Scientiae is delighted to announce the schedule for its summer virtual seminar series. The organising committee has put together three two-session days, each dealing with different problems in the pre-modern knowledge formation from different perspectives. All sessions are free. But we ask that you register for the Zoom link at the email address at the end of this message. Please disseminate widely. Friday 3 June 2022 Transformative Empiricisms 9AM (EDT) / 3PM (CST): Keynote Talk Jennifer Rampling (Princeton), “Alchemy and the Image of Nature: Depicting Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe” 11AM (EDT) / 5PM (CST): Panel Laura Sumrall (Hebrew Univ.), “Alchemical Ambition and Medical Practice: George Starkey's Hunt for the Panacea” Julia Reed (Harvard Univ.), “The Forensics of Incorruption in Early Modern Medicine: the Empirical Aristotelianism of Paolo Zacchia” Margaret Carlyle (Univ. of British Columbia), “Instrumentalizing the Pelvis at the Paris Academy of Surgery” Friday 10 June European Knowledge-Making in the New Worlds 9AM (EDT) / 3PM (CST): Plenary Panel, “Knowledge Making in the Wider World” Carolyn Podruchny (York Univ.), “Dying in the North American Fur Trade: The Changing Meanings of the Tragic Tale of Jean Cadieux” Djoeke van Netten (Amsterdam Univ.), “The Dutch East India Company and Publishing Knowledge about the Wider World” Simon Kow (Univ. of King’s College), “Indirect Encounters with Confucianism and neo-Confucianism in Enlightenment Philosophy, 1682-1748” Jaime Marroquin (Western Oregon Univ.), “Plinian Natural History and the Indies of the West” 11AM (EDT) / 5PM (CST): Panel, “How to Know What to Know in the Wider World” Mateusz Kapustka (Zurich), “Tertullian among the Brahmins. Idolatry and historical Knowledge in the 18th-century ‘Malabar Rites Controversy’” Margaret Schotte (York Univ.), “All the things necessary to know”: Instructions for East India Co. Mariners” Joyce Chen, (Princeton), “Decentering Acoustical Knowledge at the Turn of Scientific Revolution: A Comparative Analysis of Music Theory Works by Marin Mersenne and Zhu Zaiyu” Comment, Peter Barker (Univ. of Oklahoma) Thursday 21 July Demonisms and Early Modern Knowledge Making 9AM (EDT) / 3PM (CST): Panel, “Knowing Demons” Lu Ann Homza (William & Mary), “The Devil in the Witch-Hunt, 1608-1614” Sari Katajala-Peltomaa (Tampere Univ., Finland), “Experiencing the Diabolical? Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Late Medieval Canonization Processes” Jason Coy, (History, College of Charleston), “Diabolism and Divination: Demonology and Folk Magic in Early Modern Europe” 11AM (EDT) / 5PM (CST): Roundtable Discussion on Demonism and Early Modern Knowledge Production Speakers TBA All sessions are free. But please register at: conference@scientiaeacademic.com For more on Scientiae, please see: https://scientiaeacademic.ca We hope you can join us! And please disseminate this notice widely. Organising Committee: Richard Raiswell, Danielle Skjelver, Vera Kirk.

This is a reminder that our next online EMPHASIS seminar will be held onSaturday 7 May at 14:00 (participants are admitted from 13:45 onwards). This month's paper will be: Didi van Trijp (University of Leiden): “Natural History, Illuminated: Depicting Lifelikeness in Early Modern Europe”. If you would like to be sent a zoom link for this meeting please register at the EMPHASIS web-page: https://ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/emphasis We hope you can join us! Stephen Clucas and Anthony Ossa-Richardson P.S.: Please visit the following web-page to view recordings of previous EMPHASIS talks. https://ies.sas.ac.uk/whats/recordings-and-podcasts#emphasis

Dear Colleagues, the University of Warwick is seeking a researcher on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘The Correspondence of Dominicus Baudius (1559-1614)’, led by Professor Paul Botley. Full details are available here. Enquiries may be directed directly to Paul Botley at Paul.Botley@warwick.ac.uk .

