Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1800, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. This year we are announcing in person and online events and activities relevant to the Boston area. Please forward announcements of events, including 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 EDT (prior to 11/7/21) and EST (on/after 11/7/21).
Upcoming Events
Friday, October 29, 2021 5:00PM EDT
Boston College
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art
Virtual Lecture: "Binding the Globe: Race and Empire in Luxury Atlases from the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World"
Dr. Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://bccte.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwofuupqD0iHt0-ygn5hSDb4dA2gJHKoGhf>Please register in advance for this lecture. After registering, you will receive information about joining the lecture.
NERC has been cancelled for 2021
Friday, October 29, 2021 5-7PM
Saturday, October 30, 2021 9AM-5PM EDT
Boston College
The Annual New England Renaissance Conference
Call for Papers and Invitation to Conference
Location: In-person, Boston College Conference Center, 2101 Commonwealth Ave, Brighton, MA
Free and open to public, but registration is required. Registration Link.<https://www.new-england-renaissance-conference.org/?page_id=241>
For further info: Franco Mormando (mormando(a)bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>).
Thursday, November 4, 2021 3PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Vittoria Fallanca (New College, Oxford), "How Do You Design an Essay? Some Lessons from Montaigne and Dessein"
Location: Online
Please RSVP to Emily Epperson (epperson(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:epperson@g.harvard.edu>) or Lisa Kostur (kostur(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:kostur@g.harvard.edu>) for the Zoom link.
More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/vittoria-fallanca-how-do-y…>
Friday, November 5, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EDT
UMass Amherst
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture in Shakespeare Studies
Justin Shaw (Clark University), "Killing Race, Curing Melancholy: White Obsessions in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlc-6trjkqHNDZCtwvUtEq5mjZ…>More Information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:30PM EST
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar with pre-circulated paper
William Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Rochester
Location: In-person, Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
RSVP: For a copy of the paper email Esther Moran at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
More Information<https://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu>
Friday, November 12, 2021 12-1:30pm EST
Early Modern Workshop of the Department of History at Harvard
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Rektorin, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), "Rituals and procedures of decision-making: Early Modern Assemblies of Estates."
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpdemsqzwpE9ChPdx9CeYorWszUhdH0x…>After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Kelly Minot McCay, "Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England: A Teacher's Textbook Deciphered"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 5:30PM EST
Brown University
Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Daniel Strum (University of São Paulo, Brazil), "Jewish-Converso Atlantic Trade: Legal disputes between Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands, 1585-1617"
Location: In-person, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, 95 Cushing Street, Providence, RI 02906
Please note: all community members - regardless of vaccination status - are required to wear masks indoors, unless in a private, non-shared space or when actively eating. See: https://healthy.brown.edu/updates/brown-community-new-temporary-covid-19-re…
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__healthy.brown.edu_upda…>RSVP to maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu<mailto:maria_sokolova@brown.edu>.
Thursday, November 18, 2021 5:00-7:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Hannah Hunter-Parker (Amherst College), "Vanishing with a Trace: Medieval Manuscripts in the Age of Lithography"
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIodeCvrz4sGNLlrgSJ3DI1-DHF…>More Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/hunter-parker-book-history>
Thursday, November 18, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Divya Cherian (Princeton University), "Diabolical Women: Witches and the Law in Early Modern South Asia"
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at ermurphy(a)bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Friday, November 19, 2021 6:00PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Michelle Ephraim (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), "Shakespeare as Memoir."
Location: Online. Please register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Friday, December 3, 2021 4:00PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Kent Cartwright (University of Maryland), "Shakespearean Comedy and the Problem of Forgiveness"
Location: Online. Please register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific Personae, and Children in Italy, 1750-1810"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, December 9, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Asheesh Siddique (UMass Amherst), "Print, Records, and the 'Science' of Law in the Early American Republic"
Location: Online, Registration Link Forthcoming
More Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/siddique-2021> (format listed on website to be updated to reflect switch to Zoom)
Thursday, December 9, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Transculturation and 'English' Daughters in Early Modern Morocco"
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at ermurphy(a)bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Mateo Montoya, "The Thirty Immortals of Geneva: Life Annuities, Smallpox Inoculation, and Probabilistic Thought c. 1760-1793"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Alejandro Nodarse, "Blood Lines: Drawing and Circulation in Marco Aurelio Severino's Chirugia Illustrata (Surgery Illustrated)"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, "Towards a New Reading of Descartes' Meditations"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.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<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place or (in case of online events) be relevant to 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: in-person or virtual
*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this and include location details.
