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.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
Monday, October 24, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 4: Reading: draft of article in progress by Anna Wilson, “Racial Innocence: Whiteness and Childhood in Chaucer’s ‘Prioress’ Tale’”.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Monday, October 24, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Medieval Studies
Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, 10/24/2022 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop and Scandinavian Studies, Harvard
James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/james-raven-university-cambr…>
Location: In person event: History Dept conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Wednesday, October 26th, 3:00pm
The Gladys Brooks Foundation; Department of History and Classics; Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program
Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America (PC-SHEA):
“At the Center of the World: Urban Life in Seventeenth Century Mexico City”
Tatiana Seijas; Rutgers University
Location: Providence College, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI, 02918
More information: https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…> or email Sharon.Murphy(a)providence.edu
Dr. Tatiana Seijas is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University who specializes in Early Modern Global History, the Pacific World, and Latin America. The Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America meets several times a year to discuss pre-circulated works in progress, including chapters of doctoral dissertations, book projects, and article drafts on any aspect of early American history.
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard
Yavuz Aykan, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, Paris 1 Sorbonne University: "SOHBET-I OSMANI: Making Justice in a Venal Context: The Provincial Council and the Deconcentration of Power in 18th-Century Harput"
CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge
More information: Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-justice-venal-context-provinci...<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-justice-venal-context-provincial-…>
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Jordan Katz, Department of Judaic Studies, UMass-Amherst, and Harvard Divinity School: "Mapping Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Amsterdam"
Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
More information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-earl...<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…>
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Talk: “Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine”
Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Oct 28, 2022, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Evan MacCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Orchestrating Shakespeare's Storms". 6th Annual Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
Evan MacCarthy is a Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History in the Department of Music & Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on the history of fifteenth-century music and music theory, late medieval chant, German music in the Baroque era, as well as nineteenth-century American music. His book Ruled by the Muses: Italian Humanists and their Study of Music in the Fifteenth Century explores the musical lives of scholars who sought to revive the cultural and intellectual traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/berlinmaccarthy2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Tuesday, 11/1/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Information Gaps and the Management of Tangier’s Fortifications, 1662-1683”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer-architecture-…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Jeff Dolven, Professor of English at Princeton University: "Verse, Turn, Trope"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More Information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Thursday, November 3, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Trevor Jackson (George Washington University)
"From Commodity Gluts to Savings Glut: Crises of Overabundance in Atlantic Economies, 1602-2008."
Harvard Law School (Room TBD)
More information: https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming
*Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, 5:30 PM
Brown University, Annual William Church Lecture<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
John Jeffries Martin (Duke University): “From the Apocalypse to the Idea of Progress in Early Modern Europe”
Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 106, Brown University, 95 Cushing St, Providence, RI
In the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth century, Europeans expressed their hopes for the future within an apocalyptic, even millenarian frame. But in the late seventeenth and throughout the eighteenth century a new language of hope emerged as the Idea of Progress took hold. This presentation explores this transition with attention both to the emergence of secular values and to shifting notions of Divine Providence in the early modern world.
Friday, Nov 4, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Coppelia Kahn, Brown University: “Reading Faces in Hamlet”
133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138
Monday, November 7, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 5: Reading: TBD, on topic of slavery in the ancient/medieval Mediterranean OR pedagogy session, “Teaching Difficult Issues With Cases,” with Dan Smail.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Tuesday, November 8, 5 PM,
Celtic Languages and Literatures Lecture
Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut): Legitimacy, Sovereignty and the Practice of Politics in Early Modern Ireland
Warren House, Room 201, Harvard University, 11 Prescott St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Thursday, Nov 10, 2022
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Catherine Infante (Amherst College): “The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain”
650 East Pleasant St, Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-infante-2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Tuesday, 11/15/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Iman Darwish (History of Science), “Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath Book of Simples: The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/iman-darwish-history-science…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Wednesday, 11/16/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Hudson Vincent, Harvard Writing Center: "Carceral Colonialism: Thomas Morton, John Eliot, and the Puritan Origins of the Carceral State in America"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More Information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “The Chinese Discovery of America? Franciscan Missionaries and Mexican Material Culture in Guangzhou, 1579.”
Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
In 1579, a group of Franciscan friars under the leadership of one Fray Pedro Alfaro attempted to establish a mission in China. Taken into custody by the Ming authorities, their destiny was shaped by the work of both human and non-human mediators, specifically a Chinese interpreter and a series of objects that the friars had brought with them from New Spain. As far as we know, this incident represents the first encounter between Chinese literati and the material culture of colonial Spanish America. The encounter provides an opportunity to reflect on patterns of early modern globalization facilitated by trans-Pacific travel.
