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.
Deadlines for Local Conferences and Workshops
**5/15/2024 Deadline
Scientiae 2024 Fall Conference 25-26 October CFP<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__scientiae.uk_2024_03_0…>
Theme: “The Global History of Knowledge” with a specific, but not exclusive, focus on the Americas and the Atlantic in the period 1450–1750. The keynote speaker will be Pablo F. Gomez<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.wisc.edu_peopl…>
Location: Brown University, Providence RI
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
*4/30/2024 10:00am
Hannah Kaemmer, Harvard<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer-dissertation-…>: Dissertation Defense "Expertise and Empire: Fortification Building and the English Ordnance Office, 1660-1714"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer-dissertation-…>
Location: Gund Hall L08, Gropius Room, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
To receive a zoom link for this event, please send an email to earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
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>
*4/30/2024 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Richard Kagan<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/richard-kagan-johns-hopkins-…>, Johns Hopkins University: "Crafting a Classic: Henry C. Lea’s History of the Inquisition of Spain"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/richard-kagan-johns-hopkins-…>
Location: In Person & Via Zoom; Observatorio Cervantes - Harvard (FAS), 2 Arrow Street. · 4th floor · Cambridge, MA 02138
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 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Evelina Gužauskytė<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/evelina-gu%C5%BEauskyt%C4%97…>, Wellesley College: "Myth and Its Fabric: Spinning, Weaving, and Other Sacred Arts in New Spain Casta Paintings" (Observatorio Cervantes, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/evelina-gu%C5%BEauskyt%C4%97…>
Location: Via Zoom, please RSVP (see message details)
**5/2/2024 5:30pm
Erica Zimmer<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-mary-erica-zimmer-…> (Concourse Program, MIT), "Profiles in Publishing: Reconsidering Evidence of Early Modern Women in the English Book Trade" (Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-mary-erica-zimmer-…>
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
*5/3/2024 2:00pm to 4:30pm
Radical Aesthetics: A Symposium on New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics, sponsored by the Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/radical-aesthetics-symposium…>
Location: Barker Center, Room 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
5/6/2024, 9:30am-5pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book
Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History: Preservation, Absence, Erasure<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-annual-harvard-yal…>
Location: Harvard, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
(For RSVP-link and schedule details see link above)
Friday, May 10, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Center for Netherlandish Art’s 2024 Colloquium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mfa.org_event_cent…>
Online
Marking the culmination of the academic year, this annual hybrid event is a platform for the next generation of specialists in Dutch and Flemish art and culture, providing CNA research fellows and other emerging scholars an opportunity to share their projects with an international community. Follow this link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mfa.org_event_cent…> to see the event schedule and the line-up of speakers and their topics.
Events later on:
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…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…>
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*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place or (in case of online events) be relevant to the greater Boston area. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. It would be a great help if you could follow this format:
Day, date, time
Sponsor (if available)
Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
Location: in-person or virtual
*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this, and include location details.
Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences)
RSVP or Registration information/link
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.
Deadlines for Local Conferences and Workshops
5/15/2024 Deadline
Scientiae 2024 Fall Conference 25-26 October CFP<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__scientiae.uk_2024_03_0…>
Theme: “The Global History of Knowledge” with a specific, but not exclusive, focus on the Americas and the Atlantic in the period 1450–1750.
Location: Brown University, Providence RI
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
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>
*4/17/2024 2:00pm
Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, Brown University
Dr. José Lingna Nafafé, Lusophone Studies at the University of Bristol: "Evidence that Demands a Verdict and the Verdict that Demands Abolition: Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça, the Black Atlantic Abolitionists' Case in Rome, and the Vatican Response for Universal Justice, 1684-1686."
