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
*Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 12:00-1:30pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
“Poison Trials on ‘Criminal Bodies’ in Renaissance Europe”
Alisha Rankin (Tufts University)
Harvard Science Center, Room 252
Lunch will be served. To RSVP please email agjikola(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:agjikola@fas.harvard.edu> or shireenhamza(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu>
**Tuesday, March 28, 4pm
Renaissance Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center
“Montaigne chez Esculape: Ecriture sceptique et modèle medical à la Renaissance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__harvard.us8.list-2Dmana…>”
Dominique Brancher (Université de Bâle)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University
**Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 5:15-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance and Race & Ethnicity Colloquia
Reginald Wilburn (University of New Hampshire)
“Calling out Milton and putting him on Front Street in Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars”
Barker 211, Harvard University
Co-Sponsored with Race and Ethnicity Colloquium
**Friday, March 31, 5pm
Persian and Persianate Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
"Betrayed By Earth and Sky: Poetry of Disaster and Restoration in 18th Century Iran"
Matthew C. Smith (Harvard University)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Friday, March 31, 8:30am–3:00pm
Bristol Community College's History Department and Holocaust Center
Conference: "Crimes Against Humanity: A Conference on Native American Genocide"
Keynote Address: "History of Violence, The Violence of History: Native American Genocide
Keynote speaker: Karl Jacoby (Columbia University)
Jackson Arts Center Auditorium, Bristol Community College, 777 Elsbree Street, Fall River, MA, 02720
RSVP: ron.weisberger(a)bristolcc.edu
UPCOMING EVENTS
April
Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 4:30pm
Wesleyan University, Romance Languages and Literatures, College of Letters
“The French Machine”
Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University
Romance Languages and Literatures Highwaymen Common Room, 300 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
In this lecture, Chenoweth will address the role of printing in the “rise” of the vernacular in the sixteenth century.
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, April 5, 4:15pm
Sponsors: The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; The Study-Group “Transformation of Work in Contemporary Capitalism”; and The Center for History and Economics
Talk: “Resisting Capitalism and its Effects on Working Class Economic Strategies in Early Modern Europe”
Laurence Fontaine, EHESS – CNRS
CGIS, S030, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
*Wednesday, April 5, 6pm
Renaissance Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
“Montaigne facétieux: Lire Les Essais en éclats”
Dominique Bertrand (Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand)
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
**Thursday, April 6, 2017, 4pm
Renaissance Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
Talk: "Pastoral Bronze Sculpture in Early Modern Venice"
Jodi Cranston (Boston University)
Room 201, Warren House, Harvard University
**Thursday, April 13, 2017, 6pm
Co-sponsored by Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
“L'Égalité Prescrite Par La Nature: Equality, Family Relations, and a Contested Inheritance at the End of the Old Regime”
Hannah Callaway, Department of History, Harvard
Room 110, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, April 13, 2017, 5:00 pm
France and the World Seminar, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
Lecture: "The Voice of the Amerindian Convert in Jesuit Relations in Canada: From the New Adam to the Universal Sinner, and from the Savage to the Noble Savage"
Anne Régent-Susini (University Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/voice-amerindian-convert-…
Tuesday April 18, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk: “English Seamen and the Realm: Were Medieval Mariners 'Political'?”
Maryanne Kowaleski (Joseph Fitzpatrick SJ Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval Studies, Fordham University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Friday, April 21, 5:30 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Seneca and the Antisocial in King Lear”
Curtis Perry (University of Illinois)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 21–22, 2017
Equinoxes Conference: Memory/Rupture<http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/equinoxes-conference-memoryrupture?de…>
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
**Monday, April 24, 2017, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
“The Dream of the Red Chamber (1792) and its Effect on China’s Women Writers”
Ellen Widmer (Wellesley College)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
"Houses of Schame: The gender of Colonial New England Poetry"
Ana Schwartz (University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Room 515, Sackler Building, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Friday, April 28, 2017, 9:00 to 17.00 h.
Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
International Workshop: Arts and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400–1650)
Speakers: Prof. Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer (Universitat de València); Prof. Jorge Sebastián (Universitat de València); Dr. Borja Franco (UNED, Madrid); Prof. Cristelle Baskins (Tufts University); Prof. Felipe Pereda (Harvard University).
