[Libri] book events next week; note sign-up deadlines

[der Geist, der stets verneint]

Dear Colleagues,

apologies for cross-postings, but I wanted to be sure to bring to your  
attention the following events at the Renaissance Center this coming  
week. (Please note the sign-up deadlines.)


(1)  The next meeting of the Five College Renaissance Seminar will be on
Thursday, March 3, at 4:30 PM at the Massachusetts Center for  
Renaissance
Studies, UMass-Amherst.

Joe Black (UMass-Amherst) will speak on "Pamphlet Wars: Editing the
Martin Marprelate Tracts."

As usual, wine and a light supper are available after the talk. Please
let Peter Berek (pberek at mtholyoke.edu)  know by Monday, February 28, if  
you will be able to stay for
supper.


(2)  The Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies will host a  
community colloquium on "Jews in the Renaissance."
Highlights:  Leonard Glick (Professor Emeritus, Hampshire College) will  
speak on the background of Jewish history. Walter Carroll (WFCR) will  
discuss the questions raised by portraying Shakespeare's Shylock.  The  
Amherst Renaissance Company will perform a reading from Peter  
Wortsman's new drama about the attempt to burn the Talmud in the 16th  
century.

This is a wonderful opportunity in particular for those who missed the  
world-premiere reading of the play, sponsored by the Center for the  
Book and the Renaissance Center, last October:

“Burning Words,” a 16-character play, recounts the turbulent life and  
times of German Humanist Johannes Reuchlin, whose historic defense of  
the Talmud and courageous stand against ignorance and intolerance split  
16th-century Europe wide open and helped wrench Christendom out of the  
Dark Ages.  The play pits Reuchlin against his nemesis, the Papal  
Inquisitor Jacob von Hoogsträten and the latter’s cohorts, Johannes  
Pfefferkorn, a Jewish convert turned Christian bull dog, and Kunigunde  
von Bayern, the temperamental sister of Emperor Maximilian I. There are  
evident echoes of Bertolt Brecht’s “Life of Galileo” and Robert Bolt’s  
“A Man for All Seasons.” Beyond its historical import, the play  
resonates in these times of intolerance and surging fundamentalism.

Sunday, March 6, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is free and includes lunch, but preregistration is required  
(call 577-3600 by March 1).
http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/
The Center is located at 650 East Pleasant St. in Amherst.


Best regards,

Jim Wald
(for the Center for the Book)

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