[earlymod-list] Early Mod Events, 19 February 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 *Wednesday, February 19, 2014 – 5-7pm Sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium Talk, "'As right as a line his heart I have hit': Trajectories of Violent Affect in Cambises." Adam Rzepka, Montclair State University Kresge Room, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St Cambridge, MA 02138 Wednesday, February 19, 2014 – 5:00pm Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies Talk, "What's in a Musical Manuscript? MS Faenza 117 and its Newly Revised Context" Pedro Memelsdorff, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 New concordances, codicological and archival research uncover an unexpected web of relationships between the Faenza copyists and the culture of Italian Quattrocento. Thursday, February 20, 2014 – 5:30pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Talk, “The Ins and Outs of Becoming a Buddha: Bodily Transformation and Gender in the Career of the Japanese Buddhist Nun Bunchi (1619-1697)” Gina Cogan, Boston College Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 *Thursday, February 20, 2014 – 6:00pm Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group Talk, “Big City Fires, Fire Insurance, and the Historical Narrative of Risk Sociology (17th to 19th c.)” Cornel Zwierlein, University of Bochum/Harvard University Science Center 469, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 RSVP to <mailto:allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com> allyssa.metzger.harvard(a)gmail.com Thursday, February 20, 2014 – 7:30pm Talk,"The Rabbinic and Patristic Castration and Exposure of Noah" Benjamin Braude, Boston College Rabinowitz Room, Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 3rd Fl., 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 (The entrance to the Rabinowitz Room is through the Divinity School library. People who would like to attend the meeting but don’t have a Harvard ID, will be asked to sign a visitor log at the entrance of the library. Two-hour free parking is available on Beacon Street on the Cambridge Somerville line, which is about five to ten minutes away by foot.) The meetings of Patristica Bostoniensia, a seminar of the Boston Theological Institute (the consortium of nine local theological schools), are devoted to a discussion of a pre-circulated paper. Additional information is available by contacting Dr. Annewies Van Den Hoek, ahoek(a)hds.harvard.edu / The paper is available by contacting, Braude(a)bc.edu Friday, February 21, 2014 – 5:30pm 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 Pembroke Hall Rm 305, 172 Meeting Street Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) 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 comments by Cynthia Brokaw, Brown University Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 *Monday, February 24, 2014 – 5:30pm Hosted by the Renaissance Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Talk, "Guillaume le Testu et la terre australe" (in French) Frank Lestringant, University of Paris 4 - Sorbonne Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Chairs: Tom Conley and Sylvaine Guyot *Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 12:00-2:00pm Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University Starr Seminar, “Between Judengasse and the City: Jewish Perceptions of the Medieval Past in Early Modern Worlds” Lucia Raspe, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main and University of Pennsylvania Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street, Cabot Room, Cambridge, MA 02318 Part of the Spring 2014 Starr Seminar Series, theme: Historical Consciousness and the Jewish Historical Imagination For information, queries or to receive pre-circulated materials, please contact cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 4:30pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Five College Renaissance Seminar Suparna Roychoudhury, Mount Holyoke College. Reading Room 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 / renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter Event is free and open to the public. No reservations required. Friday, February 28, 2014 – Noon –2:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities Center Workshop, “All about Networking?: Kinship, Mediation, and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Istanbul” E. Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough, with comments by Dan Smail, Harvard University William James Hall, Room 1550, 15th Fl. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge MA 02138 Sunday, March 2, 2014 - 2:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies First Sunday Concert Series Holyoke High School Madrigal group presents a set of Renaissance-era and modern songs. Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 / renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome. *Tuesday, March 4, 2014 – 12:00-2:00pm Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University Starr Seminar, "A Fine Tale”: Gender, Print, Folklore and an Early Modern Origin Myth of Prague Jewry” Rachel Greenblatt, Harvard University Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street, Cabot Room, Cambridge, MA 02318 Part of the Spring 2014 Starr Seminar Series, theme: Historical Consciousness and the Jewish Historical Imagination For or information, queries or to receive pre-circulated materials, please contact cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu Thursday, March 6, 2014 – 5:30pm Sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University 2014 Anita Glass Lecture, "The Whisperers" Christopher Wood, Yale University List Art Center Room 120, 62 College Street, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 Saturday, March 8 & Sunday, March 9, 2014 – 9:00am–4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Conference, “Shakespeare in Translation” Keynote speakers include: Anston Bosman, Amherst College Jean-Michel Déprats, Université Paris X Nanterre Peter S. Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Saturday to be held in the Renaissance Center, Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 Sunday to be held in Herter Hall, 161 Presidents Dr, UMass Amherst, Amherst MA 01002 This is a unique event that has so far gathered the support of the Five Colleges and many departments at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. National and international keynotes and presenters will be giving papers on Shakespeare’s translation, adaptation, and performance. For more information please check our website: http://internationalshakespeare.wordpress.com/ For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 / renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter Registration is required by March 6. Call the Center at 413-577-3600. Free and open to the public. Monday, March 10, 2014 – 6:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Performance and Talk by the Shakespeare Performance Workshop Community Class Director Dori Robinson and her class will perform what they have been studying all semester. Dori will present a short talk centered upon how Shakespeare plays were performed in 1599. Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 / renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter No reservations required. Free and open to the public. *Tuesday, March 11, 2014 – 12:00-2:00pm Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University Starr Seminar, "The greatest problem that there is in Scripture:" The Threat of History and the Authority of the Bible in Early Modern Europe” Ben Fisher, Towson University Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street, Cabot Room, Cambridge, MA 02318 Part of the Spring 2014 Starr Seminar Series, theme: Historical Consciousness and the Jewish Historical Imagination For or information, queries or to receive pre-circulated materials, please contact cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu Tuesday, March 11, 2014 – 4:15pm Talk, “On the Origins of Bubble Economics: The Company of the Indies and Eighteenth-Century France” Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Wednesday, March 12, 2014 – 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series Lecture, “Winged Words: one chapter in the history of a Homeric trope.” Jessica Wolfe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For additional information contact: (413) 577-3600 / renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter Free and open to the public. No reservations required Wednesday, March 12, 2014 – 5:00pm Sponsored by Book Studies and the Department of History at Wellesley College Talk, "How to Build an Imaginary Cabinet of Curiosities: Lessons in Entrepreneurship for Gallant Youth, c. 1700" Kelly Whitmer, Sewanee: the University of the South Clapp Library, Library Lecture Room, 1st Fl, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481 This lecture will investigate the history of a puzzling type of early modern cabinet of curiosities: the type that existed only in the pages of "museological handbooks" and in the imaginations of readers, designed to help young people improve their capacity to think critically and creatively about new technologies, new materials, and their commercial applications. Friday, March 14, 2014 - 5:30pm Talk, Title TBA Andrew Murphy, University of St. Andrews, Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Saturday March 15, 2014 – 8:00am–Noon Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Annual Dakin Pancake Breakfast,“What foods these morsels be!” Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 The breakfast features syrup tapped from the Center’s own maple trees (a tradition begun by Janet Dakin) and donated by local sugarer Robert McIntyre. This all you can eat breakfast features pancakes, sausage and bacon cooked up by volunteer chefs and served in the Reading Room, with a beautiful view of the meadow and surrounding hills. For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter Suggested donation is $10 for adults and $5 for children. No reservations required Thursday, March 20, 2014 – 5:30pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Talk, “Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing in the 21st Century: The Evolution of the Women Writers Project” Julia Flanders, Northeastern University Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 *Monday, March 24, 2014 – 5:00pm Hosted by the Renaissance Studies seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Presentation of L’Atelier de la Renaissance Mireille Huchon, Trung Tran, and Company, University of Paris 4 - Sorbonne Room 203, Boylston Hall, Harvard University, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 Wednesday, March 26, 2014 – 4:00pm Co-Sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series Lecture by Sally Sutherland, “Hamlet’s ‘No’: The Readiness is All” Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series Lecture by, John Robison, “Skepticism, Faith, and Reason in Marie de Gournay’s, Equality of Men and Women.” Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter Free and open to the public. No reservations required Thursday, April 3, 2014 – Time TBD Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Talk, “Benevolent Slavery and Other Oxymorons: The Case of Black-African Women in Early Modern Portugal” Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg Location TBD Thursday, April 3, 2014 – 4:15pm Sponsored by the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Talk, “Renaissance Music as Art-ifact: An Early 16th-Century Mass for Margaret of Austria in Context” M. Jennifer Bloxam, Williams College, Yale 41 Wyllys Ave. (Squash), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459 For a copy of this paper, please contact Sandra Brough by telephone at 860-685-2594 or by email at: sbrough(a)wesleyan.edu http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 4:30pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Five College Renaissance Seminar Molly Murray, Columbia University Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Friday, April 4, 2014 – 2:15pm Talk, “Violence in the French and Haitian Revolutions” Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Sunday April 6, 2014 - 2:00 – 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies First Sunday Concert Series Performance, by the Second Wind Renaissance Wind