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Early Modern Studies, from March 30, 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. At this moment, we can safely assume that all in-person meetings have been canceled, large and small. To keep this list during our time of self-isolation, we are starting to announce video conferences relevant to the Boston area. Please forward announcements of virtual socials, web-meetings, online exhibits, and application deadlines for future conferences in the Boston area. We hope to see you soon in good health! Upcoming: Thursday, April 2, 5:15 pm EST Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Bailey Sincox (Harvard) "The Prefatory Letter to Gorboduc: Rape, Revenge, Paratext" Click here to join the Zoom meeting<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_j_2561…> Thursday, April 9, 5:15 pm EST Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Play Reading: Much Ado About Nothing Click here to join the Zoom meeting<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_j_3366…> 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> April 27, 2020 CFP deadline: Sixteenth Century Society & Conference (SCSC) conference to be held on October 29-Nov 1, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland. The official website with more information: https://sixteenthcentury.org/<https://sixteenthcentury.org/#https://sixteenthcentury.org/> 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) Streaming/website URL * Event must take place in the greater Boston area. Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences) RSVP or Registration information/link

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Early Modern Studies, from March 26, 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. At this moment, we can safely assume that all in-person meetings have been canceled, large and small. To keep this list during our time of self-isolation, we are starting to announce video conferences relevant to the Boston area. Please forward announcements of virtual socials, web-meetings, online exhibits, and application deadlines for future conferences in the Boston area. We hope to see you soon in good health! Upcoming: *Thursday, March 26, 2020, 9:15am-10am Jesuit Studies Café, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, in collaboration with the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu "The Digital Indipetae Database" Emanuele Colombo, DePaul University Marco Rochini, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Online Webstreaming. RSVP<https://outlook.office365.com/mail/histbook@fas.harvard.edu/sentitems/id/AA…> More Information: email iajs(a)bc.edu This café is a demonstration of the new Digital Indipetae Database, an open-access resource that collects thousands of indipetae (Jesuit petitions for extra-European missions) preserved at the Jesuit Roman Archive (ARSI) and other archives. The tradition of writing indipetae, pretty unique to the Society of Jesus, lasted for at least four hundred years, between the 1560s and the 1960s. At this café, Colombo and Rochini will demonstrate the database's robust functionality by exploring the first series of letters uploaded -- the nearly eight hundred indipetae written during the generalate of Jan Roothaan (1829-1853), which highlight the evolution of Jesuit missions after the restoration of the Society. 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> *April 27, 2020 CFP deadline: Sixteenth Century Society & Conference (SCSC) conference to be held on October 29-Nov 1, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland. The official website with more information: https://sixteenthcentury.org/<https://sixteenthcentury.org/#https://sixteenthcentury.org/> 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) Streaming/website URL Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences) RSVP or Registration information/link

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Early Modern Studies, from March 9

