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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 5:30pm
Talk, "Thinking Again about the First Printing Revolution with Both Eyes on
the Books: Venetian Evidence for Prices, Trade, and Use"
Cristina Dondi, Consortium of European Research Libraries(CERL)
Edison & Newman Rm., Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
Which were the distribution and trade-routes, national and international, of
15th-c. Venetian printed books? Who purchased them? How were they used and
read? What was the books' contemporary market value? Can we trace the
transmission and dissemination of the texts they contain? Some fundamental
questions relating to the introduction of printing in the West and the
Renaissance booktrade still await an answer. The evidence is plentiful, over
a million incunabula survive today; at last we also have adequate tools to
convert the physical evidence they contain into new historical evidence.
For details call Monique Duhaime, Ph. (617) 495-2441
*Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - 5:00 - 7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Presentation, "Illustrating Darkness: Perspectival Snares in Spenser's
Allegory"
Craig Plunges, Harvard University
Plimpton Rm. (133), Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 3, - Sunday, October 6, 2013
Newport Historical Society and partners
"No Person Shall Bee Any Wise Molested: Religious freedom, cultural
conflict, and the moral role of the state" Conference to mark the 350th
anniversary of the 1663 Rhode Island Charter
Various speakers
Various locations in Newport and Providence, Rhode Island
Complete details and registration information:
<http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/conference/about-the-conference/>
http://www.spectacleoftoleration.org/conference/about-the-conference/
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 4:15pm - 6:00pm
Sponsors, Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, International History
Seminar, Department of History
Talk, "Global 'Unsocial Sociability' in Enlightenment Political
Thought"
Sankar Muthu, University of Chicago
Cabot Seminar Room, Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA
Contact: Peter Gordon, pgordon(a)fas.harvard.edu
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 8:30am-4:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Italy, the Office of the Dean of
Arts and Humanities, and the Mahindra Humanities Center
Conference, "Heavenly Imperfection: Galileo's Discovery of Sunspots,"
Various speakers
Conference: Rm. Beren Hall, Riesman Center for Harvard Hillel, Rosovsky
Hall, 52 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/heavenly-imperfection-gali
leos-discovery-sunspots
*Friday, October 4, 2013 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Workshop on Venetian books, their production, and their dissemination
Cristina Dondi, Consortium of European Research Libraries(CERL)
Seminar Room, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA
Space is limited, to reserve a spot please contact Monique Duhaime:
duhaime(a)fas.harvard.edu
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"Collecting 'Shakespeare' Before the First Folio: New Genealogies of
Printed
Drama in Collection"
Tara Lyons, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center), Harvard
University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, "Interpreting symbolism and allegory in the public spectacles of
Renaissance Florence"
Louis Gerdelan, University of Auckland - New Zealand
Basement Seminar Rm., Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 5:00-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
***CANCELLED: Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 4:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
"Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular: New Perspectives on Renaissance
Intellectual History"
Marco Sgarbi, Department of Philosophy, University of Verona
41 Wyllys (Squash Court Building), Room 113, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT
For a copy of this paper, please contact Ester Moran, by telephone at
860-685-2682 or by email at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu.
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Thursday, October 17, , 2013 - 5:30 pm
"Tragedy, Transgression, and Women's Voices: The Cases of Eleanor Cobham and
Margaret of Anjou"
Kavita Mudan Finn, Simmons College; Southern New Hampshire University
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 5:00-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Mary Crane, Boston College
Rm. 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 4pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, "Global Cross-Cultural Dissemination of Indigenous Medical Knowledge
and Practices through the Portuguese Colonial System: Evidence from
16th-18th Century Ethno-Botanical Manuscripts"
Timothy Walker, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
Friday, October 25, - Saturday October 26, 2013 - Various times
Symposium, "Venice Unbound: Things, Texts, Women, a Renaissance Symposium in
Honor of Ann Rosalind Jones"
Various speakers
Keynote Lecture (to be held on Oct. 26 from 10:30am-12:00pm),
"Venetian Women Writers and the Material Life of the Floating City"
Keynote Lecturer: Margaret (Tita) Rosenthal, University of Southern
California
Neilson Browsing Rm, 1st Fl., Neilson Library, Smith College, 7 Neilson Dr.,
Northampton, MA
For complete program contact Jennifer Roberts, jroberts(a)smith.edu
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop and the Humanities
Center Seminar in Book History
Talk, "Fixed like a ballad on the wall: printed lobbying and public
persuasion in the seventeenth century"
Jason Peacey, University College London
Basement Seminar Rm., Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, MA
Friday November 8, 2013 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"Shakespeare, Anecdotally"
Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College
Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center), Harvard
University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
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(a)wesleyan.edu.
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Talk, (Title TBA)
Ida Pugliese, University of Cambridge
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA
*Saturday, November 16, 2013 - 9:15am - 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:
Pamela Jones, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University
Kenneth Gouwens, University of Connecticut
Oliver Tostmann, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Michael Randall, Brandeis University
Nadja Aksamija, Wesleyan University
Tom Conley, Harvard University
Jodi Cranston, Boston University
Leonard Barkan, Princeton University - Keynote Speaker
Mandel Center for the Humanities, Brandeis University, 415 South St.
Waltham, MA 02453
For complete program with room details visit:
http://nercblog.wordpress.com/
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 at Brandeis affiliates are free.
To register e-mail: NERCregistration2013(a)brandeis.edu by Nov. 8.
Friday December 6, 2013 - 5:30pm reception/6:00pm seminar
"New Work in Early Modern Drama: A Graduate Symposium"
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
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.
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR LOCAL CONFERENCE
Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh: Medieval and Early Modern Captivity An
Interdisciplinary Symposium at Brown University, 21 February 2014
We invite submissions for a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to take
place at Brown University on February 21, 2014, 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. Our theme will be "Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh:
Medieval and Early Modern Captivity." Professor Adam Kosto (History,
Columbia University), author of Hostages in the Middle Ages (Oxford
University Press, 2012), will serve as the keynote speaker.
Submissions are sought from graduate students, faculty members, and other
scholars in fields including, but not limited to, history, literature,
languages, philosophy, religious studies, art and
architectural history, and music. Particularly welcome are submissions which
offer new methodological or theoretical approaches to issues of medieval and
early modern captivity, or which examine the relationship of captivity to
cultural production and/or intercultural exchange.
Papers should be no more than twenty minutes in length and should be in
English. Please send a 250-word abstract, along with brief contact
information, to John Moreau, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in French Studies
and Comparative Literature, at <mailto:John_Moreau@Brown.edu>
John_Moreau(a)Brown.edu. The submission deadline is November 1, 2013.
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