Shakespeare and Inclusive Pedagogy, Thursday, May 12, from 4-6 p.m. ET. This roundtable extends the work of the SAA 2022 workshop “Shakespeare and the Anti-Racist Classroom,” which sought to provide teacher-scholar-activists an opportunity to discuss methods of manifesting anti-racist solidarity through pedagogical practice and to demonstrate successful approaches to engaging in meaningful, ongoing discussions with students about race, racial formation, and white supremacy. We turn to Shakespeare and his contemporaries as our foundation for this roundtable because of the canonical, cultural capital that inheres in them, and because these authors have historically upheld imperialism and racism. “Shakespeare and Inclusive Pedagogy” will broaden the scope of our discussion from Shakespeare and antiracism in particular to inclusive teaching practices in general. Speakers will discuss how their scholarly work and pedagogical philosophy acknowledges the roles of instructors' bodily presences in creating and sustaining equitable classrooms. Ambereen Dadabhoy, Harvey Mudd College Nedda Mehdizadeh, University of California, Los Angeles Colby Gordon, Bryn Mawr College Lisa Jennings, Texas A&M University, San Antonio

Postdoctoral position at the University of Notre Dame: https://apply.interfolio.com/105967 The project, in short, is to develop a new standard for text-based digital humanities projects, which will (among other things) make it possible to cross-reference even individual words in any project, with a degree of permanence. It is funded on the US side by the NEH, and on the UK side by the AHRC. Notre Dame is partnering in this project with the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Cambridge University Library. Part of the focus at Notre Dame will be to use the Thomas Harriot Online project (https://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/scientific_revolution/harriot/harriot_manuscripts) as a test case, transferring it to a new platform, and developing the tools to allow editing of that project to resume. Over the next two years, workshops will be held at Notre Dame focusing both on the content of the Harriot manuscripts, and the future direction of the online edition.

This is to invite you all to the international conference “Le vie del falso. Storia, letteratura, arte” which will be taking place at the University of Trento on May 26-28, 2022. Papers will tackle the broad theme of forgery from a variety of viewpoints and in a wide range of fields, from ancient history and Classical literature through medieval, early modern, and contemporary cultures. The full program is available at the address unitn.it/falsi Please note that, while the participants will be gathering in person at the University of Trento, the conference can be attended online through the official live-stream. A second email with the relevant information (YouTube/Zoom links etc.) will be sent to this list closer to the days of the conference. Anyone wishing to be updated directly or receive any further information in the meantime should email viedelfalso@gmail.com

We are delighted to announce that the postponed 25th annual Vaughan Colloquium will be taking place in person from 5th – 8th May 2022 in Brecon, Wales, beginning on the afternoon of Thursday 5th May and ending at lunchtime on Sunday 8th May. This will be a special celebratory conference, deferred by one year, marking the 400th anniversary of the birth of Henry and Thomas Vaughan. The title of the conference is ‘“Bright shoots of everlastingness”: Poetry, Spirituality and the Natural World’, and its focus is ‘the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Henry Vaughan and George Herbert, and the occult philosopher and alchemist, Thomas Vaughan’. The programme sessions comprise the familiar mixture of talks, poetry readings and other cultural events, including a poetry reading by Martyn Crucefix. The four plenary speakers are Dr Rowan Williams, Prof Donald Dickson, Dr Holly Faith Nelson and the Rev Canon Mark Oakley. Dr Williams’s lecture will be held in Brecon Cathedral on Friday 6th May at 7.30pm. The conference will also be hosting a concert of music for lute and voice, performed by James Bramley and Emily Owen, on Saturday 7th May at 8pm in the Plough Chapel, Brecon. Both of these evening events are open to the public, and tickets will be available on the door (£10/£7 concessions). For the programme, see http://www.vaughanassociation.org/vaughan-association-conference-2022/. For more information, write to Dr Joseph Sterrett jsterrett@mac.com or Prof. Helen Wilcox helen.wilcox@bangor.ac.uk.

