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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Wednesday, February 1, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Talk: Mapping the Strategies for the 18th Century Section of
Femmes, littérature. Une histoire culturelle (in progress): libertés, égalités, dilemmes
Christie McDonald, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
**Wednesday, February 1, 2017, 6-8 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
“Tenacious Myths of Early Modern Theatre History”
Holger Schott Syme, University of Toronto
Room 114 (Kriege), Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Friday, February 3, 5:30pm
Shakespearean Studies
"The Color of Monogamy in Shakespeare's Sonnets"
Melissa Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday Feb 7, 12-1:30pm
Early Modern History Workshop
“Passport policy: administering the Habsburg-Dutch border through travel permits, 1580-1665”
Bram de Ridder, of the U of Leuven,
CGIS S153, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
Please RSVP to emework at fas.harvard.edu
**Tuesday Feb 14, 5pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Early Sciences Working Group
Talk: “A Centaur in London Observation and Reading in the Early Modern Study of Nature”
Fabian Kraemer (LMU Munich and Columbia Univ)
Science Center 300H, Harvard University
*Thursday, February 16, 2017, 5:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Moon Voyage Reading Group
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard University
(co-sponsored with the Long 18th Century and Romanticism Colloquium)
*Thursday, February 16, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
"The Queen's Two Corpora: Elizabeth I in Digital Contexts"
Kristen Abbott Bennett
(Stone Hill College) and Erica Zimmer (Boston University)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Monday, February 27, 6pm
Talk Title TBA
Meredith Martin (New York University) and
Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University),
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
March
**Thursday March 2, 2017, 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title: Mutations of a “Fixed Form”: The Rondeau from 1350 to 1650 and beyond
Ned Duval, Yale University
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/
*Monday, March 6, 5:15-7pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Chaos is come again" (Othello 3.3.92): Latency and Opacity as Achievements of Shakespeare's Stage
Anselm Haverkamp (New York University)
Location TBA
Wednesday, March 22, 6pm
American Literature and Culture
Talk Title TBA
Leonard Von Morze, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, March 23, 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
“Global Cervantes”
Roger Chartier (Paris, and University of Pennsylvania)
Location TBA, Harvard University
**Friday, March 24, 2017, 8:45am – 4:45pm
(Dis)entangling Global Early Modernities, 1300-1800, a one-day conference
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Panels on Ideas (speakers: Sophus Reinert, Anand Venkatkrishnan, Michael Tworek, Carolien Stolte), Books (speakers: Holly Shaffer, Nir Shafir, Devin Fitzgerald, Alexander Bevilacqua), and Scholarly Practices
(speakers: Ananya Chakravarti, Kirsten Windmuller-Luna, Stuart McManus, Gregory Afinogenov). Closing roundtable with panelists David Armitage, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Roger Chartier, Eugenio Menegon, Laura Mitchell. For the full schedule and to RSVP (by
March 10) see
http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/disentangling-global-early-modernities-1300-1800
*Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Reginald Wilburn (University of New Hampshire)
Title TBA
Barker 211, 6:00-8:00
Co-Sponsored with Race and Ethnicity Colloquium
April
**Equinoxes Conference: Memory/Rupture
4/21/2017 (All day) to 4/22/2017 (All day)
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
CFP deadline extension: February 15, 2017
*Tuesday, April 4, 2017 – 4:30pm
Sponsored by: Wesleyan University, Romance Languages and Literatures, College of Letters
Lecture title: The French Machine
Speaker and Institution: Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University
Where: Romance Languages and Literatures Highwaymen Common Room, 300 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Additional information: In this lecture, Chenoweth will address the role of printing in the “rise” of the vernacular in the sixteenth century.
Contact: Michael Meere, at
mmeere@wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
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/
*Wednesday, May 3, or Thursday, May 4, 2017 (TBA)
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Maria Devlin (Harvard University)
"Renaissance Comedy: A Retrospective"
Location and Time TBA
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