Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the earlymodern 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, Feb 27, 2019, 3.00-5.00 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 (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu
Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State) and Katherine Rowe (William & Mary)
State of the Field Discussion
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
February 28, 2019, 4:30-6pm
Providence College Seminar in the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Lecture: “Benevolent Empire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake and Disaster Relief in British North America”
Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University
Ruane Center for the Humanities, LL05
https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…
Thursday Feb 28, 2019, 4:30-6:30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Renaissance Seminar
"Fortune’s Early Modern Turn: From Pagan Goddess to Proto-Capitalist Economics"
Jane Degenhardt, Professor of English, UMass Amherst
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Professor Degenhardt is working on a new book entitled Fortune’s Empire: Chance, Providence, and Overseas Ventures in Early Modern English Drama. Offering in-depth discussions of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Heywood, and others, this study considers how England’s economic expansion through global commerce and nascent colonial exploration produced new understandings of the roles of fortune, fate, and freewill in the world.
Reception to follow. For more information please contact renaissance (at) english.umass.edu
Website Link<https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-degenhardt-2019>
Friday, March 1st, 2019, 9am-6pm
Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School
Workshop: “Italy and the Origins of Capitalism”
Speakers: Robert Fredona (University of York), Sophus Reinert (Harvard Business School), Jeffrey Miner (Western Kentucky University), Bill Caferro (Vanderbilt University), Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Studies), Maria Fusaro (University of Exeter), Corey Tazzara (Scripps College).
Room 340, Chao Hall, Harvard Business School
Refreshments will be provided, see website for full details and schedule:
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/conferences/italy-and-the-origins-of-capitalism/
Friday, March 1, 2019 – 4:00pm
Erasmus Lectures 2019, Harvard University: Art and Competition in the Dutch Golden Age
Lecture: “Artistic Competition and Creative Imitation: Ter Borch, Van Mieris, Steen, Dou, Metsu and Vermeer”
Eric Jan Sluijter, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam, and Erasmus Lecturer, Harvard University
Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Mar 1, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Seminar in Book History
Lecture: "New Methods for the Study of Reading via Circulation Records and Portraiture: Evidence from the Salem Social Library and Redwood Library"
Sean Moore, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Reception to follow. For more information please contact renaissance (at) english.umass.edu
This presentation will explain the methodological rationale for the study of reading in Prof. Moore’s new book, Slavery and the Making of the Early American Library: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814 (Oxford UP, 2019).
Tuesday, March 5, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group
Lecture: "Galileo’s Courtroom Drama: Defending the Compass in 1607"
Eileen Reeves, Princeton
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 4:15-6pm
Medieval History Workshop and Early Modern Workshop, both Harvard University
Lecture: “The Fragility of Difference: Animals, Humans, and the Renaissance Invention of Race”
Mackenzie Cooley, Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College; Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University
Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Harvard Yard
Abstract: A neologism coined at a moment when humanity appeared capable of perfecting nature, “race” first referred to the differentiation of animal stock through breeding. With a focus on sixteenth-century Spanish Italy, this talk traces early modern breeders’ self-conscious struggle to produce and maintain race and natural philosophers’ preoccupation with its sheer artifice. As race slipped from animals to humans, what began as a means of designating temporary difference limited to a few generations became transgenerationally concretized in the taxonomy of Spanish Empire. Animal malleability became fixed human difference.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk
Katherine Johnston (Beloit College) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"Atlantic Bodies: Environmental Health and Racial Slavery in the Greater Caribbean"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
(The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.)
Details at Fellow's Talk: Katherine Johnston<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/03/0…>
Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 4:30pm
Dissertation Chapter Discussion
Mireille Pardon, Yale, Graduate Student in History
Wesleyan University, Fisk, room 403, 297 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT
More information: jalden01 at wesleyan.edu
Thursday, Mar 7, 2019, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Lecture: "'A Strange, Hollow, and Confused Noise': Prospero's Start and the Phenomenology of Magic"
Professor Lyn Tribble, Department of English, University of Connecticut
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/strange-hollow-and-confused-noise-p…
"'A Strange, Hollow, and Confused Noise': Prospero's Start and the Phenomenology of Magic," a talk by Professor Lyn Tribble, Department of English, University of Connecticut | Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies | UMass Amherst<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/strange-hollow-and-confused-noise-p…>
www.umass.edu
Five College Renaissance Seminar Professor Lyn Tribble's research interests center around Shakespeare, performance, memory, and skill. She explores theatrical history through the lens of distributed cognition, asking how Shakespeare’s company met the astonishing cognitive demands of their profession, particularly the performance of up to six different plays a week.
Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: Eighteenth-Century Studies
Roundtable on Political Corruption in the 18th Century
Speakers:
Dwight Codr, English, University of Connecticut
Marilyn Morris, History, University of North Texas
John O’Brien, English, University of Virginia
Elizabeth Wingrove, Political Science, University of Michigan
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
*Friday, March 8, 12:15-2:00pm
Early Modern Asia Seminar (Harvard University Asia Center)
Type of event: Panel: “Early Modern [Global] Asia”
Person giving talk: Ning Ma (University of Minnesota), Sugata Ray (UC Berkeley), Elsa Clavé(Harvard University and Goethe University)
CGIS South, Room S050, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA
This event brings together three scholars—of East Asian literatures, South Asian art history, and Southeast Asian history, respectively—in dialogue around the idea of early modernity as characterized in part by flows of ideas, objects, and people on a global scale.
