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Early Modern Studies, from Tuesday, Oct 29, 2019

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Greetings! This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1800, 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 Week of October 29, 2019 Tue 10/29/2019 5:00pm Early Modern History Workshop Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University), “Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia" Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/ 10/30/2019 4:00pm-6:00pm Renaissance Wednesday Talk: "'Hearts more proof than shields': City Walls and Shakespeare's Politic Feelings" Greg Sargent, PhD Candidate, English Department, UMass Amherst Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA Refreshments to follow, provided by the Amherst Woman's Club More information: renaissance (at) english.umass.edu Wed 10/30/2019 4:30pm to 6:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Miya Tokumitsu (Art historian and Curator, Wesleyan): “Israhel van Meckenem’s Paper Currency” Location: Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459 10/30/2019 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies Sean Moore, University of New Hampshire: "Mapping the Reading Networks of Enslavers: Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries" Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Fri - Sat, Nov 1 to Nov 2, 9:00am - 5:00pm Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Folger Institute Seminar: “The Visual Art of Grammar” (by registration only) Location: Alumnae Hall, Chrystal Room. Brown University, Providence, RI 02906 Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World *Friday, Nov 1, 2019, noon-6pm Sponsor: Boston University Travel Literature Research Workshop Workshop: "Through Women's Eyes: Travel and Gender" Presenters: Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, Mary Beth Guzman, Eugenio Menegon, Roberta Micallef, Sunil Sharma, James Uden. Keynote lecture (5-6pm): Prof. Rebekah Mitsein (Boston College): "The World through Ethiopian Women's Eyes, from Μakǝdda to Mǝntǝwwab" Location: Boston University School of Theology Community Center (B23-B24), 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston PROGRAM<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__blogs.bu.edu_emenegon_f…> & ABSTRACTS<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__blogs.bu.edu_emenegon_f…> *11/3/2019 2:00pm to 4:00pm Workshop/Symposium: Sugar and the Early Modern Atlantic World Speakers include: Vincent Brown, professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Dennis Carr, Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture; Michiel van Groesen, professor of Maritime History, Leiden University; Antien Knaap, curatorial research fellow, Art of Europe; Performance by Jean Appolon Expressions Location: Museum of Fine Art, Boston For further details and ticketing click here: https://www.mfa.org/event/lecture/sugar-and-the-early-modern-atlantic-world…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mfa.org_event_lect…> Later This Term 11/6/2019 12:00pm to 1:00pm Boston College, Center for Ignatian Spirituality Franco Mormando, Professor of Italian and History, Boston College: "Ignatius the Franciscan: The Franciscan Roots of Jesuit Spirituality" Location: Gasson Hall 100, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA Lunch will be served; free and open to public. RSVP is required. To register: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/offices/mission-ministry/sites/center-for… November 6, 2019 4:00pm-6:00pm Renaissance Wednesday Talk: "Grottoes, Mazes and Labyrinths in the Renaissance Garden" Ellen Kosmer Location: Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Refreshments to follow, provided by the Amherst Woman's Club For more information contact renaissance (at) english.umass.edu 11/6/2019 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College): TBA Location: Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website *Thursday, November 7, 4:30pm-6:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Seminar Talk, "Raising the Dead : The Landscape of Violence in Early Modern France" Kathleen Long, Cornell University, Folger Mellon-Mowat Fellow 2019-2020 Sever Hall, Room 212, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/renaissance-studies Monday November 11, 12.15-2pm Sponsor: Harvard STS circle “Sin, science and seismic shocks: the Jamaica earthquake of 1692 and the science of disaster.” Louis Gerdelan (Dept of History, Harvard) Harvard CGIS South, Room 050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Please RSVP via our online form before Thursday afternoon, November 8th: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7VGUkAvTU655Dub2FTGSNMjpVs6f8Qbu… Tue 11/12/2019 5:30pm Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Harvard University: "Systematizing Jewish Religious Legal Knowledge in the Early Modern Period", commented by Charles Donahue, Harvard Law School Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book Wed 11/13/2019 5:00pm Sponsor: Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures Nicholas Rashad Jones (Bucknell Univ.), “Staging Habla de Negros across the African Diaspora” Location: Boylston Hall 403, Harvard Univ., Harvard Yard More Information: jblackmore (at) fas.harvard.edu Wed 11/13/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Eugenio Menegon, Boston University: “The Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the Countess: Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission and their Role in Early Modern Chinese-European Relations” Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912 Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World 11/14/2019 12:00pm to 2:00pm Co-sponsored by Intellectual History Colloquium, the Early Modern History Workshop and the Political Theory Colloquium Roundtable discussion of James Hankins, Virtue Politics, Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (HUP 2019) featuring comments by David Armitage (History, Harvard), Michelle Clark (Government, Dartmouth), Eric Nelson (Government, Harvard). Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Harvard Yard Thu 11/14/2019 4:00pm Sponsor: Harvard Political Theory Colloquium Shannon Stimson (Georgetown), "Petty and Hobbes" Location: CGIS Knafel K401, Harvard, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA Th., Nov. 14, 2019, 5:00 p.m. The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art; Art, Art History, and Film Department, Boston College Lecture: "A newly restored predella panel by Fra Angelico: attribution, documents, technical examination" Laurence Kanter, Chief Curator and Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery and Irma Passeri, Senior Conservator of Paintings, Yale University Art Gallery Devlin Hall 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA Reception immediately following Please r.s.v.p. by November 4, 2019: 617-552-4295 or previtro(a)bc.edu Fri 11/15/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm Sponsor: Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop Richard Arthur (McMaster University), "Leibniz's Metaphysics of Change: Vague States and Physical Continuity" Location: Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop Fri 11/15/2019 5:30pm reception, 6:00 seminar Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies “Reconceiving Shakespeare in Four-dimensional Spacetime: Performance, Archive, Pedagogy” Diana Henderson, M.I.T. Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies Tue 11/19/2019 5:30pm Early Modern History Workshop Lecture: "Why Do We Think There Were No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin” Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society of Fellows), Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/ Nov 20, 2019, 9am-4pm What is a Legal Archive? A Half-Day Symposium Organized by the Center for History and Economics, Harvard University and the American Society for Legal History Location: Harvard CGIS South, Room 030, 1730 Cambridge St (Lee Gathering Room), Cambridge Talks with relevance to early modern topics in all panels. (EM Speakers: Caroline Cunill (Universite du Maine), Elizabeth Lhost (Dartmouth College), Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon School of Law), Durba Mitra (Harvard), Bhavani Raman (UToronto), Tatiana Sijas (Rutgers University), Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania). More Information and RSVP: kalyaniramnath(a)fas.harvard.edu. RSVP by Nov 15. Website: https://aslh.net/conference/2019-annual-meeting/ 11/20/2019 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Play Reading: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Location: TBD, Harvard University Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website Wednesday, November 20, 6 pm Early Modern History Workshop "Trade and Lawsuits Across the Atlantic: Litigation Involving Sephardic and Converse Traders in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Amsterdam, Porto and Brazil" Daniel Strum (University of São Paulo and Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library), Harvard Yard **11/20/2019 6:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies and Cartography Seminar Book Launch: Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe (Chicago 2019) Katharina N. Piechocki (author, Harvard) in conversation with Phillip John Usher (NYU) Thompson Room Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/renaissance-studies 11/21/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World Reginald A. Wilburn (English, University of New Hampshire), title TBA Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) Thu 11/21/2019 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies, co-sponsored by: MHC Seminar on History of the Book Caroline Wigginton, University of Mississippi: "Hymncraft: Making Musicbooks and Community from the Native Northeast to Brotherton and Beyond", with comment by Phil Deloria (History, Harvard) Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Tue 11/26/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906 Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> 12/5/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World "Making the Case for Early Modern Women's and Gender Studies": A Roundtable Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) Fri 12/6/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies “New Work in Early Modern Drama,” Graduate Symposium Alexandra Carter, Tufts University: “Cymbeline and the Poetics of Proximity” Elizabeth Fox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “Staging Innovation: Novelty and Profit in London Comedy” Emiliano Guitterez Popoca, Brandeis University: “Master-Servant Relations, the Body and its Passions in Early Modern Drama” Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies *If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu 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. It would be a great help if you could follow this format: 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 of sentences) Website URL RSVP or Registration information/link

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Early Modern Studies, from Oct 20, 2019

