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EARLYMOD -- Late Breaking News
Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 4:15pm
History and Economy Seminary
Lecture: "The Social Spaces of War Imprisonment in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France"
Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge)
CGIS-S020, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
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
*Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 5:30pm
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture: “The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America”
Andrés Reséndez (UCDavis)
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Providence, RI
Andrés Reséndez, professor of history at the University of California, Davis, is author of The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. The Other Slavery examines the system of bondage that targeted Native Americans, an expansive system that was every bit as terrible and degrading as African slavery. Anywhere between 2.5 and 5 million Native Americans may have been enslaved throughout the hemisphere in the centuries between the arrival of Columbus and the beginning of the 20th century. And, interestingly, in contrast to African slavery which targeted mostly adult males, the majority of these Indian slaves were women and children. Please join us for this lecture with book signing and reception to follow. Copies of The Other Slavery will be available for purchase.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 12pm–1:30pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
"Under your skin, in your bed, and in the water: Locating disease among veterinarians in New Regime France."
Kathryn Heintzman (Harvard 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, April 25, 2017, 12pm
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College
Lecture: “The Habit that Hides the Monk: Missionary Fashion Strategies at the Imperial Court in Early Modern China”
Eugenio Menegon (Boston College)
Simboli Hall 035 – Boston College, Brighton Campus, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill MA, 02467
A light lunch will be provided. Email: iajs(a)bc.edu
Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 5:30
Visual Representation, Materiality, and the Medium Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Lecture: “Cospetto! Che bella cosa!” Boucher’s Triumph of Venus
Colin Bailey (The Morgan Library & Museum, NY)
Room 515, Sackler Museum, Harvard University
*Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
“Constructing the Colonial ‘Other’: British Depictions of West Indian Slave Owners”
Matthew Wyman-McCarthy (Columbia University)
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Providence, RI
In the final decades of the eighteenth century, misgivings about the British Atlantic slave system coalesced into an organized antislavery movement. As part of their campaign to convince the public of the need for reform, abolitionists portrayed West Indian planters as possessing lower moral and cultural standards than their metropolitan counterparts. Using sources from the JCB, this talk shows how depictions of slave owners formed a major axis of dispute in the debate over the future of slavery in the British Atlantic. In so doing, it highlights how slaveholding generated anxieties about British identity and the resiliency of the British character on the frontiers of empire.
Thursday, April 27, 2017, 4:30pm
Lauro de Bosis Fellowship Lecture
“Michelangelo and the Bible: Religious Reading and Writing in Sixteenth-Century Italy”
Sarah Rolfe Prodan (Department of History, Harvard University)
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, Harvard Yard
*Thursday, April 27, 2017, 5:30pm
The John Carter Brown Library
Book Talk with Sowande’ M. Mustakeem
Sowande’ M. Mustakeem (Washington University in St. Louis)
Southside Cultural Center at 393 Broad Street, Providence RI. Please rsvp here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evening-talk-with-sowande-mustakeem-slavery-at…>.
In partnership with the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown and the RI Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project, the JCB is cosponsoring a public lecture featuring Sowande' Mustakeem, author of Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage. Sowande' Mustakeem's study explores the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery, and how the Middle Passage was a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage.
*Friday, April 28, 2017, 11:00am to 12pm
The Harvard Art Museums: Art Study Center Seminar
“Bernard Berenson’s Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti”
Art Study Center, Level 4, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Registration required at am_visitorservices(a)harvard.edu<mailto:am_visitorservices@harvard.edu> (limited capacity)
Join Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım, assistant curator for Islamic and Later Indian art; Penley Knipe, the Philip and Lynn Straus Senior Conservator of Works of Art on Paper; and Katherine Eremin, the Patricia Cornwell Senior Conservation Scientist, for a close look at some of these exquisite paintings, on loan from Villa I Tatti in Florence.
