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.
Upcoming Events
Monday March 28, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History
Anne D. Hedeman (Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor, Art History, University of Kansas): "Power and Authority in Visual Paratext"
In-person at Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Edison and Newman Room
Open to the public, but registration is required. Register for "Power and Authority"<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us15.list-2Dma…>
Tuesday, March 29, 2pm
MIT Global France Seminar
Christy Pichichero (Associate Professor of French and History, George Mason University)
"TALKING B(L)ACK: Theorizing Race and its Intersections in Critical Eighteenth-Century Studies”
Location: This lecture will take place in-person only in Building E51, Room 095 on the MIT Campus<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__whereis.mit.edu&d=DwMGa…>. MIT Covid Pass users do not need to register, but must present MIT ID or mobile ID at the door. Non-MIT community members must REGISTER<mailto:REGISTER> in MIT’s Tim Tickets system. Contact Jeff Ravel (ravel(a)mit.edu<mailto:ravel@mit.edu>) with questions. MORE INFO<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__languages.mit.edu_even…>.
*Wednesday, 3/30/2022, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Vincenzo De Risi (CNRS Paris): "Leibniz' Theory of Space and the Newton Affair"
Location: 105 Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard
April 6, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBA
Location: Online Event<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…>
*Thursday, April 7-Friday, April 8, 2022
Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture
Conference: Visual Poetry: The Politics and Erotics of Seeing, Titian and Beyond
Thursday, April 7 (evening; online and in-person)<https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/visual-poetry-keynote-lecture-miguel-falo…>
Friday, April 8, 2022 (all day; in-person only)<https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/conference-visual-poetry-politics-and-ero…>
Lower Level Lecture Hall; 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Friday, April 8, 2022, noon-1:30pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Eveline Szarka (Visiting Fellow in History, Harvard): “Safer, Simpler, Swifter, Shorter. Practical Knowledge in Daniel Schwenter’s Handbook on Secret Communication (1618)”, with comment by Kelly McCay (History, Harvard).
Robinson Hall Conference room, Harvard Yard. In-person event within the covid restrictions in effect at the time.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:30 to 11:45
Science and Technology in Asia seminar series
Faizah Zakaria: Camphor, Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies
Location: Harvard University Asia Center Spring 2022 Online seminar series
Tuesday, 4/12/2022 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Derrick Spires, Cornell University: A Spirit of Inquiry: Early African American Criticism from Phillis Wheatley to Dorothy Porter Wesley.
Location: Online Event
Please register here<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vf-yqrzgtG9MJRj8jK6MllX3pjbYV…> to receive a Zoom link to the event.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
Early Modern Workshop
“Predestination: its Profile in Early British and American Modernity. A Debate” featuring David Hall (Harvard Divinity School) and James Simpson (English, Harvard), with Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) as moderator. Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library). In person, within the Covid regulations in force at the time.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Anne E. Lester (John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History, Johns Hopkins University): “Authority in the Aftermath: Power, Memory, and the Narrative Capacity of Things.”
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 12pm
Mélanie Lamotte, Radcliffe Institute Fellow: "Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756.”
Online on Zoom. Free and open to the public. To view this event online, individuals will need to register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…> via Zoo.
More information<https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-melanie-lamotte-fellow-present…>
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa): “Tender Curiosities: Teaching the History of Science in Early Modern Europe in terms of Gendered Knowledge-Craft.”
Location: Online Event
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_harva…>
Thursday, April 21, 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
Maria Macchi, Ph.D., Archivist (Rome, Italy): The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province
Location: Zoom
The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province is in Rome, near the Gesù Church. It gathers the documents produced by the five ancient Italian Provinces (Venetian-Milanese, Torinese, Roman, Neapolitan, and Sicilian and the former mission of Albania) and the Italian Province, born in 1978 from the unification of the five provinces. The collections include documents on the life of the Society of Jesus in Italy and the extra-European mission lands after the 1814 restoration. More information and registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>.
