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. As last 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
**Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Gordon Teskey, Professor of English at Harvard, "Prophetic Philology: Paradise Lost in the Twenty-First Century."
In-person event, Barker Center, Room 211, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Monday, 2/6/2023 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Medieval Studies
Opening meeting: Michelle Warren (Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College), author of Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (2022) in conversation with Ann Blair (History, Harvard)
Location: Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building (1730 Cambridge Street)
Prior to this event, from 4pm to 5:30pm, the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies invites all interested to join them for their Spring Semester welcoming reception, featuring food, drink, and lively conversation. The location is in front of Tsai Auditorium, at CGIS South Building Lower Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street.
Wednesday, 2/8/2023 5:15pm
Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on Diagrams Across Disciplines and the History of the Book
Matthew Landrus (Oxford University and Rhode Island School of Design), “Diagrammatic reasoning for early modern artist/engineers, with particular attention to Leonardo da Vinci.”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/matthew-landrus-oxford-unive…>
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
*Friday, February 10, 2023, 6:00 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Bradley J. Irish, Associate Professor of English, Arizona State University, “The Cycles of Disgust in Timon of Athens”
ZOOM Meeting. You must register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/cycles-disgust-timon-athens
Wednesday, February 15th, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Katherine Horgan, doctoral candidate in English at Harvard, "Playing Sappho: Biography as Form in Early Modern Sapphic Reception."
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, 2/15/2023 5:15pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Early Modern Workshop, and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars in the History of the Book and Diagrams Across Disciplines
J.H. Chajes (Wolfson Professor of Jewish Religious Thought, University of Haifa), “Seeing the Kabbalah Through Its Trees: The New Perspectives of The Kabbalistic Tree.”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/jh-chajes-wolfson-professor-…>
Location: HMANE (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, formerly the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge) Room 201.
*Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on American Literature and Culture
Meredith Neuman, Clark University: “Book Copies and Textual Desires: Reading Early American Poetry Against the Imprint.” Respondent: Sarah Robbins, Tufts University
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-copies-and-textual-de…
Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Alejandro Octavio Nodarse (History of Art and Architecture), “(Ir)reparable Errors: Marco Aurelio Severino’s Drawings as Surgical Practice”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
*Wednesday, 2/22/2023 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Lorraine Daston, Director emerita, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin: "The End of Natural Disasters" (The Inaugural Frederick A. Jakobiec Lecture, Harvard History of Science)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/lorraine-daston-director-eme…>
Location: Harvard Loeb House Ballroom, 17 Quincy St., Cambridge
Reception to Follow.
*Thursday, February 23, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Harvard Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Ellen M. Nye, “Early Modern Money Between England and the Ottoman Empire”
Location: Harvard Law School (WCC 3019)
*Thursday, February 23, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Boston College, Department of History: “Playing the Vanguard: Boundary-Busting Women and the Baroque Academies That Loved Them.”
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-gwyneth-ross-tba
*Thursday, February 23, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Travis Chi Wing Lau, Kenyon College: “The Pain of Race”
Online: registration link see
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/pain-race
Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Matthew Kadane (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), 'Mind-Forged Manicules, or, What was “Enlightenment”?'
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
This paper focuses on the first person to use the now common English word “enlightenment,” a naval surgeon named James Rymer (1750-1827). “The Enlightenment” existed without Rymer’s word—this is not an exercise in Begriffsgeschichte. But the investigation of the word nevertheless opens up an unexpected world in which obscure people have an important role to play in intellectual history. Exploring the nature of that role is the methodological aim of the paper, while its more substantive goal is to reconstruct Rymer’s story, which, like the Enlightenment itself, is at times serious, at times farcical, and offers an object lesson in the difficulty of disentangling humanitarian from instrumentalist motives.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Diana Henderson, Professor of Literature at MIT.
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Friday, 3/3/2023 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book at Harvard University
Holly Shaffer (History of Art, Brown), "Table Land": James Forbes's Voyages and Travels (1765-1784) to a Colonial Source of Still Life.”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/holly-shaffer-history-art-br…>
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge.
