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’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
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…>
Wednesday, February 28th, 2024, 7:00 PM
Spotlight session: Torquato Tasso & the Italian madrigal
Featuring guest speaker, Emiliano Ricciardi (Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Online via Zoom
https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/spotlight-sessions/ricciardi/
In this talk, we will explore the musical reception of Tasso’s poetry, discussing the cultural and social conditions that made Tasso’s poetry so influential. Likewise, we will examine how composers reacted musically to his work. To do so, we will explore the variety of musical styles composers employed to match the diverse character of Tasso’s poetry, ranging from the lighthearted musical manner often found in settings of his lyric poems to the quasi-operatic style that composers like Wert and Monteverdi championed in response to the impassioned tone of the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata.
2/29/2024 3:00pm
History of Philosophy Workshop: Katherine Brading (Duke University) and Jeff McDonough (Harvard University), “Emilie Du Châtelet: Time and Time Again”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/history-philosophy-workshop-…>
Location: Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard University
*2/29/2024 4:30pm to 6:00pm
CMES Harvard
Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu, NYU: Verifying the Truth on Their Own Terms Ottoman Philosophical Culture and the Court Debate between Zeyrek (d. 903/1497-98 [?]) and Ḫocazāde (d. 893/1488). Discussant: Maryam Patton, Harvard<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/efe-murat-bal%C4%B1k%C3%A7%C…>
Location: Harvard CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge MA
*Thursday, February 29, 2023, 4:30pm
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Yael Rice, Associate Professor of Art & the History of Art and of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College: Painting the Persianate World: Portable Images on Paper, Cloth, and Clay: An Exhibition Preview
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St. Amherst, MA
Yael Rice will speak about the new Smith College Museum of Art exhibition, which she is co-curating: Painting the Persianate World: Portable Images on Paper, Cloth, and Clay<https://umass.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=14813fa107cdfebbc1e428536&…> (opened February 2, 2024). The exhibition looks at cultural, artistic, and other connections across South Asia and Iran between the 13th and 19th centuries, and also includes two works by the contemporary Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander. Rice's seminar talk will focus on the exhibition materials dating from the 13th-16th centuries, while also touching on contemporary makers in India, Iran, and Europe, who continue earlier practices of painting on textiles, ceramics, and paper.
2/29/24, 4:30-6:00pm
Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Dr. Aaron Fogleman<https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…> (Northern Illinois University), “African Voices in the American Revolution: Atlantic Perspectives”<https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…>
Location: Ruane Center for the Humanities LL49, Providence College, One Cunningham Square, Providence, RI
*2/29/2024 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Alisha Rankin<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/alisha-rankin-tufts-universi…>, Tufts University, “A Useless Sack of Bones”: Old Women as Medical and Political Agents in Early Modern Europe<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/alisha-rankin-tufts-universi…>
Location: Warren House, Kates Room (201), Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA
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
Events later on:
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: “Nature’s Bias: Twelfth Night, King Lear, and The Tempest<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/shankar-raman-professor-lite…>”
Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
3/18/2024 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Markus Krajewski<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/markus-krajewski-media-studi…> (Media Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland), “Comments on Edible Monuments as Nutrition for Thinking on Baroque Tables”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/markus-krajewski-media-studi…>
Location: History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Please RSVP<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0xxOXxdyu2WoiAFoBymg2rcel8IrxqFp…> by March 8 to ensure that we have a lunch for you. Sponsored by the.
Thursday, March 21, 2024, 9:20 - 10:00 a.m.
Jesuit Studies Café, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College
From Early Modern Missions to Proselytism(s): History of a Seminar (EHESS, Paris)
Speakers: Dr. Hélène Vu-Thanh, Université Bretagne-Sud and Dr. Margherita Trento, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Online on Zoom, registration link at https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…
This presentation will trace the history and evolution of a major seminar that gathers at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, discussing religious missions in the Iberian world and different forms of proselytism. The presenters will highlight the seminar’s contribution to studying the Society of Jesus.
Saturday, Mar. 23, 2024, 8:00 PM
Tasso & Wert: A concert of Italian madrigals
11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA
https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/season25/tasso-wert/
Blue Heron’s exploration of the Italian madrigal continues with a new program featuring settings of dramatic scenes by Torquato Tasso (the most prominent poet of late sixteenth-century Italy) with music by the great Giaches de Wert & others.
