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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Thursday, September 14, 2017 – 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, "Men of Marble: The Decorum of Spanish Royal Portraiture"
Adam Jasienski, Assistant Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist Universty
Boger Hall 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 email at
emmoran@wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur…
Tuesday, Sept 19, 6pm
Modern Greek Literature and Culture, Mahindra Humanities Seminar
Natasha Constantinidou-Taylor (University of Cyprus), "Printing Greek Books in
Sixteenth-Century Paris"
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
**Tues Sept 19, 12–1:30pm
Early Modern Workshop, Harvard
Joan-Pau Rubiés (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) "Comparing cultures in the early modern
world: hierarchies, genealogies and the idea of modernity."
Robinson Hall Lower library, Harvard Yard
Pizza and salad will be served but please RSVP if possible to maryam_patton (at)
g.harvard.edu
UPCOMING EVENTS
*Tuesday, Sept. 26 4:00 p.m.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
2017 Normand Berlin Lecture
Sharon Seelig – Smith College Roe/Straut Professor Emerita in the Humanities (English
Language & Literature) presenting, "Married in Eden: Lucy Hutchinson & John
Milton."
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Refreshments will be served after the lecture.
*Thursday, Sept 28, 5:15 pm
HDS Dean's Office and Andover-Harvard Theological Library: Dudleian Lecture.
"Reformation and Racial Taxonomies: An Underexplored Narrative of Modernity."
Dr. Paul C.H. Lim, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity and Associate
Faculty of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge MA
*Friday Sept 29, 2017 12 pm–2 pm
HDS Dean's Office and Andover-Harvard Theological Library
Workshop: Reformation Dialogue and Identity Workshop
Panel to include: Michelle Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Theology; David Hall, Bartlett
Professor of New England Church History Emeritus; and Paul C.H. Lim, Associate Professor
of the History of Christianity and Associate Faculty of Religious Studies (Vanderbilt
University)
Center for the Study of World Religion COMMON ROOM, 42 Francis Ave, Cambridge MA
*Friday, September 29 8:30 – 4:00.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Early Modern Iberian Studies Symposium
A full day event concluding with the Keynote: Enrique Garcia Santa-Tomas, “Colgados de la
boca”: Incest and the Rise of Novel in Early Modern Spain. All day. Refreshments
provided.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
*Monday, October 2, 2017, 5:15 PM – 7:00 PM.
Sponsors: Center for the Study of World Religions; Center for Jewish Studies, Harry Elson
Lecture and Publication Fund; Medieval Studies Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center,
Jewish Societies and Cultures Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center.
Adam Afterman (University of Tel Aviv): "The Rise of the ‘Holy Spirit’ in 13th–16th
c. Kabbalah."
Barker 133, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
Contact: CSWR: 617.495.4495.
Early Kabbalah revived and reintroduced the rabbinic term “Ruah Ha-Qodesh," possibly
translated as “holy spirit," with all its implications for the development of
pneumatic mysticism in Judaism. The complex and diverse meanings the term has in rabbinic
sources and its later reception and modification into the heart of medieval Jewish
Neoplatonic, Neo-Aristotelian and Hermetic systems, all serve as important background for
the Kabbalistic interpretations that reintroduced the term as a key term for the dynamic
essence of the Godhead that embodies, incarnates, and sanctifies the mystic following and
completing a dialectical process of mystical fusion of God and man. Professor Adam
Afterman serves as chair of The Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel Aviv
University and as a Senior Research Fellow at The Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
*Wed Oct 4, 1–2:30 PM
Harvard Divinity School
David Hall, Bartlett Professor of New England Church History Emeritus (Harvard):
Re-Visiting the Origins of the Puritan Movement in Early Modern Britain and its later life
in New England (Lecture)
Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Rabinowitz Room, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge MA
*Thursday, October 5th at 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Amanda Henrichs, a new postdoc at Amherst College presents “Visualizing Absence: Broken
(hyper)Links between Mary Wroth and Mary Sidney Herbert”
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
*October 11, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Jane Bernstein, Tufts University on "The New Way:" Engraving and Music Books in
Sixteenth-Century Rome.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
*Wednesday, October 18, 12:30-1:00 pm
Gallery Talk
Danielle Carrabino, Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This talk will explore a selection of prints and drawings from the collection that
imitate, copy or are variations of the art of Leonardo da Vinci.
Website URL –
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-after-leonardo…
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required.
Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
Tues Oct 24, 4–6pm
Early Modern Workshop, Harvard, co-sponsored with the Early Sciences Working Group.
Edna Bonhomme (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin) "Ports, Risk, and
Death: Mapping the Rise and Fall of Epidemics in Tunisia, 1705-1820."
