[earlymod-list] Early Mod Events, 17 November 2015

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: <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 **Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar Lecture, "De-localizing Medicine in the English East India Company's Medical Service, 1730-90" Zachary Dorner, Brown University Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 **Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:00pm Talk Postponed - New Date and Time TBD Sponsored by the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Talk, "English Literature -- Insular or Continental? A Renaissance Position" Marc Shell, Harvard University Barker Center, Room 018, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 *Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University Lecture, "Efşancı Garden: Questioning the Ideal of Ottoman Garden Design in the Sixteenth Century" B. Deniz Çaliş Kural, Harvard AKPIA Associate / Istanbul Bilgi University Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 318, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA 02138 http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69205 <http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69205&tabgroupid=icb.tab group104234> &tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup104234 Lectures are free and open to the public. For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email <mailto:agakhan@fas.harvard.edu> agakhan(a)fas.harvard.edu Thursday, November 19, 2015, 7:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard Seminar, Eighteenth-century studies: "Trompe l'oeil with Dead Bird" Lynn Festa, Rutgers University Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Friday, November 20, 2015, 4:00pm Cosponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard and Renaissance Studies Seminar Seminar, Cartography: "The World for a King: Pierre Desceliers' Map of 1550" Chet Van Duzer, University of Mississippi Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography Friday, November 20, 2015, Reception at 5:30pm, Seminar at 6:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Shakespearean Studies Seminar Reception and Seminar, "'And must we be divided?': Commemorating Shakespeare in America, 1864" Douglas Lanier, University of New Hampshire: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/and-must-we-be-divided-com memorating-shakespeare-america-1864 Friday, November 20, 5:30pm Sponsored by the Harvard Humanities Center Talk, Shakespeare Studies, "'And must we be divided?': Commemorating Shakespeare in America, 1864" Douglas Lanier, University of New Hampshire Barker Center, Room 133, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 Saturday, November 21, 2015, 9:00am - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman's Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Conference, Early America Conference Alden Vaughan, Columbia University; Abby Chandler, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and more. Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Free and open to the public. Lunch is provided. Register by November 20th at 413-577-3600 or renaissance(a)english.umass.edu UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) Friday, November 30, 2015, 4:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard Seminar, Renaissance Studies: "New World Mining in the Humanist Anthropocene" Phillip John Usher, New York University Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/renaissance-studies *Monday, November 30, 2015, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Pre-Lecture reception at 5:00 p.m. in the Edison and Newman Room) The HBS Medici Collection: Understanding Renaissance Business Sponsors: Harvard Business School; the Houghton Library, Harvard College; the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University; and the Department of History, Harvard University Registration link for workshops included on website. Lecture,"The HBS Medici Collection: Florence and International Trade, 1400-1600" William Caferro, Vanderbilt University Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard College, Harvard Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Professor Caferro will speak about the HBS Medici Collection and larger issues in the economic history of Renaissance Italy and the Mediterranean. Registration required, to register visit: http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/medici/ *Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard Seminar, Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium: "An Archeology of Transfers: the Emergent Superintendency of Painting in the Renaissance" Alexander Nagel, New York University Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/visual-representation-mate riality-and-medium *Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The HBS Medici Collection: Understanding Renaissance Business Sponsors: Harvard Business School; the Houghton Library, Harvard College; the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University; and the Department of History, Harvard University Lecture, "The HBS Medici Collection: Merchants, Markets, and Business Practices in the Renaissance" William Caferro, Vanderbilt University Baker Library, Bloomberg Center, Room 102 Harvard Business School, 25 Harvard Way, Boston, MA 02163 Professor Caferro will present on the HBS Medici Collection, the light it can shed on Renaissance business practices, and the early history of accounting and bookkeeping. Registration required, to register visit: http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/medici/ *Thursday, December 3rd, 2015, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The HBS Medici Collection: Understanding Renaissance Business Sponsors: Harvard Business School; the Houghton Library, Harvard College; the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University; and the Department of History, Harvard University Workshop, "The HBS Medici Collection: Reading Account Books as Texts and Historical Sources" Introductory remarks by William Caferro, Vanderbilt University Baker Library Bloomberg Center, Room 101, Harvard Business School, 25 Harvard Way, Boston, MA 02163 A selection of