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>
*Friday, April 28, 2017, 3:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
Panel Discussion: “The Americas and The Generative Power of Fire”
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Providence, RI
Please join us for "The Americas and the Generative Power of Fire," a special panel discussion and a feature of the IBES event What Fire Does. This discussion will be chaired by Associate Professor of History and Director of John Carter Brown Library Neil Safier and will feature presentations by Andrew Scherer ("Ceremonies of Smoke and Flame among the Ancient Maya"), Matt Liebmann ("When the Little Firekeeper Ran Away: Pueblo People, Franciscan Missions, and Wildfires in 17th Century New Mexico"), Guilhem Olivier ("The New Fire Ceremony: Religion and Power in Ancient Central Mexico"), and Alessandra Russo ("Fury and Beauty: Fire in the Limits of Conquest"). Following the panel discussion, Jake Frederick (Lawrence University) will present the exhibition The Americas on Fire, co-curated by Jake Frederick and Júnia Ferreira Furtado. A performance by Wendy Woodson (Amherst College) and reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public.
*Saturday, April 29 2017, 6:00 pm, and Monday, May 1 2017, 7:30 pm
La Troupe presents Le Siège de Calais, a 1765 tragedy by Pierre-Laurent de Belloy.
A performance (in French) directed by Sylvaine Guyot (Harvard University).
Starring Harvard University Graduate Students: Matthew Barfield, Josh Cohen, Effie Gonis, Nikhita Obeegadoo, Matthew Rodriguez, Madeleine Wolf andEmma Zitzow-Childs.
April 29 2017, 6:00 pm: Thompson Room, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
May 1 2017, 7:30 pm: Farkas Hall Studio (303), Harvard University, 12 Holyoke St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Tickets at the door. Contact: guyot(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:guyot@fas.harvard.edu>
*Thursday, April 29, 5:15
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
“‘His fault was thought’: Imagined Treason in Richard III”
Nick Utzig (Harvard University)
Room 114 (Kresge), Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
UPCOMING EVENTS
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, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
"Slavery, Sanctuary, and Sovereignty in the Early Modern Caribbean"
Linda Rupert (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), InterAmericas Fellow
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Providence, RI
This talk traces the development of the so-called Spanish sanctuary, a series of royal decrees offering freedom to slaves who escaped from the colonies of rival European empires. Three intertwined factors spurred the Spanish Crown: the migrations of enslaved individuals who crossed Caribbean waters and landscapes in search of freedom; disagreement among Spanish colonial denizens about what to do with the refugees; and the Crown’s efforts to exert control over relatively marginal or contested parts of its domains.
Thursday, May 4, or Friday, May 5, 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, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
"Some Early Modern Literary Legacies of Anne Boleyn"
F. Elizabeth Hart, Independent Scholar
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
Chloe Ireton(University of Texas at Austin), Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow
Details to follow.
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Providence, RI
*Friday, May 12, 2017, 5:30pm
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
New England Bound: lecture by Wendy Warren
Details to follow.
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Providence, RI
Friday, May 12, 2017, 4–6pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
“On Living Mirrors and Mites: Leibniz’s Encounter with Pascal on Infinity and Living Things circa 1696”
Robbins Library on the second floor of Emerson hall, Harvard Yard
Please write to Jeff McDonough for a copy of the paper: jkmcdon at fas.harvard.edu
*Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
VK Preston (University of Toronto), Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow
Details to follow.
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Providence, RI
*Wednesday, May 24, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
Rafael da Silva Campos (CHAM, New University of Lisbon), Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow
Details to follow.
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Providence, RI
*Wednesday, May 31, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
"Visualizing Colonial France in the Eighteenth Century: Using Digital Humanities to Map a New Approach to an Old Claim"
Elizabeth Heath (Baruch College-CUNY)
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Providence, RI
*Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
Marcy Norton (George Washington University), National Endowment for the Humanities/InterAmericas Fellow
Details to follow.
