Events
AT BROWN
SEMESTER II 2007-2008
- Thursday, January 31, 2008, 12:00 Noon, at MacMillan Hall, (Thayer St. and George St.) Room 115
Marcus Rediker, Professor (University of Pittsburgh ) will talk on “Slave Ship/Ghost Ship”. Sponsored by the department of Hisory at Brown
- Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 5:30 pm, at Annmary Brown Memorial, (21 Brown St.)
Stephanie Merrim (Brown University) will talk on "The Ordered City: Francisco Cervantes de Salazar’s Dialogues on Mexico City, 1554"
- Tue., April 8, 2008 at 5 pm
Gail Kern Paster, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library and author of Humoring the Body and Embarrassing the Body, will be coming to Brown to give a lecture (title as yet unknown)
BOSTON AND BEYOND
This list announces talks pertaining to the study of the early modern
period ca. 1400-1750, in any discipline and with any regional
specialization. Please forward announcements and e-mail addresses to add
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this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to all who have
contributed to this effort!
* for new listings (which are also grouped at the front of the list)
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NEW AND UPDATED LISTINGS
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*Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 4-6PM: "The Secret History in the Turkic Orhon
Inscriptions" with Engin Sezer (Turkish Language, Bilkent
University) at 1737 Cambridge Street, CGIS N-354, Harvard University
*Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 6PM: "Everything You've Always Wanted to Know
about the Medical 'School' of Salerno (But Couldn't Find on Google)": a
talk with Monica Green (History, Arizona State University) as part of
the Early Sciences Working Group in Room 469, Science Center, Harvard
University
**Wednesday | 7 May 2008 | 6:00 pm
Lisa A. Banner (PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2006)
"Juan de Junta and his Printing Dynasty in Spain"
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge MA.
Sponsored by the Harvard Early Modern Workshop.
*Thursday, 8 May 2008, 6PM: David Hackett Fischer (History, Brandeis
University) "Champlain's Dream" Abbey Room, Boston Public Library, Boston.
*Two exhibits at Harvard, starting May 8th 2008: "From Rhubarb to
Rubies: European Travels to Safavid Iran, 1550-1700" in the Edison and
Newman Room, Houghton Library and "The Lands of the Sophi: Iran in Early
Modern European Maps (1550-1700)" at the Harvard Map Collection
Gallergy, Pusey Library
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COMPLETE LISTINGS
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Friday | 2 May 2008 | 5:30 pm (Note new date)
Anna Battigelli (SUNY Plattsburgh and visiting professor, Boston
University)
"The Gendering of Religious Identity in Restoration England, 1660-1688"
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA.
Sponsored by the Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar.
Fri May 2 4-6pm: Sonnetfest with Stanley Koehler. Reading of Shakespeare's
sonnets by members of the Five College communityReading Room, 4:00 - 6:00
p.m. Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01002. 413-577-3600, renaissance@english.umass.edu
Sun May 4: Renaissance Festival of theater, music, and dance. Meadow,
11:00 a.m. Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant
St. Amherst, MA 01002. 413-577-3600, renaissance@english.umass.edu
*Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 4-6PM: "The Secret History in the Turkic Orhon
Inscriptions" with Engin Sezer (Turkish Language, Bilkent University) at
1737 Cambridge Street, CGIS N-354, Harvard University
*Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 6PM: "Everything You've Always Wanted to Know
about the Medical 'School' of Salerno (But Couldn't Find on Google)": a
talk with Monica Green (History, Arizona State University) as part of
the Early Sciences Working Group in Room 469, Science Center, Harvard
University
**Wednesday | 7 May 2008 | 6:00 pm
Lisa A. Banner (PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2006)
"Juan de Junta and his Printing Dynasty in Spain"
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge MA.
Sponsored by the Harvard Early Modern Workshop.
*Thursday, 8 May 2008, 6PM: David Hackett Fischer (History, Brandeis
University) "Champlain's Dream" Abbey Room, Boston Public Library, Boston.
*Two exhibits at Harvard, starting May 8th 2008: "From Rhubarb to
Rubies: European Travels to Safavid Iran, 1550-1700" in the Edison and
Newman Room, Houghton Library and "The Lands of the Sophi: Iran in Early
Modern European Maps (1550-1700)" at the Harvard Map Collection
Gallergy, Pusey Library
Friday | 9 May 2008 | 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Conference: "Travelling To and In Safavid Iran (1550-1700): European and
Iranian Perspectives"
Symposium is held in conjunction with exhibit "From Rhubarb to Rubies:
European Travels to Safavid Iran (1550-1700) at the Houghton Library and
the Harvard Map Collection, opening May 8, 2008, and will examine the
culture and economics of travelling to and in Iran during the Safavid
dynasty. Papers will focus on the values attached to travel by European
visitors and Iranian hosts; the challenges involved in crossing physical
as well as cultural boundaries; and the modes in which cross-cultural
encounters were portrayed in different media transformed into culturally
accessible and acceptable representations.
Thompson Room (110), Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
For further information, contact Elio Brancaforte at eliobranca@gmail.com
or Sonja Brentjes at sbrentjes@hotmail.com
Visit the website at: http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/964
Houghton exhibition (opens May 8):
http://hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions/#iran
Map Collection exhibition (opens May 8)
http://hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions/#sophi
Call for Applications: The Fifth Early Modern Workshop at Yeshiva
University in New York City, Sunday August 17 to Tuesday August 19, 2008.
This year's topic is: "Law: Continuity and Change in the Early Modern
Period"
We would like to invite qualified graduate students of the early modern
period to apply to attend the workshop. Up to 5 students will attend and
receive a stipend covering accommodation and (kosher) meals. Candidates
should send their CV and a short abstract (about 2 pages) of the
dissertation project to Magda Teter at mteter@wesleyan.edu by May 15,
2008. The decision will be made by May 31, 2008.
For more information about the Early Modern Workshop project, please
see the project's website: http://www.earlymodern.org
April 20, 2008 - July 27, 2008
Exhibit: "El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III"
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/sub.asp?key=15&subkey=2145
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02165
617-267-9300
February 8 - May 4, 2008
Exhibit: "Luxury for Export: Artistic Exchange between India and Portugal
around 1600"
http://www.isgm.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
280 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
617-566-1401
Call for Papers:
"Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict, Concord," to be held November
5-7, 2009, at the University of Maryland. Plenaries are: Negotiations;
Economies, Faiths and Spiritualities; and Pedagogies. Complete conference
description available at: <www.crbs.umd.edu/atw/atw7>.
Submit interdisciplinary workshop proposals by October 1, 2008. Workshops
that facilitate active participation and focused discussion ofquestions
and issues raised by the conference theme and plenary topics have been an
essential part of previous Attending to Early Modern Women symposia.
Workshop proposals should be comparative or interdisciplinary in focus and
should allow participants to share information and ignorance, pass on
knowledge, ask advice, and learn something new.
For more information, contact Karen Nelson, Ph.D., by email at
<crbs@umd.edu>.