159 George Street, George Monteiro Conference Room (102), Brown University, Providence RI
*4/17/2024 4:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Jane Degenhardt, Umass Maherst and Cyrus Mulready, SUNY New Paltz: “Editing Pericles: What’s Good About a Bad Text” – A Shakespeare Unbound Workshop
650 East Pleasant St, Amherst
More Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/shakespeare-unbound-workshop-jane-d…>
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…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>
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 1pm
John Carter Brown Library and Brown University’s Center for Study of the Early Modern World
Berenice Alcántara and Mario Alberto Sánchez, Christian Texts in Nahuatl at the JCB Library and Sermons of Codex Indorum 23
Location: John Carter Brown Library Conference Room, Providence RI (Pizza will be served! Please use the back door to the Library!)
*4/18/2024 4:30pm
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Makoto Harris Takao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: “A Bowl by Any Other Name Would Ring as Sweet: The Transcultural Sounds of Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Japan”
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 E. Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/events
Canceled: 4/18/2024 5:30pm
Brown University Early Modern World
James Hankins (Harvard): Can Political Virtue be Taught? Answers from the Western Tradition
4/19/2024 11am to 6pm
Brown University Early Modern World
Early Modern World Colloquium “Mirrors for Princes”
Location: Alumnae Hall, Commons, Brown University, Providence, RI
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__earlymodernworld.brown…>
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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us11.list-2Dma…>.
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 2:00pm
Sarah Koval<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-koval-harvard-universi…>, Harvard University: Dissertation colloquium "Music and Bodily Health in 17th-century England"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-koval-harvard-universi…>
Location: Davison Room of the Harvard Music Building, 3 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
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: "What Did Shakespeare Read? New Approaches to Classical Books and the Early Modern Stage"<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 3:00pm
Joseph Gauvreau (Comparative Literature, Harvard), dissertation defense of “The Contrafacta of Thomas Watson and Simon Goulart: Resignifying the Polyphonic Song in 16th-century England and France"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/joseph-gauvreau-comparative-…>
(Dissertation defense under the direction of Katharina Piechocki, Kate van Orden, and Tom Conley)
Location: Harvard Dana Palmer House, 16 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
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 6:00pm
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: Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
4/25/24 4:30-6:00pm
Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Dr. Jessica Roney (<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…>Temple University), “The Colony That Wasn’t, and What That Meant for the Future of North America, c. 1774”<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…>
Location: Ruane Center for the Humanities LL49, Providence College, One Cunningham Square, Providence, RI
4/26/2024 10:30am to 12:00pm
Center for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: CNA Student Session with <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/center-netherlandish-art-mus…> Anna Koopstra<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/center-netherlandish-art-mus…> and <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/center-netherlandish-art-mus…> Bart Fransen<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/center-netherlandish-art-mus…> (open to all students)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/center-netherlandish-art-mus…>
Location: Zoom Event, registration required (see details)
*Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 4pm-6pm (Keynote and Roundtable)
*Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 10am-4:30pm (Symposium)
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation
The Ottoman Scientific Heritage: A Book Launch and Symposium in Honor of Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/two-day-symposium-honor-engl…>
Location: Harvard University. For the different locations and program information see message details and https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/ottoman-science
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/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__shakespeareconference.…> for submissions or email ClarkShaxConference2024(a)gmail.com<mailto:ClarkShaxConference2024@gmail.com> for more info
Events later on:
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, 9:30am-5pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book
Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History: Preservation, Absence, Erasure<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-annual-harvard-yal…>
Location: Harvard, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
(For RSVP-link and schedule details see link above)
*Friday, May 10, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Center for Netherlandish Art’s 2024 Colloquium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mfa.org_event_cent…>
Online
Marking the culmination of the academic year, this annual hybrid event is a platform for the next generation of specialists in Dutch and Flemish art and culture, providing CNA research fellows and other emerging scholars an opportunity to share their projects with an international community. Follow this link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mfa.org_event_cent…> to see the event schedule and the line-up of speakers and their topics.
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…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…>
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*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place or (in case of online events) be relevant to the greater Boston area. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. It would be a great help if you could follow this format:
Day, date, time
Sponsor (if available)
Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
Location: in-person or virtual
*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this, and include location details.
Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences)
RSVP or Registration information/link
