[earlymod-list] Early Mod Events, 18 February 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: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailto-3Aearlymod-40fas.harvard.edu&d=AAMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mhBY8Zq9x48r1ht199sy4TSVN8hKYimbG0XnVk_1OE4&m=oOD6VYxNvhUREuvv6xW46HOIdVpCOXCqvFO0IJlMF7A&s=BOyeuRvRdGkbnO3GfduJg0T_afyEnqlqCfFTr9FEl6g&e=> . 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 Thursday, February 19, 2015 – 5:00-7:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center seminar on Book History, "Cyberformalism and the Philology of Things, 1557-1798" Daniel Shore, Georgetown University Barker Center, Room 133 Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 *Thursday, February 19, 2015 – 5:00pm Sponsored by the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy Talk, “Thomas Jefferson & the French Revolution” Jonathan Israel, Princeton University Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Please RSVP to: clough.center(a)bc.edu For more information visit: www.bc.edu/cloughcenter * Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 5:30pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center - Women And Culture In The Early Modern World Seminar Series Seminar, “Marlowe and the Sibyl's Scattered Leaves” Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College Barker Center, Room 128, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 *Thursday, February 19, 2015 -9:00am – 3:00pm; and Friday, February 20, 2015 10:00am-4:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard History and Harvard German Departments Conference, “Ignorance, Nescience, Nonknowledge: Late Medieval and Early Modern Coping with Unknowns” History Department, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge 02138 Full program available online: http://history.fas.harvard.edu/event/nescience-nonknowledge-late-medieval-a… To register please contact: zwierlein(a)fas.harvard.edu This is an interdisciplinary two-place conference on Historicizing Ignorance in Late Medieval and Early Modern History will take place at Harvard University, Robinson Hall and the German Historical Institute, Paris.The conference seeks to address how ignorance about phenomena in different epistemic fields of the late medieval and early modern world was recognized (or not), used and coped with, differently from modern times. The Harvard part is devoted to the fields of historiography, the information management of early modern states and empires, on decision making under ignorance, political discourses dealing with and reacting to unknowns, early modern natural science, the coping with ignorance and silence from canon law to continental common law, and in several case studies on humanism, coping with ignorances in travel writing and translations as well as in the visual arts. *Thursday, February 19, 2015 & Friday, February 20, 2015 – Various Times Sponsored by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation <http://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events-publications/delmas.org> and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation <http://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events-publications/mellon.org> Symposium, “Merchants of the Printed Word: The Circulation and Commerce of Books in the Americas and Beyond” Keynote Lecture by Roger Chartier (Thursday evening) MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 94 George St, Providence, RI 02906 For full program and registration information click here <http://blogs.brown.edu/merchants-of-the-printed-word/> For more information, please contact jcb-events(a)brown.edu On the occasion of its latest exhibition, “ <http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/regal/index.html> Printers’ Devils and Printers’ Delights: The Book in Spanish America,” the John Carter Brown Library invites you to a symposium commemorating the 475th anniversary of the introduction of the printing press to America, with presentations by leading scholars whose research focuses on the circulation of print in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. One hundred years before a printing press was brought to North America, European printers and their apprentices were already busily producing printed matter of all shapes and sizes throughout the Spanish empire, from Mexico City to Lima and beyond. Our hope is that the meeting will generate new insights into the collective history of the Americas as relate to the worlds of print. * Friday February 20, 2015 –1:00-3:00pm Sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium Graduate Workshop on advanced digital corpus search tools, entitled "Prosthetic Formalism" Led by, Daniel Shore, Georgetown University Barker Center, Room 133 Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 This workshop is intended for all graduates and faculty with an interest in digital humanities, regardless of their level of experience with these methods. For the workshop, Prof. Shore has asked that you bring your laptop with you, if possible. *Friday, February 20, 2015 – 1:00pm Sponsored by the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Demonstration of Live Electrical Experiments Room C, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Ever wonder what it was like to attend Harvard College in the mid-1700s? Join us when CHSI will recreate some 18th century electrical experiments straight out of the lecture notes of Professor John Winthrop and the demonstrations at Faneuil Hall by Ebenezer Kinnersley, Benjamin Franklin’s friend. Witness the surprising effects of electrical attraction and repulsion! A fire lit by water! Bells rung by an invisible, imponderable fluid! And a warning to all who do not have lightning rods: the blowing up of the Thunder House! Experiments will be performed with vintage and replica instruments from Lecture Demonstrations with the help of Daniel Rosenberg and Sara Schechner. Rare 18th-century apparatus from the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments will be on exhibit during the lecture. http://chsi.harvard.edu/index.html *Friday, February 20, 2015 – 4:00pm Talk, "Credit, blame, and thanks: some impacts of printing on collaborative authorship in early modern Europe” Ann Blair, Harvard University Weatherhead Center Seminar in Cultural Politics, Bowie-Vernon Room (Room K262), CGIS Knafel Building, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 UPCOMING EVENTS (* indicates a new listing / ** indicates an updated listing) *Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 5:15-6:45pm Sponsored by the Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Series Seminar, "The Pursuit of Priority in the Horological Arts" Rachel Gostenhofer, Brown University Pavilion Room, Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912 For more information or access to the paper contact: memhs(a)listserv.brown.edu Thursday, February 26, 2015 – 4:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Seminar, “Seeing Red: Rubrication as Writing in Blood (& Vice Versa) on the Early Modern Page" Bianca F.