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
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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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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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>.
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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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Sponsor (if available)
Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
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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
2/28/2024 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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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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