Greetings!
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.
Upcoming Events
**Wednesday November 14, 2018, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Lecture: ��Saladin and the Captive Host: The Making of a Counter-Reformist Emblem��
Andrea Celli, Italian Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut
Room 113, Boger Hall, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu
Wednesday, November 14, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
"Pleading the Belly and the Body Politic: Leaticia Wigington and Elizabeth Cellier"
Marina Leslie (Northeastern)
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
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Welcome to Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium! We are a group of graduate students who meet every one to two weeks to discuss current work in Renaissance and Early Modern literary studies.
*Wednesday, November 14, 6-7:30pm
A James Loeb Lecture in Classical Archaeology
"A Universal History of Ruins"
Alain Schnapp, Universit�� Paris-Sorbonne
Emerson Hall 101, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA
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Welcome to the Boston Area Classics Calendar, a calendar of events related to the study of Classics and the Classical world in and around the greater Boston area.
*Thursday, November 15, 6pm
Master Series Third Thursday<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.worcesterart.org_ev…>: Illustrating Epic Poetry and History in Persian manuscripts from the Mongols to the Timurids
Speaker: David Roxburgh, Ph. D., the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History at Harvard University
Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester MA
Presented with support from the Bernard and Louise Palitz Fund and the Amelia and Robert H. Haley Memorial Lecture Fund.
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Saturday, November 17th, 2018, all day
45th Annual New England Medieval Conference
Government and Governance from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance: Representation and Reality
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Keynote Speakers:
Amy Appleford (Boston University), ��Governing Bodies in Late Medieval London��
Jonathan Lyon (University of Chicago), ��Was there a Difference Between Lordship and Governance in Late Medieval Germany?��
Tues Nov 27, 12:00pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "��By the Declining Day��: Time and Temporal Cultures of the Early Modern Mediterranean"
Maryam Patton, Harvard
Room 252, Science Center, Harvard, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/home
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The Early Science Working Group brings together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty members to discuss their works-in-progress on the history of ancient, medieval and early modern knowledge and culture.
*Tuesday November 27, 4:15pm
Sponsored by the Medieval History workshop
"Petitioning the Monarch in 14th and 15th -century France, England, and the Burgundian dominion"
Quentin Verreycken (University of Louvain and a visiting post-doc at Harvard this year)
Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard Yard
Thursday, November 29, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
��'Behold, my life is but a distraction': Ascetic Reading, Poetry, and Prayer"
Amy Appleford (Boston University),
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
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Welcome to Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium! We are a group of graduate students who meet every one to two weeks to discuss current work in Renaissance and Early Modern literary studies.
Friday, November 30, 2018, 5:30pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
Graduate Student Symposium
Talk Title TBA
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
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This seminar is designed to explore the broadest range of approaches to Shakespeare's plays and those of his contemporaries. We welcome post-structuralist, feminist, formalist, textual, historicist, and performance-based criticism.
*Friday, November 30, 12:15-2:00pm
Early Modern Asia Seminar (Harvard University Asia Center)
Panel: Early? Modern? Asia?: Three Perspectives
Michael W. Charney, SOAS, University of London
Elaine Fisher, Stanford University
Carla Nappi, University of Pittsburgh
Moderator: David Atherton, Harvard University
S050 Kang Seminar Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
In the inaugural event of the new Early Modern Asia Seminar series, three leading scholars of Southeast, South, and East Asia will present brief talks probing the promise and limitations of the concept of early modernity for the study of Asia.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University (Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie)
Lecture: "Remaking Shakespeare Through Performance"
Karin Coonrod, Yale School of Drama/Compagnia de' Colombari
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
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This seminar considers how gender is implicated in the formation of the political, social, and artistic cultures of the early modern period. Topics addressed include religious and allegorical representations of and by women; the economic and legal status of women in specific communities; representations of male and female bodies in literature, art, and science; and applications of competing ...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Migration and the Humanities
"The Dragoman��s Proposal: Creating a Road Network in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
Jesse Howell, postdoc fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
Room 133, Barker Center, Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Migration and the Humanities presents Jesse HowellPost-doctoral fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center; Harvard PhD 2017 (CMES alum) RSVP to Andrea Volpe to attend and to receive a copy of the paper in advance of the seminar: alvolpe(a)fas.harvard.edu. Seating is limited.
December 6, 2018, 4:00pm
John Carter Brown Library
Lecture: ��Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America��
Kathrinne Duffy (Brown University), Interdisciplinary Opportunities Fellow at JCB Library
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details: https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events
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Before There Were Lines along the Rio Grande MacMillan Reading Room, 12-1pm As we hear heart-wrenching... Learn More
December 6, 2018, 5:30pm
John Carter Brown Library
Lecture: "Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776: The untold story of the 'Black Boys,' a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution."
Patrick Spero, American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia
In 1763, the Seven Years�� War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing that the British Empire would expand onto their lands and conquer them, refused to lay down their weapons. Under the leadership of a shrewd Ottawa warrior named Pontiac, they kept fighting for their freedom, capturing several British forts and devastating many of the westernmost colonial settlements. The British, battered from the costly war, needed to stop the violent attacks on their borderlands. Peace with Pontiac was their only option�Dif they could convince him to negotiate.
Copies of Frontier Rebels will be available for purchase.
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details: https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events
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Before There Were Lines along the Rio Grande MacMillan Reading Room, 12-1pm As we hear heart-wrenching... Learn More
Mon Dec 10, 12-2pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard University
Lecture: "Sinful Slumbers: Sleeping in Church and the Prehistory of Boredom"
Daniel Juette (NYU)
Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard Yard
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Tuesday December 11, 2018, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
��Representations of Black Africans and Others in Orlando di Lasso��s Music for the 1568 Wedding of Wilhelm V to Renata of Lorraine��
Eric Rice, Music Department, University of Connecticut
Room 113, Boger Hall, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu
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