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 EDT.
Late Breaking News
Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:00 PM EDT
Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (UCHI)
Lecture, "On Protean Acting in Shakespeare: Race & Virtuosity"
Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University & Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies)
Email uconnearlymodern(a)gmail.com<mailto:uconnearlymodern@gmail.com> to RSVP and to receive a Zoom link.
*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
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 EDT.
Upcoming Events
Friday, March 19, 2021 4-6PM EDT
UMass Amherst
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
The Refinery: Caravaggio in Conversation
Andy Bowers (History of Art and Architecture, UMass) "Living Flesh, Paint-as-Blood"
Siyu Shen (History of Art and Architecture, UMass) "Caravaggio: Scoundrel Scholar?"
Danielle Carrabino, Curator of Sculpture & Painting, Smith College
Registration Link
<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwscu-uqDwiH91_5m2gqn0ZW4Ss…>
Friday, March 19, 2021 6PM EDT
Mahindra Humanities Center Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Hamlet and Euclid, Those Amazing Twins”
Travis Williams (University of Rhode Island)
Registration link
<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/hamlet-and-euclid-those-am…>
Monday, March 22, 2021 1-2:30PM EDT
Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar
Topic: Race & Environment
Guest speaker Adam Miyashiro (Stockton University) joins us to discuss a pre-circulated forthcoming article.
Meets online via Zoom (contact alexandraschultz(a)g.harvard.edu for meeting info)
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 3PM EDT
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
"A historical approach to the reading of ancient mathematical texts and why this matters"
Karine Chemla (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study and CNRS, University Paris Diderot)
Registration Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqdumgpjIuE9btybJGu4roEViQrwSToG…>
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 4:30PM
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar Meeting
“‘To Know the Ordinances of the Heavens’: Preaching Manliness at the University of Paris”
Charles Carroll
More Information<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3-5PM EDT
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 3PM EDT
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Occidentalizing Rhodes in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy"
Bailey Sincox, Harvard English Department
More Information<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…>
Thursday, March 25, 2021 5:30PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Center Women, Gender and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar
"Epistemology, Women, and the Scientific Method in Early Modern England"
Professor Julie Walsh (Wellesley College)
Registration Link<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApc-murjMsGtYEIece0pBLLaIv1T-Z…>
Thursday, March 25, 2021 6PM EDT
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young University)
‘A Continual Tavern in my House’: Food and Venetian Diplomacy in Early Modern Istanbul
More Information<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/dursteler>
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12PM EDT
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
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 7:30PM EDT
Wellesley College
Concert: Channeling Isabella
Wellesley College Collegium Musicum
Program In Honor of Isabella d'Este for Women's History Month
More Information
<https://www.wellesley.edu/publiccalendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid…>
Thursday, April 1, 2021 6PM EDT
Harvard Department of History of Art + Architecture
New Directions in Art History Lecture Series
“Print, Painting, and the Contours of the Baroque”
Aaron M. Hyman (Johns Hopkins University)
Registration Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GYBH7_BsTOWcjkxjTDv5uA>
Monday, April 5, 2021 1-2:30PM EDT
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 EDT
Colonial North America at Harvard Library Symposium
Keynote Address - 'Digital Access and Making Early America Vast'
Karin Wulf, renowned early American scholar from the Omohundro Institute
Registration Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D-uAUV5GReuwepSSO9BXkQ>
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 5PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Seminar
“On Race and Reinscription: Writing Enslaved Women Back into the Early Modern Archive”
Jennifer L. Morgan (New York University)
RSVP to Therese Banks (tbanks(a)g.harvard.edu) or Emily Epperson (epperson(a)g.harvard.edu) for zoom link.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 11-12:30PM EDT
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 EDT
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 EDT
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>
Friday, April 9, 2021 1-3PM EDT
Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures
Presented by the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard Art Museums, and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture
PART I: Exhibiting Slavery and Representing Black Lives
More Information<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/exhibiting-slavery-and-representing-…>
Thursday, April 15, 2021 4PM EDT
“The Prince, the Jeweler and the Mogul: The Paradoxes on an Early Modern Object"
Dror Wahrman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard
Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcuqspzwpGtKqc-gQcsVjIny7xJSIUA…>
Friday, April 16, 2021 1-3PM EDT
Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures
Presented by the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard Art Museums, and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture
PART II: De-centering/Re-centering: Forging New Museological and Historical Narratives
More Information<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/de-centering-re-centering-forging-ne…>
Monday, April 19, 2021 1-2:30PM EDT
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 12PM EDT
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 6PM EDT
Mahindra Humanities Center Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Desdemona’s Honest Friend”
Jeremy Lopez, University of Toronto
Registration Link<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/desdemonas-honest-friend>
Thursday, April 22, 2021 5:30PM EDT
"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 Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2GL76E3uROWwH4KVQDvI2Q>Please visit the AKPIA events page<https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events> for more information.
Friday, April 23, 2021 11AM-12PM EDT
Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures
Presented by the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard Art Museums, and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture
PART III: History, Memory, and Legacy: Jamaica Kincaid, Rosana Paulino, and Cheryl Finley in Conversation
More Information<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/history-memory-and-legacy-jamaica-ki…>
Friday, April 23, 2021 1-2:30PM EDT
Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures
Presented by the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard Art Museums, and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture
PART IV: The Work of Objects: Interpretation within and beyond Museum Walls
More Information<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/the-work-of-objects-interpretation-w…>
Thursday, April 29, 2021 1PM EDT
"Isaac Abendana (c. 1638-1699): Rabbinic learning and the Hebrew book in Restoration Cambridge and Oxford"
Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge University)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Early Modern History Workshop and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, Harvard
Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMoceuppjMiHtJ2yhjHtle00fmIMcOlCw…>
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 12PM EDT
“The Nature of Experience and the Experience of Nature in Ibn Sīna’s Kitab al-Ḥayawān (The book of Animals)”
Iman Darwish (History of Science, Harvard)
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, 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.
Monday, March 15, 2021 3PM EST
Colonial North America at Harvard Library
A Closer Look at Colonial North America Across Harvard Library
Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8Y1A7BYhSC20HotJnEQFMw>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/>.
Friday, March 19, 2021 4-6PM EST
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
UMass Amherst
The Refinery: Caravaggio in Conversation
Andy Bowers (History of Art and Architecture, UMass) "Living Flesh, Paint-as-Blood"
Siyu Shen (History of Art and Architecture, UMass) "Caravaggio: Scoundrel Scholar?"
Danielle Carrabino, Curator of Sculpture & Painting, Smith College
Registration Link<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwscu-uqDwiH91_5m2gqn0ZW4Ss…>
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 3PM EST
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Occidentalizing Rhodes in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy"
Bailey Sincox, Harvard English Department
More Information<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…>
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
