Islam in 16th-17th Century Europe: Identity, Dissimulation, and Visibility
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Luis Bernabé-Pons on the perceptions and presence of Islam and muslims in Early 
Modern Europe, from Spain to France, Italy, and Great Britain.
Helen C. White 7191
Friday, February 5, 4:00 PM
The Unassembled Grammar of the Drawing in the Era of Reform
Dr. Shira Brisman, Department of Art History 
March 4 at 4:00 PM in Helen C. White 7191
CEMS Conference 2016: Happiness in the Early Modern Period
The CEMS is pleased to announce our 2016 conference. This interdisciplinary event explores the concept of 
“happiness” in the early modern period.
March 10
2:30-3:30
Opening Remarks: Susan Zaeske, Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities; Stefania Buccini, CEMS Interim Director
PRESESSION
Ullrich Langer (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Why Literature Is Happiness (in the Early Modern Period)”
3:30-3:45 | Refreshment Break
3:45-6:00 | SESSION I, Presiding: Kristin Phillips-Court
Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins University): “Happiness and the ‘History of the History of Philosophy’ in Fifteenth-Century Italy”
Respondent: Ullrich Langer
Virginia Krause (Brown University): “Montaignian Happiness: Lessons in Landscape”
Respondent: Jan Miernowski
March 11
9:30-11:45 | SESSION II, Presiding: Ricardo Court
Christia Mercer (Columbia University): “Anne Conway and the Pain of Happiness”
Respondent: Hadley Cooney
Donald Rutherford (University of California-San Diego): “Perfection and Happiness in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy”
Respondent: Steven Nadler
12:00-1:15 | Lunch Break (on your own)
1:30-3:30 | SESSION III, Presiding: Nicolas Russell
Katherine Eggert (University of Colorado-Boulder): “Othello’s Happiness”
Respondent: Karen Britland
Andrea Frisch (University of Maryland): “‘Heureux celuy qui devient sage/en voyant d’autry le dommage’: Tragic Spectacle as a Source of Happiness in Early Modern France”
Respondent: Richard Goodkin
3:30-3:45 | Refreshment Break
3:45-5:00 | SESSION IV, Graduate Student Forum: “Expressions of Happiness”, Presiding: Elizabeth Bearden
Aria Cabot: “‘No Happiness in These Kinds of Pleasures’: (In)felicità and the Eighteenth-Century Italian Autobiography”
Jennifer Morgan: “A Joyful Noise: Music in the Early Modern Period”
Anna Rockwell: “L’’Archiatro dell’Anima’: Theater’s Cures for ‘Malumore’”
Jillian Slaight: “Chasing after Happiness? Runaway Girls in Eighteenth-Century Paris”
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
Edo Japan and the Islamic World: Tokyo’s Inter-Asian Commerce during the Career of Arai Hakuseki (d. 1725)
114 Van Hise
Friday, April 8, 4:00 PM
The CEMS is excited to welcome Ali Humayun Akhtar, PhD, a Robert M. Kingdon fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities and an Assistant Professor at Bates College. This talk will investigate the history of Japanese commerce with the Islamic World during the career of the Neo-Confucian administrator Arai Hakuseki, one of the first Japanese thinkers and politicians to write extensively about Muslims and the Near East. Dr. Akhtar will highlight the two-way movement of objects and ideas between Japanese and Indo-Persianate centers, via China and the Dutch, in a reconceptualization of Inter-Asian global trade networks before the modern period.
The Book That Made Philosophy Modern 
April 15-16, 2016
The Institute for Research in the Humanities presents a Burdick-Vary Symposium, an interdisciplinary exploration of Descartes’ Treatise on Man.