Greetings and Welcome to the New Academic Year!
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 to earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>, in the format requested at the end of this message<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.
Upcoming Events
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.
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, 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.
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
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 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
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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 are 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, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)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 EDT.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
**Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 10am (time change!)
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History of the Eucharist”. Paul Freedman from Yale will give first comments.
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the pre-circulated paper)
June 5-9, 2023
Co-sponsored by Folger Institute and Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction to English Paleography (course)
Course Director: Dr. Heather Wolfe<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_staff_d…>, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library.
This weeklong course provides an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary hand of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course will highlight the strengths of our rare book collection and materials related to The Renaissance of the Earth. Find more information here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…>.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_2021-2D…>
Application deadline was 6 March 2023 was for admission and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute Consortium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…> affiliates.
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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 are 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, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)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 EDT.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
*Monday, May 8, 2023, 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center's Renaissance Studies Seminar
Alani Hicks-Bartlett: Material Failure: Embodiment and Access in Early Modern Lyric Laments (Lecture)
Location: Zoom event: registration link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMld-CrrjwoHtWNaAo1RaOkbT01a51PfH…>
Monday, May 8, 2023, 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Symposium in two parts, presenting ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century”
Location: Thomson Room of the Barker Center, Harvard University (12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA)
Twelve leading feminist scholars, including Ros Ballaster, Kristina Straub, Mona Narain, Jennie Batchelor, Tita Chico, Betty Schellenburg, Manushag Powell, Regulus Allen, and Susan Carlisle will present ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century.” The first roundtable discussion, from 1-3 will be about “Critiques of Capitalism” that surfaced in the eighteenth century. The second roundtable discussion from 3:30 to 5:30, will be about those ideas that went against the grain of individualism but were examples of ”Thinking Through the Community.” Questions will also be taken from the floor and discussion among the participants and the audience will be encouraged.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History of the Eucharist”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
June 5-9, 2023
Co-sponsored by Folger Institute and Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction to English Paleography (course)
Course Director: Dr. Heather Wolfe<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_staff_d…>, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library.
This weeklong course provides an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary hand of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course will highlight the strengths of our rare book collection and materials related to The Renaissance of the Earth. Find more information here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…>.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_2021-2D…>
Application deadline 6 March 2023 was for admission and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute Consortium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…> affiliates.
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*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu
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 are 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, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)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 EDT.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
** (New Time) Tuesday, April 18, 5pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Neil Safier (Brown University). “Translating the Plantationocene from the Prerevolutionary Caribbean to Colonial Brazil.”
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
How was the language of plantation society ported from the French and English-dominated Caribbean to colonial Brazil in the eighteenth century? What role did agro-industrial treatises play in the perpetuation of systems of enslaved labor as plantation societies shifted from sugar production to a wider array of foodstuffs, beverages, and profit-oriented utilitarian crops? Long understood to be powerful manuals for naturalists and plantation masters alike, these pragmatic instructional texts, focused around questions of climate, natural history, and commodity-driven agriculture, have only recently been understood to have circulated outside the narrow Caribbean world for which they were destined. One iconic protagonist of this translation process was the Franciscan friar José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo (1742-1811), who served as a linguistic conduit for moving natural knowledge from an array of texts produced in colonial cultures around the globe into print – and into Portuguese in particular. This talk examines Vellozo’s multi-volume and multi-faceted Fazendeiro do Brazil (1798-1806) with an eye toward connecting the eighteenth-century natural sciences, the ambitions of expanding plantation-based economies, and the politics of translation across the multilingual geographies of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Debapriya Sarkar, Assistant Professor of English at University of Connecticut, "Geographies of Race in The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra."
In-person event. Barker Center, 211, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
*Wednesday, April 19th at 5.30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
The Putnam Lecture sponsored by Brown Department of Classics: “Statius and Virgil in the Silvae of Angelo Poliziano”
Bruce Gibson (Liverpool)
Brown University, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/253236-the-annual-michael…
April 20, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Micah True (University of Alberta, Canada)
"lndigenous Literacies and the Jesuit Relations from New France: The Case of Joseph
Chi hoatenhwa"
Webinar. Registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.zoom.us_webinar_…>
**Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:00pm
British actor and writer Paterson Joseph will read from his brand new novel, The Secret Diaries of Ignatius Sancho. Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard Hutchins Center and Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Location: 133 Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
The novel, The Secret Life of Charles Ignatius Sancho<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…> is based on the life and published letters (1780) of the Black British letter-writer. The novel was released in the UK in October 2022 and will be released in the US in April 2023. The novel also draws upon the one-man performance Paterson created in 2014, Sancho, A Remembrance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…>.
Friday, April 21, 2023, 5:30 pm reception, 6:00 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Gregory Semenza, Professor of English, University of Connecticut, “‘Please, just no Shakespeare’: Reinventing Authorship in Station Eleven.”
