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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 6pm
Sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
Talk, "Getting information from books: A view of the 18th century"
Paul Duguid, University of California Berkeley
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 4pm
Hosted by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Talk, "Urban Imaginaries in the Early Modern Ottoman World: Exploring the
Dialogics of Word, Image, and Space"
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
Radcliffe Gym, Harvard University, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
*Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 5:30-7:00pm
Meeting, Renaissance Colloquium Roundtable
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
This meeting will be a roundtable on the state of the field of
Renaissance/early modern literary studies. Where is the field now and where
would we like it to go? We welcome all views and opinions on this topic, as
informal or personal as you wish - it will be a good chance for us to step
back from our individual projects for a moment and consider together what
larger task/tasks we are engaging and would like to engage. The discussion
will be framed with some positions taken by the SEL "Recent Studies in the
English Renaissance" of 2013, 2012, and 2010, available at
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_english_literature/. You may wish to
look these over before the meeting, the following sections in particular:
2010, Gordon Teskey - introduction and the last section, "Criticism as Art."
2012, John Watkins - introduction and conclusion
2013, David Hawkes - introduction and final paragraphs
Thursday, February 6, 2014, 10:00am - 12noon
Workshop, "Life in the Margins: Practices of Learned Annotation in Early
Modern Europe."
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Houghton Library, Seminar Room, Harvard University, Harvard Yard, Cambridge,
MA 02138
This workshop, will examine a number of printed books from Harvard's
collections, using their annotations to examine some of the ways in which
learned men and women read and annotated their books from the fifteenth to
the eighteenth century.
Space is limited; contact Monique Duhaime (duhaime(a)fas.harvard.edu) to
reserve a place.
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
*Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies
Talk, "What's in a Musical Manuscript? MS Faenza 117 and its Newly Revised
Context"
Pedro Memelsdorff, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
New concordances, codicological and archival research uncover an unexpected
web of relationships between the Faenza copyists and the culture of Italian
Quattrocento.
*Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, "The Ins and Outs of Becoming a Buddha: Bodily Transformation and
Gender in the
Career of the Japanese Buddhist Nun Bunchi (1619-1697)"
Gina Cogan, Boston College
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
Friday, February 21, 2014 - Time TBA
Hosted by the Cogut Center for the Humanities and sponsored by the
Department of French Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the
Medieval Studies Program, and the Department of History
Interdisciplinary Symposium, "Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh: Medieval
and Early Modern Captivity"
Keynote Speaker: Adam Kosto, Columbia University
Brown University (exact location TBA)
Monday Feb 24, 2014 - 4pm
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the China
Humanities Seminar, Fairbank Center
Talk, "Textual Collation and Its Guiding Principles in Eighteenth-Century
Evidential Scholarship: Illustrated with Lu Wenchao's (1717-1796) Work"
Lianbin Dai, Harvard University, with comments by Cynthia Brokaw, Brown
University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
* Friday, February 28, 2014 - 12 Noon - 2:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities
Center
Workshop, "All about Networking?: Kinship, Mediation, and Knowledge
Production in Early Modern Istanbul"
E. Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough, with comments by Dan
Smail, Harvard University
William James Hall, Room 1550, 15th Fl. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
*Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 5pm
Sponsored by Book Studies and the Department of History at Wellesley College
Talk, "How to Build an Imaginary Cabinet of Curiosities: Lessons in
Entrepreneurship for Gallant Youth, c. 1700"
Kelly Whitmer, Sewanee: the University of the South
Clapp Library, Library Lecture Room (1st floor), Wellesley College,
Wellesley, MA 02481
This lecture will investigate the history of a puzzling type of early modern
cabinet of curiosities: the type that existed only in the pages of
"museological handbooks" and in the imaginations of readers, designed to
help young people improve their capacity to think critically and creatively
about new technologies, new materials, and their commercial applications.
*Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, "Teaching Early Modern Women's Writing in the 21st Century: The
Evolution of the Women Writers Project"
Julia Flanders, Northeastern University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
*Thursday, April 3, 2014 - Time TBD
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Talk, "Benevolent Slavery and Other Oxymorons: The Case of Black-African
Women in Early Modern Portugal"
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg
Location TBD
*Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 4:15pm
Sponsored by the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Talk, "Renaissance Music as Art-ifact: An Early 16th-Century Mass for
Margaret of Austria in Context"
M. Jennifer Bloxam, Williams College; Yale
41 Wyllys Ave. (Squash), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
For a copy of this paper, please contact Sandra Brough by telephone at
860-685-2594 or by email at sbrough(a)wesleyan.edu.
*Friday, April 11, 2014 - 12 Noon - 2:00pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Mahindra Humanities
Center.
Workshop, "From Status to Contract? Commerce and Cosmopolitanism in Early
Modern Europe"
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
William James Hall, Room 1550, 15th Fl. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St.,
Cambridge MA 02138
*Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 4:15 pm
Sponsored by the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Talk, "'Es cosa muy de ver': Urban Tableaux and Viewing Pleasure in
Baroque
Madrid"
Laura Bass, Brown University
41 Wyllys Ave. (Squash), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459
For a copy of this paper, please contact Kristine Schiavi by telephone at
860-685-2830, or by email at kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu.
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