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 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
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 4:30-6:15 PM
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Colby Gordon, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English, Bryn Mawr College: “A Pound of Flesh: Antonio’s Cut and the Trans Debate”
Wesleyan University, Boger Hall 110, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers.
For a copy of the paper, please contact Serena Plage at splage(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:splage@wesleyan.edu> or Jesse Torgerson at jtorgerson(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:jtorgerson@wesleyan.edu> .
More information: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Asia Center and the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard
Book launch and discussion featuring Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau), author of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (CUP 2023) in conversation with Alex Csiszar (History of Science, Harvard) and Rishad Choudhury (Oberlin College)
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
This is a hybrid event; please register here for the zoomlink:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qa_rmn8RRCqw5j6dSoUoKA
*Wed, November 15, 2pm
Hansong Li (Department of Government, Harvard), defense of his dissertation entitled “Common Justice: Interpolitical Thought in Western, Indian, and Chinese Traditions.”
Harvard University, CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, November 15, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Catherine Nicholson, Professor of English at Yale, "Reforming the Alphabet: The Renaissance Before Reading"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6pm
Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center on American Literature and Culture
Christy Pottroff, Boston College, and Donald Slater, Phillips Academy Andover: „Finding Anne Bradstreet: An Archaeological Study of the Poet’s North Andover Homes“
Respondent: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University
Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
More Information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/christy-pottroff-tba
*Thursday, November 16, 2023, 12:00 – 1:15pm
History of Science Colloquium<https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming>
Hannah Marcus<https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/hannah-marcus>, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University: “Methuselah’s Children: The Renaissance Discovery of Old Age”
Location: Science Center 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138
A light sandwich lunch will be served 15 minutes before noon time.
*This talk will be available over Zoom for DHS community members currently working or living remotely. Please register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…> to receive the Zoom link.
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
(Further date on November 30).
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:30pm
Brown University History Department
44th William Church Memorial Lecture: Jennifer Morgan (NYU): “On Race and Reinscription: Writing Enslaved Women into the Early Modern Archive”
Location: Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, Brown University Campus, Providence, RI 02912
Brown University Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/265712-44th-william-churc…> and MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://www.brownmemhs.com/william-church-memorial-lecture>
In this talk, Jennifer L. Morgan uses the history of three black women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to explore questions of methodology and archives in the early history of the Black Atlantic. Through evidence from visual art, law, and commerce, Morgan considers the challenges and possibilities of crafting a social-historical study of women whose voices are so often absent from the archival record, but whose lives and perspectives have proven to be essential for comprehending the origins of racial capitalism.
Friday, November 17, 2023, 3:30 pm
Center for European Studies, Dissertation Workshop
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), "Generating New Insight or Perpetuating Old Narratives? Printed Historical Tables in Early Modern Europe"
Location: Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University
https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023/11/generating-new-insight-or-perpet…
Friday, November 17, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Yu Jin Ko, Professor of English, Wellesley College: Consent and Animation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Korean Madang as a New Green World
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
See also: Shakespearean Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/shakespearean-studies>
Events later in the Semester:
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 2:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on Cartography and Renaissance Studies
Workshop: Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester: “Looking Slowly at Early Modern Maps”
Location: Lamont Library, Harvard Yard, Forum Room
Chet Van Duzer will discuss several early modern maps to demonstrate the value of applying patient contemplation to cartography, provide ideas about the types of conclusions that can be reached through slow looking, and show the richness of early maps as objects for study. More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/looking-slowly-early-moder…>
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 3:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group and Philosophy Department
Gideon Manning (Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Humanities at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine): “Descartes, Images, and the Iconography of Actions"
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
Email:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, November 28 (Due to the Thanksgiving Break, MEMHS is moved forward to November 28), 4:30 PM
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Gershon D. Hundert (Leanor Segal Professor of Jewish Studies, McGill University. (This is a joint event, MEMHS & Judaic Studies, Brown University).
Location: Pavilion Room at the Brown History Department, Providence RI
https://www.brownmemhs.com/upcoming-events
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 5pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book
Molly Hardy (Independent scholar), “Plant Machines: Information Ecologies from Carl Linnaeus to Asa Gray,” followed by a comment by Whitney Barlow Robles (Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth).
Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
Thursday, November 30, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
James Simpson, the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard, "Modernity's Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images; or, Being an Early Modern Image Hurts"
Professor Simpson will speak to a joint Medieval-Renaissance Colloquia audience.
Location: TBA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*11/30/2023 5:00pm
Jennifer Oliver (Oxford), "Crafting Ecologies in Early Modern France (and Beyond)"
Location: Harvard University, Boylston Hall, Room 403, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA
*Thursday, November 30, 6pm
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
Melis Taner, AKPIA Fellow; Assistant Professor, Özyeğin University: "Materia Medica on the Move in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
Location: 485 Broadway, Basement Auditorium, Cambridge MA
https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events
Thursday, November 30, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Stephen Spiess (Department of English, Babson College): “Confounding Intersections: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Glossing in Pericles and Edward II”
The Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Monday, December 4, 2023 6:00pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789
Location: Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
More Information<https://community.bostonathenaeum.org/s/events?event=a2K8a0000077ohZ>
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Ori Ben-Shalom (History of Science, Harvard), “With Armed Eyes: Plague, the Perplexities of the Microscope, and the Struggle over History”
Location:
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (see event details)
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
December 6, 2023, 12:00-1:15pm
Tufts Center for the Humanities
Diego Javier Luis, Department of History, Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University: “Devouring the Pacific: How the Repartimientos Made Acapulco an Afro-Mexican Port”
Location TBA
December 6, 3pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
MFA Visit: "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy"
Please join us for a visit to and self-guided group tour of the MFA's Special Exhibition, "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy." More info on the exhibition can be found here<https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/strong-women-in-renaissance-italy#field--nam…>.
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
December 6, 6pm EST
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Lecture: Ben Leeming (Rivers High School, Boston): “From Son of God to Sun God: The Advent and Christmas Sermons of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún”
Location: Brown University, Rhode Island Hall, 108.
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/264251-from-son-of-god-to…>
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 6pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789, in conversation with Ann Blair, Harvard
Location: French Library, 53 Marlborough St., Boston, MA 02116
***
*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 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
November 3, 2023, all day
Harvard History of Science
Workshop: "Creating an Ordered World in Disordered Times: The Pope Orrery"
Location: Harvard Science Center • Room 469 • 1 Oxford Street • Cambridge, MA
This public workshop will gather specialists—historians of science, furniture, labor, and politics, as well as horologists, and conservators—around the Pope Orrery (built 1776-1787 in Boston) to interpret it from their diverse vantage points. Together we will use the Pope Orrery as a mise-en-scène for an examination of Boston and the British world during the American Revolution, as witnessed by the labor, technology, economics, and politics of its production and sale, the social classes involved, and its use as a spectacle, prestige item, and model for teaching natural philosophy and religion. The program and list of speakers can be found here<https://chsi.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/chsi/files/orr…>.
**Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Engineers as Imperial Agents in 17th-Century England”
Professor Joyce Chaplin will be responding to Hannah Kaemmer's paper.
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
*Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics Inaugural Event
Ben Kaplan (UCL): The Many Meanings of Freedom of Conscience in Early Modern Europe (Lecture)
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room, K262, at CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
More information<https://history.fas.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/history…>
Tuesday, November 7, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Tara Menon, Harvard: Talking like a Heroine: The Case of Mansfield Park’s Fanny Price
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 4:30-6:15 PM
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Colby Gordon, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English, Bryn Mawr College: “A Pound of Flesh: Antonio’s Cut and the Trans Debate”
Wesleyan University, Boger Hall 110, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers.
For a copy of the paper, please contact Serena Plage at splage(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:splage@wesleyan.edu> or Jesse Torgerson at jtorgerson(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:jtorgerson@wesleyan.edu> .
More information: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Asia Center and the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard
Book launch and discussion featuring Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau), author of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (CUP 2023) in conversation with Alex Csiszar (History of Science, Harvard) and Rishad Choudhury (Oberlin College)
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
This is a hybrid event; please register here for the zoomlink:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qa_rmn8RRCqw5j6dSoUoKA
Wednesday, November 15, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Catherine Nicholson, Professor of English at Yale, "Reforming the Alphabet: The Renaissance Before Reading"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6pm
Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center on American Literature and Culture
Christy Pottroff, Boston College, and Donald Slater, Phillips Academy Andover: „Finding Anne Bradstreet: An Archaeological Study of the Poet’s North Andover Homes“
Respondent: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University
Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
More Information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/christy-pottroff-tba
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
(Further date on November 30).