Please RSVP for lunch by Feb 24 here<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/holly-shaffer-history-art-br…>, or by email to agoeing(a)fas.harvard.edu .
*Friday, March 3, 2023, 6:00 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Christopher Pye, Professor of English, Williams College: “Shakespearean Comedy and Romance: the Aesthetic Turn”
ZOOM Meeting. You must register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/shakespearean-comedy-and-r…
Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Shireen Hamza (History of Science) and Eric Moses Gurevitch (NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University), “The Promise of Medieval Sciences, the Perils of Global History.”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, 3/8/2023 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The Starr Seminar
Victor Couto Tiribás (Starr Fellow), Scuola Normale Superiore: “The Rabbi and the Painter: Menasseh ben Israel, Rembrandt van Rijn, and the ‘Glorious Stone’"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/victor-couto-tirib%C3%A1s-st…>
Location: HMANE (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, formerly the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge) RM201 or online
Note: Please confirm your attendance with Sandy Cantave cantave(a)fas.harvard.edu, as lunch (kosher) will be provided for these meetings. If you would like to attend remotely please write to Sandy Cantave to get the zoomlink.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Kelly McCay (History), “The ABCs of Universal Characters”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Tuesday, March 21, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Stacey Murrell (Brown University). More information will be coming soon.
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Wednesday, March 22, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBD
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 4:30pm-6:15pm
Wesleyan University Renaissance Seminar
Sara Díaz, Fairfield University: "Margherita Costa's Love Letters. An Introduction."
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information, see the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.e…>.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Valeria López Fadul (Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University), "Do Fish Breathe? Francisco Hernández, the Americas, and Renaissance Natural History.”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBD
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Tuesday, April 11, 5-6:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop of the History Department and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Early Modern Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe, organized by Sonia Tycko (PhD 2019)
Location: Robinson Hall conference room (formerly Lower Library, on the ground floor), Harvard Yard.
The panel will consist of three fifteen-minute papers, followed by Q&A.
Elizabeth Kamali (Law, Harvard), chair
Carissa M. Harris (English, Temple), "'Sey what ye wyll': Epistemologies of Sexual Consent in Premodern Pastourelles"
Emanuele Conte (Law, Roma Tre) "The Most Presumed Consent: Mario Salamonio (1450-1533) and the Social Contract"
Sonia Tycko (History, Edinburgh), "The Currency of Consent: Coins and Labor Contracts in Early Modern England"
For more information on the Historicizing Consent research network: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/historicizingconsent
*Thursday, April 13, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Kimberly Coles, University of Maryland: TBA
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/kimberly-coles-tba
Tuesday, April 18, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Neil Safier (Brown University). “Translating the Plantationocene from the Prerevolutionary Caribbean to Colonial Brazil.”
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
How was the language of plantation society ported from the French and English-dominated Caribbean to colonial Brazil in the eighteenth century? What role did agro-industrial treatises play in the perpetuation of systems of enslaved labor as plantation societies shifted from sugar production to a wider array of foodstuffs, beverages, and profit-oriented utilitarian crops? Long understood to be powerful manuals for naturalists and plantation masters alike, these pragmatic instructional texts, focused around questions of climate, natural history, and commodity-driven agriculture, have only recently been understood to have circulated outside the narrow Caribbean world for which they were destined. One iconic protagonist of this translation process was the Franciscan friar José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo (1742-1811), who served as a linguistic conduit for moving natural knowledge from an array of texts produced in colonial cultures around the globe into print – and into Portuguese in particular. This talk examines Vellozo’s multi-volume and multi-faceted Fazendeiro do Brazil (1798-1806) with an eye toward connecting the eighteenth-century natural sciences, the ambitions of expanding plantation-based economies, and the politics of translation across the multilingual geographies of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Debapriya Sarkar, Assistant Professor of English at University of Connecticut, "Geographies of Race in The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra."