More information: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236965-early-modern-lectu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
Thursday, 11/17/2022 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Department of History, Boston College: Title TBA
Location: Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-earl...<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…>
Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,” Literature Compass (2019).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Wednesday, 11/30/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Emily Vasiliauskas, Associate Professor of English at Williams College: "On the Way to Lyric"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
This talk will be held via Zoom. Register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damherst.zoom.u…>.
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Thursday, 12/1/2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable on the new Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English: "A Field of Many Voices: Early Modern Women's Writing in English Now"
Virtual event. Register here: https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvc-CrqjMjE9dZaTj6P5O54gl492V0…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century: XIII Dinner Symposium
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdiscipinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Douglas Pfeiffer (Stony Brook University)
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrspfeiffer2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
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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 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.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
October 13–15, 2022
Harvard University Library, Harvard Department of Romance languages and Literatures, Harvard Department of History, and Harvard Early Modern World
Camões @ Harvard Conference
This conference marks the 450th anniversary of the publication of Luis Vaz de Camões' maritime epic Os Lusiada with contributions from scholars from Europe, Africa, and America. Schedule of Events:
https://camoes.fas.harvard.edu/schedule-bilingual
Location: This event will be hybrid, including in-person locations on Harvard University’s campus and a livestream via Zoom. Check the website<https://camoes.fas.harvard.edu/schedule-bilingual> for forthcoming information and registration for the zoom links.
Friday, Oct 14, 2022, 3pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Adam Zucker (University of Massachusetts Amherst): “The Soundscape of the Tempest”
Location: 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-zucker-2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Saturday, Oct 15, 2022
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC)
Theme: “Instruments of Power in the Global Early Modern.”
Amherst College, Amherst MA
Conference Website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nerc2022.org_&d=Dw…>
Monday, October 17, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 3: Reading: selections from Sarah Derbew, Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge 2022).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Tuesday, 10/18/2022, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ryan Low (History, Harvard), “Household Archival Sciences in Medieval Provence and Dauphiné” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ryan-low-history-harvard-%E2…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
**Tuesday, October 18 at 4:30pm
Medieval History Workshop
Angela Zhang, post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History at Harvard, “Race, Slavery, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Florence”
Location: History department conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Tuesday, October 18, 4:30-6:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Book Launch: Ari Friedlander, University of Mississippi: Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics
Online via Zoom, contact: rencen(a)umass.edu
*Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 5:00pm
Celtic Languages and Literatures Lecture, Harvard University
Deirdre Nic Charthaigh: Music, Myth, and Identity in Gaelic Ireland: the Evidence of Early Modern Irish Literature
Warren House, 11 Prescott St, Cambridge MA, 02138
*Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Stephen Greenblatt, Professor of English at Harvard: "The Master's Books"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...<https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…>
October 20–21, 2022
The Clark Art Institute. Clark Conference
Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean
Convened by Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton University) and Wayne Modest (National Museum of Worldcultures and Wereldmuseum)
225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267
Website: https://www.clarkart.edu/research-academic/rap-events/clark-conference-2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.clarkart.edu_resea…>
Friday, Oct 21, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Kristen Bennett, Framingham State University: “Cosmographical Contemplation in Shakespeare’s Theatrum Mundi”
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, October 24, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 4: Reading: draft of article in progress by Anna Wilson, “Racial Innocence: Whiteness and Childhood in Chaucer’s ‘Prioress’ Tale’”.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Monday, October 24, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Medieval Studies
Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, 10/24/2022 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop and Scandinavian Studies, Harvard
James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/james-raven-university-cambr…>
Location: In person event: History Dept conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
**Wednesday, October 26th, 3:00pm
The Gladys Brooks Foundation; Department of History and Classics; Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program
Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America (PC-SHEA):
“At the Center of the World: Urban Life in Seventeenth Century Mexico City”
Tatiana Seijas; Rutgers University
Location: Providence College, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI, 02918
More information: https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…> or email Sharon.Murphy(a)providence.edu
Dr. Tatiana Seijas is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University who specializes in Early Modern Global History, the Pacific World, and Latin America. The Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America meets several times a year to discuss pre-circulated works in progress, including chapters of doctoral dissertations, book projects, and article drafts on any aspect of early American history.
