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Late Breaking News! Room Change: **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 NEW ROOM: Room 201, Warren House, Harvard http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography

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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. Upcoming Events 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…<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-university-department-englis…><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. *Monday, April 22, 2019, 5-7pm De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies 2019, Convenor: Francesco Erspamer Book Presentation and Discussion--Two Books on Machiavelli: Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics<https://press.princeton.edu/titles/14172.html> (Princeton University Press), John P. McCormick (University of Chicago); Machiavelli in Tumult: The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Conflictualism<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/machiavelli-in-tumult/46F4B1E584027400…> (Cambridge University Press), Gabriele Pedullà (Università di Roma Tre and Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton) IN ENGLISH. Respondents: Anne Ratnoff and Melissa Vise. Second respondents: Amelia Linsky and Valentina Frasisti Room 403, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard https://debosiscolloquium.wordpress.com/ 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 In this lecture Yachnin rethinks his “trauma theory” account of the theatre. He suggests that, while a crisis of conversion was indeed a major feature of Shakespeare’s world and is a central and underrecognized feature of his drama, Shakespeare is at his most creative and most influential when he thinks with conversion rather than thinking about it. **Tuesday, Apr. 23, 4:30pm Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar Lecture: “An Argument for the Moderation of Miracles: Dorothea von Hof’s Book of Godly Love and the Sum of All Virtue” Amiri Ayanna (grad. stud., History) Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence RI To receive a copy of the paper, please email maria_sokolova (at) brown.edu 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) *Thursday April 25, 2019, 6pm Brown University, Department of Hispanic Studies Talk: "Pequeñas vidas. ¿Cómo hacer la historia de la 'gente menuda' en el Siglo de Oro?" Fernando Bouza (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) IN SPANISH Rochambeau House, 84 Prospect St, Providence, RI 02906 *Friday April 26, 12 noon John Carter Brown Library and the Department of Hispanic Studies, Brown University Workshop Fernando Bouza (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) IN SPANISH 94 George St, Providence, RI 02906 **Friday, April 26, 2019, 12pm Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Huchins Center, Harvard, Seminar Meeting Lecture: “Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Black Militiamen, Tribute, and Privilege” Sally Hayes (Harvard) Hutchins Center Seminar Room, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 3R, Cambridge MA https://alari.fas.harvard.edu/event/seminar-series-cape-sword-and-dagger-bl… *Friday, April 26, 3:00pm Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies and Burns Library, Boston College "Material Cultures of Devotion in Early Modern Jesuit Missions: A Roundtable Discussion" Speakers: Laura Masur (Boston University) – Sacred Objects in the Archaeological Record of the Maryland Mission Eugenio Menegon (Boston University) – Healing and Converting: The Power of Sacred Objects in the China Jesuit Mission Aislinn Muller (Boston College) – Sacramentals, Dissent, and Resistance in Jesuit Missions to Early Modern England James O’Toole (Boston College) – Chair and Respondent Location: Burns Library, Boston College https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegXBqFm2ara0KRyILFIxUblvNCQD27paG…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_…> **Friday April 26, 5:30 reception, 6:00 seminar Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Shakespearean Studies Seminar "Teach You Our Princess English: Language and Diplomacy in Shakespeare's Henry V." Andrew Fleck, University of Texas, El Paso Mahindra Humanities Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month 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 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 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, co-chairs Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie (outgoing); co-chairs Erin Murphy and Sarah Wall-Randall (incoming) Roundtable: "Reassessing the Field, Passing the Torch: A roundtable and open discussion, reception and celebration as the seminar leadership changes hands" Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m… *Friday May 3, 2019, talk no 4 at the symposium held between 8:45 and 5:30pm Symposium Mecca: the Lived City Lecture: “Between Empire and Sacred Space: Mecca as a Global Space in the Early Modern World” Tyler Kynn (Yale University) location to be announced (on Harvard campus) 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/ 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. Saturday, Oct 5, 2019 New England Renaissance Conference (NERC): Motion, Rhythm, Shifts Chace auditorium, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence We invite abstracts no longer than 300 words accompanied by a title and a brief CV to be sent to: prihouet(a)risd.edu by May 1, 2019. In 2019, the New England Renaissance Conference is hosted for the first time at Rhode Island School of Design, or RISD (pronounced “RIZ-dee”). We invite papers that explore the notion of rhythm in the period of ca. 1400–1700. Scholars from disciplines as varied as history, art history, literature and poetry, religion, theatre, music, environment, studio art and design are welcomed. The idea of motion, rhythm, and shifts is rich in significance for the Early Modern period as it touches upon global concepts, material culture, ritual, performance, and identity. Paper topics include, but are not limited to: - temporal aspects (codification of time, recurrence of a specific phenomenon, the timing of a performance, stages in the production of art, series, metamorphoses) - movements and crossings (body movements, dance, inter-arts, transportation / re-location of people, things, images, or relics) - mobilities (migrations, trade patterns, traveling artists, scansion of narratives or poetry, translations) - ritual and ceremonies (processions, parades, ceremonial entries, relics transfers, etc.) *If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place in the greater Boston area. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. It would be a great help if you could follow this format: Day, date, time Sponsor (if available) Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable) Location (Building, Room, St., Address, Institution, City, State) * Event must take place in the greater Boston area. Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences) Website URL RSVP or Registration information/link

