This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>.
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
**Monday, October 31, 2016, 5pm – 7 pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
Lecture, “Priests of the Law” or “Vipers of the Commonwealth”: Legal Professionals, Legal Knowledge, and Litigiousness in Early Modern Europe
Michael Breen, Reed College
Wasserstein Hall, WCC 3034, Harvard Law School
Co-sponsored by the European Legal History Workshop
Please email jminnich(a)law.harvard.edu<mailto:jminnich@law.harvard.edu?subject=Michael%20Breen%20paper&body=Dear%20Ms.%20Minnich%2C%20%0A%0AI%20would%20like%20to%20join%20the%20European%20Legal%20History%20Workshop%20and%20Early%20Modern%20Workshop%20for%20Michael%20Breen's%20talk%20on%20October%2031.%20Could%20you%20please%20send%20me%20the%20precirculated%20paper%20for%20his%20talk%3F%20%0A%0AThank%20you.%20> for the pre-circulated paper.
November
**Tuesday, November 1, 2016, Noon – 1:30pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
"Humanism in New Spain and the huehuehtlahtolli (speech of the ancients)"
Aysha Pollnitz, Rice University
Robinson Hall, Lower Library and Great Space, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
RSVP appreciated to marcellahayes(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:marcellahayes@g.harvard.edu>
**Tuesday, November 1, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Florin Morar (Harvard, History of Science), “Translation and Treason: The Demarcation Controversy and Abraham Ortelius’ Map of China from 1584”<http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/florin-morar-harvard-history-science-…>
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, November 3, 2016, 5:30pm
"The Unbearable Lightness of Anne Green: An Infanticide's Unlikely Afterlife, 1651-Present"
Marina Leslie, Northeastern University,
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 2:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert: “When I See Wynter Coming”
The Harper and The Minstrel
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public. www.umass.edu/renaissance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissan…>
No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited. Seating is first come, first served.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday, November 7, 2016, 5:15 – 7:15 p.m.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
“Setting (and binding) the table: Ancient Roman paratext in the age of print”
Joseph Howley, Columbia University
MIT Building 14E, Room 304 whereis.mit.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__whereis.mit.edu_&d=CwMG…>
**Monday, November 7, 2016, 3:00 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, Co-sponsored with MHC History of the Book Seminar
Master Course on Social History of Paper, Signcutting, and Signsewing.
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Location: Houghton Library
Please rsvp to Hudson Vincent at rvincent(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:rvincent@g.harvard.edu> (space is limited)
Monday, November 7, 2016, 5 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, Co-sponsored with MHC History of the Book Seminar
"Gleaning"
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Abstract at http://bookhistory.harvard.edu<http://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/juliet-fleming-new-york-university-%E2…>
Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Efe Balıkçıoğlu (Harvard, History and CMES) “Determinism and Causation in the 15th Century Ottoman Madrasas in Constantinople”<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/event/efe-bal%C4%B1k%C3%A7%C4%B1o%C4%9F…>
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 5-6 PM and Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30–5:45 PM
Yale Program in the History of the Book
Lecture & Seminar, "Book-Piracy in the Reign of Mary Tudor"
Peter Blayney, University of Toronto
Yale University; Lecture, Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 5-6 PM (Yale, Beinecke Library mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30–5:45 PM (Yale, Beinecke Library, room 9 on lower level)
https://yalebookhistory.com/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__yalebookhistory.com_&d…>
*Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 2:30-4 PM
PANEL: 400 Years of Desires: New Approaches to Jesuit Missions through the Litterae Indipetae
Speakers: Emanuele Colombo, DePaul University;
Marco Rochini, University of Milan
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall (Brighton Campus), Room 035, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Contact: 617-552-2568 or iajs(a)bc.edu
*Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 6-7 PM
Harvard Arts Museum: Norma Jean Calderwood Lecture
“Impressions of People: The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-76)”
Sheila Canby, Patti Circh Curator for Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public: Please enter via entrance on Broadway
Thursday, November 10, 4:15pm
MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"The Human Condition in the Anthropocene"
Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
Cosponsored with the Joint Center for History and Economics
Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture, Five College: “Antihonorificabilitudinitatibus: Love's Labour's Lost and the Pedantic Text.”
Adam Zucker, UMass Amherst
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Free and open to the public.
www.umass.edu/renaissance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissan…> No reservations required.
