Greetings!
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. This year we are announcing online events and activities relevant to the Boston area. Please forward announcements of virtual socials, web-meetings, online exhibits, and application deadlines for future conferences in our region. We’re planning a mailing roughly every two weeks—please therefore send notices of events at least two weeks in advance. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu.
For security reasons the list will not disseminate zoom links directly, but we can list an email contact to which to write for further details about attending. Alternatively, we can circulate registration information for events. All times are EDT and change to EST on the first Sunday in November.
Upcoming Events
Monday, Nov 2nd, 2020, 11.00
University of Connecticut Early Modern Speakers Series
Lecture, 'MACMORRIS, mapping the full range and richness of cultural activity, across languages and ethnic groups, in Ireland from 1541 to 1691'
Patricia Palmer, Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Evan Bourke (Maynooth University, Ireland)
More information and zoom details available here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__earlymodern.initiative…>
Monday, Nov. 2, 5-7pm
Legal History Workshop at Harvard
“The Horrible Sepulture of Mannes Resoun: Drunkenness and the Medieval English Common Law” (virtual talk)
Elizabeth Kamali (Harvard Law School)
Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan at law.harvard.edu<mailto:jgrischkan@law.harvard.edu> if you wish to participate in this event.
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 3-5 pm
Sponsor: The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” at Harvard
Virtual Discussion of Larissa Brewer García. Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020, with author present.
Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:therzog@fas.harvard.edu> if you wish to participate in this event.
**Thursday, November 5, 12:00-2:00pm EST
Harvard Early Modern Workshop co-sponsored with Department of Romance Languages and Literature and Early Modern World
Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa (Universidade de São Paulo)
Vanessa Martins do Monte (Universidade de São Paulo)
"Women in Early Modern Portuguese America" (with commentary by Caio Esteves de Sousa, Department of Romance Languages and Literature, and Sergio Leos, Department of History)
Zoom registration and further information: https://bit.ly/2FKPPOJ<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bit.ly_2FKPPOJ&d=DwMFa…>
*November 5-6, 2020 (12pm-4pm EST)
The Huntington Library
Virtual Conference: Ecologies of Paper in the Early Modern World
Presenters from New England include Jennifer Y. Chuong (Harvard Society of Fellows) and Asheesh Kapur Siddique (UMass Amherst)
https://www.huntington.org/ecologies-paper
*Sunday, Nov 8, 2020 02:00 PM
The Center for Netherlandish Art at the MFA, Boston and The Netherland America Foundation
Conference: “The Pilgrims: From Refugees in the Netherlands to American Colonists.” Speakers: Steven Peters (SmokeSygnals), Michaël Roumen (Leiden 400), Jori Zijlmans (Museum de Lakenhal)
Zoom registration and further information: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8JLuWph8RNSiYt2SPiV0vw
Monday, Nov. 9, 5-7pm
Legal History Workshop at Harvard
"Writing the Common Law in Latin in the Late Thirteenth Century" (virtual talk)
Thomas J. McSweeney (William & Mary Law School)
Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan(a)law.harvard.edu<mailto:jgrischkan@law.harvard.edu> if you wish to participate in this event.
Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies
“Staging Habla De Negros in Iberian Early Modernity”
Nicholas R. Jones (Bucknell University, Pennsylvania)
Please RSVP to Therese Banks (tbanks(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:tbanks@g.harvard.edu>) or Emily Epperson (epperson(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:epperson@g.harvard.edu>) for the Zoom link.
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2020, 5:30-7pm
Brown University Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Colloquium: Babel in Post-Conquest Mexico
Felipe Rojas and Andrew Laird, Brown University
Learn more<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.us16.list-2Dmana…> and register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.us16.list-2Dmana…>.
