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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
*Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 4:30pm
Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Seminar, “Demand and Threaten: Christian and Muslim Narratives of Violence”
Daniel Hershenzon, University of Connecticut
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
Please consult https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ to access the pre-circulated paper of the talk
Friday, September 18, 2015 - Sunday, September 20, 2015, 8:30pm - 9:30pm
Sponsored by UMass Amherst and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
International Shakespeare Conference
Integrated Science Bldg., 661 N. Pleasant St., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Reception on Friday evening. Registration is Saturday and Sunday from 8:30 to 9:30 at the door, or online at http://www.umass.edu/shakespeare/index.html. Open to the public. This conference is located at the Integrated Science Building on the campus of UMass Amherst, NOT at the Renaissance Center. For more information contact: (413) 577-3600 or at renaissance@english.umass.edu
RSVP at the door or at http://www.umass.edu/shakespeare/index.html
*Friday, September 18, 2015, 4:00pm-6:30pm – Saturday, September 19, 2015, 8:45am - 5:45pm
Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, Amherst College, and Smith College
Symposium, Books and Print between Cultures, 1500-1900
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA; and 17 other participants
Converse Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public
https://booksandprint.sites.amherst.edu/
Advanced registration is appreciated: https://booksandprint.sites.amherst.edu/registration/
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
Wednesday, September 23, 2015, 4:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard International & Global History Seminar
Talk, “The Nomos of the Island: Law and Geography in the Anglo-Portuguese ‘Transfer’ of Bombay in the Late Seventeenth Century”
Philip J. Stern, Duke University
Lower Library, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Please read the pre-circulated paper for this meeting, available one week before from: http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu.
Thursday, September 24, 2015, 4:15pm
Sponsored by Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “If Aristotle Were Alive: Scientific and Religious Debates in the Late Renaissance"
Eva del Soldato, University of Pennsylvania
(Squash) Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Kristine Schiavi by phone: (860) 685-2830, or e-mail: kschiavi@wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
*Thursday, September 24, 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, The Regina d’Algiero (1587): Image and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Cristelle Baskins, Tufts University
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
For more information, please call 617-495-0738
Thursday, September 24, 2015 – Thursday, October 1, 2015
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Scholar in Residence
Harry Berger, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Please call the Center at (413) 577-3600 to arrange for a time slot during his office hours. Free and open to the public.
Saturday, September 26, 2015, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Celebrating Shakespeare Conference
Harry Berger, University of California, Santa Cruz; Jane Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts Amherst; William Oram, Smith College; Naomi Miller, Smith College; and many 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 September 25th at 413-577-3600 or renaissance@english.umass.edu.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 4:00pm
Talk, “A Wholly Other Face of the Mohammedan Religion: Europeans Reinterpret Islam, 1650-1734”
Alexander Bevilacqua, Harvard Society of Fellows
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Please read the pre-circulated paper for this meeting, available one week before from: http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu.
Tuesdays beginning September 29, 2015, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Community Class, “Shakespeare with Tony Burton: ‘Measure for Measure’ and ‘The Tempest’”
Lecturer TBA
Location: TBA
Pious rulers let the reins slip away, with a variety of unexpected results. Please read the texts first, and have questions and biases ready to discuss. Free and open to the public. Runs 9 weeks.
Pre-registration required at 413-577-3600 by September 18th.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015, 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series: “Reflections on Don Quixote.”
Harry Berger, University of California, Santa Cruz
Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Sunday, October 4, 2015, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Concert, The Springfield Mandolin Orchestra
Adam R. Sweet, Springfield Mandolin Orchestra
Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
The orchestra will present a program of an Anthony Holborne Suite, Vivaldi's "La Folia," and Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is very limited. Donations are welcome.
Mondays October 5, 19, 26, and November 2, 2015, 10:00am - 11:00am
Sponsored by The UMass Renaissance Center
Community Class, The Hand-Press Book
Jeff Goodhind, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
An introduction to early printed books including paper, typesetting, printing, illustration, and binding. No knowledge of book history required. Class will take place in the upstairs classroom. Free event, handicapped Accessible. Contact: Jeff Goodhind 413-577-3600
Pre-register by October 4th at 413-577-3600 or at renaissance@english.umass.edu.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, “Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer.”
Robin Varnum, American International College
Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Thursday, October 8, 2015 – 4:15pm
Sponsored by Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, "The Humanist Anthropocene. Part 1: The Exterranean Renaissance"
Phillip Usher, New York University
(Squash) Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Kristine Schiavi by phone: (860) 685-2830, or e-mail: kschiavi@wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
*Friday October 9, 2015, 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Seminar, Shakespearean Studies Seminar
Jane Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Reception is at 5:30pm
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month?date=2015-10
Saturday, October 10, 2015, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Conference, Graduate Conference
Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College.
Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
$10.00 includes admission to all sessions, breakfast, lunch, and afternoon coffee.
Advance registration is required.
http://renaissanceconference.wordpress.com
**Sunday, October 11, 2015- Monday, January 18, 2016
Sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Exhibition, Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ann and Graham Gund Gallery (Gallery LG31)
465 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA
Featuring 75 masterpieces by artists including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jan Steen, and Frans Hals from European and North American public and private collections, this exhibition is the first to consider 17th-century Dutch painting through the lens of the social classes.
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/class-distinctions
Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series: “Muse of the Dance: Instrumental Music of the High Renaissance.”
David Gruender, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Mondays, October 19, 26, and November 2, 9, 2015, 3:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Community Class, The Madrigal
Emiliano Ricciardi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Location: TBA
The goal of this class is to develop a musical and historical understanding of the madrigal, one of the most important genres of vocal music in the late Renaissance. In the class we will examine select works by prominent practitioners of this genre, such as Willaert and Marenzio, placing them in the context of larger musical and cultural trends. No musical background is required.
Pre-registration is required at 413-577-3600 or renaissance@english.umass.edu.
**Tuesday, October 20, 2015 – 4:00pm
Sponsored by the Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Lecture, The 36th William F. Church Memorial Lecture: “Revealed Beauty and Hidden Danger: On Jewish Books of Time in Early Modern Europe”
Elisheva Carleback, Columbia University
Winnick Chapel, Brown/RISD Hillel Building, 80 Brown St., Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
*Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 5:30pm-7:00pm
Lecture, Tomasso Lecture: “Inhabited Architecture: A Pervasive Motif in Medieval Art and Modern Theory.”
Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University
Tufts University
Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 12:00pm
Talk, “Historical Expertise and the Production of Almanacs in the Age of Enlightenment”
Jennifer C. Blanke, University of Göttingen
Lower Library, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, “The Impact of Natural History on Renaissance Art and Literature.”
Marion Copeland, Dakin Humane Society
Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
*Thursday October 22, 2015, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Fine Arts Department, Boston College
Lecture, Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art: "Baroque Makeovers: Style Change in Seventeenth-Century Italian Painting”
Catherine Puglisi, Rutgers University
Devlin Hall, Room 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
The von Henneberg lecture and the reception immediately following are free and open to the public. Visitor parking information and additional information can be found at http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/upcomingevents.html
Please RSVP by October 1, 2015: 617-552-4295 or elliotj@bc.edu
Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, "Fake It Till You Make It: A Modern Medievalist Meets Renaissance Pseudo-hieroglyphs."
Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Sunday, November 1, 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, AyreCraft
Donnie Cotter, Robert Castellano and Meg Pash
Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is very limited. Donations welcome.
Monday, November 2, 2015, 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, the Robert C. Smith, Jr. Fund for Portuguese Studies, and the Brazil Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Talk, “Slave Trade, Ethnicity and Ethnonym: Southeastern Brazil and the African West Coast”
Aldair Rodrigues, Yale University
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Talk, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series, “Rare Book Show and Tell.”
Jeff Goodhind, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Saturday, November 7, 2015, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Festival, French Renaissance Harvest Banquet
Marriott Center, 11th Floor, Campus Center (UMass Amherst, main campus)
Join us for a festive evening celebrating Renaissance France! Enjoy authentic Renaissance food prepared using produce and herbs from the Renaissance Center’s own kitchen garden. Revel in the sounds of Renaissance France brought to you through lutes, sackbuts, singing, harps and more. With entertainment ranging from juggling to theater to door prizes, you are bound to have an evening of excitement and fun! Costumes encouraged!
Reservations must be made by November 2nd. Call 413-577-3600 to reserve your tickets. $75/each or $125/couple. *New* Student Discount: $35/person
Wednesday, November 11 – Friday, November 13, 2015
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Scholar in Residence
Leah Whittington, Harvard University.
Please call the Center at 413-577-3600 to arrange for a time slot during her office hours. Free and open to the public.
Thursday, November 12, 2015 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Talk, Classical Legacy Lecture, "Performing the Past: Shakespeare and Classical Literature from Humanist Schoolroom to Early Modern Stage."
Leah Whittington, Harvard University
Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Friday, November 13, 2015, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Co-sponsored by The Renaissance Center’s Reading Group and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Festival, Renaissance Games Night
Reading Room, The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
Join us for an evening of Renaissance-era board games, door prizes, refreshments, and more! Families and kids are welcome! Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
*Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 4:30pm
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
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@english.umass.edu
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.
*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
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