Events

AT BROWN

SEMESTER I 2009-2010

All event take place in the Annmary Brown Memorial (21 Brown St.) unless stated otherwise

Tuesday, October 27th 5:30-7p.m., Yuen-Gen Liang, “A Family History of Empire: The Fernandez de Cordoba Lineage,” co-sponsored with MEMHS

Thursday, November 5th 5:30-7p.m., Michael Randall, “The Shipwreck of the Virgin: Molinet’s Remake of the Ghent Rebellion of 1477.” Rochambeau House, 84 Prospect St.

Monday, November 16th 5:30-7p.m., Piotr Wilczek, “The Devil’s Disciples: Visions of the Heretic in Polish Counter-Reformation Polemics,” co-sponsored with the Department of Slavic Languages

Monday, November 30th 5:30-7p.m. Evie Lincoln, work in progress "The Performance, Authorship and Reading of Magino Ebreo's Dialogue on the Usefulness of his Invention Concerning Silk (1588)," co-sponsored with Italian Studies Graduate Colloquium

early December (date TBA) Faculty presentation by: Nico Wey-Gomez on early modern cartography

Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar (with the department of History)

BOSTON

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EVENTS NOT PREVIOUSLY LISTED:

*Monday, November 30, 2009
5:30-7:00 pm
The Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Program
co-sponsored with the Italian Studies Graduate Colloquium presents:
“The Performance, Authorship and Reading of Magino Ebreo's Dialogue on
the Usefulness of his Invention Concerning Silk (1588),”
by Professor Evelyn Lincoln, History of Art and Architecture and Italian Studies
Brown University
Annmary Brown Memorial
21 Brown Street
Providence, RI
There is a pre-circulated paper for this talk.
To receive a copy, please contact Mona Delgado at Mona_Delgado@brown.edu

*Friday, December 4, 2009
6:30 pm
The Nicholas E. Christopher Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies presents:
"'Digenes Akrites' and Late Byzantine Verse Narrative,"
by Elizabeth Jeffreys (Oxford University)
Harvard University
Harvard Hall 202
Cambridge, MA

*Friday-Saturday, December 4-5, 2009
The Second Biennial International Conference on Modern Greek Studies:
“Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Fictional Writing,”
featuring twelve speakers from three continents.
Harvard University
Harvard Hall 202
Cambridge, MA
See the full program at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/events.html

COMPLETE LISTING

Wednesday, December 2, 2009
4:30pm, Reading Room
“The Simian/Human Boundary in Early Modern Europe,” with Ken Gowens, University of Connecticut, Five College Renaissance Seminar. Free and open to the public. Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 577-3600. renaissance@english.umass.edu

Thursday, December 3, 2009
4:15pm
Benjamin Paul (Art History, Rutgers), "And the Moon Has Started to Bleed: Apocalypticism and Religious Reform in Venetian Art at the Time of the Battle of Lepanto."
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
Davis Art Center Dining Room
For a copy of the pre-circulated paper contact Erinn Savage: esavage@wesleyan.edu

Thursday, December 3, 2009
5:30pm
Richard S. Field (Curator Emeritus of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Yale
University Art Gallery), "Cutting Remarks: The Preparation of Woodcuts,
1400-1600". *The Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture*
Harvard University
Edison and Newman Room
Houghton Library

Thursday, December 3, 2009
6:00pm
“Bolognese Tradition or Florentine Rebirth?: Malvasia's History of Art”
Elizabeth Cropper, Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual
Arts, Washington, D.C.
Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center

Friday, December 4, 2009
Reception at 5:30pm
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Shakespearean Studies
Description Karen Britland (University of Wisconsin). Talk title to be announced.
Humanities Center Seminar
Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center
Source Calendar: Humanities Center
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/calendar/index.cgi

Sunday, December 6, 2009
2:00pm, Reading Room
Honest Harmony Madrigals. First Sunday Concert Series. Free and open to the public. Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 577-3600. renaissance@english.umass.edu

Tuesday, December 8, 2009
4:30pm
Barbara Lewalski (Harvard University): “Milton and the Opening of Science”
Renaissance Colloquium Meetings
Harvard University
Barker Center, Kresge Room

Thursday, December 10, 2009
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Description Helga Duncan (Stonehill College). “Female Libertinism and Sacred Space in Aphra Behn’s Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister”.
Humanities Center Seminar
Harvard University
Room 114, Barker Center
Source Calendar: Humanities Center
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/calendar/index.cgi

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
6:00pm
Michael Cole, University of Pennsylvania
“Sculpture and the Politics of Space”
Room 133, Barker Center
Harvard University

Thursday, April 22, 2010
6:00pm
“Art, Science, and Techne: Practical Knowledge and the Written Word in
Early Modern Europe”
Pamela Smith, Columbia University
Room 133, Barker Center
Harvard University