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Call for Papers
Deadline: May 15, 2015
Theme: Renaissance Now!
A New England Renaissance Conference Discussion: A series of five panels sponsored by the NERC at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting - Boston, to be held March 31-April 2, 2016, comprising five panels:
Panel 1: "Assessing the ‘Cultural Turn’: Where Do We Go From Here?”
Panel 2: “Renaissance and the Public”
Panel 3: Artifacts Pageant - “Renaissance and New Epistemologies”
Panel 4: Graduate student panel - “Global Renaissance”
Panel 5: Roundtable conversation - NERC Stakeholders' discussion
Submissions should:
• Indicate preferred panel (if your presentation fits in more than one panel, please indicate order of preference)
• Include a paper abstract (150 words maximum)
• Include keywords
• Include a curriculum vitae (300 words maximum)
Please contact Gen Liang (ygliang@wheatonma.edu) and Touba Ghadessi (ghadessi_touba@wheatonma.edu) for more information and to submit a proposal.
EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
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@english.umass.edu
Free and open to the public. Please call the Renaissance Center at 413-577-3600 or email renaissance@english.umass.edu to reserve your space by April 6th
**Tuesday, April 28, 2015 – 5:00 pm (new start time)
Sponsored by the Early Modern Europe Workshop
Talk, "Window Gazes and World Views: A Chapter in the Cultural History of Vision”
Daniel Jütte, Harvard University,
With introduction by Robert Darnton
Room, K354, CGIS Knafel Building, Harvard University 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA02138
*Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Dept of the History of Art and Architecture
Dissertation Defense, " The Networked Cosmos: Sebastian Münster¹s City Views"
Presented by Jasper van Putten to Profs. Joseph Koerner, Tom Conley, and Henri Zerner
Room 515, Sackler Building, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
*Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 4:00pm
Lecture, "Subverting the Renaissance Atlantic: Bird Islands, Zurara, Las Casas and the Euchrist"
Tim Reiss, New York University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
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@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@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@english.umass.edu
Call the Center to sign up to read a sonnet. Free and open to the public.
Friday, May 1, 2015 - 4:15pm to 6:00pm
Early Slavists’ Seminar
Seminar, “Sarmatia: Europe’s Eastern Boundaries from Ptolemy to Ortelius”
Katharina Piechocki, Harvard University:
Room S-354, CGIS South Building, Davis Center, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
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@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.
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*Tuesday, May 5, 20015 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Work-in-progress discussion: “Interpreting the History of Early Modern Ireland: from the sixteenth century to the present”
Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland, Galway
Austin Hall Room 301, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, 215 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, CT 06269
This is a workshop/discussion on a pre-circulated paper. Please contact Brendan Kane (brendan.kane@uconn.edu) for a copy of the paper. Reception to follow.
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@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@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@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.
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