** Canceled: Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
*NEW meeting in its place:
Thursday, April 21, 4:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Dreaming Worlds: Living with 'Things Unknown' in A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkd-CsqjIqGdNUqlCQpXEKetHVi9byLk…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bostonu.zoom.us_meetin…>
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations”
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture “The Art of Hatching Contraven’d, or; the Problem of Reproducing the Freshwater Polypus"
Elizabeth Athens (University of Connecticut)
Brown University, Pembroke Hall 305
in-person lecture
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama"
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable in honor of World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Location: Online on zoom
More information to come.
Thursday, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University). More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…> is coming soon.
**Thursday, May 19, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI)
Festo Mkenda, S.J., Academic Director, Rome, Italy
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI) are the archives of the general government of the Society of Jesus. Situated in Rome in the General Curia of the Order, their purpose is to preserve, to put in order, and to make available for research the documents related to the general government of the Society of Jesus and its activities from the beginning of its history in the sixteenth century up to the present day.
More information and registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>
***
*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
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.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
**Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 4:45
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Guest Scholar: Justin Shaw
Location: Online<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…>. Please click here<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fharvard.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregi…> to register for this event
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 5pm
MHC Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium
Katie Scott, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London: “Making and Unmaking the Rococo Street.”
Location: Zoom Meeting.
More information and Zoom registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-and-unmaking-rococo…>.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 6pm
MHC Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas
Pounamu Jade Aikman, Harvard University, University of Hawai'i: “Ungrounded Sovereignty: The nexus between Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler State Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.”
Location: Zoom Meeting. More information and registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/ungrounded-sovereignty-nex…>.
*March 24, 2022 1:00 PM
MHC Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Frank Lestringant (Sorbonne Université): Lire La Quinzaine de Du Bartas.
Location: Zoom Meeting. Please preregister for this event here<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqdO6spzsoG9Wtzmt5ziYHKuxCdXO1gD…> to receive the Zoom link.
March 24, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender and Culture
Susanne Sreedhar (Department of Philosophy, Boston University), "Hobbes on Sex."
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Monday March 28, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History
Anne D. Hedeman (Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor, Art History, University of Kansas): "Power and Authority in Visual Paratext"
In-person at Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Edison and Newman Room
Open to the public, but registration is required. Register for "Power and Authority"<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us15.list-2Dma…>
Tuesday, March 29, 2pm
MIT Global France Seminar
Christy Pichichero (Associate Professor of French and History, George Mason University)
"TALKING B(L)ACK: Theorizing Race and its Intersections in Critical Eighteenth-Century Studies”
Location: This lecture will take place in-person only in Building E51, Room 095 on the MIT Campus<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__whereis.mit.edu&d=DwMGa…>. MIT Covid Pass users do not need to register, but must present MIT ID or mobile ID at the door. Non-MIT community members must REGISTER<mailto:REGISTER> in MIT’s Tim Tickets system. Contact Jeff Ravel (ravel(a)mit.edu<mailto:ravel@mit.edu>) with questions. MORE INFO<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__languages.mit.edu_even…>.
April 6, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBA
Location: Online Event<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…>
Friday, April 8, 2022, noon-1:30pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Eveline Szarka (Visiting Fellow in History, Harvard): “Safer, Simpler, Swifter, Shorter. Practical Knowledge in Daniel Schwenter’s Handbook on Secret Communication (1618)”, with comment by Kelly McCay (History, Harvard).
Robinson Hall Conference room, Harvard Yard. In-person event within the covid restrictions in effect at the time.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:30 to 11:45
Science and Technology in Asia seminar series
Faizah Zakaria: Camphor, Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies
Location: Harvard University Asia Center Spring 2022 Online seminar series
*Tuesday, 4/12/2022 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Derrick Spires, Cornell University: A Spirit of Inquiry: Early African American Criticism from Phillis Wheatley to Dorothy Porter Wesley.
