Greetings and Best Wishes for the Upcoming Holidays!
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.
Please note: This is the last list in 2019. The next list will be distributed in early January 2020 with news about early modern events in J-Term and Spring.
Upcoming Events
>From Nov 25, 2019
Tue 11/26/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Lecture: "Imperial Models: Design and Technology in State-Controlled Porcelain Manufacture in Early Modern China"
Kajun Chen (East Asian Studies)
Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
*12/2/2019 6:00pm to 8:00pm, pre-reception at 5:30
Massachusetts Historical Society
Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789
Joseph Adelman, Framingham State University
Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston MA (RSVP)
https://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=3050
*12/3/2019 3:00-4:30pm (Please note change in location and meeting time)
Harvard Early Science Working Group
Lecture: Lost Technology. The Ugly Goose of the Hippodrome
Ruth Dwyer (Harvard University)
Harvard Science Center, Room 469, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
*Wednesday, Dec 4, 2019, 5-7pm, reception to follow
University of Massachusetts Boston
Panel Discussion Inaugurating the Catherine Frisone Scott Center for Italian Cultural Studies, in Memory of John B. Frisone
Catherine Frisone Scott Center for Italian Cultural Studies, 100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
Website: https://www.umb.edu/cfscics
12/4/2019 6:00pm
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/
*December 5, 2019, 4:30pm
Five College Renaissance Seminar Event
“Thou art changed: Using Theatre Practice in the Literature Classroom”
Noah Tuleja, Director of Rooke Theatre and Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Mount Holyoke College
The Kinney Centre for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Reception to follow. Registration: arodgers (at) mtholyoke.edu
Do you teach drama? Looking for ways to bring the text on the page into life in the classroom beyond having students read scenes aloud? This workshop offers educators insight into practice-oriented techniques that can breathe new life into teaching drama in the literature classroom and offer insights into making old plays exciting and relevant for twenty-first century undergraduates.
**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
Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College)
Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
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
Friday, December 13, 10:00 - 6:00
Boston Area Kant Colloquium
Location: Emerson Hall, Harvard University
https://www.bostonareakantcolloquium.site<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us12.list-2Dma…>
Call for Papers (local):
Abstract deadline: January 15
The 41st Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, will take place on Friday, April 17 and Saturday April 18, 2020 at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire.
More information: Dr. Robert G. Sullivan, Assistant Forum Director at sullivan(a)german.umass.edu.
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