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
Wednesday, September 28, 12pm
Center for the Humanities, The University of Rhode Island, RI
Lecture: “The Aroma of Legitimacy in the Late Middle Ages”
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island, Department of History
The University of Rhode Island, Hardge Forum, Multicultural Center, Kingston, RI
Both in-person and virtual
RSVP or Registration information/link:
https://web.uri.edu/humanities/the-aroma-of-legitimacy-in-the-late-middle-a…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__web.uri.edu_humanities…>
*Thursday, September 29, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
James Lewis, Associate Professor of Korean History, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, " Aspects of a macro-economic model for Chosŏn Korea" (Harvard Korea Institute Korea Colloquium)
In-person and online Event (register here<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrfuCpqT0iHtCqbD9nvYGxJlStx-mZTp…>)
In person at Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
More information: Harvard Korea Institute Korea Colloquium <https://korea.fas.harvard.edu/event/aspects-macro-economic-model-chos%C5%8F…>
September 30, 2022, 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Gallery Talk: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/gallery-talk-dare-to-know-prints-and…>
Join Sam Nehila, curatorial assistant in the Division of European and American Art, for an in-depth discussion about William Hogarth’s print series The Four Stages of Cruelty, on view in the special exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Sunday, October 2, 3-4 pm
Jeffrey R. Wilson<https://wilson.fas.harvard.edu> (Harvard University): Book Launch for Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tupress.temple.edu_boo…>
Location: lala books<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.lalabookstore.com&…> (189 Market St. Lowell, MA 01852)
free, kids welcome, drinks and snacks
October 2, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Exhibition Tour: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/exhibition-tour-dare-to-know-prints-…>
Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view through January 15, 2023. She will share insights about how works on paper played a critical role in the 18th century.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Mon Oct 3, 4:30pm
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, 5:30-6:30, 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): Title TBA
Location TBD
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 is coming soon at https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236722-early-modern-lectu…
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://northeastern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rf-qvqz4rHdcpzBskWazOT2iYZ…> 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>
October 9, 2022, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Materials Lab Workshop: Modeling Material Culture in Paper<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/materials-lab-workshop-modeling-mate…>
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": Clothing, Tattoo, and Stigma in Early Modern English Racecraft
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information or to RSVP (required), please email mtokumitsu(a)wesleyan.edu
*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/
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
*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.
**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://www.nerc2022.org/>
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>
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
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
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
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.
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…
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://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvce6vqjooG9LGb3Ag5MePA_6Z…>.
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022
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>
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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.
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
*September 18, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Exhibition Tour: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/exhibition-tour-dare-to-know-prints-…>
Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view through January 15, 2023.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Tuesday, 9/20/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Mateo Montoya (History of Science, Harvard), Prospectus Workshop: "Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní: 1600-1780" (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/mateo-montoya-history-scienc…>
Location: on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu
*Wednesday, September 21, 5:15pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Chris Barrett, Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State Univ., "Spenserian Lepidoptera and Parenthetical Ecologies"
In-person Event
Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
*September 22, 2022, 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Gallery Talk: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/gallery-talk-dare-to-know-prints-and…>
Join Margaret Morgan Grasselli for an in-depth discussion about the 18th-century invention of the multicolor, multiplate printing technique that laid the foundation for today’s CMYK process.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
*Thursday, September 22, 6:30–7:45 pm
Where Art and the Life Sciences Meet: Exploring Health Innovation through Dutch Art (Conversation)
Marisa Bass, professor of the History of Art, Yale University
David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Harvard University
Moderated by Cristela Guerra, arts and culture reporter, WBUR
Museum of Fine Art, Remis Auditorium, 161, 465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Museum+of+Fine+Arts,+Boston/@42.3391059,-…>
Members Free, Nonmembers $15
Tickets<https://www.mfa.org/event/lecture/where-art-and-life-sciences-meet?event=87…>
How can Dutch art from the 17th century propel conversations and inspire creative thinking today, especially when it comes to managing the ongoing COVID-19 global health crisis? At this event, copresented by the Center for Netherlandish Art and Netherlands Innovation Network, join a conversation between professors from different disciplines to explore art, health, and disease in society and times of pandemic—then and now—and take a closer look at the pivotal roles the Netherlands and Greater Boston have played in health innovation through the centuries.