Web link: https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/early-modern-global-asia-407
March 8, 2019 – 4:00pm
Erasmus Lectures 2019, Harvard University: Art and Competition in the Dutch Golden Age
Lecture: “Rivals in Rendering Horror: Rembrandt, Rubens and Tragedy”
Eric Jan Sluijter, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam, and Erasmus Lecturer, Harvard University
Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 3-5pm
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 (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: History of the Book
Lecture: "News, Newspapers, and the Limits of Copyright in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"
Will Slauter, Université Paris Diderot – Institut Universitaire de France
Room S250, CGIS South, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/news-newspapers-and-limit…
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Play Reading: Knight of the Burning Pestle
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 7pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Arts and Ideas
Screening of “Othello in the Seraglio”, Q&A
Introduction: Helen Greenwald, New England Conservatory
Discussants: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Producer, Composer; Robert Labaree, Co-Producer, Writer; Nick Papps, Director, Cinematographer
Farkas Hall, 10-12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/%E2%80%9Cothello-seraglio…
Thurday, March 14, 2019, 5:30 pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture: "Poet in the Making: Salvation and Cosmology in the Poetry of Hester Pulter"
Wendy Wall, Department of English, Northwestern University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
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!)
Tuesday, March 19, 4:30 P.M.
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Michelle Armstrong-Partida (U. of Texas at El Paso/Institute of Advanced Study,) Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
blogs.brown.edu
A forum for faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars to share work in progress.
Thursday, March 21, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
Special Guests: JesuitOnlineBibliography.com
Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College
To join these online discussions and for additional details please contact the Institute (iajs (at) bc.edu).
*Monday, March 25, 5:00-6:30
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"Leibniz on Vital Principles and Plastic Natures"
Paul Lodge (Oxford)
Robbins Library, Harvard, Emerson Hall 211
(Reception to Follow 6:30-7:00)
Tuesday, March 26th, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Cinnamon"
Ahmed Ragab/ Katherine Park, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cartography
Lecture: Europe and its Amerasian Mirror, 1492-ca. 1700
Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University
Alexander Nagel, New York University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
In most accounts of European explorations and colonizations after 1492, it is assumed that an initial confusion between America and Asia steadily, even swiftly, gave way to the realization that America was a New World. By considering a wide array of texts, maps, objects, and images produced between 1492 and ca. 1700, it becomes possible instead to inhabit a coherent, if malleable, vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North America was an extension of China, and South America was populated by a variety of biblical and Asian sites.
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
Cartography | Mahindra Humanities Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
This seminar explores the spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities. It rethinks cartography as an inter-discipline and investigates key words such as mapping, space, place, and location across languages, cultures, and historical periods.
Thursday, March 28, 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, March 28, 2019, 6:00 PM
Lecture: “Adamastor’s Gate: The World Ocean from Pangea to the Anthropocene”
Steve Mentz, St. John’s University
Boylston Hall, room 403, Harvard University
For more information contact jblackmore (at) fas.harvard.edu
March 29, 2019, 4:30-6pm
Providence College Seminar in the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Workshop: “Exemplary Women: Female Christian Indian Identity in Anglo-America and Ibero America, 1500-1750”
Jessica Criales, Rutgers University
Ruane Center for the Humanities, 202
https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…
Paper will be circulated one week in advance of the meeting. To be added to the mailing list, email request to sharon.murphy(a)providence.edu.
*Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 12 pm
Book Presentation: House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo
Allison Levy, Brown University, in conversation with Sheila Bonde, Brown University.
Rockefeller Library, Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, 10 Prospect Street, Brown University, Providence, RI
https://blogs.brown.edu/libnews/house-of-secrets/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_libnew…>
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
“‘Qualities of Breeding’: Race, Class, and Conduct in The Merchant of Venice”
Patricia Akhimie (English, Rutgers)
Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings 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(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
Website: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar<http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/>
rensem.site.wesleyan.edu
An interdepartmental collaboration. I am delighted to announce our schedule for the Spring 2019 term and hope you will be able to join us for continued lively investigations of issues that are invigorating our scholarly fields.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Dana Liebsohn
Dana Liebsohn (Smith College) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"No Strangers in Trade: Local Residents, Foreign Travelers, and the Art of Pacific Exchange 1750-1850"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Dana Liebsohn<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/04/0…>
Wednesday, Apr. 3, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture: "Marriage and Sacrifice: The Poetics of the Epithalamia"
Ramie Targoff (Brandeis University)
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
In Spenser’s “Epithalamion,” he invokes two figures from classical antiquity who bore children for Jove. Why Spenser invokes Maia and Alcmene, who lay with Jove against their will, is one question to be explored; another is why Spenser suggests that Jove has also laid with his own bride, Elizabeth.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Harry R. McCarthy (Exeter)
"Busy Boys: Youthful Activity on Early Modern Stages"
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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.
Thursday, April 4, 2019, 4:00-6:00pm
Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Sovereignty and the purpose of politics: political thought and religious division c1576-1610"
Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)
CGIS room K-401, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
The Paper will be pre-circulated about a week before the talk. Please email Priyanka Menon at pmenon129 (at) gmail.com for details
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/politicaltheory/home
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 3.00-5.00 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 (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Shakespeare’s Aristotle: The Poetics in Early Modern England"
Micha Lazarus (Cambridge)
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*Thursday, April 11, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
“Puzzles and Posts: Reconstructing the Correspondence of Robert Persons, SJ”
Victor Houliston, University of the Witwatersrand
Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College
To join these online discussions and for additional details please contact the Institute (iajs (at) bc.edu).
