earlymod-list January 2024

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Early Modern Studies, from Jan 22, 2024

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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. 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, to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>. For security reasons the list will usually 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 Boston/Eastern times. CFP for Local Conferences CFP: https://shakespeareconference.com/; deadline Feb 29, 2024. Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference: "Shakespeare & Play", an in-person academic conference for undergraduate students from Greater Boston, Central Mass, and New England more broadly. Keynote speaker: David Sterling Brown, PhD (Assoc. Prof of English, Trinity College). Conference Date: April 27, 2024 at Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA. Please see the website (above) for submissions or email ClarkShaxConference2024(a)gmail.com for more info Upcoming Fortnight: Events 1/23/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Cicely Bonnin<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/cicely-bonnin-bodies-and-col…>, “Bodies and Colors in the Upaniṣads and early Āyurvedic Texts”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/cicely-bonnin-bodies-and-col…> Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA) For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu> 1/25/2024 6:00pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Welcome Event: Medieval & Renaissance Library Crawl <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/welcome-event-medieval-renai…> (Harvard ID) Location: Medieval Studies Library, Widener Library, Harvard Yard 2/2/2024 5:30pm Mahindera Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies Miles Grier<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/miles-grier-queens-college-a…>, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY: "In Aleppo Once": Othello’s Inky Constitution <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/miles-grier-queens-college-a…> Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA Events later in the Semester: 2/6/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Manny Medrano<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/manny-medrano-string-theorie…>, String Theories: Hidden Astronomy, Temporary Canons, and Andean Quipu Decipherment at the Göteborgs Museum, Sweden <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/manny-medrano-string-theorie…> Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA) For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu> 2/7/2024 5:00pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Adhaar Noor Desai<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/adhaar-noor-desai-assistant-…>, Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College, "Rude Mechanicals: Shakespeare and Aesthetic Education in the Age of Generative AI"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/adhaar-noor-desai-assistant-…> Location: TBA, Harvard University (In-Person Event) 2/8/2024 5:00pm to 6:30pm Early Modern Workshop in History at Harvard Nicholas Popper<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/nicholas-popper-william-and-…> (William and Mary) discussing his new book: The Specter of the Archive. Political Practice and the Nation State in Early Modern Britain (University of Chicago Press)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/nicholas-popper-william-and-…> Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard 2/8/2024 5:30pm Brown University Early Modern World Lia Markey (Newberry Library): The Persistent Portolan: Binding the Globe in the Early Modern Mediterranean World RI Hall, room 108, Brown University Providence RI More information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events> 2/9/2024 10:00am to 11:30am Early Modern Workshop in History at Harvard Kelly McCay<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/kelly-mccay-dept-history-har…> (Dept of History, Harvard), dissertation defense of “‘A writing by strange markes.’ The Invention of Shorthand in Early Modern England, 1588-1700”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/kelly-mccay-dept-history-har…> Location: Dept Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard Fri Feb 9, 2pm to Sat Feb 10, 3:30pm Early Modern Workshop in History at Harvard HUPU<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hupu-harvard-princeton-grad-…>--Harvard Princeton Grad Conference in Early Modern History<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hupu-harvard-princeton-grad-…> Location: History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Room 125 2/12/2024 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies Paul Kelleher<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/paul-kelleher-emory-universi…>, Emory University: Persuasion's Queer Drift <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/paul-kelleher-emory-universi…> Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA and on Zoom 2/15/2024 1:00pm to 2:30pm Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine Alisha Rankin, Ph.D., Tufts University Professor of History, Editor “Bulletin of the History of Medicine”: “Women Healers in Early Modern Europe” Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94337617055?pwd=M0pqNEFZQXVzRXluQ0llalVBRjB0UT09 For further information contact David G. Satin, M.D., Colloquium Director, e-mail: david_satin(a)hms.harvard.edu<mailto:david_satin@hms.harvard.edu> 2/20/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Gio DiRusso <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/gio-dirusso-and-julia-hintli…> and<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/gio-dirusso-and-julia-hintli…> Julia