3/26/2024 5:00-6:30pm
Sponsored by the International Academic Programs-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Legal History Colloquium, and Harvard Early Modern Workshop
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), “How ill-gotten gains produced public good in Late Medieval canon law” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/silvia-di-paolo-medieval-and…>
Location: Law School, Wasserstein Hall (WCC), Harvard University, 18 Everett Street (Corner with Mass Ave), Room 3008
Poster Download<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/file…>
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)
*3/28/2024 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Liza Oliver<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/liza-oliver-department-art-w…> (Department of Art, Wellesley College), "Threading Empire: Textile Training and Anglo-Indian Assimilation in an 18th-Century Calcutta Orphanage”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/liza-oliver-department-art-w…>
Location: TBD, 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>
4/9/2024 5:30pm
Boston College, The Italian Studies Program and the Dept. of Art, Art History, and Film
Lecture by Dr. Alessandro Serrani (University of Bologna), “Art Patronage in the Bolognese Renaissance: Revealing the Forgotten Role of the Trade Guilds.”
Location: in-person, Boston College, Devlin Hall 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
More information<https://events.bc.edu/event/art_patronage_in_the_bolognese_renaissance_reve…>
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
April 12-14, 2024
Okeghem Weekend
Cambridge and Somerville, MA
https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/season25/okeghem-weekend/
A weekend of concerts, talks, and master classes celebrating the sublime music of Johannes Okeghem (c. 1420-1497) and his colleagues and contemporaries.
4/12/2024 (All day) to 4/13/2024 (All day)
Hosted by the Center for History & Economics at Harvard University; and supported by the Harvard Early Modern Workshop, the University of Birmingham, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)
Conference ‘Rethinking Early Modern Confessionalism’<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/conference-%E2%80%98rethinki…>
Location: TBA, Harvard University (in-person event, registration required, see link details)
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)
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>
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 9:20 - 10:00 a.m. (U.S. Eastern, UTC-4)
Jesuit Studies Café, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College
The Research Group on the Congregation of the Council and the Study of Religious Orders (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Theory, Frankfurt)
Dr. Benedetta Albani, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt
Dr. Francesco Giuliani, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt
Online on Zoom, registration link at https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…
The Congregation of the Council was one of the leading actors of the post-Tridentine Catholic Reform: it was responsible for the authentic interpretation of the Council’s disciplinary decrees and their implementation throughout the Catholic world. This presentation will focus on the multiple interactions between the Congregation of the Council and the Society of Jesus and suggest fascinating avenues for future research in this field.
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>
4/19/2024 10:30am
Ashley Gonik<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…> (History, Harvard), dissertation defense of “Structuring Information: Printed Tables as Organizing Tools in Early Modern Europe”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: History Dept Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
4/19/2024 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Leah Whittington<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/leah-whittington-professor-e…>, Professor of English, Harvard University: Leah Whittington Seminar<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/leah-whittington-professor-e…>
Location: Barker Center, Room 133. 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 (Harvard University)
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)
4/25/24 4:30-6:00pm
Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Dr. Jessica Roney (<https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…>Temple University), “The Colony That Wasn’t, and What That Meant for the Future of North America, c. 1774”<https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…>
Location: Ruane Center for the Humanities LL49, Providence College, One Cunningham Square, Providence, RI
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
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
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
*5/2/2024 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Save the date: Mary Erica Zimmer (Concourse Program, MIT), title TBA<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-mary-erica-zimmer-…>
Location: Harvard, TBD
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.