Friday, November 11, 2016 4:00 - 5:30
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"'Prince of the Nullibists'? Descartes, Henry More, and the Location of the Mind"
Dan Kaufman, University of Colorado
Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard University, 25 Quincy Street, Cambridge:
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Catherine Abou-Nemeh (Victoria University of Wellington, History), “Cartesian Medicine at Leiden University in the Late 17th Century”<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/event/catherine-abou-nemeh-victoria-uni…>
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
“The Many Bodies of King James VI and I,”
Alastair Bellany, (Professor of History, Rutgers University,)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence RI
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 – 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “‘Every bodies fancy varies’: Historicizing Early Modern Sexual Practice”
Will Fisher, Lehman College/Graduate Center, CUNY
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>
Tuesday, November 15, 6pm,
MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"Art in a State of Siege: Hieronymus Bosch in Retrospect"
Joseph Koerner (Harvard University)
Room 029, Sackler Lecture Hall, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA
*Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 6 PM
Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium
“The Tastemakers and Trendsetters: A Closer Look on the Process of Creation in Eighteenth-Century France”
Ulrich Leben, Bard Graduate Center
Room 515, Sackler Museum, Harvard, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA, 02138
**Wednesday, November 16 at 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
David Nee, Harvard University
"Tragedy as Simple Form: Romeo and Juliet, 1475-1599"
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Colonial North America Project at Harvard Library
“Unconference”: What’s Next? Exploring New Ways to Use Digital Early American Manuscripts
Knafel Center, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
To find out more about the meeting and to register (note that space is limited) please visit this on-line invitation: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/colonial
*Thursday, November 17, 2016, 4pm
Renaissance Studies
“’Well Painted and Illuminated, But Not Very Accurate’: Maps and Their Makers in Early Modern France”
Camille Serchuk, Southern Connecticut State University
Room 204, Sever Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA
Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"New Eyes VIII Dinner Symposium"
Megan Gallagher (Brown University), Jess Keiser (Tufts University), Rebecca Mitsein (Boston College), and Jenny Reed (Brandeis University)
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
**Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
2016-2017 RENATO POGGIOLI LECTURE
Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, New York University
Barker Ctr, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
This event is free and open to the public.
Friday, November 18, 2016, 5:30pm
SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
“All’s Well and the Art of Love”
James Kuzner, Brown University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Friday and Saturday, November 18th – 19th, 2016
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop co-sponsored with the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science and the BU College of Fine Arts Theater Program
Event: “Émilie Du Châtelet: 310th Anniversary”
-Friday, November 18th, 4:00 – Staged Reading of Émilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson
BU Theater Lab, Rm. 104, College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave
-Saturday, November 19th, 10:00 – 5:30pm: Talks by Judith Zinsser, George Smith, Ruth Hagengruber, Marius Stan, Andrew Janiak, and Katherine Brading.
The Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave.
Further details available at http://www.bu.edu/cphs/colloquium/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_cphs_colloqu…>
Tuesday, November 22, 5:30 PM
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
The 37th William F. Church Memorial Lecture, “Ottoman Christians and the Question of Ottoman Society.”
Molly Greene (Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University)
Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 106, Brown University, 95 Cushing St., Providence, RI, 02912
A reception will follow the lecture.
Monday, November 28, 5:30pm
Harvard Cartography Seminar
"Political Propaganda and the Mapping of the Russian Borderland in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century: Strubicz, Kochanowski, Mercator"
Jakub Niedzwiedz (Jagiellonian University)
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Lecture: “The Book Trade and the Demand for Literature in France, 1769-1789”
Robert Darnton, Harvard University
Barker Center, Room 110, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 29, 6:00pm
Dialectical Thinking and the Humanities
Talk Title TBA
Julie Walsh, Wellesley College
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
William Porter (Harvard University)
Title TBA
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
December
Friday, December 2, 2016, 5:30pm
SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"Graduate Student Symposium"
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Sunday, December 4, 2016, 2:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Holiday Concert
AyreCraft
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public.
www.umass.edu/renaissance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissan…>
No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited. Seating is first come, first served.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5:00pm and Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30pm
Lecture & Seminar, "What is a Letter?"
Peter Stallybrass, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Yale University; Lecture, Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5-6pm (Yale, Beinecke Library mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30–5:45pm (Yale, Beinecke Library, room 9 on lower level)
Thursday, December 8, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture, "Monstrous Un-Making: Blood, Milk, Maternity, and Murder as Female Agency in Early Modern England"
Dianne E. Berg Tufts University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
February
Wednesday, February 1, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Talk Title TBA
Christie McDonald, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, February 1, 2016, 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Holger Syme, University of Toronto
Location TBA
Monday, February 27, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
Talk Title TBA
Meredith Martin (New York University) and Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University),
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
March
Thursday March 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title TBA
Ned Duval, Yale University
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>
Wednesday, March 22, 6pm
American Literature and Culture
Talk Title TBA
Leonard Von Morze, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
May
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title TBA
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>
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This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>.
If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort.