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Greetings! This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1800, 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:mod@fas.harvard.edu>. Upcoming Events Week of October 20, 2019 Tue 10/22/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar “Leprosy, Shame, and Sensibility: Towards a History of Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century French Antilles.” Kristen Block (University of Tennessee but currently a fellow at the JCB) Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI 02906 Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> *Wednesday October 23 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book “The Fluid Surface: Marbling and Overmarbling in Early America” Jennifer Y. Chuong, Harvard Society of Fellows; with comment by Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania, emeritus Location: Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Harvard University, Cambridge https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/jennifer-chuong-society-fellows-harva… Wednesday October 23, 6pm Boston University Department of History of Art and Architecture and Latin American Studies Program Lecture: “Inheriting the Pacific: Can Art History Think an Ocean?” Dana Leibsohn, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art; Director of Latin American and Latino/a Studies,Smith College Location: BU CAS Building, room 132, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215 http://www.bu.edu/ah/news/haa-lecture-series/ Oct 24, 2019 4:30pm-6:30pm Five College Renaissance Seminar Talk: "Bodgeries: Tudor Composition Pedagogy, Poetics, and George Gascoigne's 'Patched Coat'" Adhaar Noor Desai, Assistant Professor of Literature, Bard Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst MA http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/desai 10/24/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World Kaara L. Peterson (English, Miami University of Ohio), "A Natural History of Queen Elizabeth I: Unriddling the Sieve Portraits" Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) Fri 10/25/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies Adam Zucker, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Gross Matter: Shakespeare and the Politics of Stupidity Location: Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies Later This Term Sun 10/27/2019 8PM-10PM Sponsor: Northeastern University Concert, "Chant the Dragon" NU Madrigals, Northeastern University Location: Raytheon Amphitheatre, 120 Forsyth St, Boston, MA 02115, Northeastern University Hear the NU Madrigals perform music from the fifteenth century Dragon Prayer Book, Northeastern University's only parchment manuscript. The concert is connected to the Decoding the Dragon exhibit at Northeastern University's Snell Library. Mon 10/28/2019 5:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Classical Traditions Stuart M. McManus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World" Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions Tue 10/29/2019 5:00pm Early Modern History Workshop Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University), “Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia" Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/ 10/30/2019 4:00pm-6:00pm Renaissance Wednesday Talk: "'Hearts more proof than shields': City Walls and Shakespeare's Politic Feelings" Greg Sargent, PhD Candidate, English Department, UMass Amherst Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA Refreshments to follow, provided by the Amherst Woman's Club More information: renaissance (at) english.umass.edu Wed 10/30/2019 4:30pm to 6:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Miya Tokumitsu (Art historian and Curator, Wesleyan): “Israhel van Meckenem’s Paper Currency” Location: Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459 10/30/2019 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies Sean Moore, University of New Hampshire: "Mapping the Reading Networks of Enslavers: Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries" Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Fri - Sat, Nov 1 to Nov 2, 9:00am - 5:00pm Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Folger Institute Seminar: “The Visual Art of Grammar” (by registration only) Location: Alumnae Hall, Chrystal Room. Brown University, Providence, RI 02906 Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://www.brown.edu/academics/early-modern-world> 11/6/2019 12:00pm to 1:00pm Boston College, Center for Ignatian Spirituality Franco Mormando, Professor of Italian and History, Boston College: "Ignatius the Franciscan: The Franciscan Roots of Jesuit Spirituality" Location: Gasson Hall 100, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA Lunch will be served; free and open to public. RSVP is required. To register: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/offices/mission-ministry/sites/center-for…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…> November 6, 2019 4:00pm-6:00pm Renaissance Wednesday Talk: "Grottoes, Mazes and Labyrinths in the Renaissance Garden" Ellen Kosmer Location: Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Refreshments to follow, provided by the Amherst Woman's Club For more information contact renaissance (at) english.umass.edu 11/6/2019 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College): TBA Location: Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_harva…> Monday November 11, 12.15-2pm Sponsor: Harvard STS circle “Sin, science and seismic shocks: the Jamaica earthquake of 1692 and the science of disaster.” Louis Gerdelan (Dept of History, Harvard) Harvard CGIS South, Room 050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Please RSVP via our online form before Thursday afternoon, November 8th: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7VGUkAvTU655Dub2FTGSNMjpVs6f8Qbu… Tue 11/12/2019 5:30pm Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Harvard University: "Systematizing Jewish Religious Legal Knowledge in the Early Modern Period", commented by Charles Donahue, Harvard Law School Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book Wed 11/13/2019 5:00pm Sponsor: Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures Nicholas Rashad Jones (Bucknell Univ.), “Staging Habla de Negros across the African Diaspora” Location: Boylston Hall 403, Harvard Univ., Harvard Yard More Information: jblackmore (at) fas.harvard.edu Wed 11/13/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Eugenio Menegon, Boston University: “The Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the Countess: Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission and their Role in Early Modern Chinese-European Relations” Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912 Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://www.brown.edu/academics/early-modern-world> 11/14/2019 12:00pm to 2:00pm Co-sponsored by Intellectual History Colloquium, the Early Modern History Workshop and the Political Theory Colloquium Roundtable discussion of James Hankins, Virtue Politics, Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (HUP 2019) featuring comments by David Armitage (History, Harvard), Michelle Clark (Government, Dartmouth), Eric Nelson (Government, Harvard). Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Harvard Yard Thu 11/14/2019 4:00pm Sponsor: Harvard Political Theory Colloquium Shannon Stimson (Georgetown), "Petty and Hobbes" Location: CGIS Knafel K401, Harvard, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA Th., Nov. 14, 2019, 5:00 p.m. The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art; Art, Art History, and Film Department, Boston College Lecture: "A newly restored predella panel by Fra Angelico: attribution, documents, technical examination" Laurence Kanter, Chief Curator and Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery and Irma Passeri, Senior Conservator of Paintings, Yale University Art Gallery Devlin Hall 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA Reception immediately following Please r.s.v.p. by November 4, 2019: 617-552-4295 or previtro(a)bc.edu<mailto:previtro@bc.edu> Fri 11/15/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm Sponsor: Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop Richard Arthur (McMaster University), "Leibniz's Metaphysics of Change: Vague States and Physical Continuity" Location: Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop **Fri 11/15/2019 5:30pm reception, 6:00 seminar Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies “Reconceiving Shakespeare in Four-dimensional Spacetime: Performance, Archive, Pedagogy” Diana Henderson, M.I.T. Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies Tue 11/19/2019 5:30pm Early Modern History Workshop Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Why Do We Think There Were No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin” Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/ Nov 20, 2019, 9am-4pm What is a Legal Archive? A Half-Day Symposium Organized by the Center for History and Economics, Harvard University and the American Society for Legal History Location: Harvard CGIS South, Room 030, 1730 Cambridge St (Lee Gathering Room), Cambridge Talks with relevance to early modern topics in all panels. (EM Speakers: Caroline Cunill (Universite du Maine), Elizabeth Lhost (Dartmouth College), Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon School of Law), Durba Mitra (Harvard), Bhavani Raman (UToronto), Tatiana Sijas (Rutgers University), Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania). More Information and RSVP: kalyaniramnath(a)fas.harvard.edu. RSVP by Nov 15. Website: https://aslh.net/conference/2019-annual-meeting/ 11/20/2019 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Play Reading: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Location: TBD, Harvard University Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_harva…> Wednesday, November 20, 6 pm Early Modern History Workshop "Trade and Lawsuits Across the Atlantic: Litigation Involving Sephardic and Converse Traders in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Amsterdam, Porto and Brazil" Daniel Strum (University of São Paulo and Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library), Harvard Yard 11/20/2019 6:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies Book Launch: Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe (Chicago 2019) Katharina N. Piechocki (author, Harvard) in conversation with Phillip John Usher (NYU) Thompson Room Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge 11/21/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World Reginald A. Wilburn (English, University of New Hampshire), title TBA Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) Thu 11/21/2019 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies, co-sponsored by: MHC Seminar on History of the Book Caroline Wigginton, University of Mississippi: "Hymncraft: Making Musicbooks and Community from the Native Northeast to Brotherton and Beyond", with comment by Phil Deloria (History, Harvard) <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us4.list-2Dman…> Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Tue 11/26/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar TBA Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906 Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> 12/5/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World "Making the Case for Early Modern Women's and Gender Studies": A Roundtable Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) **Fri 12/6/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies “New Work in Early Modern Drama,” Graduate Symposium Alexandra Carter, Tufts University: “Cymbeline and the Poetics of Proximity” Elizabeth Fox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “Staging Innovation: Novelty and Profit in London Comedy” Emiliano Guitterez Popoca, Brandeis University: “Master-Servant Relations, the Body and its Passions in Early Modern Drama” Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies *If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mod@fas.harvard.edu> 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. It would be a great help if you could follow this format: 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 of sentences) Website URL RSVP or Registration information/link

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Early Modern Studies, from Oct 8, 2019

by Early Modern Studies