Harvard, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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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’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
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
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Native Culture of the Americas
Christopher Pexa<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/christopher-pexa-harvard-uni…>, Harvard University: "Supporting Tribal Land and Language Reclamation through Storytelling: the Oceti Sakowin Atlas 1.0"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/christopher-pexa-harvard-uni…>
Location: Room TBD, Harvard University
More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/native-cultures-americas>
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
*Feb 22, 2024, 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College
Yuval Givon, Harvard and BC: A Jesuit Global Microhistory? The case of the Macao Uproar of 1658
Online on Zoom, registration link at https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…
The presentation focuses on the accounts of Jesuit missionaries in Macao, navigating
intricate political dynamics after a violent incident in the summer of 1658. It examines
some of the lessons from this overlooked historical episode and discusses the applicability of Global Microhistory in the context of Jesuit Studies
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…>
*Wednesday, February 28th, 2024, 7:00 PM
Spotlight session: Torquato Tasso & the Italian madrigal
Featuring guest speaker, Emiliano Ricciardi (Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Online via Zoom
https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/spotlight-sessions/ricciardi/
In this talk, we will explore the musical reception of Tasso’s poetry, discussing the cultural and social conditions that made Tasso’s poetry so influential. Likewise, we will examine how composers reacted musically to his work. To do so, we will explore the variety of musical styles composers employed to match the diverse character of Tasso’s poetry, ranging from the lighthearted musical manner often found in settings of his lyric poems to the quasi-operatic style that composers like Wert and Monteverdi championed in response to the impassioned tone of the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata.
*2/29/2024 3:00pm
History of Philosophy Workshop: Katherine Brading (Duke University) and Jeff McDonough (Harvard University), “Emilie Du Châtelet: Time and Time Again”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/history-philosophy-workshop-…>
Location: Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard University
Events later in the semester:
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: “Nature’s Bias: Twelfth Night, King Lear, and The Tempest<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/shankar-raman-professor-lite…>”
Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
3/18/2024 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Markus Krajewski (Media Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland), “Comments on Edible Monuments as Nutrition for Thinking on Baroque Tables”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/markus-krajewski-media-studi…>
Location: History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Please RSVP<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0xxOXxdyu2WoiAFoBymg2rcel8IrxqFp…> by March 8 to ensure that we have a lunch for you. Sponsored by the.
*Thursday, March 21, 2024, 9:20 - 10:00 a.m.
Jesuit Studies Café, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College
From Early Modern Missions to Proselytism(s): History of a Seminar (EHESS, Paris)
Speakers: Dr. Hélène Vu-Thanh, Université Bretagne-Sud and Dr. Margherita Trento, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Online on Zoom, registration link at https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…
This presentation will trace the history and evolution of a major seminar that gathers at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, discussing religious missions in the Iberian world and different forms of proselytism. The presenters will highlight the seminar’s contribution to studying the Society of Jesus.
*Saturday, Mar. 23, 2024, 8:00 PM
Tasso & Wert: A concert of Italian madrigals
11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA
https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/season25/tasso-wert/
Blue Heron’s exploration of the Italian madrigal continues with a new program featuring settings of dramatic scenes by Torquato Tasso (the most prominent poet of late sixteenth-century Italy) with music by the great Giaches de Wert & others.
**3/26/2024 5:00-6:30pm
Sponsored by the International Academic Programs-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Legal History Colloquium, and Harvard Early Modern Workshop
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), “How ill-gotten gains produced public good in Late Medieval canon law” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/silvia-di-paolo-medieval-and…>
Location: Law School, Wasserstein Hall (WCC), Harvard University, 18 Everett Street (Corner with Mass Ave), Room 3008
Poster Download<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/file…>
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>
*4/9/2024 5:30pm
Boston College, The Italian Studies Program and the Dept. of Art, Art History, and Film
Lecture by Dr. Alessandro Serrani (University of Bologna), “Art Patronage in the Bolognese Renaissance: Revealing the Forgotten Role of the Trade Guilds.”
Location: in-person, Boston College, Devlin Hall 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
More information<https://events.bc.edu/event/art_patronage_in_the_bolognese_renaissance_reve…>
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
*April 12-14, 2024
Okeghem Weekend
Cambridge and Somerville, MA
https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/season25/okeghem-weekend/
A weekend of concerts, talks, and master classes celebrating the sublime music of Johannes Okeghem (c. 1420-1497) and his colleagues and contemporaries.