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Monday, October 24, 2016, 5pm-6:30pm
Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop
Lecture: “The Judgment of the Bleeding Corpse: Medieval Myth and Early Modern Law”
Emily Rose, Visiting Scholar, Medieval Studies, Harvard
Kates Room, Warren House, Harvard University
*Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 12-1:30pm
Harvard-Yenching Institute
Lecture: “Legitimating State Power and social Policies: A Comparative Study of Early Modern England, Tokugawa Japan, and Qing China“
He Wenkai, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Chair/discussant: Daniel Ziblatt, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 6pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Lecture: Arts and Ideas
"The Place of the Mechanical in Liberal Studies"
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Barker Center, Thompson Room, Room 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"'Evidence that Might Assist in a Further Research': Testimony, the Law, and the Supernatural, 1688-1832"
Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh),
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 5-7pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Elias Muhanna (Brown University, Comparative Literature) Book talk, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World, by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri<http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/elias-muhanna-brown-university-compar…>
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 4:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture, Rare Book Show and Tell
Jeff Goodhind
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club.
www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance> No reservations required.
Wednesday, October 26 at 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"The Dumb Show Speaks: Religious Re-Creations in Early Modern Drama."
Bailey Sincox (Harvard University)
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Friday, October 28, 2016, 12:15-2pm
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Lecture: “Witchcraft, Emotion, and Social Order in Early Modern Russia”
Valerie Kivelson, Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan
CGIS South S354, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday, October 31, 2016, 5pm – 7 pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
Lecture, “Priests of the Law” or “Vipers of the Commonwealth”: Legal Professionals, Legal Knowledge, and Litigiousness in Early Modern Europe
Michael Breen, Reed College
Wasserstein Hall, WCC 3034, Harvard Law School
Co-sponsored by the European Legal History Workshop
November
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, Noon – 1:30pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
"Humanism in New Spain and the huehuehtlahtolli (speech of the ancients)"
Aysha Pollnitz, Rice University
Robinson Hall, Lower Library and Great Space, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Florin Morar (Harvard, History of Science), “Translation and Treason: The Demarcation Controversy and Abraham Ortelius’ Map of China from 1584” <http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/florin-morar-harvard-history-science-…>
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, November 3, 2016, 5:30pm
"The Unbearable Lightness of Anne Green: An Infanticide's Unlikely Afterlife, 1651-Present"
Marina Leslie, Northeastern University,
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 2:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert: “When I See Wynter Coming”
The Harper and The Minstrel
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public. www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance>
No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited. Seating is first come, first served.
*Monday, November 7, 2016, 5:15 – 7:15 p.m.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
“Setting (and binding) the table: Ancient Roman paratext in the age of print”
Joseph Howley, Columbia University
MIT Building 14E, Room 304 whereis.mit.edu<http://whereis.mit.edu/>
Monday, November 7, 2016, 3:00 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, Co-sponsored with MHC History of the Book Seminar
Master Course on Social History of Paper, Signcutting, and Signsewing.
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Location: Houghton Library
Monday, November 7, 2016, 5 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, Co-sponsored with MHC History of the Book Seminar
"Gleaning"
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Abstract at http://bookhistory.harvard.edu<http://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/juliet-fleming-new-york-university-%E2…>
Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Efe Balıkçıoğlu (Harvard, History and CMES) “Determinism and Causation in the 15th Century Ottoman Madrasas in Constantinople”<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/event/efe-bal%C4%B1k%C3%A7%C4%B1o%C4%9F…>
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 5-6 PM and Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30–5:45 PM
Yale Program in the History of the Book
Lecture & Seminar, "Book-Piracy in the Reign of Mary Tudor"
Peter Blayney, University of Toronto
Yale University; Lecture, Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 5-6 PM (Yale, Beinecke Library mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30–5:45 PM (Yale, Beinecke Library, room 9 on lower level)
https://yalebookhistory.com/
Thursday, November 10, 4:15pm
MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"The Human Condition in the Anthropocene"
Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
Cosponsored with the Joint Center for History and Economics
Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture, Five College: “Antihonorificabilitudinitatibus: Love's Labour's Lost and the Pedantic Text.”
Adam Zucker, UMass Amherst
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Free and open to the public.
www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance> No reservations required.
Friday, November 11, 2016 4:00 - 5:30
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"'Prince of the Nullibists'? Descartes, Henry More, and the Location of the Mind"
Dan Kaufman, University of Colorado
Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard University, 25 Quincy Street, Cambridge:
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Catherine Abou-Nemeh (Victoria University of Wellington, History), “Cartesian Medicine at Leiden University in the Late 17th Century”<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/event/catherine-abou-nemeh-victoria-uni…>
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
“The Many Bodies of King James VI and I,”
Alastair Bellany, (Professor of History, Rutgers University,)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence RI
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 – 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “‘Every bodies fancy varies’: Historicizing Early Modern Sexual Practice”
Will Fisher, Lehman College/Graduate Center, CUNY
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>
Tuesday, November 15, 6pm,
MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"Art in a State of Siege: Hieronymus Bosch in Retrospect"
Joseph Koerner (Harvard University)
Room 029, Sackler Lecture Hall, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA
Wednesday, November 16 at 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
David Nee, Harvard University
"Tragedy as Simple Form: Romeo and Juliet, 1475-1599"
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Colonial North America Project at Harvard Library
“Unconference”: What’s Next? Exploring New Ways to Use Digital Early American Manuscripts
Knafel Center, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
To find out more about the meeting and to register before October 26 (note that space is limited) please visit this on-line invitation: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/colonial
Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"New Eyes VIII Dinner Symposium"
Megan Gallagher (Brown University), Jess Keiser (Tufts University), Rebecca Mitsein (Boston College), and Jenny Reed (Brandeis University)
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
2016-2017 RENATO POGGIOLI LECTURE
Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, New York University
Barker Ctr, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
This event is free and open to the public.
