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2011-2012 REMS lecture series:


'Truth and Fiction: Writing Science in the Early Modern World'
There will be pre-circulated readings for the 4 speakers coming to take part in this series, which will be held as colloquia at 5:30 at the Annmary Brown Memorial

  • Thursday, October 6, 2011
    Pamela O. Long

(http://pamelaolong.com/index.html)

"Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600"

A historian of late medieval and Renaissance history of science and technology, Pamela Long is the he author of Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) investigating intellectual cultures from the library of Alexandria to the rise of the publication of artisanal knowledge in 15th century Europe. She has published several influential articles on written and artisanal culture, such as “Engineering, Patronage, and the Authorship of Practice in Early Counter-Reformation Rome,” in Conflicting Duties: Science, Medicine, and Religion in Rome, 1550-1750, ed. M. P. Donato and J. Kraye (London: Warburg Institute, 2009) and “Power, Patronage and the Authorship of Ars,” in Isis (1997). She is also co-author (with Brian Curran, Anthony Grafton, and Benjamin Weiss) of Obelisk: A History (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009), and with David McGee and Alan M. Stahl, of The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript, 3 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009) She is co-editor of the series, "Historical Perspectives on Technology, Society, and Culture" (John Hopkins University Press).

  • Tuesday, October 11, 201, 5:30 pm
    David S. Areford
    Associate Professor History of Art
    University of Massachusetts, Boston

"Seeing Through Tears: The Cummer Mother of Sorrows and Empathy in Detail,"

Annmary Brown Memorial, 5:30 PM

David S. Areford is the author of 'The Viewer and the Printed Image in Late Medieval Europe' (Ashgate, 2010) and co-editor (with Nina A. Rowe) of 'Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences' (Ashgate, 2004).
This talk is co-sponsored by Medieval Studies and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

  • Monday, October 24, 201, 5:30 pm

Folger Reception

Fleming is the author of Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England (London: Reaktion; and Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), investigates early modern writing practices beyond the conventions of book and manuscript, to see where else textual inscriptions were made and under what circumstances. Her book in progress, Counterproductions: Essays in Cultural Geography 1500-1700 continues and extends Fleming’s analysis of ignored forms of writing, of parts of books that are not writing, and of uses of books that she challenges us to think of as alternative and overlooked forms of reading .

‘Printing Stripes and Roses: Damask Papers and the English press, 1500-1695’

There is a pre-circulated paper for this talk.

"What Kind of a Subject is Food?: Antiquity, Renaissance, and the Lives of a Symbolic Form"

Professor Mazzio's work focuses on literature and the history of the human body, the history of the book, and the cultural as well as aesthetic history of the inarticulate person or community. Her current book project, entitled Calculating Minds: Literature and Mathematics in the Renaissance, examines the irrational dimensions of mathematics and its impact on aesthetic innovation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She is the author of The Inarticulate Renaissance: Language Trouble in an Age of Eloquence (U Pennsylvania Press, 2009) on the specter of the inarticulate in Renaissance culture in language practices and ideologies in the humanities, religion, law, historiography, print, and vernacular speech. She was co-author with Bradan Cormack of Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700 (Chicago: U Chicago Press, 2005).

  • Thursday, April 12, 2012
    Katherine Ibbett
    Lecturer in French, University College, London
    (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/french/staff/katherineib)

"Foreign Objects: Personhood and Intolerance under Louis XIV."

  • Tuesday, May 1, 2012
    Adrian Johns
    History Department, University of Chicago
    (http://home.uchicago.edu/~johns/cv.htm

Author of The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. U Chicago Press, 1998), and Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (UChicago Press, 2009), Professor Johns has also written many articles on the historiography of book and print culture, reading practices, and authorship.

 

 

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Concentrator Final Project

Saturday, May 5, 2012, 4:00 pm
Olivia Harding
Recital of singing

 

 

Cross-Clultural Connections in the Early Modern Jewish World

The Ninth Annual Early Modern Workshop in Jewish History (February 26-27, 2012)

 

 

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

 

Tuesday, September 20, 4:30 PM, Pavillion Room, History Departiment. Sam Boss, PhD Candidate, History, Brown University, "The Meaning of Victory: Social Tension and Civic Unity during the Siege of Orleans 1428-1429."