RCC Conference Room, Harvard University, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Visual strategies of legitimization became increasingly important for Iberian monarchies during the late medieval and early modern periods. Mediterranean dynastic, diplomatic, and military endeavors called for effective propaganda, both in the metropolis and in viceregal territories, such as southern Italy. Such efforts include architecture, both ephemeral and permanent, the decoration of palaces, court portraiture, and historiography.
http://rcc.harvard.edu/event/arts-and-court-cultures-iberian-world-1400-1650
RSVP rcc(a)harvard.edu<mailto:rcc@harvard.edu> – jorge.sebastian(a)uv.es<mailto:jorge.sebastian@uv.es>
May
Tuesday May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title: Text against Image: Morisco Tales of Transgression in Early Modern Spain
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
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 May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Wednesday, May 3, or Thursday, May 4, 2017 (TBA)
Harvard Renaissance and Race & Ethnicity Colloquia
Maria Devlin (Harvard University)
"Renaissance Comedy: A Retrospective"
Location and Time TBA
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
"Some Early Modern Literary Legacies of Anne Boleyn"
F. Elizabeth Hart, Independent Scholar
Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*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<mailto:earlymod@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
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.
If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort.
* indicates a newly announced event
** indicates an updated or corrected event
EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
*Friday, March 17, 3 PM
A lecture in the occasional series "Where is History Now?"
“Trajectories in the History of the Reformation: Roots and Repercussions, Methods and Legacies”
Alexandra Walsham, Cambridge University
Boston College, History Department Seminar Room, 3rd Floor Stokes Hall South
Friday, March 17, 5:30 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
"Disabling History in Julius Caesar"
Jessica Tabak (Providence College)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Monday, March 20, 2017, 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Julian Weiss, King's College London: "In the Tracks of Josephus: Reading Jewish History and Belief in the Early Modern Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, 1492–1687"<http://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/julian-weiss-kings-college-london-trac…>
The Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History is co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Committee on Medieval Studies.
Location: Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room, Harvard Yard
Tuesday, March 21, 2017, 5:00 pm
Richard Saivetz' 69 Lecture in Architecture
"Francesco Borromini (1599-1667): Personality and Destiny of a Baroque Genius"
Joseph Connors, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Mandel Center for the Humanities, room G03 (ground floor auditorium), Brandeis University, Waltham MA
Free and open to the public
Directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/mandelhumanities/contact.html
Parking in lot immediately past the Center, to the right
**Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 6pm
American Literature and Culture, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Talk: "Did the Early U.S. Have a Multilingual Public Sphere?"
Leonard Von Morze, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 4.00-6.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop at Harvard “Administrating differences in Latin America: historical approaches.”
Talk: “The Jewish Inca of Paititi and Guaman Poma’s Torah: Indians, Portuguese conversos, and the Jewification of the Spanish Monarchy.”
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (University of Texas at Austin)
Harvard University, CGIS (1730 Cambridge St.) S450
Thursday, March 23, 10am
Workshop
Julian Weiss, King's College London: "Creating Vernacular 'Literature' in Renaissance Spain and Portugal"
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Thursday, March 23, 2pm
Workshop
Julian Weiss, King's College London: "Creating Vernacular 'Literature' in Renaissance Spain and Portugal"
Location: Houghton Library, Harvard University
Thursday, March 23, 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
“Global Cervantes”
Roger Chartier (Paris, and University of Pennsylvania)
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University
Thursday, March 23, 5:00 pm
Richard Saivetz' 69 Lecture in Architecture
“Guarini's Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin: Faith in Geometry”
John Beldon Scott, Director - School of Art & Art History, Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor of the Arts, University of Iowa
Mandel Center for the Humanities, room G03 (ground floor auditorium), Brandeis University, Waltham MA
Free and open to the public
Directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/mandelhumanities/contact.html
Parking in lot immediately past the Center, to the right
**Friday, March 24, 2017, 8:45am – 4:45pm
(Dis)entangling Global Early Modernities, 1300-1800, a one-day conference
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Panels on Ideas (speakers: Xin Wen, Anand Venkatkrishnan, Michael Tworek, Carolien Stolte), Books (speakers: Holly Shaffer, Nir Shafir, Devin Fitzgerald, Alexander Bevilacqua), and Scholarly Practices (speakers: Ananya Chakravarti, Kristen Windmuller-Luna, Stuart McManus, Gregory Afinogenov). Closing roundtable with panelists David Armitage, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Roger Chartier, Eugenio Menegon, Laura Mitchell. For the full schedule see http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/disentangling-global-early-modernitie…
Friday, March 24th, 2017
FILM SCREENING: 3:00 - 5:45pm; PANEL DISCUSSION: 6:00 - 7:30pm
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College
Film screening event (Free entrance): "Silence," a film by Martin Scorsese, film screening and panel discussion
Hitomi Omata Rappo, Boston College; Robert A. Maryks, Boston College
Higgins Hall 300, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; directions: http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/cas_sites/aads/BC_Directions_Hi…
Martin Scorsese’s epic movie, "Silence," follows two seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries as they travel from Portugal to Japan in search of their missing mentor, who is believed to have rejected Christ under torture. It’s the story about the global christian mission’s history in the Early modern period.