Friday, April 12, 2019, 4:15pm
History and Economics Seminar
"The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society"
Francesca Trivellato, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
CGIS-K262, Bowie Vernon Room, 1737 Cambridge Street
*April 18-20, 2019
Harvard English Department Bloomfield Conference
“Reading Then, Reading Now”
Registration is free, but space is limited; if you would like to attend, please reply to Yun Ni (yni (at) fas.harvard.edu) to reserve a spot.
Website: https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-university-department-englis…
Harvard University Department of English Bloomfield Conference | The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies - medieval.fas.harvard.edu<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-university-department-englis…>
medieval.fas.harvard.edu
Reading Then, Reading Now, the 2019 Bloomfield Conference, featuring plenary addresses by Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe (University of California Berkeley), Suzanne Akbari (University of Toronto), and Amy Appleford (Boston University). Click here for a complete program.
Tuesday, April 23, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Mobility and Materiality: The Case of the Florentine Codex"
Isaac Magaña G Cantón, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, Apr. 23, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Amiri Ayanna (grad. stud., History)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
blogs.brown.edu
A forum for faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars to share work in progress.
Tuesday, April 23, 5.15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Republicanism and Humanism"
Gabriele Pedullà (Università degli Studi Roma 3 and IAS Princeton), with a response by James Hankins (Harvard)
Location TBA.
Wednesday, April 24, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
"Lyric Thinking in the Early Modern World: On the Possibilities of Cross-Cultural Study"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale, Comp. Lit),
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
Can we usefully discuss lyric traditions in Europe and South Asia alongside each other—or are the particular literary and linguistic histories of these regions too disparate to make the comparison worthwhile?
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Jillian Luke (Edinburgh)
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*Thursday, April 25, 3:00-4:30
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"Descartes in the Pantheon: The Editorial Work of Claude Clerselier"
Delphine Antoine-Mahut (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Robbins Library, Harvard, Emerson Hall 211
(Reception to Follow 4:30-5:00)
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cartography
Talk Title TBA
Surekha Davies, John Carter Brown Library Fellow
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
Cartography | Mahindra Humanities Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
This seminar explores the spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities. It rethinks cartography as an inter-discipline and investigates key words such as mapping, space, place, and location across languages, cultures, and historical periods.
Tuesday, April 30, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: “Quid pro quo: Europeans and their ‘Skill Capital’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing”
Eugenio Menegon, BU
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Lecture: "Bible exegesis, the ancient Israelites and the early modern question of usury"
Avinoam Naeh (Hebrew University and Harvard), with comment by Sophus Reinert (HBS).
Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Eighteenth Century Studies
Talk Title TBA
Stephanie De Gooyer, Radcliffe Institute, Willamette University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado
Fabrício Prado (The College of William & Mary) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"Inter-American Connections: North-South American Networks in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/05/0…>
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 5:30 pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable discussion: "Reassessing the Field, Passing the Torch"
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join us for a roundtable discussion where we take up the pressing issues touching the study of early modern women, gender, and sexuality in our present historical moment, and help us
welcome the new co-chairs of the seminar, Sarah Wall-Randall (Wellesley) and Erin Murphy (Boston University)
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
Thursday, May 9, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
“The Jesuits as the Last Medieval Order?”
Markus Friedrich, Universität Hamburg
Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College
To join these online discussions and for additional details please contact the Institute (iajs (at) bc.edu).
Save the Date:
June 11–13, 2019
Boston College, Institut for Advanced Jesuit Studies
International Symposium on Jesuit Studies
"Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus"
www.bc.edu/iajs.
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This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the earlymodern 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:mod@fas.harvard.edu>.
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellows' Talks
"Poverty, Disease, and Port Cities: Global Exchanges in Hospital Architecture during the Age of Exploration"
Danielle Abdon Guimarães (Temple University), Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow
"The Black Spaniards: Logics of Inclusion in Colonial Lima"
Marcella Hayes (Harvard University), Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
(The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.)
Website: Fellows' Talks: Danielle Abdon and Marcella Hayes<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/02/2…>
Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Misha Teramura (Toronto)
"The End of More: Dilation and Constraint in the Sir Thomas More Manuscript"
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*Thursday, February 21, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
“The Jesuits as Courtiers in Qing China”
Eugenio Menegon, Boston University
Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College
RSVP<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ft-…> or write to iajs (at) bc.edu
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.
Thursday, Feb 21, 4:00 P.M.
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
“How Men of Letters Invented the Scientific Revolution in the Age of Louis XIV”
Oded Rabinovitch (History, Tel Aviv University)
Location: Winnick Chapel, Brown RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St., Providence
By taking the France of Louis XIV as an example, this talk argues that men of letters quite consciously developed an understanding of recent scientific developments in terms quite close to later understandings of the Scientific Revolution.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Thursday Feb 21, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Seminar in Book History
"The 1517 Theuerdank and Maximilian I's Uses of Print"
Hayley Cotter, PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst, English Department
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/1517-theuerdank-and-maximil…
Friday, February 22, 2019 – 4:00pm
Erasmus Lectures 2019, Harvard University: Art and Competition in the Dutch Golden Age
Lecture: “‘Here is the stock exchange and the money, and the love of art’: On the Value of History Paintings in Rembrandt’s Amsterdam”
Eric Jan Sluijter, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam, and Erasmus Lecturer, Harvard University
Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Friday, February 22, 2019, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Lecture: "Fairyes or Divels?": Why Oberon belongs in Lust's Dominion
Andrea Crow, Boston College
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Monday, February 25, 5.15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History
“Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment”
Colin Kidd (Univ of St Andrews, and CES, Harvard)
Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Harvard Yard.
