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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
**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.
*Monday, April 28, 2014 12:15-2:00pm
Sponsored by the Science, Technology, & Society Circle
Meeting, Early Modern Climate Science: The View from British North America
Speaker, Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
Room 100F, Pierce Hall, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
02138
Abstract: Despite the ongoing recovery of historical evidence about changing
climates, there has been less attention to how people in the past were aware
of the changes, let alone that they might have generated any science about
them. Overwhelmingly, there is a contrast between what we now know and what
people in the past are supposed not to have known. But in fact, during the
eighteenth century, colonists in British North America did have some
comprehension of the global cooling trend sometimes called the Little Ice
Age. Moreover, some colonists, including Benjamin Franklin, generated
versions of early modern climate science. Knowing this fuller history of
climate science is crucial if we are to accurately place ourselves within
the history of climate change and of the Anthropocene.
Please RSVP to: <mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu> sts
<mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu> @hks.harvard.edu
URL:
http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/sts_circle/
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.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 5:00pm
Renaissance Colloquium meeting
Guest speaker: Katy Woodring, Harvard University
Kresge Room, 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, MA
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 12:00pm
Sponsored by DRCLAS
Talk "Depicting the conflictive character of colonialism: The construction
and usage of Rio de Janeiros aqueduct and fountains"
Jorun Poettering, Harvard University
CGIS South, Room S-050, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
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
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
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
Keynote Speaker: Michael Edwards, University of Cambridge
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 full programme of times and speakers 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.
*Wednesday, May 28, 2014 10:30am-5:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Related Literature
<http://www.york.ac.uk/english/> and the Centre for Renaissance and Early
Modern Studies <http://www.york.ac.uk/crems/>
Thomas Browne Seminar, Classical Philosophers in Seventeenth Century
English Thought
Keynote speakers: Jessica Wolfe, University of North Carolina and Sarah
Hutton, Aberystwyth University
Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre, CREMS, University of York
Open to all entrance free and no registration required
For full programme of times and speakers visit:
http://www.york.ac.uk/english/news-events/browne/
Event Contact: kevin.killeen(a)york.ac.uk
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
*Thursday, June 26-28, 2014 Various times
Sponsored by Goldsmiths, University of London
Conference, Revisiting Early Modern Prophecies (C.1500-c.1815)
Keynote speakers:
Irena Backus, University of Geneva
Nigel Smith, Princeton University
Christopher Rowland, University of Oxford
Various locations on the Goldsmiths, University of London campus
For complete program, list of speakers, and registration visit:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/history/research/panaceasociety/propheciesconference/
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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