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
Tuesday, Nov 29, 2022, 5pm
Smith College, Department of English, Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Endowment for Renaissance Studies
2022 Kennedy Lecture series: "Renaissance Poetry across Media: Poetry and Music"
Bruce R. Smith, 2022-2023 Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professor in Renaissance studies, Smith College
Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College, 10 Elm Street, Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/provost/events
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…>
*Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 5:30pm ET
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Early Modern Lecture
Yasmin Haskell, University of Western Australia / Princeton Institute of Advanced Study: “Playing with hellfire? Pagan gods and Asian demons in Jesuit Latin epic”
Location: Brown University, Pembroke Hall, Room 305, Providence RI, 02912
Abstract: This paper considers the representation of Greco-Roman and Asian deities and demons in two Jesuit Latin epics: Francesco Benci’s Quinque martyres (1592), on the five Jesuits martyred in Cuncolim, southern India, in 1583; Bartolomeu Pereira’s Paciecis (1640), on the martyrdom of the poet’s cousin, Francisco Pacheco, in Nagasaki in 1626. More information<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236721>
**Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University): 'Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs.'
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
Harvard 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. Registration<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvc-CrqjMjE9dZaTj6P5O54gl492V0…>.
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
*Monday, December 5, 2022, 5pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Renaissance Studies
VK Preston, Department of History at Concordia University (Montreal): “Intangible Baroques in Natural History: Entangled Indigenous and Settler Knowledge in Early Archives”
Location: Online. Registration<:%20https:/harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsc-6upjssH90pALS2nmqH8WqciUWoyvW6>
More information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/intangible-baroques-natura…>
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 Interdisciplinary 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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*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
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Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1800, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. This year we are announcing 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
**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 mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>
*Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 1:30pm to 2:45pm
Harvard Department of the Classics
Workshop: Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne) and Thomas Sagory (French Ministry of Culture): "Mapping, 3D Modelling: Interactive Tools for Middle Eastern Heritage"
Boylston Hall, Room 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA. Open to members of the Harvard community.
More Information: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-classics-worksh…>
*Tuesday, Nov 15, at 5:00 pm (time changed)
MEMHS, Brown University
Yekai (Kyle) Zhang (grad student, History, Brown University): "The Representation and Social Memory of the 1641 Irish Rebellion in Protestant England, c. 1642-1689."
Pavilion Room, History Department, Brown University, Providence RI
Please write to Maria Sokolova for more information and to receive the precirculated papter: maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu
*Tuesday, November 15, at 5 pm Eastern Time
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Pauline Goul (Assistant Professor of French Literature and the College, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago)
"Smother Nature: Sustainability and the New World in Renaissance France"
Please register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…> to receive the zoom link for this event.
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: “Playing the Vanguard: Boundary-Busting Women and the Baroque Academies that Loved Them”
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.
*Tuesday, Nov 29, 2022, 5pm
Smith College, Department of English, Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Endowment for Renaissance Studies
2022 Kennedy Lecture series: "Renaissance Poetry across Media: Poetry and Music"
Bruce R. Smith, 2022-2023 Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professor in Renaissance studies, Smith College
Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College, 10 Elm Street, Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/provost/events
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 Interdisciplinary 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…>
***
*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place or (in case of online events) be relevant to the greater Boston area. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. It would be a great help if you could follow this format:
Day, date, time
Sponsor (if available)
Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
Location: in-person or virtual
*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this, and include location details.
Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences)
RSVP or Registration information/link