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
Monday, Feb 25, 5:30pm (Lecture)
Thursday, Feb 28, 10:00 AM-noon and 2:00-4:00 pm (Workshops)
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture and Workshops in Early Book History: Speaker Simon Rettig
Houghton Library Seminar Room, Harvard Yard
Join for a lecture by Dr. Simon Rettig, Assistant Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Space in the workshop is limited; RSVP using this form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us15.list-2Dma…>.
Tuesday, Feb 26, 4:30 pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Adam Teller (History, Brown)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019, 3.00-5.00 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 (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu
Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State) and Katherine Rowe (William & Mary)
State of the Field Discussion
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
February 28, 2019, 4:30-6pm
Providence College Seminar in the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Lecture: “Benevolent Empire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake and Disaster Relief in British North America”
Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University
Ruane Center for the Humanities, LL05
https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…>
Thursday Feb 28, 2019, 4:30-6:30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Renaissance Seminar
"Fortune’s Early Modern Turn: From Pagan Goddess to Proto-Capitalist Economics"
Jane Degenhardt, Professor of English, UMass Amherst
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Professor Degenhardt is working on a new book entitled Fortune’s Empire: Chance, Providence, and Overseas Ventures in Early Modern English Drama. Offering in-depth discussions of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Heywood, and others, this study considers how England’s economic expansion through global commerce and nascent colonial exploration produced new understandings of the roles of fortune, fate, and freewill in the world.
Reception to follow. For more information please contact renaissance (at) english.umass.edu
Website Link<https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-degenhardt-2019>
Friday, March 1st, 2019, 9am-6pm
Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School
Workshop: “Italy and the Origins of Capitalism”
Speakers: Robert Fredona (University of York), Sophus Reinert (Harvard Business School), Jeffrey Miner (Western Kentucky University), Bill Caferro (Vanderbilt University), Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Studies), Maria Fusaro (University of Exeter), Corey Tazzara (Scripps College).
Room 340, Chao Hall, Harvard Business School
Refreshments will be provided, see website for full details and schedule:
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/conferences/italy-and-the-origins-of-capitalism/
Friday, March 1, 2019 – 4:00pm
Erasmus Lectures 2019, Harvard University: Art and Competition in the Dutch Golden Age
Lecture: “Artistic Competition and Creative Imitation: Ter Borch, Van Mieris, Steen, Dou, Metsu and Vermeer”
Eric Jan Sluijter, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam, and Erasmus Lecturer, Harvard University
Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Mar 1, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Seminar in Book History
Lecture: "New Methods for the Study of Reading via Circulation Records and Portraiture: Evidence from the Salem Social Library and Redwood Library"
Sean Moore, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Reception to follow. For more information please contact renaissance (at) english.umass.edu
This presentation will explain the methodological rationale for the study of reading in Prof. Moore’s new book, Slavery and the Making of the Early American Library: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814 (Oxford UP, 2019).
Tuesday, March 5, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group
Lecture: "Galileo’s Courtroom Drama: Defending the Compass in 1607"
Eileen Reeves, Princeton
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 4:15-6pm
Medieval History Workshop and Early Modern Workshop, both Harvard University
Lecture: “The Fragility of Difference: Animals, Humans, and the Renaissance Invention of Race”
Mackenzie Cooley, Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College; Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University
Robinson Hall, Lower Library
Abstract: A neologism coined at a moment when humanity appeared capable of perfecting nature, “race” first referred to the differentiation of animal stock through breeding. With a focus on sixteenth-century Spanish Italy, this talk traces early modern breeders’ self-conscious struggle to produce and maintain race and natural philosophers’ preoccupation with its sheer artifice. As race slipped from animals to humans, what began as a means of designating temporary difference limited to a few generations became transgenerationally concretized in the taxonomy of Spanish Empire. Animal malleability became fixed human difference.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk
Katherine Johnston (Beloit College) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"Atlantic Bodies: Environmental Health and Racial Slavery in the Greater Caribbean"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
(The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.)
Details to follow. Fellow's Talk: Katherine Johnston<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/03/0…>
Thursday, Mar 7, 2019, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Lecture: "'A Strange, Hollow, and Confused Noise': Prospero's Start and the Phenomenology of Magic"
Professor Lyn Tribble, Department of English, University of Connecticut
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/strange-hollow-and-confused-noise-p…
Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: Eighteenth-Century Studies
Roundtable on Political Corruption in the 18th Century
Speakers:
Dwight Codr, English, University of Connecticut
Marilyn Morris, History, University of North Texas
John O’Brien, English, University of Virginia
Elizabeth Wingrove, Political Science, University of Michigan
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
March 8, 2019 – 4:00pm
Erasmus Lectures 2019, Harvard University: Art and Competition in the Dutch Golden Age
Lecture: “Rivals in Rendering Horror: Rembrandt, Rubens and Tragedy”
Eric Jan Sluijter, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam, and Erasmus Lecturer, Harvard University
Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 3-5pm
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 (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: History of the Book
Lecture: "News, Newspapers, and the Limits of Copyright in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"
Will Slauter, Université Paris Diderot – Institut Universitaire de France
Room S250, CGIS South, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/news-newspapers-and-limit…
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Play Reading: Knight of the Burning Pestle
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 7pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Arts and Ideas
Screening of “Othello in the Seraglio”, Q&A
Introduction: Helen Greenwald, New England Conservatory
Discussants: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Producer, Composer; Robert Labaree, Co-Producer, Writer; Nick Papps, Director, Cinematographer
Farkas Hall, 10-12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/%E2%80%9Cothello-seraglio…
Thurday, March 14, 2019, 5:30 pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture: "Poet in the Making: Salvation and Cosmology in the Poetry of Hester Pulter"
Wendy Wall, Department of English, Northwestern University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
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!)