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:30pm
Brown University History Department
44th William Church Memorial Lecture: Jennifer Morgan (NYU): “On Race and Reinscription: Writing Enslaved Women into the Early Modern Archive”
Location: Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, Brown University Campus, Providence, RI 02912
Brown University Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/265712-44th-william-churc…> and MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://www.brownmemhs.com/william-church-memorial-lecture>
In this talk, Jennifer L. Morgan uses the history of three black women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to explore questions of methodology and archives in the early history of the Black Atlantic. Through evidence from visual art, law, and commerce, Morgan considers the challenges and possibilities of crafting a social-historical study of women whose voices are so often absent from the archival record, but whose lives and perspectives have proven to be essential for comprehending the origins of racial capitalism.
*Friday, November 17, 2023, 3:30 pm
Center for European Studies, Dissertation Workshop
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), "Generating New Insight or Perpetuating Old Narratives? Printed Historical Tables in Early Modern Europe"
Location: Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University
https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023/11/generating-new-insight-or-perpet…
Friday, November 17, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Yu Jin Ko, Professor of English, Wellesley College: Consent and Animation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Korean Madang as a New Green World
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
See also: Shakespearean Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/shakespearean-studies>
Events later in the Semester:
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 2:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on Cartography and Renaissance Studies
Workshop: Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester: “Looking Slowly at Early Modern Maps”
Location: Lamont Library, Harvard Yard, Forum Room
Chet Van Duzer will discuss several early modern maps to demonstrate the value of applying patient contemplation to cartography, provide ideas about the types of conclusions that can be reached through slow looking, and show the richness of early maps as objects for study. More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/looking-slowly-early-moder…>
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 3:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group and Philosophy Department
Gideon Manning (Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Humanities at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine): “Descartes, Images, and the Iconography of Actions"
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
Email:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, November 28 (Due to the Thanksgiving Break, MEMHS is moved forward to November 28), 4:30 PM
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Gershon D. Hundert (Leanor Segal Professor of Jewish Studies, McGill University. (This is a joint event, MEMHS & Judaic Studies, Brown University).
Location: Pavilion Room at the Brown History Department, Providence RI
https://www.brownmemhs.com/upcoming-events
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 5pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book
Molly Hardy (Independent scholar), “Plant Machines: Information Ecologies from Carl Linnaeus to Asa Gray,” followed by a comment by Whitney Barlow Robles (Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth).
Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
Thursday, November 30, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
James Simpson, the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard, "Modernity's Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images; or, Being an Early Modern Image Hurts"
Professor Simpson will speak to a joint Medieval-Renaissance Colloquia audience.
Location: TBA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Thursday, November 30, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Stephen Spiess (Department of English, Babson College): “Confounding Intersections: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Glossing in Pericles and Edward II”
The Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Monday, December 4, 2023 6:00pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789
Location: Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
More information<https://community.bostonathenaeum.org/s/events?event=a2K8a0000077ohZ>
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Ori Ben-Shalom (History of Science, Harvard), “With Armed Eyes: Plague, the Perplexities of the Microscope, and the Struggle over History”
Location:
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (see event details)
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
December 6, 2023, 12:00-1:15pm
Tufts Center for the Humanities
Diego Javier Luis, Department of History, Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University: “Devouring the Pacific: How the Repartimientos Made Acapulco an Afro-Mexican Port”
Location TBA
December 6, 3pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
MFA Visit: "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy"
Please join us for a visit to and self-guided group tour of the MFA's Special Exhibition, "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy." More info on the exhibition can be found here<https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/strong-women-in-renaissance-italy#field--nam…>.
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
**December 6, 6pm EST
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Lecture: Ben Leeming (Rivers High School, Boston): “From Son of God to Sun God: The Advent and Christmas Sermons of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún”
Location: Brown University, Rhode Island Hall, 108.
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/264251-from-son-of-god-to…>
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 6pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789, in conversation with Ann Blair, Harvard
Location: French Library, 53 Marlborough St., Boston, MA 02116
***
*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 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: Abstract deadlines and keynote TBA.
Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference: "Shakespeare & Play", April 27, 2024 at Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA.
We announce the return of the in-person academic conference for undergraduate students from Greater Boston, Central Mass, and New England more broadly.
Please email ClarkShaxConference2024(a)gmail.com for more info
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Sherah Bloor (Committee on the Study of Religion), “Anatomy of the Soul: Swedenborg and Kant on the Mechanics of the Internal Senses”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom
Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Thursday, October 26, 2023, 12:00pm EST
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Lecture
Facétie et Thérapie dans les Essais de Montaigne
Speaker: Dominique Bertrand, Université Clermont Auvergne
Location: virtual
Registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkdO6qrzItEtx3Y7IvRpJoKGvu0UxO2l…
*Thursday, October 26, 2023, 4:30-6:15 PM
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Kathryn Jasper, Associate Professor, Illinois State University: “Women in the Wilderness: Female Hermits in the Age of Reform”
Wesleyan University, Boger Hall 110, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers.
For a copy of the paper, please contact Serena Plage at splage(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:splage@wesleyan.edu> or Jesse Torgerson at jtorgerson(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:jtorgerson@wesleyan.edu> .
More information: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>.
Thursday, October 26, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
(Further dates on Nov 16, 30).
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
Friday, October 27, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Eric Watkins (UCSD),"Kant’s Criticism of Metaphysics"
Location: Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard University
More Information<https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/event/harvard-history-philosophy-work…>
Friday, October 27, 2022, 5pm
2023 Normand Berlin Lecture
Debapriya Sarkar, Assistant Professor of English and Maritime Studies at the University of Connecticut: Figuring Race in Early Modern Drama
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
This event will be held in person at the Kinney Center and is part of the 2023-2024 Shakespeare Unbound<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass.us11.list-2Dmana…> exhibit.
Monday, October 30, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Bollandists: Historians of the Impossible
A lecture by Prof. Carlos Eire, Department of History, Yale University
Location: Simboli Hall (Brighton Campus of Boston College/School of Theology and Ministry), Room 100. (In person)
Map: https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/about/maps-and-directions/brighton-campus-map.html
Founded in 1607, The Bollandists are a group of scholars (often Jesuits) who have applied their intellectual rigor to the study of the saints in a systematic, in-depth, scrupulous, disinterested research and are considered the pioneers of documenting the impossible in the lives of saints. A member of the Boilandist Collegium will be present.
About the Presenter: Professor Carlos Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He is the author of A Very Brief History of Eternity, Reformations: The Early Modern World, The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography, and They Flew: A History of the Impossible.
October 30, 2023, 7:00pm
Meghan Constantinou: "Stenciled Books as a Domestic Printing Art in 18th-Century France" (Lecture)
Location: Katherine Small Gallery, 108 Beacon Street, Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
Meghan Constantinou will talk about stenciled books—in which all (or most) of the textual and decorative elements are hand-stenciled—in the context of eighteenth-century French domestic printing.
https://ksmallgallery.com/blogs/events/stenciled-books-as-a-domestic-printi…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ksmallgallery.com_blog…>
10/31/2023 7:30pm
Sebouh David Aslanian, Professor and Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of California, Los Angeles: "Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800"
Location: In-person at the Naasr Vartan Gregorian Building, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA. Also Live on Zoom (Registration required) and on Youtube
November 1st, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Jessica Beckman, Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth, "Reading the Room: Spenser and the Space of the Text"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Thursday, November 2nd, 6:00-7:30 PM
AKPIA Lecture, Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Melis Taner (Özyeğin University): Materia Medica on the Move in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Harvard History of Art and Architecture Department, 485 Broadway, Lower Level Auditorium,Cambridge, MA 02138
https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events
November 3, 2023, all day
Harvard History of Science
Workshop: "Creating an Ordered World in Disordered Times: The Pope Orrery"
Location: Harvard Science Center • Room 469 • 1 Oxford Street • Cambridge, MA
This public workshop will gather specialists—historians of science, furniture, labor, and politics, as well as horologists, and conservators—around the Pope Orrery (built 1776-1787 in Boston) to interpret it from their diverse vantage points. Together we will use the Pope Orrery as a mise-en-scène for an examination of Boston and the British world during the American Revolution, as witnessed by the labor, technology, economics, and politics of its production and sale, the social classes involved, and its use as a spectacle, prestige item, and model for teaching natural philosophy and religion. The program and list of speakers can be found here<https://chsi.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/chsi/files/orr…>.
Events later in the Semester:
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Engineers as Imperial Agents in 17th-Century England”
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, November 7, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Tara Menon, Harvard: Talking like a Heroine: The Case of Mansfield Park’s Fanny Price
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 4:30-6:15 PM
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Colby Gordon, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English, Bryn Mawr College: “A Pound of Flesh: Antonio’s Cut and the Trans Debate”
Wesleyan University, Boger Hall 110, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers.
For a copy of the paper, please contact Serena Plage at splage(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:splage@wesleyan.edu> or Jesse Torgerson at jtorgerson(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:jtorgerson@wesleyan.edu> .
