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, April 30, 2021 2-4PM EDT
Imagining Human Rights in Early Modernity
2021 Dan S. Collins Lecture with Sharon Achinstein (Sir William Osler Professor in English, Johns Hopkins University)
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
More Information
<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/2021-dan-s-collins-lecture-imaginin…>Registration Link<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mjfbMgZXSvmIf5HnE03t-A?_x…>
Monday, May 3, 2021 9:50AM-4:15PM EDT
Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History: "Materiality and Book History (in the age of Zoom)”
Hosted by Harvard University
Early Modern Talks: Graeme R. Reynolds (Harvard): The Circulation of the History of Koryŏ in Early Modern Korea ● Philippe Schmid (Harvard): Sharing Marks in Early Modern Books ● Alicia Petersen (Yale): Decoding Early Modern Gossip ● Kaitlyn Quaranta (Brown): A New Order of Things: Systems in the Encyclopédie
Full Program
<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/files/history-of-the-book/files/harvard-yal…>Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlc-mprDkrGdAFTlYdOT0QI6jhLS2ucv…>May 4-7, 2021
Politics: A RaceB4Race® Symposium
Co-sponsored by Brandeis University and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University
More Information
<https://asuevents.asu.edu/raceb4race-politics?eventDate=2021-05-04>Registration Link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/politics-a-raceb4race-symposium-tickets-146373…>
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 4-5PM EDT
Medical Racism from 1619 to the Present: History Matters
Participants: Jim Downs (Gilder Lehrman NEH Chair of Civil War Era Studies and History, Gettysburg College), Susan M. Reverby (Marion Butler McLean Professor Emerita in the History of Ideas and professor emerita of women’s and gender studies, Wellesley College)
Moderator: Evelynn Hammonds (chair of the Department of the History of Science, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, and professor of African and American studies, Harvard University)
This program is presented as part of the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, a University-wide effort housed at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, in collaboration with the Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.
More Information
<https://www.legacyofslavery.radcliffe.harvard.edu/events/medical-racism-fro…>Registration Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EAMFaQytRlSNKy2xZCRS4w>
Friday, May 7, 2021 10AM-5PM EDT
Printed Afterlifes: Early Hispanic Books and Manuscripts in the 19th Century
A Virtual Symposium at the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University
Keynote: Neil F. Safier (Brown University) “Translation Generation: Constructing the Colonial Encyclopedia in a Lisbon Printing-House”
More Information
<https://sites.bu.edu/printed-afterlives/>Registration Link<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsc-yurDMrH915x8rUC-yxeMnueIeMKE…>
Thursday, May 13, 2021 7PM EDT
Donald R. Friary Lecture: The Salem Witch Trials
A conversation with Emerson W. Baker, II Professor of History, Salem State University, Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of History Emerita, Cornell University, and Benjamin Ray, Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus, University of Virginia.
Sponsored by The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
More Information
<https://www.colonialsociety.org/>Registration Link<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AyOGIOF6QSaZcavxa5fWrw>
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
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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<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.
Cancelled Event:
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
*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
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 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.
Thursday, April 22, 2021 6PM EDT
Desdemona’s Honest Friend
Jeremy Lopez, University of Toronto
Mahindra Humanities Center Shakespearean Studies Seminar
Registration Link<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/desdemonas-honest-friend>
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…>
Monday, April 26, 2021 6PM EDT
The History of Cartography and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Professor Íris Kantor (Universidade de São Paulo)
Sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University
Registration Link
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>
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…>
Monday, May 3, 2021 9:50AM-4:15PM EDT
Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History: "Materiality and Book History (in the age of Zoom)”
Hosted by Harvard University
Early Modern Talks: Graeme R. Reynolds (Harvard): The Circulation of the History of Koryŏ in Early Modern Korea ● Philippe Schmid (Harvard): Sharing Marks in Early Modern Books ● Alicia Petersen (Yale): Decoding Early Modern Gossip ● Kaitlyn Quaranta (Brown): A New Order of Things: Systems in the Encyclopédie
Full Program
<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/files/history-of-the-book/files/harvard-yal…>Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlc-mprDkrGdAFTlYdOT0QI6jhLS2ucv…>
May 4-7, 2021
Politics: A RaceB4Race® Symposium
Co-sponsored by Brandeis University and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University
More Information
<https://asuevents.asu.edu/raceb4race-politics?eventDate=2021-05-04>Registration Link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/politics-a-raceb4race-symposium-tickets-146373…>
Friday, May 7, 2021 10AM-5PM EDT
Printed Afterlifes: Early Hispanic Books and Manuscripts in the 19th Century
A Virtual Symposium at the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University
Keynote: Neil F. Safier (Brown University) “Translation Generation: Constructing the Colonial Encyclopedia in a Lisbon Printing-House”
More Information
<https://sites.bu.edu/printed-afterlives/>Registration Link
<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsc-yurDMrH915x8rUC-yxeMnueIeMKE…>
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
Thursday, May 13, 2021 7PM EDT
Donald R. Friary Lecture: The Salem Witch Trials
A conversation with Emerson W. Baker, II Professor of History, Salem State University, Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of History Emerita, Cornell University, and Benjamin Ray, Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus, University of Virginia.
Sponsored by The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
More Information
<https://www.colonialsociety.org/>Registration Link<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AyOGIOF6QSaZcavxa5fWrw>
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 EDT.
Upcoming Events
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.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 4PM EDT
McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross
Webinar: A Return to Hope and Healing: Seeing Our Way through a Crisis of Our Time
James A. Welu, Director Emeritus, Worcester Art Museum
Registration Link<https://holycross.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yrhFiQUeRO-YFPVhbVxbnw>
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 3PM EDT
Next meeting of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts: Stated Meeting. Jean O'Brien, "Massassoit and Memory."
For more information please visit Colonial Society of Massachusetts events<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.colonialsociety.or…>.
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 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.
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>
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…>May 4-7, 2021
Co-sponsored by Brandeis University and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University
Politics: A RaceB4Race® Symposium
More Information
<https://asuevents.asu.edu/raceb4race-politics?eventDate=2021-05-04>Registration Link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/politics-a-raceb4race-symposium-tickets-146373…>
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
