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Juan Manuel Arias

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Research Interests: Fables, framed stories and wisdom literature in the Middle Ages. I am also interested in the history of Medieval Iberia in general and the history and theories of translation. I have also been studying the representation of non-human...

Janet Gyatso

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Janet Gyatso works on intellectual history and literature in early modern Tibet. Her books include Being Buddhist in a Human World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2015) and Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of...

Yu Jin Ko, Professor of English, Wellesley College: Consent and Animation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Korean Madang as a New Green World

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Sponsor: Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies See also: Shakespearean Studies

Radical Aesthetics: A Symposium on New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics, sponsored by the Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University

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The Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar is pleased to announce our final event of the year, a symposium, “Radical Aesthetics” Philosophers in the eighteenth century often defined the “aesthetic” as the science of “sense perception.” This definition had...

Travis Chi Wing Lau, Kenyon College: “The Pain of Race” (Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies)

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This talk draws from a tentative second book project on the histories and theories of chronic pain in the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Methodologically, this project wants to put into conversation disability theory and pain studies, both of...

Melissa McCormick

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Region(s): Japan
Time Period(s): 15th century; 16th century
Theme(s): Japanese Art; Social History; Artistic Production; History of the Book

Melissa McCormick earned a dual B.A. in art history and Japanese language and literature from...

Marissa Smit

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Conference: Visual Poetry: The Politics and Erotics of Seeing, Titian and Beyond (Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture)

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Thursday, April 7 (keynote at 6pm; online and in-person) Friday, April 8, 2022 (all day; in-person only) “…while I work on the Poesie …” (“… interim che metto al ordine le poesie …”) Poetry: this is how Titian referred to his mythological paintings in a...

Sarah Mallory

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Sarah is a PhD candidate in art history and architecture at Harvard University. Her work focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art and environmental history, with a particular interest the relationship between bodies, landscapes...

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Juan Manuel Arias

Janet Gyatso

Yu Jin Ko, Professor of English, Wellesley College: Consent and Animation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Korean Madang as a New Green World

Radical Aesthetics: A Symposium on New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics, sponsored by the Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University

Travis Chi Wing Lau, Kenyon College: “The Pain of Race” (Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies)

Melissa McCormick

Marissa Smit

Conference: Visual Poetry: The Politics and Erotics of Seeing, Titian and Beyond (Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture)

Sarah Mallory