Tuesday, March 19, 4:30 P.M.
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Michelle Armstrong-Partida (U. of Texas at El Paso/Institute of Advanced Study,) Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
*Thursday, March 21, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
Special Guests: JesuitOnlineBibliography.com
Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College
To join these online discussions and for additional details please contact the Institute (iajs (at) bc.edu).
Tuesday, March 26th, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Cinnamon"
Ahmed Ragab/ Katherine Park, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cartography
Lecture: Europe and its Amerasian Mirror, 1492-ca. 1700
Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University
Alexander Nagel, New York University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
In most accounts of European explorations and colonizations after 1492, it is assumed that an initial confusion between America and Asia steadily, even swiftly, gave way to the realization that America was a New World. By considering a wide array of texts, maps, objects, and images produced between 1492 and ca. 1700, it becomes possible instead to inhabit a coherent, if malleable, vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North America was an extension of China, and South America was populated by a variety of biblical and Asian sites.
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
**Thursday, March 28, 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.
March 29, 2019, 4:30-6pm
Providence College Seminar in the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Workshop: “Exemplary Women: Female Christian Indian Identity in Anglo-America and Ibero America, 1500-1750”
Jessica Criales, Rutgers University
Ruane Center for the Humanities, 202
https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…>
Paper will be circulated one week in advance of the meeting. To be added to the mailing list, email request to sharon.murphy(a)providence.edu<mailto:sharon.murphy@providence.edu>.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
“‘Qualities of Breeding’: Race, Class, and Conduct in The Merchant of Venice”
Patricia Akhimie (English, Rutgers)
Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings 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(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
Website: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar<http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/>
rensem.site.wesleyan.edu
An interdepartmental collaboration. I am delighted to announce our schedule for the Spring 2019 term and hope you will be able to join us for continued lively investigations of issues that are invigorating our scholarly fields.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Dana Liebsohn
Dana Liebsohn (Smith College) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"No Strangers in Trade: Local Residents, Foreign Travelers, and the Art of Pacific Exchange 1750-1850"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Dana Liebsohn<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/04/0…>
Wednesday, Apr. 3, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture: "Marriage and Sacrifice: The Poetics of the Epithalamia"
Ramie Targoff (Brandeis University)
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
In Spenser’s “Epithalamion,” he invokes two figures from classical antiquity who bore children for Jove. Why Spenser invokes Maia and Alcmene, who lay with Jove against their will, is one question to be explored; another is why Spenser suggests that Jove has also laid with his own bride, Elizabeth.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Harry R. McCarthy (Exeter)
"Busy Boys: Youthful Activity on Early Modern Stages"
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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.
Thursday, April 4, 2019, 4:00-6:00pm
Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Sovereignty and the purpose of politics: political thought and religious division c1576-1610"
Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)
CGIS room K-401, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
The Paper will be pre-circulated about a week before the talk. Please email Priyanka Menon at pmenon129 (at) gmail.com for details
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/politicaltheory/home
[https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/politicaltheory/files/harvard-college…]<https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/politicaltheory/home>
Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium<https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/politicaltheory/home>
projects.iq.harvard.edu
The Department of Government hosts a colloquium for visiting scholars to present current or recently completed work in political theory. Colloquium papers cover a broad range of topics and approaches of interest to the political theory community, including normative political philosophy, social and legal theory, and the history of political thought.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 3.00-5.00 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 (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Shakespeare’s Aristotle: The Poetics in Early Modern England"
Micha Lazarus (Cambridge)
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*Thursday, April 11, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
“Puzzles and Posts: Reconstructing the Correspondence of Robert Persons, SJ”
Victor Houliston, University of the Witwatersrand
Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College
To join these online discussions and for additional details please contact the Institute (iajs (at) bc.edu).
Friday, April 12, 2019, 4:15pm
History and Economics Seminar
"The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society"
Francesca Trivellato, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
CGIS-K262, Bowie Vernon Room, 1737 Cambridge Street
*April 18-20, 2019
Harvard English Department Bloomfield Conference
“Reading Then, Reading Now”
Registration is free, but space is limited; if you would like to attend, please reply to Yun Ni (yni (at) fas.harvard.edu) to reserve a spot.
Website: https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-university-department-englis…
Harvard University Department of English Bloomfield Conference | The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies - medieval.fas.harvard.edu<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-university-department-englis…>
medieval.fas.harvard.edu
Reading Then, Reading Now, the 2019 Bloomfield Conference, featuring plenary addresses by Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe (University of California Berkeley), Suzanne Akbari (University of Toronto), and Amy Appleford (Boston University). Click here for a complete program.
Tuesday, April 23, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Mobility and Materiality: The Case of the Florentine Codex"
Isaac Magaña G Cantón, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, Apr. 23, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Amiri Ayanna (grad. stud., History)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Tuesday, April 23, 5.15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Republicanism and Humanism"
Gabriele Pedullà (Università degli Studi Roma 3 and IAS Princeton), with a response by James Hankins (Harvard)
Location TBA.
Wednesday, April 24, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
"Lyric Thinking in the Early Modern World: On the Possibilities of Cross-Cultural Study"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale, Comp. Lit),
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
Can we usefully discuss lyric traditions in Europe and South Asia alongside each other—or are the particular literary and linguistic histories of these regions too disparate to make the comparison worthwhile?
