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Kathleen Long, Cornell University, "Raising the Dead : The Landscape of Violence in Early Modern France"

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Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Seminar Talk, "Raising the Dead : The Landscape of Violence in Early Modern France" Kathleen Long , Cornell University, Folger Mellon-Mowat Fellow 2019-2020 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content...

Meghan Constantinou: "Stenciled Books as a Domestic Printing Art in 18th-Century France" (Lecture)

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Meghan Constantinou will talk about stenciled books—in which all (or most) of the textual and decorative elements are hand-stenciled—in the context of eighteenth-century French domestic printing. https://ksmallgallery.com/blogs/events/stenciled-books-as-a...

Harvard Mahindra Center Renaissance Studies Seminar: Michael Meere (Wesleyan University), “(Un)Popular Theater and Traveling Troupes in Late Renaissance France”

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Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar Michael Meere (Wesleyan University), “(Un)Popular Theater and Traveling Troupes in Late Renaissance France” Location: Online Please RSVP to Emily Epperson ( epperson@g.harvard.edu) or to Lisa...

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium: Melissa Hyde (University of Florida): "Almost Famous: Women Artists in France Before Vigée le Brun"

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Monday, Oct. 19, 6pm Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium "Almost Famous: Women Artists in France Before Vigée le Brun" Melissa Hyde (University of Florida) Please click here for registration...

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...

Writing into Nothingness

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Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on France and the World Speaker: Joanna Stalnaker, Columbia University In this talk, Joanna Stalnaker will draw on her recent book, The Rest Is Silence, along with new archival research into one of the...

Emily Epperson

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Times: 16th to 17th centuries
Regions: France, North America
Theme: French Literature

Emily is a PhD candidate in French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She has experience teaching all levels of language and literature both at Harvard...

Robert Darnton

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Regions: Europe, France
Time Period: 18th century
Themes: Cultural History; French Literature; History of the Book; Intellectual History; Political History; Social History

I retired in 2015 as Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and...

Amy Chandran

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Region: France, Britain, Europe
Time: 17th Century
Topics: religious and political controversies; Thomas Hobbes; English-French intellectual exchange

Ryan Low

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Region: Europe; France
Time: 14th Century; 15th Century; 16th Century
Theme: Social History; Jewish History; Legal History

The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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Series: Harvard Science Book Talk Sponsors: Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library Speakers: Jessica Riskin, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University, in conversation with Naomi...

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...

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Kathleen Long, Cornell University, "Raising the Dead : The Landscape of Violence in Early Modern France"

Meghan Constantinou: "Stenciled Books as a Domestic Printing Art in 18th-Century France" (Lecture)

Harvard Mahindra Center Renaissance Studies Seminar: Michael Meere (Wesleyan University), “(Un)Popular Theater and Traveling Troupes in Late Renaissance France”

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium: Melissa Hyde (University of Florida): "Almost Famous: Women Artists in France Before Vigée le Brun"

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

Writing into Nothingness

Emily Epperson

Robert Darnton

Amy Chandran

Ryan Low

The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Tom Conley