*Thursday, October 27, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard
Yavuz Aykan, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, Paris 1 Sorbonne University: "SOHBET-I OSMANI: Making Justice in a Venal Context: The Provincial Council and the Deconcentration of Power in 18th-Century Harput"
CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge
More information: Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-justice-venal-context-provinci...<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-justice-venal-context-provincial-…>
*Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Jordan Katz, Department of Judaic Studies, UMass-Amherst, and Harvard Divinity School: "Mapping Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Amsterdam"
Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
More information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-earl...<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…>
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Talk: “Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine”
Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Oct 28, 2022, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Evan MacCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Orchestrating Shakespeare's Storms". 6th Annual Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
Evan MacCarthy is a Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History in the Department of Music & Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on the history of fifteenth-century music and music theory, late medieval chant, German music in the Baroque era, as well as nineteenth-century American music. His book Ruled by the Muses: Italian Humanists and their Study of Music in the Fifteenth Century explores the musical lives of scholars who sought to revive the cultural and intellectual traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/berlinmaccarthy2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Tuesday, 11/1/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Information Gaps and the Management of Tangier’s Fortifications, 1662-1683”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer-architecture-…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
*Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Jeff Dolven, Professor of English at Princeton University: "Verse, Turn, Trope"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More Information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...<https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…>
*Thursday, November 3, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Trevor Jackson (George Washington University)
"From Commodity Gluts to Savings Glut: Crises of Overabundance in Atlantic Economies, 1602-2008."
Harvard Law School (Room TBD)
More information: https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming
Friday, Nov 4, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Coppelia Kahn, Brown University: “Reading Faces in Hamlet”
133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138
Monday, November 7, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 5: Reading: TBD, on topic of slavery in the ancient/medieval Mediterranean OR pedagogy session, “Teaching Difficult Issues With Cases,” with Dan Smail.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Thursday, Nov 10, 2022
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Catherine Infante (Amherst College): “The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain”
650 East Pleasant St, Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-infante-2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Tuesday, 11/15/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Iman Darwish (History of Science), “Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath Book of Simples: The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/iman-darwish-history-science…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
*Wednesday, 11/16/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Hudson Vincent, Harvard Writing Center: "Carceral Colonialism: Thomas Morton, John Eliot, and the Puritan Origins of the Carceral State in America"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More Information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...<https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…>
Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “The Chinese Discovery of America? Franciscan Missionaries and Mexican Material Culture in Guangzhou, 1579.”
Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
In 1579, a group of Franciscan friars under the leadership of one Fray Pedro Alfaro attempted to establish a mission in China. Taken into custody by the Ming authorities, their destiny was shaped by the work of both human and non-human mediators, specifically a Chinese interpreter and a series of objects that the friars had brought with them from New Spain. As far as we know, this incident represents the first encounter between Chinese literati and the material culture of colonial Spanish America. The encounter provides an opportunity to reflect on patterns of early modern globalization facilitated by trans-Pacific travel.
More information: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236965-early-modern-lectu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
*Thursday, 11/17/2022 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Department of History, Boston College: Title TBA
Location: Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-earl...<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…>
Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,” Literature Compass (2019).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Wednesday, 11/30/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Emily Vasiliauskas, Associate Professor of English at Williams College: "On the Way to Lyric"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…>
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
This talk will be held via Zoom. Register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damherst.zoom.u…>.
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
*Thursday, 12/1/2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable on the new Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English: "A Field of Many Voices: Early Modern Women's Writing in English Now"
Virtual event. Register here: https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvc-CrqjMjE9dZaTj6P5O54gl492V0…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century: XIII Dinner Symposium
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdiscipinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Douglas Pfeiffer (Stony Brook University)
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrspfeiffer2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
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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 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>.
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Upcoming Events
*Monday, October 3 at 4:00 pm EST
Yale Department of the History of Art & Yale Early Modern Studies Colloquium
Talk: "Revisiting the Theme of Love in Vermeer"
Dr. Aneta Georgievska-Shine, University of Maryland
Location: virtual, https://yale.zoom.us/j/8472619307
Abstract: Though “love” is widely recognized as one of Vermeer’s central concerns, his approach to this theme is always full of self-conscious ambiguities. On the one hand, his deliberately structured, highly refined compositions convey a deep engagement with the object of representation as such. At the same time, they are often metaphors for something more universal – if not metaphysical. This double perspective allows him to draw a connection between the nourishments of physical love and those of art in works such as The Music Lesson, or between a seemingly worldly, pregnant woman holding a balance and the Virgin Mary. While this mode of thinking through analogies is part of his culture, what sets Vermeer apart is his fine balancing between various possible ways of seeing and representing these relationships between “things” observed and their culturally established symbolic meanings.