Location: In-person Event, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Friday, April 21, 2023, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Dan S. Collins Lecture
“Early Modern Erotica & the Pleasures of Paranoid Reading”
Melissa Sanchez, Director of Penn’s Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies
Location: The Old Chapel, 144, Hicks Way, Amherst, MA
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Maryam Patton (History and Middle Eastern Studies), “Past as Prelude: The Role of Historical Knowledge Among Early Ottoman Astrologers”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
**Wednesday, April 26th at 5.30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Lecture: “Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in ‘The Hock-Cart’”
Syrithe Pugh, Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen
Brown University, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/227769-early-modern-lectu…
Thursday, April 27 to Sat, April 29, 2023
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Conference: Nahuatl Texts and Contexts: Annual Meeting of the Association of Nahuatl Scholars
Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room, Brown University, Providence RI
Website Link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
*Saturday, April 29, 8:30am-9pm
Tufts University, Department of Music
Conference and Concert, "Bien chanter/Vivre bien: Music, Poetry, and Moral Philosophy in Early Modern Europe”
Granoff Music Center, 20 Talbot Ave, Medford MA
Organized by Melinda Latour (Tufts University), Julien Goeury (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne), and Isabelle His (Université de Poitiers)
This interdisciplinary conference brings together an international group of musicologists, literary scholars, and historians to consider how poetry, music, and other informal modes of philosophical engagement were used to creatively explore questions of living and dying well in early modern Europe. What is virtue, and how can one cultivate it? What multisensory practices of performing, listening, or viewing might contribute to practical wisdom? How were the musical and poetic arts thought to regulate and connect the mind and body? How did moral poetry and song work alongside, challenge, and expand religious and devotional practices? The keynote event will be a concert on April 29, 8pm by the Paris-based ensemble Faenza, led by Marco Horvat. All events are free and open to the public, but advance registration is required through the following link. https://forms.gle/6k2iNbMrfZLe1dsB8
**Monday, 5/1/2023
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Graduate Conference “Textual Relations”
Location: Brown University, Providence RI (In-person event with online option)
More information and program<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/history…>
The 14th Annual Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History “Textual Relations” is hosted by the John Carter Brown Library and the John Hay Library in Providence, RI. Several talks pertain to the early modern period (see link above).
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Closing Event
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 6:00pm
Julian Weiss (King's College, London): “Resistance and Reparation: Josephus in the Sephardic Diaspora, 1492-1687” (Brown Early Modern World Lecture)
Pembroke Hall, 305, Brown University, Providence RI.
This lecture is on the reception of Flavius Josephus (c. 37-100 CE) in the early modern Iberian world. Josephus became one of the most widely read classical historians of all time, a fundamental witness to Jewish history, and one of the turning points in world history – the Judean rebellion against Rome (66-70 CE) and the destruction of Jerusalem and the second Temple.
For more information click here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>.
*Thursday, May 4, 9:15 am – 2:10 pm
Boston University Department of Philosophy
Conference: “Organism & Life: Herder – Kant – Hegel”
Boston University, STH 325 and on Zoom
For information and to receive the zoom link, contact the organizers:
Giulia Battistoni (gbattist(a)bu.edu) and Kuizhi Lewis Wang (kwang39(a)bu.edu)
Thursday, May 4, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Harvard Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Simon Middleton (College of William and Mary), “Current Money and Community in Early America”
Harvard Law School (WCC 3019)
Thursday, May 4, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
ZOOM roundtable on Keeping scholarship and teaching on early modern gender studies vital and healthy in the current climate of shrinking humanities.
More information to come.
Friday, 5/5/2023 to Saturday, 5/6/2023
Kant’s Theory of Imagination: A Workshop (Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/kant%E2%80%99s-theory-imagin…>
Location: The Thompson Room, Barker Center, Room 110, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (see link for details)
Monday, May 8, 2023, 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Symposium in two parts, presenting ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century”
Location: Thomson Room of the Barker Center, Harvard University (12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA)
Twelve leading feminist scholars, including Ros Ballaster, Kristina Straub, Mona Narain, Jennie Batchelor, Tita Chico, Betty Schellenburg, Manushag Powell, Regulus Allen, and Susan Carlisle will present ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century.” The first roundtable discussion, from 1-3 will be about “Critiques of Capitalism” that surfaced in the eighteenth century. The second roundtable discussion from 3:30 to 5:30, will be about those ideas that went against the grain of individualism but were examples of ”Thinking Through the Community.” Questions will also be taken from the floor and discussion among the participants and the audience will be encouraged.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History of the Eucharist”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
June 5-9, 2023
Co-sponsored by Folger Institute and Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction to English Paleography (course)
Course Director: Dr. Heather Wolfe<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_staff_d…>, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library.
This weeklong course provides an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary hand of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course will highlight the strengths of our rare book collection and materials related to The Renaissance of the Earth. Find more information here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…>.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_2021-2D…>
Application deadline 6 March 2023 was for admission and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute Consortium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…> affiliates.
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*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu
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 are 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, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)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 EDT.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
**Monday, April 10, 12pm - 1pm
Premodern Race Seminar
Location: Room 237, Boylston, Harvard Yard
Readings are available on Harvard Canvas. Contact lydiashahan(a)g.harvard.edu for access to the Canvas site, or for more information.
*Tuesday April 11, 2023, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Boston University Center for Global Christianity and Mission, BU Center for the Study of Asia & Ricci Institute at Boston College
Lecture: “An Intercultural Book World: The Production and Distribution of Sino-European Books in China (1582-c.1823).”
Nicolas Standaert (Professor of Sinology, KU Leuven, Belgium)
In person: Riverside Room, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, 121 Bay State Road, Boston.
For more information:https://www.bu.edu/asian/2022/12/22/an-intercultural-book-world…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_asian_2022_…>
Tuesday, April 11, 5-6:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop of the History Department and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Early Modern Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe, organized by Sonia Tycko (PhD 2019)
Location: Robinson Hall conference room (formerly Lower Library, on the ground floor), Harvard Yard.
The panel will consist of three fifteen-minute papers, followed by Q&A.