Friday, November 18, 2016, 5:30pm
SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
“All’s Well and the Art of Love”
James Kuzner, Brown University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
**Friday and Saturday, November 18th – 19th, 2016
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop co-sponsored with the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science and the BU College of Fine Arts Theater Program
Event: “Émilie Du Châtelet: 310th Anniversary”
-Friday, November 18th, 4:00 – Staged Reading of Émilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson
BU Theater Lab, Rm. 104, College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave
-Saturday, November 19th, 10:00 – 5:30pm: Talks by Judith Zinsser, George Smith, Ruth Hagengruber, Marius Stan, Andrew Janiak, and Katherine Brading.
The Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave.
Further details available at http://www.bu.edu/cphs/colloquium/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_cphs_colloqu…>
Tuesday, November 22, 5:30 PM
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
The 37th William F. Church Memorial Lecture, “Ottoman Christians and the Question of Ottoman Society.”
Molly Greene (Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University,)
Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 106, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912
A reception will follow the lecture
Monday, November 28, 5:30pm
Harvard Cartography Seminar
"Political Propaganda and the Mapping of the Russian Borderland in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century: Strubicz, Kochanowski, Mercator"
Jakub Niedzwiedz (Jagiellonian University)
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Lecture: “The Book Trade and the Demand for Literature in France, 1769-1789”
Robert Darnton, Harvard University
Barker Center, Room 110, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 29, 6:00pm
Dialectical Thinking and the Humanities
Talk Title TBA
Julie Walsh, Wellesley College
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
William Porter (Harvard University)
Title TBA
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
December
Friday, December 2, 2016, 5:30pm
SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"Graduate Student Symposium"
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Sunday, December 4, 2016, 2:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Holiday Concert
AyreCraft
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public.
www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance>
No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited. Seating is first come, first served.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5:00pm and Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30pm
Lecture & Seminar, "What is a Letter?"
Peter Stallybrass, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Yale University; Lecture, Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5-6pm (Yale, Beinecke Library mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30–5:45pm (Yale, Beinecke Library, room 9 on lower level)
Thursday, December 8, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture, "Monstrous Un-Making: Blood, Milk, Maternity, and Murder as Female Agency in Early Modern England"
Dianne E. Berg Tufts University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
February
Wednesday, February 1, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Talk Title TBA
Christie McDonald, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, February 1, 2016, 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Holger Syme, University of Toronto
Location TBA
Monday, February 27, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
Talk Title TBA
Meredith Martin (New York University) and Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University),
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
March
Thursday March 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title TBA
Ned Duval, Yale University
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>
Wednesday, March 22, 6pm
American Literature and Culture
Talk Title TBA
Leonard Von Morze, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
May
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title TBA
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
**Monday, October 17, 2016, 5pm – 7 pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
"Knowing Kinship. Epistemologies of Relatedness in Medieval Law"
Simon Teuscher, Professor of Medieval History, University of Zurich
Wasserstein Hall, WCC 3034, Harvard Law School
Co-sponsored by the European Legal History Workshop
Please email jminnich(a)law.harvard.edu<mailto:jminnich@law.harvard.edu> for the precirculated paper.
*Monday, October 17, 2016, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Lecture: "Cartographic Humanism and the Definition of Early Modern Europe"
Katharina Piechocki<http://complit.fas.harvard.edu/people/katharina-piechocki>, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Weatherhead Center, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
**Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
“‘Using the means of such a retreat’: Third Order Monastic Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Italy”<http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/liise-lehtsalu-brown-university-%E2%8…>
Liise Lehtsalu, PhD cand., Brown University
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI, 02912
Please email maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu<mailto:maria_sokolova@brown.edu> for a copy of the precirculated paper
*Friday and Saturday, November 18th – 19th, 2016
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop co-sponsored with the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science and the BU College of Fine Arts Theater Program
Event: “Émilie Du Châtelet: 310th Anniversary”
-Friday, November 18th, 4:00 – Staged Reading of Émilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson
BU Theater Lab, Rm. 104, College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave
-Saturday, November 19th, 10:00 – 5:30pm: Talks by Judith Zinsser, George Smith, Ruth Hagengruber, Marius Stan, Andrew Janiak, and Katherine Brading.
The Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave.
Further details available at http://www.bu.edu/cphs/colloquium/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_cphs_colloqu…>
Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 4:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture
“Shakespeare vs. The Audience.”