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. This year we are announcing in person and online events and activities relevant to the Boston area. Please forward announcements of events, including 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 EDT (prior to 11/7/21) and EST (on/after 11/7/21).
Upcoming Events
Monday, October 18, 2021 7:00PM EDT
Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nesah.org_about-2Dus_&…>David Karmon (Holy Cross)
Please join us for David Karmon's lecture hosted by NE/SAH titled "A Multisensory Approach to Renaissance Architecture," following the publication of his new book, Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cambridge.org_core…> (Cambridge University Press, 2021). This event is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required to receive Zoom link by Friday, October 15. Welcome!
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSMKBCLUngU9gqdlPNq5Znwlbysk83mTq…>More Information<https://nesah.org/2021/09/20/book-talk-architecture-and-the-senses-in-the-i…>
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 4PM
Brown University
Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Zhang Yekai (History, graduate student) is going to present his paper 'Ballads, Poems and the Political Culture of the Second and Third Dutch Wars in Britain, c. 1664-1674'. The paper will be attached to the calendar invite for the talk using a Google group, our new system of pre-circulating the papers before talks.
Location: In-person, Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912
Please note: all community members - regardless of vaccination status - are required to wear masks indoors, unless in a private, non-shared space or when actively eating. See: https://healthy.brown.edu/updates/brown-community-new-temporary-covid-19-re…
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__healthy.brown.edu_upda…>RSVP to maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu<mailto:maria_sokolova@brown.edu> to receive the paper.
Thursday, October 21, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EDT
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Ken Botnick (emdash design), "A Conversation with Diderot: Making a Book to Discover My Subject"
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information
<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/botnick-2021>Thursday, October 21, 2021 5:30PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Paula Findlen (Stanford University), Title TBD
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at ermurphy(a)bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Friday, October 22, 2021, 12:00PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
Paul Love (Al Akhawayn University), "Three Moons, Water Buffalo Skins, & Digital Codicology: Snapshots of Ibadi Muslim Manuscript Cultures in North Africa"
Location: Online. Registration Link.<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpceiqrzwsE9S6eVxIjC1T1kj9XdDCd_…>
More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/paul-love-three-moons-wate…>
Friday, October 22, 2021 6:00PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
"Power, Politics, and Performance: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar on the Worcester Common."
Kathryn Moncrief, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location: Online. Please register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Monday, October 25, 2021 6:00-7:00PM EDT
Harvard University Department of History of Art + Architecture
New Directions in Art History Lecture Series: Dr. Kailani Polzak (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Title: "Sightings and Landings: Captain Cook and Coastal Contestation in Aotearoa and Hawai'i"
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wulyRnkOS_CHSAmfQZSx1Q>More Information<https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/new-directions-art-history-lecture-series…>
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EDT
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Yingxue Wang, "'The Iridescent Effect': Beetle Wings in Early Medieval East Asian Material Culture"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, October 28, 2021 5PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Cassander Smith (University of Alabama), "'No Rogue, No Rascal, No Thief': Race and Respectability in the Early Americas"
Location: Online
Please RSVP to Emily Epperson (epperson(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:epperson@g.harvard.edu>) or Lisa Kostur (kostur(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:kostur@g.harvard.edu>) for the Zoom link.
More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/%E2%80%98no-rogue-no-rasca…>
Thursday, October 28, 2021 6PM EDT
Department of History of Art + Architecture
Harvard University
Public lecture, "Titian the Poet"
Leonard Barkan (Princeton) with response by Maria Loh (CUNY Hunter College), "Thick Paintings"
Part one of the conference "Visual Poetry: The Politics and Erotics of Seeing-Titian and Beyond" (Oct. 28, 2021 & April 7-8, 2022)
Location: Online, Registration Link.