Elizabeth Kamali (Law, Harvard), chair
Carissa M. Harris (English, Temple), "'Sey what ye wyll': Epistemologies of Sexual Consent in Premodern Pastourelles"
Emanuele Conte (Law, Roma Tre) "The Most Presumed Consent: Mario Salamonio (1450-1533) and the Social Contract"
Sonia Tycko (History, Edinburgh), "The Currency of Consent: Coins and Labor Contracts in Early Modern England"
For more information on the Historicizing Consent research network: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/historicizingconsent
Tuesday, April 11, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Lecture: “Between Sacrality and Perspectivalism: Theories of Seventeenth-Century Spectatorship in José Antonio Maravall and Louis Marin”
Mark Franko, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
Zoom registration see webpage<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/between-sacrality-and-pers…> or email Lisa Kostur at kostur(a)g.harvard.edu
Thursday, April 13, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Kimberly Coles, Department of English, University of Maryland, "Material Meaning: Body Politics in Early Modern Epithalamia"
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/kimberly-coles-tba
Tuesday, April 18, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Neil Safier (Brown University). “Translating the Plantationocene from the Prerevolutionary Caribbean to Colonial Brazil.”
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
How was the language of plantation society ported from the French and English-dominated Caribbean to colonial Brazil in the eighteenth century? What role did agro-industrial treatises play in the perpetuation of systems of enslaved labor as plantation societies shifted from sugar production to a wider array of foodstuffs, beverages, and profit-oriented utilitarian crops? Long understood to be powerful manuals for naturalists and plantation masters alike, these pragmatic instructional texts, focused around questions of climate, natural history, and commodity-driven agriculture, have only recently been understood to have circulated outside the narrow Caribbean world for which they were destined. One iconic protagonist of this translation process was the Franciscan friar José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo (1742-1811), who served as a linguistic conduit for moving natural knowledge from an array of texts produced in colonial cultures around the globe into print – and into Portuguese in particular. This talk examines Vellozo’s multi-volume and multi-faceted Fazendeiro do Brazil (1798-1806) with an eye toward connecting the eighteenth-century natural sciences, the ambitions of expanding plantation-based economies, and the politics of translation across the multilingual geographies of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Debapriya Sarkar, Assistant Professor of English at University of Connecticut, "Geographies of Race in The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra."
In-person event. Barker Center, 211, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
*Wednesday, April 19th at 5.30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
The Putnam Lecture sponsored by Brown Department of Classics: “Statius and Virgil in the Silvae of Angelo Poliziano”
Bruce Gibson (Liverpool)
Brown University, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/253236-the-annual-michael…
April 20, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Micah True (University of Alberta, Canada)
"lndigenous Literacies and the Jesuit Relations from New France: The Case of Joseph
Chi hoatenhwa"
Webinar. Registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.zoom.us_webinar_…>
Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:00pm
British actor and writer Paterson Joseph will read from his brand new novel, The Secret Diaries of Ignatius Sancho. Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard Hutchins Center and Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Location: TBA, Harvard University
The novel, The Secret Life of Charles Ignatius Sancho<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…> is based on the life and published letters (1780) of the Black British letter-writer. The novel was released in the UK in October 2022 and will be released in the US in April 2023. The novel also draws upon the one-man performance Paterson created in 2014, Sancho, A Remembrance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…>.
Friday, April 21, 2023, 5:30 pm reception, 6:00 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Gregory Semenza, Professor of English, University of Connecticut, “‘Please, just no Shakespeare’: Reinventing Authorship in Station Eleven.”
Location: In-person Event, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Friday, April 21, 2023, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Dan S. Collins Lecture
“Early Modern Erotica & the Pleasures of Paranoid Reading”
Melissa Sanchez, Director of Penn’s Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies
Location: The Old Chapel, 144, Hicks Way, Amherst, MA
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Maryam Patton (History and Middle Eastern Studies), “Past as Prelude: The Role of Historical Knowledge Among Early Ottoman Astrologers”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
**Wednesday, April 26th at 5.30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Lecture: “Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in ‘The Hock-Cart’”
Syrithe Pugh, Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen
Brown University, Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/227769-early-modern-lectu…
Thursday, April 27 to Sat, April 29, 2023
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Conference: Nahuatl Texts and Contexts: Annual Meeting of the Association of Nahuatl Scholars
Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room, Brown University, Providence RI
Website Link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
Monday, 5/1/2023
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Graduate Conference
Location: Brown University, Providence RI (In-person event)
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Closing Event
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 6:00pm
Julian Weiss (King's College, London): “Resistance and Reparation: Josephus in the Sephardic Diaspora, 1492-1687” (Brown Early Modern World Lecture)
Pembroke Hall, 305, Brown University, Providence RI.
This lecture is on the reception of Flavius Josephus (c. 37-100 CE) in the early modern Iberian world. Josephus became one of the most widely read classical historians of all time, a fundamental witness to Jewish history, and one of the turning points in world history – the Judean rebellion against Rome (66-70 CE) and the destruction of Jerusalem and the second Temple.
For more information click here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>.
Thursday, May 4, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Harvard Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Simon Middleton (College of William and Mary), “Current Money and Community in Early America”
Harvard Law School (WCC 3019)
Thursday, May 4, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
ZOOM roundtable on Keeping scholarship and teaching on early modern gender studies vital and healthy in the current climate of shrinking humanities.
More information to come.