Hintlian<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/gio-dirusso-and-julia-hintli…>, Eclectic Hellenistic Science in the Sirr al-Khaliqa <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/gio-dirusso-and-julia-hintli…> Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA) For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu> 2/20/2024 5:00pm Early Modern Workshop, Dept of History, Harvard Sally Hayes<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sally-hayes-university-wisco…> (University of Wisconsin and John Carter Brown Library), "Slavery and Civic Leadership in Lima's Black Confraternities," followed by a comment by <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sally-hayes-university-wisco…> Kevin Blacutt<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sally-hayes-university-wisco…> (History, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sally-hayes-university-wisco…> Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard 2/20/2024 7:00-8:00 pm American Antiquarian Society (Worcester) Mark Valeri: “The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty” This hybrid program will be held in person at Antiquarian Hall and livestreamed to a virtual audience on YouTube. Advance registration is required for both. Doors open at 6:30pm. More information: https://www.americanantiquarian.org/hybrid-program-mark-valeri 2/21/2024 6:00pm to 7:30pm Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book and by the Renaissance Colloquium, Dept of English, Harvard Whitney Trettien<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/whitney-trettien-dept-englis…> (Dept of English, University of Pennsylvania), “Copy / Document / Remix: Toward a Theory of the Facsimile”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/whitney-trettien-dept-englis…> Location: Barker Center, room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 2/22/2024 5:30pm Brown University Early Modern World Keith Sidwell (U. Calgary, CA): The End of History? Michael Murrin, The Gunpowder Revolution and the Fate of Epic in the 16th and 17th Centuries RI Hall, room 108, Brown University Providence RI More information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events> 2/28/2024 5:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies Chad Córdova<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/chad-c%C3%B3rdova-emory-univ…>, Emory University, Margins Without Center: Grotesque Ontologies and the Ecopolitical Thinking of Montaigne's Essays<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/chad-c%C3%B3rdova-emory-univ…> Location: Online (See Details) Registration link<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUldu-hqzoiGNAFiYIlSGl9yQ3CsuC4X6…> 3/5/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Wenfei Wang<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/wenfei-wang-epistemology-sur…> - An Epistemology of Surgery as Technique in Early Modern China<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/wenfei-wang-epistemology-sur…> Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA) For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu> 3/6/2024 5:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Buddhist Studies Forum Rae Erin Dachille<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/rae-erin-dachille-university…>, University of Arizona: Regard the Seams and Sutures: Exegesis and Imagination in Fifteenth-Century Tibet<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/rae-erin-dachille-university…> Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 3/13/2024 5:30pm Brown University Early Modern World Natalie Van Deusen, Relics of an Ancient Past: Catholic Saints in Early Modern Iceland Location: TBD More information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events> 3/14/2024 5:30pm-7:00pm Brown University Early Modern World and Brown Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Keynote Lecture: Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University: “The Gift: A French Atlantic History of Slavery and Memory” Location: Cogut Institute, Pembroke Hall, room 305, Brown University, Providence RI This keynote lecture opens “France and the Black Atlantic: Geographies of Slavery and Memory,” a workshop that seeks to engage with the burgeoning scholarship on French and francophone ideas and ideologies of race, Blackness (“négritude” in French), and the economic foundations of the transatlantic slave trade, in the context of inter-imperial rivalries and colonization schemes from Africa to the Americas. More information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events> 3/15/2024 9:30pm-5:30pm Brown University Early Modern World and Brown Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Workshop “France and the Black Atlantic: Geographies of Slavery and Memory” Location: Brown University, Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, Petteruti Lounge Provisional Schedule<https://events.brown.edu/cogut/event/277319-keynote-lecture-ana-lucia-arauj…> 3/15/2024 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies Shankar Raman<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/shankar-raman-professor-lite…>, Professor of Literature, MIT: Shankar Raman Seminar<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/shankar-raman-professor-lite…> Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 3/26/2024 5:00pm Sponsored by the International Academic Programs--Universidad Autónoma de Madrid The IAP Annual Lecture in Legal History, <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/silvia-di-paolo-medieval-and…> Silvia Di Paolo<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/silvia-di-paolo-medieval-and…> (Medieval and Modern Legal History in the Law Department, University of Rome Tre), “Restitution: How ill-gotten gains produced public good in Early Modern canon law” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/silvia-di-paolo-medieval-and…> Location: TBA, Harvard University (in-person event) 3/27/2024 5:00pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Kristen Poole<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/kristen-poole-professor-engl…>, Professor of English at University of Delaware, "Living Insphered: Milton’s Cosmic Proprioception."