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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Talk highlighting the seminars, conferences, and workshops on offer at the
Folger for 2014-2015
Owen William, Folger Institute
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Talk by Anna Strowe, Translating the Historia Della Fine Del Monde
manuscript.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 4:30pm
Sponsored by Heinz Blum Memorial Lectures in European Literature, Boston
College
Lecture, Renaissance Creators and Moderns: The Cases of Dante, Ariosto, and
Michelangelos Sistine Chapel
David Quint, Yale University.
Devlin Hall, Room 101, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
For further information contact, Prof. Alan Richardson, 617-552-3713,
<mailto:alan.richardson@bc.edu> alan.richardson(a)bc.edu
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center / France and the World Chairs:
Verena Conley, Sylvaine Guyot
Seminar, "Transcribing India: François Bernier and the Art of Conversation
in Seventeenth-Century France"
Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College
Barker Center, Room 128, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
**Thursday, April 10th, 2014 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group
Talk, Saving Faces: Surgery and Masculinity in Early Modern Italy
Paolo Savoia, Harvard University
Science Center Rm 469, Dept. of the History of Science, Harvard University,
1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
**RSVP to <mailto:allyssametzger@fas.harvard.edu>
allyssametzger(a)fas.harvard.edu
Friday, April 11, 2014 Noon2:00pm
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
Friday, April 11, 12:00-2:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Department of English
Talk, From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town
Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame
Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA 02138
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center / Civilizations of Ancient
Greece and Rome Chairs: David Elmer, Richard Thomas
Seminar, "Love's Bargain: Virgil and Garcilaso de la Vega"
J. D. Reed, Brown University
Boylston Hall, Room 203, Harvard University, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
02138
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
*Tuesday, April 15, 2014 4:30pm
Sponsored by Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History
Seminar on paper entitled, Searching the Dead and Burying the Bodies:
Searchers and Sextonesses in London
Wanda Henry, Brown University
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St.,
Providence, RI 02912
URL:
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/2013/08/11/april-15-2014-wanda-henry/ /
password to open the paper is: Sharpe
Contact: Maria Sokolova, maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Talk by Marie Roche, All is Well that Ends Well: Parolles Theological.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Center for African
Studies
Talk,The Kingdom of Kongo and the Thirty Years War
John Thornton, Boston University
CGIS South Bldg. Rm. 030, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge,
MA 02138
Thursday, April 17, 201 5:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, the Humanities Center
Seminar in Book History and the Early Sciences Working Group
Talk, "What is a Werewolf? Genres, Practices and Cataloguing Monsters from
the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution"
Surekha Davies, Western Connecticut University
Science Center 469, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Friday, April 18, 2014 - 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center / Shakespearean Studies Chairs:
William Carroll, Coppélia Kahn
Seminar, "'Thrilling regions': Shakespeare, Dante and Dan Brown"
Graham Holderness, University of Hertfordshire
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Collins Lecture
Margaret Ezell, Texas A&M.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series
Talk, Rare Book Show and Tell
David Katz, Renaissance Center Curator
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
**Friday, April 25, 2014 Sunday, April 27, 2014 Various times
Conference, Visualizing revolt and punishment in early modern times:
conflict- and contact-zones between different visual cultures and policies
Barker Center Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
02138
**Program available at:
http://revolt.hypotheses.org/342
Saturday, April 26, 2014 - 9:00am 4:00pm
Co-Sponsored by The Association for Renaissance Medieval Swordsmanship and
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
10th Annual Historical Swordsmanship Conference
Presentations at the conference will feature a combination of academic
scholarship and demonstrations, including talks by ARMS on the later German
longsword tradition, demonstrations by Phoenix swords of historical
techniques, the manuscript tradition, and the guild structure of Renaissance
Europe and its relation to the development of Western martial arts. The
Renaissance Center currently maintains an online collection of historical
combat treatises and fencing manuals dating primarily from the Renaissance.
This collection can be accessed at
www.umass.edu/arms/lord. Lunch is
provided.
