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.
To keep this list during our time of self-isolation, we are announcing video conferences relevant to the Boston area. Please forward announcements of virtual socials, web-meetings, online exhibits, and application deadlines for future conferences in our region.
Many of our students are looking for opportunities to do research or participate in a group project related to early modern studies: Please find below a couple of transcription projects in search of volunteers.
We hope to see you soon in good health!
Upcoming:
April 28, 2020, 4:30pm (new link below!)
“Monastic Technologies of Authority: Cistercian Diplomatic Praxis, Crusade, and the Colonization of the Midi.” <https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/files/2020/04/Occitania-Chapter-no.-2.pdf> (The link opens the PDF file of the book chapter)
Leland Grigoli (Brown University, History)
Join the Zoom meeting here.<https://brown.zoom.us/j/218497046>
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)
Search for Volunteers:
*Harvard Libraries project, transcribing colonial documents, open to all (on a strictly volunteer basis):
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/your-opportunity-to-make-har…
*Omohundro Institute (sponsored by William & Mary), transcription projects of Early Americana:
https://oieahc.wm.edu/explore/vastearlyamerica-resources/transcription/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__oieahc.wm.edu_explore_…>
*Phillips Academy Archives and Special Collections, Andover MA: Phillips Family Papers, 1647-1879 (transcription project):
https://fromthepage.com/phillipsacademyarchives/phillips-family-papers
Open Sources of the Month:
Frank Snowden (Yale): Hist 234--Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (Recorded in Spring 2010)
https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234
<https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234>
Kinney Center for Interdiscipinary Renaissance Studies
The Musical Settings of Tasso's Poetry. An Online Concert, directed by UMass music history professor Emiliano Ricciardi. Guest ensemble Palma Choralis (Brescia, Italy) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMOYhD9u7sNJYty0kEtTcAg/featured
*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:
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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. To keep this list during our time of self-isolation, we are announcing 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 23, 2020, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium and Harvard Early Modern History Workshop
"Material Afterlives of University Drama: The Actor's Part"
Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows)
Join the Zoom meeting here<https://harvard.zoom.us/j/703015199?pwd=NXRCR2VJZStYdHdCSUZJNWVsZVBjQT09>
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/>
**April 28, 2020, 4:30pm (new link below!)
“Monastic Technologies of Authority: Cistercian Diplomatic Praxis, Crusade, and the Colonization of the Midi.” <https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/files/2020/04/Occitania-Chapter-no.-2.pdf> (The link opens the PDF file of the book chapter)
Leland Grigoli (Brown University, History)
Join the Zoom meeting here.<https://brown.zoom.us/j/218497046>
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)
Earlymod and Epidemics (Open Sources of the Month):
Frank Snowden (Yale): Hist 234--Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (Recorded in Spring 2010)
https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234
<https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234>
*Kinney Center for Interdiscipinary Renaissance Studies
The Musical Settings of Tasso's Poetry. An Online Concert, directed by UMass music history professor Emiliano Ricciardi. Guest ensemble Palma Choralis (Brescia, Italy) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMOYhD9u7sNJYty0kEtTcAg/featured
*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
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. To keep this list during our time of self-isolation, we are announcing video conferences relevant to the Boston area. We also like to know about featured open sources connected to research on early modern epidemics (see the bottom of this page). 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:
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>
*Tuesday, April 21, 3-4:30pm (Zoom webinar)
Harvard University, The Public Face of History Series
"What History Teaches Us about Pandemics"
Panelists:
-Michael McCormick<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us8.list-2Dman…>, Chair, Science of the Human Past; Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History
-Joyce Chaplin<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us8.list-2Dman…>, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History
-Sidney Chalhoub<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us8.list-2Dman…>, David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
-Erez Manela<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us8.list-2Dman…>, Professor of History
Registration required: https://bit.ly/harvardhistory
*Thursday, April 23, 2020, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium and Harvard Early Modern History Workshop
"Material Afterlives of University Drama: The Actor's Part"
Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows)
Zoom link:
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/703015199?pwd=NXRCR2VJZStYdHdCSUZJNWVsZVBjQT09<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_j_7030…>
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/>
April 28, 2020, 4:30pm (new date!)
“Monastic Technologies of Authority: Cistercian Diplomatic Praxis, Crusade, and the Colonization of the Midi.” <https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/files/2020/04/Occitania-Chapter-no.-2.pdf> (The link opens the PDF file of the book chapter)
Leland Grigoli (Brown University, History)
Join the Zoom meeting here.<https://brown.zoom.us/j/745870364>
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)
Earlymod and Epidemics (Open Source of the Month):
*Frank Snowden (Yale): Hist 234--Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (Recorded in Spring 2010)
https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234
<https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234>
*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
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. To keep this list during our time of self-isolation, we are announcing video conferences relevant to the greater Boston area. Please forward announcements of virtual socials, web-meetings, online exhibits, and application deadlines for future conferences. We hope to see you soon in good health!
Upcoming:
Thursday, April 9, 5:15 pm EST
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Play Reading: Much Ado About Nothing
Here is an updated link to the Zoom meeting (now password-protected in accordance with the new security guidelines): you can join the meeting here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_j_3366…>. This link should take you directly into the meeting; however, if you're prompted to type the password it is 989684.
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/>
*April 28, 2020, 4:30pm (new date!)
“Monastic Technologies of Authority: Cistercian Diplomatic Praxis, Crusade, and the Colonization of the Midi.” <https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/files/2020/04/Occitania-Chapter-no.-2.pdf> (The link opens the PDF file of the book chapter)
Leland Grigoli (Brown University, History)
Join the Zoom meeting here.<https://brown.zoom.us/j/745870364>
August 15, 2020
Deadline CFP: The 2020 New England Renaissance Conference (NERC) 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