\The 28th Biennial Conference of the Middle Ages and Renaissance Studies Program at Barnard College Saturday, December 3, 2022 PLENARY SPEAKERS Kristina Richardson (CUNY) Mitchell B. Merback (Johns Hopkins) 2022 marks a dubious anniversary: exactly one thousand years ago, in 1022, 13 Cathars were burned at Orléans—the first recorded instance of such punishment of Christian heretics. Exactly five hundred years later, a new sign of internal dissention erupted: In 1522, Martin Luther published his German translation of the New Testament, and in the same year, the Diet of Nuremberg staged an ultimately unsuccessful papal effort to suppress Luther, who had been declared a heretic in the 1521 Edict of Worms. Europe was far from unique in such efforts to suppress internal divisions, which also had a long history in the Middle East, where, for example, during the Mihna in the ninth century CE, the Abbasid caliph had similarly attempted to enforce a theological orthodoxy through centralized or systematized forms of persecuting heresy—attempts that, as in Europe, ultimately failed. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as now, cultures often negotiated their identities by protecting their boundaries against external threats, but equally by marking, and often trying to suppress, enemies within. This conference will focus on cultural anxieties generated by internal challenges, both within the boundaries of a polis and within the boundaries of an individual, exploring how binaries like internal/external, enemy/ally, and related terms, become unstable or unpredictable vectors across periods of time. We invite paper proposals that speak to this issue in its most capacious sense, not only in the religious sphere but equally in the arts, literature, history, and history of science. Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words and a 2-page CV by June 15, 2022 to Rachel Eisendrath, reisendr@barnard.edu. PLEASE NOTE THAT, IF THE PANDEMIC ALLOWS, THIS CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN PERSON AT BARNARD. We will announce by the end of summer 2022 if instead we have to hold the conference on Zoom.

The St Francis Xavier University Digital Humanities Centre cordially invites you to a free public virtual lecture: "The development of GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons), a relational bibliographic database: or is it?" by Jennifer Farooq (University of Regina) and Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) 7 April 2022, 4pm Atlantic time. Free and open to the public. Registration here: http://www.bit.ly/GEMMS_StFX Details: https://www.stfx.ca/about/events/public-online-lecture-development-gemms-gateway-early-modern-manuscript-sermons Abstract: Jennifer Farooq (University of Regina) and Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) will explore the development of GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons), which is a group-sourced, online, bibliographic database of early modern (1530-1715) manuscript sermons from the UK, Ireland and North America. GEMMS is freely accessible (https://gemmsorig.usask.ca/) and currently contains records of over 20,000 sermons and sermon notes from more than 70 libraries and archives. They will discuss the history and scope of GEMMS and the human logistics for the project. They also will analyze the technical development of the GEMMS database and the transfer of GEMMS from a bespoke relational database to Drupal, which is not a database at all. The transition to Drupal will improve the functionality and the long-term viability of GEMMS, but the transfer involved a number of compromises and challenges as well.