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Jillian Luke (Edinburgh)
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cartography
Talk Title TBA
Surekha Davies, John Carter Brown Library Fellow
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
Tuesday, April 30, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: “Quid pro quo: Europeans and their ‘Skill Capital’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing”
Eugenio Menegon, BU
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Lecture: "Bible exegesis, the ancient Israelites and the early modern question of usury"
Avinoam Naeh (Hebrew University and Harvard), with comment by Sophus Reinert (HBS).
Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Eighteenth Century Studies
Talk Title TBA
Stephanie De Gooyer, Radcliffe Institute, Willamette University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado
Fabrício Prado (The College of William & Mary) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"Inter-American Connections: North-South American Networks in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/05/0…>
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 5:30 pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable discussion: "Reassessing the Field, Passing the Torch"
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join us for a roundtable discussion where we take up the pressing issues touching the study of early modern women, gender, and sexuality in our present historical moment, and help us
welcome the new co-chairs of the seminar, Sarah Wall-Randall (Wellesley) and Erin Murphy (Boston University)
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
*Thursday, May 9, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
“The Jesuits as the Last Medieval Order?”
Markus Friedrich, Universität Hamburg
Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College
To join these online discussions and for additional details please contact the Institute (iajs (at) bc.edu).
Save the Date:
June 11–13, 2019
Boston College, Institut for Advanced Jesuit Studies
International Symposium on Jesuit Studies
"Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus"
www.bc.edu/iajs.
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Upcoming Events
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2019, 3.00-5.00 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 (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu.
**Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk
"Reframing Worlds: Translating Travel Literature and Early Modern Print Culture"
Myron McShane (University of Toronto), R. David Parsons Fellow
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
(The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.)
Website: Fellow's Talk: Myron McShane<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/02/1…>
**Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
“Contentious Objects: Christian Images in the Early Modern Maghrib.”
Daniel Hershenzon (Comparative Spanish/Mediterranean History, U Conn)
Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings 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.
Website: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar<http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/>
rensem.site.wesleyan.edu
An interdepartmental collaboration. I am delighted to announce our schedule for the Spring 2019 term and hope you will be able to join us for continued lively investigations of issues that are invigorating our scholarly fields.
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.
Tuesday, February 19, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group
Lecture: "Kābūs: The Materiality of Nightmares in Islamicate Medical Literature, 1100-1500"
Shireen Hamza, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellows' Talks
"Poverty, Disease, and Port Cities: Global Exchanges in Hospital Architecture during the Age of Exploration"
Danielle Abdon Guimarães (Temple University), Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow
"The Black Spaniards: Logics of Inclusion in Colonial Lima"
Marcella Hayes (Harvard University), Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
(The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.)
Website: Fellows' Talks: Danielle Abdon and Marcella Hayes<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/02/2…>
Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Misha Teramura (Toronto)
"The End of More: Dilation and Constraint in the Sir Thomas More Manuscript"
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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.
**Thursday, Feb 21, 4:00 P.M.
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
“How Men of Letters Invented the Scientific Revolution in the Age of Louis XIV”
Oded Rabinovitch (History, Tel Aviv University)
Location: Winnick Chapel, Brown RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St., Providence
By taking the France of Louis XIV as an example, this talk argues that men of letters quite consciously developed an understanding of recent scientific developments in terms quite close to later understandings of the Scientific Revolution.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
blogs.brown.edu
A forum for faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars to share work in progress.
Thursday Feb 21, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Seminar in Book History
"The 1517 Theuerdank and Maximilian I's Uses of Print"
Hayley Cotter, PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst, English Department
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/1517-theuerdank-and-maximil…
"The 1517 Theuerdank and Maximilian I's Uses of Print," a talk by Hayley Cotter, PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst, English Department | Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies | UMass Amherst<https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/1517-theuerdank-and-maximil…>
content.hfa.umass.edu
Five College Seminar in Book History. UMass doctoral candidate Hayley Cotter will be presenting on the printing activity of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519), who patronized the great woodcut artists of the Northern Renaissance to help execute his projects.
*Friday, February 22, 2019 – 4:00pm
Erasmus Lectures 2019, Harvard University: Art and Competition in the Dutch Golden Age
Lecture: “‘Here is the stock exchange and the money, and the love of art’: On the Value of History Paintings in Rembrandt’s Amsterdam”
Eric Jan Sluijter, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam, and Erasmus Lecturer, Harvard University
Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Friday, February 22, 2019, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Lecture: "Fairyes or Divels?": Why Oberon belongs in Lust's Dominion
Andrea Crow, Boston College
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Shakespearean Studies | Mahindra Humanities Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
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.
**Monday, February 25, 5.15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History
“Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment”
Colin Kidd (Univ of St Andrews, and CES, Harvard)
Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Harvard Yard.
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
Monday, Feb 25, 5:30pm (Lecture)
Thursday, Feb 28, 10:00 AM-noon and 2:00-4:00 pm (Workshops)
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture and Workshops in Early Book History: Speaker Simon Rettig
Houghton Library Seminar Room, Harvard Yard
Join for a lecture by Dr. Simon Rettig, Assistant Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Space in the workshop is limited; RSVP using this form.
Tuesday, Feb 26, 4:30 pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Adam Teller (History, Brown)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
blogs.brown.edu
A forum for faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars to share work in progress.