4/12/2024 (All day) to 4/13/2024 (All day)
Hosted by the Center for History & Economics at Harvard University; and supported by the Harvard Early Modern Workshop, the University of Birmingham, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)
Conference ‘Rethinking Early Modern Confessionalism’<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/conference-%E2%80%98rethinki…>
Location: TBA, Harvard University (in-person event, registration required, see link details)
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)
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>
*Thursday, April 18, 2024, 9:20 - 10:00 a.m. (U.S. Eastern, UTC-4)
Jesuit Studies Café, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College
The Research Group on the Congregation of the Council and the Study of Religious Orders (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Theory, Frankfurt)
Dr. Benedetta Albani, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt
Dr. Francesco Giuliani, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt
Online on Zoom, registration link at https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…
The Congregation of the Council was one of the leading actors of the post-Tridentine Catholic Reform: it was responsible for the authentic interpretation of the Council’s disciplinary decrees and their implementation throughout the Catholic world. This presentation will focus on the multiple interactions between the Congregation of the Council and the Society of Jesus and suggest fascinating avenues for future research in this field.
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>
4/19/2024 10:30am
Ashley Gonik<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…> (History, Harvard), dissertation defense of “Structuring Information: Printed Tables as Organizing Tools in Early Modern Europe”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: History Dept Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
4/19/2024 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Leah Whittington<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/leah-whittington-professor-e…>, Professor of English, Harvard University: Leah Whittington Seminar<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/leah-whittington-professor-e…>
Location: Barker Center, Room 133. 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 (Harvard University)
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
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
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.
Harvard, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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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
**2/8/2024 5:15pm to 6:45pm
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>
*Thursday, February 15, 2024 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ESTOnline
Massachusetts Historical Society in Partnership with American Ancestors’ American Inspiration Author Series
Cassandra Good, Marymount University, in conversation with Sara Georgini, MHS: “First Family: George Washington's Heirs & the Making of America”
This is a virtual program. Register to attend online<https://18308a.blackbaudhosting.com/18308a/First-Family-George-Washingtons-…>
While it's widely known in America that George and Martha Washington never had children of their own, few are aware that they raised numerous children together. In First Family, we see Washington as a father figure, and also meet the children he helped to raise. The children of Martha Washington's son by her first marriage―Eliza, Patty, Nelly and Wash Custis―were born into life in the public eye. Raised in the country's first "first family," they remained well-known not only as Washington's family, but also as keepers of his legacy throughout their lives. First Family brings new focus and attention to this neglected aspect of George Washington's life and legacy. As the country grapples with concerns about political dynasties and the public role of presidential families, the saga of Washington's family offers a human story of historical precedent.
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
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Native Culture of the Americas
Christopher Pexa<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/christopher-pexa-harvard-uni…>, Harvard University: "Supporting Tribal Land and Language Reclamation through Storytelling: the Oceti Sakowin Atlas 1.0"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/christopher-pexa-harvard-uni…>
Location: Room TBD, Harvard University
More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/native-cultures-americas>
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>
Events later on:
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: “Nature’s Bias: Twelfth Night, King Lear, and The Tempest<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/shankar-raman-professor-lite…>”
Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
*3/18/2024 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Markus Krajewski (Media Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland), “Comments on Edible Monuments as Nutrition for Thinking on Baroque Tables”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/markus-krajewski-media-studi…>
Location: History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Please RSVP<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0xxOXxdyu2WoiAFoBymg2rcel8IrxqFp…> by March 8 to ensure that we have a lunch for you. Sponsored by the.
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
*4/12/2024 (All day) to 4/13/2024 (All day)
Hosted by the Center for History & Economics at Harvard University; and supported by the Harvard Early Modern Workshop, the University of Birmingham, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)
Conference ‘Rethinking Early Modern Confessionalism’<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/conference-%E2%80%98rethinki…>
Location: TBA, Harvard University (in-person event, registration required, see link details)
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)
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>
4/18/2024 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>
4/19/2024 10:30am
Ashley Gonik<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…> (History, Harvard), dissertation defense of “Structuring Information: Printed Tables as Organizing Tools in Early Modern Europe”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: History Dept Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*4/19/2024 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Leah Whittington<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/leah-whittington-professor-e…>, Professor of English, Harvard University: Leah Whittington Seminar<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/leah-whittington-professor-e…>
Location: Barker Center, Room 133. 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 (Harvard University)
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
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
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.
Harvard, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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