Principal Investigator John N Wall (NC State University) has announced release of the Virtual Donne website <https://virtualdonne.chass.ncsu.edu/>, an umbrella site for three additional websites that document and recreate worship services in which John Donne participated in the early 1620’s. These sites include the Virtual Paul’s Cross Project < https://vpcross.chass.ncsu.edu/> which recreates John Donne’s Paul’s Cross sermon for November 5th, 1622. Also, the Virtual Trinity Chapel Project < https://vtcp.chass.ncsu.edu/>, which recreates the Service of Consecration for Trinity Chapel, Lincoln’s Inn, on May 22nd, 1623. Finally, the Virtual St Paul’s Cathedral Project < https://vpcathedral.chass.ncsu.edu/>, which recreates worship and preaching at St Paul’s on Easter Day 1624 and the Daily Offices for the Tuesday after the First Sunday in Advent in 1625. These projects use digital modeling technology to recreate historically accurate models of St Paul’s Cathedral and its surroundings in Paul’s Churchyard as well as Trinity Chapel on the grounds of London’s Lincoln’s Inn. The Paul’s Cross and Cathedral Projects include acoustic recreations of these worship services that one can experience unfolding in real time and sounding as they would have sounded when they originally occurred. The Cathedral services include two sermons, one by Lancelot Andrews and one by John Donne, as well as worship services of the Book of Common Prayer using full choir and organ. The Paul’s Cross Project received the John Donne Society’s Award for Distinguished Digital Publication in 2013 and the Award for Best DH Data Visualization from DH Awards in 2014. These Projects were funded by Digital Humanities grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Debating Human Nature and its Limitations 1600-2000 21-22 April 2022 Organisers: Jil Muller (University of Paderborn) & Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata) Keynote Speakers: Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg) Sarah Carvallo (University of Besançon/ENS of Lyon) Thierry Hoquet (University of Paris/Nanterre) Sietske Fransen (Bibliotheca Hertziana) Charles Wolfe (University of Toulouse II) Ruth E. Hagengruber (University of Paderborn) Programme available here To join online: here Please note that admittance to the event is subject to the normal fee. We can accommodate a limited number of free attendants online but priority shall be given to young scholars and PhD students. Info at: info@csmbr.fondazionecomel.org

The Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar for a one-year appointment to begin August 1, 2022. The appointment will conclude on July 31, 2023. The successful applicant will join a faculty team supported by a Cornerstone: Learning for Living grant jointly funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Teagle Foundation, and will teach humanities courses and contribute to curriculum development initiatives funded by the grant. The salary is $50,000 for the year, plus benefits. The Teagle-NEH initiative aims to reinvigorate the role of the humanities in general education; promote a sense of intellectual community among undergraduate students; strengthen the coherence and cohesiveness of general education; and increase teaching opportunities for humanities faculty. Funded by the grant, the Reilly Center is developing and sponsoring a suite of first-year and upper-level humanities seminars focused on the intersection of the humanities with issues in science, technology, and medicine. The fellow’s duties will include helping to coordinate the activities of the Teagle Lab, a faculty-organized curriculum-development group; supporting faculty in developing reading lists and syllabi; assisting the principal investigators with assessment and reporting for the grant; and contributing to the intellectual life of the Reilly Center, including the Center’s minors in Science, Technology, and Values (STV) and Health, Humanities, and Society (HHS). The fellow may teach or co-teach courses funded by the grant in 2022-23. Closing date: March 27. Full application details at link. https://apply.interfolio.com/103746

Fellowships at the Edward Worth Library, Dublin The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering two research fellowships (duration one month each), to be held in 2022, to encourage research relevant to its collections. The Worth Library is a collection of c. 4,300 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Edward Worth (1676-1733), an early eighteenth-century Dublin physician. The collection is particularly strong in three areas: early modern medicine, early modern history of science and, given that Worth was a connoisseur book collector interested in fine bindings and rare printing, the History of the Book. Research does not, however, have to be restricted to these three key areas. Further information about the collection and our catalogues may be found on our website: http://www.edwardworthlibrary.ie/Home-Page The closing date is Monday 4 April 2022. Further details and application procedures may be found here: https://edwardworthlibrary.ie/research-fellowships/ If you have any queries, please contact: Dr Elizabethanne Boran at: eaboran@tcd.ie