<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/kristen-poole-professor-engl…> Location: TBA, Harvard University (in-person event) 3/28/2024 2pm-3pm American Antiquarian Society, Worcester MA Duncan Faherty: “The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters” Zoom Event. This virtual program is free, but registration is required: Register<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BpqC1h4JSGynimujy7J8yw> American periodicals covered the Haitian revolution from its outbreak in 1791 until well after it ended in 1804, describing it with sentimental and sensationalist undertones that helped shape U.S. literary culture in the early nineteenth century. Yet, scholars have often ignored how early Americans understood their nation as entwined with Haiti. Drawing on his new book, The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters (Oxford University Press, January 2024), Duncan Faherty explores this phenomenon and shows how obsessed early American readers were with the seismic force of the Haitian Revolution and its aftershocks in the US domestic sphere. Not just an enigma occasionally deployed by American writers, Haiti was rather the inspiration for new ideas of freedom and resistance in a still-young nation. More information: https://www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book-talk-duncan-faherty-0 3/28/2024 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book Roger Chartier<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/roger-chartier-dept-history-…> (Dept of History, University of Pennsylvania, and Collège de France, Paris, emeritus), “Erasure and Inscription in Early Modern Europe” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/roger-chartier-dept-history-…> Location: Barker Center, room 133. 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 (Harvard University) 4/2/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Ana Luiza Nicolae<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ana-luiza-nicolae-geometriza…>, The Geometrization of Winds in Mesopotamian and Greek Antiquity<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ana-luiza-nicolae-geometriza…> Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA) For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu> 4/10/2024 5:00pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Sam Bozoukov<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sam-bozoukov-hideous-noise-s…>, "The 'Hideous Noise' of Samson Agonistes: Milton's Crisis of Dissonance" (Graduate Student Talk)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sam-bozoukov-hideous-noise-s…> Location: TBA, Harvard University (in-person event) 4/10/2024 6:00pm to 7:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book Spencer Weinreich<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/spencer-weinreich-harvard-so…> (Harvard Society of Fellows and Dept of History of Science, Harvard), "Prison History as Book History"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/spencer-weinreich-harvard-so…> Location: Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 4/16/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Briana Brightly<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/briana-brightly-dreaming-tan…>, Dreaming of Tanaduk: Painting the Medicine Buddha’s Pure Land in the Golden Age of Tibetan Medicine<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/briana-brightly-dreaming-tan…> Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA) 4/18/2024 5:30pm Brown University Early Modern World James Hankins (Harvard): Can Political Virtue be Taught? Answers from the Western Tradition Location: TBD More information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events> 4/18/2024 9am to 5pm Brown University Early Modern World Early Modern World Colloquium “Mirrors for Princes” Location: TBD More information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events> 4/24/2024 5:00pm Co-hosted by the Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium and the Theater and Performance Colloquium, Harvard Jane Hwang Degenhardt<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/jane-hwang-degenhardt-profes…>, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, "Shakespeare's Speculative Horizons: The Impossible, the Unknowable, and the Dream of Other Worlds" <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/jane-hwang-degenhardt-profes…> Location: TBA, Harvard University (In-Person Event) 4/30/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Alex Garnick<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/alex-garnick-van-roomen-al-k…>, van Roomen on al- Khwārizmī and the Divergence of Early Modern Algebras<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/alex-garnick-van-roomen-al-k…> Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA) For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu> 5/1/2024 5:00pm Closing Event: Spenser on the Lawn: Picnic and Faerie Queene Reading<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/closing-event-spenser-lawn-p…> Location: Barker Center Lawn, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 5/6/2024 Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book Save the date for the annual Harvard-Yale-Brown graduate conference in Book History which will include some sessions on the early modern context. 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