Location: Online Event
Please register here<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vf-yqrzgtG9MJRj8jK6MllX3pjbYV…><https://brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-ygqjIoEtSXI-1m4gh01QFLLkfvT…> to receive a Zoom link to the event.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
Early Modern Workshop
“Predestination: its Profile in Early British and American Modernity. A Debate” featuring David Hall (Harvard Divinity School) and James Simpson (English, Harvard), with Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) as moderator. Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library). In person, within the Covid regulations in force at the time.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Anne E. Lester (John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History, Johns Hopkins University): “Authority in the Aftermath: Power, Memory, and the Narrative Capacity of Things.”
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 12pm
Mélanie Lamotte, Radcliffe Institute Fellow: "Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756.”
Online on Zoom. Free and open to the public. To view this event online, individuals will need to register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…> via Zoo.
More information<https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-melanie-lamotte-fellow-present…>
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa): “Tender Curiosities: Teaching the History of Science in Early Modern Europe in terms of Gendered Knowledge-Craft.”
Location: Online Event
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_harva…>
Thursday, April 21, 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
Maria Macchi, Ph.D., Archivist (Rome, Italy): The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province
Location: Zoom
The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province is in Rome, near the Gesù Church. It gathers the documents produced by the five ancient Italian Provinces (Venetian-Milanese, Torinese, Roman, Neapolitan, and Sicilian and the former mission of Albania) and the Italian Province, born in 1978 from the unification of the five provinces. The collections include documents on the life of the Society of Jesus in Italy and the extra-European mission lands after the 1814 restoration. More information and registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>.
Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bostonu.zoom.us_meetin…>
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations”
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture “The Art of Hatching Contraven’d, or; the Problem of Reproducing the Freshwater Polypus"
Elizabeth Athens (University of Connecticut)
Brown University, Pembroke Hall 305
in-person lecture
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama"
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
May 5, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable in honor of World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Location: Online on zoom
More information to come.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
TBD
Location: Zoom
More information and registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University). More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…> is coming soon.
***
*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
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.
Upcoming Events
**Tuesday, March 15, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Jonathan Conant (Associate Professor of History and Classics, Brown University): “Fragments of a Narrative: Combat Trauma in the Early Medieval West.”
In-Person event. Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI
There will be a pre-circulated paper for this talk. More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>.
Thursday, March 17, 2022 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
David Miros, Ph.D., Director: The Jesuit Archives & Research Center, St. Louis (MO)
Location: online
The Jesuit Archives & Research Center houses the collective memory of fourteen past and current administrative provinces of the Society of Jesus in the United States. These fourteen include the Buffalo, California, Central and Southern, Chicago, Chicago-Detroit, Detroit, Midwest, Missouri, New England, New Orleans, New York, Northeast, Oregon, and Wisconsin Provinces. The archives also house the records of the governing body of the Society of Jesus in the US, the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. More information and registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 4:45
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Guest Scholar: Justin Shaw
Location: Online Event, more information to come.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 5pm
MHC Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium
Katie Scott, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London: “Making and Unmaking the Rococo Street.”
Location: Zoom Meeting.
More information and Zoom registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-and-unmaking-rococo…>.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 6pm
MHC Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas
Pounamu Jade Aikman, Harvard University, University of Hawai'i: “Ungrounded Sovereignty: The nexus between Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler State Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.”
Location: Zoom Meeting. More information and registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/ungrounded-sovereignty-nex…>.
March 24, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender and Culture
Susanne Sreedhar (Department of Philosophy, Boston University), "Hobbes on Sex."
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Monday March 28, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History
Anne D. Hedeman (Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor, Art History, University of Kansas): "Power and Authority in Visual Paratext"
In-person at Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Edison and Newman Room
Open to the public, but registration is required. Register for "Power and Authority"<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us15.list-2Dma…>
*Tuesday, March 29, 2pm
MIT Global France Seminar
Christy Pichichero (Associate Professor of French and History, George Mason University)
"TALKING B(L)ACK: Theorizing Race and its Intersections in Critical Eighteenth-Century Studies”
Location: This lecture will take place in-person only in Building E51, Room 095 on the MIT Campus<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__whereis.mit.edu&d=DwMGa…>. MIT Covid Pass users do not need to register, but must present MIT ID or mobile ID at the door. Non-MIT community members must REGISTER<mailto:REGISTER> in MIT’s Tim Tickets system. Contact Jeff Ravel (ravel(a)mit.edu<mailto:ravel@mit.edu>) with questions. MORE INFO<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__languages.mit.edu_even…>.