Brett Gamboa, Dartmouth College
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club. www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance>
No reservations required.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Baroque Optics and Góngora’s El Polifemo"
Hudson Vincent (Harvard University)
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 20, 4:15pm,
MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"On Not Joining the Dots: Land... Earth... Globe... Gaia"
Bruno Latour (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris),
Introduction by Lizabeth Cohen (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study); responses by Diane Davis (Harvard Graduate School of Design) and Peter Galison (Harvard University); moderated by Homi Bhabha (Harvard University). Free and open to the public. Please register<https://radcliffe-nenmf.formstack.com/forms/radcliffeinstitute_lecture_lato…> . Cosponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Knafel Center, Harvard University, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, October 20, 2016, 5pm
GENDER AND SEXUALITY: Bodies, Archives, Databases<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"Marginal Lives and Fractured Families: Archives and Rural Farmworkers in Early Modern Iceland"
Douglas Bolender, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 20, 2016, 5pm
Harvard Cartography Seminar
"The Old World and the New, ca. 1500: History and Geography Before and After Noah's Flood"
Walter Stephens, Johns Hopkins University
Boylston Hall, Room 237, Harvard University
UPCOMING EVENTS
*Monday, October 24, 2016, 5pm-6:30pm
Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop
Lecture: “The Judgment of the Bleeding Corpse: Medieval Myth and Early Modern Law”
Emily Rose, Visiting Scholar, Medieval Studies, Harvard
Kates Room, Warren House, Harvard University
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 6pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Lecture: Arts and Ideas
"The Place of the Mechanical in Liberal Studies"
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Barker Center, Thompson Room, Room 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"'Evidence that Might Assist in a Further Research': Testimony, the Law, and the Supernatural, 1688-1832"
Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh),
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 5-7pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Elias Muhanna (Brown University, Comparative Literature) Book talk, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World, by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri<http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/elias-muhanna-brown-university-compar…>
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 4:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Lecture, Rare Book Show and Tell
Jeff Goodhind
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club.
www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance> No reservations required.
Wednesday, October 26 at 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"The Dumb Show Speaks: Religious Re-Creations in Early Modern Drama."
Bailey Sincox (Harvard University)
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Monday, October 31, 2016, 5pm – 7 pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
Lecture, “Priests of the Law” or “Vipers of the Commonwealth”: Legal Professionals,
Legal Knowledge, and Litigiousness in Early Modern Europe
Michael Breen, Reed College
Wasserstein Hall, WCC 3034, Harvard Law School
Co-sponsored by the European Legal History Workshop
November
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, Noon – 1:30pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
"Humanism in New Spain and the huehuehtlahtolli (speech of the ancients)"
Aysha Pollnitz, Rice University
Robinson Hall, Lower Library and Great Space, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Florin Morar (Harvard, History of Science), “Translation and Treason: The Demarcation Controversy and Abraham Ortelius’ Map of China from 1584” <http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/florin-morar-harvard-history-science-…>
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, November 3, 2016, 5:30pm
"The Unbearable Lightness of Anne Green: An Infanticide's Unlikely Afterlife, 1651-Present"
Marina Leslie, Northeastern University,
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 2:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert: “When I See Wynter Coming”
The Harper and The Minstrel
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public. www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance>
No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited. Seating is first come, first served.
Monday, November 7, 2016, 3:00 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, Co-sponsored with MHC History of the Book Seminar
Master Course on Social History of Paper, Signcutting, and Signsewing.
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Location: Houghton Library
Monday, November 7, 2016, 5 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, Co-sponsored with MHC History of the Book Seminar
"Gleaning"
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Abstract at http://bookhistory.harvard.edu<http://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/juliet-fleming-new-york-university-%E2…>
Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Efe Balıkçıoğlu (Harvard, History and CMES) “Determinism and Causation in the 15th Century Ottoman Madrasas in Constantinople”<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/event/efe-bal%C4%B1k%C3%A7%C4%B1o%C4%9F…>
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 5-6 PM and Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30–5:45 PM
Yale Program in the History of the Book
Lecture & Seminar, "Book-Piracy in the Reign of Mary Tudor"
Peter Blayney, University of Toronto
Yale University; Lecture, Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 5-6 PM (Yale, Beinecke Library mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30–5:45 PM (Yale, Beinecke Library, room 9 on lower level)
https://yalebookhistory.com/
Thursday, November 10, 4:15pm
MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"The Human Condition in the Anthropocene"
Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
Cosponsored with the Joint Center for History and Economics
Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture, Five College: “Antihonorificabilitudinitatibus: Love's Labour's Lost and the Pedantic Text.”
Adam Zucker, UMass Amherst
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Free and open to the public.
www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance> No reservations required.
