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. 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 are 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
**Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Valeria López Fadul (Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University), "The World in the Library.”
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)
*April 4, 2023, 6pm
Jonathan Bober, National Gallery of Art: "Graphic Personality: Replica Drawings in Sixteenth-Century Italy". Zerner Lecture Series, Harvard History of Art and Architecture.<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/onathan-bober-national-galle…>
Location: Harvard History of Art and Architecture, Lower Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA, 02138
Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Folger Institute Information Session with Owen Williams, Interim Director of the Folger Institute and Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, on opportunities for graduate students of Renaissance literature at the Folger Institute.
Zoom registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
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 11, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Lecture: “Between Sacrality and Perspectivalism: Theories of Seventeenth-Century Spectatorship in José Antonio Maravall and Louis Marin”
Mark Franko, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
Zoom registration see webpage<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/between-sacrality-and-pers…> or email Lisa Kostur at kostur(a)g.harvard.edu
Thursday, April 13, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Kimberly Coles, Department of English, University of Maryland, "Material Meaning: Body Politics in Early Modern Epithalamia"
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__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. Barker Center, 211, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
April 20, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Micah True (University of Alberta, Canada)
"lndigenous Literacies and the Jesuit Relations from New France: The Case of Joseph
Chi hoatenhwa"
Webinar. Registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.zoom.us_webinar_…>
Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:00pm
British actor and writer Paterson Joseph will read from his brand new novel, The Secret Diaries of Ignatius Sancho. Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard Hutchins Center and Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Location: TBA, Harvard University
The novel, The Secret Life of Charles Ignatius Sancho<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…> is based on the life and published letters (1780) of the Black British letter-writer. The novel was released in the UK in October 2022 and will be released in the US in April 2023. The novel also draws upon the one-man performance Paterson created in 2014, Sancho, A Remembrance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…>.
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
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Friday, April 21, 2023, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Dan S. Collins Lecture
“Early Modern Erotica & the Pleasures of Paranoid Reading”
Melissa Sanchez, Director of Penn’s Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies
Location: The Old Chapel, 144, Hicks Way, Amherst, MA
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)
Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Dr. Syrithe Pugh, Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen, Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in ‘The Hock-Cart’.
Pembroke Hall, 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
Thursday, April 27 to Sat, April 29, 2023
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Conference: Nahuatl Texts and Contexts: Annual Meeting of the Association of Nahuatl Scholars
Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room, Brown University, Providence RI
Website Link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
Monday, 5/1/2023
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Graduate Conference
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…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
*Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 6:00pm
Julian Weiss (King's College, London): “Resistance and Reparation: Josephus in the Sephardic Diaspora, 1492-1687” (Brown Early Modern World Lecture)
Pembroke Hall, 305, Brown University, Providence RI.
This lecture is on the reception of Flavius Josephus (c. 37-100 CE) in the early modern Iberian world. Josephus became one of the most widely read classical historians of all time, a fundamental witness to Jewish history, and one of the turning points in world history – the Judean rebellion against Rome (66-70 CE) and the destruction of Jerusalem and the second Temple.
For more information click here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>.
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)
Thursday, May 4, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
ZOOM roundtable on Keeping scholarship and teaching on early modern gender studies vital and healthy in the current climate of shrinking humanities.
More information to come.
*Friday, 5/5/2023 to Saturday, 5/6/2023
Kant’s Theory of Imagination: A Workshop (Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/kant%E2%80%99s-theory-imagin…>
Location: The Thompson Room, Barker Center, Room 110, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (see link for details)
Monday, May 8, 2023, 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Symposium in two parts, presenting ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century”
Location: Thomson Room of the Barker Center, Harvard University (12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA)
Twelve leading feminist scholars, including Ros Ballaster, Kristina Straub, Mona Narain, Jennie Batchelor, Tita Chico, Betty Schellenburg, Manushag Powell, Regulus Allen, and Susan Carlisle will present ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century.” The first roundtable discussion, from 1-3 will be about “Critiques of Capitalism” that surfaced in the eighteenth century. The second roundtable discussion from 3:30 to 5:30, will be about those ideas that went against the grain of individualism but were examples of ”Thinking Through the Community.” Questions will also be taken from the floor and discussion among the participants and the audience will be encouraged.
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)
June 5-9, 2023
Co-sponsored by Folger Institute and Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction to English Paleography (course)
Course Director: Dr. Heather Wolfe<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_staff_d…>, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library.
This weeklong course provides an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary hand of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course will highlight the strengths of our rare book collection and materials related to The Renaissance of the Earth. Find more information here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…>.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_2021-2D…>
Application deadline 6 March 2023 was for admission and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute Consortium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…> affiliates.
