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, May 16, 2023, 10am (time change!)
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History of the Eucharist”. Paul Freedman from Yale will give first comments.
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 pre-circulated 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 was 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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*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
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place or (in case of online events) be relevant to the greater Boston area. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. It would be a great help if you could follow this format:
Day, date, time
Sponsor (if available)
Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
Location: in-person or virtual
*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this, and include location details.
Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences)
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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
*Monday, May 8, 2023, 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center's Renaissance Studies Seminar
Alani Hicks-Bartlett: Material Failure: Embodiment and Access in Early Modern Lyric Laments (Lecture)
Location: Zoom event: registration link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMld-CrrjwoHtWNaAo1RaOkbT01a51PfH…>
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.
***
*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
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place or (in case of online events) be relevant to the greater Boston area. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. It would be a great help if you could follow this format:
Day, date, time
Sponsor (if available)
Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
Location: in-person or virtual
*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this, and include location details.
Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences)
RSVP or Registration information/link
