[earlymod-list] Early Mod Events, 3 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 3, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard Seminar, Opera: "The Operatic Worlds of the Orchestra" Emily Dolan, Harvard University Barker Center, Room 110, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/opera 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. Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Talk, "Appetite, Moral Order, and the Nature of Things: Hamlet and Hunting" Rhodri Lewis, Oxford Barker Center, Kresge Room (114), 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 Thursday, November 5, 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, “Twice-Told Tales: Approaches to Gender in Shakespeare’s Histories and Transformative Works” Kavita Mudan Finn, Independent Scholar Boylston Hall, Room 335, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA For more information, please call 617-495-0738 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-mo dern-world Friday, November 6, 2015, 4:30pm Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard Seminar, Celtic Literature and Culture: "'The Seven Journeys of the Soul': Women, Manuscript Culture, and the Apocalypse in Medieval and Renaissance Wales and Ireland" Katharine Olson, Bangor University Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/celtic-literature-and-cult ure 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 *Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 5:15pm Sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society Seminar, Boston Environmental History Seminar: “André Michaux and the Many Politics of Trees in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World,” a light buffet supper will be provided after the seminar. Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215 In 1785, French botanist André Michaux was dispatched to the United States to study and collect North American specimens in an attempt to find trees that could replenish French forests. This essay offers a new analysis of Michaux’s mission in the context of the geo-political and diplomatic circumstances of his day. It demonstrates the importance of having botanical knowledge of a realm, and the value of a scientist who could navigate and communicate such information. The seminar is free and open to the public. Each seminar consists of a discussion of a pre-circulated paper provided to our subscribers. This paper will be available for subscribers by Nov. 3. A $25 subscription will entitle you to the full series of papers, as well as the papers for the Boston Area Early American History Seminar and the Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar. To subscribe to the 2015-2016 series visit: http://www.masshist.org/calendar/seminars/environmental-history. (Papers will be available at the event for those who choose not to subscribe.) RSVP required, email seminars(a)masshist.org or call 617-646-0568. In case of inclement weather, phone 617-536-1608 for information. Wednesday, November 11, 2015 – 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. Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Talk, "Physical Manuscripts, Digital Databases, and the Art of the Trouvaille: Some Renaissance Resources and How to Use Them" Misha Teramura, Harvard University Barker Center, Room 018, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 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. UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item) 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 Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:00pm Sponsored by the Harvard Renaissance Colloquium TBA Marc Shell, Harvard University Barker Center, Room 018, 18 Barker St, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02135 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-co mmemorating-shakespeare-america-1864> 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 <mailto:renaissance@english.umass.edu> renaissance(a)english.umass.edu 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 *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 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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