More information: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.ed…>.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Asia Center and the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard
Book launch and discussion featuring Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau), author of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (CUP 2023) in conversation with Alex Csiszar (History of Science, Harvard) and Rishad Choudhury (Oberlin College)
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
This is a hybrid event; please register here for the zoomlink:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qa_rmn8RRCqw5j6dSoUoKA
Wednesday, November 15, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Catherine Nicholson, Professor of English at Yale, "Reforming the Alphabet: The Renaissance Before Reading"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6pm
Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center on American Literature and Culture
Christy Pottroff, Boston College, and Donald Slater, Phillips Academy Andover: „Finding Anne Bradstreet: An Archaeological Study of the Poet’s North Andover Homes“
Respondent: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University
Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
More Information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/christy-pottroff-tba
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
(Further date on November 30).
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:30pm
Brown University History Department
44th William Church Memorial Lecture: Jennifer Morgan (NYU): “On Race and Reinscription: Writing Enslaved Women into the Early Modern Archive”
Location: Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, Brown University Campus, Providence, RI 02912
Brown University Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/265712-44th-william-churc…> and MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://www.brownmemhs.com/william-church-memorial-lecture>
In this talk, Jennifer L. Morgan uses the history of three black women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to explore questions of methodology and archives in the early history of the Black Atlantic. Through evidence from visual art, law, and commerce, Morgan considers the challenges and possibilities of crafting a social-historical study of women whose voices are so often absent from the archival record, but whose lives and perspectives have proven to be essential for comprehending the origins of racial capitalism.
Friday, November 17, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Yu Jin Ko, Professor of English, Wellesley College: Consent and Animation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Korean Madang as a New Green World
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
See also: Shakespearean Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/shakespearean-studies>
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 2:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on Cartography and Renaissance Studies
Workshop: Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester: “Looking Slowly at Early Modern Maps”
Location: Lamont Library, Harvard Yard, Forum Room
Chet Van Duzer will discuss several early modern maps to demonstrate the value of applying patient contemplation to cartography, provide ideas about the types of conclusions that can be reached through slow looking, and show the richness of early maps as objects for study. More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/looking-slowly-early-moder…>
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 3:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group and Philosophy Department
Gideon Manning (Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Humanities at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine): “Descartes, Images, and the Iconography of Actions"
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
Email:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, November 28 (Due to the Thanksgiving Break, MEMHS is moved forward to November 28), 4:30 PM
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Gershon D. Hundert (Leanor Segal Professor of Jewish Studies, McGill University. (This is a joint event, MEMHS & Judaic Studies, Brown University).
Location: Pavilion Room at the Brown History Department, Providence RI
https://www.brownmemhs.com/upcoming-events
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 5pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book
Molly Hardy (Independent scholar), “Plant Machines: Information Ecologies from Carl Linnaeus to Asa Gray,” followed by a comment by Whitney Barlow Robles (Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth).
Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
Thursday, November 30, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
James Simpson, the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard, "Modernity's Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images; or, Being an Early Modern Image Hurts"
Professor Simpson will speak to a joint Medieval-Renaissance Colloquia audience.
Location: TBA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Thursday, November 30, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Stephen Spiess (Department of English, Babson College): “Confounding Intersections: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Glossing in Pericles and Edward II”
The Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Monday, December 4, 2023 6:00pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789
Location: Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
More Information<https://community.bostonathenaeum.org/s/events?event=a2K8a0000077ohZ>
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Ori Ben-Shalom (History of Science, Harvard), “With Armed Eyes: Plague, the Perplexities of the Microscope, and the Struggle over History”
Location:
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (see event details)
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
December 6, 2023, 12:00-1:15pm
Tufts Center for the Humanities
Diego Javier Luis, Department of History, Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University: “Devouring the Pacific: How the Repartimientos Made Acapulco an Afro-Mexican Port”
Location TBA
December 6, 3pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
MFA Visit: "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy"
Please join us for a visit to and self-guided group tour of the MFA's Special Exhibition, "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy." More info on the exhibition can be found here<https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/strong-women-in-renaissance-italy#field--nam…>.
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
December 6, 5:30pm EST
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Lecture: Ben Leeming (Rivers High School, Boston)
Location: TBD
More information will be coming soon.
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/>
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 6pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789, in conversation with Ann Blair, Harvard
Location: French Library, 53 Marlborough St., Boston, MA 02116
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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
CFP: Abstract deadlines and keynote TBA.
Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference: "Shakespeare & Play", April 27, 2024 at Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA.
We announce the return of the in-person academic conference for undergraduate students from Greater Boston, Central Mass, and New England more broadly.
Please email ClarkShaxConference2024(a)gmail.com for more info
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
October 17, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Jean-Pascal Anfray (École Normale Supérieure), “Essences in the Descartes-Gassendi Controversy”
Location: Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard University
More Information<https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/event/jean-pascal-anfrey-%C3%A9cole-n…>
October 17, 2023, 4:30pm
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Tiraana Bains (Assistant Professor, History Department, Brown University), discussion of her chapter, “Company, Parliament, and Mughal: Constituting Imperial Governance.” This is part of her book manuscript, Instituting Empire: The Making of a British Imperial State in South Asia, 1750-1800.
Location: Pavilion Room, Brown History Department, Peter Green House, Providence RI
https://www.brownmemhs.com/ (New website)
More information and precirculated paper: maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu<mailto:maria_sokolova@brown.edu>
October 18, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Graduate Student Presentation: Caroline Engelmayer, graduate student in English, "'Forsake me not thus': Ovid's Heroides and Milton's Psychology of Alienation"
Graduate Student Presentation and Workshop on the pre-circulated paper
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 6pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable: “Charting a Future for Early Modern Gender Studies in a Time of Shrinking Humanities Departments.”
Discussants:
1. Alice Dailey (Professor of English & Director of Faculty Affairs, Villanova University)
2. Suparna Roychoudhury (Associate Professor of English & Associate Provost and Associate Dean of Faculty, Mount Holyoke)
3. Reginald Wilburn (Associate Professor of English & Associate Provost, Texas Christian University)
Location: Online (Registration<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcuyspjgqGNIY5QRFew-xwzjEnhAH…>)
Thursday, October 19, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
(Further dates on Oct 26; Nov 16, 30).
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
Friday, October 20, 2023, 12-1:15pm
Sponsor: Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Erika Valdivieso, Yale Department of Classics: "Searching for Dido” (Lecture)
Plimpton Room, Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
More Information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/erika-valdivieso-tba
Friday, October 20, 2023, 2:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Colloquium: European Colonialism in the Americas: Consequences and Contemporary Responses
Confirmed speakers are: Prof. Gustavo Verdesio (University of Michigan) and Prof. Kimberly Borchard (Randolph-Macon College)
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Brown University
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/>
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Sherah Bloor (Committee on the Study of Religion), “Anatomy of the Soul: Swedenborg and Kant on the Mechanics of the Internal Senses”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom
Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Thursday, October 26, 2023, 12:00pm EST
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Lecture
Facétie et Thérapie dans les Essais de Montaigne
Speaker: Dominique Bertrand, Université Clermont Auvergne
Location: virtual
Registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkdO6qrzItEtx3Y7IvRpJoKGvu0UxO2l…
Thursday, October 26, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
(Further dates on Nov 16, 30).
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
*Friday, October 27, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Eric Watkins (UCSD),"Kant’s Criticism of Metaphysics"
Location: Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard University
More Information<https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/event/harvard-history-philosophy-work…>
*Friday, October 27, 2022, 5pm
2023 Normand Berlin Lecture
Debapriya Sarkar, Assistant Professor of English and Maritime Studies at the University of Connecticut: Figuring Race in Early Modern Drama
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
This event will be held in person at the Kinney Center and is part of the 2023-2024 Shakespeare Unbound<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass.us11.list-2Dmana…> exhibit.
Events later in the Semester:
*Monday, October 30, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Bollandists: Historians of the Impossible
A lecture by Prof. Carlos Eire, Department of History, Yale University
Location: Simboli Hall (Brighton Campus of Boston College/School of Theology and Ministry), Room 100. (In person)
Map: https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/about/maps-and-directions/brighton-campus-map.html
Founded in 1607, The Bollandists are a group of scholars (often Jesuits) who have applied their intellectual rigor to the study of the saints in a systematic, in-depth, scrupulous, disinterested research and are considered the pioneers of documenting the impossible in the lives of saints. A member of the Boilandist Collegium will be present.
About the Presenter: Professor Carlos Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He is the author of A Very Brief History of Eternity, Reformations: The Early Modern World, The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography, and They Flew: A History of the Impossible.
