Greetings and Welcome Back to the New Academic Year!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1800, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu .
Upcoming Events
Tue 9/10/2019 5:30pm
Early Modern History Workshop Aperitivo featuring flash talks by Kate van Orden (Music), “Metrolingualism in Print”; Adam Beaver (Bok Center), “Some Early Modern Origins of Modern Academic Culture”; Katharina Piechocki (Comparative Literature), "Cartographic Humanism and the Making of Early Modern Europe”; and David Hall (Harvard Divinity School), “Lessons learned from doing comparative and Atlantic history of the Reformation?”
Location: Robinson Hall History Department Conference Room (formerly Lower Library), Harvard Yard
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
Mon 9/16/2019 4:00pm
Sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Dr. Yaacob Dweck of Princeton University: "Rabbinic Reactionaries in the Sephardic Diaspora: Notes on a Social Type"
Location: Harvard Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thu 9/19/2019 4:00pm
Sponsor: Harvard Political Theory Colloquium
Michael Rosen (Harvard), "On Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Kant"
Location: CGIS Knafel K401, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
Tue 9/24/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Tara Nummedal: "Sound and Vision: The Alchemical Epistemology of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens."
Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
Wed 9/25/2019 5:15pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Vanessa Braganza (Harvard): “'Many Ciphers, Although But One for Meaning': Lady Mary Wroth’s Many-Sided Monogram"
Location: Barker Center, Harvard University (Room TBD), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_harva…>
Wed 9/25/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Carrie Gibson: “Pushing Historical Boundaries: Rediscovering El Norte and the Forgotten Hispanic Past of the United States, 1500-1800”
Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://www.brown.edu/academics/early-modern-world>
Thu 9/26/2019 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Book Signing: Carrie Gibson, “El Norte and the Forgotten Hispanic Past of the United States, 1500-1800”
Location: Books on the Square, Providence RI
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://www.brown.edu/academics/early-modern-world>
Fri 9/27/2019 9:00am to 6:00pm
Sponsors: French Center of Excellence and the Department of Comparative Literature and co-sponsored by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the Department of French Studies, and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Conference: “Theatre Without Borders/Théâtre sans frontières”
Location: Rochambeau House, Brown University, Providence RI
https://events.brown.edu/view/event/date/20190927/event_id/144720
Wed 10/2/2019 4:30pm to 6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Emiliano Ricciardi (Assistant Professor of Music History, UMass Amherst): “‘Geloso amante’: Luzzaschi, Tasso, and the Topos of Jealousy in Late Sixteenth-Century Ferrara”
Location: Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
Wed 10/2/2019 5:30pm
Early Modern History Workshop, co-sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group
Abram Kaplan (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Erudition and algebraic practice at the end of the sixteenth century,” with commentary by Calliope Dourou (Dept of the Classics, Harvard)
Location: Robinson Hall Basement Seminar room, Harvard Yard
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
Sat 10/5/2019 9:00am to 6:00pm
New England Renaissance Conference: Motion, Rhythm, Shifts. An interdisciplinary conference
Location: Chace Auditorium, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
http://www.new-england-renaissance-conference.org/?page_id=241
Fri 10/11/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Sponsor: Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Vili Lähteenmäki (university of Helsinki), "Cartesian Self-Relations"
Location: Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard
https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop
Wed 10/16/2019 9:00am to 5:00pm
Sponsor: Andover-Harvard Theological Library
Open house: “Meet the Special Collections”
Location: Rabinowitz Room (3rd floor), Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Wed 10/16/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Shahzad Bashir: “Imagining Time in Early Modern India: Persian Chroniclers and Their Interpreters”
Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://www.brown.edu/academics/early-modern-world>
Tue 10/22/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
TBA
Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
Fri 10/25/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Adam Zucker, University of Massachusetts Amherst: TBA
Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Mon 10/28/2019 5:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Classical Traditions
Stuart M. McManus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World"
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
Tue 10/29/2019 5:00pm
Early Modern History Workshop
Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University), “Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia"
Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
Wed 10/30/2019 4:30pm to 6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Miya Tokumitsu (Art historian and Curator, Wesleyan): “Israhel van Meckenem’s Paper Currency”
Location: Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
Fri - Sat, Nov 1 to Nov 2, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Folger Institute Seminar: “The Visual Art of Grammar” (by registration only)
Location: Alumnae Hall, Chrystal Room. Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://www.brown.edu/academics/early-modern-world>
Tue 11/12/2019 5:30pm
Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Harvard University: "Systematizing Jewish Religious Legal Knowledge in the Early Modern Period"
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book
Wed 11/13/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Eugenio Menegon, Boston University: “The Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the Countess: Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission and their Role in Early Modern Chinese-European Relations”
Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://www.brown.edu/academics/early-modern-world>
Thu 11/14/2019 4:00pm
Sponsor: Harvard Political Theory Colloquium
Shannon Stimson (Georgetown), "Petty and Hobbes"
Location: CGIS Knafel K401, Harvard, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
Fri 11/15/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Sponsor: Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Richard Arthur (McMaster University), "Leibniz's Metaphysics of Change: Vague States and Physical Continuity"
Location: Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard
https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop
Fri 11/15/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Diana Henderson, M.I.T.: TBA
Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Tue 11/19/2019 5:30pm
Early Modern History Workshop
Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Why Do We Think There Were No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin”
Location: Robinson Hall History Department Conference Room (formerly Lower Library), Harvard Yard
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
Thu 11/21/2019 6:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies, co-sponsored by: MHC Seminar on History of the Book
Caroline Wigginton, University of Mississippi: "Hymncraft: Making Musicbooks and Community from the Native Northeast to Brotherton and Beyond"
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Tue 11/26/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
TBA
Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
Fri 12/6/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
“New Work in Early Modern Drama,” Graduate Symposium
Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place in the greater Boston area. 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
Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1750, 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. To fill our first list, please send us events to announce prior to August 29. After that we’re planning a mailing roughly every two weeks.
Please mark Sept 10, 5:30pm in your calendar in case you can come to Harvard and join us for our welcome reception. Thank you!
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
