[earlymod-list] Early Mod Events, 21 January 2014

This list announces talks 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 (no listings) UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) * Monday, February 3, 2014 - 5:30pm Talk, "Renaissance Humanists and the Study of Manuscripts" Anthony Grafton, Princeton University Houghton Library, Edison & Newman Room, Harvard University, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 This lecture reconstructs the forgotten foundations on which the Maurists built--the work of humanists, antiquaries and ecclesiastical scholars, who had collected and assessed manuscripts for centuries, and whose ideas and practices helped to shape the new structures that Mabillon and Montfaucon built. *Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 6pm Sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History Talk, "Getting information from books: A view of the 18th century" Paul Duguid University of California Berkeley Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 4pm Hosted by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Talk, "Urban Imaginaries in the Early Modern Ottoman World: Exploring the Dialogics of Word, Image, and Space" Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul Radcliffe Gym, Harvard University, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 * Thursday, February 6, 2014, 10:00am - 12 noon Workshop, "Life in the Margins: Practices of Learned Annotation in Early Modern Europe." Anthony Grafton, Princeton University Houghton Library, Seminar Room, Harvard University, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 This workshop, will examine a number of printed books from Harvard's collections, using their annotations to examine some of the ways in which learned men and women read and annotated their books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Space is limited; contact Monique Duhaime ( <mailto:duhaime@fas.harvard.edu> duhaime(a)fas.harvard.edu) to reserve a place. Friday, February 21, 2014 - Time TBA Hosted by the Cogut Center for the Humanities and sponsored by the Department of French Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Medieval Studies Program, and the Department of History Interdisciplinary Symposium, "Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh: Medieval and Early Modern Captivity" Keynote Speaker: Adam Kosto, Columbia University Brown University (exact location TBA) * Monday Feb 24, 2014 - 4pm Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the China Humanities Seminar, Fairbank Center Talk, "Textual Collation and Its Guiding Principles in Eighteenth-Century Evidential Scholarship: Illustrated with Lu Wenchao's (1717-1796) Work" Lianbin Dai, Harvard University, with comment by Cynthia Brokaw, Brown University Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 *If you would like to request that your announcement be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events e-mail: Please send your listing to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu It would be a great help if you could follow the format below. 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 (Room, Building, Street Address, Institution, City, State) Additional info (no more than a couple sentences) Website URL RSVP or Registration information/link