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
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
Please email Iman Darwish<mailto:imandarwish@g.harvard.edu> to RSVP and to receive a copy of the paper
Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Renaissance Wednesday
“Philomela as Victim: Philomela as Monster,” a talk by
Daniel Armenti, PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst, Comparative Literature
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, 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.
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 5:30pm reception, 6:00 seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center
“Props that Play Themselves: Books Onstage in Marlowe and Heywood”
Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College
Mahindra Humanities Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Room 133
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
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/
Postponed :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
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, all day
First Annual Boston-Area Digital Scholarship Symposium
Harvard, Smith Campus Center, Harvard Square
This event will bring together scholars from the greater Boston area to share their work in digital scholarship. The focus of this year’s symposium is “Institutional Models of Collaborative Support”, and the event will feature talks, panel discussions, and poster presentations. If you are interested, you may register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-annual-boston-area-digital-scholarship-s…. If you have graduate students who would like to showcase a digital project, please share this call for posters with them: https://goo.gl/forms/saz0ITiOCi7CAzZ72.
First Annual Boston Area Digital Scholarship Symposium<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-annual-boston-area-digital-scholarship-s…>
www.eventbrite.com
On April 10th, 2019, Harvard University will host the first annual Boston Area Digital Scholarship Symposium. This event will bring together scholars from the greater Boston area to share their work in digital scholarship. The focus of this year's symposium is "Institutional Models of Collaborative Support", and the event will feature talks, panel discussions, and poster presentations. Invited speakers are affiliated with Boston College, Boston University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and Tufts University. A light breakfast, lunch, and refreshments during the day will be provided. Please fill out this form if you have any dietary requirements. FAQs Is there an event website? https://harvard-dssg.github.io/boston-area-dss/ What are my transportation options? Please see the Smith Campus Center's comprehensive visitor resources page for public transportation and parking options. How do I connect to Harvard wireless? Harvard is a part of eduroam. If your ins
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
Location: Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (Simboli Hall, Boston College: 9 Lake Street, Brighton MA), OR participate via Zoom Video Conference by replying at this link: RSVP<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_…>
Further information: https://jesuitportal.bc.edu/news/february-2019-new-season-of-jesuit-studies…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__jesuitportal.bc.edu_ne…>
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, April 23, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: The 2019 Collins Lecture
“Shakespeare’s Reformation: Thinking with Conversion”
Paul Yachnin, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies (McGill University)
The Old Chapel, 144 Hicks Way, Amherst, 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)
Belfer Case Study Room S020, CGIS South, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
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)
Friday, April 26, 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!)
*Sat. April 27, 2019, 9am-4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Raymond J. Lord Symposium on Historical European Martial Arts
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
This day-long event will feature presentations on martial traditions and their social contexts. Our keynote speaker this year is Ann Tlusty<https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/arts-and-sciences-college-of/academic-de…>, Professor of History at Bucknell University and author of The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms, and Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany.
There is no charge for attendance but there is a $10 fee for lunch. Pre-registration is required by April 25. Email jgoodhind (at) hfa.umass.edu
**Monday, April 29, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cartography
"Knowing with Images: Natural History and Cartography in the Global Renaissance"
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).
Thursday, May 9, 2019, 5:30PM
Lecture: “Printing Books at the Blind Man’s Arch: Translation and Circulation in the Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment”
Neil Safier, Brown Univ.
Houghton Library, Harvard Yard
For more information contact jblackmore (at) fas.harvard.edu
*Wednesday May 15, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
“Margaret Cavendish’s Fiction of Science”
Debapriya Sarkar (English, 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.
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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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<mailto:mod@fas.harvard.edu>.
Upcoming Events
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…
**Tuesday, March 19, 4:30 P.M.
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
“Concubinage and the Margins of Marriage”
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/ (Pre-circulated paper)
Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 5:15-7:15
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Medieval Studies Seminar
“The Classical Influence in Anglo-Saxon Poetry: An Introduction to the CLASP project”
Colleen Curran, Postdoctoral Researcher, Corpus Christi College Oxford
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Renaissance Wednesday
“Imitating the Words’ in Music: A View from the Poetics Commentary Tradition”
Russell O’Rourke, PhD Candidate, Columbis University, Music
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
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, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Renaissance Wednesday
“Philomela as Victim: Philomela as Monster,” a talk by
Daniel Armenti, PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst, Comparative Literature
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, 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.
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…<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>.
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 5:30pm reception, 6:00 seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center
“Props that Play Themselves: Books Onstage in Marlowe and Heywood”
Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College
Mahindra Humanities Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Room 133
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
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/
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, all day
First Annual Boston-Area Digital Scholarship Symposium
Harvard, Smith Campus Center, Harvard Square
This event will bring together scholars from the greater Boston area to share their work in digital scholarship. The focus of this year’s symposium is “Institutional Models of Collaborative Support”, and the event will feature talks, panel discussions, and poster presentations. If you are interested, you may register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-annual-boston-area-digital-scholarship-s…. If you have graduate students who would like to showcase a digital project, please share this call for posters with them: https://goo.gl/forms/saz0ITiOCi7CAzZ72.
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…
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, April 23, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: The 2019 Collins Lecture
“Shakespeare’s Reformation: Thinking with Conversion”
Paul Yachnin, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies (McGill University)
The Old Chapel, 144 Hicks Way, Amherst, 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)
Belfer Case Study Room S020, CGIS South, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
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)
Friday, April 26, 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!)
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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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<mailto:mod@fas.harvard.edu>.
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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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…>
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<mailto:mod@fas.harvard.edu>.
Upcoming Events
*Wed March 6, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
A Talk on Early Music with Ian Watson, Artistic Director of Arcadia Players
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
More Information at https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/talk-early-music-ian-watson…
A Talk on Early Music with Ian Watson, Artistic Director of Arcadia Players | Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies | UMass Amherst<https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/talk-early-music-ian-watson…>
content.hfa.umass.edu
Renaissance Wednesday Ian Watson is Artistic Director for Arcadia Players, a period-instrument ensemble. An accomplished orchestral conductor, choral director, organist, harpsichordist, and pianist, Watson has performed as as soloist and conductor with the London Symphony, London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, Handel and Haydn Society, Bach Society, among
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
Harvard University Asia Center<https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/early-modern-global-asia-407>
asiacenter.harvard.edu
Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) South, 1st Floor 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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…
**New Date: Friday, April 26, 2019, 12pm **instead of March 15!**
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 19, 2019, 5:15-7:15
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Medieval Studies Seminar
“The Classical Influence in Anglo-Saxon Poetry: An Introduction to the CLASP project”
Colleen Curran, Postdoctoral Researcher, Corpus Christi College Oxford
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
*Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Renaissance Wednesday
“Imitating the Words’ in Music: A View from the Poetics Commentary Tradition”
Russell O’Rourke, PhD Candidate, Columbis University, Music
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
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, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Renaissance Wednesday
“Philomela as Victim: Philomela as Monster,” a talk by
Daniel Armenti, PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst, Comparative Literature
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, 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://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>.
https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…>
*Friday, March 29, 2019 - 5:30pm reception, 6:00 seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center
“Props that Play Themselves: Books Onstage in Marlowe and Heywood”
Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College
Mahindra Humanities Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Room 133
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
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
[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/
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)
**Friday, April 26, 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!)
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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