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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 5:00pm
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
* Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 5:00pm
Talk, "The Lost Rome of Giovanni Battista Falda"
Sarah McPhee, Emory University,
Room 110, List Art Center, Brown University, 64 College Street, Providence,
RI
*Friday, November 22, 2013 9:45am-5:00pm
Sponsored Provostial Fund for Arts and Humanities grant
Colloquium, Cervantess Novelas Ejemplares, 1613-2013:400 Years of Fiction
Panel I: Roads to Fiction
Luis M. Girón-Negrón (Panel Chair)
Panelists include:
Mary Malcolm Gaylord, Harvard University
Antonio J. Arraiza Rivera, Harvard University
Virginie Greene, Harvard University
Panel II: Pirates, Gypsies and Barbarians
Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza (Panel Chair), Harvard University
Nicole D. Legnani, Harvard University
Elizabeth S. Lagresa-González, Harvard University
Obed Omar Lira, Harvard Unversity
Panel III: The Traveling Novella
Andrew F. Gray (Panel Chair), Harvard University
Luke Taylor, Harvard University
Christine Lee, Harvard University
Tom Conley, Harvard University
Thompson Room, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center),
Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Hosted by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard
University
For complete program details visit,
http://rll.fas.harvard.edu/event/cervantes%E2%80%99s-novelas-ejemplares-1613
-2013-400-years-fiction
For questions contact, Mary Gaylord: mgaylord(a)fas.harvard.edu
UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)
*Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 1:30-4:30pm
Sponsored by Department of History, Harvard; Villa I Tatti, The Harvard
University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; Lauro de Bosis
Lectureship in the History of Italian Civilization; and the Department of
Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Conference, 500 Years of The Prince: New Directions in Machiavelli Studies
Speakers:
Robert Black, University of Leeds
Mark Jurdjevic, York University, Ontario
Stephen Milner, University of Manchester
Gabriele Pedullà, Università di Roma 3
Matteo Residori, Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3
James Hankins, Harvard University (Moderator)
Thompson Room, Mahindra Humanities Center (located in the Barker Center),
Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Organized by James Hankins (History, Harvard University) and Eloisa Morra
(doctoral student in Italian Studies, Harvard University)
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 <mailto:savoia@fas.harvard.edu> savoia(a)fas.harvard.edu or
<mailto:allyssa.metzger.harvard@gmail.com> allyssa.metzger.harvard(a)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
*Tuesday, December 10, 2013 5:30-7:30pm
Preliminary meeting, Early Modern Theory & Criticism Reading Group
Location TBA
This group will be devoted exclusively to the collective reading of recent
criticism and theory related to Renaissance studies and the early modern
period. Intended as a supplement to the Colloquium and the Spenser Reading
Group, it will be planned so as not to conflict with either nor to entail
too great a time commitment, we'll be meeting at most 4-5 times during
upcoming semesters. In the first meeting, the goal is: 1) gauge peoples'
interests in potential readings for the spring semester; and 2) jump-start
the group with readings drawn from the current (2012) issue of Renaissance
Drama, all of which are available online
<http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/renaissance_drama/toc/rnd.40.html> at Project
MUSE. We'll be focusing our attention on the articles by Henry S. Turner,
Bruce R. Smith, Barbara Fuchs, Michael Witmore, Tiffany Stern, Jane O.
Newman, and Julia Lupton. (If you're unable to access the online articles,
contact Liz Weckhurst, eweckhurst(a)gmail.com for electronic copies.)
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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