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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.
Upcoming Events
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
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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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*Wednesday, Dec 5, 2018, 4-6pm
The Robert P Benedict Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
The Most Difficult Question of Any: Political Obligation in 18th-century British Political Thought; Third Lecture: Between Locke and Filmer (2): Smith on political obligation
Presented by James A. Harris
Barrister’s Hall, Boston University, Boston, Ma 02215
Followed by a Reception (6-7:30PM)
In late 17th and 18th-century Britain, the basis and limits of political obligation were matters of pressing practical importance. In the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, during the period of the Jacobite rebellions, and then as a result of discontent in America, there was a series of sophisticated and urgent debates about the character of political legitimacy, and about how to distinguish between properly de jure and merely de facto governmental authority. These lectures describe some key moments in that debate. According to an influential interpretation of political thought in 18th-century Britain, Locke’s Two Treatises of Government marked the end of a tradition of political philosophy. The following century, on this account, saw a shift to the examination of the political consequences of commerce and, especially, of an ever-increasing national debt. I shall argue that this amounts to a misrepresentation of post-Lockean political thought.
**December 5, 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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Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 The untold story of the “Black... Learn More
*December 6, 2018, 9:15-10:00am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies: Jesuit Studies Café
Zoom videoconference : The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits
Ines Županov
Online, or: Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
The deadline to RSVP for this event is December 4th at 5:00 p.m.
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies invites you to join informal conversations with the world's preeminent scholars working on the history, spirituality, and educational heritage of the Society of Jesus. These discussions – hosted at the Institute over coffee and also available via Zoom videoconference – are unique opportunities to learn more about the newest and most interesting scholarship in Jesuit Studies. To join these online discussions and for additional details, please contact the Institute (iajs(a)bc.edu<mailto:iajs@bc.edu>) and fill out the RSVP<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15WD9Bun_xyCvN7MG8OKaUD8yITzTb7oKwfs9q5zq8J…>
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―if 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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Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 The untold story of the “Black... 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
*December 13, 9:15 - 10:00 a.m.
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies: Jesuit Studies Café
Zoom videoconference: The Jesuits and Food
Claudio Ferlan
Online, or: Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
The deadline to RSVP for this event is December 4th at 5:00 p.m.
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies invites you to join informal conversations with the world's preeminent scholars working on the history, spirituality, and educational heritage of the Society of Jesus. These discussions – hosted at the Institute over coffee and also available via Zoom videoconference – are unique opportunities to learn more about the newest and most interesting scholarship in Jesuit Studies. To join these online discussions and for additional details, please contact the Institute (iajs(a)bc.edu<mailto:iajs@bc.edu>) and fill out the RSVP<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15WD9Bun_xyCvN7MG8OKaUD8yITzTb7oKwfs9q5zq8J…>
*Friday, December 14, 3:00-5:00
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"The Meditations as Conative Exercises: Descartes on Human Freedom and the Will"
Sean Greenberg (UCI)
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
*Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, 4.00-6.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Ports of Sanctuary: Maritime Marronage, Imperial Law and the Judicial Imaginary of Enslaved Mariners"
Mary Hicks (Amherst College, Mamolen Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:therzog@fas.harvard.edu> or delafuente(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:delafuente@fas.harvard.edu>.
*Thursday, January 31, 2019, 3-4:30/5:00 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
“Text and Book in Jewish Manuscript and Early Print Culture”
David Stern
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
*Friday, February 8, 2019, 3:00-5:00 pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"Locke on Complex Ideas and the Ethics of Belief"
Katherine Tabb (Columbia)
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
*Wednesday, Feb 13, 2019, 4.00-6.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "What Invoking the King´s Name Meant (and What it Did Not). Popular Royalism in Late Colonial Charcas"
Sergio Serulnikov (Universidad de San Andrés-Conicet, Argentina)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:therzog@fas.harvard.edu> or delafuente(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:delafuente@fas.harvard.edu>.
*Thursday, February 14, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
"Print, Knowledge Organization, and Halakha: Codification and Disorder"
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
*Thursday, February 21, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
“A Communal Tree of Life: Western Sephardic Jews and the Ets Haim Library in Early Modern Amsterdam”
David Sclar
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
*Monday, February 25, 3:00-5:00 pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"TBA"
Melissa Merritt (University of New South Wales)
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
*Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019, 4.00-6.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Indigenous Masters of a casa poblada: Indios ladinos and vecindad in Colonial New Kingdom of Granada"
Max Deardorff (The University of Florida)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:therzog@fas.harvard.edu> or delafuente(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:delafuente@fas.harvard.edu>.
*Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 4.00-6.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Using History in Law: Indigenous Rights"
Thomas Duve (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:therzog@fas.harvard.edu> or delafuente(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:delafuente@fas.harvard.edu>.
*Friday, March 15, 2019, 12pm
Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Huchins Center, Seminar Meeting
Lecture: Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Black Militiamen, Tribute, and Privilege
Sally Hayes (Harvard)
(more information as time approaches!)
*Thursday, April 4, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
“Studying and Collecting Medieval and Early Modern Judaica and Hebraica Treasures Between Fascist Italy and Postwar America. Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960) and His Collection”
Martina Mampieri
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
*Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 4.00-6.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Slavery and Mastery in the South Sea Armada"
Tamara Walker (University of Toronto),
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:therzog@fas.harvard.edu> or delafuente(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:delafuente@fas.harvard.edu>.
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