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.
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
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 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Hélène Bilis<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne-bilis-welle…>, Wellesley College: "Henrietta of England and the French Theatrical Archive: How to Hear a Woman’s Lost Voice"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne-bilis-welle…>
Location: Harvard Barker Center, room 018, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
*3/28/2024 6:00pm
Sylvia Houghteling<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sylvia-houghteling-bryn-mawr…>, Bryn Mawr College: Textiles and the Temporary in Early Modern South Asia (AKPIA Lecture Series)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sylvia-houghteling-bryn-mawr…>
Location: Harvard Art Museums, Entrance: 485 Broadway, Lower Lecture Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
4/1/2024 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard
Leyla Kayhan<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/leyla-kayhan-assistant-profe…>, Assistant Professor, Ozyegin University, Istanbul: “Divorce in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Legal Complexities, Women's Agency, and Negotiated Settlements”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/leyla-kayhan-assistant-profe…>
Location: Harvard CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, Ma 02138
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>
4/2/2024 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Dr. Micha Gläser<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/dr-micha-gl%C3%A4ser-univers…>, University of Zurich: "Prudence and Politics in the Kantian Enterprise"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/dr-micha-gl%C3%A4ser-univers…>
Location: Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard University
*4/8/2024 5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Annual Hamilton A.R. Gibb Lecture Series, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Maria Mavroudi<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/maria-mavroudi-professor-byz…>, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley: The Byzantine and Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: The Historiographical Stakes<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/maria-mavroudi-professor-byz…>
Location: Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge
4/8/2024 5:30pm
Houghton Library and the Committee on Medieval Studies
Bettina Wagner<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/bettina-wagner-director-staatsbibliot…> (Director, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg), “The Nuremberg Humanist Hartmann Schedel and his Books”<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/bettina-wagner-director-staatsbibliot…>
Location: Edison and Newman Room, Floor 1, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
*4/9/2024 5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Annual Hamilton A.R. Gibb Lecture Series, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Maria Mavroudi<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/maria-mavroudi-professor-byz…>, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley: The Byzantine and Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic: Archival Documents (CMES Gibb Lectures)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/maria-mavroudi-professor-byz…>
Location: Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge
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
Events later on:
4/11/2024 10:30am to 12:30pm
Sponsored by Houghton Library and the Committee on Medieval Studies
Master Class with <https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabul…> Bettina Wagner<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabul…> on Incunabula from Bavaria<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabul…>
Location: Houghton Library, Harvard Yard. Registration necessary, see event details
4/11/2024 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Sponsored by Houghton Library and the Committee on Medieval Studies
Master Class with <https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabul…> Bettina Wagner<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabul…> on Incunabula from Bavaria<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabul…>
Location: Houghton Library, Harvard Yard. Registration necessary, see event details
*4/11/2024 5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Annual Hamilton A.R. Gibb Lecture Series, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Maria Mavroudi<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/maria-mavroudi-professor-byz…>, Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley: The Byzantine and Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic: Philosophy and the Sciences (CMES Gibb Lectures, 2024)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/maria-mavroudi-professor-byz…>
Location: CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge
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)
*4/15/2024 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Noah Millstone<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/noah-millstone-university-bi…> (University of Birmingham and Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton), “Judging Books in Early Modern Europe”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/noah-millstone-university-bi…>
Location: Harvard CGIS-S030, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA (RSVP)
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 (All day)
Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium in Premodern Studies<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-undergraduate-resear…>
Sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, the Department of Classics, Early Modern World at Harvard, and the Ancient Studies Program
Location: Barker Center, Room 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
Please find more information here<https://harvard.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8e96d4412d9749ed0c3693a…>.
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)
4/23/2024 6:30pm
Zerner Lecture at the Harvard Art Museums
Paris Spies-Gans<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/paris-spies-gans-imprints-an…>: Imprints and Erasures: A New Story of Art<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/paris-spies-gans-imprints-an…>
Location: Harvard Arts Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge MA (entrance on Broadway)
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
April 27, 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).
Location: Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA.
Please see the website https://shakespeareconference.com/ for submissions or email ClarkShaxConference2024(a)gmail.com<mailto:ClarkShaxConference2024@gmail.com> for more info
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: <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-mary-erica-zimmer-…> Mary Erica Zimmer <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-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
June 3-7, 2024
The Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
Introduction to English Paleography (directed by Dr. Heather Wolfe at the Kinney Center at UMass Amherst)
https://www.folger.edu/research/the-folger-institute/scholarly-programs/cur…
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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, Workshops, and Summer Schools
Deadline for abstracts: 3/25/2024
Call for Papers: Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium in Premodern Studies<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/call-papers-harvard-undergra…>
Location: The symposium will take place on April 19 at Barker Center, Room 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
The Committee on Medieval Studies invites contributions from Harvard College students of papers (15-20 minutes in length) in any discipline, dealing with any topic in ancient, medieval, and early modern studies. Please submit the proposal form, along with a short abstract of 100-150 words to medieval(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:medieval@fas.harvard.edu> (subject line: undergraduate paper proposal) by Monday, March 25, 2024. More information and a link to proposal form found here<https://harvard.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8e96d4412d9749ed0c3693a…>. Faculty and graduate students, please encourage advisees or undergraduates in your courses to submit!