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Providence, RI
Saturday, October 14, 2017
New England Renaissance Conference
“Deceit, Deception, and Dishonesty in the Early Modern Era”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Call for Papers, Deadline: May 31, 2017.
Email for more information Lorenzo Buonanno, lorenzo.buonanno(a)umb.edu<mailto:lorenzo.buonanno@umb.edu> and Shannon McHugh, shannon.mchugh(a)umb.edu<mailto:shannon.mchugh@umb.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<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
It would be a great help if you could follow the format below.
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Day, date, time
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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
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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>.
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
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
**Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 5:15
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Talk: “The Memory Arts and Early Modern Mnemonic Culture”
Bill Engel (Sewanee)
Room 316, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
For dinner afterwards or complimentary copy: please RSVP rvincent(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:rvincent@g.harvard.edu>
Complimentary copies of The Memory Arts in Renaissance England: A Critical Anthology (CUP, 2016), will be distributed to participants. I will begin with a synopsis of the research questions, issues, and critical concerns that animate and inform this critical anthology, one which draws together excerpts from more than eighty writers—poets, playwrights, emblematists, satirists, physicians, philosophers, historians, educators, humanists, heralds, antiquarians, translators, and preachers—and twenty-four illustrations. While close attention will be paid to some images that will be of particular interest to members of the audience (owing to their pan-European provenance), my presentation is designed principally as a guided exploration of early modern memory and forgetting, that will be of special interest to students and scholars of the literature of the Renaissance and Reformation, history of thought, cultural studies, canon formation, textual editing, history of the book, and early modern visual culture.
*Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 12:30-1pm
Harvard Arts Museums
Gallery Talk: Ovid in the 18th Century
Elizabeth Rudy (Harvard Arts Museums)
Calderwood Courtyard, Harvard Arts Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
*Thursday, April 20, 2017, 5pm
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
“Don Quixote in the Fun-House of History”
Mary Malcolm Gaylord, Harvard University
Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Harvard Yard
Thursday, April 20, 4 p.m.
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Lecture: "Macbeth’s Bubbles and Shakespeare’s Cosmopolitics."
Presenter: Julian Yates (Professor of English, Delaware)
Room 4-153, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, Homer Babbidge Library, 4th Floor
369 Fairfield Way, Unit 1234, Storrs, CT, 06269-1234
Drawing on the work of Isabelle Stengers and Peter Sloterdijk, this paper concerns bubbles: time-bound, communities of breath, or atmospheres, pneumatic pacts of shared air. If, in the near future, explicit climate policy will become the foundation of community formation against (or with) increasingly hostile environs, then what do texts past, written from within an immediate and knowable precarity, offer us as we seek to imagine successive bubbles today? The “bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble” of Macbeth’s, extro-terrestrial witches, outside, beyond, or within the infrastructures of the world of the play, provides one place to think in these terms.
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 5:30 – 6:30pm
George Parker Winship Lecture, Houghton Library
“The Objects of Houghton Library: Past, Present and Future”
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Loeb House, Harvard Yard<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__houghtonlibrary.cmail19…>
Followed by a party, including...The BOOK LAUNCH for Houghton Library at 75: A Celebration of its Collections; and A VIEWING of the exhibition HIST 75H: A Masterclass on Houghton Library at Hougthon Library, Harvard University, 6:30 – 8:00pm. RSVP by calling 617-495-2441<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__houghtonlibrary.cmail19…>
**Thursday, April 20, 2017, 5:00 – 7 pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
“The Formation of a Taste Judgment: How Benjamin Haydon Came to Evaluate the Elgin Marbles”
Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard University)
Harvard University, Science Center, Room 252
Refreshments 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>.