Greetings! This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1800, 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 Week of October 7, 2019 *Oct 10, 2019 4:30pm Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture: "Drama, Demons, and Knowledge" Katherine Walker, Visiting Lecturer in English, Mount Holyoke College 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/ 10/10/2019 5:00pm Harvard English Renaissance Colloquium and Medieval Colloquium Jason Crawford (Union University) : "What the Wolf Knows: George Herbert's Book of Wisdom" Location: 114 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website *10/10/2019 6:30 pm Center for Government and International Studies at Harvard University Lecture: "Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France" Bronwen McShea (Princeton University) CGIS Knafel, Room 050, Harvard, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA Fri 10/11/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm Sponsor: Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop Vili Lähteenmäki (University of Helsinki), "Cartesian Self-Relations" Location: Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop Later This Term Wed 10/16/2019 9:00am to 5:00pm Sponsor: Andover-Harvard Theological Library Open house: “Meet the Special Collections” Location: Rabinowitz Room (3rd floor), Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA Wed 10/16/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Shahzad Bashir: “Imagining Time in Early Modern India: Persian Chroniclers and Their Interpreters” Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912 Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World **Tue 10/22/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar “Leprosy, Shame, and Sensibility: Towards a History of Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century French Antilles.” Kristen Block (University of Tennessee but currently a fellow at the JCB) Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI 02906 Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> Wednesday October 23, 6pm Boston University Department of History of Art and Architecture and Latin American Studies Program Lecture: “Inheriting the Pacific: Can Art History Think an Ocean?” Dana Leibsohn, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art; Director of Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Smith College Location: BU CAS Building, room 132, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215 http://www.bu.edu/ah/news/haa-lecture-series/ *Oct 24, 2019 4:30pm-6:30pm Five College Renaissance Seminar Talk: "Bodgeries: Tudor Composition Pedagogy, Poetics, and George Gascoigne's 'Patched Coat'" Adhaar Noor Desai, Assistant Professor of Literature, Bard Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst MA http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/desai 10/24/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World Kaara L. Peterson (English, Miami University of Ohio), "A Natural History of Queen Elizabeth I: Unriddling the Sieve Portraits" Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) Fri 10/25/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies Adam Zucker, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Gross Matter: Shakespeare and the Politics of Stupidity Location: Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies Sun 10/27/2019 8PM-10PM Sponsor: Northeastern University Concert, "Chant the Dragon" NU Madrigals, Northeastern University Location: Raytheon Amphitheatre, 120 Forsyth St, Boston, MA 02115, Northeastern University Hear the NU Madrigals perform music from the fifteenth century Dragon Prayer Book, Northeastern University's only parchment manuscript. The concert is connected to the Decoding the Dragon exhibit at Northeastern University's Snell Library. Mon 10/28/2019 5:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Classical Traditions Stuart M. McManus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World" Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions Tue 10/29/2019 5:00pm Early Modern History Workshop Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University), “Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia" Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/ *10/30/2019 4:00pm-6:00pm Renaissance Wednesday Talk: "'Hearts more proof than shields': City Walls and Shakespeare's Politic Feelings" Greg Sargent, PhD Candidate, English Department, UMass Amherst Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA Refreshments to follow, provided by the Amherst Woman's Club More information: renaissance (at) english.umass.edu Wed 10/30/2019 4:30pm to 6:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Miya Tokumitsu (Art historian and Curator, Wesleyan): “Israhel van Meckenem’s Paper Currency” Location: Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459 10/30/2019 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies Sean Moore, University of New Hampshire: "Mapping the Reading Networks of Enslavers: Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries" Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Fri - Sat, Nov 1 to Nov 2, 9:00am - 5:00pm Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Folger Institute Seminar: “The Visual Art of Grammar” (by registration only) Location: Alumnae Hall, Chrystal Room. Brown University, Providence, RI 02906 Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World 11/6/2019 12:00pm to 1:00pm Boston College, Center for Ignatian Spirituality Franco Mormando, Professor of Italian and History, Boston College: "Ignatius the Franciscan: The Franciscan Roots of Jesuit Spirituality" Location: Gasson Hall 100, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA Lunch will be served; free and open to public. RSVP is required. To register: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/offices/mission-ministry/sites/center-for… *November 6, 2019 4:00pm-6:00pm Renaissance Wednesday Talk: "Grottoes, Mazes and Labyrinths in the Renaissance Garden" Ellen Kosmer Location: Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst, MA Refreshments to follow, provided by the Amherst Woman's Club For more information contact renaissance (at) english.umass.edu 11/6/2019 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College): TBA