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Early Modern Studies, from March 2, 2020

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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. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu. This Week’s Events *Monday, March 2, 5pm Lecture: "Sensational books" Professor Kathryn Rudy, University of Saint Andrews Mandel Center for the Humanities, G-3 (ground floor auditorium to right of main entrance) Brandeis University, Waltham MA Rudy, an expert on the materiality and rituals of Medieval manuscripts, will discuss an exhibition she is curating at the Bodleian library, Oxford. Directions: https://www.brandeis.edu/about/visiting/directions.html Campus Map: https://www.brandeis.edu/about/visiting/map.html?bldgid=0125-1 (parking in lot on right, immediatley after the Mandel Center, on the loop road) Tuesday, March 3, 5:15 Massachusetts Historical Society Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar: The 1621 Massasoit-Plymouth Agreement and the Genesis of American Indian Cosntitutionalism Daniel R. Mandell, Truman State University; Comment: Linford Fisher, Brown University Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Please register on their event site at https://www.masshist.org/calendar Tuesday, March 3, 5:30 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop and Early Sciences Working Group "'As if conjured by the force of magic': the emergence of the scientific genius and the celebration of the imagination in natural philosophy, 1750–1820" Rob Iliffe (Oxford University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library) https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 4pm John Carter Brown Library, Fellow’s Talk “The Creole Archipelago: Race and Colonization in the Southern Carribbean, c. 1660-1797" Tessa Murphy, Syracuse University John Carter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room, 94 George Street, Providence, RI 02906 https://jcblibrary.org/events/creole-archipelago-race-and-colonization-sout… Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 6-7:30pm Center for the Study of the Early Modern World La literatura perdida de Charcas colonial: el rescate de una herencia olvidada de Bolivia (The Lost Literature of Colonial Charcas: recovering Bolivia’s Forgotten Legacy), Lecture will be in Spanish Andrés Eichmann Oerhli (UMSA in La Paz, Bolivia) Annmary Brown Memorial, Room 110, Brown University, Providence RI This event is free and open to the public. https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/163995 Wednesday March 4, 2020, 6-7pm Massachusetts Historical Society The Boston Massacre: a Family History Serena Zabin, Carleton College Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Please register on their event site at https://www.masshist.org/calendar Thursday, March 5, 5:15 pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium "Westworld and The Tempest: The Return of the Dead" Christina Wald (University of Konstanz) Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Friday, March 6, 2020 - 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Shakespearean Studies “Sexual Ethics and Negation in Shakespeare's Private Theater Plays.” Meghan Andrews, Lycoming College Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies *Friday, March 6, 2020, 4pm Annual Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture "The Sibyl's Fire: Women and Textual Destruction in Early Modern England" Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College The Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA The lecture explores the noted phenomenon of women destroying texts or disrupting their transmission. From the Sibyl burning the books of prophecies to Amy burning Jo's manuscript in Little Women, this talk investigates early modern accounts of the destruction or loss of books and the references to sibyls that accompany them. Reception to follow. Upcoming Events Monday, March 9, 2020, 6-7pm Massachusetts Historical Society “Inventing Boston: Design Production, & Consumption, 1680-1720” Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Yale University Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Please register on their event site at https://www.masshist.org/calendar Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 5:15pm Massachusetts Historical Society Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar “The Metabolism of Military Forces in the War of Independence: Environmental Contexts and Consequences” David Hsiung, Juniata College; Comment: James Rice, Tufts University Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Please register on their event site at https://www.masshist.org/calendar NEW DATE: March 10, 2020, 5:30 PM Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar The 40th William F. Church Memorial Lecture “False Impressions: A History of Print Forgery” Nick Wilding (Georgia State University) Smith-Buonanno Hall, 106, Brown University, Providence, RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Prof. Nick Wilding is a historian of early modern Italy, of the book, and of science. A recipient of many awards and fellowships, and author of many works, most notably Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge (2014), he also became visible internationally when in 2012 he exposed a grand fraud. Wilding proved that a proffered copy of Galileo’s famous treatise on the use of a telescope to observe the stars, Sidereus Nuncius (1610), purportedly including Galileo’s own watercolors of the moon, was a clever forgery. It helped to bring the director of the Girolamini Library in Naples, Marino Massimo De Caro – part of the Berlusconi network – to justice. (De Caro was also found to have embezzled many hundreds of books from the library he oversaw.) Wilding also featured prominently in the PBS documentary about how the fraud was exposed, “Galileo’s Moon” (which premiered on July 2, 2019). Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture. Tuesday, March 10, 7pm American Antiquarian Society, Worcester Book Talk: “First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory” Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University In collaboration with the exhibition “Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere” 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA https://www.americanantiquarian.org/public-program-mitch-kachun Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 5:30pm Early Modern Annual Lecture “Writing History in the Sixteenth Century: Remarking the Boundaries of a Discipline in the New Spain” Serge Gruzinski, École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Smith-Buonanno Hall, 106, Brown University, Providence, RI https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/146505 After their conquest and colonization of Mexico in the 1500s, the Spaniards needed to understand the customs and the past of the native peoples in order to impose their own law and authority. But European ideas of time and history are not universal: how did Mesoamerican cosmology make sense in terms of Christian European chronology? And how did indigenous people retain or understand memory of the pre-Hispanic past? This lecture will show how both Spaniards and Indians began to produce a new form of world history. This is the first of a series of prestigious public lectures instituted at Brown by the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World. The lectures will be held each year in the Spring semester. Free and open to the public. **Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas, Co-sponsored with MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies Before “The Raven” Sarah Rivett, Princeton University Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/native-cultures-americas *Thursday, March 12, 2020, 6pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium "The Virgilianism of Shakespeare's History Plays" John Gardner (St. Andrew’s) Room 269, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge Thursday, March 19, 2020, 1-5pm Harvard Art Museums Symposium: The Feinberg Collection: Six Works Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge MA. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Seating will begin at 12:30pm. Free admission, but seating is limited. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge. Program and further information: https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/the-feinberg-collection-six-works The symposium coincides with the exhibition “Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection,” on view at the Harvard Art Museums from February 14 through July 26, 2020. Saturday, March 21, 2020, 3-4:45 pm Association for Asian Studies 2020 Annual Conference, March 19-22, 2020 Session: Publish or Perish: New Perspectives on Book Cultures in East Asia Hwisang Cho (Emory University): "Texts in Disarray: Manuscript Books in Chosŏn Scholarly Culture;" Motoi Katsumata (Meisei University): "Shy on the First Novel: The Problems of Publishing Novels in 17th and 18th Century Japan;" Suyoung Son (Cornell University): "Nam Kongch’ŏl, Qian Qianyi, and Banned Books Across National Border;" Yung-chang Tung (Harvard University): "Problematic Laughter: Jokes, Anecdotes, and the Production of Notebooks in Middle-Period China." Location: At the Sheraton Boston Hotel and the Hynes Convention Center, Boston Thursday, March 26, 2020, 5:15 pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium "Fluid Borders: Rethinking Power Centers in Shakespeare’s Rome" Silvia Bigliazzi (University of Verona) Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Thursday, March 26, 2020, 3:00-6:00pm Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University Celebrating French Women Writers: A conference t launch the two-volume publication of Femmes et littérature. Une histoire culturelle (Éditions Gallimard) Speakers include: Martine Reid (Lille); Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (Sorbonne); Alison Rice (Notre Dame); Christie McDonald (Harvard); Caleb Shelburne (Harvard); Kylie Sago (Harvard); Sanam Esfahani-Nader (Amherst). Location: Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University Sponsors for the conference include the Bacon Funds and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,The France and the World Seminar (Mahindra Humanities Center), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, all of Harvard University; The Consulate General of France in Boston, and with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States. Friday, March 27, 2020, 3:00pm Providence College Humanities Forum Lecture: Revenge, Religion, and Resistance: Reading Shakespeare’s History Plays Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University Ruane Center for the Humanities 105, Providence College, Providence, RI https://arts-sciences.providence.edu/humanities-forum/ March 31, 2020, 12pm Harvard Early Science Working Group "Skilling Up: The Officer-Craftsman in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1592–1882." Hyeok Hweon "H.H." Kang (Harvard, History and East Asian Languages) Comment: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University, History Location: Science Center 252, Science Center 252, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge March 31, 2020, 4:30 P.M. Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar “Monastic Technologies of Authority: Cistercian Diplomatic Praxis, Crusade, and the Colonization of the Midi” Leland Grigoli Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 4pm John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk “The coming of the kingdom: the Muisca, the Catholic Reformation, and the Spanish monarchy in the New Kingdom of Granada” Juan Cobo Betancourt (University of California, Santa Barbara) John Carter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room, 94 George Street, Providence, RI https://jcblibrary.org/events/coming-kingdom-muisca-catholic-reformation-an… Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on 18th Century Studies Talk Title TBA Anne Higonnet, Barnard College and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Room 133, Barker Center http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Thursday, April 9, 2020, 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium, Graduate Workshop "The Prefatory Letter to Gorboduc: Rape, Revenge, Paratext" Bailey Sincox (Harvard) Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Monday, April 13, 4:30 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the MIT History Faculty "Monsters in the Closet: The Biopolitics of the Far North in Early Modern Europe" Surekha Davies (Utrecht University) MIT, E51-095 https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu **April 14, 3pm Harvard Early Science Working Group “Material Ascensions: Engineering Astronautics in Seventeenth-Century Science Fiction” Karina Mathew (Harvard, English) Comment: Hannah Marcus (Harvard, History of Science) Location: Science Center, Room 359, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge *April 15, 2020 CFP deadline: New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy (NECEMP) conference to be held on September 25 to 27, 2020 at Brown University. Please email for more information: Justin_Broackes(a)brown.edu<mailto:Justin_Broackes@brown.edu> Thursday, April 16, 5:15 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the Medieval English Colloquium "Predestination and Piety in the Early Modern World"—a debate James Simpson (English, Harvard) and David Hall (Harvard Divinity School, emeritus), moderated by Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (former Lower Library), Harvard Yard https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Friday and Saturday April 17-18, 2020 41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Keene State College Keene, NH, USA More information: Dr. Robert G. Sullivan, Assistant Forum Director at sullivan(a)german.umass.edu<mailto:sullivan@german.umass.edu>. 4/20/2020 4:00pm to 6:00pm “The Moral Economies of Early Modern Europe” Francesca Trivellato, History, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library), Harvard University Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 4:30pm Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America Workshop: From Creek (Mvskoke) to Cherokee (Tsalagi): The Entangled Histories of Native America, 1600-1800 Bryan Rindfleisch, Marquette University The Ruane Center for the Humanities LL49, Providence College, Providence, RI https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of… (for pre-circulated chapter email aweimer(a)providence.edu) Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 6pm Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Intellectual Immigration? Epic and the Case Against Border Walls for Early Modern Literary Disciplines Keith Sidwell, University College Cork and University of Calgary, Canada Annmary Brown Memorial, Room 110, Brown University, Providence RI https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/157009 Thursday, April 23, 5:15 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Colloquium and Department of English "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae" Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library) https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Friday, April 24, 2020 - 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Shakespearian Studies “Desdemona’s Honest Friend” Jeremy Lopez, University of Toronto http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies Apr. 28, 2020, 4:30 P.M. Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar TBD Amy Remensnyder Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 6-7:30pm Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Mountains, Missives and Mental Travel: Seneca and the Renaissance Syrithe Pugh, University of Aberdeen Annmary Brown Memorial, Room 110, Brown University, Providence, RI Free and open to the public https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/163986 Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 9:00am Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on History of the Book Harvard-Yale Graduate Conference in Book History Yale University http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on 18th Century Studies “Persuasion's Queer Drift” Paul Kelleher, Emory University Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies May 5, 2020, 12pm Harvard Early Science Working Group "The Deep History of the Spreadsheet" Ashley Gonik (Harvard, History) Comment: Katharina Piechocki (Harvard, Comparative Literature) Location: Science Center 252, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 4:00pm John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk “Comets and eclipses across the Americas: writing trans-regional histories of astronomy in the colonial world” Thomás Haddad (Universidade de São Paulo) John Carter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room, 94 George Street, Providence, RI https://jcblibrary.org/events/comets-and-eclipses-across-americas-writing-t… Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 4:30pm Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America Workshop: Global Mexico City in the Seventeenth Century Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers University The Ruane Center for the Humanities LL49, Providence College, Providence, RI https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of… (for pre-circulated chapter email aweimer(a)providence.edu<mailto:aweimer@providence.edu>) Wednesday, 5/13/2020 4:30pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar “The Very Picture of Civility: Universalism and the Mughal Manuscript Workshop, c. 1580–1630” Yael Rice (Assistant Professor of Art & the History of Art, Amherst College) Location: Wesleyan University, Boger Hall, Room 113, http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 4pm John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk “A Black Man from India”: Between Slavery and freedom in the Early Modern Iberian World Norah Gharala (University of Houston) MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence, RI https://jcblibrary.org/events/black-man-india-between-slavery-and-freedom-e… August 15, 2020 Deadline CFP: The 2020 New England Renaissance Conference at Boston College (Saturday, October 24, 2020), Theme: “Early Modern Europe: From Below, at the Margins, Behind the Scenes.” Info: Prof. Franco Mormando (mormando (at) bc.edu) *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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Early Modern Studies, from Feb 24, 2020

by Early Modern Studies

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. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu. This Week’s Events Monday, February 24, 2020 - 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on History of the Book "The Image of O in Othello and English Printers' Devices." Erika Boeckeler, Northeastern University Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book **NEW TIME: Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020, 5:00 P.M. Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar “Materia Medica in Transit. The Transforming Knowledge of Plants” Sabrina Minuzzi Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ For a copy of the paper please contact maria_sokolova (at) brown.edu Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas Chasing Sheep in Navajo Country: An Archaeological Investigation of the Arc of Diné Pastoralism Wade Campbell, Harvard University Room 133, Barker Center http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/native-cultures-americas Thursday, 27 February, 4:30 pm "Messe en Cantiques." Q&A and Open Dress Rehearsal with Pedro Memelsdorff, Christoph Wolff Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Moderated by Kate van Orden, Department of Music. Memorial Church, Harvard University The reconstruction of a Mass as it would have been sung by enslaved and freed Africans in colonial Haiti. Thursday, February 27, 2020, 4:30-6:00 pm, with a reception to follow. Arthur S. Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies Symposium: Amer-Asia: Object Lessons in Early Modern Connectivity Liz Horodowich (New Mexico State University), keynote lecture: “Asia in the American Southwest: A Pair of Mexican Copper Bells;” Ximena Gómez (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): “Playing Out Casta on a Japanese Screen in Colonial Mexico.” Siyu Shen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): "Japan in Mexico: The Fantasy World in Nicolás Correa's Enconchado." George Qiao (Amherst College): "The Curious Case of the Ricci Map and Its Non-Impact in Early Modern China." Location: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 650 E Pleasant Street, Amherst. For additional information, please contact Monika Schmitter (mschmitt(a)arthist.umass.edu<mailto:mschmitt@arthist.umass.edu>) and Jutta Sperling (jsperling(a)amherst.edu<mailto:jsperling@amherst.edu>). http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/horodowich. Thursday, 2/27, 2020, 5 pm Harvard Law School's annual lecture on European and Latin American legal history “Vernacular Law and the Making of Custom in Medieval France” Ada Kuskowski, History, UPenn Wasserstein Hall, Harvard, WCC 3018 Upcoming Events Tuesday, March 3, 5:15 Massachusetts Historical Society Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar: The 1621 Massasoit-Plymouth Agreement and the Genesis of American Indian Cosntitutionalism Daniel R. Mandell, Truman State University; Comment: Linford Fisher, Brown University Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Please register on their event site at https://www.masshist.org/calendar Tuesday, March 3, 5:30 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop and Early Sciences Working Group "'As if conjured by the force of magic': the emergence of the scientific genius and the celebration of the imagination in natural philosophy, 1750–1820" Rob Iliffe (Oxford University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library) https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 4pm John Carter Brown Library, Fellow’s Talk “The Creole Archipelago: Race and Colonization in the Southern Carribbean, c. 1660-1797" Tessa Murphy, Syracuse University John Carter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room, 94 George Street, Providence, RI 02906 https://jcblibrary.org/events/creole-archipelago-race-and-colonization-sout… Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 6-7:30pm Center for the Study of the Early Modern World La literatura perdida de Charcas colonial: el rescate de una herencia olvidada de Bolivia (The Lost Literature of Colonial Charcas: recovering Bolivia’s Forgotten Legacy), Lecture will be in Spanish Andrés Eichmann Oerhli (UMSA in La Paz, Bolivia) Annmary Brown Memorial, Room 110, Brown University, Providence RI This event is free and open to the public. https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/163995 *Wednesday March 4, 2020, 6-7pm Massachusetts Historical Society The Boston Massacre: a Family History Serena Zabin, Carleton College Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Please register on their event site at https://www.masshist.org/calendar Thursday, March 5, 5:15 pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium "Westworld and The Tempest: The Return of the Dead" Christina Wald (University of Konstanz) Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Friday, March 6, 2020 - 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Shakespearean Studies “Sexual Ethics and Negation in Shakespeare's Private Theater Plays.” Meghan Andrews, Lycoming College Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies *March 9, 2020, 6-7pm Massachusetts Historical Society “Inventing Boston: Design Production, & Consumption, 1680-1720” Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Yale University Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Please register on their event site at https://www.masshist.org/calendar *March 10, 2020, 5:15pm Massachusetts Historical Society Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar “The Metabolism of Military Forces in the War of Independence: Environmental Contexts and Consequences” David Hsiung, Juniata College; Comment: James Rice, Tufts University Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Please register on their event site at https://www.masshist.org/calendar NEW DATE: March 10, 2020, 5:30 PM Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar The 40th William F. Church Memorial Lecture “False Impressions: A History of Print Forgery” Nick Wilding (Georgia State University) Smith-Buonanno Hall, 106, Brown University, Providence, RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Prof. Nick Wilding is a historian of early modern Italy, of the book, and of science. A recipient of many awards and fellowships, and author of many works, most notably Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge (2014), he also became visible internationally when in 2012 he exposed a grand fraud. Wilding proved that a proffered copy of Galileo’s famous treatise on the use of a telescope to observe the stars, Sidereus Nuncius (1610), purportedly including Galileo’s own watercolors of the moon, was a clever forgery. It helped to bring the director of the Girolamini Library in Naples, Marino Massimo De Caro – part of the Berlusconi network – to justice. (De Caro was also found to have embezzled many hundreds of books from the library he oversaw.) Wilding also featured prominently in the PBS documentary about how the fraud was exposed, “Galileo’s Moon” (which premiered on July 2, 2019). Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture. *Tuesday, March 10, 7pm American Antiquarian Society, Worcester Book Talk: “First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory” Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University In collaboration with the exhibition “Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere” 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA https://www.americanantiquarian.org/public-program-mitch-kachun Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 5:30pm Early Modern Annual Lecture “Writing History in the Sixteenth Century: Remarking the Boundaries of a Discipline in the New Spain” Serge Gruzinski, École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Smith-Buonanno Hall, 106, Brown University, Providence, RI https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/146505 After their conquest and colonization of Mexico in the 1500s, the Spaniards needed to understand the customs and the past of the native peoples in order to impose their own law and authority. But European ideas of time and history are not universal: how did Mesoamerican cosmology make sense in terms of Christian European chronology? And how did indigenous people retain or understand memory of the pre-Hispanic past? This lecture will show how both Spaniards and Indians began to produce a new form of world history. This is the first of a series of prestigious public lectures instituted at Brown by the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World. The lectures will be held each year in the Spring semester. Free and open to the public. Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas, Co-sponsored with MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies Talk Title TBA Sarah Rivett, Princeton University Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/native-cultures-americas Thursday, March 19, 2020, 1-5pm Harvard Art Museums Symposium: The Feinberg Collection: Six Works Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge MA. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Seating will begin at 12:30pm. Free admission, but seating is limited. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge. Program and further information: https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/the-feinberg-collection-six-works The symposium coincides with the exhibition “Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection,” on view at the Harvard Art Museums from February 14 through July 26, 2020. Saturday, March 21, 2020, 3-4:45 pm Association for Asian Studies 2020 Annual Conference, March 19-22, 2020 Session: Publish or Perish: New Perspectives on Book Cultures in East Asia Hwisang Cho (Emory University): "Texts in Disarray: Manuscript Books in Chosŏn Scholarly Culture;" Motoi Katsumata (Meisei University): "Shy on the First Novel: The Problems of Publishing Novels in 17th and 18th Century Japan;" Suyoung Son (Cornell University): "Nam Kongch’ŏl, Qian Qianyi, and Banned Books Across National Border;" Yung-chang Tung (Harvard University): "Problematic Laughter: Jokes, Anecdotes, and the Production of Notebooks in Middle-Period China." Location: At the Sheraton Boston Hotel and the Hynes Convention Center, Boston Thursday, March 26, 2020, 5:15 pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium "Fluid Borders: Rethinking Power Centers in Shakespeare’s Rome" Silvia Bigliazzi (University of Verona) Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… *Thursday, March 26, 2020, 3:00-6:00pm Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University Celebrating French Women Writers: A conference t launch the two-volume publication of Femmes et littérature. Une histoire culturelle (Éditions Gallimard) Speakers include: Martine Reid (Lille); Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (Sorbonne); Alison Rice (Notre Dame); Christie McDonald (Harvard); Caleb Shelburne (Harvard); Kylie Sago (Harvard); Sanam Esfahani-Nader (Amherst). Location: Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University Sponsors for the conference include the Bacon Funds and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,The France and the World Seminar (Mahindra Humanities Center), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, all of Harvard University; The Consulate General of France in Boston, and with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States. Friday, March 27, 2020, 3:00pm Providence College Humanities Forum Lecture: Revenge, Religion, and Resistance: Reading Shakespeare’s History Plays Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University Ruane Center for the Humanities 105, Providence College, Providence, RI https://arts-sciences.providence.edu/humanities-forum/ March 31, 2020, 12pm Harvard Early Science Working Group "Skilling Up: The Officer-Craftsman in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1592–1882." Hyeok Hweon "H.H." Kang (Harvard, History and East Asian Languages) Comment: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University, History Location: Science Center 252, Science Center 252, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge March 31, 2020, 4:30 P.M. Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar “Monastic Technologies of Authority: Cistercian Diplomatic Praxis, Crusade, and the Colonization of the Midi” Leland Grigoli Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 4pm John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk “The coming of the kingdom: the Muisca, the Catholic Reformation, and the Spanish monarchy in the New Kingdom of Granada” Juan Cobo Betancourt (University of California, Santa Barbara) John Carter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room, 94 George Street, Providence, RI https://jcblibrary.org/events/coming-kingdom-muisca-catholic-reformation-an… Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on 18th Century Studies Talk Title TBA Anne Higonnet, Barnard College and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Room 133, Barker Center http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Thursday, April 9, 2020, 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium, Graduate Workshop "The Prefatory Letter to Gorboduc: Rape, Revenge, Paratext" Bailey Sincox (Harvard) Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Monday, April 13, 4:30 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the MIT History Faculty "Monsters in the Closet: The Biopolitics of the Far North in Early Modern Europe" Surekha Davies (Utrecht University) MIT, E51-095 https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu April 14, 3pm Harvard Early Science Working Group “Material Ascensions: Engineering Astronautics in Seventeenth-Century Science Fiction” Karina Mathew (Harvard, English) Comment: Hannah Marcus (Harvard, History of Science) Location: TBD Thursday, April 16, 5:15 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the Medieval English Colloquium "Predestination and Piety in the Early Modern World"—a debate James Simpson (English, Harvard) and David Hall (Harvard Divinity School, emeritus), moderated by Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (former Lower Library), Harvard Yard https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Friday and Saturday April 17-18, 2020 41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Keene State College Keene, NH, USA More information: Dr. Robert G. Sullivan, Assistant Forum Director at sullivan(a)german.umass.edu<mailto:sullivan@german.umass.edu>. 4/20/2020 4:00pm to 6:00pm “The Moral Economies of Early Modern Europe” Francesca Trivellato, History, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library), Harvard University Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 4:30pm Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America Workshop: From Creek (Mvskoke) to Cherokee (Tsalagi): The Entangled Histories of Native America, 1600-1800 Bryan Rindfleisch, Marquette University The Ruane Center for the Humanities LL49, Providence College, Providence, RI https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of… (for pre-circulated chapter email aweimer(a)providence.edu) Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 6pm Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Intellectual Immigration? Epic and the Case Against Border Walls for Early Modern Literary Disciplines Keith Sidwell, University College Cork and University of Calgary, Canada Annmary Brown Memorial, Room 110, Brown University, Providence RI https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/157009 Thursday, April 23, 5:15 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Colloquium and Department of English "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae" Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library) https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Friday, April 24, 2020 - 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Shakespearian Studies “Desdemona’s Honest Friend” Jeremy Lopez, University of Toronto http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies Apr. 28, 2020, 4:30 P.M. Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar TBD Amy Remensnyder Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 6-7:30pm Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Mountains, Missives and Mental Travel: Seneca and the Renaissance Syrithe Pugh, University of Aberdeen Annmary Brown Memorial, Room 110, Brown University, Providence, RI Free and open to the public https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/163986 Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 9:00am Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on History of the Book Harvard-Yale Graduate Conference in Book History Yale University http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on 18th Century Studies “Persuasion's Queer Drift” Paul Kelleher, Emory University Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies May 5, 2020, 12pm Harvard Early Science Working Group "The Deep History of the Spreadsheet" Ashley Gonik (Harvard, History) Comment: Katharina Piechocki (Harvard, Comparative Literature) Location: Science Center 252, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 4:00pm John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk “Comets and eclipses across the Americas: writing trans-regional histories of astronomy in the colonial world” Thomás Haddad (Universidade de São Paulo) John Carter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room, 94 George Street, Providence, RI https://jcblibrary.org/events/comets-and-eclipses-across-americas-writing-t… Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 4:30pm Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America Workshop: Global Mexico City in the Seventeenth Century Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers University The Ruane Center for the Humanities LL49, Providence College, Providence, RI https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of… (for pre-circulated chapter email aweimer(a)providence.edu<mailto:aweimer@providence.edu>) Wednesday, 5/13/2020 4:30pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar “The Very Picture of Civility: Universalism and the Mughal Manuscript Workshop, c. 1580–1630” Yael Rice (Assistant Professor of Art & the History of Art, Amherst College) Location: Wesleyan University, Boger Hall, Room 113, http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 4pm John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk “A Black Man from India”: Between Slavery and freedom in the Early Modern Iberian World Norah Gharala (University of Houston) MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence, RI https://jcblibrary.org/events/black-man-india-between-slavery-and-freedom-e… August 15, 2020 Deadline CFP: The 2020 New England Renaissance Conference at Boston College (Saturday, October 24, 2020), Theme: “Early Modern Europe: From Below, at the Margins, Behind the Scenes.” Info: Prof. Franco Mormando (mormando (at) bc.edu) *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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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. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu. This Week’s Events Feb 19, 2020, 4pm-7pm Real Colegio Complutense Fourth International Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650) Session moderator: Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Harvard - Animal Sightings: Art, Hunting, and Court Culture in Early Modern Spain. Jodi Cranston, Professor, Dept. of History of Art & Architecture, Boston University. - Consuming the Nude in Sculpture Collections at the Spanish Court. Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, Professor of Art History, University of Vermont. - Mirrors and Echoes: Reassessing Sofonisba Anguissola’s Interventions in Early Modern Portraiture. Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Valencia. - The Material Moves of Courtly Crafts: Goan Game Boards in the Portuguese Empire. Kelli Wood, Assistant Professor of Renaissance Art, University of Tennessee. Location: Real Colegio Complutense, Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St. Cambridge, MA Free registration. More information and RSVP at https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/4th-international-workshop-art-and-court-cult… 2/19/2020 4:30pm-6:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar “‘Reason in All Its Habits’: Picturing an Empire from Istanbul to London” Alexander Bevilacqua (Assistant Professor of History, Williams College) Location: Wesleyan University, Boger Hall, Room 113, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457 Website: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu Thursday, February 20, 2020, 5:15 pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium, Graduate Workshop Co-sponsored with the Theater and Performance Colloquium "The Merchant of The Empire: Shakespeare and The Cultural Qualia of Mobility and Memory" Vijeta Saini (Northeastern) Barker Center, Room 218, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… **Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, 5pm Harvard Long 18th Century and Romanticism Colloquium Co-sponsored with the Race & Ethnicity Colloquium "On Romantic Work" Bakary Diaby (Skidmore) Sever Hall, Room 211, Harvard Yard https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/long-18th-c… Thursday, February 20, 2020, 5:30pm History of Art and Architecture, HIAA Annual Lecture Series Shimmer and Surfeit: Gold from Gothic Italy to Cattelan’s America Anne Dunlop, Herald Chair of Fine Arts in the Department of Art History, Curatorship, Arts & Culture at the University of Melbourne List Art Building, 110, Brown University, Providence RI The series is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture’s Margerie Cutler, Joseph Edinburgh, and Kenneth List funds. Additional support comes from the C.V. Starr Foundation Lectureship Fund. https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/142166 *February 22, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm Annual Graduate Conference “Eco-Entanglements: Ruin, Grafting, Stratification” Keynote Speakers: Heide Estes (English, Monmouth University); Jean Feerick (English, John Carroll University) The Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/gradconference?