<https://bit.ly/titianthepoet>More Information <https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/leonard-barkan-%E2%80%9Ctitian-poet%E2%80…>
NOW ON ZOOM
Friday, October 29, 2021 5:00PM EDT
Boston College
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art
Virtual Lecture: "Binding the Globe: Race and Empire in Luxury Atlases from the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World"
Dr. Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://bccte.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwofuupqD0iHt0-ygn5hSDb4dA2gJHKoGhf>Please register in advance for this lecture. After registering, you will receive information about joining the lecture.
NERC has been cancelled for 2021
Friday, October 29, 2021 5-7PM
Saturday, October 30, 2021 9AM-5PM EDT
Boston College
The Annual New England Renaissance Conference
Call for Papers and Invitation to Conference
Location: In-person, Boston College Conference Center, 2101 Commonwealth Ave, Brighton, MA
Free and open to public, but registration is required. Registration Link.<https://www.new-england-renaissance-conference.org/?page_id=241>
For further info: Franco Mormando (mormando(a)bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>).
Friday, November 5, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EDT
UMass Amherst
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture in Shakespeare Studies
Justin Shaw (Clark University), "Killing Race, Curing Melancholy: White Obsessions in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama
Location: In-Person, 650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA
More Information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:30PM EST
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar with pre-circulated paper
William Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Rochester
Location: In-person, Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
RSVP: For a copy of the paper email Esther Moran at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
More Information<https://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu>
Friday, November 12, 2021 12-1:30pm EST
Early Modern Workshop of the Department of History at Harvard
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Rektorin, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), "Rituals and procedures of decision-making: Early Modern Assemblies of Estates."
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpdemsqzwpE9ChPdx9CeYorWszUhdH0x…>After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Kelly Minot McCay, "Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England: A Teacher's Textbook Deciphered"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, November 18, 2021 5:00-7:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Hannah Hunter-Parker (Amherst College), "Vanishing with a Trace: Medieval Manuscripts in the Age of Lithography"
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information
<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/hunter-parker-book-history>Thursday, November 18, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Divya Cherian (Princeton University), "Diabolical Women: Witches and the Law in Early Modern South Asia"
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at ermurphy(a)bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Friday, November 19, 2021 6:00PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Michelle Ephraim (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), "Shakespeare as Memoir."
Location: Online. Please register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Friday, December 3, 2021 4:00PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Kent Cartwright (University of Maryland), "Shakespearean Comedy and the Problem of Forgiveness"
Location: Online. Please register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific Personae, and Children in Italy, 1750-1810"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, December 9, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Asheesh Siddique (UMass Amherst), "Print, Records, and the 'Science' of Law in the Early American Republic"
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/siddique-2021>
Thursday, December 9, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Transculturation and 'English' Daughters in Early Modern Morocco"
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at ermurphy(a)bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Mateo Montoya, "The Thirty Immortals of Geneva: Life Annuities, Smallpox Inoculation, and Probabilistic Thought c. 1760-1793"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Alejandro Nodarse, "Blood Lines: Drawing and Circulation in Marco Aurelio Severino's Chirugia Illustrata (Surgery Illustrated)"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, "Towards a New Reading of Descartes' Meditations"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.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<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place or (in case of online events) be relevant to 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: in-person or virtual
*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this and include location details.
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. This year we are announcing in person and online events and activities relevant to the Boston area. Please forward announcements of events, including 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 EDT (prior to 11/7/21) and EST (on/after 11/7/21).
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 4:30PM EDT
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar with pre-circulated paper, "The Politics of Non-normativity in L'Isle des hermaphrodites."
Kathleen Perry Long, Professor of French, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University
Location: In-person, Boger Hall, Rm. 110, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
RSVP: For a copy of the paper email Esther Moran at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
More Information<https://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu>
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 5PM EDT
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Graduate Round Table
Sam Bozoukov (English), "Aemilia Lanyer and the Protofeminist Politics of Listening"
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvd-6sqDguHtJFnb4cyIQkuHSdKHEO9O…>Please find the pre-circulated paper here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__google.us6.list-2Dmana…>.
