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 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 Special Event
Friday, March 5, 2021 10AM-12PM EST
Celebrating French Women Writers: A Conference to Launch the Two-Volume Publication of Femmes et littérature. Une histoire culturelle (Éditions Gallimard)
Presentation will be in English. Q&A will be in English and French.
Sponsors for the conference include the Bacon Funds and the Harvard Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The France and the World Seminar (Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center), Harvard Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, all of Harvard University, and with the support of Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.
More Information
<https://rll.fas.harvard.edu/event/celebrating-french-women-writers-1>Registration Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-p9WwNTjQW2n_umrzlOF4Q>
*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>
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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. 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.
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
Monday, February 22, 2021 1-2:30PM EST
Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar
Race in Geography, "Ethnography" and other Genres of Arabic Texts, run by guest organizers Shireen Hamza (History of Science) and Conor Dube (NELC)
Meets online via Zoom (contact alexandraschultz(a)g.harvard.edu for meeting info)
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 4:30PM EST
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
“The Politics of Biography: Inquisition, Empire, and Identification in the Spanish Atlantic (1570-1610)” presented by Mayer Juni (Brown)
More Information and Zoom Details
<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 3-5PM EST
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 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Seminar
Cynthia Nazarian (Northwestern University), who will be giving a talk entitled “Honor and Gender in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron.”
Please RSVP to Emily Epperson (epperson(a)g.harvard.edu) and Therese Banks (tbanks(a)g.harvard.edu) for the Zoom link.
Thursday, February 25, 2021 3PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on German Studies: New Perspectives
Threading the Needle: Painting as Experiment in Rubens’s Four Philosophers
Speaker: Christopher Braider, University of Colorado
More information/registration link<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/threading-needle-painting-…>
Thursday, February 25, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Center Women, Gender and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar
"Rethinking Early Modern Women’s Authorship: Anne Bradstreet, Lucy Hutchinson and Epic" with Professor Mihoko Suzuki (University of Miami)
Registration Link
<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArc-yppzsrHdLnn1XrSQt190dGjI5-…>If you have any questions, please contact Erin Murphy at ermurphy(a)bu.edu
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…
Monday, March 8, 2021 1-2:30PM EST
Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar
"Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" & Teaching Indigeneity
Meets online via Zoom (contact alexandraschultz(a)g.harvard.edu for meeting info)
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 Postcolonial 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.
Thursday, March 18, 2021 7PM EST
Next meeting of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts: Peter Mancall will speak about his book The Trials of Thomas Morton.
For more information please visit Colonial Society of Massachusetts events<https://www.colonialsociety.org/>.
Monday, March 22, 2021 1-2:30PM EST
Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar
Guest speaker Adam Miyashiro (Stockton University) joins us to discuss a pre-circulated forthcoming article. Tentative topic: indigeneity and medieval environment.
Meets online via Zoom (contact alexandraschultz(a)g.harvard.edu for meeting info)
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 3:00PM EST
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Karine Chemla (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study and CNRS, University Paris Diderot) "A historical approach to the reading of ancient mathematical texts and why this matters"
Registration Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqdumgpjIuE9btybJGu4roEViQrwSToG…>
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.
Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Center Women, Gender and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar
"Epistemology, Women, and the Scientific Method in Early Modern England," with Professor Julie Walsh (Wellesley College)
Registration Link<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApc-murjMsGtYEIece0pBLLaIv1T-Z…>
Tuesday March 30, 2021 12:00PM EST
Nathaniel Moses (History, Harvard)
“Plants in Translation: Botanical Hermeneutics and Seventeenth-Century Orientalism”
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard. To receive the pre-circulated paper and zoom link, please contact Hannah Marcus, hmarcus at fas.harvard.edu
Monday, April 5, 2021 1-2:30PM EST
Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar
Nandini Pandey (U Wisconsin-Madison) joins us, with a pre-circulated piece adapted from her forthcoming book, to discuss Roman diversity and public-facing communication.
Meets online via Zoom (contact alexandraschultz(a)g.harvard.edu for meeting info)
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 11-12:30PM EST
Colonial North America at Harvard Library Symposium
Keynote Address - 'Digital Access and Making Early America Vast' by Karin Wulf, renowned early American scholar from the Omohundro Institute
Registration Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D-uAUV5GReuwepSSO9BXkQ>
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 11-12:30PM EST
Colonial North America at Harvard Library Symposium
Panel 1 - Using Digitized Manuscript Collections in New Contexts
Registration Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D-uAUV5GReuwepSSO9BXkQ>
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 3-5PM EST
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 8, 2021 11-12:30PM EST
Colonial North America at Harvard Library Symposium
Panel 2 - Artificial Intelligence and Access to Manuscript Materials
Registration Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D-uAUV5GReuwepSSO9BXkQ>
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…
Monday, April 19, 2021 1-2:30PM EST
Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar
Discussing Chapter 2 of Geraldine Heng's "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages," SJ Pearce's review essay of the book, and Heng's response to the review.