**New Time: Mon Oct 3, 5:15pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center seminar on Book History
Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town): "Book Collecting in Timbuktu."
In person event; Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA.
This lecture surveys five centuries of collecting in Timbuktu, a town in the interior of West Africa, that has come to symbolize a larger world of learning and book culture in the region. This lecture follows citations in texts written in the town in the 16th century, book borrowing and copying, through to a major collector of the early 20th century who both attempted to conserve the manuscript book tradition and imported printed books to Timbuktu.
Monday, October 3, 2022, 5:30-6:30pm, with reception to follow
Boston College's Art, Art History and Film Department and the McMullen Museum of Art
Lecture: “Thinking through the Objects: Displaying the Italian Renaissance at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” ( The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture In Italian Art)
Marietta Cambareri, Senior Curator of European Sculpture and Jetskalina H. Phillips Curator of Judaica, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In-person: The McMullen Museum of Art, 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 111, Brighton MA; directions and parking<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_sites_artmu…>
Tuesday, 10/4/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Sarah Koval (Music, Harvard), “Music in Early Modern Recipe Books: Notation, Genre, Wellbeing” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-koval-music-harvard-%E…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138. RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
**Thursday, Oct 6, 2022, 4pm
Brown University Early Modern World Event
Cécile Fromont (History of Art, Yale University): “Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola”
Location: Room 120, List Art Bulding, Brown University, 64 College St, Providence RI
The event is free and open to the public.
Cécile Fromont’s writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America with a special emphasis on the early modern period (ca 1500-1800) and on the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic World. More information about her talk: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236722-early-modern-lectu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
Thursday, 10/6/2022 4:30pm
Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut: "Paleography and power: Irish political thought in a multi-lingual archive." (The 18th John V. Kelleher Memorial Lecture)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/brendan-kane-university-conn…>
Location: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, October 6, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
The Non-Pursuit of Happiness: Childhood, Slavery, and Fugitivity in the Age of Revolution
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University
Location: Online
Please add your name and email address to this registration page.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__northeastern.zoom.us_m…> After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link and passcode to the event.
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Sue Lanser at lanser(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:lanser@brandeis.edu>
*10/7/2022 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Houghton Library Workshop: "Chaucer in Print, 16th & 17th Centuries"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/houghton-library-workshop-ch…>
Location: Hofer Classroom, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard (Registration link in details)
October 9, 2022, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Materials Lab Workshop: Modeling Material Culture in Paper<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvardartmuseums.org_…>
This workshop is inspired by the exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, which explores how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the so-called age of reason.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
**Wednesday, October 12, 4:30pm-6:15pm
Wesleyan University Renaissance Seminar
Miles P. Grier, Queens College of the City University of New York: "Rac'd All Over their Bodies": Charting the Study of Shakespeare, Race, and Book History
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information see the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.e…>.
Wednesday, October 12, 5:00-6:30 PM
MIT Global France Seminar
Lecture: "Avedik, Louis XIV's Armenian Prisoner: Confessional Conflicts, Involuntary Movement, and Incarceration in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
Junko Takeda, Department of History, Syracuse University
Building E51, Room 275, MIT
More Information: https://languages.mit.edu/events/juno-takeda-lecture/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__languages.mit.edu_even…>
Those not affiliated with MIT should secure a TIM Ticket for entrance to Building E51: https://visitors.mit.edu/?event=964dc363-079c-487b-b5a4-fbc7df30b2c7<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__visitors.mit.edu_-3Fev…>
October 13–15, 2022
Harvard University Library, Harvard Department of Romance languages and Literatures, Harvard Department of History, and Harvard Early Modern World
Camões @ Harvard Conference
This conference marks the 450th anniversary of the publication of Luis Vaz de Camões' maritime epic Os Lusiada with contributions from scholars from Europe, Africa, and America. Schedule of Events:
https://camoes.fas.harvard.edu/schedule-bilingual
Location: This event will be hybrid, including in-person locations on Harvard University’s campus and a livestream via Zoom. Check the website<https://camoes.fas.harvard.edu/schedule-bilingual> for forthcoming information and registration for the zoom links.