Thursday, October 14, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EDT
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Gigi Barnhill (American Antiquarian Society), "Print Making Processes in Nineteenth-Century American Books"
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcud-2tpzIrHtxppW5z5F79UNeF…>More Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/barnhill-2021>
Friday, October 15, 2021 12-1:30PM EDT
Early Modern Workshop of the Department of History at Harvard
David Lines (University of Warwick), "Questioning Authority in the Early Modern Classroom: Teaching the Sciences at the University of Bologna."
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpde2hpz4uHNSj8ixLOcrrwNteBPiUic…>After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting
Monday, October 18, 2021 7:00PM EDT
Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nesah.org_about-2Dus_&…>David Karmon (Holy Cross)
Please join us for David Karmon's lecture hosted by NE/SAH titled "A Multisensory Approach to Renaissance Architecture," following the publication of his new book, Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cambridge.org_core…> (Cambridge University Press, 2021). This event is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required to receive Zoom link by Friday, October 15. Welcome!
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSMKBCLUngU9gqdlPNq5Znwlbysk83mTq…>More Information<https://nesah.org/2021/09/20/book-talk-architecture-and-the-senses-in-the-i…>
Thursday, October 21, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EDT
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Ken Botnick (emdash design), "A Conversation with Diderot: Making a Book to Discover My Subject"
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information
<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/botnick-2021>Thursday, October 21, 2021 5:30PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Paula Findlen (Stanford University), Title TBD
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at ermurphy(a)bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Friday, October 22, 2021 6:00PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
"Power, Politics, and Performance: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar on the Worcester Common."
Kathryn Moncrief, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location: Online. Please register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Monday, October 25, 2021 6:00-7:00PM EDT
Harvard University Department of History of Art + Architecture
New Directions in Art History Lecture Series: Dr. Kailani Polzak (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Title: TBA
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wulyRnkOS_CHSAmfQZSx1Q>More Information<https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/new-directions-art-history-lecture-series…>
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EDT
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Yingxue Wang, "'The Iridescent Effect': Beetle Wings in Early Medieval East Asian Material Culture"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, October 28, 2021 5PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Cassander Smith (University of Alabama), "'No Rogue, No Rascal, No Thief': Race and Respectability in the Early Americas"
Location: Online
Please RSVP to Emily Epperson (epperson(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:epperson@g.harvard.edu>) or Lisa Kostur (kostur(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:kostur@g.harvard.edu>) for the Zoom link.
More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/%E2%80%98no-rogue-no-rasca…>
NOW ON ZOOM
Friday, October 29, 2021 5:00PM EDT
Boston College
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art
Virtual Lecture: "Binding the Globe: Race and Empire in Luxury Atlases from the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World"
Dr. Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://bccte.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwofuupqD0iHt0-ygn5hSDb4dA2gJHKoGhf>Please register in advance for this lecture. After registering, you will receive information about joining the lecture.
NERC has been cancelled for 2021
Friday, October 29, 2021 5-7PM
Saturday, October 30, 2021 9AM-5PM EDT
Boston College
The Annual New England Renaissance Conference
Call for Papers and Invitation to Conference
Location: In-person, Boston College Conference Center, 2101 Commonwealth Ave, Brighton, MA
Free and open to public, but registration is required. Registration Link.<https://www.new-england-renaissance-conference.org/?page_id=241>
For further info: Franco Mormando (mormando(a)bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>).
Friday, November 5, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EDT
UMass Amherst
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture in Shakespeare Studies
Justin Shaw (Clark University), "Killing Race, Curing Melancholy: White Obsessions in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama
Location: In-Person, 650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA
More Information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:30PM EST
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar with pre-circulated paper
William Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Rochester
Location: In-person, Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
RSVP: For a copy of the paper email Esther Moran at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
More Information<https://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu>
Friday, November 12, 2021 12-1:30pm EST
Early Modern Workshop of the Department of History at Harvard
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Rektorin, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), "Rituals and procedures of decision-making: Early Modern Assemblies of Estates."