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
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…>
*3/26/2024 6:00pm
Furio Rinaldi<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/furio-rinaldi-fine-arts-muse…> (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco): "Botticelli Drawings" (Harvard Art Museums)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/furio-rinaldi-fine-arts-muse…>
Location: Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA, 02138
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 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Hélène Bilis<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne-bilis-welle…>, Wellesley College: "Henrietta of England and the French Theatrical Archive: How to Hear a Woman’s Lost Voice"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne-bilis-welle…>
Location: Harvard Barker Center, room 018, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
*4/1/2024 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard
Leyla Kayhan<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/leyla-kayhan-assistant-profe…>, Assistant Professor, Ozyegin University, Istanbul: “Divorce in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Legal Complexities, Women's Agency, and Negotiated Settlements”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/leyla-kayhan-assistant-profe…>
Location: Harvard CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, Ma 02138
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>
*4/2/2024 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Dr. Micha Gläser<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/dr-micha-gl%C3%A4ser-univers…>, University of Zurich: "Prudence and Politics in the Kantian Enterprise"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/dr-micha-gl%C3%A4ser-univers…>
Location: Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard University
Events later on:
*4/8/2024 5:30pm
Houghton Library and the Medieval Studies Workshop
Bettina Wagner<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/bettina-wagner-director-staatsbibliot…> (Director, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg), “The Nuremberg Humanist Hartmann Schedel and his Books”<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/bettina-wagner-director-staatsbibliot…>
Location: Edison and Newman Room, Floor 1, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
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
*4/11/2024 10:30am to 12:30pm
Sponsored by Houghton Library and the Medieval Studies Workshop
Master Class with <https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabul…> Bettina Wagner<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabul…> on Incunabula from Bavaria<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabul…>
Location: Houghton Library, Harvard Yard. Registration necessary, see event details
*4/11/2024 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Sponsored by Houghton Library and the Medieval Studies Workshop
Master Class with <https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabul…> Bettina Wagner<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabul…> on Incunabula from Bavaria<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabul…>
Location: Houghton Library, Harvard Yard. Registration necessary, see event details
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 (All day)
Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium in Premodern Studies (Deadline for Abstracts: March 25, 2024!!!)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-undergraduate-resear…>
Location: Barker Center, Room 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
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)
*4/23/2024 6:30pm
Zerner Lecture at the Harvard Art Museums
Paris Spies-Gans<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/paris-spies-gans-imprints-an…>: Imprints and Erasures: A New Story of Art<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/paris-spies-gans-imprints-an…>
Location: Harvard Arts Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge MA (entrance on Broadway)
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
April 27, 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).
Location: Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA.
Please see the website https://shakespeareconference.com/ for submissions or email ClarkShaxConference2024(a)gmail.com<mailto:ClarkShaxConference2024@gmail.com> for more info
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
June 3-7, 2024
The Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
Introduction to English Paleography (directed by Dr. Heather Wolfe at the Kinney Center at UMass Amherst)
https://www.folger.edu/research/the-folger-institute/scholarly-programs/cur…
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CFP for Local Conferences, Workshops, and Summer Schools
*!!!Deadline for applications: Monday, March 11, midnight:
The Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
Introduction to English Paleography (directed by Dr. Heather Wolfe from June 3-7, 2024, at the Kinney Center at the UMass Amherst)
https://www.folger.edu/research/the-folger-institute/scholarly-programs/cur…
Please see the Folger Institute website for more scholarly programs with application deadlines on Monday, March 11 here<Please%20remind%20your%20affiliates%20that%20the%20application%20deadline%2…>.
*Deadline for abstracts: 3/25/2024
Call for Papers: Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium in Premodern Studies<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/call-papers-harvard-undergra…>
Location: The symposium will take place on April 19 at Barker Center, Room 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
The Committee on Medieval Studies invites contributions from Harvard College students of papers (15-20 minutes in length) in any discipline, dealing with any topic in ancient, medieval, and early modern studies. Please submit the proposal form, along with a short abstract of 100-150 words to medieval(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:medieval@fas.harvard.edu> (subject line: undergraduate paper proposal) by Monday, March 25, 2024. More information and a link to proposal form found here<https://harvard.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8e96d4412d9749ed0c3693a…>. Faculty and graduate students, please encourage advisees or undergraduates in your courses to submit!
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
**3/13/2024 5:30pm
Brown University Early Modern World
Natalie Van Deusen, University of Alberta: "Relics of an Ancient Past: Catholic Saints in Early Modern Iceland"
Location: Rhode Island Hall 108, Providence RI, 02912
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.
*3/18/2024 4:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History and the Center for Jewish Studies
Joshua Teplitsky<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/joshua-teplitsky-university-…> (University of Pennsylvania), “Disastrous Diseases and Ritual Resilience: Early Modern Jews Confront Plague”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/joshua-teplitsky-university-…>
Location: Barker Center, room 133. 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 (Harvard University)
*3/19/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group, the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History and the Center for Jewish Studies
Ahuvia Goren<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ahuvia-goren-ben-gurion-univ…> (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), “The Missing Link? Early Modern Jewish Scholasticism,” with a response from David Sclar (The Frisch School)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ahuvia-goren-ben-gurion-univ…>
Location: Science Center Room 252, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
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.
Events later on:
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 (All day)
Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium in Premodern Studies (Deadline for Abstracts: March 25, 2024!!!)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-undergraduate-resear…>
Location: Barker Center, Room 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
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
*April 27, 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).
Location: Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA.
Please see the website https://shakespeareconference.com/ for submissions or email ClarkShaxConference2024(a)gmail.com<mailto:ClarkShaxConference2024@gmail.com> for more info
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
*!!!Deadline for applications: Monday, March 11, midnight:
June 3-7, 2024
The Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
Introduction to English Paleography (directed by Dr. Heather Wolfe at the Kinney Center at UMass Amherst)
https://www.folger.edu/research/the-folger-institute/scholarly-programs/cur…
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