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019, 3.00-5.00 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 (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu
Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State) and Katherine Rowe (William & Mary)
State of the Field Discussion
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
February 28, 2019, 4:30-6pm
Providence College Seminar in the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Lecture: “Benevolent Empire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake and Disaster Relief in British North America”
Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University
Ruane Center for the Humanities, LL05
https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…
**Thursday Feb 28, 2019, 4:30-6:30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Renaissance Seminar
"Fortune’s Early Modern Turn: From Pagan Goddess to Proto-Capitalist Economics"
Jane Degenhardt, Professor of English, UMass Amherst
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Professor Degenhardt is working on a new book entitled Fortune’s Empire: Chance, Providence, and Overseas Ventures in Early Modern English Drama. Offering in-depth discussions of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Heywood, and others, this study considers how England’s economic expansion through global commerce and nascent colonial exploration produced new understandings of the roles of fortune, fate, and freewill in the world.
Reception to follow. For more information please contact renaissance (at) english.umass.edu
Website Link<https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-degenhardt-2019>
*Friday, March 1st, 2019, 9am-6pm
Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School
Workshop: “Italy and the Origins of Capitalism”
Speakers: Robert Fredona (University of York), Sophus Reinert (Harvard Business School), Jeffrey Miner (Western Kentucky University), Bill Caferro (Vanderbilt University), Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Studies), Maria Fusaro (University of Exeter), Corey Tazzara (Scripps College).
Room 340, Chao Hall, Harvard Business School
Refreshments will be provided, see website for full details and schedule:
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/conferences/italy-and-the-origins-of-capitalism/
*Friday, March 1, 2019 – 4:00pm
Erasmus Lectures 2019, Harvard University: Art and Competition in the Dutch Golden Age
Lecture: “Artistic Competition and Creative Imitation: Ter Borch, Van Mieris, Steen, Dou, Metsu and Vermeer”
Eric Jan Sluijter, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam, and Erasmus Lecturer, Harvard University
Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
**Mar 1, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Seminar in Book History
Lecture: "New Methods for the Study of Reading via Circulation Records and Portraiture: Evidence from the Salem Social Library and Redwood Library"
Sean Moore, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Reception to follow. For more information please contact renaissance (at) english.umass.edu
This presentation will explain the methodological rationale for the study of reading in Prof. Moore’s new book, Slavery and the Making of the Early American Library: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814 (Oxford UP, 2019).
Tuesday, March 5, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group
Lecture: "Galileo’s Courtroom Drama: Defending the Compass in 1607"
Eileen Reeves, Princeton
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 4:15-6pm
Medieval History Workshop and Early Modern Workshop, both Harvard University
Lecture: “The Fragility of Difference: Animals, Humans, and the Renaissance Invention of Race”
Mackenzie Cooley, Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College; Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University
Robinson Hall, Lower Library
Abstract: A neologism coined at a moment when humanity appeared capable of perfecting nature, “race” first referred to the differentiation of animal stock through breeding. With a focus on sixteenth-century Spanish Italy, this talk traces early modern breeders’ self-conscious struggle to produce and maintain race and natural philosophers’ preoccupation with its sheer artifice. As race slipped from animals to humans, what began as a means of designating temporary difference limited to a few generations became transgenerationally concretized in the taxonomy of Spanish Empire. Animal malleability became fixed human difference.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk
Katherine Johnston (Beloit College) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"Atlantic Bodies: Environmental Health and Racial Slavery in the Greater Caribbean"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
(The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.)
Details to follow. Fellow's Talk: Katherine Johnston<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/03/0…>
Thursday, Mar 7, 2019, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Lecture: "'A Strange, Hollow, and Confused Noise': Prospero's Start and the Phenomenology of Magic"
Professor Lyn Tribble, Department of English, University of Connecticut
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/strange-hollow-and-confused-noise-p…
"'A Strange, Hollow, and Confused Noise': Prospero's Start and the Phenomenology of Magic," a talk by Professor Lyn Tribble, Department of English, University of Connecticut | Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies | UMass Amherst<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/strange-hollow-and-confused-noise-p…>
www.umass.edu
Five College Renaissance Seminar Professor Lyn Tribble's research interests center around Shakespeare, performance, memory, and skill. She explores theatrical history through the lens of distributed cognition, asking how Shakespeare’s company met the astonishing cognitive demands of their profession, particularly the performance of up to six different plays a week.
Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: Eighteenth-Century Studies
Roundtable on Political Corruption in the 18th Century
Speakers:
Dwight Codr, English, University of Connecticut
Marilyn Morris, History, University of North Texas
John O’Brien, English, University of Virginia
Elizabeth Wingrove, Political Science, University of Michigan
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
*March 8, 2019 – 4:00pm
Erasmus Lectures 2019, Harvard University: Art and Competition in the Dutch Golden Age
Lecture: “Rivals in Rendering Horror: Rembrandt, Rubens and Tragedy”
Eric Jan Sluijter, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam, and Erasmus Lecturer, Harvard University
Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 3-5pm
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 (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: History of the Book
Lecture: "News, Newspapers, and the Limits of Copyright in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"
Will Slauter, Université Paris Diderot – Institut Universitaire de France
Room S250, CGIS South, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/news-newspapers-and-limit…
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Play Reading: Knight of the Burning Pestle
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*Thurday, March 14, 2019, 5:30 pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture: "Poet in the Making: Salvation and Cosmology in the Poetry of Hester Pulter"
Wendy Wall, Department of English, Northwestern University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
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!)
Tuesday, March 19, 4:30 P.M.
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Michelle Armstrong-Partida (U. of Texas at El Paso/Institute of Advanced Study,) Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
blogs.brown.edu
A forum for faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars to share work in progress.