*Friday, November 11, 2016 4:00 - 5:30
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"'Prince of the Nullibists'? Descartes, Henry More, and the Location of the Mind"
Dan Kaufman, University of Colorado
Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard University, 25 Quincy Street, Cambridge:
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Catherine Abou-Nemeh (Victoria University of Wellington, History), “Cartesian Medicine at Leiden University in the Late 17th Century”<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/event/catherine-abou-nemeh-victoria-uni…>
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
“The Many Bodies of King James VI and I,”
Alastair Bellany, (Professor of History, Rutgers University,)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence RI
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 – 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “‘Every bodies fancy varies’: Historicizing Early Modern Sexual Practice”
Will Fisher, Lehman College/Graduate Center, CUNY
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>
Tuesday, November 15, 6pm,
MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"Art in a State of Siege: Hieronymus Bosch in Retrospect"
Joseph Koerner (Harvard University)
Room 029, Sackler Lecture Hall, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA
Wednesday, November 16 at 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
David Nee, Harvard University
"Tragedy as Simple Form: Romeo and Juliet, 1475-1599"
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"New Eyes VIII Dinner Symposium"
Megan Gallagher (Brown University), Jess Keiser (Tufts University), Rebecca Mitsein (Boston College), and Jenny Reed (Brandeis University)
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
2016-2017 RENATO POGGIOLI LECTURE
Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, New York University
Barker Ctr, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
This event is free and open to the public.
Friday, November 18, 2016, 5:30pm
SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
“All’s Well and the Art of Love”
James Kuzner, Brown University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
**Tuesday, November 22, 5:30 PM
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
The 37th William F. Church Memorial Lecture, “Ottoman Christians and the Question of Ottoman Society.”
Molly Greene (Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University,)
Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 106, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912
A reception will follow the lecture
Monday, November 28, 5:30pm
Harvard Cartography Seminar
"Political Propaganda and the Mapping of the Russian Borderland in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century: Strubicz, Kochanowski, Mercator"
Jakub Niedzwiedz (Jagiellonian University)
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Lecture: “The Book Trade and the Demand for Literature in France, 1769-1789”
Robert Darnton, Harvard University
Barker Center, Room 110, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 29, 6:00pm
Dialectical Thinking and the Humanities
Talk Title TBA
Julie Walsh, Wellesley College
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
William Porter (Harvard University)
Title TBA
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
December
Friday, December 2, 2016, 5:30pm
SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
"Graduate Student Symposium"
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Sunday, December 4, 2016, 2:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Holiday Concert
AyreCraft
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public.
www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance>
No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited. Seating is first come, first served.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5:00pm and Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30pm
Lecture & Seminar, "What is a Letter?"
Peter Stallybrass, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Yale University; Lecture, Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5-6pm (Yale, Beinecke Library mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30–5:45pm (Yale, Beinecke Library, room 9 on lower level)
Thursday, December 8, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture, "Monstrous Un-Making: Blood, Milk, Maternity, and Murder as Female Agency in Early Modern England"
Dianne E. Berg Tufts University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
February
Wednesday, February 1, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Talk Title TBA
Christie McDonald, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, February 1, 2016, 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Holger Syme, University of Toronto
Location TBA
Monday, February 27, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-…>
Talk Title TBA
Meredith Martin (New York University) and Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University),
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
March
Thursday March 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title TBA
Ned Duval, Yale University
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>
Wednesday, March 22, 6pm
American Literature and Culture
Talk Title TBA
Leonard Von Morze, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
May
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title TBA
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Monday, October 3, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Running 8 Weeks
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Community Class, Shakespeare with Marie Roche
Marie Roche, Visiting Scholar at Renaissance Center
Renaissance Center, Classroom, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Timon of Athens and King Lear. www.umass.edu/renaissance
Please pre-register by October 2nd at 413-577-3600 or at renaissance(a)english.umass.edu.
Monday, October 3, 2016, 5-7pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University, Co-sponsored by the Colloquium in Intellectual History
Lecture, "How the Humanities Changed the World"
Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam
With comments by Ann Blair (History) and James Simpson (English)
Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Tuesday, October 4, 2016, 6pm
Comparative Literature: Poggioli Faculty/Student Colloquium
(1)"Streams, Swamps, Solitudes: Gridding Europe in Conrad Celtis’s Quatuor Libri Amorum secundum Quatuor Latera Germaniae" (1502)
Katharina Piechocki, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Discussant: Hudson Vincent, Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature
(2)"Baroque Optics and Góngora’s El Polifemo."
Hudson Vincent, Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature
Discussant: John Hamilton, William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Dana-Palmer House, Seminar Room, 16 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Refreshments will be served
Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 4:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture
“Monteverdi and the Birth of Opera.”