CALL FOR PAPERS The Biennial International Margaret Cavendish Conference Held virtually on June 9-11, 2022, 12-4 EST. Organized by the International Margaret Cavendish Society Futures “The Future is Now”--there has never been a more apt statement to describe Margaret Cavendish’s writing, which is why we are delighted to announce the theme for this year’s International Margaret Cavendish Conference is “Futures.” The theme applies not just to critical approaches to Cavendish’s age- and genre-defying works, but also to the future of Cavendish studies. We welcome proposals by scholars in all disciplines, including literature, philosophy, political science, book history, and the history of science, for traditional paper presentations, themed panels, and roundtable discussions with a particular emphasis on academic breakthroughs and the next generation of Cavendish scholars as we consider Cavendish’s own innovations. In addition, we invite proposals for panels or papers that honor the individual scholarly achievements of the late Cristina Malcomson and the late Brandie Siegfried, whose groundbreaking work prepared the way for today’s Cavendish scholarship. Finally, we encourage submissions on pedagogical approaches to Cavendish and on the forthcoming Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish project. We are particularly interested in receiving abstracts from graduate students and early-career researchers. This year we invite Cavendish scholars to think outside the box formally. We encourage creative approaches and invite proposals for the following formats: Paper Presentations and Roundtable Panels. Submit an abstract to present your research in a 20-minute paper. Feel free to coordinate with others to develop a panel of three papers, or if you submit just an abstract we will group accepted papers into panels ourselves. We also invite roundtable panels or shorter discussion based panels. Like the paper panels, please feel free to coordinate a roundtable of at least four speakers. Seminars and Workshops. This year, we invite senior scholars in particular to propose seminars and workshops: to propose a topic pre-conference (e.g., Teaching Cavendish, Performing Cavendish, Editing Cavendish), share readings and short work, and meet at the conference itself to discuss the collaborative work everyone has done. For instance, an Editing Cavendish workshop might ask everyone to edit a small excerpt and share the work at the conference itself with the workshop members + auditors; or members of a Teaching Cavendish workshop might develop and pool pedagogical resources. Feel free to propose a seminar or workshop topic, indicating how you would organize the time before the conference itself. Practical Skills Sessions. This year the conference would like to offer practical skills sessions targeted at ECR needs: for instance, a roundtable on publishing in academic journals or thinking about the stakes of publishing in women writer venues or beyond. The programming committee will be soliciting a few of these, but if you would be interested in leading a Practical Skills Session please let us know. Performances and Visual Representations. If you are interested in hosting an online performance at the online conference, please do let us know! You might propose screening a filmed version of a class exercise, or hosting a staged reading of a play (or scene) at the conference itself. If you have a creative activity in mind, feel free to touch base. We are eager to make space for it. If you have visual representations or collage images we also want to highlight these creative works during the conference. Possible subjects and themes include, but are not limited to: -Editing Cavendish in the 21st century -Teaching Cavendish to a diverse student body -Cavendish and race -New directions in Cavendish studies -Digital humanities -Cavendish and book history -Queer Cavendish -Ecocritical approaches to Cavendish -Cavendish and embodiment -Cavendish and (a)sexuality -Cavendish and interdisciplinarity -Cavendish and performance - Cavendish in the visual arts Abstracts and proposals of 150 to 200 words together with a brief CV should be emailed to Shawn W. Moore (Shawn.Moore@fsw.edu) by March 31st. For more information, please visit the website of the Margaret Cavendish Society: https://www.margaretcavendishsociety.org/

Renaissance Lives - Paracelsus: an Alchemical Life | The Warburg Institute Renaissance Lives is a series of biographies published by Reaktion Books as well as a series of conversations discussing the ways in which individuals transmitted or changed the lives of traditions, ideas and images. Click here for details. In the first season staff, fellows and former fellows of the Warburg Institute will discuss the lives of Petrarch, Botticelli, Bosch, Erasmus, Paracelsus ... warburg.sas.ac.uk Link to registration: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/renaissance-lives-paracelsus-alchemical-life Book available for free download until Midday Friday 11 February GMT: http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/pdfs/Paracelsus.pdf