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpdemsqzwpE9ChPdx9CeYorWszUhdH0x…>After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Kelly Minot McCay, "Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England: A Teacher's Textbook Deciphered"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, November 18, 2021 5:00-7:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Hannah Hunter-Parker (Amherst College), "Vanishing with a Trace: Medieval Manuscripts in the Age of Lithography"
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information
<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/hunter-parker-book-history>Thursday, November 18, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Divya Cherian (Princeton University), "Diabolical Women: Witches and the Law in Early Modern South Asia"
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at ermurphy(a)bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Friday, November 19, 2021 6:00PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Michelle Ephraim (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), "Shakespeare as Memoir."
Location: Online. Please register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Friday, December 3, 2021 4:00PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Kent Cartwright (University of Maryland), "Shakespearean Comedy and the Problem of Forgiveness"
Location: Online. Please register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific Personae, and Children in Italy, 1750-1810"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, December 9, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Asheesh Siddique (UMass Amherst), "Print, Records, and the 'Science' of Law in the Early American Republic"
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/siddique-2021>
Thursday, December 9, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Transculturation and 'English' Daughters in Early Modern Morocco"
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at ermurphy(a)bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Mateo Montoya, "The Thirty Immortals of Geneva: Life Annuities, Smallpox Inoculation, and Probabilistic Thought c. 1760-1793"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Alejandro Nodarse, "Blood Lines: Drawing and Circulation in Marco Aurelio Severino's Chirugia Illustrata (Surgery Illustrated)"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, "Towards a New Reading of Descartes' Meditations"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.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<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place or (in case of online events) be relevant to 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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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. This year we are announcing in person and online events and activities relevant to the Boston area. Please forward announcements of events, including 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 EDT (prior to 11/7/21) and EST (on/after 11/7/21).
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 7PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies
"TALKING B(L)ACK: Theorizing Race and its Intersections in Critical Eighteenth-Century Studies."
Christy Pichichero, George Mason University
Location: Online, Registration Link<https://brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIude-vrzgrHtRDKoO9JOJ3xHWE9F3Sb…>
More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/talking-black-theorizing-r…>
Thursday, October 7, 2021 4:30-6:30PM EDT
Five College Renaissance Seminar
UMass Amherst
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University), "Petrarch's Lyric Anthropology"
Location: Online
More Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/ramachandran-fcrs>
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 4:30PM EDT
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar with pre-circulated paper, "The Politics of Non-normativity in L'Isle des hermaphrodites."
Kathleen Perry Long, Professor of French, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University
Location: In-person, Boger Hall, Rm. 110, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
RSVP: For a copy of the paper email Esther Moran at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
More Information<https://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu>
Thursday, October 14, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EDT
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Gigi Barnhill (American Antiquarian Society), "How Prints are Made--Why Process Matters"
Location: Online
More Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/barnhill-2021>
Friday, October 15, 2021 12-1:30PM EDT
Early Modern Workshop of the Department of History at Harvard
David Lines (University of Warwick), "Questioning Authority in the Early Modern Classroom: Teaching the Sciences at the University of Bologna."
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpde2hpz4uHNSj8ixLOcrrwNteBPiUic…>After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting
Monday, October 18, 2021 7:00PM EDT
Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nesah.org_about-2Dus_&…>David Karmon (Holy Cross)
Please join us for David Karmon's lecture hosted by NE/SAH titled "A Multisensory Approach to Renaissance Architecture," following the publication of his new book, Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cambridge.org_core…> (Cambridge University Press, 2021). This event is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required to receive Zoom link by Friday, October 15. Welcome!
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSMKBCLUngU9gqdlPNq5Znwlbysk83mTq…>More Information<https://nesah.org/2021/09/20/book-talk-architecture-and-the-senses-in-the-i…>
Thursday, October 21, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EDT
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Ken Botnick (emdash design), "A Conversation with Diderot: Making a Book to Discover My Subject"
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information
<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/botnick-2021>Thursday, October 21, 2021 5:30PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Paula Findlen (Stanford University), Title TBD
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at ermurphy(a)bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Friday, October 22, 2021 6:00PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
"Power, Politics, and Performance: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar on the Worcester Common."