Friday, 5/5/2023 to Saturday, 5/6/2023
Kant’s Theory of Imagination: A Workshop (Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/kant%E2%80%99s-theory-imagin…>
Location: The Thompson Room, Barker Center, Room 110, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (see link for details)
Monday, May 8, 2023, 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Symposium in two parts, presenting ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century”
Location: Thomson Room of the Barker Center, Harvard University (12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA)
Twelve leading feminist scholars, including Ros Ballaster, Kristina Straub, Mona Narain, Jennie Batchelor, Tita Chico, Betty Schellenburg, Manushag Powell, Regulus Allen, and Susan Carlisle will present ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century.” The first roundtable discussion, from 1-3 will be about “Critiques of Capitalism” that surfaced in the eighteenth century. The second roundtable discussion from 3:30 to 5:30, will be about those ideas that went against the grain of individualism but were examples of ”Thinking Through the Community.” Questions will also be taken from the floor and discussion among the participants and the audience will be encouraged.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History of the Eucharist”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
June 5-9, 2023
Co-sponsored by Folger Institute and Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction to English Paleography (course)
Course Director: Dr. Heather Wolfe<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_staff_d…>, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library.
This weeklong course provides an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary hand of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course will highlight the strengths of our rare book collection and materials related to The Renaissance of the Earth. Find more information here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…>.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_2021-2D…>
Application deadline 6 March 2023 was for admission and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute Consortium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…> affiliates.
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*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu
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
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Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
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*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.
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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 are 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, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)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 EDT.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
**Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Valeria López Fadul (Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University), "The World in the Library.”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
*April 4, 2023, 6pm
Jonathan Bober, National Gallery of Art: "Graphic Personality: Replica Drawings in Sixteenth-Century Italy". Zerner Lecture Series, Harvard History of Art and Architecture.<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/onathan-bober-national-galle…>
Location: Harvard History of Art and Architecture, Lower Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA, 02138
Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Folger Institute Information Session with Owen Williams, Interim Director of the Folger Institute and Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, on opportunities for graduate students of Renaissance literature at the Folger Institute.
Zoom registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Tuesday, April 11, 5-6:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop of the History Department and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Early Modern Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe, organized by Sonia Tycko (PhD 2019)
Location: Robinson Hall conference room (formerly Lower Library, on the ground floor), Harvard Yard.
The panel will consist of three fifteen-minute papers, followed by Q&A.
Elizabeth Kamali (Law, Harvard), chair
Carissa M. Harris (English, Temple), "'Sey what ye wyll': Epistemologies of Sexual Consent in Premodern Pastourelles"
Emanuele Conte (Law, Roma Tre) "The Most Presumed Consent: Mario Salamonio (1450-1533) and the Social Contract"
Sonia Tycko (History, Edinburgh), "The Currency of Consent: Coins and Labor Contracts in Early Modern England"
For more information on the Historicizing Consent research network: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/historicizingconsent
Tuesday, April 11, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Lecture: “Between Sacrality and Perspectivalism: Theories of Seventeenth-Century Spectatorship in José Antonio Maravall and Louis Marin”
Mark Franko, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
Zoom registration see webpage<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/between-sacrality-and-pers…> or email Lisa Kostur at kostur(a)g.harvard.edu
Thursday, April 13, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Kimberly Coles, Department of English, University of Maryland, "Material Meaning: Body Politics in Early Modern Epithalamia"
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/kimberly-coles-tba
Tuesday, April 18, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Neil Safier (Brown University). “Translating the Plantationocene from the Prerevolutionary Caribbean to Colonial Brazil.”
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
How was the language of plantation society ported from the French and English-dominated Caribbean to colonial Brazil in the eighteenth century? What role did agro-industrial treatises play in the perpetuation of systems of enslaved labor as plantation societies shifted from sugar production to a wider array of foodstuffs, beverages, and profit-oriented utilitarian crops? Long understood to be powerful manuals for naturalists and plantation masters alike, these pragmatic instructional texts, focused around questions of climate, natural history, and commodity-driven agriculture, have only recently been understood to have circulated outside the narrow Caribbean world for which they were destined. One iconic protagonist of this translation process was the Franciscan friar José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo (1742-1811), who served as a linguistic conduit for moving natural knowledge from an array of texts produced in colonial cultures around the globe into print – and into Portuguese in particular. This talk examines Vellozo’s multi-volume and multi-faceted Fazendeiro do Brazil (1798-1806) with an eye toward connecting the eighteenth-century natural sciences, the ambitions of expanding plantation-based economies, and the politics of translation across the multilingual geographies of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Debapriya Sarkar, Assistant Professor of English at University of Connecticut, "Geographies of Race in The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra."
In-person event. Barker Center, 211, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
April 20, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Micah True (University of Alberta, Canada)
"lndigenous Literacies and the Jesuit Relations from New France: The Case of Joseph
Chi hoatenhwa"
Webinar. Registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.zoom.us_webinar_…>
Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:00pm
British actor and writer Paterson Joseph will read from his brand new novel, The Secret Diaries of Ignatius Sancho. Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard Hutchins Center and Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Location: TBA, Harvard University
The novel, The Secret Life of Charles Ignatius Sancho<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…> is based on the life and published letters (1780) of the Black British letter-writer. The novel was released in the UK in October 2022 and will be released in the US in April 2023. The novel also draws upon the one-man performance Paterson created in 2014, Sancho, A Remembrance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…>.
Friday, April 21, 2023, 5:30 pm reception, 6:00 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Gregory Semenza, Professor of English, University of Connecticut, “‘Please, just no Shakespeare’: Reinventing Authorship in Station Eleven.”
Location: In-person Event, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Friday, April 21, 2023, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Dan S. Collins Lecture
“Early Modern Erotica & the Pleasures of Paranoid Reading”
Melissa Sanchez, Director of Penn’s Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies
Location: The Old Chapel, 144, Hicks Way, Amherst, MA
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Maryam Patton (History and Middle Eastern Studies), “Past as Prelude: The Role of Historical Knowledge Among Early Ottoman Astrologers”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Dr. Syrithe Pugh, Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen, Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in ‘The Hock-Cart’.