Please join the Renaissance Society of America’s Graduate Student Advisory Committee on Thursday, February 24 for “Rethinking the Renaissance Archive.” The event will be held at 12:00 p.m. EST. Easily convert the time zone here. This event is open to all. Please register here. Participants are encouraged to think about the nature of the Renaissance archive. Specifically, what constitutes a Renaissance archive and how can it be reimagined to account for a broader variety of experiences, traditions, ideas, and practices across time and space? Event Program 12:00-12:10 p.m.: Introduction by Farah Bazzi Panel 1: Network Theory and Renaissance Archives in the Age of Digitization(12:10-12:55 p.m. EST) Caitlin Burge “Re-Mapping the Archive: British State Papers, 1523–40” Paul Albert “Zipf’s Law in Early Modern Art Archives” Kyle Dase “Networking the Archive: Linked Open Data and Collaborative Archiving” Sara Mansutti “Reimagining Archival Research: How Can Handwritten Text Recognition Help Scholars?” BREAK – 15 MINUTES Panel 2: The Archive and Expanding the Renaissance World (1:10-1:55 p.m. EST) Jonathan Egid “Three Kinds of Renaissance Archive in Seventeenth-Century Ethiopia” Esteban Crespo “Refocusing the Queer Iberian Archive” Katherine Ruckle “Towards a Globalized Pedagogy: Korean True-View Landscape Painting” Kevin Tracey “Archiving Exilic Epistemology: Seventeenth-Century Irish Responses to the New Sciences” BREAK – 15 MINUTES Panel 3: Unconventional Renaissance Archives (2:10-2:55 p.m. EST) Ambert Bird “Let Me Introduce Mrs. Diana Cecyll: Reading Poetic Form as a Lost Archive” Juan Carlos Garzon Mantilla “Fossils in the Archive” Chelsey Belt “Archiving Orality: Notation and Mimesis of Acts of Poetic Recitation in Musical Print” Fayza Parviz Jazra “John Greaves’s Map: Archives of an Applied Historical Astronomer”  2:55-3:00 p.m.: Conclusion by Farah Bazzi Register for "Rethinking the Renaissance Archive"

Sounding Her Fame: Dutch Women Artists of the Seventeenth Century March 3 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST In anticipation of a major exhibition on Dutch and Flemish women artists, scheduled to be held in 2025 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C., this webinar will provide an engaging look at the many fascinating issues surrounding this topic. Who were these woman artists, and what were their family and social backgrounds? Where did they train and how were they received by the broader artistic community? What distinguished a professional from someone who pursued creative outlets in her life? Aside from painting, etching, and drawing, what other creative/artistic avenues, such as lacemaking and embroidery, did women pursue? To guide us through these and other issues we are delighted that this webinar will include the following discussants: Virginia (Ginny) Treanor, Associate Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts; Katie Altizer, Ph.D. candidate in 17th century Dutch and Flemish art at the University of Maryland; Frima Fox Hofrichter, Professor at Pratt Institute; and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Senior Advisor to The Leiden Collection. Speakers Virginia (Ginny) Treanor, Associate Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts, received her M.A. from American University and her Ph.D. in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art from the University of Maryland. Committed to scholarship that both elucidates and contextualizes the contributions of women throughout history, she has curated exhibitions on seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century art. Ginny serves on the editorial board for Lund Humphries’ Illuminating Women Artists book series. Katie Altizer, Ph.D. is a candidate in 17th century Dutch and Flemish art at the University of Maryland. She is currently completing her dissertation on the relationship between politics, nobility, and science in the game paintings of Jan Weenix (1640-1719). Prior to coming to Maryland, Katie attended the University of Edinburgh where she received a degree in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. She has also worked at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and at the University of Oxford Museum of the History of Science. Frima Fox Hofrichter, Professor at Pratt Institute, specializes in seventeenth-century Northern Art, issues of gender, class, and women artists of the Early Modern Period. Best known for her monograph, and related scholarship on Judith Leyster, she is the author of Gender and Art in the 17th Century for Oxford Online Bibliographies, co-editor of Woman, Aging, and Art: A Crosscultural Anthology, and, since 2000, a co-author of the standard introduction to art history, Janson’s History of Art. Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Senior Advisor to The Leiden Collection, was formerly curator of Northern Baroque painting at the National Gallery of Art, and Professor of Art History at the University of Maryland. He has lectured and published extensively, and has organized over fifty exhibitions, including Johannes Vermeer (1995), Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits (2005), Jan Lievens (2008), and Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (2017). In 1982 the Dutch government named him Knight Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau, and in 2006 the Belgian government named him Commander in The Order of Leopold I. Visit < https://thenaf.org/event/sounding-her-fame-dutch-women-artists-of-the-seventeenth-century/ >