Kathryn Moncrief, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location: Online. Please register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Monday, October 25, 2021 6:00-7:00PM EDT
Harvard University Department of History of Art + Architecture
New Directions in Art History Lecture Series: Dr. Kailani Polzak (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Title: TBA
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wulyRnkOS_CHSAmfQZSx1Q>More Information<https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/new-directions-art-history-lecture-series…>
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EDT
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Yingxue Wang, "'The Iridescent Effect': Beetle Wings in Early Medieval East Asian Material Culture"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, October 28, 2021 5PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Cassander Smith (University of Alabama), "'No Rogue, No Rascal, No Thief': Race and Respectability in the Early Americas"
Location: Online
Please RSVP to Emily Epperson (epperson(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:epperson@g.harvard.edu>) or Lisa Kostur (kostur(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:kostur@g.harvard.edu>) for the Zoom link.
More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/%E2%80%98no-rogue-no-rasca…>
NOW ON ZOOM
Friday, October 29, 2021 5:00PM EDT
Boston College
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art
Virtual Lecture: "Binding the Globe: Race and Empire in Luxury Atlases from the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World"
Dr. Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://bccte.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwofuupqD0iHt0-ygn5hSDb4dA2gJHKoGhf>Please register in advance for this lecture. After registering, you will receive information about joining the lecture.
NERC has been cancelled for 2021
Friday, October 29, 2021 5-7PM
Saturday, October 30, 2021 9AM-5PM EDT
Boston College
The Annual New England Renaissance Conference
Call for Papers and Invitation to Conference
Location: In-person, Boston College Conference Center, 2101 Commonwealth Ave, Brighton, MA
Free and open to public, but registration is required. Registration Link.<https://www.new-england-renaissance-conference.org/?page_id=241>
For further info: Franco Mormando (mormando(a)bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>).
Friday, November 5, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EDT
UMass Amherst
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture in Shakespeare Studies
Justin Shaw (Clark University), "Killing Race, Curing Melancholy: White Obsessions in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama
Location: In-Person, 650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA
More Information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:30PM EST
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar with pre-circulated paper
William Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Rochester
Location: In-person, Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
RSVP: For a copy of the paper email Esther Moran at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
More Information<https://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu>
Friday, November 12, 2021 12-1:30pm EST
Early Modern Workshop of the Department of History at Harvard
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Rektorin, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), "Rituals and procedures of decision-making: Early Modern Assemblies of Estates."
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpdemsqzwpE9ChPdx9CeYorWszUhdH0x…>After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Kelly Minot McCay, "Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England: A Teacher's Textbook Deciphered"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, November 18, 2021 5:00-7:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Hannah Hunter-Parker (Amherst College), "Vanishing with a Trace: Medieval Manuscripts in the Age of Lithography"
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information
<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/hunter-parker-book-history>Thursday, November 18, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Divya Cherian (Princeton University), "Diabolical Women: Witches and the Law in Early Modern South Asia"
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at ermurphy(a)bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Friday, November 19, 2021 6:00PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
"Shakespeare as Memoir."
Michelle Ephraim, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location: Online. Please register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific Personae, and Children in Italy, 1750-1810"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, December 9, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Asheesh Siddique (UMass Amherst), "Print, Records, and the 'Science' of Law in the Early American Republic"
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/siddique-2021>
Thursday, December 9, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Transculturation and 'English' Daughters in Early Modern Morocco"
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at ermurphy(a)bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Mateo Montoya, "The Thirty Immortals of Geneva: Life Annuities, Smallpox Inoculation, and Probabilistic Thought c. 1760-1793"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Alejandro Nodarse, "Blood Lines: Drawing and Circulation in Marco Aurelio Severino's Chirugia Illustrata (Surgery Illustrated)"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, "Towards a New Reading of Descartes' Meditations"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
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