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Friday, April 21, 2023, 5:30 pm reception, 6:00 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Gregory Semenza, Professor of English, University of Connecticut, “‘Please, just no Shakespeare’: Reinventing Authorship in Station Eleven.”
Location: In-person Event, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Maryam Patton (History and Middle Eastern Studies), “Past as Prelude: The Role of Historical Knowledge Among Early Ottoman Astrologers”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Monday, 5/1/2023
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Save the date: Harvard-Yale-Brown grad conference in book history <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-harvard-yale-brown…>
Location: Brown University, Providence RI (In-person event)
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Closing Event
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Thursday, May 4, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Harvard Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Simon Middleton (College of William and Mary), “Current Money and Community in Early America”
Harvard Law School (WCC 3019)
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History of the Eucharist”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
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Greetings, and Happy New Year!
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. As last 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
Thursday, January 26, 2023, at 6 PM
Brown Early Modern World Lecture, co-sponsored with the Hispanic Studies department
David Amelang, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, “Performing Women in the Theaters of Early Modern Europe”
Location: Pembroke Hall, 102, Brown University, Providence RI, 02912
Located at the intersection of theatre history, gender studies and Digital Humanities, this presentation explores the dynamics of gender – and more specifically the presence and protagonism of female characters – in the dramatic literature of late-sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe. In particular, it seeks to illustrate visually how women’s progressive involvement in the artistic process as writers, performers and spectators enhanced the protagonism of female roles in early modern European theatre.
For more information click here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>.
Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Gordon Teskey, Professor of English at Harvard, "Prophetic Philology: Paradise Lost in the Twenty-First Century."
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Monday, 2/6/2023 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Medieval Studies
Opening meeting: Michelle Warren (Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College), author of Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (2022) in conversation with Ann Blair (History, Harvard)
Location: Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building (1730 Cambridge Street)
Prior to this event, from 4pm to 5:30pm, the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies invites all interested to join them for their Spring Semester welcoming reception, featuring food, drink, and lively conversation. The location is in front of Tsai Auditorium, at CGIS South Building Lower Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street.
Wednesday, 2/8/2023 5:15pm
Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on Diagrams Across Disciplines and the History of the Book
Matthew Landrus (Oxford University and Rhode Island School of Design), “Diagrammatic reasoning for early modern artist/engineers, with particular attention to Leonardo da Vinci.”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/matthew-landrus-oxford-unive…>
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
Wednesday, February 15th, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Katherine Horgan, doctoral candidate in English at Harvard, "Playing Sappho: Biography as Form in Early Modern Sapphic Reception."
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, 2/15/2023 5:15pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Early Modern Workshop, and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars in the History of the Book and Diagrams Across Disciplines
J.H. Chajes (Wolfson Professor of Jewish Religious Thought, University of Haifa), “Seeing the Kabbalah Through Its Trees: The New Perspectives of The Kabbalistic Tree.”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/jh-chajes-wolfson-professor-…>
Location: HMANE (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, formerly the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge) Room 201.
Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Alejandro Octavio Nodarse (History of Art and Architecture), “(Ir)reparable Errors: Marco Aurelio Severino’s Drawings as Surgical Practice”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Matthew Kadane (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), 'Mind-Forged Manicules, or, What was “Enlightenment”?'
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
This paper focuses on the first person to use the now common English word “enlightenment,” a naval surgeon named James Rymer (1750-1827). “The Enlightenment” existed without Rymer’s word—this is not an exercise in Begriffsgeschichte. But the investigation of the word nevertheless opens up an unexpected world in which obscure people have an important role to play in intellectual history. Exploring the nature of that role is the methodological aim of the paper, while its more substantive goal is to reconstruct Rymer’s story, which, like the Enlightenment itself, is at times serious, at times farcical, and offers an object lesson in the difficulty of disentangling humanitarian from instrumentalist motives.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Diana Henderson, Professor of Literature at MIT.
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Friday, 3/3/2023 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book at Harvard University
Holly Shaffer (History of Art, Brown), "Table Land": James Forbes's Voyages and Travels (1765-1784) to a Colonial Source of Still Life.”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/holly-shaffer-history-art-br…>
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge.