*October 30, 2023, 7:00pm
Meghan Constantinou: "Stenciled Books as a Domestic Printing Art in 18th-Century France" (Lecture)
Location: Katherine Small Gallery, 108 Beacon Street, Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
Meghan Constantinou will talk about stenciled books—in which all (or most) of the textual and decorative elements are hand-stenciled—in the context of eighteenth-century French domestic printing.
https://ksmallgallery.com/blogs/events/stenciled-books-as-a-domestic-printi…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ksmallgallery.com_blog…>
*10/31/2023 7:30pm
Sebouh David Aslanian, Professor and Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of California, Los Angeles: "Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800"
Location: In-person at the Naasr Vartan Gregorian Building, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA. Also Live on Zoom (Registration required) and on Youtube
November 1st, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Jessica Beckman, Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth, "Reading the Room: Spenser and the Space of the Text"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*November 3, 2023, all day
Harvard History of Science
Workshop: "Creating an Ordered World in Disordered Times: The Pope Orrery"
Location: Harvard Science Center • Room 469 • 1 Oxford Street • Cambridge, MA
This public workshop will gather specialists—historians of science, furniture, labor, and politics, as well as horologists, and conservators—around the Pope Orrery (built 1776-1787 in Boston) to interpret it from their diverse vantage points. Together we will use the Pope Orrery as a mise-en-scène for an examination of Boston and the British world during the American Revolution, as witnessed by the labor, technology, economics, and politics of its production and sale, the social classes involved, and its use as a spectacle, prestige item, and model for teaching natural philosophy and religion. The program and list of speakers can be found here<https://chsi.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/chsi/files/orr…>.
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Engineers as Imperial Agents in 17th-Century England”
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, November 7, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Tara Menon, Harvard: Talking like a Heroine: The Case of Mansfield Park’s Fanny Price
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Asia Center and the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard
Book launch and discussion featuring Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau), author of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (CUP 2023) in conversation with Alex Csiszar (History of Science, Harvard) and Rishad Choudhury (Oberlin College)
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
This is a hybrid event; please register here for the zoomlink:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qa_rmn8RRCqw5j6dSoUoKA
Wednesday, November 15, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Catherine Nicholson, Professor of English at Yale, "Reforming the Alphabet: The Renaissance Before Reading"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6pm
Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center on American Literature and Culture
Christy Pottroff, Boston College, and Donald Slater, Phillips Academy Andover: „Finding Anne Bradstreet: An Archaeological Study of the Poet’s North Andover Homes“
Respondent: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University
Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
More Information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/christy-pottroff-tba
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
(Further date on November 30).
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:30pm
Brown University History Department
44th William Church Memorial Lecture: Jennifer Morgan (NYU): “On Race and Reinscription: Writing Enslaved Women into the Early Modern Archive”
Location: Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, Brown University Campus, Providence, RI 02912
Brown University Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/265712-44th-william-churc…> and MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://www.brownmemhs.com/william-church-memorial-lecture>
In this talk, Jennifer L. Morgan uses the history of three black women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to explore questions of methodology and archives in the early history of the Black Atlantic. Through evidence from visual art, law, and commerce, Morgan considers the challenges and possibilities of crafting a social-historical study of women whose voices are so often absent from the archival record, but whose lives and perspectives have proven to be essential for comprehending the origins of racial capitalism.
Friday, November 17, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Yu Jin Ko, Professor of English, Wellesley College: Consent and Animation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Korean Madang as a New Green World
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
See also: Shakespearean Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/shakespearean-studies>
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 2:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on Cartography and Renaissance Studies
Workshop: Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester: “Looking Slowly at Early Modern Maps”
Location: Lamont Library, Harvard Yard, Forum Room
Chet Van Duzer will discuss several early modern maps to demonstrate the value of applying patient contemplation to cartography, provide ideas about the types of conclusions that can be reached through slow looking, and show the richness of early maps as objects for study. More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/looking-slowly-early-moder…>
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 3:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group and Philosophy Department
Gideon Manning (Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Humanities at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine): “Descartes, Images, and the Iconography of Actions"
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
Email:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, November 28 (Due to the Thanksgiving Break, MEMHS is moved forward to November 28), 4:30 PM
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Gershon D. Hundert (Leanor Segal Professor of Jewish Studies, McGill University. (This is a joint event, MEMHS & Judaic Studies, Brown University).
Location: Pavilion Room at the Brown History Department, Providence RI
https://www.brownmemhs.com/upcoming-events
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 5pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book
Molly Hardy (Independent scholar), “Plant Machines: Information Ecologies from Carl Linnaeus to Asa Gray,” followed by a comment by Whitney Barlow Robles (Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth).
Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
Thursday, November 30, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
James Simpson, the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard, "Modernity's Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images; or, Being an Early Modern Image Hurts"
Professor Simpson will speak to a joint Medieval-Renaissance Colloquia audience.
Location: TBA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Thursday, November 30, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Stephen Spiess (Department of English, Babson College): “Confounding Intersections: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Glossing in Pericles and Edward II”
The Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
**Monday, December 4, 2023 6:00pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789
Location: Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
More Information<https://community.bostonathenaeum.org/s/events?event=a2K8a0000077ohZ>
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Ori Ben-Shalom (History of Science, Harvard), “With Armed Eyes: Plague, the Perplexities of the Microscope, and the Struggle over History”
Location:
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (see event details)
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
December 6, 2023, 12:00-1:15pm
Tufts Center for the Humanities
Diego Javier Luis, Department of History, Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University: “Devouring the Pacific: How the Repartimientos Made Acapulco an Afro-Mexican Port”
Location TBA
December 6, 3pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
MFA Visit: "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy"
Please join us for a visit to and self-guided group tour of the MFA's Special Exhibition, "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy." More info on the exhibition can be found here<https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/strong-women-in-renaissance-italy#field--nam…>.
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
December 6, 5:30pm EST
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Lecture: Ben Leeming (Rivers High School, Boston)
Location: TBD
More information will be coming soon.
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/>
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 6pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789, in conversation with Ann Blair, Harvard
Location: French Library, 53 Marlborough St., Boston, MA 02116
***
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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 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: Abstract deadlines and keynote TBA.
Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference: "Shakespeare & Play", April 27, 2024 at Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA.
We announce the return of the in-person academic conference for undergraduate students from Greater Boston, Central Mass, and New England more broadly.
Please email ClarkShaxConference2024(a)gmail.com for more info
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
*Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas
Rachel Wheeler, Indiana University Indianapolis and Sarah Eyerly, Florida State University: “Native Biography as Process and Product: Perspectives on History, Storytelling, and Knowledge Production”
Room 114, Harvard Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Historian Rachel Wheeler and musicologist Sarah Eyerly will speak about their efforts to extend the method of relational historiography they employed in their Singing Box 331 project to a co-authored biography of Mohican leader, Joshua (1742–1806), that centers the relationships that anchored him to family, community, and land in the past and present. More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/native-biography-process-a…>
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 4:30pm
Five College Renaissance Seminar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Eyob Derillo (Curator for the Ethiopic and Ethiopian Collections, British Library)
A Virtual Tour of the British Library's Illuminated Ethiopian Manuscripts
Virtual event on Zoom [register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damherst.zoom.u…>]
*Thursday, October 12, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
(Further dates on Oct 19, 26; Nov 16, 30).
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
*Friday, October 13, 2023, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center for Persian and Persianate Studies
Thibaut d’Hubert, University of Chicago: Equal of the Ancients, Pride of the Moderns’: The Poetics of Faizi’s Ghazals
Room 133, Harvard Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/equal-ancients-pride-moder…>
**October 17, 2023, 4:30pm
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Tiraana Bains (Assistant Professor, History Department, Brown University), discussion of her chapter, “Company, Parliament, and Mughal: Constituting Imperial Governance.” This is part of her book manuscript, Instituting Empire: The Making of a British Imperial State in South Asia, 1750-1800.
Location: Pavilion Room, Brown History Department, Peter Green House, Providence RI
https://www.brownmemhs.com/ (New website)
More information and precirculated paper: maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu<mailto:maria_sokolova@brown.edu>
October 18, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Graduate Student Presentation: Caroline Engelmayer, graduate student in English, "'Forsake me not thus': Ovid's Heroides and Milton's Psychology of Alienation"
Graduate Student Presentation and Workshop on the pre-circulated paper
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 6pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable: “Charting a Future for Early Modern Gender Studies in a Time of Shrinking Humanities Departments.”
Discussants:
1. Alice Dailey (Professor of English & Director of Faculty Affairs, Villanova University)
2. Suparna Roychoudhury (Associate Professor of English & Associate Provost and Associate Dean of Faculty, Mount Holyoke)
3. Reginald Wilburn (Associate Professor of English & Associate Provost, Texas Christian University)
Location: Online (Registration<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcuyspjgqGNIY5QRFew-xwzjEnhAH…>)
*Thursday, October 19, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
(Further dates on Oct 26; Nov 16, 30).
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
*Friday, October 20, 2023, 12-1:15pm
Sponsor: Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Erika Valdivieso, Yale Department of Classics: "Searching for Dido” (Lecture)
Plimpton Room, Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
More Information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/erika-valdivieso-tba
Friday, October 20, 2023, 2:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Colloquium: European Colonialism in the Americas: Consequences and Contemporary Responses
Confirmed speakers are: Prof. Gustavo Verdesio (University of Michigan) and Prof. Kimberly Borchard (Randolph-Macon College)
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Brown University
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/>
Events later in the Semester:
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Sherah Bloor (Committee on the Study of Religion), “Anatomy of the Soul: Swedenborg and Kant on the Mechanics of the Internal Senses”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom
Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Thursday, October 26, 2023, 12:00pm EST
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Lecture
Facétie et Thérapie dans les Essais de Montaigne
Speaker: Dominique Bertrand, Université Clermont Auvergne
Location: virtual
Registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkdO6qrzItEtx3Y7IvRpJoKGvu0UxO2l…
*Thursday, October 26, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
(Further dates on Nov 16, 30).