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Earlymodern Studies, from April 3, 2019

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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. Upcoming Events *Wednesday, April 3, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lecture: “The Shulchan Arukh in Early Modern Ashkenaz: Organization, Technology and a Revolution in Jewish Legal Thinking” Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Harvard Society of Fellows Harvard Law School, Hauser Hall 101 Borenstein Meeting Room 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, 4:30 - 6:00 pm Lecture: "Undesired Bodies: Figures of Continuity and Discontinuity in the Mediterranean of Lady Montagu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us8.list-2Dman…>" Jocelyne Dakhlia, Director of Studies, Center for Historical Research, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 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 *Thursday, April 4, 2019, 6-7:30 pm Lecture: “The Uses of Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums, and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial Tunisia” Ridha Moumni, Curator and cultural advisor, Tunis; Harvard AKPIA Fellow Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge, MA Lectures are free and open to the public. For further information, email agakhan (at) fas.harvard.edu 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 Further information: https://jesuitportal.bc.edu/news/february-2019-new-season-of-jesuit-studies… 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 Thursday, April 18, 2019, 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center's Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium seminar series, chaired by Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Lecture: “Only a woman by her clothing”: Becoming a Woman Artist in Revolutionary-era Britain and France Dr. Paris Spies-Gans, Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows at Harvard University Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 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!) *Friday April 26, 5:30 reception, 6:00 seminar Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Shakespearean Studies Seminar "'Unspeaking Detraction': Malcolm, Language, and Politics in Macbeth 4.3" William C. Carroll, Boston University Mahindra Humanities Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month 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… Women and Culture in the Early Modern World | Mahindra Humanities Center - Welcome to Mahindra Humanities Center | Mahindra Humanities Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu This seminar considers how gender is implicated in the formation of the political, social, and artistic cultures of the early modern period. Topics addressed include religious and allegorical representations of and by women; the economic and legal status of women in specific communities; representations of male and female bodies in literature, art, and science; and applications of competing ... 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. Saturday, Oct 5, 2019 New England Renaissance Conference (NERC): Motion, Rhythm, Shifts Chace auditorium, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence We invite abstracts no longer than 300 words accompanied by a title and a brief CV to be sent to: prihouet(a)risd.edu<mailto:prihouet@risd.edu> by May 1, 2019. In 2019, the New England Renaissance Conference is hosted for the first time at Rhode Island School of Design, or RISD (pronounced “RIZ-dee”). We invite papers that explore the notion of rhythm in the period of ca. 1400–1700. Scholars from disciplines as varied as history, art history, literature and poetry, religion, theatre, music, environment, studio art and design are welcomed. The idea of motion, rhythm, and shifts is rich in significance for the Early Modern period as it touches upon global concepts, material culture, ritual, performance, and identity. Paper topics include, but are not limited to: - temporal aspects (codification of time, recurrence of a specific phenomenon, the timing of a performance, stages in the production of art, series, metamorphoses) - movements and crossings (body movements, dance, inter-arts, transportation / re-location of people, things, images, or relics) - mobilities (migrations, trade patterns, traveling artists, scansion of narratives or poetry, translations) - ritual and ceremonies (processions, parades, ceremonial entries, relics transfers, etc.) *If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place in the greater Boston area. 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