September 27, 2011, 5:30 PM
The 31st William F. Church Memorial Lecture
“Fiction and the Archives”
Deborah Harkness
Professor of History
University of Southern California
5:30 pm, Smith-Buonanno, 106

What happens to a historian when, after years of writing history based on archival sources,
she turns from looking things up to making things up? Deborah Harkness will discuss how
her background in early modern history and her interest in the craft of historical writing
led to an unexpected novel—and how that novel has in turn changed her views on history
as a practice and on its place in popular culture.
What happens to a historian when, after years of writing history based on archival sources,
she turns from looking things up to making things up? Deborah Harkness will discuss how
her background in early modern history and her interest in the craft of historical writing
led to an unexpected novel—and how that novel has in turn changed her views on history
as a practice and on its place in popular culture.

Tuesday, October 18, 4:30 PM, Pavillion Room, History Departiment. Elizabeth Hyde, Assistant professor, History, Kean University, "French Botanical Diplomacy and the Natural History of the Atlantic World."

Tuesday, November 15, 4:30 PM, Pavillion Room, History Departiment. Maureen Miller, Professor, History, University of California at Berkeley, "Clerical Clothing and Ecclesiastical Change in the 11th and 12th centuries: Women, Men, and Reform."

Tuesday, February 28, 2012. 4:30 PM, Pavillion Room, History Departiment. Jonathan Conant, Assistant Professor, History, Brown University.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 4:30 PM, Pavillion Room, History Departiment.. Adam Teller, Associate Professor, Judaic Studies and History, Brown University

Tuesday, April 12, 2012, 4:30 PM, Pavillion Room, History Departiment. Natalie Rothman, Assistant Professor, History, University of Toronto

Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 4:30 PM, Pavillion Room, History Departiment. Maud Kozodoy, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Judaic Studies, Brown University

 

 

OUTSIDE BROWN

 

This list announces talks pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements and e-mail addresses to: earlymod@fas.harvard.edu.

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*New listing
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK:

*Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 5:00 pm
The Renaissance Colloquium at Harvard University presents: “Uncommon Graves: The Afterlife of Renaissance Sonnets,” Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University
Barker Center, Kresge Room, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Drinks and snacks will be provided.

*Friday, February 3, 2012, 6:00 pm
Shakespearean Studies (Humanities Center Seminar) presents:
“Moral Agency in Montaigne and Hamlet,” Lars Engle, University of Tulsa
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Reception beforehand at 5:30 pm.

*Sunday, February 5, 2012, 2:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Amherst Woman’s Club, and Bulkley, Richardson and Gelinas, present: First Sunday Concert Series - Vocalist Donald Cotter and lutenist Bob Castellano will perform songs by Thomas Campian and Philip Rosseter
Reading Room, Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Donations strongly encouraged.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

*Monday, February 6, 2012, 5:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies presents: The Graduate Research in the Renaissance Series - “The Narrative of the Triadic Heart: Love’s Labour’s Lost,” Marie Blackman, Doctoral Candidate
Reading Room, Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.

*Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 5:00 pm
The Early Science Working Group (ESWG) presents: “Marvelous History: Authority and Authenticity in the History of Troy,” Elly Truitt, Brynmawr College
History of Science Department, Room 469, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Food and refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to Marco Viniegra, viniegra@fas.harvard.edu or Ardeta Gjikola, agjikola@fas.harvard.edu by February 6.

*Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 5:30 pm
The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History presents: “The Myth of Revolution: Reflections on Political Authority,” Dan Edelstein, Stanford University
The Center for European Studies (CES), Cabot Room, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA

*Thursday, February 9, 2012, 4:30 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies presents:
Five College Renaissance Seminar - “On Time, Knowledge, and Experience in 17th and 18th c. French Women Moral Philosophers,” Julie Hayes, UMass Amherst
Reading Room, Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.