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
November 1st, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Jessica Beckman, Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth, "Reading the Room: Spenser and the Space of the Text"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Engineers as Imperial Agents in 17th-Century England”
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
*Tuesday, November 7, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Tara Menon, Harvard: Talking like a Heroine: The Case of Mansfield Park’s Fanny Price
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Asia Center and the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard
Book launch and discussion featuring Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau), author of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (CUP 2023) in conversation with Alex Csiszar (History of Science, Harvard) and Rishad Choudhury (Oberlin College)
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
This is a hybrid event; please register here for the zoomlink:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qa_rmn8RRCqw5j6dSoUoKA
Wednesday, November 15, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Catherine Nicholson, Professor of English at Yale, "Reforming the Alphabet: The Renaissance Before Reading"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6pm
Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center on American Literature and Culture
Christy Pottroff, Boston College, and Donald Slater, Phillips Academy Andover: „Finding Anne Bradstreet: An Archaeological Study of the Poet’s North Andover Homes“
Respondent: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University
Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
More Information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/christy-pottroff-tba
*Thursday, November 16, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
(Further date on November 30).
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
**Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:30pm
Brown University History Department
44th William Church Memorial Lecture: Jennifer Morgan (NYU): “On Race and Reinscription: Writing Enslaved Women into the Early Modern Archive”
Location: Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, Brown University Campus, Providence, RI 02912
Brown University Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/265712-44th-william-churc…> and MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://www.brownmemhs.com/william-church-memorial-lecture>
In this talk, Jennifer L. Morgan uses the history of three black women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to explore questions of methodology and archives in the early history of the Black Atlantic. Through evidence from visual art, law, and commerce, Morgan considers the challenges and possibilities of crafting a social-historical study of women whose voices are so often absent from the archival record, but whose lives and perspectives have proven to be essential for comprehending the origins of racial capitalism.
Friday, November 17, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Yu Jin Ko, Professor of English, Wellesley College: Consent and Animation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Korean Madang as a New Green World
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
See also: Shakespearean Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/shakespearean-studies>
*Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 2:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on Cartography and Renaissance Studies
Workshop: Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester: “Looking Slowly at Early Modern Maps”
Location: Lamont Library, Harvard Yard, Forum Room
Chet Van Duzer will discuss several early modern maps to demonstrate the value of applying patient contemplation to cartography, provide ideas about the types of conclusions that can be reached through slow looking, and show the richness of early maps as objects for study. More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/looking-slowly-early-moder…>
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 3:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group and Philosophy Department
Gideon Manning (Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Humanities at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine): “Descartes, Images, and the Iconography of Actions"
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
Email:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
**Tuesday, November 28 (Due to the Thanksgiving Break, MEMHS is moved forward to November 28), 4:30 PM
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Gershon D. Hundert (Leanor Segal Professor of Jewish Studies, McGill University. (This is a joint event, MEMHS & Judaic Studies, Brown University).
Location: Pavilion Room at the Brown History Department, Providence RI
https://www.brownmemhs.com/upcoming-events
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 5pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book
Molly Hardy (Independent scholar), “Plant Machines: Information Ecologies from Carl Linnaeus to Asa Gray,” followed by a comment by Whitney Barlow Robles (Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth).
Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
*Thursday, November 30, 2023, 4:30pm
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
Jerry Hunter, Bangor University (Wales): Informal Introduction to Early Modern Welsh Literature (open for all)
Kates Room, Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Yard
No RSVP required.
**Thursday, November 30, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
James Simpson, the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard, "Modernity's Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images; or, Being an Early Modern Image Hurts"
Professor Simpson will speak to a joint Medieval-Renaissance Colloquia audience.
Location: TBA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Thursday, November 30, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Stephen Spiess (Department of English, Babson College): “Confounding Intersections: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Glossing in Pericles and Edward II”
The Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Monday, December 4, 2023 8:00pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789
Location: Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Ori Ben-Shalom (History of Science, Harvard), “With Armed Eyes: Plague, the Perplexities of the Microscope, and the Struggle over History”
Location:
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (see event details)
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
*December 6, 2023, 12:00-1:15pm
Tufts Center for the Humanities
Diego Javier Luis, Department of History, Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University: “Devouring the Pacific: How the Repartimientos Made Acapulco an Afro-Mexican Port”
Location TBA
**December 6, 3pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
MFA Visit: "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy"
Please join us for a visit to and self-guided group tour of the MFA's Special Exhibition, "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy." More info on the exhibition can be found here<https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/strong-women-in-renaissance-italy#field--nam…>.
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
December 6, 5:30pm EST
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Lecture: Ben Leeming (Rivers High School, Boston)
Location: TBD
More information will be coming soon.
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/>
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 6pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789, in conversation with Ann Blair, Harvard
Location: French Library, 53 Marlborough St., Boston, MA 02116
***
*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>
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Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
Location: in-person or virtual
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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 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: Abstract deadlines and keynote TBA.
Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference: "Shakespeare & Play", April 27, 2024 at Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA.
We announce the return of the in-person academic conference for undergraduate students from Greater Boston, Central Mass, and New England more broadly.
Please email ClarkShaxConference2024(a)gmail.com for more info
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
*Monday, October 2, 12-1 PM
Preparing Academic Job Application Materials: A Premodern Race Seminar Workshop (Hybrid!)
Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 203 and on Zoom
Interdiscplinary workshop intended for graduate students and junior scholars in premodern fields currently on the academic job market or shortly intending to be so, whose research and/or teaching interests relate to topics of race. Participants will be expected to precirculate and read draft materials. Please register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us11.list-2Dma…> if you would like to attend. There will be a hybrid Zoom option!
*Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 5:00pm (Reception starting at 4:15pm)
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College
Feore Family Lecture Series
Markus Friedrich, Professor of History, Hamburg University, will receive the George E. Ganss, S.J. Award and give the lecture: Tales of Foreign Lands: Jesuit Youth Literature and Missionary Propaganda in the 20th Century.
Boston College, Cadigan Alumni Center, Brighton Campus, 2121 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02135, United States
RSVP<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff…>
Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 5:00pm to 6:30pm
CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Series
Aslıhan Gürbüzel, Assistant Professor of Ottoman history, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University: "Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600-1700". Discussant: Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
In the history of the Ottoman Empire, the seventeenth century has often been considered an anomaly, characterized by political dissent and social conflict. In this book, Aslıhan Gürbüzel shows how the early modern period was, in fact, crucial to the formation of new kinds of political agency that challenged, negotiated with, and ultimately reshaped the Ottoman social order. Taming the Messiah offers a new method of studying public political life by focusing on the variety of religious visions and lifeworlds native to Ottoman society and the ways in which they were appropriated and repurposed in the pursuit of new forms of civic engagement.
Link: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming
Contact: elizabethflanagan(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 5:00pm
Early Modern Workshop in History, Medieval History Workshop, Medieval Studies, and the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop at Harvard
Yves Coativy (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), “Contemporary interpretations of the Breton Middle Ages, from nationalism to the far left (1923-2023)”
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Wednesday, Oct 4, 2023 | 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talks, co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Lecture: “Shakespeare’s Influence on Modern Chinese Literature and Culture”
Speaker: Tianhu Hao | Qiushi Distinguished Professor, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Zhejiang University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24
Chair/Discussant: David Damrosch | Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Shakespeare has had an important influence upon modern Chinese literature and culture since the 1830s, which constitutes a significant part of Shakespeare’s global impact. Based on the rich sources recently accessible in Chinese and English databases, this talk reconsiders Shakespeare’s impact on modern China, especially in the indigenization of the sonnet and the rise of huaju (spoken drama). The abundant, newly discovered data reveal Shakespeare’s multi-faceted contributions to the shaping of modern Chinese literature and culture. This is a modest effort to revise literary, theatrical, and cultural histories.
*Wednesday, Oct 4, 2023, 12-1:30pm
Center for Humanities and the Music Department, Tufts University
Book Talk with Melinda Latour about her new book, The Voice of Virtue: Moral Song and the Practice of French Stoicism, 1574-1652
Tufts University, Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff, Room 155, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford MA
More information<https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/book-talk-melinda-latour-oct-4>
October 4, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Leah Whittington, Professor of English at Harvard, "Spenser, Chaucer, and the Supplemented Book."
Professor Whittington will speak to a joint Medieval-Renaissance Colloquia audience.