Pembroke Hall, 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
Thursday, April 27 to Sat, April 29, 2023
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Conference: Nahuatl Texts and Contexts: Annual Meeting of the Association of Nahuatl Scholars
Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room, Brown University, Providence RI
Website Link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
Monday, 5/1/2023
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Graduate Conference
Location: Brown University, Providence RI (In-person event)
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Closing Event
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
*Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 6:00pm
Julian Weiss (King's College, London): “Resistance and Reparation: Josephus in the Sephardic Diaspora, 1492-1687” (Brown Early Modern World Lecture)
Pembroke Hall, 305, Brown University, Providence RI.
This lecture is on the reception of Flavius Josephus (c. 37-100 CE) in the early modern Iberian world. Josephus became one of the most widely read classical historians of all time, a fundamental witness to Jewish history, and one of the turning points in world history – the Judean rebellion against Rome (66-70 CE) and the destruction of Jerusalem and the second Temple.
For more information click here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>.
Thursday, May 4, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Harvard Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Simon Middleton (College of William and Mary), “Current Money and Community in Early America”
Harvard Law School (WCC 3019)
Thursday, May 4, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
ZOOM roundtable on Keeping scholarship and teaching on early modern gender studies vital and healthy in the current climate of shrinking humanities.
More information to come.
*Friday, 5/5/2023 to Saturday, 5/6/2023
Kant’s Theory of Imagination: A Workshop (Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/kant%E2%80%99s-theory-imagin…>
Location: The Thompson Room, Barker Center, Room 110, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (see link for details)
Monday, May 8, 2023, 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Symposium in two parts, presenting ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century”
Location: Thomson Room of the Barker Center, Harvard University (12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA)
Twelve leading feminist scholars, including Ros Ballaster, Kristina Straub, Mona Narain, Jennie Batchelor, Tita Chico, Betty Schellenburg, Manushag Powell, Regulus Allen, and Susan Carlisle will present ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century.” The first roundtable discussion, from 1-3 will be about “Critiques of Capitalism” that surfaced in the eighteenth century. The second roundtable discussion from 3:30 to 5:30, will be about those ideas that went against the grain of individualism but were examples of ”Thinking Through the Community.” Questions will also be taken from the floor and discussion among the participants and the audience will be encouraged.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History of the Eucharist”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
June 5-9, 2023
Co-sponsored by Folger Institute and Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction to English Paleography (course)
Course Director: Dr. Heather Wolfe<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_staff_d…>, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library.
This weeklong course provides an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary hand of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course will highlight the strengths of our rare book collection and materials related to The Renaissance of the Earth. Find more information here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…>.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_2021-2D…>
Application deadline 6 March 2023 was for admission and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute Consortium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…> affiliates.
***
*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
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 are 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, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)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 EDT.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Kelly McCay (History), “The ABCs of Universal Characters”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 4pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on German Studies: New Perspectives
Ben Morgan, Oxford University: Rethinking Critique: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Models of Cultural Evolution.
Room 359 (Nebel Room), Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Tuesday, March 21, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Stacey Murrell (Brown University). More information will be coming soon.
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
March 21st 2023, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Christopher Nygren, Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh: 'Salt, Water, and Stone: The Ecology of Art in Renaissance Venice'
Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-nygren-2023<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
**Wednesday, March 22, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Graduate Student Paper Workshop: Zichen Liu: "The Inexplicable Voice: The Motif of the Echo from Hellenistic Poetry to Milton."
In-person event. Please email vpipas(a)fas.harvard.edu for the precirculated paper and more information.
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
March 23, 11:30am
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke (Universite de Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII): "L' Amerique dans les concours des Academies en France a l' epoque des Lumieres. Les concoursde Lyon (1781-1789) et de Toulouse (1784)" [in French]
Webinar. Registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.zoom.us_webinar_…>
March 23, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
"Margery Kempe’s Thermal Dynamics"
Micah Goodrich, Department of English, Boston University
Barker Center, room 024, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 4:30pm-6:15pm
Wesleyan University Renaissance Seminar
Sara Díaz, Fairfield University: "Margherita Costa's Love Letters. An Introduction."
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information, see the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.e…>.
*Thursday, March 30, 2023, 3pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Environmental Humanities
Julio Aguilar, Drinking Water in the Silver City of Potosí: Hydraulic Infrastructures and Practices in the Colonial Andes
Room 133 (Plimpton Room), Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
RSVP<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mahindrahumanities.for…> for Pre-Circulated Paper
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Valeria López Fadul (Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University), "Do Fish Breathe? Francisco Hernández, the Americas, and Renaissance Natural History.”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Folger Institute Information Session with Owen Williams, Interim Director of the Folger Institute and Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, on opportunities for graduate students of Renaissance literature at the Folger Institute.
Zoom registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Tuesday, April 11, 5-6:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop of the History Department and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Early Modern Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe, organized by Sonia Tycko (PhD 2019)
Location: Robinson Hall conference room (formerly Lower Library, on the ground floor), Harvard Yard.
The panel will consist of three fifteen-minute papers, followed by Q&A.