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
*Friday, April 21–22, 2017
38th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum “Culture and Violence”
Keynote: Richard W. Kaeuper, Professor of History at the University of Rochester
Keene State College, 229 Main St., Keene, New Hampshire 03435
Conference website with Program and Registration: http://www.keene.edu/academics/programs/eng/mr_forum/
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
UPCOMING EVENTS
*Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 12pm–1:30pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
"Under your skin, in your bed, and in the water: Locating disease among veterinarians in New Regime France."
Kathryn Heintzman (Harvard 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>.
*Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 5:30
Visual Representation, Materiality, and the Medium Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Lecture: “Cospetto! Che bella cosa!” Boucher’s Triumph of Venus
Colin Bailey (The Morgan Library & Museum, NY)
Room 515, Sackler Museum, Harvard University
Thursday, April 27, 2017, 4:30pm
Lauro de Bosis Fellowship Lecture
“Michelangelo and the Bible: Religious Reading and Writing in Sixteenth-Century Italy”
Sarah Rolfe Prodan (Department of History, Harvard University)
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, Harvard Yard
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, 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
Thursday, May 4, or Friday, May 5, 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, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
"Some Early Modern Literary Legacies of Anne Boleyn"
F. Elizabeth Hart, Independent Scholar
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Friday, May 12, 2017, 4–6pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
“On Living Mirrors and Mites: Leibniz’s Encounter with Pascal on Infinity and Living Things circa 1696”
Robbins Library on the second floor of Emerson hall, Harvard Yard
Please write to Jeff McDonough for a copy of the paper: jkmcdon at fas.harvard.edu
Saturday, October 14, 2017
New England Renaissance Conference
“Deceit, Deception, and Dishonesty in the Early Modern Era”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Call for Papers, Deadline: May 31, 2017.
Email for more information Lorenzo Buonanno, lorenzo.buonanno(a)umb.edu<mailto:lorenzo.buonanno@umb.edu> and Shannon McHugh, shannon.mchugh(a)umb.edu<mailto:shannon.mchugh@umb.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<mailto:earlymod@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<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.
* indicates a newly announced event
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Late Breaking News
Monday, April 17, 2017, 10am-12pm
Harvard History Department
Dissertation Defense: "The French East India Company and the Politics of Commerce in the Revolutionary Era"
Elizabeth Cross (Harvard)
Harvard University, Lower Library of Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
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
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
More Information: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
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-…
UPCOMING EVENTS
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
Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 5:15
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Talk: “The Memory Arts and Early Modern Mnemonic Culture”
Bill Engel (Sewanee)
Room 316, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
*Thursday, April 20, 4 p.m.
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Lecture: "Macbeth’s Bubbles and Shakespeare’s Cosmopolitics."
Presenter: Julian Yates (professor of English, Delaware)
Room 4-153, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, Homer Babbidge Library, 4th Floor
369 Fairfield Way, Unit 1234, Storrs, CT, 06269-1234
Drawing on the work of Isabelle Stengers and Peter Sloterdijk, this paper concerns bubbles: time-bound, communities of breath, or atmospheres, pneumatic pacts of shared air. If, in the near future, explicit climate policy will become the foundation of community formation against (or with) increasingly hostile environs, then what do texts past, written from within an immediate and knowable precarity, offer us as we seek to imagine successive bubbles today? The “bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble” of Macbeth’s, extro-terrestrial witches, outside, beyond, or within the infrastructures of the world of the play, provides one place to think in these terms.
**Thursday, April 20, 2017, 5:30 – 6:30pm
George Parker Winship Lecture, Houghton Library
“The Objects of Houghton Library: Past, Present and Future”
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Loeb House, Harvard Yard<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__houghtonlibrary.cmail19…>
Followed by a party, including...The BOOK LAUNCH for Houghton Library at 75: A Celebration of its Collections; and A VIEWING of the exhibition HIST 75H: A Masterclass on Houghton Library at Hougthon Library, Harvard University, 6:30 – 8:00pm. RSVP by calling 617-495-2441<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__houghtonlibrary.cmail19…>
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 12:00 – 1:30 pm
“The Formation of a Taste Judgment: How Benjamin Haydon Came to Evaluate the Elgin Marbles”
Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard University)
Harvard University, 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>.