Please RSVP for lunch by Feb 24 here<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/holly-shaffer-history-art-br…>, or by email to agoeing(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:agoeing@fas.harvard.edu> .
Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Shireen Hamza (History of Science) and Eric Moses Gurevitch (NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University), “The Promise of Medieval Sciences, the Perils of Global History.”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, 3/8/2023 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The Starr Seminar
Victor Couto Tiribás (Starr Fellow), Scuola Normale Superiore: “The Rabbi and the Painter: Menasseh ben Israel, Rembrandt van Rijn, and the ‘Glorious Stone’"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/victor-couto-tirib%C3%A1s-st…>
Location: HMANE (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, formerly the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge) RM201 or online
Note: Please confirm your attendance with Sandy Cantave cantave(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:cantave@fas.harvard.edu>, as lunch (kosher) will be provided for these meetings. If you would like to attend remotely please write to Sandy Cantave to get the zoomlink.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Kelly McCay (History), “The ABCs of Universal Characters”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Tuesday, March 21, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Stacey Murrell (Brown University). More information will be coming soon.
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Wednesday, March 22, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBD
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 4:30pm-6:15pm
Wesleyan University Renaissance Seminar
Sara Díaz, Fairfield University: "Margherita Costa's Love Letters. An Introduction."
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information, see the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.e…>.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Valeria López Fadul (Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University), "Do Fish Breathe? Francisco Hernández, the Americas, and Renaissance Natural History.”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBD
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Tuesday, April 11, 5-6:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop of the History Department and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Early Modern Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe, organized by Sonia Tycko (PhD 2019)
Location: Robinson Hall conference room (formerly Lower Library, on the ground floor), Harvard Yard.
The panel will consist of three fifteen-minute papers, followed by Q&A.
Elizabeth Kamali (Law, Harvard), chair
Carissa M. Harris (English, Temple), "'Sey what ye wyll': Epistemologies of Sexual Consent in Premodern Pastourelles"
Emanuele Conte (Law, Roma Tre) "The Most Presumed Consent: Mario Salamonio (1450-1533) and the Social Contract"
Sonia Tycko (History, Edinburgh), "The Currency of Consent: Coins and Labor Contracts in Early Modern England"
For more information on the Historicizing Consent research network: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/historicizingconsent
Tuesday, April 18, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Neil Safier (Brown University). “Translating the Plantationocene from the Prerevolutionary Caribbean to Colonial Brazil.”
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
How was the language of plantation society ported from the French and English-dominated Caribbean to colonial Brazil in the eighteenth century? What role did agro-industrial treatises play in the perpetuation of systems of enslaved labor as plantation societies shifted from sugar production to a wider array of foodstuffs, beverages, and profit-oriented utilitarian crops? Long understood to be powerful manuals for naturalists and plantation masters alike, these pragmatic instructional texts, focused around questions of climate, natural history, and commodity-driven agriculture, have only recently been understood to have circulated outside the narrow Caribbean world for which they were destined. One iconic protagonist of this translation process was the Franciscan friar José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo (1742-1811), who served as a linguistic conduit for moving natural knowledge from an array of texts produced in colonial cultures around the globe into print – and into Portuguese in particular. This talk examines Vellozo’s multi-volume and multi-faceted Fazendeiro do Brazil (1798-1806) with an eye toward connecting the eighteenth-century natural sciences, the ambitions of expanding plantation-based economies, and the politics of translation across the multilingual geographies of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Debapriya Sarkar, Assistant Professor of English at University of Connecticut, "Geographies of Race in The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra."
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Maryam Patton (History and Middle Eastern Studies), “Past as Prelude: The Role of Historical Knowledge Among Early Ottoman Astrologers”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Monday, 5/1/2023
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Save the date: Harvard-Yale-Brown grad conference in book history <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-harvard-yale-brown…>
Location: Brown University, Providence RI (In-person event)
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Closing Event
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History of the Eucharist”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
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