David Gruender, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club. www.umass.edu/renaissance
Thursday, October 6, 2016, 5:30 pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture, "Early Modern Women's Studies and Scholarly Book Publishing: Personal Reflections"
Erika Gaffney, Amsterdam University Press
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 4:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture, Renaissance Wednesday Lecture with Ernie Gallo
Ernie Gallo, UMass Amherst
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Ernie Gallo of UMass Amherst will be presenting a Renaissance Wednesday Lecture at 4 pm on the subject of Galileo. Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club.
www.umass.edu/renaissance No reservations required.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 5:00pm and Thursday, October 13, 2016, 4:30pm
Yale Program in the History of Books
Lecture & Seminar, "Chronological Cruxes in the Shakespearean Canon"
Margreta de Grazia, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Yale University; Lecture: Wednesday, Oct 12, 2016, 5-6 PM (Beinecke Library mezzanine); Seminar: Thursdays, Oct 13, 2016, 4:30 – 5:45 PM (Beinecke Library, room 9 on lower level)
https://yalebookhistory.com/
Thursday, October 13, 2016, 4:30 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture, Five College Renaissance Seminar
"Mary Wroth's Blank Spaces"
Jennifer Higginbotham, Ohio State University
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Free and open to the public.
www.umass.edu/renaissance No reservations required.
Thursday, October 13, 2016, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Early Science Working Group, co-sponsored with the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School
Alexander Bevilacqua (Harvard, Society of Fellows) “The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment”
Andover Hall, Room 102, HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge MA
**Friday, October 14, 2016, 5:30pm
SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES
"Shakespeare and Innovation"
Mary Thomas Crane, Boston College
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Friday & Saturday, October 14 – 15, 2016
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
Contesting the English Revolution: A Conference in Memory of Mark Kishlansky
Conference organized by Paul Halliday, Eleanor Hubbard and Scot Sowerby
Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Program at http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/contesting-english-revolution
Friday, October 14, 2016, 2-3pm
Keynote: “Why was Kish a Historian?”
John Morrill, University of Cambridge
Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Program at http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/contesting-english-revolution
Monday, October 17, 2016, 5pm – 7 pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
"Knowing Kinship. Epistemologies of Relatedness in Medieval Law"
Simon Teuscher, University of Zurich
Wasserstein Hall, WCC 3034, Harvard Law School
Co-sponsored by the European Legal History Workshop
Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
“‘Using the means of such a retreat’: Third Order Monastic Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Italy”
Liise Lehtsalu, PhD cand., Brown University
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI, 02912
Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 4:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture
“Shakespeare vs. The Audience.”
Brett Gamboa, Dartmouth College
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club. www.umass.edu/renaissance
No reservations required.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Baroque Optics and Góngora’s El Polifemo"
Hudson Vincent (Harvard University)
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Thursday, October 20, 4:15pm,
MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE
"On Not Joining the Dots: Land... Earth... Globe... Gaia"
Bruno Latour (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris),
Introduction by Lizabeth Cohen (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study); responses by Diane Davis (Harvard Graduate School of Design) and Peter Galison (Harvard University); moderated by Homi Bhabha (Harvard University). Free and open to the public. Please register . Cosponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Knafel Center, Harvard University, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, October 20, 2016, 5pm
GENDER AND SEXUALITY: Bodies, Archives, Databases
"Marginal Lives and Fractured Families: Archives and Rural Farmworkers in Early Modern Iceland"
Douglas Bolender, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 20, 2016, 5pm
Harvard Cartography Seminar
"The Old World and the New, ca. 1500: History and Geography Before and After Noah's Flood"
Walter Stephens, Johns Hopkins University
Boylston Hall, Room 237, Harvard University
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 6pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Lecture: Arts and Ideas
"The Place of the Mechanical in Liberal Studies"
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Barker Center, Thompson Room, Room 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
"'Evidence that Might Assist in a Further Research': Testimony, the Law, and the Supernatural, 1688-1832"
Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh),
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 5-7pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Elias Muhanna (Brown University, Comparative Literature) Book talk, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World, by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 4:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Lecture, Rare Book Show and Tell
Jeff Goodhind
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club.
www.umass.edu/renaissance No reservations required.
Wednesday, October 26 at 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"The Dumb Show Speaks: Religious Re-Creations in Early Modern Drama."
Bailey Sincox (Harvard University)
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Monday, October 31, 2016, 5pm – 7 pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
Lecture, “Priests of the Law” or “Vipers of the Commonwealth”: Legal Professionals,
Legal Knowledge, and Litigiousness in Early Modern Europe
Michael Breen, Reed College
Wasserstein Hall, WCC 3034, Harvard Law School
Co-sponsored by the European Legal History Workshop
November
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, Noon – 1:30pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
"Humanism in New Spain and the huehuehtlahtolli (speech of the ancients)"
Aysha Pollnitz, Rice University
Robinson Hall, Lower Library and Great Space, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Florin Morar (Harvard, History of Science), “Translation and Treason: The Demarcation Controversy and Abraham Ortelius’ Map of China from 1584”
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, November 3, 2016, 5:30pm
"The Unbearable Lightness of Anne Green: An Infanticide's Unlikely Afterlife, 1651-Present"
Marina Leslie, Northeastern University,
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 2:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert: “When I See Wynter Coming”
The Harper and The Minstrel
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public. www.umass.edu/renaissance
No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited. Seating is first come, first served.