*Thursday, September 22, 2022, 4:30pm to 5:30pm
James Simpson (Harvard): "Recognition, Reading and Riddles: An Exeter Book Poem" (The Morton W. Bloomfield Lecture 2022)
Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and via Zoom (Registration)
More information and registration: kaileybennett(a)fas.harvard.edu
*Thursday, September 22, 2022 to Friday, September 23, 2022
Pop-Up Exhibit "Illuminated and Unsettled"
Edison and Newman Room, 1st Floor Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Curated by Harvard graduate students in English, this pop-up exhibition is inspired by “Trans-Reformation English Writing,” a graduate seminar taught by professor James Simpson for many years using objects from Houghton. Items include texts by Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. The exhibition is part of "Illuminated and Unsettled: Literary Forms and Cultural Power, Medieval to Early Modern," Harvard English Department's 2022 Morton W. Bloomfield Conference honoring Simpson’s career as a teacher and scholar.
*Thursday, September 22, 2022 to Saturday, September 24, 2022
Illuminated and Unsettled: Literary Forms and Cultural Power, Medieval to Early Modern: A Morton W. Bloomfield Conference in Honor of James Simpson (Harvard University, Department of English)
Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and via Zoom (Registration)
More Information and RSVP: kaileybennett(a)fas.harvard.edu
Monday, September 26, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 2: Reading: Dan-el Padilla Peralta, “Anti-Race” in A Cultural History of Race, Vol. 1, ed. Denise McCoskey (Bloomsbury 2021).
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, September 26, 4pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on China Humanities
Tian Yuan Tan, University of Oxford: “Writing and Reading ‘Local Court Drama’ in Late Imperial China: Texts, Genres, and Identities”
Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 136, Cambridge MA, 02138
**Tuesday, September 27, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar (MEMHS)
Andrew Romig (NYU Gallatin): “The Wrong Kind of Flattery: Critique and Praise in Walahfrid Strabo’s De imagine Tetrici.”
More information at: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Please email Maria Sokolova at maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu to register and for the precirculated paper.
*Wednesday, September 28, 12pm
Center for the Humanities, The University of Rhode Island, RI
Lecture: “The Aroma of Legitimacy in the Late Middle Ages”
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island, Department of History
The University of Rhode Island, Hardge Forum, Multicultural Center, Kingston, RI
Both in-person and virtual
RSVP or Registration information/link:
https://web.uri.edu/humanities/the-aroma-of-legitimacy-in-the-late-middle-a…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__web.uri.edu_humanities…>
*September 30, 2022, 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Gallery Talk: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/gallery-talk-dare-to-know-prints-and…>
Join Sam Nehila, curatorial assistant in the Division of European and American Art, for an in-depth discussion about William Hogarth’s print series The Four Stages of Cruelty, on view in the special exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
*October 2, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Exhibition Tour: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/exhibition-tour-dare-to-know-prints-…>
Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view through January 15, 2023. She will share insights about how works on paper played a critical role in the 18th century.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
*Sunday, October 2, 3-4 pm
Jeffrey R. Wilson<https://wilson.fas.harvard.edu/> (Harvard University): Book Launch for Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tupress.temple.edu_boo…>
Location: lala books<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.lalabookstore.com&…> (189 Market St. Lowell, MA 01852)
free, kids welcome, drinks and snacks
Mon Oct 3, 4:30pm
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, 5:30-6:30, 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”
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
Thursday, Oct 6, 2022, 4pm
Brown University Early Modern World Event
Cécile Fromont (History of Art, Yale University): Title TBA
Location TBD
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 is coming soon at https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236722-early-modern-lectu…
*October 9, 2022, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Materials Lab Workshop: Modeling Material Culture in Paper<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/materials-lab-workshop-modeling-mate…>
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
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://northeastern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rf-qvqz4rHdcpzBskWazOT2iYZ…> 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
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": Clothing, Tattoo, and Stigma in Early Modern English Racecraft
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information or to RSVP (required), please email mtokumitsu(a)wesleyan.edu
Saturday, Oct 15, 2022
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC)
Theme: “Instruments of Power in the Global Early Modern.”
Amherst College, Amherst MA
Registration by September 23, 2022
Conference Website<https://www.nerc2022.org/>
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@g.harvard.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
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
*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
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@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.
