Victor Couto Tiribás (Starr Fellow), Scuola Normale Superiore: “The Rabbi and the Painter: Menasseh ben Israel, Rembrandt van Rijn, and the ‘Glorious Stone’"

Date:

Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

HMANE (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, formerly the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge) RM201 (RSVP) or online (RSVP)

*The Starr Seminar will take place in person on Wednesdays from 12PM-1:30PM at HMANE (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, formerly the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge) RM201. Please confirm your attendance with Sandy Cantave cantave@fas.harvard.edu, as lunch (kosher) will be provided for these meetings. If you would like to attend remotely please write to Sandy Cantave to get the zoomlink.

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2024 Apr 23

Joseph Gauvreau (Comparative Literature, Harvard), dissertation defense of “The Contrafacta of Thomas Watson and Simon Goulart: Resignifying the Polyphonic Song in 16th-century England and France"

3:00pm

Location:

Harvard Dana Palmer House, 16 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138

Under the direction of Katharina Piechocki, Kate van Orden, and Tom Conley Read more about Joseph Gauvreau (Comparative Literature, Harvard), dissertation defense of “The Contrafacta of Thomas Watson and Simon Goulart: Resignifying the Polyphonic Song in 16th-century England and France"

2024 Apr 23

Paris Spies-Gans: Imprints and Erasures: A New Story of Art (Zerner Lecture at the Harvard Art Museums)

6:30pm

Location:

Harvard Arts Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge MA (entrance on Broadway)

The lecture is sponsored by Harvard's History of Art and Architecture Dept.

The speaker will be discussing -- and asking the audience to ponder -- her favorite questions. How should we be thinking about women artists these days? Can we integrate them into art history's narratives in a way that lasts? And how, exactly, do they keep getting erased?

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2024 Apr 24

Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, "Shakespeare's Speculative Horizons: The Impossible, the Unknowable, and the Dream of Other Worlds"

6:00pm

Location:

Barker Center, room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138

Sponsors: This talk is co-hosted by the Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium and the Theater and Performance Colloquium, Harvard.

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2024 Apr 26

Center for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: CNA Student Session with Anna Koopstra and Bart Fransen (open to all students)

10:30am to 12:00pm

Location:

Zoom Event, registration required (see details)

CNA Student Session with Anna Koopstra and Bart Fransen

Zoom Event. This virtual program is free...

2024 Apr 26

The Ottoman Scientific Heritage: A Book Launch and Symposium in Honor of Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu

Fri - Sat, Apr 26 to Apr 27, 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Location:

Harvard, different locations see message details

Symposium Program In honor of the recent publication of the English edition of The Ottoman Scientific Heritage by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, translated by Maryam Patton, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and the Al-...

2024 Apr 30

Alex Garnick, van Roomen on al- Khwārizmī and the Divergence of Early Modern Algebras (Early Sciences Working Group)

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location:

Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA)

For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at
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