Elizabeth Kamali (Law, Harvard), chair
Carissa M. Harris (English, Temple), "'Sey what ye wyll': Epistemologies of Sexual Consent in Premodern Pastourelles"
Emanuele Conte (Law, Roma Tre) "The Most Presumed Consent: Mario Salamonio (1450-1533) and the Social Contract"
Sonia Tycko (History, Edinburgh), "The Currency of Consent: Coins and Labor Contracts in Early Modern England"
For more information on the Historicizing Consent research network: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/historicizingconsent
Tuesday, April 11, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Lecture: “Between Sacrality and Perspectivalism: Theories of Seventeenth-Century Spectatorship in José Antonio Maravall and Louis Marin”
Mark Franko, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
Zoom registration see webpage<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/between-sacrality-and-pers…> or email Lisa Kostur at kostur(a)g.harvard.edu
**Thursday, April 13, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Kimberly Coles, Department of English, University of Maryland, "Material Meaning: Body Politics in Early Modern Epithalamia"
Barker Center, room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/kimberly-coles-tba
Tuesday, April 18, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Neil Safier (Brown University). “Translating the Plantationocene from the Prerevolutionary Caribbean to Colonial Brazil.”
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
How was the language of plantation society ported from the French and English-dominated Caribbean to colonial Brazil in the eighteenth century? What role did agro-industrial treatises play in the perpetuation of systems of enslaved labor as plantation societies shifted from sugar production to a wider array of foodstuffs, beverages, and profit-oriented utilitarian crops? Long understood to be powerful manuals for naturalists and plantation masters alike, these pragmatic instructional texts, focused around questions of climate, natural history, and commodity-driven agriculture, have only recently been understood to have circulated outside the narrow Caribbean world for which they were destined. One iconic protagonist of this translation process was the Franciscan friar José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo (1742-1811), who served as a linguistic conduit for moving natural knowledge from an array of texts produced in colonial cultures around the globe into print – and into Portuguese in particular. This talk examines Vellozo’s multi-volume and multi-faceted Fazendeiro do Brazil (1798-1806) with an eye toward connecting the eighteenth-century natural sciences, the ambitions of expanding plantation-based economies, and the politics of translation across the multilingual geographies of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Debapriya Sarkar, Assistant Professor of English at University of Connecticut, "Geographies of Race in The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra."
In-person event. Barker Center, 211, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
April 20, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Micah True (University of Alberta, Canada)
"lndigenous Literacies and the Jesuit Relations from New France: The Case of Joseph
Chi hoatenhwa"
Webinar. Registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.zoom.us_webinar_…>
Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:00pm
British actor and writer Paterson Joseph will read from his brand new novel, The Secret Diaries of Ignatius Sancho. Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard Hutchins Center and Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Location: TBA, Harvard University
The novel, The Secret Life of Charles Ignatius Sancho<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…> is based on the life and published letters (1780) of the Black British letter-writer. The novel was released in the UK in October 2022 and will be released in the US in April 2023. The novel also draws upon the one-man performance Paterson created in 2014, Sancho, A Remembrance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…>.
Friday, April 21, 2023, 5:30 pm reception, 6:00 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Gregory Semenza, Professor of English, University of Connecticut, “‘Please, just no Shakespeare’: Reinventing Authorship in Station Eleven.”
Location: In-person Event, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Friday, April 21, 2023, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Dan S. Collins Lecture
“Early Modern Erotica & the Pleasures of Paranoid Reading”
Melissa Sanchez, Director of Penn’s Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies
Location: The Old Chapel, 144, Hicks Way, Amherst, MA
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Maryam Patton (History and Middle Eastern Studies), “Past as Prelude: The Role of Historical Knowledge Among Early Ottoman Astrologers”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Dr. Syrithe Pugh, Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen, Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in ‘The Hock-Cart’.
Pembroke Hall, 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
Thursday, April 27 to Sat, April 29, 2023
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Conference: Nahuatl Texts and Contexts: Annual Meeting of the Association of Nahuatl Scholars
Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room, Brown University, Providence RI
Website Link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
Monday, 5/1/2023
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Graduate Conference
Location: Brown University, Providence RI (In-person event)
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Closing Event
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Thursday, May 4, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Harvard Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Simon Middleton (College of William and Mary), “Current Money and Community in Early America”
Harvard Law School (WCC 3019)
*Thursday, May 4, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
ZOOM roundtable on Keeping scholarship and teaching on early modern gender studies vital and healthy in the current climate of shrinking humanities.
More information to come.
Monday, May 8, 2023, 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Symposium in two parts, presenting ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century”
Location: Thomson Room of the Barker Center, Harvard University (12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA)
Twelve leading feminist scholars, including Ros Ballaster, Kristina Straub, Mona Narain, Jennie Batchelor, Tita Chico, Betty Schellenburg, Manushag Powell, Regulus Allen, and Susan Carlisle will present ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century.” The first roundtable discussion, from 1-3 will be about “Critiques of Capitalism” that surfaced in the eighteenth century. The second roundtable discussion from 3:30 to 5:30, will be about those ideas that went against the grain of individualism but were examples of ”Thinking Through the Community.” Questions will also be taken from the floor and discussion among the participants and the audience will be encouraged.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History of the Eucharist”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
June 5-9, 2023
Co-sponsored by Folger Institute and Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction to English Paleography (course)
Course Director: Dr. Heather Wolfe<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_staff_d…>, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library.
This weeklong course provides an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary hand of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course will highlight the strengths of our rare book collection and materials related to The Renaissance of the Earth. Find more information here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…>.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_2021-2D…>
Application deadline 6 March 2023 was for admission and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute Consortium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu_researc…> affiliates.
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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 are 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, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu.
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Upcoming Events
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Kelly McCay (History), “The ABCs of Universal Characters”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
*Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 4pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on German Studies: New Perspectives
Ben Morgan, Oxford University: Rethinking Critique: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Models of Cultural Evolution.
Room 359 (Nebel Room), Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Tuesday, March 21, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Stacey Murrell (Brown University). More information will be coming soon.