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, October 4, 5pm
Benedict S. Robinson (Stony Brook University): “The True Story of Fictionality: The Case of Othello”
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002
Benedict S. Robinson specializes in early modern literature, with interests that include the history of emotion, the history of literary theory, the history of science, and topics related to race and religion. His most recent book is Passion’s Fictions from Shakespeare to Richardson: Literature and the Sciences of Soul and Mind<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass.us11.list-2Dmana…> (Oxford University Press, Spring 2021).
**Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Lecture: Maude Vanhaelen (UQUAM Montreal): Contesting Curricula: The Hidden Revival of Plato in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Room 110, List Art Building, Brown University, 64 College St. Providence RI. Read more<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/264250-early-modern-world…>.
Thursday, October 5, 2023 to Sunday, October 8, 2023
42nd Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium (with many events relevant to early modern studies)
Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street Cambridge MA. The Thompson Room (Room 110)
Please find the program here: https://celtic.fas.harvard.edu/colloquium-program-schedule
Friday, October 6, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Natasha Korda, Professor of English, Wesleyan University: ‘ Mincing Steps’ and ‘Manly Strides’: Practicing Gendered Footwork on the Early Modern Stage
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
See also: Shakespearean Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/shakespearean-studies>
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 4:30pm
Five College Renaissance Seminar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Eyob Derillo (Curator for the Ethiopic and Ethiopian Collections, British Library)
A Virtual Tour of the British Library's Illuminated Ethiopian Manuscripts
Virtual event on Zoom [register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damherst.zoom.u…>]
Events later in the Semester:
October 17, 2023, TBA
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Tiraana Bains (Assistant Professor, History Department, Brown University), TBA
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
October 18, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Graduate Student Presentation: Caroline Engelmayer, graduate student in English, "'Forsake me not thus': Ovid's Heroides and Milton's Psychology of Alienation"
Graduate Student Presentation and Workshop on the pre-circulated paper
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 6pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable: “Charting a Future for Early Modern Gender Studies in a Time of Shrinking Humanities Departments.”
Discussants:
1. Alice Dailey (Professor of English & Director of Faculty Affairs, Villanova University)
2. Suparna Roychoudhury (Associate Professor of English & Associate Provost and Associate Dean of Faculty, Mount Holyoke)
3. Reginald Wilburn (Associate Professor of English & Associate Provost, Texas Christian University)
Location: Online (Registration<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcuyspjgqGNIY5QRFew-xwzjEnhAH…>)
October 20, 2023, 2:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Colloquium: European Colonialism in the Americas: Consequences and Contemporary Responses
Confirmed speakers are: Prof. Gustavo Verdesio (University of Michigan) and Prof. Kimberly Borchard (Randolph-Macon College)
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Brown University
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/>
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Sherah Bloor (Committee on the Study of Religion), “Anatomy of the Soul: Swedenborg and Kant on the Mechanics of the Internal Senses”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom
Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
*Thursday, October 26, 2023, 12:00pm EST
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Lecture: "Facétie et Thérapie dans les Essais de Montaigne"
Speaker: Dominique Bertrand, Université Clermont Auvergne
Location: virtual
Registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkdO6qrzItEtx3Y7IvRpJoKGvu0UxO2l…
November 1st, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Jessica Beckman, Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth, "Reading the Room: Spenser and the Space of the Text"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Engineers as Imperial Agents in 17th-Century England”
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Asia Center and the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard
Book launch and discussion featuring Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau), author of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (CUP 2023) in conversation with Alex Csiszar (History of Science, Harvard) and Rishad Choudhury (Oberlin College)
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
This is a hybrid event; please register here for the zoomlink:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qa_rmn8RRCqw5j6dSoUoKA
Wednesday, November 15, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Catherine Nicholson, Professor of English at Yale, "Reforming the Alphabet: The Renaissance Before Reading"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:30pm
Brown University History Department
44th William Church Memorial Lecture: Jennifer Morgan (NYU); TBA
Location: TBD
More information is coming soon.
Brown University Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/> and MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
Friday, November 17, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Yu Jin Ko, Professor of English, Wellesley College: Consent and Animation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Korean Madang as a New Green World
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
See also: Shakespearean Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/shakespearean-studies>
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 3:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group and Philosophy Department
Gideon Manning (Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Humanities at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine): “Descartes, Images, and the Iconography of Actions"
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
Email:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, November 28 (Due to the Thanksgiving Break, MEMHS is moved forward to November 28), 4:30 PM
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Gershon D. Hundert (Leanor Segal Professor of Jewish Studies, McGill University. (This is a joint event, MEMHS & Judaic Studies, Brown University).
Location: TBA
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 5pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book
Molly Hardy (Independent scholar), “Plant Machines: Information Ecologies from Carl Linnaeus to Asa Gray,” followed by a comment by Whitney Barlow Robles (Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth).
Barker Center 133, 12 Quicy St, Cambridge MA
Thursday, November 30, 3pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
MFA Visit: "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy"
Please join us for a visit to and self-guided group tour of the MFA's Special Exhibition, "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy." More info on the exhibition can be found here<https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/strong-women-in-renaissance-italy#field--nam…>.
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Monday, November 30, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
James Simpson, the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard, "Modernity's Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images; or, Being an Early Modern Image Hurts"
Professor Simpson will speak to a joint Medieval-Renaissance Colloquia audience.
Location: TBA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Thursday, November 30, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Stephen Spiess (Department of English, Babson College): “Confounding Intersections: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Glossing in Pericles and Edward II”
The Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Monday, December 4, 2023 8:00pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789
Location: Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Ori Ben-Shalom (History of Science, Harvard), “With Armed Eyes: Plague, the Perplexities of the Microscope, and the Struggle over History”
Location:
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (see event details)
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
*December 6, 2023, 12:00-1:15pm
Tufts Center for the Humanities
Diego Javier Luis, Department of History, Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University: “Devouring the Pacific: How the Repartimientos Made Acapulco an Afro-Mexican Port”
Location TBA
December 6, 5:30pm EST
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Lecture: Ben Leeming (Rivers High School, Boston)
Location: TBD
More information will be coming soon.
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/>
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 6pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789, in conversation with Ann Blair, Harvard
Location: French Library, 53 Marlborough St., Boston, MA 02116
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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>.
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CFP for Local Conferences
CFP: Abstract deadlines and keynote TBA.
Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference: "Shakespeare & Play", April 27, 2024 at Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA.
We announce the return of the in-person academic conference for undergraduate students from Greater Boston, Central Mass, and New England more broadly.
Please email ClarkShaxConference2024(a)gmail.com for more info
*CFP: “Transnational Representations of Early Modern Marginalized Figures” (Conference: NeMLA, 2024, Boston, MA, Hotel: Sheraton Boston, March 7-10, 2024)
This panel considers the transnational circulation of images featuring socially marginalized bodies in early modern literature and culture. With their calculated allure of legibility, fixity, and coherence, what kinds of fictions and human rights abuses do they justify?
Submit a paper abstract through the NeMLA website by September 30th:
https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.buffalo.edu_nemla.…>
Please also feel free to get in touch with organizers Erika Boeckeler (e.boeckeler(a)northeastern.edu) and Stephen Spiess (sspiess(a)babson.edu)
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard University), "Day Counters and Decision Makers: Printed Calendars in Early Modern Europe"
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom
Email:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
*Wednesday, Sept 27, 2023
Opening of Exhibit “Shakespeare Unbound” at W. E. B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Duration: Sept 2023 to May 2024)
More Information<https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/shakespeare-unbound/home?authuser=0>
Friday, September 29, 2023 to Sunday, October 1, 2023
Leibniz Society of North America
The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America
Harvard Barker Center Thompson Room (110), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
More Information and Program: https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/event/leibniz-society-north-america-a…
*Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 5:00pm to 6:30pm
CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Series
Aslıhan Gürbüzel, Assistant Professor of Ottoman history, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University: "Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600-1700". Discussant: Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
In the history of the Ottoman Empire, the seventeenth century has often been considered an anomaly, characterized by political dissent and social conflict. In this book, Aslıhan Gürbüzel shows how the early modern period was, in fact, crucial to the formation of new kinds of political agency that challenged, negotiated with, and ultimately reshaped the Ottoman social order. Taming the Messiah offers a new method of studying public political life by focusing on the variety of religious visions and lifeworlds native to Ottoman society and the ways in which they were appropriated and repurposed in the pursuit of new forms of civic engagement.
Link: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming
Contact: elizabethflanagan(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 5:00pm
Early Modern Workshop in History, Medieval History Workshop, Medieval Studies, and the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop at Harvard
Yves Coativy (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), “Contemporary interpretations of the Breton Middle Ages, from nationalism to the far left (1923-2023)”
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*Wednesday, Oct 4, 2023 | 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talks, co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Lecture: “Shakespeare’s Influence on Modern Chinese Literature and Culture”
Speaker: Tianhu Hao | Qiushi Distinguished Professor, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Zhejiang University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24
Chair/Discussant: David Damrosch | Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Shakespeare has had an important influence upon modern Chinese literature and culture since the 1830s, which constitutes a significant part of Shakespeare’s global impact. Based on the rich sources recently accessible in Chinese and English databases, this talk reconsiders Shakespeare’s impact on modern China, especially in the indigenization of the sonnet and the rise of huaju (spoken drama). The abundant, newly discovered data reveal Shakespeare’s multi-faceted contributions to the shaping of modern Chinese literature and culture. This is a modest effort to revise literary, theatrical, and cultural histories.