Thursday, November 12, 6-7:30 PM
Harvard English Graduate Symposium Keynote
"Haply for I am Black": Othello as White Property
Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd)
Register here for the link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctd-mspjMsGtLS2IFHpdiPDI9UPZI_oH…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
Thursday, November 12, 2020, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteen-Century Studies
"Ran Away From Her Master...A Negroe Girl Named Thursday": Examining Evidence of Punishment, Isolation, Trauma, and Illness in Nova Scotia and Quebec Fugitive Slave Advertisements
Charmaine Nelson, Mcgill University
More information and zoom registration link: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/“ran-away-her-master…-negr…<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/%E2%80%9Cran-away-her-mast…>
Friday, November 13, 2020 - 6:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
"Movement, Music, and Silence in Cheek by Jowl's Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale, and Pericles, Prince de Tyr."
Linda McJannet (Bentley)
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vcOGrrz0rGdSh8m1zBkPq9uOsaEAlva…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bostonu.zoom.us_meetin…>
Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, 12pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Cartography
“’Impossible Matter’: Humanity, Agency, and Identity in ‘The Tempest’”
Daniel Vitkus (UCSD)
More information and zoom registration: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/impossible-matter-humanity…
Nov. 17, 12-1pm
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
"How Islamic is Islamic Medicine? Text and the Body in Tibb" (virtual talk)
Shireen Hamza (PhD Candidate, History of Science)
For the precirculated paper and zoom link please contact Hannah Marcus at hmarcus (at) fas.harvard.edu .
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
“European Museums With or Without Walls: Holding and Beholding Virgil in England between Gutenberg and Milton”
Tim Markey, Worcester Academy
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/wedsat4markey
*Thursday, Nov. 19, 3pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Lecture: “Silent Reading: The Graphic Trace in Milton’s Shakespeare Folio”
Jason Scott-Warren (Cambridge University) and Claire Bourne (Penn State)
More information and zoom link: https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Monday, Nov. 23, 5-7pm
Legal History Workshop at Harvard
“Legal pluralism: from history to theory and back” (virtual talk)
Emanuele Conte (Università Roma Tre, Italy and EHESS, Paris)
Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan at law.harvard.edu<mailto:jgrischkan@law.harvard.edu> if you wish to participate in this event.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
TBA
Amy Remensnyder (History, Brown University)
More information and zoom link at https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Tuesday, December 1, 5:15pm-6:30pm
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston: Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar
"Caribbean Connections—Panel Discussion" (online)
Charlotte Carrington-Farmer, Rober Williams University; Casey Schmitt, Cornell University; Comment: Ryan Quintana, Wellesley College
Registration and more information: https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/early-american-history <https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/early-american-history>
Tuesday, December 1, 2020, 6pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteen-Century Studies
"Varieties of Bondage in the Early Atlantic"
Ramesh Mallipeddi, University of Colorado
More information and zoom registration link: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/varieties-bondage-early-at…
Thursday, Dec. 3, 3-5pm, on Zoom
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on German Studies: New Perspectives
“Kein Mensch muss müssen”: Exigencies of the German Stage from Lessing to Jelinek
Benjamin Lewis Robinson (University of Vienna)
Registration and more information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/kein-mensch-muss-müssen-ex…<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/kein-mensch-muss-m%C3%BCss…>
Tuesday, Dec. 6, 4:30pm, on Zoom
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
"The Centaur Myth in Renaissance Florence" (virtual meeting)
Andrea Moudarres (Associate Professor of Italian, UCLA)
For a copy of the paper and more information about the zoom link, please contact Ester Moran at emmoran at wesleyan.edu
website: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Dec. 15, 12-1pm
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
"March" (a chapter from her book with Ahmed Ragab) (virtual talk)
Katharine Park (Professor Emerita, History of Science)
For the precirculated paper and zoom link please contact Hannah Marcus at hmarcus (at) fas.harvard.edu.
Deadline: Jan 15, 2021
41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
“Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance”
Keene State College
Friday and Saturday April 16-17, 2021
More information and registration/paper upload link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCjExeUkIIeWiVppacgtuQ5KqVQvpsXAQ…
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