_ga=2.110164357.1291967518… What are the ecological affordances of thinking with the medieval and early modern past? How can the environmental humanities inspire eco-mimetic modes of thinking and writing? This think-tank conference invites discussion of research-in-progress that parses logics of environmental entanglement (ruin, grafting, stratification) across premodern networks of cultural artifacts, earthy matter, and temporality of human timescales. Our conversation will open onto how medieval and early modern ecocritical scholarship is speaking directly to contemporary environmental concerns. **Saturday, February 22, 2020, 8:30am to 5:00pm Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop Workshop on the Philosophy of Émilie du Châtelet Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall Program at https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/event/workshop-philosophy-emilié-du-c… Please note: The format of the workshop will be read ahead. Please email Jeff McDonough (jkmcdon(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:jkmcdon@fas.harvard.edu>) or Clara Carus (claracarus(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:claracarus@fas.harvard.edu>) for access to the workshop papers. *Monday, February 24, 2020 – 9am-6:00pm Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, Alan M. and Katherine W. Stroock Fund for Innovative Research in Judaica; co-sponsored with the Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University; the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University; Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School; the Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar and Rethinking Translation Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center Conference: Beyond Translation: Vernacular Jewish Bibles, from Antiquity to Modernity Panel III: The Early Modern and Modern Periods : Jon Levenson, Harvard Divinity School (Chair);  Marion Aptroot, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf ; Abigail Gillman, Boston University. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Faculty Club, East Dining Room, 20 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/events/ Monday, February 24, 2020 - 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on History of the Book "The Image of O in Othello and English Printers' Devices." Erika Boeckeler, Northeastern University Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book **NEW TIME: Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020, 5:00 P.M. Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar “Materia Medica in Transit. The Transforming Knowledge of Plants” Sabrina Minuzzi Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas Chasing Sheep in Navajo Country: An Archaeological Investigation of the Arc of Diné Pastoralism Wade Campbell, Harvard University Room 133, Barker Center http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/native-cultures-americas Upcoming Events *Thursday, 27 February, 4:30 pm "Messe en Cantiques." Q&A and Open Dress Rehearsal with Pedro Memelsdorff, Christoph Wolff Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Moderated by Kate van Orden, Department of Music. Memorial Church, Harvard University The reconstruction of a Mass as it would have been sung by enslaved and freed Africans in colonial Haiti. Thursday, February 27, 2020, 4:30-6:00 pm, with a reception to follow. Arthur S. Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies Symposium: Amer-Asia: Object Lessons in Early Modern Connectivity Liz Horodowich (New Mexico State University), keynote lecture: “Asia in the American Southwest: A Pair of Mexican Copper Bells;” Ximena Gómez (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): “Playing Out Casta on a Japanese Screen in Colonial Mexico.” Siyu Shen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): "Japan in Mexico: The Fantasy World in Nicolás Correa's Enconchado." George Qiao (Amherst College): "The Curious Case of the Ricci Map and Its Non-Impact in Early Modern China." Location: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 650 E Pleasant Street, Amherst. For additional information, please contact Monika Schmitter (mschmitt(a)arthist.umass.edu<mailto:mschmitt@arthist.umass.edu>) and Jutta Sperling (jsperling(a)amherst.edu<mailto:jsperling@amherst.edu>). http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/horodowich. Thursday, 2/27, 2020, 5 pm Harvard Law School's annual lecture on European and Latin American legal history “Vernacular Law and the Making of Custom in Medieval France” Ada Kuskowski, History, UPenn Wasserstein Hall, Harvard, WCC 3018 Tuesday, March 3, 5:30 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop and Early Sciences Working Group "'As if conjured by the force of magic': the emergence of the scientific genius and the celebration of the imagination in natural philosophy, 1750–1820" Rob Iliffe (Oxford University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library) https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 4pm John Carter Brown Library, Fellow’s Talk “The Creole Archipelago: Race and Colonization in the Southern Carribbean, c. 1660-1797" Tessa Murphy, Syracuse University John Carter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room, 94 George Street, Providence, RI 02906 https://jcblibrary.org/events/creole-archipelago-race-and-colonization-sout… Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 6-7:30pm Center for the Study of the Early Modern World La literatura perdida de Charcas colonial: el rescate de una herencia olvidada de Bolivia (The Lost Literature of Colonial Charcas: recovering Bolivia’s Forgotten Legacy), Lecture will be in Spanish Andrés Eichmann Oerhli (UMSA in La Paz, Bolivia) Annmary Brown Memorial, Room 110, Brown University, Providence RI This event is free and open to the public. https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/163995 Thursday, March 5, 5:15 pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium "Westworld and The Tempest: The Return of the Dead" Christina Wald (University of Konstanz) Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Friday, March 6, 2020 - 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Shakespearean Studies “Sexual Ethics and Negation in Shakespeare's Private Theater Plays.” Meghan Andrews, Lycoming College Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies NEW DATE: March 10, 2020, 5:30 PM Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar The 40th William F. Church Memorial Lecture “False Impressions: A History of Print Forgery” Nick Wilding (Georgia State University) Smith-Buonanno Hall, 106, Brown University, Providence, RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Prof. Nick Wilding is a historian of early modern Italy, of the book, and of science. A recipient of many awards and fellowships, and author of many works, most notably Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge (2014), he also became visible internationally when in 2012 he exposed a grand fraud. Wilding proved that a proffered copy of Galileo’s famous treatise on the use of a telescope to observe the stars, Sidereus Nuncius (1610), purportedly including Galileo’s own watercolors of the moon, was a clever forgery. It helped to bring the director of the Girolamini Library in Naples, Marino Massimo De Caro – part of the Berlusconi network – to justice. (De Caro was also found to have embezzled many hundreds of books from the library he oversaw.) Wilding also featured prominently in the PBS documentary about how the fraud was exposed, “Galileo’s Moon” (which premiered on July 2, 2019). Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture. Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 5:30pm Early Modern Annual Lecture “Writing History in the Sixteenth Century: Remarking the Boundaries of a Discipline in the New Spain” Serge Gruzinski, École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Smith-Buonanno Hall, 106, Brown University, Providence, RI https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/146505 After their conquest and colonization of Mexico in the 1500s, the Spaniards needed to understand the customs and the past of the native peoples in order to impose their own law and authority. But European ideas of time and history are not universal: how did Mesoamerican cosmology make sense in terms of Christian European chronology? And how did indigenous people retain or understand memory of the pre-Hispanic past? This lecture will show how both Spaniards and Indians began to produce a new form of world history. This is the first of a series of prestigious public lectures instituted at Brown by the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World. The lectures will be held each year in the Spring semester. Free and open to the public. Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas, Co-sponsored with MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies Talk Title TBA Sarah Rivett, Princeton University Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/native-cultures-americas Thursday, March 19, 2020, 1-5pm Harvard Art Museums Symposium: The Feinberg Collection: Six Works Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge MA. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Seating will begin at 12:30pm. Free admission, but seating is limited. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge. Program and further information: https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/the-feinberg-collection-six-works The symposium coincides with the exhibition “Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection,” on view at the Harvard Art Museums from February 14 through July 26, 2020. Saturday, March 21, 2020, 3-4:45 pm Association for Asian Studies 2020 Annual Conference, March 19-22, 2020 Session: Publish or Perish: New Perspectives on Book Cultures in East Asia Hwisang Cho (Emory University): "Texts in Disarray: Manuscript Books in Chosŏn Scholarly Culture;" Motoi Katsumata (Meisei University): "Shy on the First Novel: The Problems of Publishing Novels in 17th and 18th Century Japan;" Suyoung Son (Cornell University): "Nam Kongch’ŏl, Qian Qianyi, and Banned Books Across National Border;" Yung-chang Tung (Harvard University): "Problematic Laughter: Jokes, Anecdotes, and the Production of Notebooks in Middle-Period China." Location: At the Sheraton Boston Hotel and the Hynes Convention Center, Boston Thursday, March 26, 2020, 5:15 pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium "Fluid Borders: Rethinking Power Centers in Shakespeare’s Rome" Silvia Bigliazzi (University of Verona) Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Friday, March 27, 2020, 3:00pm Providence College Humanities Forum Lecture: Revenge, Religion, and Resistance: Reading Shakespeare’s History Plays Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University Ruane Center for the Humanities 105, Providence College, Providence, RI https://arts-sciences.providence.edu/humanities-forum/ March 31, 2020, 12pm Harvard Early Science Working Group "Skilling Up: The Officer-Craftsman in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1592–1882." Hyeok Hweon "H.H." Kang (Harvard, History and East Asian Languages) Comment: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University, History Location: Science Center 252, Science Center 252, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge March 31, 2020, 4:30 P.M. Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar “Monastic Technologies of Authority: Cistercian Diplomatic Praxis, Crusade, and the Colonization of the Midi” Leland Grigoli Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 4pm John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk The coming of the kingdom: the Muisca, the Catholic Reformation, and the Spanish monarchy in the New Kingdom of Granada Juan Cobo Betancourt (University of California, Santa Barbara) John Carter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room, 94 George Street, Providence, RI https://jcblibrary.org/events/coming-kingdom-muisca-catholic-reformation-an… Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on 18th Century Studies Talk Title TBA Anne Higonnet, Barnard College and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Room 133, Barker Center http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Thursday, April 9, 2020, 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium, Graduate Workshop "The Prefatory Letter to Gorboduc: Rape, Revenge, Paratext" Bailey Sincox (Harvard) Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Monday, April 13, 4:30 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the MIT History Faculty "Monsters in the Closet: The Biopolitics of the Far North in Early Modern Europe" Surekha Davies (Utrecht University) MIT, E51-095 https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu April 14, 3pm Harvard Early Science Working Group “Material Ascensions: Engineering Astronautics in Seventeenth-Century Science Fiction” Karina Mathew (Harvard, English) Comment: Hannah Marcus (Harvard, History of Science) Location: TBD Thursday, April 16, 5:15 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the Medieval English Colloquium "Predestination and Piety in the Early Modern World"—a debate James Simpson (English, Harvard) and David Hall (Harvard Divinity School, emeritus), moderated by Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (former Lower Library), Harvard Yard https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Friday and Saturday April 17-18, 2020 41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Keene State College Keene, NH, USA More information: Dr. Robert G. Sullivan, Assistant Forum Director at sullivan(a)german.umass.edu<mailto:sullivan@german.umass.edu>. 4/20/2020 4:00pm to 6:00pm “The Moral Economies of Early Modern Europe” Francesca Trivellato, History, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library), Harvard University Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 4:30pm Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America Workshop: From Creek (Mvskoke) to Cherokee (Tsalagi): The Entangled Histories of Native America, 1600-1800 Bryan Rindfleisch, Marquette University The Ruane Center for the Humanities LL49, Providence College, Providence, RI https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of… (for pre-circulated chapter email aweimer(a)providence.edu) Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 6pm Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Intellectual Immigration? Epic and the Case Against Border Walls for Early Modern Literary Disciplines Keith Sidwell, University College Cork and University of Calgary, Canada Annmary Brown Memorial, Room 110, Brown University, Providence RI https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/157009 Thursday, April 23, 5:15 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Colloquium and Department of English "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae" Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library) https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Friday, April 24, 2020 - 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Shakespearian Studies “Desdemona’s Honest Friend” Jeremy Lopez, University of Toronto http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies Apr. 28, 2020, 4:30 P.M. Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar TBD Amy Remensnyder Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 6-7:30pm Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Mountains, Missives and Mental Travel: Seneca and the Renaissance Syrithe Pugh, University of Aberdeen Annmary Brown Memorial, Room 110, Brown University, Providence, RI Free and open to the public https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/163986 Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 9:00am Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on History of the Book Harvard-Yale Graduate Conference in Book History Yale University http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on 18th Century Studies “Persuasion's Queer Drift” Paul Kelleher, Emory University Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies May 5, 2020, 12pm Harvard Early Science Working Group "The Deep History of the Spreadsheet" Ashley Gonik (Harvard, History) Comment: Katharina Piechocki (Harvard, Comparative Literature) Location: Science Center 252, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 4:00pm John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk Comets and eclipses across the Americas: writing trans-regional histories of astronomy in the colonial world Thomás Haddad (Universidade de São Paulo) John Carter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room, 94 George Street, Providence, RI https://jcblibrary.org/events/comets-and-eclipses-across-americas-writing-t… Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 4:30pm Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America Workshop: Global Mexico City in the Seventeenth Century Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers University The Ruane Center for the Humanities LL49, Providence College, Providence, RI https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of… (for pre-circulated chapter email aweimer(a)providence.edu<mailto:aweimer@providence.edu>) Wednesday, 5/13/2020 4:30pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar “The Very Picture of Civility: Universalism and the Mughal Manuscript Workshop, c. 1580–1630” Yael Rice (Assistant Professor of Art & the History of Art, Amherst College) Location: Wesleyan University, Boger Hall, Room 113, http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 4pm John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk “A Black Man from India”: Between Slavery and freedom in the Early Modern Iberian World Norah Gharala (University of Houston) MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence, RI https://jcblibrary.org/events/black-man-india-between-slavery-and-freedom-e… *August 15, 2020 Deadline CFP: The 2020 New England Renaissance Conference at Boston College (Saturday, October 24, 2020), Theme: “Early Modern Europe: From Below, at the Margins, Behind the Scenes.” Info: Prof. Franco Mormando (mormando (at) bc.edu) *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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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. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu. This Week’s Events Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on 18th Century Studies New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Thursday, February 13, 2020, 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World “Lucy Hutchinson’s Everyday War” Catharine Gray, English, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/lucy-hutchinsons-everyday… **February 14–15, 2020 Early Modern History Workshop Harvard The Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History "From Extracting Treasure to Creating Knowledge: Early Modernities" Runs Friday, February 14, 1:30–7:10 pm, and Saturday, February 15, 9 am–3:10 pm NEW ROOM: Friday: CGIS South, Room 020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA Satuday: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library) UPDATED: Program<https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/files/early_modern_studies_group/files/hup…> and Abstracts<https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/files/early_modern_studies_group/files/hup…> https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu *Friday, February 14, 2020, 3:00pm Providence College Humanities Forum Lecture: Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University Ruane Center for the Humanities 105, Providence College, Providence, RI https://arts-sciences.providence.edu/humanities-forum/ Upcoming Events **Feb 18, 2020, 12pm Harvard Early Science Working Group "The Diffusion of Heliocentrism in the Early Modern World: A View from Istanbul" Maryam Patton (Harvard, History and Middle Eastern Studies) Comment: Valentina Pugliano (MIT, STS) Location: Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge Lunch will be served. Please email Iman Darwish, imandarwish (at) g.harvard.edu, to RSVP and to receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper. Do let them know if you have any dietary restrictions, as they are happy to make accommodations. *Feb 18, 2020, 4-6 pm Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women The Idea of a Moral and Reparatory History of New World Slavery David Scott, Ruth and William Lubic Professor of Anthropology in the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University Pembroke Hall, Room 305, Brown University, Providence, RI Free and open to the public and wheelchair accessible. https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/165103 Feb 19, 2020, 4pm-7pm Real Colegio Complutense Fourth International Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650) Session moderator: Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Harvard - Animal Sightings: Art, Hunting, and Court Culture in Early Modern Spain. Jodi Cranston, Professor, Dept. of History of Art & Architecture, Boston University. - Consuming the Nude in Sculpture Collections at the Spanish Court. Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, Professor of Art History, University of Vermont. - Mirrors and Echoes: Reassessing Sofonisba Anguissola’s Interventions in Early Modern Portraiture. Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Valencia. - The Material Moves of Courtly Crafts: Goan Game Boards in the Portuguese Empire. Kelli Wood, Assistant Professor of Renaissance Art, University of Tennessee. Location: Real Colegio Complutense, Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St. Cambridge, MA Free registration. More information and RSVP at https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/4th-international-workshop-art-and-court-cult… **2/19/2020 4:30pm-6:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar “‘Reason in All Its Habits’: Picturing an Empire from Istanbul to London” Alexander Bevilacqua (Assistant Professor of History, Williams College) Location: Wesleyan University, Boger Hall, Room 113, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457 Website: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu **Thursday, February 20, 2020, 5:15 pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium, Graduate Workshop Co-sponsored with the Theater and Performance Colloquium "The Merchant of The Empire: Shakespeare and The Cultural Qualia of Mobility and Memory" Vijeta Saini (Northeastern) Barker Center, Room 218, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… **Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, 5pm Harvard Long 18th Century and Romanticism Colloquium Co-sponsored with the Race & Ethnicity Colloquium "On Romantic Work" Bakary Diaby (Skidmore) More details TBA *Thursday, February 20, 2020, 5:30pm History of Art and Architecture, HIAA Annual Lecture Series Shimmer and Surfeit: Gold from Gothic Italy to Cattelan’s America Anne Dunlop, Herald Chair of Fine Arts in the Department of Art History, Curatorship, Arts & Culture at the University of Melbourne List Art Building, 110, Brown University, Providence RI The series is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture’s Margerie Cutler, Joseph Edinburgh, and Kenneth List funds. Additional support comes from the C.V. Starr Foundation Lectureship Fund. https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/142166 Saturday, February 22, 2020, 8:30am to 5:00pm Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop Workshop on the Philosophy of Émilie du Châtelet Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall Program at https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/event/workshop-philosophy-emilié-du-c… Monday, February 24, 2020 - 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on History of the Book "The Image of O in Othello and English Printers' Devices." Erika Boeckeler, Northeastern University Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020, 4:30 P.M. Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar “Materia Medica in Transit. The Transforming Knowledge of Plants” Sabrina Minuzzi Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas Chasing Sheep in Navajo Country: An Archaeological Investigation of the Arc of Diné Pastoralism Wade Campbell, Harvard University Room 133, Barker Center http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/native-cultures-americas *Thursday, February 27, 2020, 4:30-6:00 pm, with a reception to follow. Arthur S. Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies Symposium: Amer-Asia: Object Lessons in Early Modern Connectivity Liz Horodowich (New Mexico State University), keynote lecture: “Asia in the American Southwest: A Pair of Mexican Copper Bells;” Ximena Gómez (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): “Playing Out Casta on a Japanese Screen in Colonial Mexico.” Siyu Shen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): "Japan in Mexico: The Fantasy World in Nicolás Correa's Enconchado." George Qiao (Amherst College): "The Curious Case of the Ricci Map and Its Non-Impact in Early Modern China." Location: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 650 E Pleasant Street, Amherst. For additional information, please contact Monika Schmitter (mschmitt(a)arthist.umass.edu<mailto:mschmitt@arthist.umass.edu>) and Jutta Sperling (jsperling(a)amherst.edu<mailto:jsperling@amherst.edu>). http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/horodowich. Thursday, 2/27, 2020, 5 pm Harvard Law School's annual lecture on European and Latin American legal history “Vernacular Law and the Making of Custom in Medieval France” Ada Kuskowski, History, UPenn Wasserstein Hall, Harvard, WCC 3018 Tuesday, March 3, 5:30 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop and Early Sciences Working Group "'As if conjured by the force of magic': the emergence of the scientific genius and the celebration of the imagination in natural philosophy, 1750–1820" Rob Iliffe (Oxford University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library) https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu *Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 4pm John Carter Brown Library, Fellow’s Talk “The Creole Archipelago: Race and Colonization in the Southern Carribbean, c. 1660-1797" Tessa Murphy, Syracuse University John Carter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room, 94 George Street, Providence, RI 02906 https://jcblibrary.org/events/creole-archipelago-race-and-colonization-sout… *Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 6-7:30pm Center for the Study of the Early Modern World La literatura perdida de Charcas colonial: el rescate de una herencia olvidada de Bolivia (The Lost Literature of Colonial Charcas: recovering Bolivia’s Forgotten Legacy), Lecture will be in Spanish Andrés Eichmann Oerhli (UMSA in La Paz, Bolivia) Annmary Brown Memorial, Room 110, Brown University, Providence RI This event is free and open to the public. https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/163995 Thursday, March 5, 5:15 pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium "Westworld and The Tempest: The Return of the Dead" Christina Wald (University of Konstanz) Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Friday, March 6, 2020 - 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Shakespearean Studies “Sexual Ethics and Negation in Shakespeare's Private Theater Plays.” Meghan Andrews, Lycoming College Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies **NEW DATE: March 10, 2020, 5:30 PM Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar The 40th William F. Church Memorial Lecture “False Impressions: A History of Print Forgery” Nick Wilding (Georgia State University) Smith-Buonanno Hall, 106, Brown University, Providence, RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Prof. Nick Wilding is a historian of early modern Italy, of the book, and of science. A recipient of many awards and fellowships, and author of many works, most notably Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge (2014), he also became visible internationally when in 2012 he exposed a grand fraud. Wilding proved that a proffered copy of Galileo’s famous treatise on the use of a telescope to observe the stars, Sidereus Nuncius (1610), purportedly including Galileo’s own watercolors of the moon, was a clever forgery. It helped to bring the director of the Girolamini Library in Naples, Marino Massimo De Caro – part of the Berlusconi network – to justice. (De Caro was also found to have embezzled many hundreds of books from the library he oversaw.) Wilding also featured prominently in the PBS documentary about how the fraud was exposed, “Galileo’s Moon” (which premiered on July 2, 2019). Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture. Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 5:30pm Early Modern Annual Lecture “Writing History in the Sixteenth Century: Remarking the Boundaries of a Discipline in the New Spain” Serge Gruzinski, École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Smith-Buonanno Hall, 106, Brown University, Providence, RI https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/146505 After their conquest and colonization of Mexico in the 1500s, the Spaniards needed to understand the customs and the past of the native peoples in order to impose their own law and authority. But European ideas of time and history are not universal: how did Mesoamerican cosmology make sense in terms of Christian European chronology? And how did indigenous people retain or understand memory of the pre-Hispanic past? This lecture will show how both Spaniards and Indians began to produce a new form of world history. This is the first of a series of prestigious public lectures instituted at Brown by the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World. The lectures will be held each year in the Spring semester. Free and open to the public. Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas, Co-sponsored with MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies Talk Title TBA Sarah Rivett, Princeton University Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/native-cultures-americas *Thursday, March 19, 2020, 1-5pm Harvard Art Museums Symposium: The Feinberg Collection: Six Works Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge MA. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Seating will begin at 12:30pm. Free admission, but seating is limited. Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge. Program and further information: https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/the-feinberg-collection-six-works The symposium coincides with the exhibition “Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection,” on view at the Harvard Art Museums from February 14 through July 26, 2020. Saturday, March 21, 2020, 3-4:45 pm Association for Asian Studies 2020 Annual Conference, March 19-22, 2020 Session: Publish or Perish: New Perspectives on Book Cultures in East Asia Hwisang Cho (Emory University): "Texts in Disarray: Manuscript Books in Chosŏn Scholarly Culture;" Motoi Katsumata (Meisei University): "Shy on the First Novel: The Problems of Publishing Novels in 17th and 18th Century Japan;" Suyoung Son (Cornell University): "Nam Kongch’ŏl, Qian Qianyi, and Banned Books Across National Border;" Yung-chang Tung (Harvard University): "Problematic Laughter: Jokes, Anecdotes, and the Production of Notebooks in Middle-Period China." Location: At the Sheraton Boston Hotel and the Hynes Convention Center, Boston Thursday, March 26, 2020, 5:15 pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium "Fluid Borders: Rethinking Power Centers in Shakespeare’s Rome" Silvia Bigliazzi (University of Verona) Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… *Friday, March 27, 2020, 3:00pm Providence College Humanities Forum Lecture: Revenge, Religion, and Resistance: Reading Shakespeare’s History Plays Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University Ruane Center for the Humanities 105, Providence College, Providence, RI https://arts-sciences.providence.edu/humanities-forum/ March 31, 2020, 12pm Harvard Early Science Working Group "Skilling Up: The Officer-Craftsman in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1592–1882." Hyeok Hweon "H.H." Kang (Harvard, History and East Asian Languages) Comment: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University, History Location: Science Center 252, Science Center 252, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge March 31, 2020, 4:30 P.M. Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar “Monastic Technologies of Authority: Cistercian Diplomatic Praxis, Crusade, and the Colonization of the Midi” Leland Grigoli Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ *Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 4pm John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk The coming of the kingdom: the Muisca, the Catholic Reformation, and the Spanish monarchy in the New Kingdom of Granada Juan Cobo Betancourt (University of California, Santa Barbara) John Carter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room, 94 George Street, Providence, RI https://jcblibrary.org/events/coming-kingdom-muisca-catholic-reformation-an… Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on 18th Century Studies Talk Title TBA Anne Higonnet, Barnard College and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Room 133, Barker Center http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies Thursday, April 9, 2020, 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium, Graduate Workshop "The Prefatory Letter to Gorboduc: Rape, Revenge, Paratext" Bailey Sincox (Harvard) Barker 114, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Monday, April 13, 4:30 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the MIT History Faculty "Monsters in the Closet: The Biopolitics of the Far North in Early Modern Europe" Surekha Davies (Utrecht University) MIT, E51-095 https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu April 14, 3pm Harvard Early Science Working Group “Material Ascensions: Engineering Astronautics in Seventeenth-Century Science Fiction” Karina Mathew (Harvard, English) Comment: Hannah Marcus (Harvard, History of Science) Location: TBD Thursday, April 16, 5:15 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the Medieval English Colloquium "Predestination and Piety in the Early Modern World"—a debate James Simpson (English, Harvard) and David Hall (Harvard Divinity School, emeritus), moderated by Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (former Lower Library), Harvard Yard https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Friday and Saturday April 17-18, 2020 41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Keene State College Keene, NH, USA More information: Dr. Robert G. Sullivan, Assistant Forum Director at sullivan(a)german.umass.edu<mailto:sullivan@german.umass.edu>. 4/20/2020 4:00pm to 6:00pm “The Moral Economies of Early Modern Europe” Francesca Trivellato, History, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library), Harvard University *Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 4:30pm Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America Workshop: From Creek (Mvskoke) to Cherokee (Tsalagi): The Entangled Histories of Native America, 1600-1800 Bryan Rindfleisch, Marquette University The Ruane Center for the Humanities LL49, Providence College, Providence, RI https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of… (for pre-circulated chapter email aweimer(a)providence.edu) *Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 6pm Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Intellectual Immigration? Epic and the Case Against Border Walls for Early Modern Literary Disciplines Keith Sidwell, University College Cork and University of Calgary, Canada Annmary Brown Memorial, Room 110, Brown University, Providence RI https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/157009 Thursday, April 23, 5:15 pm Early Modern History Workshop Harvard Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Colloquium and Department of English "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae" Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library) https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu Friday, April 24, 2020 - 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on Shakespearian Studies “Desdemona’s Honest Friend” Jeremy Lopez, University of Toronto http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies Apr. 28, 2020, 4:30 P.M. Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar TBD Amy Remensnyder Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence RI https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 6-7:30pm Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Mountains, Missives and Mental Travel: Seneca and the Renaissance Syrithe Pugh, University of Aberdeen Annmary Brown Memorial, Room 110, Brown University, Providence, RI Free and open to the public https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/event_id/163986 Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 9:00am Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on History of the Book Harvard-Yale Graduate Conference in Book History Yale University http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on 18th Century Studies “Persuasion's Queer Drift” Paul Kelleher, Emory University Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies May 5, 2020, 12pm Harvard Early Science Working Group "The Deep History of the Spreadsheet" Ashley Gonik (Harvard, History) Comment: Katharina Piechocki (Harvard, Comparative Literature) Location: Science Center 252, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge *Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 4:00pm John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk Comets and eclipses across the Americas: writing trans-regional histories of astronomy in the colonial world Thomás Haddad (Universidade de São Paulo) John Carter Brown Library, MacMillan Reading Room, 94 George Street, Providence, RI https://jcblibrary.org/events/comets-and-eclipses-across-americas-writing-t… *Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 4:30pm Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America Workshop: Global Mexico City in the Seventeenth Century Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers University The Ruane Center for the Humanities LL49, Providence College, Providence, RI https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of… (for pre-circulated chapter email aweimer(a)providence.edu<mailto:aweimer@providence.edu>) **Wednesday, 5/13/2020 4:30pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar “The Very Picture of Civility: Universalism and the Mughal Manuscript Workshop, c. 1580–1630” Yael Rice (Assistant Professor of Art & the History of Art, Amherst College) Location: Wesleyan University, Boger Hall, Room 113, http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu *Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 4pm John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk “A Black Man from India”: Between Slavery and freedom in the Early Modern Iberian World Norah Gharala (University of Houston) MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence, RI https://jcblibrary.org/events/black-man-india-between-slavery-and-freedom-e… *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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