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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Tuesday April 18, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk: “English Seamen and the Realm: Were Medieval Mariners 'Political'?”
Maryanne Kowaleski (Joseph Fitzpatrick SJ Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval Studies, Fordham University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
**Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 5:15
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Talk: “The Memory Arts and Early Modern Mnemonic Culture”
Bill Engel (Sewanee)
Room 316, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
For dinner afterwards or complimentary copy: please RSVP rvincent@g.harvard.edu
Complimentary copies of The Memory Arts in Renaissance England: A Critical Anthology (CUP, 2016), will be distributed to participants. I will begin with a synopsis of the research questions, issues, and critical concerns that animate and inform this critical anthology, one which draws together excerpts from more than eighty writers—poets, playwrights, emblematists, satirists, physicians, philosophers, historians, educators, humanists, heralds, antiquarians, translators, and preachers—and twenty-four illustrations. While close attention will be paid to some images that will be of particular interest to members of the audience (owing to their pan-European provenance), my presentation is designed principally as a guided exploration of early modern memory and forgetting, that will be of special interest to students and scholars of the literature of the Renaissance and Reformation, history of thought, cultural studies, canon formation, textual editing, history of the book, and early modern visual culture.
*Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 12:30-1pm
Harvard Arts Museums
Gallery Talk: Ovid in the 18th Century
Elizabeth Rudy (Harvard Arts Museums)
Calderwood Courtyard, Harvard Arts Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
*Thursday, April 20, 2017, 5pm
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
“Don Quixote in the Fun-House of History”
Mary Malcolm Gaylord, Harvard University
Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard
Thursday, April 20, 4 p.m.
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Lecture: "Macbeth’s Bubbles and Shakespeare’s Cosmopolitics."
Presenter: Julian Yates (Professor of English, Delaware)
Room 4-153, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, Homer Babbidge Library, 4th Floor
369 Fairfield Way, Unit 1234, Storrs, CT, 06269-1234
Drawing on the work of Isabelle Stengers and Peter Sloterdijk, this paper concerns bubbles: time-bound, communities of breath, or atmospheres, pneumatic pacts of shared air. If, in the near future, explicit climate policy will become the foundation of community formation against (or with) increasingly hostile environs, then what do texts past, written from within an immediate and knowable precarity, offer us as we seek to imagine successive bubbles today? The “bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble” of Macbeth’s, extro-terrestrial witches, outside, beyond, or within the infrastructures of the world of the play, provides one place to think in these terms.
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 5:30 – 6:30pm
George Parker Winship Lecture, Houghton Library
“The Objects of Houghton Library: Past, Present and Future”
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Followed by a party, including...The BOOK LAUNCH for Houghton Library at 75: A Celebration of its Collections; and A VIEWING of the exhibition HIST 75H: A Masterclass on Houghton Library at Hougthon Library, Harvard University, 6:30 – 8:00pm. RSVP by calling 617-495-2441
**Thursday, April 20, 2017, 5:00 – 7 pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
“The Formation of a Taste Judgment: How Benjamin Haydon Came to Evaluate the Elgin Marbles”
Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard University)
Harvard University, Science Center, Room 252
Refreshments will be served. To RSVP please email agjikola@fas.harvard.edu or shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu.
Friday, April 21, 5:30 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Seneca and the Antisocial in King Lear”
Curtis Perry (University of Illinois)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 21–22, 2017
Equinoxes Conference: Memory/Rupture
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
*Friday, April 21–22, 2017
38th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum “Culture and Violence”
Keynote: Richard W. Kaeuper, Professor of History at the University of Rochester
Keene State College, 229 Main St., Keene, New Hampshire 03435
Conference website with Program and Registration: http://www.keene.edu/academics/programs/eng/mr_forum/
Monday, April 24, 2017, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
“The Dream of the Red Chamber (1792) and its Effect on China’s Women Writers”
Ellen Widmer (Wellesley College)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
UPCOMING EVENTS
*Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 12pm–1:30pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
"Under your skin, in your bed, and in the water: Locating disease among veterinarians in New Regime France."
Kathryn Heintzman (Harvard University)
Harvard Science Center, Room 252
Lunch will be served. To RSVP please email agjikola@fas.harvard.eduor shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu.
*Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 5:30
Visual Representation, Materiality, and the Medium Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Lecture: “Cospetto! Che bella cosa!” Boucher’s Triumph of Venus
Colin Bailey (The Morgan Library & Museum, NY)
Room 515, Sackler Museum, Harvard University
Thursday, April 27, 2017, 4:30pm
Lauro de Bosis Fellowship Lecture
“Michelangelo and the Bible: Religious Reading and Writing in Sixteenth-Century Italy”
Sarah Rolfe Prodan (Department of History, Harvard University)
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, Harvard Yard
Friday, April 28, 2017, 9:00 to 17.00 h.
Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
International Workshop: Arts and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400–1650)
Speakers: Prof. Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer (Universitat de València); Prof. Jorge Sebastián (Universitat de València); Dr. Borja Franco (UNED, Madrid); Prof. Cristelle Baskins (Tufts University); Prof. Felipe Pereda (Harvard University).
RCC Conference Room, Harvard University, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Visual strategies of legitimization became increasingly important for Iberian monarchies during the late medieval and early modern periods. Mediterranean dynastic, diplomatic, and military endeavors called for effective propaganda, both in the metropolis and in viceregal territories, such as southern Italy. Such efforts include architecture, both ephemeral and permanent, the decoration of palaces, court portraiture, and historiography.
http://rcc.harvard.edu/event/arts-and-court-cultures-iberian-world-1400-1650
RSVP rcc@harvard.edu – jorge.sebastian@uv.es
May
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title: Text against Image: Morisco Tales of Transgression in Early Modern Spain
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere@wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Tuesday May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Thursday, May 4, or Friday, May 5, 2017 (TBA)
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Maria Devlin (Harvard University)
"Renaissance Comedy: A Retrospective"
Location and Time TBA
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
"Some Early Modern Literary Legacies of Anne Boleyn"
F. Elizabeth Hart, Independent Scholar
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Friday, May 12, 2017, 4–6pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
“On Living Mirrors and Mites: Leibniz’s Encounter with Pascal on Infinity and Living Things circa 1696”
Robbins Library on the second floor of Emerson hall, Harvard Yard
Please write to Jeff McDonough for a copy of the paper: jkmcdon at fas.harvard.edu
Saturday, October 14, 2017
New England Renaissance Conference
“Deceit, Deception, and Dishonesty in the Early Modern Era”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Call for Papers, Deadline: May 31, 2017.
Email for more information Lorenzo Buonanno, lorenzo.buonanno@umb.edu and Shannon McHugh, shannon.mchugh@umb.edu
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