October 4, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Leah Whittington, Professor of English at Harvard, "Spenser, Chaucer, and the Supplemented Book."
Professor Whittington will speak to a joint Medieval-Renaissance Colloquia audience.
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Wednesday, October 4, 5pm
Benedict S. Robinson (Stony Brook University): “The True Story of Fictionality: The Case of Othello”
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002
Benedict S. Robinson specializes in early modern literature, with interests that include the history of emotion, the history of literary theory, the history of science, and topics related to race and religion. His most recent book is Passion’s Fictions from Shakespeare to Richardson: Literature and the Sciences of Soul and Mind<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass.us11.list-2Dmana…> (Oxford University Press, Spring 2021).
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Lecture: Maude Vanhaelen (UQUAM Montreal)
Brown University, Rhode Island Hall 108. Read more<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/264250-early-modern-world…>.
Thursday, October 5, 2023 to Sunday, October 8, 2023
42nd Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium (with many events relevant to early modern studies)
Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street Cambridge MA. The Thompson Room (Room 110)
Please find the program here: https://celtic.fas.harvard.edu/colloquium-program-schedule
Friday, October 6, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Natasha Korda, Professor of English, Wesleyan University: ‘ Mincing Steps’ and ‘Manly Strides’: Practicing Gendered Footwork on the Early Modern Stage
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
See also: Shakespearean Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/shakespearean-studies>
Events later in the Semester:
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 4:30pm
Five College Renaissance Seminar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Eyob Derillo (Curator for the Ethiopic and Ethiopian Collections, British Library)
A Virtual Tour of the British Library's Illuminated Ethiopian Manuscripts
Virtual event on Zoom [register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damherst.zoom.u…>]
October 17, 2023, TBA
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Tiraana Bains (Assistant Professor, History Department, Brown University), TBA
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
October 18, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Graduate Student Presentation: Caroline Engelmayer, graduate student in English, "'Forsake me not thus': Ovid's Heroides and Milton's Psychology of Alienation"
Graduate Student Presentation and Workshop on the pre-circulated paper
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 6pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable: “Charting a Future for Early Modern Gender Studies in a Time of Shrinking Humanities Departments.”
Discussants:
*
Alice Dailey (Professor of English & Director of Faculty Affairs, Villanova University)
*
Suparna Roychoudhury (Associate Professor of English & Associate Provost and Associate Dean of Faculty, Mount Holyoke)
*
Reginald Wilburn (Associate Professor of English & Associate Provost, Texas Christian University)
Location: Online (Registration<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcuyspjgqGNIY5QRFew-xwzjEnhAH…>)
October 20, 2023, 2:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Colloquium: European Colonialism in the Americas: Consequences and Contemporary Responses
Confirmed speakers are: Prof. Gustavo Verdesio (University of Michigan) and Prof. Kimberly Borchard (Randolph-Macon College)
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Brown University
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/>
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Sherah Bloor (Committee on the Study of Religion), “Anatomy of the Soul: Swedenborg and Kant on the Mechanics of the Internal Senses”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom
Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
November 1st, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Jessica Beckman, Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth, "Reading the Room: Spenser and the Space of the Text"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Engineers as Imperial Agents in 17th-Century England”
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Asia Center and the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard
Book launch and discussion featuring Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau), author of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (CUP 2023) in conversation with Alex Csiszar (History of Science, Harvard) and Rishad Choudhury (Oberlin College)
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
This is a hybrid event; please register here for the zoomlink:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qa_rmn8RRCqw5j6dSoUoKA
Wednesday, November 15, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Catherine Nicholson, Professor of English at Yale, "Reforming the Alphabet: The Renaissance Before Reading"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:30pm
Brown University History Department
44th William Church Memorial Lecture: Jennifer Morgan (NYU); TBA
Location: TBD
More information is coming soon.
Brown University Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/> and MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
Friday, November 17, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Yu Jin Ko, Professor of English, Wellesley College: Consent and Animation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Korean Madang as a New Green World
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
See also: Shakespearean Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/shakespearean-studies>
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 3:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group and Philosophy Department
Gideon Manning (Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Humanities at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine): "Descartes, Images, and the Iconography of Actions"
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
Email:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, November 28 (Due to the Thanksgiving Break, MEMHS is moved forward to November 28), 4:30 PM
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Gershon D. Hundert (Leanor Segal Professor of Jewish Studies, McGill University. (This is a joint event, MEMHS & Judaic Studies, Brown University).
Location: TBA
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 5pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book
Molly Hardy (Independent scholar), “Plant Machines: Information Ecologies from Carl Linnaeus to Asa Gray,” followed by a comment by Whitney Barlow Robles (Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth).
Barker Center 133, 12 Quicy St, Cambridge MA
Thursday, November 30, 3pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
MFA Visit: "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy"
Please join us for a visit to and self-guided group tour of the MFA's Special Exhibition, "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy." More info on the exhibition can be found here<https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/strong-women-in-renaissance-italy#field--nam…>.
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
**Monday, November 30, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
James Simpson, the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard, "Modernity's Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images; or, Being an Early Modern Image Hurts"
Professor Simpson will speak to a joint Medieval-Renaissance Colloquia audience.
Location: TBA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Thursday, November 30, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Stephen Spiess (Department of English, Babson College): “Confounding Intersections: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Glossing in Pericles and Edward II”
The Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Monday, December 4, 2023 8:00pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789
Location: Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Ori Ben-Shalom (History of Science, Harvard), “With Armed Eyes: Plague, the Perplexities of the Microscope, and the Struggle over History”
Location:
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (see event details)
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
December 6, 5:30pm EST
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Lecture: Ben Leeming (Rivers High School, Boston)
Location: TBD
More information will be coming soon.
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/>
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 6pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789, in conversation with Ann Blair, Harvard
Location: French Library, 53 Marlborough St., Boston, MA 02116
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Greetings!
This is a “late breaking news”-edition of our mailing list, announcing three upcoming events that did not make it onto the Friday listing.
Our earlymod 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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*Thursday, September 14, 6-7pm
Massachusetts Historical Society
First Family: George Washington’s Heirs & The Making of America
Cassandra Good, Marymont University, in conversation with Sara Georgini, MHS
Online event. Registration: https://www.masshist.org/events/first-family-george-washingtons-heirs-makin…
*Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 7-8pm
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester
Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 1789-1828
Allison M. Stagg, Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany
Hybrid event, advance registration is required:
https://www.americanantiquarian.org/hybrid-program-allison-stagg
*Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 1pm-2:30pm
Supported by the MFA Associates, MFA Senior Associates, and Weekend Guides in honor of Barbara Martin
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Boston College: Hidden Gold: Women in Renaissance Italy (Lecture)
Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161), Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston MA 02115
Tickets for this lecture are sold here:
https://www.mfa.org/event/lecture/generations-of-strong-women?event=104456
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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 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: Abstract deadlines and keynote TBA.
Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference: "Shakespeare & Play", April 27, 2024 at Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA.
We announce the return of the in-person academic conference for undergraduate students from Greater Boston, Central Mass, and New England more broadly.
Please email ClarkShaxConference2024(a)gmail.com for more info
**Upcoming Fortnight: Events
*Monday, September 11, 2023, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Reception
Jefferson Tent, Harvard University (map<https://mapprod.cadm.harvard.edu/portal/apps/indoors/?appid=2c3969f8d1b1414…>)
RSVP to analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern World Initiative, Harvard
Early Modern World Aperitivo
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Featuring four flashtalks:
Shawon Kinew (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard), “St. Paul’s Earth and Sacred Sculpture”
Greg Given (Expository Writing, Harvard), “Fixing the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch in 17th Century England”
Alison Simmons (Philosophy, Harvard), “Our Bodies, Ourselves, Cartesian Style”
Tom Kelly (East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard), “The Ink-Maker's Mark in Early Modern China.”
Followed by a reception.
*Thursday, September 14, 5:30 pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Lecture: Rocío Gutiérrez Sumillera, University of Granada/Brown University: “‘The Lands of Chivalrie’: Mapping Books of Errantry in the 17th Century”
Brown University, Rhode Island Hall 108. Read more<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.us16.list-2Dmana…>.