Location: Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website *Monday November 11, 12.15-2pm Sponsor: Harvard STS circle “Sin, science and seismic shocks: the Jamaica earthquake of 1692 and the science of disaster.” Louis Gerdelan (Dept of History, Harvard) Harvard CGIS South, Room 050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Please RSVP via our online form before Thursday afternoon, November 8th: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7VGUkAvTU655Dub2FTGSNMjpVs6f8Qbu… Tue 11/12/2019 5:30pm Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Harvard University: "Systematizing Jewish Religious Legal Knowledge in the Early Modern Period", commented by Charles Donahue, Harvard Law School Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book Wed 11/13/2019 5:00pm Sponsor: Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures Nicholas Rashad Jones (Bucknell Univ.), “Staging Habla de Negros across the African Diaspora” Location: Boylston Hall 403, Harvard Univ., Harvard Yard More Information: jblackmore (at) fas.harvard.edu Wed 11/13/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Eugenio Menegon, Boston University: “The Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the Countess: Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission and their Role in Early Modern Chinese-European Relations” Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912 Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World **11/14/2019 12:00pm to 2:00pm Co-sponsored by Intellectual History Colloquium, the Early Modern History Workshop and the Political Theory Colloquium Roundtable discussion of James Hankins, Virtue Politics, Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (HUP 2019) featuring comments by David Armitage (History, Harvard), Michelle Clark (Government, Dartmouth), Eric Nelson (Government, Harvard). Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Harvard Yard Thu 11/14/2019 4:00pm Sponsor: Harvard Political Theory Colloquium Shannon Stimson (Georgetown), "Petty and Hobbes" Location: CGIS Knafel K401, Harvard, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA Th., Nov. 14, 2019, 5:00 p.m. The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art; Art, Art History, and Film Department, Boston College Lecture: "A newly restored predella panel by Fra Angelico: attribution, documents, technical examination" Laurence Kanter, Chief Curator and Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery and Irma Passeri, Senior Conservator of Paintings, Yale University Art Gallery Devlin Hall 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA Reception immediately following Please r.s.v.p. by November 4, 2019: 617-552-4295 or previtro(a)bc.edu Fri 11/15/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm Sponsor: Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop Richard Arthur (McMaster University), "Leibniz's Metaphysics of Change: Vague States and Physical Continuity" Location: Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop Fri 11/15/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies Diana Henderson, M.I.T.: TBA Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies **Tue 11/19/2019 5:30pm Early Modern History Workshop Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Why Do We Think There Were No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin” Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/ *Nov 20, 2019, 9am-4pm What is a Legal Archive? A Half-Day Symposium Organized by the Center for History and Economics, Harvard University and the American Society for Legal History Location: Harvard CGIS South, Room 030, 1730 Cambridge St (Lee Gathering Room), Cambridge Talks with relevance to early modern topics in all panels. (EM Speakers: Caroline Cunill (Universite du Maine), Elizabeth Lhost (Dartmouth College), Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon School of Law), Durba Mitra (Harvard), Bhavani Raman (UToronto), Tatiana Sijas (Rutgers University), Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania). More Information and RSVP: kalyaniramnath(a)fas.harvard.edu. RSVP by Nov 15. Website: https://aslh.net/conference/2019-annual-meeting/ *Wednesday, November 20, 6 pm Early Modern History Workshop "Trade and Lawsuits Across the Atlantic: Litigation Involving Sephardic and Converse Traders in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Amsterdam, Porto and Brazil" Daniel Strum (University of São Paulo and Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library), Harvard Yard 11/20/2019 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Play Reading: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Location: TBD, Harvard University Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website *11/21/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World Reginald A. Wilburn (English, University of New Hampshire), title TBA Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) Thu 11/21/2019 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies, co-sponsored by: MHC Seminar on History of the Book Caroline Wigginton, University of Mississippi: "Hymncraft: Making Musicbooks and Community from the Native Northeast to Brotherton and Beyond", with comment by Phil Deloria (History, Harvard) Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Tue 11/26/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar TBA Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906 Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> *12/5/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World "Making the Case for Early Modern Women's and Gender Studies": A Roundtable Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) Fri 12/6/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies “New Work in Early Modern Drama,” Graduate Symposium Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies *If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place in the greater Boston area. 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