Greetings and Happy New Year! 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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UPCOMING EVENTS IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES
Tues 23 January
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
Fellow Talk: "Litterae indipetae"
Elisa Frei (Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies)
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Elisa Frei, an Institute Fellow<https://www.bc.edu/centers/iajs/Research/Fellowship-Programs/meet-the-fello…>, discusses her research on the petitions for the Indies (litterae indipetae) written by Italian Jesuits between ca. 1687 and 1730. Frei analyzes the petitioners’ motivations, personal relations (within their family secundum carnem and their religious family), and psychologies, and considers the appeals in the context of the Epistulae Generalium, containing the replies by the Jesuits’ superior general. To attend, please contact the Institute (iajs(a)bc.edu).
Monday, January 29, 2018 - 5:15pm
Medieval Studies, Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar, Harvard University
The Faking of the Middle Ages: Misappropriation, Misrepresentation, and the Medieval
Patrick Geary, Princeton University
Katharine Park, Harvard University
Cord Whitaker, Wellesley College
Mary Dockray-Miller, Lesley University
Room 110, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Monday, January 29, 2018, 6:30-7:30 pm
Boston Public Library
"'With Savage Pictures Fill their Gaps': On Cartographers’ Fears of Blank Spaces" (Lecture)
Chet Van Duzer (Stanford University)
Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, Copely Square
Further information and RSVP:
http://www.leventhalmap.org/event/horror_vacui/?instance_id=2008
Tues Jan 30, 6pm
Book History, Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar, Harvard University
“Note to Self: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Renaissance Library.”
Earle Havens (Curator of Rare Books, John Hopkins University)
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - 6:00pm
Eighteen Century Studies, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century IX: Dinner Symposium
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, February 8, 2018, 5:30 pm
Women & Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
“Forms, Formlessness, and Literary Studies: The Case of Margaret Cavendish”
Lara Dodds, Department of English, Mississippi State University
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
Friday to Saturday, Feb 9-10, 2018
Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard
The Twelfth Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History
Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Harvard Yard
Program and further information at: https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/conferences<https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/conferences>
13 February–
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
Fellow Talk
Cristiano Casalini and Claude Pavur, S.J. (Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies)
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
The editors of Jesuit Pedagogy, 1540–1616: A Reader<http://jesuitsources.bc.edu/jesuit-pedagogy-1540-1616-a-reader/> present on the second volume of English translations of materials related to Jesuit approaches to pedagogy in theory and practice (1616–1703). To attend, please contact the Institute (iajs(a)bc.edu).
Tues Feb 20 – time to be announced
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar (MEMHS)
“Future Perfect, Future Past: Roger Bacon’s Inventions.”
Elly Truitt, Associate Professor of History (Bryn Mawr College)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI
Please note that there is a pre-circulated paper, which will be posted here 2 weeks before the event: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Thursday Feb 22, 5-6:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the GSAS workshop "Post-Classicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond"
"Multi-lingualism in Early modern Europe: Readings of the Praise of Folly"
Jan Bloemendal (Huyghens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Princeton University)
Boylston Hall 237, Harvard Yard
Tues 27 Feb–
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
“Jesuit Archaeologies of the Crucifixion: From Trent to the Shores of Japan.”
Hitomi Omata Rappo, Harvard University
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Collaborative Scholar Hitomi Omata Rappo<https://www.bc.edu/centers/iajs/Research/Collaborative-Scholars.html>--also a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s History department--presents her research. To attend, please contact the Institute (iajs(a)bc.edu).
Thursday, March 1, 2018, 6:00 pm
Women & Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
"The Soldier’s Two Bodies: Margaret Cavendish, Singularity, and Wartime Violence"
Erin Murphy, Department of English, Boston University
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
Monday, March 5, 2018 - 6:00pm
Eighteen Century Studies, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University
Talk Title TBA
Lisa Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Monday, March 12, 2018, 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
"Earthquake Aesthetics"
Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
Seminar Discussion: Early American Environments
Boston College, Stokes Hall, S376, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Registration required: http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html
Monday, 19 March–
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
“Jesuits, Superstition, and Rural Missions in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Northern Italy”
David Salomoni, University of Rome III
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
To attend, please contact the Institute (iajs(a)bc.edu).
Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 12:00-1:30 pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
“The “Catholic Cook” and “Natural Transubstantiation”: Theologies of Nutrition in Seventeenth-Century French Medicine”
Julia Reed (Harvard, History of Science)
Room 252, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here <https://goo.gl/forms/vhScARAQ4xE8wN8s1> to receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper.
Tues March 20 – time to be announced
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar (MEMHS)
“Natural History in the ‘Aztec Encyclopedia’, c. 1576.”
Iris Montero Sobrevilla, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities (Brown University)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI
Please note that there is a pre-circulated paper, which will be posted 2 weeks before the event at: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 5:30 pm
Women & Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
‘“Women and Witnessing: Reading Rape and Reformation in Spenser’s Faerie Queene”
Stephanie Bahr, Department of English, Hamilton College
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
April 6-8, 2018
Conference: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Healing Charms and Medicine
Harvard, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Website: https://harvardcharmsandmedicine.wordpress.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvardcharmsandmedici…>
Monday, April 9, 2018 - 6:00pm
Eighteen Century Studies, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University
"Materiality, text and image: what is Enlightened and Romantic travel literature?"
John Brewer, California Institute of Technology
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Tues April 10, 4-6pm
Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard
"Apes, Slaves, and Global Markets: Boundaries of Humanity in Enlightenment Debates"
Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)
Goldman Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St, Cambridge
10 April–
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
"Jesuit Missionaries in China"
Elisa Frei (Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies) and Eugenio Menegon (BC)
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
At a colloquium hosted with Burns Library, Institute Fellow Elisa Frei and Affiliated Scholar Eugenio Menegon present their research on the motivations and experiences of the early Jesuit missionaries in China. Contact the Institute with any questions; invitations are forthcoming (iajs(a)bc.edu).
Wed April 11, time to be announced
Brown University
The 38th William F. Church Memorial Lecture
Lyndal Roper (Regius Professor of History, Oxford), TBD.
Brown University, Providence, RI
A reception will follow the lecture. More Information at https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
April 23, 25, 27, 2018 4-6pm
The Robert P Benedict Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
"Thomas Hobbes on History, Politics, and Philosophy"
Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley)
Boston University, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Tuesday, April 24, 12-1:30 pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard, History of Science): “Who is an Expert in Taste?”
Room 259, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here <https://goo.gl/forms/vhScARAQ4xE8wN8s1> to receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper.
Thursday, April 26, 2018 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
"Spaces of Property in Colonial North America"
Allan Greer, McGill University
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Friday, April 27, 2018, 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
Seminar Discussion: Land
Boston College, 10 Stone Ave, Room 201, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Registration required: http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html
Save the date:
Monday May 7: A workshop on “Religion and the printed image in the 16th century” Featuring prof Olivier Christin (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris and Université de Neuchâtel). details TBA.
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