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Must call the Center to register by April 24. Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Celebrity Lecture
Wayne Abercrombie, UMass Amherst
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Dr. Abercrombie will discuss the relationship between text and music in
Renaissance and early Baroque music.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required Free and open to the public.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 4:15pm
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 e-mail at: kschiavi(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu
Friday May 2, 2014 - 4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Sonnetfest, annual reading aloud of sonnets followed by white wine and
strawberries
Call the Center to sign up to read a sonnet
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
*Friday, May 2 + Saturday, May 3, 2014 Various times
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts, the Clough Center for
the Study of Constitutional Democracy, the John Carter Brown Library,
Université de Paris VIII, and the Consulate General of France
Symposium, Early Modern France & the Americas: Connected Histories
Speakers include:
Keynote Speaker, David A. Bell, Princeton University
Caroline Galland, Université de Paris Nanterre
Christopher Hodson, Brigham Young University
Neil Safier, John Carter Brown Library
François Furstenberg, Johns Hopkins University
Stokes Hall Room 195S, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill,
MA 02467
A Symposium to mark the Creation of the New England Pole of the Institut des
Amériques at Boston College. Register by 4/28.
For complete program and registration (required) please visit:
http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/connected-histories.html
Sunday May 4, 2014 - 11:00am4:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Annual Community Renaissance Festival
Renaissance Center & surrounding grounds and meadow, 650 East Pleasant St,
UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
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.
Well have theater, music, falconry with Chris Davis of New England
Falconry, juggling, sword demonstrations from Phoenix Swords, Our
ever-popular Mud Man, juggling, hobby horses for the kids, dancing, and
more! While youre 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.
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Admission is free although donations are welcome.
Friday, May 9, and Saturday, May 10, 2014 Various times
Co-sponsored by the universities of Lancaster and York as a Northern
Renaissance Roses Seminar
Conference, Time in Early Modern Thought
Speakers include:
Keynote Speaker: Michael Edwards, University of Cambridge
Zoe Gibbons, Princeton University
Jane Desborough, University of Leeds
Natalie Kaoukji, University of Cambridge
Alexander Cummins, University of Bristol
Denise Kelly, Queens University, Belfast
Robert Stagg, Southampton University
Helen Davies, Lancaster University
Joanne Paul, New College of the Humanities
Oliver Dubouclez, Université de Liège
Grigol Gegelia, European University Institute
L.D. Haydon, University of Kent
Sharon Galbraith, Lancaster University
Lucy Razzall. Cambridge University
Sam Ellis, York University
Harriet Phillips, Queen Mary University of London
Lydia Janssen, KU Leuven
Michal Choptiany, University of Warsaw
Emily A.E. Thomas, University of Groningen
Isabella Augart, Freie Universitat, Berlin
Mathew Champion, Queen Mary University of London
Rachel White, Lancaster University
Florence Hazrat, University of St Andrews
University of York - The first day will take place in the Treehouse,
Humanities Research Centre, and the second in York Minster Old Palace
Library, and will conclude with a concert given by the Minster Minstrels, a
renaissance-baroque early music wind group. Please note disabled access is
restricted for this historic venue.
For complete program details visit:
http://www.york.ac.uk/crems/events/events/2013-14/time-and-early-modern/
Event is free, registration required. To register contact:
<mailto:kevin.killeen@york.ac.uk> kevin.killeen(a)york.ac.uk by Tuesday 22nd
April.
Saturday June 21, 2014 - Noon2:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Third Annual Gardeners Guild Lunch and Talk
Talk given by, Wes Autio, UMass Amherst
Enjoy a lunch on our back patio followed by a presentation
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
Members only Invitation only! Not a member? Pick up a form at 650 East
Pleasant St, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 11:00am1:00pm
Sponsored by The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies
Enchanted Circle Theater ~ Acting Shakespeare
Reading Room, 650 East Pleasant Street, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01002
Student actors from Holyoke school systems summer acting program will
present scenes from a Shakespeare play, using the Hampshire Shakespeare
Companys main stage. Stay for a light picnic lunch afterwards!
For addition information contact: (413) 577-3600
/renaissance(a)english.umass.edu
www.facebook.com/massrenaissancecenter
No reservations required. Free and open to the public.
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