Website URL: http://www.bc.edu/centers/boisi/s17/silence.html
To reserve a seat: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKl-xLSq1ZQnthOu9AMG7PYnOf9HSVzms…
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday, March 28, 4pm
Renaissance Studies
Talk Title TBA
Dominique Brancher (Université de Bâle)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University
Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 6:00-8:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Reginald Wilburn (University of New Hampshire)
Title TBA
Barker 211, Harvard University
Co-Sponsored with Race and Ethnicity Colloquium
Friday, March 31, 5pm
PERSIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES
"Betrayed By Earth and Sky: Poetry of Disaster and Restoration in 18th Century Iran"
Matthew C. Smith (Harvard University)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Friday, March 31, 8:30am–3:00pm
Bristol Community College's History Department and Holocaust Center
Conference: "Crimes Against Humanity: A Conference on Native American Genocide"
Keynote Address: "History of Violence, The Violence of History: Native American Genocide
Keynote speaker: Karl Jacoby (Columbia University)
Jackson Arts Center Auditorium, Bristol Community College, 777 Elsbree Street, Fall River, MA, 02720
RSVP: ron.weisberger(a)bristolcc.edu
April
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 – 4:30pm
Sponsored by: Wesleyan University, Romance Languages and Literatures, College of Letters
Lecture title: The French Machine
Speaker and Institution: Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University
Where: Romance Languages and Literatures Highwaymen Common Room, 300 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Additional information: In this lecture, Chenoweth will address the role of printing in the “rise” of the vernacular in the sixteenth century.
Contact: Michael Meere, at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wednesday, April 5, 4:15pm
Sponsors: The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; The Study-Group “Transformation of Work in Contemporary Capitalism”; and The Center for History and Economics
Talk: “Resisting Capitalism and its Effects on Working Class Economic Strategies in Early Modern Europe”
Laurence Fontaine, EHESS – CNRS
CGIS, S030, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
Thursday, April 6, 2017, 4pm
Renaissance Studies
Talk: "Pastoral Bronze Sculpture in Early Modern Venice"
Jodi Cranston (Boston University)
Room 201, Warren House, Harvard University
Thursday, April 13, 2017, 6pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
L'Égalité Prescrite Par La Nature: Equality, Family Relations, and a Contested Inheritance at the End of the Old Regime"
Hannah Callaway, Department of History, Harvard
Room 110, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Thursday, April 13, 2017, 5:00 pm
France and the World Seminar, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
Lecture: "The Voice of the Amerindian Convert in Jesuit Relations in Canada: From the New Adam to the Universal Sinner, and from the Savage to the Noble Savage"
Anne Régent-Susini (University Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/voice-amerindian-convert-…
Tuesday April 18, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk: “English Seamen and the Realm: Were Medieval Mariners 'Political'?”
Maryanne Kowaleski (Joseph Fitzpatrick SJ Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval Studies, Fordham University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Friday, April 21, 5:30 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Seneca and the Antisocial in King Lear”
Curtis Perry (University of Illinois)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 21–22, 2017
Equinoxes Conference: Memory/Rupture
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
"Houses of Schame: The gender of Colonial New England Poetry"
Ana Schwartz (University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Room 515, Sackler Building, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
*Friday, April 28, 2017, 9:00 to 17.00 h.
Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
International Workshop: Arts and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400–1650)
Speakers: Prof. Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer (Universitat de València); Prof. Jorge Sebastián (Universitat de València); Dr. Borja Franco (UNED, Madrid); Prof. Cristelle Baskins (Tufts University); Prof. Felipe Pereda (Harvard University).
RCC Conference Room, Harvard University, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Visual strategies of legitimization became increasingly important for Iberian monarchies during the late medieval and early modern periods. Mediterranean dynastic, diplomatic, and military endeavors called for effective propaganda, both in the metropolis and in viceregal territories, such as southern Italy. Such efforts include architecture, both ephemeral and permanent, the decoration of palaces, court portraiture, and historiography.
http://rcc.harvard.edu/event/arts-and-court-cultures-iberian-world-1400-1650
RSVP rcc(a)harvard.edu<mailto:rcc@harvard.edu> – jorge.sebastian(a)uv.es<mailto:jorge.sebastian@uv.es>
May
Tuesday May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title: Text against Image: Morisco Tales of Transgression in Early Modern Spain
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
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 May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Wednesday, May 3, or Thursday, May 4, 2017 (TBA)
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Maria Devlin (Harvard University)
"Renaissance Comedy: A Retrospective"
Location and Time TBA
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
"Some Early Modern Literary Legacies of Anne Boleyn"
F. Elizabeth Hart, Independent Scholar
Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*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.
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place in the greater Boston area.
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
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.
If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort.
* indicates a newly announced event
** indicates an updated or corrected event
EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
**Monday, March 6, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Legal Emblems and Shakespearean Theater"
Anselm Haverkamp (New York University)
Barker Center, Room 269, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Monday, March 6, 4pm
STS Speaker Series "The Sciences Otherwise"
Lecture: "The Problem of 20(K): What is Chinese Astronomy Good For?
Florence Hsia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Peteruti Lounge, Brown University, Providence
Tuesday, March 7, 5pm
VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM
Talk: "The Shape of Painting: Eighteenth-Century Departures from the Rectangle"
David Pullins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday, March 16, 5:30pm
WOMEN AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
Ana Schwartz (University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Houses of Shame: The Gender of Colonial New England Poetry"
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Friday, March 17, 5:30 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
"Disabling History in Julius Caesar"
Jessica Tabak (Providence College)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Monday, March 20, 2017, 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Julian Weiss, King's College London: "In the Tracks of Josephus: Reading Jewish History and Belief in the Early Modern Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, 1492–1687"<http://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/julian-weiss-kings-college-london-trac…>
The Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History is co-sponsored by the Houghton Library and the Committee on Medieval Studies.
Location: Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room, Harvard Yard
*Tuesday, March 21, 5:00 pm
Richard Saivetz' 69 Lecture in Architecture
"Francesco Borromini (1599-1667): Personality and Destiny of a Baroque Genius"
Joseph Connors, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Mandel Center for the Humanities, room G03 (ground floor auditorium), Brandeis University, Waltham MA
Free and open to the public
Directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/mandelhumanities/contact.html
Parking in lot immediately past the Center, to the right
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
*Thursday, March 23, 10am
Workshop
Julian Weiss, King's College London: "Creating Vernacular 'Literature' in Renaissance Spain and Portugal"<http://harvard.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=13887ccfa49aba4bb9d73d8d6&…>
Houghton Library, Harvard University
*Thursday, March 23, 2pm
Workshop
Julian Weiss, King's College London: "Creating Vernacular 'Literature' in Renaissance Spain and Portugal"<http://harvard.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=13887ccfa49aba4bb9d73d8d6&…>
Location: Houghton Library, Harvard University
Thursday, March 23, 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
“Global Cervantes”
Roger Chartier (Paris, and University of Pennsylvania)
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University
Thursday, March 23, 5:00 pm
Richard Saivetz' 69 Lecture in Architecture
“Guarini's Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin: Faith in Geometry”
John Beldon Scott, Director - School of Art & Art History, Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor of the Arts, University of Iowa
Mandel Center for the Humanities, room G03 (ground floor auditorium), Brandeis University, Waltham MA
