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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 Shakespeares 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 Centers 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
Michauxs 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 Centers 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 Womans 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 Machiavellis 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: Coloccis
epigrammatari as a test case
Sat PM (2-5pm)
J.S. Boparai, Cambridge: Pindar, Tragedy and Polizianos 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 Boccaccios 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: Horaces 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: Ariostos
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 Womans 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
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