*Friday, Oct 14, 2022, 3pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Adam Zucker (University of Massachusetts Amherst): “The Soundscape of the Tempest”
Location: 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-zucker-2022
Saturday, Oct 15, 2022
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC)
Theme: “Instruments of Power in the Global Early Modern.”
Amherst College, Amherst MA
Conference Website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nerc2022.org_&d=Dw…>
Monday, October 17, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 3: Reading: selections from Sarah Derbew, Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge 2022).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Tuesday, 10/18/2022, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ryan Low (History, Harvard), “Household Archival Sciences in Medieval Provence and Dauphiné” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ryan-low-history-harvard-%E2…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
*Tuesday, October 18 at 4:30pm
Medieval History Workshop
Angela Zhang, post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History at Harvard, title TBA
Location: History department conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*Tuesday, October 18, 4:30-6:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Book Launch: Ari Friedlander, University of Mississippi: Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics
Online via Zoom, contact: rencen(a)umass.edu
October 20–21, 2022
The Clark Art Institute. Clark Conference
Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean
Convened by Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton University) and Wayne Modest (National Museum of Worldcultures and Wereldmuseum )
225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267
Website: https://www.clarkart.edu/research-academic/rap-events/clark-conference-2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.clarkart.edu_resea…>
Friday, Oct 21, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Kristen Bennett, Framingham State University: “Cosmographical Contemplation in Shakespeare’s Theatrum Mundi”
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, October 24, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 4: Reading: draft of article in progress by Anna Wilson, “Racial Innocence: Whiteness and Childhood in Chaucer’s ‘Prioress’ Tale’”.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Monday, October 24, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Medieval Studies
Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, 10/24/2022 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop and Scandinavian Studies, Harvard
James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/james-raven-university-cambr…>
Location: In person event: History Dept conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
**Wednesday, October 26th, 3:00pm
The Gladys Brooks Foundation; Department of History and Classics; Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program
Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America (PC-SHEA): “At the Center of the World: Urban Life in Seventeenth Century Mexico City”
Tatiana Seijas; Rutgers University
More information: https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…> or email Sharon.Murphy(a)providence.edu
Dr. Tatiana Seijas is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University who specializes in Early Modern Global History, the Pacific World, and Latin America. The Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America meets several times a year to discuss pre-circulated works in progress, including chapters of doctoral dissertations, book projects, and article drafts on any aspect of early American history.
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine
Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Oct 28, 2022, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Evan MacCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Orchestrating Shakespeare's Storms". 6th Annual Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
Evan MacCarthy is a Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History in the Department of Music & Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on the history of fifteenth-century music and music theory, late medieval chant, German music in the Baroque era, as well as nineteenth-century American music. His book Ruled by the Muses: Italian Humanists and their Study of Music in the Fifteenth Century explores the musical lives of scholars who sought to revive the cultural and intellectual traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/berlinmaccarthy2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Tuesday, 11/1/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Information Gaps and the Management of Tangier’s Fortifications, 1662-1683” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer-architecture-…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Friday, Nov 4, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Coppelia Kahn, Brown University: “Reading Faces in Hamlet”
133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138
Monday, November 7, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 5: Reading: TBD, on topic of slavery in the ancient/medieval Mediterranean OR pedagogy session, “Teaching Difficult Issues With Cases,” with Dan Smail.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Thursday, Nov 10, 2022
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Catherine Infante (Amherst College): “The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain”
650 East Pleasant St, Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-infante-2022
Tuesday, 11/15/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Iman Darwish (History of Science), “Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath Book of Simples: The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/iman-darwish-history-science…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “The Chinese Discovery of America? Franciscan Missionaries and Mexican Material Culture in Guangzhou, 1579.”
Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
In 1579, a group of Franciscan friars under the leadership of one Fray Pedro Alfaro attempted to establish a mission in China. Taken into custody by the Ming authorities, their destiny was shaped by the work of both human and non-human mediators, specifically a Chinese interpreter and a series of objects that the friars had brought with them from New Spain. As far as we know, this incident represents the first encounter between Chinese literati and the material culture of colonial Spanish America. The encounter provides an opportunity to reflect on patterns of early modern globalization facilitated by trans-Pacific travel.
More information: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236965-early-modern-lectu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,” Literature Compass (2019).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
This talk will be held via Zoom. Register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damherst.zoom.u…>.
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century: XIII Dinner Symposium
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
*Thursday, December 8, 2022, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdiscipinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Douglas Pfeiffer (Stony Brook University)
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrspfeiffer2022
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