Monday, September 18, 2023, 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Annual Parry Lecture at Harvard
Cátia Antunes (Leiden University), “De-nationalizing empire: Dutch involvement in the Early Modern British, French, and Spanish empires”
CGIS South 050 (Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room), Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Early Modern European empires are portrayed and perceived as nationally geared enterprises, as entangled spaces at the peripheries and as zones of contact. In the Netherlands, these perceptions have filtered into the public debate that seeks to define material and immaterial responsibilities for the colonial past. What the historiographical perceptions, academic portrayals and public debate seem, however, to ignore is the role played by foreigners (being non-subjects of a specific king or republic) in exploiting the empires of other countries. It is thus pertinent to enquire to how and why Dutch entrepreneurs (being those taking risks in matters of trade or production, introducing innovations, making decisions based on information that others did not possess and searching for opportunities where most perceived risk) participated in exploiting the English, French and Iberian empires, as Dutch firms are particularly prominent in the European colonial landscape. Since Dutch entrepreneurs engaged in exploiting the resources of those other countries, what is the future of the public debate in the Netherlands, and Europe at large, regarding a shared responsibility for the colonial past?
More information<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/annual-parry-lecture-harvard…>
*Tuesday, September 19, 1pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Houghton Graduate Workshop by Greg Doran, the Royal Shakespeare Company's former artistic director on the transmission history of Shakespeare's plays and the director's perspective on the role of the First Folio in Shakespearean performance.
Attendance limited to Harvard Early Modern Graduate students and faculty.
Location: Hofer Room, Houghton Library
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Matthias Armgardt (University of Hamburg), "Leibniz's Legal Philosophy"
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
*Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 4:30pm
Five College Renaissance Seminar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Shannon McHugh (Associate Professor of Italian and French, UMass Boston)
"Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy: A Conversation"
Moderated by Sanam Nader-Esfahani (Assistant Professor of French, Amherst College)
The Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Lyceum, Room 101 (CHI Think Tank)
Amherst College
197 South Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 [map<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__map.concept3d.com_-3Fi…>]
Co-sponsors: European Studies Program (Amherst College); Dept. of French (Amherst College)
*Tuesday, September 19, 4:30pm
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Dillon Webster (Graduate Student, History Department, Brown University), “Conquered Lands, Strengthened Hands.” There will be a pre-circulated paper for this talk.
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Tuesday September 19, 5pm-6:30pm
Opening event of the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book, featuring four flashtalks by:
Matt Aiello (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Material Traces of Linguistic Trauma in Twelfth-Century England”
Devin Fitzgerald (Council on East Asia Studies and Beinecke Library), “Global and/or Comparative Book Histories: The Problem of Comparing Editions”
Molly Schwartzburg (Houghton Library), “How to collect on a theme: developing Printing & Graphic Arts holdings on print in the digital age”
Jennifer Roberts (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard), “Book Launch”
Followed by a reception. Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA.
*Thursday, September 21, 6pm–7:30pm
Sponsored by the UMass Boston Frisone Scott Center for Italian Cultural Studies with the New York University Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
Book launch—Staging the Renaissance: A Conversation with the Authors of Three New Books on Italian Renaissance Art and Culture
Lorenzo Buonanno (UMass Boston), The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice
Shannon McHugh (UMass Boston), Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy
Eugenio Refini (NYU), Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy
Location: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115 (in person)
Free admission to talk and museum; RSVP required
RSVP: https://bit.ly/StagingtheRen
*Thursday, September 21, 2023, 7:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Tara Bynum, University of Iowa: Obour Tanner's Archive; or How to Remember a Friend
Online: registration see linked webpage
Tara A. Bynum is an Assistant Professor of English & African American Studies at University of Iowa. She is author of Reading Pleasures.
Please add your name and email to this registration page<https://northeastern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqduigqj8oE9MmjKGrE6CZ9QPrP…>. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
See also: Eighteenth-Century Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/eighteenth-century-stud…>
Events later this Semester:
*Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard University), "Day Counters and Decision Makers: Printed Calendars in Early Modern Europe"
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom
Email:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
*Friday, September 29, 2023 to Sunday, October 1, 2023
Leibniz Society of North America
The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America
Harvard Barker Center Thompson Room (110), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
More Information and Program: https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/event/leibniz-society-north-america-a…
Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 5:00pm
Early Modern Workshop in History, Medieval History Workshop, Medieval Studies, and the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop at Harvard
Yves Coativy (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), “Contemporary interpretations of the Breton Middle Ages, from nationalism to the far left (1923-2023)”
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*October 4, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Leah Whittington, Professor of English at Harvard, "Spenser, Chaucer, and the Supplemented Book."
Professor Whittington will speak to to a joint Medieval-Renaissance Colloquia audience.
Location: Harvard Barker Center 211, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Thursday, October 5, 2023, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Lecture: Maude Vanhaelen (UQUAM Montreal)
Brown University, Rhode Island Hall 108. Read more<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/264250-early-modern-world…>.
*Friday, October 6, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Natasha Korda, Professor of English, Wesleyan University: Mincing Steps’ and ‘Manly Strides’: Practicing Gendered Footwork on the Early Modern Stage
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
See also: Shakespearean Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/shakespearean-studies>
*Thursday, October 12, 2023, 4:30pm
Five College Renaissance Seminar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Eyob Derillo (Curator for the Ethiopic and Ethiopian Collections, British Library)
A Virtual Tour of the British Library's Illuminated Ethiopian Manuscripts
Virtual event on Zoom [register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damherst.zoom.u…>]
*October 17, 2023, TBA
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Tiraana Bains (Assistant Professor, History Department, Brown University), TBA
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
*October 18, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Graduate Student Presentation: Caroline Engelmayer, graduate student in English, "'Forsake me not thus': Ovid's Heroides and Milton's Psychology of Alienation"
Graduate Student Presentation and Workshop on the pre-circulated paper
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*October 20, 2023, 2:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Colloquium: European Colonialism in the Americas: Consequences and Contemporary Responses
Confirmed speakers are: Prof. Gustavo Verdesio (University of Michigan) and Prof. Kimberly Borchard (Randolph-Macon College)
Rhode Island Hall, Room 108, Brown University
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/>
*Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Sherah Bloor (Committee on the Study of Religion), “Anatomy of the Soul: Swedenborg and Kant on the Mechanics of the Internal Senses”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom
Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
*November 1st, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Jessica Beckman, Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth, "Reading the Room: Spenser and the Space of the Text"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Engineers as Imperial Agents in 17th-Century England”
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Asia Center and the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard
Book launch and discussion featuring Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau), author of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (CUP 2023) in conversation with Alex Csiszar (History of Science, Harvard) and Rishad Choudhury (Oberlin College)
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
This is a hybrid event; please register here for the zoomlink:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qa_rmn8RRCqw5j6dSoUoKA
*Wednesday, November 15, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Catherine Nicholson, Professor of English at Yale, "Reforming the Alphabet: The Renaissance Before Reading"
Location: Barker Center 211
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:30pm
Brown University History Department
44th William Church Memorial Lecture: Jennifer Morgan (NYU); TBA
Location: TBD
More information is coming soon.
Brown University Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/> and MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
*Friday, November 17, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Yu Jin Ko, Professor of English, Wellesley College: Consent and Animation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Korean Madang as a New Green World
Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
See also: Shakespearean Studies<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/shakespearean-studies>
*Monday, November 20, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
James Simpson, the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard, "Modernity's Selfhood and the Desacralization of Images; or, Being an Early Modern Image Hurts"
Professor Simpson will speak to to a joint Medieval-Renaissance Colloquia audience.
Location: TBA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 3:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group and Philosophy Department
Gideon Manning (Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Humanities at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine): “Descartes, Images, and the Iconography of Actions"
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
Email:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
*Tuesday, November 28 (Due to the Thanksgiving Break, MEMHS is moved forward to November 28), 4:30 PM
MEMHS Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Gershon D. Hundert (Leanor Segal Professor of Jewish Studies, McGill University. (This is a joint event, MEMHS & Judaic Studies, Brown University).
Location: TBA
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 5pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book
Molly Hardy (Independent scholar), “Plant Machines: Information Ecologies from Carl Linnaeus to Asa Gray,” followed by a comment by Whitney Barlow Robles (Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth).
Barker Center 133, 12 Quicy St, Cambridge MA
*Thursday, November 30, 3pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
MFA Visit: "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy"
Please join us for a visit to and self-guided group tour of the MFA's Special Exhibition, "Strong Women in Renaissance Italy." More info on the exhibition can be found here<https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/strong-women-in-renaissance-italy#field--nam…>.
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Monday, December 4, 2023 8:00pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789
Location: Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
*Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Ori Ben-Shalom (History of Science, Harvard), “With Armed Eyes: Plague, the Perplexities of the Microscope, and the Struggle over History”
Location:
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (see event details)
The meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252). Email: brianabrightly(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or analuiza_nicolae(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
*December 6, 5:30pm EST
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Early Modern World Lecture: Ben Leeming (Rivers High School, Boston)
Location: TBD
More information will be coming soon.
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World<http://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/>
*Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 6pm
Robert Darnton, Harvard: Talk on his forthcoming book, The Revolutionary Temper, Paris 1748-1789, in conversation with Ann Blair, Harvard
Location: French Library, 53 Marlborough St., Boston, MA 02116
***
*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>
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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