-C. Calabresi, Independent Scholar, History of the Book (Squash) Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457 The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Liz Tinker by phone: (860) 685-2360, or e-mail: etinker(a)wesleyan.edu http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 4:30pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Five College Renaissance Seminar Seminar, “How the Elizabethan Monarchical Republic Failed to Build a Republican Monarchy: The Earl of Leicester and the Netherlands, 1586-7”. Malcolm Smuts, (UMass Boston) Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. No reservations required. *Thursday, February 26, 2015 – 6:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center – Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminars Seminar, "Print and Personhood in the Early Caribbean Rhetoric of the Runaway" Srividhya Swaminathan, Long Island University Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Thursday February 26, 2015 – 7:00 – 9:00 pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Shakespeare “Pub Trivia” Night Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu This February, we are bringing back Shakespeare Pub Quiz Night, and we invite Shakespeare fans of all ages to participate in a new round of Bard-related trivia, riddles, and puzzles. This year will feature video clues, sound bites, and opportunities to win cash prizes! Non-alcoholic beverages, and light snacks will be served. Free and open to the public. * Friday February 27, 2015 - 5:30pm reception / 6:00pm seminar Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Lecture, "MOOC Ado About Nothing" Yu Jin Ko, Wellesley College Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month?date=2015-02 Sunday, March 1, 2015 - 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 of, “Praetorius, Terpsichore dances, and Musae Sioniae.” by Ensemble Musica Humana Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Refreshments available after the concert. *Monday, March 2, 2015 – Time TBA Talk, "Fiscal Struggles and the Rise of Civic Equality in Old Regime France" Guest Speaker, William Sewell, University of Chicago; Faculty Comment: Mary Lewis (Harvard University); Student Comment: Manuel Rincon-Cruz (Harvard University) For more information visit: <http://studyofcapitalism.harvard.edu/workshop> http://studyofcapitalism.harvard.edu/workshop *Tuesday March 3, 2015 – 12:00 – 1:30pm Talk, “Anecdote, Experience, and Trial: Methods of Drug Testing in Early Modern Europe” Alisha Rankin, Tufts University Room 469, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 *Tuesday, March 3, 2015 – 6:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center – Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminars Seminar, "Revolutions Between Nations, 1776-1789" Janet Polasky University of New Hampshire Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Wednesday, March 4, 2015- 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series Lecture, “A Seventeenth-Century Deerfield Mystery” Else Hambleton, (Amherst Historical Society) Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Wednesday, March 4, 2015 – 5:00-7:00pm Renaissance Colloquium Meeting David Marno (UC Berkeley), guest speaker Location to be announced on the below website, <http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179> http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page1931…) Saturday, March 7, 2015 - 9:00am – 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Galileo Conference Mark Peterson, (Mount Holyoke College), and Marjorie Senechal (Smith College) Includes a screening of Bertolt Brecht’s “The Life of Galileo” Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. Please pre-register by March 6th. Lunch is provided. *Monday, March 9, 2015 – 5:00pm Co-sponsored by the Afro-Latin American Research Institute and The Early Modern Europe Workshop Talk, "Negotiating Citizenship through the Market: 'New Citizens' and the Atlantic Trade in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue” Manuel Covo, John Carter Brown Library To be held in the Basement seminar room, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Wednesday, March 11, 2015 – 4:00 p.m. Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series Lecture, “Shakespeare and Aging” Susan Whitbourne, Professor of Psychology at UMass Amherst Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Wednesday March 11, 2015 – 5:00-7:00pm Sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium Roundtable with RSA panelists Elizabeth Weckhurst (Harvard) and Misha Teramura (Harvard) Location to be announced on the below website, <http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179> http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page1931…) Saturday March 14, 2015 – 8:00am – 12noon Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Annual Dakin Pancake Breakfast Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu The breakfast features syrup tapped from the Center’s own maple trees (a tradition begun by Janet Dakin) and donated by local sugarer Richard McIntyre. This all you can eat breakfast features pancakes, sausage and bacon cooked up by volunteer chefs and served in the Reading Room. Revel in the view of the hills as you gobble up the fluffiest pancakes in the Valley! Suggested donation is $10 for adults and $5 for children. No reservations required. *Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 4:30-6:00pm Sponsored by the Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Series Seminar, Title TBA Carol Pal, Bennington Pavilion