volumes from the HBS Medici Collection will be on display, along with other treasures from Baker Library's Kress Collection, including a first edition of Luca Pacioli's 1494 Summa de Arithmetica and other important pre-1600 Italian works of economic theory and commercial practice. At these workshops, following introductory remarks by Prof. Caferro and other experts, attendees will have a chance to view, handle, and ask questions about these documents. This workshop will feature issues of book history, paleography, and codicology in relation to the HBS Medici Collection. Graduate students are especially welcome to the workshops. Registration required, to register visit: <http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/medici/> http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/medici/ *Thursday, December 3rd, 2015, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. The HBS Medici Collection: Understanding Renaissance Business Sponsors: Harvard Business School; the Houghton Library, Harvard College; the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University; and the Department of History, Harvard University Workshop, "The HBS Medici Collection: Florentine Business and Accounting Practices" Introductory remarks by William Caferro, Vanderbilt University Baker Library, Bloomberg Center, Room 101, Harvard Business School, 25 Harvard Way, Boston, MA 02163 A selection of volumes from the HBS Medici Collection will be on display, along with other treasures from Baker Library's Kress Collection, including a first edition of Luca Pacioli's 1494 Summa de Arithmetica and other important pre-1600 Italian works of economic theory and commercial practice. At these workshops, following introductory remarks by Prof. Caferro and other experts, attendees will have a chance to view, handle, and ask questions about these documents. This workshop will feature the nature of Renaissance account books and the bookkeeping and accounting practices used in them, using volumes from the HBS Medici Collection. Registration required, to register visit: http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/medici/ Thursday, December 3, 2015, Reception at 5:30pm - Symposium at 6:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Reception and Seminar, Shakespearean Studies Seminar Annual Graduate Symposium: "New Work on Early Modern Drama" Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA <http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/graduate-symposium> http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/graduate-symposium *Saturday, December 5, 9:15am-5pm and Sunday, December 6, 2015 - 9:15am-4pm Supported by the Lauro De Bosis Fund and Villa I Tatti. Conference: Building the Canon: Italian Renaissance and the Creation of a Literary Tradition Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Sat AM (9:15am-12:30pm) Christopher Celenza, JHU: "Canons and the Language of the Italian Renaissance" M.G. Eisner, Duke: "Dante, Ovid, and the Making of Machiavelli's Prince: Contaminating Canons in the Letter to Vettori" F. Venturi, Durham: "Self-Exegesis and Self-Canonization in Renaissance Poetry" N. Cannata, Roma 1: "Building the canon in 1530s Rome: Colocci's epigrammatari as a test case" Sat PM (2-5pm) J.S. Boparai, Cambridge: "Pindar, Tragedy and Poliziano's Notion of 'Classical' Greek" M. De Caro, Roma 3: "Was Galileo a Platonist?" F. Pagani, Dumbarton Oaks: "Re-establishing Plato in the Classical Canon" Carlo Caruso, Durham: "Editing vernacular classics in the early sixteenth century: ancient models and modern solutions" Sun AM (9:15am-12:15am) V. Prosperi, Sassari: "The Place of the Father: The Reception of Homer in the Renaissance Canon" M. Signorini, Roma 2: "Boccaccio as Homer: a recently discovered self-portrait and the 'modern' canon" T. Juliani, Unicamp: "In the center of the kaleidoscope: Ovidian poetic image and Boccaccio's self-representation in De mulieribus claris" Daniel Javitch, NYU: "How (and why) did Oedipus tyrannus become part of the canon?" Sun PM (1:30-4pm) G. Comiati, Warwick: "Horace's biographies as a means to legitimize the inclusion of Horace in the fifteenth-century canon of classical authorities" F. Caneparo, UPenn: "The Renaissance literary canon and the arts: Ariosto's Orlando furioso as a turning point" I. Fantappiè, HU Berlin: "Anticlassicists' Classical Canon. Pietro Aretino" Sunday, December 6, 2015, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman's Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Concert, First Sunday Concert Series, The Amherst Recorder Consort Bob Leitch Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA The Amherst Recorder Consort will perform a program of Byrd, Verdelot, Tallis, Crecquillon, Josquin and more! Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is very limited. Donations welcome. Thursday, December 10, 2015, 5:30pm-7:00pm Sponsored by the Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard, Co-Chairs, Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie Talk, "Vexed Rulership: Ambiguous Valois Bodies (1494-1589)" Touba Ghadessi, Department of Art History, Wheaton College Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA For more information, please call 617-495-0738 Thursday, December 10, 2015, 5:30pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard Seminar, Woman and Culture in the early modern world: "Vexed Rulership: Ambiguous Valois Bodies (1494-1589)" Touba Ghadessi, Wheaton College Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-mo dern-world Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 4:30pm Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar Lecture, Building Empire in West Africa: Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) and the Foundation of the Portuguese Fort of Uidá (1721) Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 *If you would like to request that your announcement be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events e-mail: Please send your listing to: <mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu> earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu It would be a great help if you could follow the format below. 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