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
March 21st 2023, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Five College Renaissance Seminar
Christopher Nygren, Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh: 'Salt, Water, and Stone: The Ecology of Art in Renaissance Venice'
Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-nygren-2023
**Wednesday, March 22, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Graduate Student Paper Workshop: Zichen Liu
In-person event. Please email vpipas(a)fas.harvard.edu for the precirculated paper and more information.
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
March 23, 11:30am
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke (Universite de Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII): "L' Amerique dans les concours des Academies en France a l' epoque des Lumieres. Les concoursde Lyon (1781-1789) et de Toulouse (1784)" [in French]
Webinar. Registration link<https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BDMUm8QrSWS0Ahk7LSl2dg>
**March 23, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
"Margery Kempe’s Thermal Dynamics"
Micah Goodrich, Department of English, Boston University
Barker Center, room 024, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 4:30pm-6:15pm
Wesleyan University Renaissance Seminar
Sara Díaz, Fairfield University: "Margherita Costa's Love Letters. An Introduction."
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information, see the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.e…>.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Valeria López Fadul (Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University), "Do Fish Breathe? Francisco Hernández, the Americas, and Renaissance Natural History.”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Folger Institute Information Session with Owen Williams, Interim Director of the Folger Institute and Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, on opportunities for graduate students of Renaissance literature at the Folger Institute.
Zoom registration<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvd-6hrjgrHtYXPhj8pOGEio1ZDZqzTK…>
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Tuesday, April 11, 5-6:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop of the History Department and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Early Modern Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe, organized by Sonia Tycko (PhD 2019)
Location: Robinson Hall conference room (formerly Lower Library, on the ground floor), Harvard Yard.
The panel will consist of three fifteen-minute papers, followed by Q&A.
Elizabeth Kamali (Law, Harvard), chair
Carissa M. Harris (English, Temple), "'Sey what ye wyll': Epistemologies of Sexual Consent in Premodern Pastourelles"
Emanuele Conte (Law, Roma Tre) "The Most Presumed Consent: Mario Salamonio (1450-1533) and the Social Contract"
Sonia Tycko (History, Edinburgh), "The Currency of Consent: Coins and Labor Contracts in Early Modern England"
For more information on the Historicizing Consent research network: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/historicizingconsent
*Tuesday, April 11, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Lecture: “Between Sacrality and Perspectivalism: Theories of Seventeenth-Century Spectatorship in José Antonio Maravall and Louis Marin”
Mark Franko, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
Zoom registration see webpage<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/between-sacrality-and-pers…> or email Lisa Kostur at kostur(a)g.harvard.edu
**Thursday, April 13, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Kimberly Coles, University of Maryland: TBA
Barker Center, room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/kimberly-coles-tba
Tuesday, April 18, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Neil Safier (Brown University). “Translating the Plantationocene from the Prerevolutionary Caribbean to Colonial Brazil.”
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
How was the language of plantation society ported from the French and English-dominated Caribbean to colonial Brazil in the eighteenth century? What role did agro-industrial treatises play in the perpetuation of systems of enslaved labor as plantation societies shifted from sugar production to a wider array of foodstuffs, beverages, and profit-oriented utilitarian crops? Long understood to be powerful manuals for naturalists and plantation masters alike, these pragmatic instructional texts, focused around questions of climate, natural history, and commodity-driven agriculture, have only recently been understood to have circulated outside the narrow Caribbean world for which they were destined. One iconic protagonist of this translation process was the Franciscan friar José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo (1742-1811), who served as a linguistic conduit for moving natural knowledge from an array of texts produced in colonial cultures around the globe into print – and into Portuguese in particular. This talk examines Vellozo’s multi-volume and multi-faceted Fazendeiro do Brazil (1798-1806) with an eye toward connecting the eighteenth-century natural sciences, the ambitions of expanding plantation-based economies, and the politics of translation across the multilingual geographies of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Debapriya Sarkar, Assistant Professor of English at University of Connecticut, "Geographies of Race in The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra."
In-person event. Barker Center, 211, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
April 20, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Micah True (University of Alberta, Canada)
"lndigenous Literacies and the Jesuit Relations from New France: The Case of Joseph
Chi hoatenhwa"
Webinar. Registration link<https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9gDkKN2yQPyQPNS5JmWCiw>
Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:00pm
British actor and writer Paterson Joseph will read from his brand new novel, The Secret Diaries of Ignatius Sancho. Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard Hutchins Center and Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Location: TBA, Harvard University
The novel, The Secret Life of Charles Ignatius Sancho<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegu…> is based on the life and published letters (1780) of the Black British letter-writer. The novel was released in the UK in October 2022 and will be released in the US in April 2023. The novel also draws upon the one-man performance Paterson created in 2014, Sancho, A Remembrance<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytim…>.
**Friday, April 21, 2023, 5:30 pm reception, 6:00 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Gregory Semenza, Professor of English, University of Connecticut, “‘Please, just no Shakespeare’: Reinventing Authorship in Station Eleven.”
Location: In-person Event, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
*Friday, April 21, 2023, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, Dan S. Collins Lecture
“Early Modern Erotica & the Pleasures of Paranoid Reading”
Melissa Sanchez, Director of Penn’s Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies
Location: The Old Chapel, 144, Hicks Way, Amherst, MA
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Maryam Patton (History and Middle Eastern Studies), “Past as Prelude: The Role of Historical Knowledge Among Early Ottoman Astrologers”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Dr. Syrithe Pugh, Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen, Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in ‘The Hock-Cart’.
