squarespace.com/static/58de7f181e5b6ce8febe661a/5978e3fe2e69…]<https://www.ministryofideas.org/events/fataldiscord>
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the ...<https://www.ministryofideas.org/events/fataldiscord>
www.ministryofideas.org
Join us for a public conversation with Michael Massing, the author of Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind which explores the enduring fault line in Western thinking between Christian humanism and evangelical Christianity.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 – 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “Images of Oblivious Memory: Ritual Lament from Ancient Greece to El Greco”
Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Harvard 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
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Thursday, April 19, 5:30pm
John Carter Brown Library: Vasco da Gama Lecture
“Navigation and Narrative: The Epic Seas of Luís de Camões”
Josiah Blackmore (Harvard)
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI
Reception to follow. RSVP to jcb-events(a)brown.edu not necessary but appreciated.
More Information<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2018/04/1…>
Thursday, April 19, 5-7pm
De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies 2018, Harvard University
“Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy (University of Toronto Press).” IN ENGLISH.
Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College); respondent: Sarah Axelrod, second respondent: Corrado Confalonieri.
Boylston Hall, Room 403, Harvard Yard
More information: https://debosiscolloquium.wordpress.com/program/
April 23, 25, 27, 2018 4-6pm
The Robert P Benedict Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
"Thomas Hobbes on History, Politics, and Philosophy"
Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley)
Boston University, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
For more information see https://sites.bu.edu/benedict/
**Monday, April 23, 12pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Lunchtime Discussion of "How to Theorize the World: An Early Modern Manifesto"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University)
Room 018, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Tuesday, April 24, 12-1:30 pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard, History of Science): “Who is an Expert in Taste?”
Room 259, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here <https://goo.gl/forms/vhScARAQ4xE8wN8s1> to receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper.
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On Tuesday, April 3rd, from 12:15 - 1:30 pm, we will meet in Science Center 252 to discuss Meredyth Winter's presentation and paper, “Corporate, Mediate and Immediate”: Property for Prosperity in Medieval Qazwīn." NOTE: Please download the paper using the link which appears after you submit the form. If you'd like to RSVP for a future meeting, please email shireenhamza(a)g.harvard.edu with your name and its details.
Thursday, April 26, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Dan S. Collins Memorial Lecture
Katherine Eggert, University of Colorado Boulder organized by the English Literary Renaissance Journal
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Reception to follow.
Thursday, April 26, 2018 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
"Spaces of Property in Colonial North America"
Allan Greer, McGill University
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
**Thursday, April 26, 5pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Babbling Bishops and 'Scurvy Jack-Dog Priests': Representing the Clergy in Early English Drama"
Jay Zysk (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Medieval Colloquium
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Friday, April 27, 2018, 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
Seminar Discussion: Land
Boston College, 10 Stone Ave, Room 201, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Registration required: http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html
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**Friday, April 27, 2018, 5:45 pm Reception, 6:15 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: William C. Carroll and Coppelia Kahn.
"Why Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies"
Paul Kottman, New School for Social Research
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
**Monday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBD
Elizabeth Samet (West Point)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Monday, April 30, 2018, 6:30-8 pm.
Boston College Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series
"The Coming of the Italian Baroque to America: The Case of the Metropolitan Museum"
Andrea Bayer, Wrightsman Curator of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston College, 140 Comm Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA, Devlin Hall 101
Reception to follow. No RSVP necessary.
For further info: Franco Mormando (mormando(a)bc.edu)
http://events.bc.edu/event/andrea_bayer_the_coming_of_the_italian_baroque_t…
*Monday, May 7, 2018, 12pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Lunchtime Talk, TBD
Maria Devlin (Independent Scholar)
Room 018, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Cancelled Event: Monday May 7: A workshop on “Religion and the printed image in the 16th century” Featuring prof Olivier Christin (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris and Université de Neuchâtel). details TBA.
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