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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. 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 are 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
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, 2023, 4pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on German Studies: New Perspectives
Ben Morgan, Oxford University: Rethinking Critique: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Models of Cultural Evolution.
Room 359 (Nebel Room), Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
March 21st 2023, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Christopher Nygren, Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh: 'Salt, Water, and Stone: The Ecology of Art in Renaissance Venice'
Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-nygren-2023<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
**Wednesday, March 22, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Graduate Student Paper Workshop: Zichen Liu: "The Inexplicable Voice: The Motif of the Echo from Hellenistic Poetry to Milton."
In-person event. Please email vpipas(a)fas.harvard.edu for the precirculated paper and more information.
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
March 23, 11:30am
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke (Universite de Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII): "L' Amerique dans les concours des Academies en France a l' epoque des Lumieres. Les concoursde Lyon (1781-1789) et de Toulouse (1784)" [in French]
Webinar. Registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.zoom.us_webinar_…>
March 23, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
"Margery Kempe’s Thermal Dynamics"
Micah Goodrich, Department of English, Boston University
Barker Center, room 024, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…
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…>.
*Thursday, March 30, 2023, 3pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Environmental Humanities
Julio Aguilar, Drinking Water in the Silver City of Potosí: Hydraulic Infrastructures and Practices in the Colonial Andes
Room 133 (Plimpton Room), Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
RSVP<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mahindrahumanities.for…> for Pre-Circulated Paper
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
Folger Institute Information Session with Owen Williams, Interim Director of the Folger Institute and Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, on opportunities for graduate students of Renaissance literature at the Folger Institute.
Zoom registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
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 11, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Lecture: “Between Sacrality and Perspectivalism: Theories of Seventeenth-Century Spectatorship in José Antonio Maravall and Louis Marin”
Mark Franko, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
Zoom registration see webpage<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/between-sacrality-and-pers…> or email Lisa Kostur at kostur(a)g.harvard.edu
**Thursday, April 13, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Kimberly Coles, Department of English, University of Maryland, "Material Meaning: Body Politics in Early Modern Epithalamia"
Barker Center, room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__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. Barker Center, 211, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
April 20, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Micah True (University of Alberta, Canada)
"lndigenous Literacies and the Jesuit Relations from New France: The Case of Joseph
Chi hoatenhwa"
Webinar. Registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.zoom.us_webinar_…>
Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:00pm
British actor and writer Paterson Joseph will read from his brand new novel, The Secret Diaries of Ignatius Sancho. Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard Hutchins Center and Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Location: TBA, Harvard University
The novel, The Secret Life of Charles Ignatius Sancho<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…> is based on the life and published letters (1780) of the Black British letter-writer. The novel was released in the UK in October 2022 and will be released in the US in April 2023. The novel also draws upon the one-man performance Paterson created in 2014, Sancho, A Remembrance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…>.
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
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Friday, April 21, 2023, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Dan S. Collins Lecture
“Early Modern Erotica & the Pleasures of Paranoid Reading”
Melissa Sanchez, Director of Penn’s Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies
Location: The Old Chapel, 144, Hicks Way, Amherst, MA
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)
Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Dr. Syrithe Pugh, Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen, Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in ‘The Hock-Cart’.
Pembroke Hall, 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
Thursday, April 27 to Sat, April 29, 2023
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Conference: Nahuatl Texts and Contexts: Annual Meeting of the Association of Nahuatl Scholars
Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room, Brown University, Providence RI
Website Link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
Monday, 5/1/2023
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Graduate Conference
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…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
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)
*Thursday, May 4, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
ZOOM roundtable on Keeping scholarship and teaching on early modern gender studies vital and healthy in the current climate of shrinking humanities.
More information to come.
Monday, May 8, 2023, 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Symposium in two parts, presenting ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century”
Location: Thomson Room of the Barker Center, Harvard University (12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA)
Twelve leading feminist scholars, including Ros Ballaster, Kristina Straub, Mona Narain, Jennie Batchelor, Tita Chico, Betty Schellenburg, Manushag Powell, Regulus Allen, and Susan Carlisle will present ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century.” The first roundtable discussion, from 1-3 will be about “Critiques of Capitalism” that surfaced in the eighteenth century. The second roundtable discussion from 3:30 to 5:30, will be about those ideas that went against the grain of individualism but were examples of ”Thinking Through the Community.” Questions will also be taken from the floor and discussion among the participants and the audience will be encouraged.
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)
June 5-9, 2023
Co-sponsored by Folger Institute and Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction to English Paleography (course)
Course Director: Dr. Heather Wolfe<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_staff_d…>, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library.
This weeklong course provides an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary hand of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course will highlight the strengths of our rare book collection and materials related to The Renaissance of the Earth. Find more information here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…>.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_2021-2D…>
Application deadline 6 March 2023 was for admission and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute Consortium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…> affiliates.