Art and Internal Anatomy Michelangelo, Bronzino, and Mannerist Bodies Webinar – 8 February 2022, 5.00-6.30 pm (CET) Christian Kleinbub – Ohio State University This talk takes issue with this perspective, turning to artworks to build a different point of view. Building on the speaker’s research on Michelangelo’s investment in internal anatomical matters, this talk proposes that other artists of his time, especially Bronzino, paid particular attention to the meaning of the internal organs like the liver, heart, and brain, referencing those organs to explain the internal states of represented bodies. Although such references were only occasionally systematic, this talk contends that they contributed to something like an elite visual language of the body that depended on a long tradition in Tuscan poetry with special reference to Dante. Anatomy is featured throughout the practice and theorization of Italian art in the sixteenth century. Yet, almost without exception, the textual and pictorial evidence has been taken to suggest that artists were concerned only with superficial anatomy, those parts of the body visible on its outsides such as muscles, bones, and sinews. These findings emphasize that the Mannerist body cannot be easily dismissed as a matter only of arbitrary or ornamental form, and they cause us to rethink what “artificiality” means in discussing the art of the period. The event is free to attend but registration is required. To register click here. Info at: https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events-and-activities/online/internal-anatomy/

conference Respublica Litteraria in Action 4, March 18-19, 2022 Conference program Video Conference Meeting Zoom ID: 899 5318 0496

Exeter College (part of the University of Oxford) invites applications for the Sir John Elliott Fellowship in Early Modern Spanish Studies. This post is made possible through the generosity of Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH). The Fellowship will be tenable for a period of 36 months from 1 September 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter. The main duties of the post are to engage in advanced study and research in the area of Early Modern Spanish Studies – specifically, into some aspect of Spanish cultural expression between 1450 and 1700. Culture is understood as including literature, visual & performing arts, material culture and history of knowledge. The Fellow will build an international research profile through innovative original research, preparing work for publication (in monographs and/ or journals), and participating in international conferences. The postholder will also be a member of the Governing Body at Exeter College, with associated administrative and Trustee duties. There will be no teaching obligation attached to the Fellowship, although the postholder will be welcome to do a limited amount of teaching within the collegiate University if they wish to do so, and especially where such teaching experience will enhance the career development of the postholder. The successful candidate will: Have a research record of international standing, appropriate to the stage of the candidate’s career, with evidence of, or evidence of potential for producing, research of international standing in Early Modern Spanish Studies; Have the ability to undertake College administration and duties; and Hold, or be close to completion of, a PhD, or equivalent, in a relevant field. They must also have submitted their doctoral thesis for examination between 1 June 2018 and 31 May 2022 (inclusive). As indicated in the Further Particulars, career breaks for family or health reasons, and pandemic-related disruption, will be taken into account. The Fellow will be appointed on a salary of £33,309 per annum. In addition to salary, a range of other generous benefits are available, as set out in the Further Particulars. How to Apply For more information, including details of how to apply, please download a copy of the Further Particulars. Recruitment Monitoring Form The closing date for applications, and the last date for receipt of references direct from referees, is 12pm noon (GMT) on Monday 28 February 2022. It is the responsibility of each applicant to ensure that their application, and references, arrive before the deadline. Exeter College is an equal opportunities employer and values diversity.