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
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…
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://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvce6vqjooG9LGb3Ag5MePA_6Z…>.
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022
*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
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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
*Tuesday, 9/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard (ESWG): Reception with food (all are welcome)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/early-sciences-working-group…>
Location: Science Center North Tent, Outside Harvard Yard.
RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu
*Tuesday, 9/7/2022 5:15pm
English Department Renaissance Colloquium: Welcome Picnic and Amoretti Reading!<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/english-department-renaissan…>
Location: In-person, Barker Tent (outdoors), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Mon Sept 12, 2022, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 1: Introductions; What Is PRS?; Plans for the year.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
More information: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116
Harvard’s Premodern Race Seminar, a combination speaker series and discussion group, now entering its third year, is for those interested broadly in the topic of race in the premodern past. This fall, the seminar will meet biweekly for an hour on Mondays at 12:00 pm in Barker Center 133 (the Plimpton Room), most often to discuss precirculated readings. PRS is jointly organized by faculty in the Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Everyone is welcome to attend single sessions, but the organizers hope for a core group who attend regularly, to foster open and rich discussion. If you are interested in regular attendance, please email the organizers at prs(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:prs@fas.harvard.edu>.
**Mon Sept 12, 2022, 4:30pm
Opening aperitivo in the Early Modern World Initiative at Harvard featuring four flash talks: Melissa McCormick (East Asian Languages and Civilizations and History of Art and Architecture), “The Gilded Library: Reevaluating Early Modern Japanese Manuscripts as Bridal Books”; Eric Nelson (Government), “Philo and the Early-Modern Rehabilitation of ‘Democracy’”; Alan Niles (English), “Who Were Harvard’s First Indian Students?”; Si Nae Park (EALC), “How Printers of Vernacular Novels Made Reading Easier in Early Modern Korea.” Followed by a reception.
Event held in person in Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard, History Conference Room (Former Lower Library), 1st/ground floor of Robinson Hall.
Wed Sept 14, 2022, 5:15pm
Opening event in the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book, featuring four flash talks by:
Irene Peirano Garrison (Classics, Harvard), “Writing from the margins: women in the Latin classroom”; Jeffrey Hamburger (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard), “Color in Cusanus”; John Brewer (History, Harvard), “Visitors' Books: narratives, anecdotes and data"; Matthew Battles (Arnold Arboretum, Harvard), “Cuttings: of leaves and names.” Followed by a reception.
In person, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138.
Wednesday, September 14, at 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on American Literature and Culture
Britt Rusert (U-Mass, Amherst), “The World is a Severe Schoolmaster: Phillis Wheatley's Poetry of Domination and Submission.”<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/britt-rusert-world-severe-…> Ianna Hawkins Owen (Boston University), will respond. The organizers request that all attendees to this event wear face coverings.
Barker 403, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
*Tuesday, 9/20/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Mateo Montoya (History of Science, Harvard), Prospectus Workshop: "Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní: 1600-1780" (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/mateo-montoya-history-scienc…>
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>
Monday, September 26, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 2: Reading: Dan-el Padilla Peralta, “Anti-Race” in A Cultural History of Race, Vol. 1, ed. Denise McCoskey (Bloomsbury 2021).
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, September 26, 4pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on China Humanities
Tian Yuan Tan, University of Oxford: “Writing and Reading ‘Local Court Drama’ in Late Imperial China: Texts, Genres, and Identities”
Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 136, Cambridge MA, 02138
Tuesday, September 27, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar (MEMHS)
Andrew Romig (NYU Gallatin): “The Wrong Kind of Flattery: Critique and Praise in Walahfrid Strabo’s De imagine Tetrici.”
More information coming soon at: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Mon Oct 3, 4:30pm
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, 5:30-6:30, 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”
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): Title TBA
Location TBD
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 is coming soon at https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236722-early-modern-lectu…
*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
*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": Clothing, Tattoo, and Stigma in Early Modern English Racecraft
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information or to RSVP (required), please email mtokumitsu(a)wesleyan.edu
Saturday, Oct 15, 2022
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC)
Theme: “Instruments of Power in the Global Early Modern.”
Amherst College, Amherst MA
Registration by September 23, 2022
Conference Website<https://www.nerc2022.org/>
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>
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
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
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/james-raven-university-cambr…>
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
*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.
*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…
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, 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>
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