Tuesday, March 26th, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Cinnamon"
Ahmed Ragab/ Katherine Park, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cartography
Lecture: Europe and its Amerasian Mirror, 1492-ca. 1700
Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University
Alexander Nagel, New York University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
In most accounts of European explorations and colonizations after 1492, it is assumed that an initial confusion between America and Asia steadily, even swiftly, gave way to the realization that America was a New World. By considering a wide array of texts, maps, objects, and images produced between 1492 and ca. 1700, it becomes possible instead to inhabit a coherent, if malleable, vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North America was an extension of China, and South America was populated by a variety of biblical and Asian sites.
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
Cartography | Mahindra Humanities Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
This seminar explores the spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities. It rethinks cartography as an inter-discipline and investigates key words such as mapping, space, place, and location across languages, cultures, and historical periods.
Friday, March 29, 2019, 4:30-6pm
Providence College Seminar in the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Workshop: “Exemplary Women: Female Christian Indian Identity in Anglo-America and Ibero America, 1500-1750”
Jessica Criales, Rutgers University
Ruane Center for the Humanities, 202
https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…
Paper will be circulated one week in advance of the meeting. To be added to the mailing list, email request to sharon.murphy(a)providence.edu.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
“‘Qualities of Breeding’: Race, Class, and Conduct in The Merchant of Venice”
Patricia Akhimie (English, Rutgers)
Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings 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(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
Website: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar<http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/>
rensem.site.wesleyan.edu
An interdepartmental collaboration. I am delighted to announce our schedule for the Spring 2019 term and hope you will be able to join us for continued lively investigations of issues that are invigorating our scholarly fields.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Dana Liebsohn
Dana Liebsohn (Smith College) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"No Strangers in Trade: Local Residents, Foreign Travelers, and the Art of Pacific Exchange 1750-1850"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Dana Liebsohn<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/04/0…>
Wednesday, Apr. 3, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture: "Marriage and Sacrifice: The Poetics of the Epithalamia"
Ramie Targoff (Brandeis University)
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
In Spenser’s “Epithalamion,” he invokes two figures from classical antiquity who bore children for Jove. Why Spenser invokes Maia and Alcmene, who lay with Jove against their will, is one question to be explored; another is why Spenser suggests that Jove has also laid with his own bride, Elizabeth.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Harry R. McCarthy (Exeter)
"Busy Boys: Youthful Activity on Early Modern Stages"
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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.
Thursday, April 4, 2019, 4:00-6:00pm
Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Sovereignty and the purpose of politics: political thought and religious division c1576-1610"
Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)
CGIS room K-401, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
The Paper will be pre-circulated about a week before the talk. Please email Priyanka Menon at pmenon129 (at) gmail.com for details
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/politicaltheory/home
[https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/politicaltheory/files/harvard-college…]<https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/politicaltheory/home>
Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium<https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/politicaltheory/home>
projects.iq.harvard.edu
The Department of Government hosts a colloquium for visiting scholars to present current or recently completed work in political theory. Colloquium papers cover a broad range of topics and approaches of interest to the political theory community, including normative political philosophy, social and legal theory, and the history of political thought.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 3.00-5.00 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 (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Shakespeare’s Aristotle: The Poetics in Early Modern England"
Micha Lazarus (Cambridge)
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*Friday, April 12, 2019, 4:15pm
History and Economics Seminar
"The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society"
Francesca Trivellato, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
CGIS-K262, Bowie Vernon Room, 1737 Cambridge Street
Tuesday, April 23, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Mobility and Materiality: The Case of the Florentine Codex"
Isaac Magaña G Cantón, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, Apr. 23, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Amiri Ayanna (grad. stud., History)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
blogs.brown.edu
A forum for faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars to share work in progress.
Tuesday, April 23, 5.15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Republicanism and Humanism"
Gabriele Pedullà (Università degli Studi Roma 3 and IAS Princeton), with a response by James Hankins (Harvard)
Location TBA.
Wednesday, April 24, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
"Lyric Thinking in the Early Modern World: On the Possibilities of Cross-Cultural Study"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale, Comp. Lit),
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
Can we usefully discuss lyric traditions in Europe and South Asia alongside each other—or are the particular literary and linguistic histories of these regions too disparate to make the comparison worthwhile?
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Jillian Luke (Edinburgh)
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cartography
Talk Title TBA
Surekha Davies, John Carter Brown Library Fellow
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
Cartography | Mahindra Humanities Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
This seminar explores the spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities. It rethinks cartography as an inter-discipline and investigates key words such as mapping, space, place, and location across languages, cultures, and historical periods.
Tuesday, April 30, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: “Quid pro quo: Europeans and their ‘Skill Capital’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing”
Eugenio Menegon, BU
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Lecture: "Bible exegesis, the ancient Israelites and the early modern question of usury"
Avinoam Naeh (Hebrew University and Harvard), with comment by Sophus Reinert (HBS).
Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Eighteenth Century Studies
Talk Title TBA
Stephanie De Gooyer, Radcliffe Institute, Willamette University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado
Fabrício Prado (The College of William & Mary) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"Inter-American Connections: North-South American Networks in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/05/0…>
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 5:30 pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable discussion: "Reassessing the Field, Passing the Torch"
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join us for a roundtable discussion where we take up the pressing issues touching the study of early modern women, gender, and sexuality in our present historical moment, and help us
welcome the new co-chairs of the seminar, Sarah Wall-Randall (Wellesley) and Erin Murphy (Boston University)
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
Save the Date:
June 11–13, 2019
Boston College, Institut for Advanced Jesuit Studies
International Symposium on Jesuit Studies
"Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus"
www.bc.edu/iajs.
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