Room, Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912 For more information contact: memhs(a)listserv.brown.edu Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Celebrity Lecture Robert Eisenstein, (Five College Early Music Program) Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series Lecture, “Is There Romance in This Romance? The Enigma of Malory's Women” Sheila M. Fisher, (Trinity College) Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Wednesday, March 25, 2015 – 4:15pm Wesleyan Department of Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture, "Race and Religion on the Front Line: Juan Latino's Epic of the Battle of Lepanto" Elizabeth Wright, Department of Romance Languages, University of Georgia (Athens) Common Room, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Wesleyan University, 300 High St., Middletown, CT 06457 The lecture is open to the public. *Wednesday, March 25, 2015 -5:00 pm Talk, "Missed Chances and Bad Bets: Speculation and Bankruptcy in Premodern Europe," Christine Zabel, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 *Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 6:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center – Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminars Seminar, "Artists' Graffiti" Charlotte Guichard, French Academy in Rome Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Wednesday, April 1, 2015 – 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series Lecture, "Lyric Music for Dramatic Texts: Questions of Genre in the Late Italian Madrigal" Seth Coluzzi, (Brandeis University) Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. No reservations required. *Wednesday, April 1, 2015 – 5:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center – Cartography Seminars Seminar, "Ceci n'est pas Damas: Arabic Prose Topographies of Damascus, 12th-18th Centuries" Dana Sajdi, Boston College Room 201, Warren House, Barker Center, Harvard University, 11 Prescott St., Cambridge, MA 02138 For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography Wednesday April 1, 2015 – 5:00-7:00pm Renaissance Colloquium Meeting Will Porter (Harvard), guest speaker Location to be announced on the below website, <http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179> http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page1931… Wednesday April 1, 2015 – 6:00- 8:00pm (1st of 6 class meetings) Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class Literature of the 16th Century with Marie Roche Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Readings will be provided. Free and open to the public Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by March 31st. Monday, April 6, 2015 – Friday, April 10, 2015 Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Scholars in Residence Ann Thompson, (Kings College London), and John O. Thompson, (University of Liverpool) Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Call the Renaissance Center at 577-3600 to schedule an appointment for office hours. Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 7:00pm-9:00pm (1st of 4 class meetings) Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class, Shakespeare with Normand Berlin We will be discussing King Lear in our four evenings together. "Is this the promis'd end?" "Or image of that horror?" Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by April 6th Wednesday, April 8, 2015 -4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series Lecture on, Hamlet Ann Thompson, Kings College London Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. No reservations required. *Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 4:30pm Co-sponsored by the Afro-Latin American Research Institute and The Early Modern Europe Workshop Talk, "From Brazil to West Africa: Dutch-Portuguese rivalry and African politics in the Bight of Benin (ca. 1637- ca. 1750)," Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Wednesday April 8, 2015 - 6:00- 8:00pm (2nd of 6 class meetings) Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class Literature of the 16th Century with Marie Roche Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by March 31st. Readings will be provided. Free and open to the public Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 4:30pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Five College Renaissance Seminar Seminar, "Catastrophizing: The Disaster of Renaissance Materialism" Jerry Passannante, (University of Maryland) Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. No reservations required. *Thursday, April 9, 2015 – 6:00pm Seminar, "Revisiting the NYPL Berg Collection Dunciad[s]: 'Vociferation' in Manuscript, Typescript, Print, and Digital Media" Paula McDowell, English, NYU Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Sunday April 12, 2015 - 2:00 – 4:00pm (Please note the date is the second Sunday of April so as not to conflict with Easter) Co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club and The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies “Second” Sunday Concert Series Nota Bene ~ A cappella singing trio of Annie Phillips, Elizabeth Chilton, and Nina Wurgaft Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Refreshments served after the concert. **Tuesday, April 14, 2015 – 4:00pm & 5:30pm 4:00pm - "Manipulating Information in the Ancien Régime: The View from the Provinces" Giora Sternberg (University of Oxford), Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminars in Eighteenth-Century Studies and History of the Book (but talk will be held at MIT address listed below) 5:30pm –"Manipulating Information in the Ancien Régime: The View from the Provinces” Antoine Lilti, Centre de Recherches Historiques Co-sponsored by MIT, Global Studies and Languages Section and History Faculty Both talks will be held in Building E51-095, MIT, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 7:00pm-9:00pm (2nd of 4 class meetings) Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class, Shakespeare with Normand Berlin We will be discussing King Lear in our four evenings together. "Is this the promis'd end?" "Or image of that horror?" Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by April 6th Wednesday, April 15, 2015 – 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series Lecture, “Rare Book Show and Tell” David Katz, (The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies) Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Wednesday April 15, 2015 - 6:00- 8:00pm (3rd of 6 class meetings) Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class Literature of the 16th Century with Marie Roche Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by March 31st. Readings will be provided. Free and open to the public *Thursday, April 16, 2015 – 5:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center - Cartography Seminars Seminar, "Discontinuous Continents: Rethinking Macrocartography" Benjamin Braude, Boston College Location TBA For more information visit: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography Tuesday, April 21, 2015 – 7:00pm-9:00pm (3rd of 4 class meetings) Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class, Shakespeare with Normand Berlin We will be discussing King Lear in our four evenings together. "Is this the promis'd end?" "Or image of that horror?" Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by April 6th Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 4:00 pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Dan S. Collins Lecture Laura L. Knoppers, (University of Notre Dame) Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. No reservations required *Tuesday, April 21, 4:30-6:00pm Sponsored by the Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Series Seminar, Title TBA Jonathan Conant, Brown University Pavilion Room, Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912 For more information contact: memhs(a)listserv.brown.edu *Wednesday, April 22, 2015 -5:00pm Title: TBA Thomas Duve, Max Planck Institute for Legal History, Germany Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Harvard University, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge 02138 Wednesday April 22, 2015 - 6:00- 8:00pm (4th of 6 class meetings) Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class Literature of the 16th Century with Marie Roche Readings will be provided. Free and open to the public. Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by March 31st. Saturday, April 25, 2015 – 9:00am – 4:00pm Co-sponsored by The Association for Renaissance Medieval Swordsmanship The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Annual Historical Swordsmanship Conference Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 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 Must call the Center to register by April 24. Free and open to the public. Lunch is provided. Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 7:00pm-9:00pm (4th of 4 class meetings) Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class, Shakespeare with Normand Berlin We will be discussing King Lear in our four evenings together. "Is this the promis'd end?" "Or image of that horror?" Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Free and open to the public. Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by April 6th *Tuesday, April 28, 2015 – 4:30 pm Talk, "Window Gazes and World Views: A Chapter in the Cultural History of Vision” Daniel Jütte, Harvard University Room, K354, CGIS Knafel Building, Harvard University 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA02138 Wednesday April 29, 2015 – 5:00-7:00pm. Renaissance Colloquium Meeting Billy Junker (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota), guest speaker Location to be announced on the below website, <http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page193179> http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40975&pageid=icb.page1931…) Wednesday April 29, 2015 - 6:00- 8:00pm (5th of 6 class meetings) Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class Literature of the 16th Century with Marie Roche Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by March 31st. Readings will be provided. Free and open to the public Thursday, April 30, 2015 – 4:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Seminar, “Charity's Constructs: The Edifices of the Monti di Pietà and the Treasury of Merit, ca. 1460-1600" Lauren Jacobi, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Squash) Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457 The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Esther Moran by phone: (860) 685-2682, or e-mail: emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ Friday May 1, 2015 - 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Sonnetfest, our annual reading aloud of sonnets followed by white wine and strawberries. Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Call the Center to sign up to read a sonnet. Free and open to the public. Sunday May 3, 2015 - 11:00am – 4:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies 13th Annual Community Renaissance Festival The Renaissance Center and surrounding grounds and meadow Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu 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, Renaissance games, ‘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. Admission is free although donations are welcome. Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - 6:00- 8:00pm (6th of 6 class meetings) Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class Literature of the 16th Century with Marie Roche Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance(a)english.umass.edu to reserve your space by March 31st. Readings will be provided. Free and open to the public Saturday June 20, 2015 - 12noon – 2:00pm. Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Third Annual Gardeners’ Guild Lunch and Talk Speaker, Ellen Kosmer Back patio, Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu Enjoy a lunch on our back patio followed by a presentation given, Renaissance Center Ellen Kosmer Historical Garden Designer. Members only – Invitation only! Not a member? Pick up a form in our lobby today! Tuesday, August 4, 2015 – 11:00am – 1:00pm Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Enchanted Circle Theater ~ Acting Shakespeare Reading Room, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Ph. (413) 577-3600 /renaissance(a)english.umass.edu 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! Free and open to the public. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. Day, date, time Sponsor (if available) Type of event (ex. 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