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Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Cartography: Daniel Vitkus (UCSD), “’Impossible Matter’: Humanity, Agency, and Identity in ‘The Tempest’”

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Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, 12pm Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Cartography “’Impossible Matter’: Humanity, Agency, and Identity in ‘The Tempest’” Daniel Vitkus (UCSD) More information and zoom registration: https://mahindrahumanities.fas...

Workshop: Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester: “Looking Slowly at Early Modern Maps”

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Sponsor: Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar s on Cartography and Renaissance Studies Chet Van Duzer will discuss several early modern maps to demonstrate the value of applying patient contemplation to cartography, provide ideas about the types of...

The History of Cartography and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Professor Íris Kantor (Universidade de São Paulo) Sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University Registration Link

Camille Serchuk (Professor of Art History, Southern Connecticut State University): Seminar, "Troubline Boundaries: Grotesque Ornament and Early Modern Cartography" (Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies & Cartography Seminars)

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Tom Conley

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Region(s): France; Europe
Time Period(s): 16th century; 17th century; 18th century
Theme(s): French Literature; Media Studies; Literature and Graphic Imagination

Tom Conley, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Romance...

Molly Taylor-Poleskey

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Region: Holy Roman Empire
Time: 17th century
Themes: Cartography; Cultural History; Digital Humanities; History of Medicine

Molly Taylor-Poleskey is an early modern European cultural historian and digital humanist. She is the Map Librarian at...

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Cartography: Professor Jeffrey N. Peters (University of Kentucky), "Clouds, Place, and Poetic Style in Early Modern France"

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Clouds have been closely associated with poetry and the poetic since antiquity. For early modern natural philosophers, clouds exemplified the uncertain, the conjectural, the merely probable, even, indeed, the poetic. This paper will suggest that a concept...

Jennifer Nelson

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Jennifer Nelson studies early modern art and cultural production from Europe and its outposts. At Radcliffe she is linking a new theory of art’s emergent properties in the Renaissance with an account of these properties’ misuse in the late 16th century...

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Introduction to English Paleography (weeklong intensive skills course), Directed by Heather Wolfe Co-sponsored with the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst This weeklong course provides an intensive...

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Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Cartography: Daniel Vitkus (UCSD), “’Impossible Matter’: Humanity, Agency, and Identity in ‘The Tempest’”

Workshop: Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester: “Looking Slowly at Early Modern Maps”

The History of Cartography and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Camille Serchuk (Professor of Art History, Southern Connecticut State University): Seminar, "Troubline Boundaries: Grotesque Ornament and Early Modern Cartography" (Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies & Cartography Seminars)

lecture_portuguese_transatlantic_slave_trade_and_cartography_3.pdf

Tom Conley

Molly Taylor-Poleskey

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Cartography: Professor Jeffrey N. Peters (University of Kentucky), "Clouds, Place, and Poetic Style in Early Modern France"

Jennifer Nelson

Past Graduate Courses