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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 7:00pm
Talk, "Dogs, Guns, and Men in Eighteenth-Century France"
Amy Freund, Texas Christian University
Room 110, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 4:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
"Performing Humanism: The Andreini Family and the Republic of Letters in
Counter-Reformation Italy"
Sarah Ross, Department of History, Boston College
41 Wyllys (Squash Court Building), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
For a copy of this paper, please contact Ann Tanasi by telephone at 860-685-2392, or by
email at atanasi@wesleyan.edu<mailto:atanasi@wesleyan.edu>.
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 4:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Center for the Humanities and the
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University:
Lecture, "The historian as exile: Luke Wadding's Franciscan annals between
global and local affiliations"
Clare Carroll, Queens College, CUNY
Kates Room (Rm. 201), Warren House, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, (Title TBA)
Ida Federica Pugliese, National University of Ireland, Galway
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 5:30pm
Mahindra Harvard Humanities Center, Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar
Co-chairs, Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
Seminar, "Chain'd up in Alabaster': Alice Spencer and the Shape of
Remembrance"
Patricia Phillippy, Kingston University, London
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 5:30 pm
Harvard Renaissance Studies Seminar
Talk, "La Fontaine and the Chora"
Jeffrey N. Peters, University of Kentucky
Rm 203, Boylston Hall, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, November 14th, 2013 - 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group
Talk, "Training for the Abstract: Visualizing geometria in the 16th century German
Lehrbuch"
Noam Andrews, Harvard University
Room 469, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP to savoia@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:savoia@fas.harvard.edu> or
allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com<mailto:allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com>
**Saturday, November 16, 2013 - 10:00am - 7:00pm
Sponsored by the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Brandeis University /The Poses Grants
for the Arts, administered through the Dean of Arts and Sciences / Brandeis Arts Council
2013 New England Renaissance Conference - Theme: Thresholds of Faith and Fantasy:
Spiritual Journeys and Real Spaces
Moderators and Speakers Include:
Leonard Barkan, Princeton University - Keynote Speaker
Tom Conley, Harvard University
Nadja Aksamija, Wesleyan University
Jodi Cranston, Boston University
Kenneth Gouwens, University of Connecticut
Pamela Jones, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University
Oliver Tostmann, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Michael Randall, Brandeis University
Concert by Nota Bene viol consort
Mandel Center for the Humanities, Brandeis University, 415 South St. Waltham, MA 02453
For complete program with room details visit:
http://www.brandeis.edu/mandelhumanities/images/NERC%20Brandeis%202013.JPG
Please note that pre-registration is requested by November 8. There is a $10 registration
fee for faculty and professionals, to be paid at the door; students are free.
To register e-mail:
NERCregistration2013@brandeis.edu<mailto:NERCregistration2013@brandeis.edu> by Nov.
8.
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 5:30pm
99th George Parker Winship Lecture, "The Reader's Eye: Between Annotation and
Illustration"
William Sherman, University of York (UK)
Edison & Newman Rms, Houghton Library, Harvard University Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Recent scholarship in the lively field of marginalia has treated readers' marks
almost exclusively as a verbal phenomenon--as words, that is, next to other words. But in
doing so we have lost sight of sight itself, and I have now begun to recover the ways in
which readers responded with images as well as words. Between medieval illumination and
modern illustration, there are many traces of reading as a visual mode, signs that we have
been slow to see and study and for which we are poorly served by both methodology and
terminology. This illustrated lecture will consider the range of images produced by
readers between 1450 and 1750, and will suggest that reading was closely bound up with
seeing--and even drawing--across the Medieval/Renaissance divide.
** Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 5:00 pm
Sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, Harvard
A session on Ottoman book history
Talk, "The Art of Commentary Writing: Legal Commentaries in the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Century Ottoman Empire"
Himmet Taskomur, Harvard University
And,
Talk, "Books and Their Readers in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul"
Meredith Quinn (Harvard University),
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 6:30-8:30 pm, Reception to follow
Presented by Mosaïque and Boston University Art Gallery
Talk, "Collecting French Antique Astronomy Maps and Their Relation to Modern Space
Science"
Michael Mendillo, Boston University
French Cultural Center, 53 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA
Discussion of the historical importance of his collection of 17th and 18th century French
antiquarian astronomical maps and its relation to modern science.
www.frenchculturalcenter.org<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001vtlrrUK9IDtf…
Members: Free / Non-Members: $5.00
For additional info contact: Ph. (617) 912-0400
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 7:30 pm
Talk, "Between Byzantium and Modern Greece: Recapturing the Legacy of Homer in
Nikolaos Loukanes' 1526 'Iliad'"
Calliopi Dourou, Harvard University
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, November 21,2013 - 5:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the France and the World seminar
Talk, "Spaces for a Queen: Physical and Imagined Architecture in 17th c.
France"
Nicola Courtright, Amherst College
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop
Talk, "African Stonehenge. Early Modern Science and the Mediterranean Consular
network"
Cornel Zwierlein, Harvard University
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Thursday, December 5th, 2013 - 6pm
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group
Talk, "Knowledge on the Move: Scientific Encounters in the Muslim and Christian
Worlds 500-1500"
Katharine Park, Harvard University and Ahmed Ragab, Harvard University
Room 469, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP to savoia@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:savoia@fas.harvard.edu> or
allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com<mailto:allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com>
Friday, December 6, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
Graduate Symposium, "New Work in Early Modern Drama"
James Beaver, Brown University
Joanna Grossman, Harvard University
Martin Moraw, Brandeis University
Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center), Harvard University,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Monday, December 9, 2013 - 4pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History workshop, the Center for Jewish Studies and the
Humanities Center Seminar on Jewish Cultures & Societies
"Entangled Traditions: Jews and Christians in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia,"
Featuring:
Pavel Sládek, Charles University in Prague "A Catholic priest is ordained as a Rabbi:
Studying with Jews during the Counter-Reformation in Bohemia"
Rachel L. Greenblatt, Harvard University "A Judeo-Christian Performance? Biblical
Themes in Prague Jews' Procession Honoring the Birth of a Habsburg Heir (1716)"
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
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)
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