April 6, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBA
Location: Online Event
Friday, April 8, 2022, noon-1:30pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Eveline Szarka (Visiting Fellow in History, Harvard): “Safer, Simpler, Swifter, Shorter. Practical Knowledge in Daniel Schwenter’s Handbook on Secret Communication (1618)”, with comment by Kelly McCay (History, Harvard).
Robinson Hall Conference room, Harvard Yard. In-person event within the covid restrictions in effect at the time.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:30 to 11:45
Science and Technology in Asia seminar series
Faizah Zakaria: Camphor, Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies
Location: Harvard University Asia Center Spring 2022 Online seminar series
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
Early Modern Workshop
“Predestination: its Profile in Early British and American Modernity. A Debate” featuring David Hall (Harvard Divinity School) and James Simpson (English, Harvard), with Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) as moderator. Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library). In person, within the Covid regulations in force at the time.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Anne E. Lester (John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History, Johns Hopkins University): “Authority in the Aftermath: Power, Memory, and the Narrative Capacity of Things.”
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…> is coming soon.
*Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 12pm
Mélanie Lamotte, Radcliffe Institute Fellow: "Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756.”
Online on Zoom. Free and open to the public. To view this event online, individuals will need to register<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jF4nzgNaQvSzgqxOiie0QA> via Zoo.
More information<https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-melanie-lamotte-fellow-present…>
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa): "Tender Curiosities: Teaching the History of Science in Early Modern Europe in terms of Gendered Knowledge-Craft."
Location: Online Event
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_harva…>
Thursday, April 21, 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
Maria Macchi, Ph.D., Archivist (Rome, Italy): The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province
Location: Zoom
The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province is in Rome, near the Gesù Church. It gathers the documents produced by the five ancient Italian Provinces (Venetian-Milanese, Torinese, Roman, Neapolitan, and Sicilian and the former mission of Albania) and the Italian Province, born in 1978 from the unification of the five provinces. The collections include documents on the life of the Society of Jesus in Italy and the extra-European mission lands after the 1814 restoration. More information and registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>.
Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bostonu.zoom.us_meetin…>
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations”
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
*Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown university
Lecture “The Art of Hatching Contraven’d, or; the Problem of Reproducing the Freshwater Polypus"
Elizabeth Athens (University of Connecticut)
Brown University, Pembroke Hall 305
in-person lecture
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama"
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
May 5, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable in honor of World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Location: Online on zoom
More information to come.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
TBD
Location: Zoom
More information and registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University). More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…> is coming soon.
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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 EST (prior to 3/13/22) and EDT (on/after 3/13/22).
Upcoming Events
**Friday, March 4, 2022 4:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Caroline Bicks, “Antiochus’s Daughter: Girlhood, Memory, and the ‘true History of the play of Pericles’”
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMod-2orDMiG9Y6fPF5FUiXBXwXPi14AP…>.
**Wednesday, March 9, 2022 11:45am to 1:15pm
Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica Seminars Spring 2022 Series
Sophia Schmitt (Starr Fellow and LMU Munich): "On the Defensive and On the Offensive: Jewish Resilience in 15th Century Ashkenaz." The paper will be circulated to those who let us know they will attend the seminar.
Location: in-person meeting, at Rm 201, Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE), 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
Registration: Sandy Cantave Vil, cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:cjs@fas.harvard.edu>
**Wednesday, March 9, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Lecture: “Early Modern Multiplicities.”
Guest Scholars: Ayesha Ramachandran and Carina Johnson
Location: Online Event. Register here<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAofuutqD0vHNHZ8-ZscA4BnRIQ8c5Zza…> for the zoom link.
Thursday, March 10, 4pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
The Refinery: Religio (Re)formed: The English Reformation and Race
Yunah Kae, University of Massachusetts; Kim Coles, University of Maryland
Registration<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance>.
