Greetings and Welcome to the Spring Term!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1800, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. This year we are announcing online events and activities relevant to the Boston area. Please forward announcements of virtual socials, web-meetings, online exhibits, and application deadlines for future conferences in our region. We're planning a mailing roughly every two weeks-please therefore send notices of events at least two weeks in advance. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>.
For security reasons the list will not disseminate zoom links directly, but we can list an email contact to which to write for further details about attending. Alternatively, we can circulate registration information for events. All times are EST.
Upcoming Events
Thursday, January 21, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Naomi Miller, Professor of English at Smith College will be reading and discussing her new book, Imperfect Alchemist, the first novel to explore the life of Mary Sidney Herbert.
Registration link: https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYudeyurT4sHtCoeoK4XvF4J1YSsHuA…
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3-5 PM EST
The Harvard workshop on "Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America" will feature a discussion of Byron Ellsworth Hamann. Bad Christians, New Spains. Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World. London and New York: Routledge, 2020, with author present.
Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 12-1PM EST
Hansun Hsiung (Durham), 'Between Scientific Observation and Moral Understanding: Copperplate, Woodblock, and "New Media" in Dutch-Japanese Exchanges, ca. 1770-1820'
Durham Early Modern Group
More information/registration link: https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/events/durhamearlymodgroup/?eventno=48534
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 3-5PM EST
The Harvard workshop on "Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America" will feature a discussion of José Carlos de la Puente Luna. Andean Cosmopolitans. Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal court. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018, with author present.
Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Saturday, February 13, 2021 1:30PM EST
"An Experimental Inquisition" an event focused on new books by Hannah Marcus, Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy, and Jennifer Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700 (in conversation with Ann Blair, Harvard, and Anthony Grafton, Princeton).
Registration link forthcoming
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 3-5PM
The Harvard workshop on "Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America" will feature a discussion of Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2020, with author present.
Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Wednesday February 24, 2021, 6PM EST Virtual Event
The Early Modern World in United States Libraries and Collections
NETTIE LEE BENSON LATIN AMERICAN COLLECTION
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World at Brown University.
More information/registration link<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/date/20210224/event_…>
Thursday March 4, 2021 4PM EST
Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae".
Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium, Department of English, and the Early Modern History Workshop.
Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpd-uhqTMpGNXknwr45LSSz8Jh61RuoI…
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 3-5PM EST
The Harvard workshop on "Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America" will feature a discussion of Yuko Miki, Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postocolonial Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018, with author present.
Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3-5PM EST
The Harvard workshop on "Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America" will feature a discussion of Adriana Chira, "Peripheral Freedoms: Afro-Descendant Cubans, Law, and Racial Identity, 1791-1868 (forthcoming manuscript), with author present.
Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 3-5PM
The Harvard workshop on "Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America" will feature a discussion of Paulina Alberto. "Black Legend: "El Negro" Raúl Grigera and Racial Storytelling in Modern Argentina" (forthcoming manuscript), with author present.
Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Thursday, April 15, 2021 4PM EST
Dror Wahrman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "The Prince, the Jeweler and the Mogul: The Paradoxes on an Early Modern Object".
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard.
Please register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcuqspzwpGtKqc-gQcsVjIny7xJSIUA…
Thursday, April 29, 2021 1PM EST
Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge University), "Isaac Abendana (c. 1638-1699): Rabbinic learning and the Hebrew book in Restoration Cambridge and Oxford."
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Early Modern History Workshop and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, Harvard.
Please register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMoceuppjMiHtJ2yhjHtle00fmIMcOlCw…
June 14-15, 2021
Early Modern Symposium
Performing Objects and the Objects of Performance in the Global Early Modern
Sponsored by the John Hay Library and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World at Brown University.
More information<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/date/20210614/event_…>
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