Greetings! The list will likely be dormant the summer, but below are a few upcoming events and deadlines for activities next fall. Please send us notices of fall activities by August 28 for inclusion in the first mailing of the next academic year.
Best wishes for a great summer in the meantime from your earlymod team,
Anja Goeing and Ann Blair
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.
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
*Tuesday, May 16, 2017, 4pm-7pm
Open House 75: Houghton Library Staff Select
Opening of the Exhibition (on view May 8-August 19, 2017)
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard
Houghton Library staff celebrate the library’s 75th anniversary with an open house-inspired showcase of its outstanding collections.
Fifty archivists, conservators, curators, librarians, specialists, and student workers who make up “Team Houghton” share memorable items encountered during careers at the library that range from four months to over forty years. Gained through providing access to over 600,000 printed books and six miles of manuscript and archival materials that comprise the Houghton collection, the staff’s encyclopedic knowledge of the library comes to the fore in this exhibition.
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
*Friday, May 19, 2017, 12:30-1pm
Harvard Art Museums Gallery Talk
“Philosophy Chamber Conversations – Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet”
Ethan Lasser (Harvard)
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
The gallery talk is offered in conjunction with the special exhibition “The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820” (May 19-December 31, 2017, Harvard Art Museums)
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/4916/the-philosophy-cham…
UPCOMING EVENTS
*Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 3pm-4:30pm
Harvard Art Museums Lecture
The Hungry Eye: Art and Ambition in Copley’s Boston
Jane Kamensky (Harvard University)
Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
The lecture is offered in conjunction with the special exhibition “The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820” (May 19-December 31, 2017, Harvard Art Museums)
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/4916/the-philosophy-cham…
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
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
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets, Providence, RI
*Folger Program Deadlines
Please be advised that 12 June 2017 is the Admission and Grant-in-Aid deadline for the following programs at the Folger:
Conjugality and Early Modern Political Thought
Sharon Achinstein directs the Folger Institute Center for the History of British Political Thought seminar on Friday afternoons (29 September through 8 December 2017)
Gender, Race, and Early Modern Studies
Kimberly Anne Coles and Ayanna Thompson co-direct a year-long colloquium that meets once a month on Friday afternoons
Thomas Nashe and His Contemporaries
A fall symposium, organized in collaboration with the AHRC-funded “Thomas Nashe Project” (7 – 19 September 2017)
Researching the Archive
Ann Blair and Peter Stallybrass co-direct the year-long dissertation seminar that meets once a month on Friday afternoons
The full list of 2017-2018 programs and their descriptions may be found here: http://www.folger.edu/2017-2018-institute-scholarly-programs
**Saturday, October 21, 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
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Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator.
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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.
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