**Tuesday, March 15, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Jonathan Conant (Associate Professor of History and Classics, Brown University): “Fragments of a Narrative: Combat Trauma in the Early Medieval West.”
There will be a pre-circulated paper for this talk. More information<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>.
Thursday, March 17, 2022 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
David Miros, Ph.D., Director: The Jesuit Archives & Research Center, St. Louis (MO)
Location: online
The Jesuit Archives & Research Center houses the collective memory of fourteen past and current administrative provinces of the Society of Jesus in the United States. These fourteen include the Buffalo, California, Central and Southern, Chicago, Chicago-Detroit, Detroit, Midwest, Missouri, New England, New Orleans, New York, Northeast, Oregon, and Wisconsin Provinces. The archives also house the records of the governing body of the Society of Jesus in the US, the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. More information and registration<https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…>.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 4:45
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Guest Scholar: Justin Shaw
Location: Online Event, more information to come.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 5pm
MHC Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium
Katie Scott, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London: “Making and Unmaking the Rococo Street.”
Location: Zoom Meeting.
More information and Zoom registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-and-unmaking-rococo…>.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 6pm
MHC Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas
Pounamu Jade Aikman, Harvard University, University of Hawai'i: “Ungrounded Sovereignty: The nexus between Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler State Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.”
Location: Zoom Meeting. More information and registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/ungrounded-sovereignty-nex…>.
March 24, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender and Culture
Susanne Sreedhar (Department of Philosophy, Boston University), "Hobbes on Sex."
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrde-gqjkqHdT7yQ1OiHjOt_nfJ7M_…>
*Monday March 28, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History
Anne D. Hedeman (Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor, Art History, University of Kansas): "Power and Authority in Visual Paratext"
In-person at Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Edison and Newman Room
Open to the public, but registration is required. Register for "Power and Authority"<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us15.list-2Dma…>
April 6, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBA
Location: Online Event
*Friday, April 8, 2022, noon-1:30pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Eveline Szarka (Visiting Fellow in History, Harvard): “Safer, Simpler, Swifter, Shorter. Practical Knowledge in Daniel Schwenter’s Handbook on Secret Communication (1618)”, with comment by Kelly McCay (History, Harvard).
Robinson Hall Conference room, Harvard Yard. In-person event within the covid restrictions in effect at the time.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:30 to 11:45
Science and Technology in Asia seminar series
Faizah Zakaria: Camphor, Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies
Location: Harvard University Asia Center Spring 2022 Online seminar series
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
Early Modern Workshop
“Predestination: its Profile in Early British and American Modernity. A Debate” featuring David Hall (Harvard Divinity School) and James Simpson (English, Harvard), with Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) as moderator. Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library). In person, within the Covid regulations in force at the time.
**Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Anne E. Lester (John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History, Johns Hopkins University): “Authority in the Aftermath: Power, Memory, and the Narrative Capacity of Things.”
More information<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> is coming soon.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa): "Tender Curiosities: Teaching the History of Science in Early Modern Europe in terms of Gendered Knowledge-Craft."
Location: Online Event
More information<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…>
Thursday, April 21, 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
Maria Macchi, Ph.D., Archivist (Rome, Italy): The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province
Location: Zoom
The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province is in Rome, near the Gesù Church. It gathers the documents produced by the five ancient Italian Provinces (Venetian-Milanese, Torinese, Roman, Neapolitan, and Sicilian and the former mission of Albania) and the Italian Province, born in 1978 from the unification of the five provinces. The collections include documents on the life of the Society of Jesus in Italy and the extra-European mission lands after the 1814 restoration. More information and registration<https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…>.
Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApf-qrqD0rG9elMqbQnW9sN7Emk8le7V…>
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations”
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama"
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYof-6sqTsjG9YyGwSP2izcNERvwyPY…>
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
May 5, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable in honor of World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Location: Online on zoom
More information to come.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
TBD
Location: Zoom
More information and registration link<https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…>
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University). More information<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> is coming soon.
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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>
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