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. *We do our best to provide up-to-date information, but event cancellations may happen without our knowledge. If in doubt about whether an event is taking place please contact a relevant organizer. This Week’s 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 *Tues. March 10, 4:30-5:45pm Slaves in Paris: Scenes from an Imperial Capital Miranda Spieler, History, American University in Paris Center for the Humanities at Tufts (48 Professors Rd, Medford MA) PLEASE CONTACT PROF LIZ FOSTER (elizabeth.foster at tufts.edu) if you plan to attend a. in order to confirm that the event is taking place and b. in order to receive a copy of the precirculated paper. Historian Miranda Spieler will be visiting from the American University in Paris, and has agreed to workshop part of her new project, Slaves in Paris: Scenes from an Imperial Capital, 1700-1815, which tells the story of people of color living in Paris and in the port cities of France during the eighteenth century, and the chapter she will workshop reconstructs the life of an enslaved woman, known in French sources as Pauline, who comes to Paris after the Seven Years War with the former governor of the islands of Mauritius and Réunion. 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, 12-1pm The 2020 Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders, Harvard Part II: A Burgherly Life on the Banda Islands: Land, Labor and Ecology in the 1621 Genocide Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam) History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 125, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (A light lunch will be served.) In 1621, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) under the leadership of its Governor General Jan Pieterszoon Coen conquered the Banda Islands, securing the highly coveted nutmeg-monopoly for the Company. In the process, Coen’s soldiers killed, expelled or enslaved almost all of the islands’ 15,000 inhabitants. Often treated as an excess driven by the individual character of Coen as a military leader, this lecture will show how a decade of debates over the best ways to control land, labor and ecology prepared the ground for genocide. It will thus continue the lecture series’ theme of the relationship between the Dutch Republic’s highly urbanized commercial capitalism and the global countryside. **POSTPONED: 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 Unfortunately Serge Gruzinski’s visit to Brown next week and his lecture on March 11 will not take place. The postponement is a consequence of the substantial risks and practical difficulties arising from the spread of the corona virus (COVID 19) in France and internationally.  We expect to reschedule these planned activities for later in 2020 and details of arrangements will be circulated in due course.  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 Upcoming Events 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, 8:30-4pm Connecticut Freemasons The 2020 Grand Historians' Symposium: Explore the Origins of Freemasonry...with the Advantages of 20/20 Hindsight! Keynote (10:05am): Margaret C. Jacob (UCLA): Freemasonry Seen Historically--Evolution from the 1650's to 1800. Location: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library, 33 Marrett Road, Lexington, MA 02421 The symposium is open to the public, but tickets are limited to afford ample interaction with Dr. Jacob and the presenters. Details can be found on the Facebook page: Connecticut Freemasons. For more information please contact the Grand Master Melvin E. Johnson mjohnson (at) ctfreemasons.net Cancelled, due to COVID-19 travel restrictions: 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 Cancelled, due to COVID-19 travel restrictions: 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… (CHANGE of date and location:) Thursday, April 2, 2020, 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium, Graduate Workshop "The Prefatory Letter to Gorboduc: Rape, Revenge, Paratext" Bailey Sincox (Harvard) Barker 218, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on 18th Century Studies "The Marvelous and Incredible Style Revolution around the Merveilleuses and Incroyables" Anne Higonnet, Barnard College and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Room 133, Barker Center http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies 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, 12-1pm The 2020 Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders, Harvard Part III: "The Plantation: Violence and Imaginary Order in the Gardens of Suriname and Amsterdam" Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam) History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 125, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (A light lunch will be served.) The final lecture explores the plantation as an ideal-type of colonial governance and capitalist ordering through the lens of a strange historic coincidence. In 1683 the City of Amsterdam acquired a 1/3 part ownership of the plantation colony Suriname. That very same year, the mayors of Amsterdam decided to designate an entire neighborhood for leisure gardens, and called it “The Plantation”. Seventeenth-century Europeans depicted the plantation, the site of unspeakable horrors, as a model of rationally ordered agriculture, and often gave their plantations the same names as their domestic leisure gardens. This lecture will examine deeper connections between rationality and order, chaos and brutality behind this horticultural imagery. Wednesday, April 29, 2 PM - 4 PM Dissertation Defense: "The Black Spaniards: The Color of Political Authority in Seventeenth-Century Lima" Sally Hayes, Harvard Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard, Warren Center Conference Room (#B21) (formerly Basement Seminar Room), 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138   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 March 5, 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. Below, please find the latest news on travel related changes below. 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 *Thursday, March 5th, 4:30 pm Amherst College French Department Biennial Lecture in Honor of Professor Jay Caplan "The Histoire mémorable between News & History: Framing Accounts of Current Events in the French Wars of Religion" Andrea M. Frisch, University of Maryland College Park Alumni House Reception Center, 75 Churchill Street, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002 This talk will address the ways in which current or very recent events were packaged generically in the turbulent context of the French Wars of Religion. It will examine the histoire mémorable as the terrain upon which personal, polemical, pamphlet-style accounts could make a bid for entry into the long-term, capital-H historical record. 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. 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, 12-1pm The 2020 Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders, Harvard Part II: A Burgherly Life on the Banda Islands: Land, Labor and Ecology in the 1621 Genocide Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam) History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 125, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (A light lunch will be served.) In 1621, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) under the leadership of its Governor General Jan Pieterszoon Coen conquered the Banda Islands, securing the highly coveted nutmeg-monopoly for the Company. In the process, Coen’s soldiers killed, expelled or enslaved almost all of the islands’ 15,000 inhabitants. Often treated as an excess driven by the individual character of Coen as a military leader, this lecture will show how a decade of debates over the best ways to control land, labor and ecology prepared the ground for genocide. It will thus continue the lecture series’ theme of the relationship between the Dutch Republic’s highly urbanized commercial capitalism and the global countryside. **POSTPONED: 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 Unfortunately Serge Gruzinski’s visit to Brown next week and his lecture on March 11 will not take place. The postponement is a consequence of the substantial risks and practical difficulties arising from the spread of the corona virus (COVID 19) in France and internationally. They expect to reschedule these planned activities for later in 2020 and details of arrangements will be circulated in due course. 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 Upcoming Events 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, 8:30-4pm Connecticut Freemasons The 2020 Grand Historians' Symposium: Explore the Origins of Freemasonry...with the Advantages of 20/20 Hindsight! Keynote (10:05am): Margaret C. Jacob (UCLA): Freemasonry Seen Historically--Evolution from the 1650's to 1800. Location: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library, 33 Marrett Road, Lexington, MA 02421 The symposium is open to the public, but tickets are limited to afford ample interaction with Dr. Jacob and the presenters. Details can be found on the Facebook page: Connecticut Freemasons. For more information please contact the Grand Master Melvin E. Johnson mjohnson (at) ctfreemasons.net 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 **Cancelled, due to COVID-19 travel restrictions: 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… **(CHANGE of date and location:) Thursday, April 2, 2020, 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium, Graduate Workshop "The Prefatory Letter to Gorboduc: Rape, Revenge, Paratext" Bailey Sincox (Harvard) Barker 218, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… **Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard Seminar on 18th Century Studies "The Marvelous and Incredible Style Revolution around the Merveilleuses and Incroyables" Anne Higonnet, Barnard College and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Room 133, Barker Center http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies 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, 12-1pm The 2020 Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders, Harvard Part III: "The Plantation: Violence and Imaginary Order in the Gardens of Suriname and Amsterdam" Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam) History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 125, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (A light lunch will be served.) The final lecture explores the plantation as an ideal-type of colonial governance and capitalist ordering through the lens of a strange historic coincidence. In 1683 the City of Amsterdam acquired a 1/3 part ownership of the plantation colony Suriname. That very same year, the mayors of Amsterdam decided to designate an entire neighborhood for leisure gardens, and called it “The Plantation”. Seventeenth-century Europeans depicted the plantation, the site of unspeakable horrors, as a model of rationally ordered agriculture, and often gave their plantations the same names as their domestic leisure gardens. This lecture will examine deeper connections between rationality and order, chaos and brutality behind this horticultural imagery. *Wednesday, April 29, 2 PM - 4 PM Dissertation Defense: "The Black Spaniards: The Color of Political Authority in Seventeenth-Century Lima" Sally Hayes, Harvard Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard, Warren Center Conference Room (#B21) (formerly Basement Seminar Room), 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 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 *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. 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