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 EST.
Upcoming Events
Thursday, December 2, 2021 4:30PM EST
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Jutta Sperling (Amherst College) Five College Renaissance Seminar, "The Nursing Virgin in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ethiopia"
Location: Online (Registration Link<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrduGvpzwiE9FILoKeTF6R2pz7…>) and In-Person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA)
More Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/sperling-fcrs>
Friday, December 3, 2021 11:00AM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Renaissance Studies
Surekha Davies (Utrecht University), "What to Wear, and Who Cares? Confecting Nations through Costume Books in Early Modern Europe"
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsdu2uqTwtGtyWiBgavj9UTJWzWNLUrm…>More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/surekha-davies-what-wear-a…>
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, Registration Link
<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sfuGsrDouHNO5iOmuZxb8IlCqGmpyin…>More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/shakespearean-comedy-and-p…>
Friday, December 3, 2021 4:00PM EST
Society of Architectural Historians
"Sensing Architecture"
Panelists:
Niall Atkinson, University of Chicago
Joseph L. Clarke, University of Toronto
David Karmon, College of the Holy Cross
Bissera V. Pentcheva, Stanford University
Mark Smith, University of South Carolina
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://sah1365.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J9CWreJbQEySWIGNSYk54g>More Information<https://www.sah.org/conferences-and-programs/sah-connects/2021/sensing-arch…>
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
<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkfuCsqT8iHNePkCHcLkOVxUlI…>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>.
NEW DATE: Friday, December 10, 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>.
Note: Original date was scheduled for Tuesday, December 7, 2021.
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