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
**Thursday, April 27, 2017, 4:30pm
Lauro de Bosis Fellowship Lecture
“Michelangelo and the Bible: Religious Reading and Writing in Sixteenth-Century Italy”
Sarah Rolfe Prodan (Department of History, Harvard University)
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, Harvard Yard
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
Thursday, May 4, or Friday, May 5, 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, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
"Some Early Modern Literary Legacies of Anne Boleyn"
F. Elizabeth Hart, Independent Scholar
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Saturday, October 14, 2017
New England Renaissance Conference
“Deceit, Deception, and Dishonesty in the Early Modern Era”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Call for Papers, Deadline: May 31, 2017.
Email for more information Lorenzo Buonanno, lorenzo.buonanno(a)umb.edu<mailto:lorenzo.buonanno@umb.edu> and Shannon McHugh, shannon.mchugh(a)umb.edu<mailto:shannon.mchugh@umb.edu>
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
*Monday, April 3, 2017, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
History of Medicine Working Group (HMWG)
“‘We Bleed from our Noses’: Religious Responses to Hemorrhagic Fever in
Sixteenth-Century Mexico”
Jennifer Hughes (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study/UC Riverside)
Room 469, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Dinner will be served. RSVP required at http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/hmwg/home for catering purposes.
*Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 12:00 - 1:30 / Science Center 252
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
“The Speculative Foundations of the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and the Epistemology of the Uncertain”
Christine Zabel (Harvard University)
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Lunch will be served. To RSVP and for copies of pre-circulated material please email to agjikola(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:agjikola@fas.harvard.edu> or shireenhamza(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 4:30pm
Wesleyan University, Romance Languages and Literatures, College of Letters
Lecture title: 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<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, 2017, 12:30 – 1:45pm
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series: “The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__harvard.us8.list-2Dmana…>”
John Pomfret, former Washington Post correspondent
S020, Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
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
UPCOMING EVENTS
**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
More Information: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
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
*Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 5:15
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Talk: “The Memory Arts and Early Modern Mnemonic Culture”
Bill Engel (Sewanee)
Room 316, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
*Thursday, April 20, 2017, 5:30 – 6:30pm
George Parker Winship Lecture, Houghton Library
“The Objects of Houghton Library: Past, Present and Future”
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Loeb House, Harvard Yard<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__houghtonlibrary.cmail19…>
Followed by a party, including...The BOOK LAUNCH for Houghton Library at 75: A Celebration of its Collections; and A VIEWING of the exhibition HIST 75H: A Masterclass on Houghton Library at Hougthon Library, Harvard University, 6:30 – 8:00pm. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__houghtonlibrary.cmail19…> RSVP by April 6, calling 617-495-2441<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__houghtonlibrary.cmail19…>
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 12:00 – 1:30 pm
“The Formation of a Taste Judgment: How Benjamin Haydon Came to Evaluate the Elgin Marbles”
Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard University)
Harvard University, 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>.
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
*Thursday, April 27, 2017, 4:30pm
Lauro de Bosis Fellowship Lecture
“Michelangelo and the Bible: Religious Reading and Writing in Sixteenth-Century Italy”
Sarah Rolfe Prodan (Department of History, Harvard University)
Location TBA
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
**Thursday, May 4, or Friday, May 5, 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, 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
*Saturday, October 14, 2017
New England Renaissance Conference
“Deceit, Deception, and Dishonesty in the Early Modern Era”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Call for Papers, Deadline: May 31, 2017.
Email for more information Lorenzo Buonanno, lorenzo.buonanno(a)umb.edu<mailto:lorenzo.buonanno@umb.edu> and Shannon McHugh, shannon.mchugh(a)umb.edu<mailto:shannon.mchugh@umb.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<mailto:earlymod@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