Free and open to the public
Directions: http://www.brandeis.edu/mandelhumanities/contact.html
Parking in lot immediately past the Center, to the right
Friday, March 24, 2017, 8:45am – 4:45pm
(Dis)entangling Global Early Modernities, 1300-1800, a one-day conference
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Panels on Ideas (speakers: Xin Wen, Anand Venkatkrishnan, Michael Tworek, Carolien Stolte), Books (speakers: Holly Shaffer, Nir Shafir, Devin Fitzgerald, Alexander Bevilacqua), and Scholarly Practices (speakers: Ananya Chakravarti, Kristen Windmuller-Luna, Stuart McManus, Gregory Afinogenov). Closing roundtable with panelists David Armitage, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Roger Chartier, Eugenio Menegon, Laura Mitchell. For the full schedule and to RSVP (by March 10) see http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/disentangling-global-early-modernitie…
Friday, March 24th, 2017
FILM SCREENING: 3:00 - 5:45pm; PANEL DISCUSSION: 6:00 - 7:30pm
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College
Film screening event (Free entrance): "Silence," a film by Martin Scorsese, film screening and panel discussion
Hitomi Omata Rappo, Boston College; Robert A. Maryks, Boston College
Higgins Hall 300, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; directions: http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/cas_sites/aads/BC_Directions_Hi…
Martin Scorsese’s epic movie, "Silence," follows two seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries as they travel from Portugal to Japan in search of their missing mentor, who is believed to have rejected Christ under torture. It’s the story about the global christian mission’s history in the Early modern period.
Website URL: http://www.bc.edu/centers/boisi/s17/silence.html
To reserve a seat: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKl-xLSq1ZQnthOu9AMG7PYnOf9HSVzms…
*Tuesday, March 28, 4pm
Renaissance Studies
Talk Title TBA
Dominique Brancher (Université de Bâle)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University
Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 6:00-8:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Reginald Wilburn (University of New Hampshire)
Barker 211, Harvard University
Co-Sponsored with Race and Ethnicity Colloquium
Friday, March 31, 5pm
PERSIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES
"Betrayed By Earth and Sky: Poetry of Disaster and Restoration in 18th Century Iran"
Matthew C. Smith (Harvard University)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
April
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 – 4:30pm
Wesleyan University, Romance Languages and Literatures, College of Letters
"The French Machine"
Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University
Romance Languages and Literatures Highwaymen Common Room, 300 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Additional information: In this lecture, Chenoweth will address the role of printing in the “rise” of the vernacular in the sixteenth century.
Contact: Michael Meere, at mmeere(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wednesday, April 5, 4:15pm
Sponsors: The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; The Study-Group “Transformation of Work in Contemporary Capitalism”; and The Center for History and Economics
Talk: “Resisting Capitalism and its Effects on Working Class Economic Strategies in Early Modern Europe”
Laurence Fontaine, EHESS – CNRS
CGIS, S030, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
*Thursday, April 6, 2017, 4pm
Renaissance Studies
Talk: "Pastoral Bronze Sculpture in Early Modern Venice"
Jodi Cranston (Boston University)
Room 201, Warren House, Harvard University
**Thursday, April 13, 2017, 6pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture: "L'Égalité Prescrite Par La Nature: Equality, Family Relations, and a Contested Inheritance at the End of the Old Regime"
Hannah Callaway, Department of History, Harvard
Room 110, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Tuesday April 18, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk: “English Seamen and the Realm: Were Medieval Mariners 'Political'?”
Maryanne Kowaleski (Joseph Fitzpatrick SJ Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval Studies, Fordham University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Friday, April 21, 5:30 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Seneca and the Antisocial in King Lear”
Curtis Perry (University of Illinois)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Equinoxes Conference: Memory/Rupture
Friday, April 21–22, 2017
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
*Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
"Houses of Schame: The gender of Colonial New England Poetry"
Ana Schwartz (University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Room 515, Sackler Building, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
May
Tuesday May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title: "Text against Image: Morisco Tales of Transgression in Early Modern Spain"
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
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 May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Wednesday, May 3, or Thursday, May 4, 2017 (TBA)
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Renaissance Comedy: A Retrospective"
Maria Devlin (Harvard University)
Location and Time TBA
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
"Some Early Modern Literary Legacies of Anne Boleyn"
F. Elizabeth Hart, Independent Scholar
Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
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