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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. 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 are 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
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, 2023, 4pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on German Studies: New Perspectives
Ben Morgan, Oxford University: Rethinking Critique: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Models of Cultural Evolution.
Room 359 (Nebel Room), Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
March 21st 2023, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Christopher Nygren, Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh: 'Salt, Water, and Stone: The Ecology of Art in Renaissance Venice'
Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-nygren-2023
**Wednesday, March 22, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Graduate Student Paper Workshop: Zichen Liu
In-person event. Please email vpipas(a)fas.harvard.edu for the precirculated paper and more information.
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
March 23, 11:30am
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke (Universite de Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII): "L' Amerique dans les concours des Academies en France a l' epoque des Lumieres. Les concoursde Lyon (1781-1789) et de Toulouse (1784)" [in French]
Webinar. Registration link<https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BDMUm8QrSWS0Ahk7LSl2dg>
**March 23, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
"Margery Kempe’s Thermal Dynamics"
Micah Goodrich, Department of English, Boston University
Barker Center, room 024, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…
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
Folger Institute Information Session with Owen Williams, Interim Director of the Folger Institute and Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, on opportunities for graduate students of Renaissance literature at the Folger Institute.
Zoom registration<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvd-6hrjgrHtYXPhj8pOGEio1ZDZqzTK…>
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
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 11, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Lecture: “Between Sacrality and Perspectivalism: Theories of Seventeenth-Century Spectatorship in José Antonio Maravall and Louis Marin”
Mark Franko, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
Zoom registration see webpage<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/between-sacrality-and-pers…> or email Lisa Kostur at kostur(a)g.harvard.edu
**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
Barker Center, room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__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. Barker Center, 211, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
April 20, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Micah True (University of Alberta, Canada)
"lndigenous Literacies and the Jesuit Relations from New France: The Case of Joseph
Chi hoatenhwa"
Webinar. Registration link<https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9gDkKN2yQPyQPNS5JmWCiw>
Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:00pm
British actor and writer Paterson Joseph will read from his brand new novel, The Secret Diaries of Ignatius Sancho. Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard Hutchins Center and Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Location: TBA, Harvard University
The novel, The Secret Life of Charles Ignatius Sancho<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegu…> is based on the life and published letters (1780) of the Black British letter-writer. The novel was released in the UK in October 2022 and will be released in the US in April 2023. The novel also draws upon the one-man performance Paterson created in 2014, Sancho, A Remembrance<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytim…>.
**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
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
*Friday, April 21, 2023, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Dan S. Collins Lecture
“Early Modern Erotica & the Pleasures of Paranoid Reading”
Melissa Sanchez, Director of Penn’s Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies
Location: The Old Chapel, 144, Hicks Way, Amherst, MA
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)
Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Dr. Syrithe Pugh, Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen, Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in ‘The Hock-Cart’.
Pembroke Hall, 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
Thursday, April 27 to Sat, April 29, 2023
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Conference: Nahuatl Texts and Contexts: Annual Meeting of the Association of Nahuatl Scholars
Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room, Brown University, Providence RI
Website Link<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/240556-early-modern-confe…>
Monday, 5/1/2023
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Graduate Conference
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…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
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)
Monday, May 8, 2023, 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Symposium in two parts, presenting ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century”
Location: Thomson Room of the Barker Center, Harvard University (12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA)
Twelve leading feminist scholars, including Ros Ballaster, Kristina Straub, Mona Narain, Jennie Batchelor, Tita Chico, Betty Schellenburg, Manushag Powell, Regulus Allen, and Susan Carlisle will present ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century.” The first roundtable discussion, from 1-3 will be about “Critiques of Capitalism” that surfaced in the eighteenth century. The second roundtable discussion from 3:30 to 5:30, will be about those ideas that went against the grain of individualism but were examples of ”Thinking Through the Community.” Questions will also be taken from the floor and discussion among the participants and the audience will be encouraged.
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)
June 5-9, 2023
Co-sponsored by Folger Institute and Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction to English Paleography (course)
Course Director: Dr. Heather Wolfe<https://www.folger.edu/staff/dr-heather-wolfe>, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library.
This weeklong course provides an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary hand of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course will highlight the strengths of our rare book collection and materials related to The Renaissance of the Earth. Find more information here<https://www.folger.edu/research/the-folger-institute/scholarly-programs/202…>.<https://www.folger.edu/2021-2022-folger-institute-scholarly-programs#Paleog…>
Application deadline 6 March 2023 was for admission and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute Consortium<https://www.folger.edu/research/the-folger-institute/scholarly-programs/fol…> affiliates.
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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
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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