Monday, November 7, 2016, 3:00 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, Co-sponsored with MHC History of the Book Seminar
Master Course on Social History of Paper, Signcutting, and Signsewing.
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Location: Houghton Library
**Monday, November 7, 2016, 5 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, Co-sponsored with MHC History of the Book Seminar
"Gleaning"
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Abstract at http://bookhistory.harvard.edu
Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Efe Balıkçıoğlu (Harvard, History and CMES) “Determinism and Causation in the 15th Century Ottoman Madrasas in Constantinople”
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 5-6 PM and Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30–5:45 PM
Yale Program in the History of the Book
Lecture & Seminar, "Book-Piracy in the Reign of Mary Tudor"
Peter Blayney, University of Toronto
Yale University; Lecture, Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 5-6 PM (Yale, Beinecke Library mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30–5:45 PM (Yale, Beinecke Library, room 9 on lower level)
https://yalebookhistory.com/
*Thursday, November 10, 4:15pm
MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE
"The Human Condition in the Anthropocene"
Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
Cosponsored with the Joint Center for History and Economics
Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture, Five College: “Antihonorificabilitudinitatibus: Love's Labour's Lost and the Pedantic Text.”
Adam Zucker, UMass Amherst
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Free and open to the public.
www.umass.edu/renaissance No reservations required.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Catherine Abou-Nemeh (Victoria University of Wellington, History), “Cartesian Medicine at Leiden University in the Late 17th Century”
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
“The Many Bodies of King James VI and I,”
Alastair Bellany, (Professor of History, Rutgers University,)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence RI
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 – 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “‘Every bodies fancy varies’: Historicizing Early Modern Sexual Practice”
Will Fisher, Lehman College/Graduate Center, CUNY
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
*Tuesday, November 15, 6pm,
MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE
"Art in a State of Siege: Hieronymus Bosch in Retrospect"
Joseph Koerner (Harvard University)
Room 029, Sackler Lecture Hall, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA
Wednesday, November 16 at 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
David Nee, Harvard University
"Tragedy as Simple Form: Romeo and Juliet, 1475-1599"
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
"New Eyes VIII Dinner Symposium"
Megan Gallagher (Brown University), Jess Keiser (Tufts University), Rebecca Mitsein (Boston College), and Jenny Reed (Brandeis University)
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
2016-2017 RENATO POGGIOLI LECTURE
Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, New York University
Barker Ctr, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
This event is free and open to the public.
**Friday, November 18, 2016, 5:30pm
SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES
“All’s Well and the Art of Love”
James Kuzner, Brown University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 22, 5:30 PM
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
The 37th William F. Church Memorial Lecture, “Ottoman Christians and the Question of Ottoman Society.”
Molly Greene (Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University,)
Details of time and place TBA
*Monday, November 28, 5:30pm
Harvard Cartography Seminar
"Political Propaganda and the Mapping of the Russian Borderland in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century: Strubicz, Kochanowski, Mercator"
Jakub Niedzwiedz (Jagiellonian University)
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Lecture: “The Book Trade and the Demand for Literature in France, 1769-1789”
Robert Darnton, Harvard University
Barker Center, Room 110, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Tuesday, November 29, 6:00pm
Dialectical Thinking and the Humanities
Talk Title TBA
Julie Walsh, Wellesley College
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
William Porter (Harvard University)
Title TBA
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
December
Friday, December 2, 2016, 5:30pm
SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES
"Graduate Student Symposium"
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Sunday, December 4, 2016, 2:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Holiday Concert
AyreCraft
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public.
www.umass.edu/renaissance
No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited. Seating is first come, first served.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5:00pm and Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30pm
Lecture & Seminar, "What is a Letter?"
Peter Stallybrass, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Yale University; Lecture, Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5-6pm (Yale, Beinecke Library mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30–5:45pm (Yale, Beinecke Library, room 9 on lower level)
Thursday, December 8, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture, "Monstrous Un-Making: Blood, Milk, Maternity, and Murder as Female Agency in Early Modern England"
Dianne E. Berg Tufts University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
February
Wednesday, February 1, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Talk Title TBA
Christie McDonald, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, February 1, 2016, 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Holger Syme, University of Toronto
Location TBA
Monday, February 27, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
Talk Title TBA
Meredith Martin (New York University) and Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University),
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
March
Thursday March 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title TBA
Ned Duval, Yale University
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
*Wednesday, March 22, 6pm
American Literature and Culture
Talk Title TBA
Leonard Von Morze, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
May
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title TBA
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
*If you would like to request that your announcement be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events e-mail:
Please send your listing to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu
It would be a great help if you could follow the format below.
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Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator.
Day, date, time
Sponsor (if available)
Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
Location (Building, Room, St., Address, Institution, City, State)
* Event must take place in the greater Boston area.
Additional info (no more than a couple sentences)
Website URL
RSVP or Registration information/link
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