Ensemble (Susan Galereave, sackbut, Eric Kernfeld, sackbut, Rigel Lustwerk, cornetto, and John Maloney, dulcian) Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 In their first appearance at the Center, will present "Music from the Workshop of Andrea Gabrieli," a compilation of Renaissance polyphony focusing on the music of Andrea Gabrieli and composers who studied with him, including his nephew Giovanni Gabrieli, Hans Leo Hassler, and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Donations Accepted. Tuesday, April 8, 2014 – 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Talk highlighting the seminars, conferences, and workshops on offer at the Folger for 2014-2015. Owen William, Folger Institute Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter No reservations required Free and open to the public. Wednesday, April 9, 2014 – 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series Talk by Anna Strowe, “Translating the Historia Della Fine Del Monde manuscript.” Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Friday, April 11, 2014 – Noon–2:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities Center. Workshop, "From Status to Contract? Commerce and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe" Francesca Trivellato, Yale University William James Hall, Room 1550, 15th Fl. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge MA 02138 Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series Talk by Marie Roche, “All is Well that Ends Well: Parolles Theological.” Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Friday, April 18, 2014 - 5:30pm Talk, " 'Thrilling regions': Shakespeare, Dante and Dan Brown" Graham Holderness, University of Hertfordshire Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tuesday, April 22, 2014 – 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Collins Lecture Margaret Ezell, Texas A&M. Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series Talk, “Rare Book Show and Tell” presented by David Katz, Renaissance Center Curator Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Saturday, April 26, 2014 - 9:00am – 4:00pm Co-Sponsored by The Association for Renaissance Medieval Swordsmanship and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies 10th Annual Historical Swordsmanship Conference Presentations at the conference will feature a combination of academic scholarship and demonstrations, including talks by ARMS on the later German longsword tradition, demonstrations by Phoenix swords of historical techniques, the manuscript tradition, and the guild structure of Renaissance Europe and its relation to the development of Western martial arts. The Renaissance Center currently maintains an online collection of historical combat treatises and fencing manuals dating primarily from the Renaissance. This collection can be accessed at www.umass.edu/arms/lord. Lunch is provided. Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter Must call the Center to register by April 24. Free and open to the public. Tuesday, April 29, 2014 – 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Celebrity Lecture Wayne Abercrombie, UMass Amherst Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 Dr. Abercrombie will discuss the relationship between text and music in Renaissance and early Baroque music. For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter No reservations required Free and open to the public. Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 4:15pm Sponsored by the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Talk, "‘Es cosa muy de ver’: Urban Tableaux and Viewing Pleasure in Baroque Madrid" Laura Bass, Brown University 41 Wyllys Ave. (Squash), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459 For a copy of this paper, please contact Kristine Schiavi by telephone at 860-685-2830, or by e-mail at: kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu Friday May 2, 2014 - 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Sonnetfest, annual reading aloud of sonnets followed by white wine and strawberries Call the Center to sign up to read a sonnet Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter No reservations required. Free and open to the public. Sunday May 4, 2014 - 11:00am–4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Annual Community Renaissance Festival Renaissance Center & surrounding grounds and meadow, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 Get your family and friends together and plan to enjoy this free festival which is brimming with entertainment and education in a beautiful outdoor setting. We’ll have theater, music, falconry with Chris Davis of New England Falconry, juggling, sword demonstrations from Phoenix Swords, “Our” ever-popular Mud Man, juggling, ‘hobby horses’ for the kids, dancing, and more! While you’re here, be sure to explore our new Italian Grotto, admire the apple orchard, flower, herb, and vegetable gardens, and walk the meadow and woodland trails. It is sure to be a fun day for the whole family. Rain or shine. Plenty of on-site free parking. Food for sale from UMass concessions. For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter Admission is free although donations are welcome. *Saturday June 21, 2014 - Noon–2:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Third Annual Gardeners’ Guild Lunch and Talk Talk given by, Wes Autio, UMass Amherst Enjoy a lunch on our back patio followed by a presentation For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter Members only – Invitation only! Not a member? Pick up a form at 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 Tuesday, August 5, 2014 – 11:00am–1:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Enchanted Circle Theater ~ Acting Shakespeare Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002 Student actors from Holyoke school system’s summer acting program will present scenes from a Shakespeare play, using the Hampshire Shakespeare Company’s main stage. Stay for a light picnic lunch afterwards! For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter No reservations required. Free and open to the public. *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. 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