Meets online via Zoom (contact alexandraschultz(a)g.harvard.edu for meeting info)
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 12:00PM EST
Caroline Murphy (History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art, MIT)
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard. To receive the pre-circulated paper and zoom link, please contact Hannah Marcus, hmarcus at fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, April 22, 2021, 5:30PM EST
"Imagining a World: Selfhood and Empire in Safavid Iran", Kishwar Rizvi, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, Yale University.
Spring 2021 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
Sponsored by Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
Registration details TBA.
Please visit the AKPIA events page<https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events> for more information.
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…
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 12:00PM EST
Iman Darwish (History of Science, Harvard)
“The Nature of Experience and the Experience of Nature in Ibn Sīna’s Kitab al-Ḥayawān (The book of Animals)”
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard. To receive the pre-circulated paper and zoom link, please contact Hannah Marcus, hmarcus at fas.harvard.edu
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_…>
*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 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)
Streaming/website URL
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 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.
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
Monday February 8, 2021 4:30-5:45PM EST
Univ. of Connecticut Gender & History Visiting Scholars series in Gender & History
Public talk and dialogue: Paula Findlen (Stanford University), "Inventing Medieval Women: History, Memory, and Forgery in Early Modern Italy."
Prof. Findlen will speak briefly about her research project, followed by a dialogue with Ken Gouwens, and then Q&A with the audience.
For the Zoom link, go to <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.uconn.edu_&d=D…> https://history.uconn.edu/.
Monday, February 8, 2021 5:30-6:45PM EST
Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society Fellows) will give a talk on Linda Nochlin's 1971 article "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"
Please click here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.bc.edu_event_wh…> for full details and registration info. This webinar-style event will be free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 6PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
To Buy or to Breed: The Shifting Business Model in Producing Enslaved Black Labour in the 18th Century
Speaker: Sir Hilary Beckles, University of the West Indies
Registration link
<https://brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkd-mupzwtEtf-QlLeTS1qVpaCgUluN…>More information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/buy-or-breed-shifting-busi…>
Wednesday February 10, 2021 12:15-1:30PM EST
Univ. of Connecticut Gender & History Visiting Scholars series in Gender & History
Lunchtime seminar: Discussion with Paula Findlen (Stanford University) on a pre-circulated paper, "Aristotle in the Pharmacy: The Ambitions of Camilla Erculiani in Sixteenth-Century Padua."
For a pdf of the reading, email the faculty coordinator for the series, cornelia.dayton(a)uconn.edu<mailto:cornelia.dayton@uconn.edu>.
For the seminar's zoom link, go to https://history.uconn.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.uconn.edu_&d=D…>
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 1:30-3PM 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).
This event is a part of the Fourteenth Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History: Prisoners and Players, Merchants and Ministers: An Early Modern Fair
Zoom Registration Required.
Register at: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqdOivqT4sE9GKiDdcAzvmrRrWp9ON…
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__princeton.zoom.us_meet…>
Thursday, February 18, 2021 3PM EST
Next meeting of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts: Nancy Seasholes will speak about the early chapters/plates from the "Atlas of Boston History" via Zoom.
For more information please visit Colonial Society of Massachusetts events<https://www.colonialsociety.org/>.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 3-5PM EST
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.
Thursday, February 25, 2021 3PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on German Studies: New Perspectives
Threading the Needle: Painting as Experiment in Rubens' Four Philosophers
Speaker: Christopher Braider, University of Colorado
More information/registration link<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/threading-needle-painting-…>
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 22, 2021, 5:30PM EST
"Imagining a World: Selfhood and Empire in Safavid Iran", Kishwar Rizvi, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, Yale University.
Spring 2021 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
Sponsored by Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
Registration details TBA.
Please visit the AKPIA events page<https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events> for more information.
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_…>
*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 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)
Streaming/website URL
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 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.
Late Breaking News
Thursday, February 4, 2021 12-1:20PM EST
Panel Discussion: New Directions in Textual Studies and Book History (Northeastern University)
MacArthur Fellow Jeffrey Miller (Montclair State University), Erika Boeckeler (Northeastern University), and David Medina (Northeastern University), moderated by Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University)
Sponsored by the Northeastern University Humanities Center
Panelists discuss trends in the field, with examples from Jeffrey Miller's stunning discovery of the earliest known draft of the King James Bible, racial dynamics in printers' ornaments, and Mesoamerican textual practices.
More Information<https://cssh.northeastern.edu/humanities/new-directions-in-textual-studies-…>
Registration Link<https://northeastern.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_phBFe_KoQjSYJg3H15jdIw>
*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)
Streaming/website URL
Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences)
RSVP or Registration information/link