Thursday, February 9, 2012, 5:30 pm
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (REMS) Lecture Series at Brown University presents: “Printing Stripes and Roses: Damask Papers and the English Press, 1500-1700”
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI

*Thursday, February 9, 2012, 5:30 pm
Tufts University Department of Art and Art History presents: A Tomasso Lecture: “Vincenzo Coronelli, the Lion of San Marco, and the Image of “The Turk” in Early Modern Italy”

Palmira Brummett, Visiting Professor at Brown University

Tisch Library, Room 316, Tufts University, 35 Professors Row, Medford, MA

Thursday, February 9, 2012, 7:30 pm
The Early Modern History Workshop, History of the Book, and 18th Century Literature and Culture presents: “The Media Revolution in Early Modern England: An Artist's Perspective,” Dror Wahrman, University of Indiana
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Monday, February 13, 2012, 12:00 pm
Classical Traditions (Humanities Center Seminar) presents: “Isaac Casaubon and the Study of Ancient History,” Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Monday, February 13, 2012, 4:00 pm
2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Dean's Lecture Series presents: “How Jesus Celebrated Passover: Early Modern Views of the Last Supper”
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Radcliffe Gymnasium, Harvard University, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA

Monday, February 13, 2012, 4:15 pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar and the Jewish Studies Program presents:
“Credit, Honor, and the Early Modern French Legend of the Jewish Invention of Bills of Exchange,” Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
Davison Art Center (Dining Room), Wesleyan University, 301 High Street, Middletown, CT
For a copy of this paper, please contact Ann Tanasi, 860-685-2392, or atanasi@wesleyan.edu

*Monday, February 13, 2012, 7:00 pm
The Department of Fine Arts at Brandeis University presents:
“The Long Goodbye: Cardinal Stefaneschi, Giotto and St. Peter’s,” Julian Gardner, University of Warwick (emeritus) and CASVA, National Gallery
Mandel Center for the Humanities, Main Auditorium, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA

*Thursday, February 16, 2012, 5:30 pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World (Humanities Center Seminar) presents:
“Gender and Generation in Early Modern Alchemy: The Case of Anna Zieglerin”
Tara Nummedal, Brown University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

*Monday, February 27, 2012, 5:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies presents: The Graduate Research in the Renaissance Series – “Thy Book in Peeces: Partial Reading and the Literary Response to Coryat’s Crudities (1611),” Phil Palmer, Doctoral Candidate
Reading Room, Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 4:30 pm
Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar (MEMHS) at Brown University presents:
Title TBA, Jonathon Conant, Brown University
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI

*Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 6:15 pm
Visual Representation, Transmission, and Translation (Humanities Center Seminar) presents:
“Ingres’ Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus: The Work of Art as an Ongoing Process”
Henri Zerner, Harvard University
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, March 15, 2012, 5:30 pm
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (REMS) Lecture Series at Brown University presents: Carla Mazzio, State University of New York at Buffalo
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI

Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 4:30 pm
Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar (MEMHS) at Brown University presents:
Title TBA, Adam Teller, Brown University
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI

Monday, April 16, 2012, 4:00 pm
The Early Modern History Workshop presents: “The State of the Virgin: Representing the Body Politic Through Metaphors of Marital Status in Early Modern Europe”
Thomas Maissen, University of Heidelberg
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 5:00 pm
The Early Modern History Workshop presents:
“Disputation and Its Printed Thesis: Learning and Publication at 17th-century Harvard”
Kevin Chang (Academia Sinica, Visiting Fellow at Yenching)
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, May 1, 2012, 5:30 pm
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (REMS) Lecture Series at Brown University
Title TBA, Adrian Johns, University of Chicago
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI

Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 4:00 pm
Fellows’ Presentation Series: “Wit and Its Engineering: Poetry and Cartography in Early Modern France,” Tom Conley (Fellow, Radcliffe Institute)
Radcliffe Gymnasium, Radcliffe Yard, Harvard University, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 4:15 pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar presents: “Music in Humanistic Curricula from 15th-Century Italy”
Evan MacCarthy, Harvard University
Squash Court Building, Seminar Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
For a copy of this paper, please contact Sandy Brough, 860-685-2594, or sbrough@wesleyan.edu