Science Center 469, Harvard, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
*October 25, 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Karen Cook, University of Hartford presents “Twenty-First-Century Renaissance:
Representations of the Past in Modern Media,"
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
No reservations. Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored.
Thurs Oct 26 5–7pm – Fri Oct 27 9–6pm
Early Modern Workshop, Harvard
Conference: Invention of Byzantine Studies in Early Modern Europe
110, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Conference Registration, program, and additional information at
https://inventionofbyzantium.com/
*October 28, 9:00 a.m.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Graduate Conference
Keynote: Jennifer Waldron - University of Pittsburgh. Director of the Program in Medieval
and Renaissance Studies author of “Reformations of the Body: Idolatry, Sacrifice, and
Early Modern Theater" 2013 & 2nd book project, “Shakespeare and the Senses,”
charts Shakespeare’s diverse experiments with cross-modal sensory and linguistic effects
in relation to recent developments in historical phenomenology and current research in
cognitive neuroscience.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
*Tuesday, October 31, 3:00-3:30 pm
Gallery Talk
Danielle Carrabino, Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
On the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 theses, this talk will feature works from
the collection related to the Protestant Reformation.
Website URL -
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/gallery-talk-the-500th-anni…
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required.
Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
*Wed Nov 1, 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Rachel Young will present “Paintings of Boticelli”
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
No reservations. Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst
Woman’s Club
*Thurs Nov 9, 4pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar,
Mahindra Humanities Center and the Early Modern History Workshop
Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia University) "Archive Envy: An Early Modern Jewish
Community and its Records."
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
The formation of archives has become the object of critical historical inquiry. This
lecture explores dimensions of Jewish communal archives from the early modern period with
particular emphasis on the rich archive of the Hamburg-Altona community and its fate.
*Thursday Nov 9, 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Steven Mentz, from St Johns University TOPIC: TBD.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
*Friday Nov 10, 4 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Classical Legacy Lecture
Jessica Wolfe (UNC- Chapel Hill) presents, “Homer and Milton”.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
No reservations. Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst
Woman’s Club.
*Thursday Nov 16, 4:30 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar in Book History
Doctoral Candidate Amy Sopcak-Joseph (UCONN) presents, "Combating Swindlers and
Borrowers: Buying and Selling Godey's Lady's Book in the Nineteenth
Century"
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Free and open to the public. No reservations.
*Saturday, Nov 18, 6-9 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Italian Renaissance Harvest Banquet, Tickets are $75 per person, $125 per couple, *Student
Discount* $35 per person at the Great Hall on the, 2nd Floor of the Old Chapel at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Come for an evening of juggling, music, food,
theater, door prizes, and more! Call the Renaissance Center Program Director at 577-3603
for more information. Ticket purchase required prior to event.
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst,
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
Mon Nov 20, 4–6 pm
Early Modern Workshop, Harvard
Conference "New Approaches to Early Modern Political Economy," featuring Sophus
Reinert (Harvard Business School) "Political Economy and the Medici," and
Doohwan Ahn (Seoul National University) "Bringing International Relations Back In:
Anglo-French Relations and the Financial Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Britain."
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Mon Nov 27, 6-8 pm
History of Medicine Working Group
"The Utility of Medicine: Medicine and the Printed Book in Early Modern
Europe."
Hannah Marcus, Harvard University
Science Center 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Thursday, November 30, 2017, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “What is an author? Rabelaisian avatars”
Virginia Krause, Professor of French Studies, Brown University
Boger Hall 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 email at
emmoran@wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur…
Exhibition:
*May 19, 2017–December 31, 2017
The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820
Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums
Between 1766 and 1820, Harvard College assembled an extraordinary collection of paintings,
portraits, and prints; mineral, plant, and animal specimens; scientific instruments;
Native American artifacts; and relics from the ancient world.
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/4916/the-philosophy-cham…
**Sept 6–Dec 15, 2017
Exhibit: Reformation: Dialogue and Identity, Opening Reception
Andover-Harvard Theological Library (2nd floor), 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA
Focusing on the exchange of ideas between Luther, his contemporaries, and subsequent
generations of reformers, on display are foundational texts, popular printed images, and
objects that reflect the connection between texts and their readers. The exhibit also
highlights examples of how books and images influenced and reflected religious and social
identity in early Protestant communities. Michelle C. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of
Theology, will offer brief introductory remarks at the reception. Watch for other
Reformation-themed events in October, sponsored by Andover-Harvard Theological Library as
part of Theological Libraries Month.
More Information: ncarlson(a)hds.harvard.edu
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