Pembroke Hall, 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
Thursday, April 27 to Sat, April 29, 2023
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Conference: Nahuatl Texts and Contexts: Annual Meeting of the Association of Nahuatl Scholars
Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room, Brown University, Providence RI
Website Link<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/240556-early-modern-confe…>
Monday, 5/1/2023
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Graduate Conference
Location: Brown University, Providence RI (In-person event)
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Closing Event
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Thursday, May 4, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Harvard Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Simon Middleton (College of William and Mary), “Current Money and Community in Early America”
Harvard Law School (WCC 3019)
Monday, May 8, 2023, 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Symposium in two parts, presenting ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century”
Location: Thomson Room of the Barker Center, Harvard University (12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA)
Twelve leading feminist scholars, including Ros Ballaster, Kristina Straub, Mona Narain, Jennie Batchelor, Tita Chico, Betty Schellenburg, Manushag Powell, Regulus Allen, and Susan Carlisle will present ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century.” The first roundtable discussion, from 1-3 will be about “Critiques of Capitalism” that surfaced in the eighteenth century. The second roundtable discussion from 3:30 to 5:30, will be about those ideas that went against the grain of individualism but were examples of ”Thinking Through the Community.” Questions will also be taken from the floor and discussion among the participants and the audience will be encouraged.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History of the Eucharist”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
June 5-9, 2023
Co-sponsored by Folger Institute and Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction to English Paleography (course)
Course Director: Dr. Heather Wolfe<https://www.folger.edu/staff/dr-heather-wolfe>, Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library.
This weeklong course provides an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary hand of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course will highlight the strengths of our rare book collection and materials related to The Renaissance of the Earth. Find more information here<https://www.folger.edu/research/the-folger-institute/scholarly-programs/202…>.<https://www.folger.edu/2021-2022-folger-institute-scholarly-programs#Paleog…>
Application deadline 6 March 2023 was for admission and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute Consortium<https://www.folger.edu/research/the-folger-institute/scholarly-programs/fol…> affiliates.
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*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu
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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 are 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, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu.
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* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
**Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Alejandro Octavio Nodarse (History of Art and Architecture), “(Ir)reparable Errors: Marco Aurelio Severino’s Drawings as Surgical Practice”. Comments: Cynthia Klestinec.
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, 2/22/2023 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Lorraine Daston, Director emerita, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin: "The End of Natural Disasters" (The Inaugural Frederick A. Jakobiec Lecture, Harvard History of Science)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/lorraine-daston-director-eme…>
Location: Harvard Loeb House Ballroom, 17 Quincy St., Cambridge
Reception to Follow.
*Thursday, February 23, 12pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies & Cartography Seminars
Camille Serchuk (Fellow, Käte Hamburger Research Center, Munich; Professor of Art History, Dept. of Art & Design, Southern Connecticut State University)
Seminar, "Troubline Boundaries: Grotesque Ornament and Early Modern Cartography"
Location: Virtual
Please register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…> to receive the Zoom link for this event or write to tbanks(a)g.harvard.edu.
Thursday, February 23, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Harvard Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Ellen M. Nye, “Early Modern Money Between England and the Ottoman Empire”
Location: Harvard Law School (WCC 3019)
Thursday, February 23, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Boston College, Department of History: “Playing the Vanguard: Boundary-Busting Women and the Baroque Academies That Loved Them.”
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-gwyneth-ross-tba
*February 23, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Marie-Christine Pioffet (York University, Canada): "Entre docilité apparente et rébellion ouverte : la résonnance des voix des femmes autochtones à travers les mailles du discours jésuite (1632-1672)" [in French]
Webinar, Registration link<https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sbz93ZBwTF23S-hwAqIJTg>
**Thursday, February 23, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Travis Chi Wing Lau, Kenyon College: “The Pain of Race”
Online: registration link see
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/pain-race
This talk draws from a tentative second book project on the histories and theories of chronic pain in the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Methodologically, this project wants to put into conversation disability theory and pain studies, both of which tend to be more presentist in their models of pain, to consider how historical models of pain may help us intervene in larger cultural crises surrounding pain like the current opioid crisis. Rather than imagine the history of pain and disability as only ever moving toward increasing forms of pathology and medicalization, what would it mean to excavate historical cripistemologies of pain that deviate from that teleological narrative? In this talk, I contend with the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and the paradoxical understandings of pain attached to enslaved Black people, which continue to animate current healthcare disparities and inequalities. How does pain's racialization underpin dominant models of pain management and determine whose pain gets to matter? How did enslaved people contest the painful narratives attached to them or even revise white narratives of pain in terms of other traditions of health and healing?
*February 24, 2023, 8:45am-2:00pm
Co-Sponsors: Yale University Art Gallery, History of Science and Technology Division (YPM), Early Modern Studies at Yale University
Symposium: Symposium accompanying exhibition, Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500-1800<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam12.safelinks.protec…>, at the Yale University Art Gallery
Speakers: Alexi Baker (Yale Peabody Museum); Marisa Bass (Yale University); Paola Bertucci (Yale University); Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University); Romita Ray (Syracuse University); Carolyn Roberts (Yale University); Benjamin Schmidt (University of Washington); Margaret Schotte (York University)
Location: in-person and virtual. Registration required for virtual attendance; to register, visit https://bit.ly/3vLjU76 .
*Monday, 2/27/2023 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-premodern-race-semin…>
Location: HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
General inquiries: ancientstudies(a)harvard.edu
Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Matthew Kadane (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), 'Mind-Forged Manicules, or, What was “Enlightenment”?'
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
This paper focuses on the first person to use the now common English word “enlightenment,” a naval surgeon named James Rymer (1750-1827). “The Enlightenment” existed without Rymer’s word—this is not an exercise in Begriffsgeschichte. But the investigation of the word nevertheless opens up an unexpected world in which obscure people have an important role to play in intellectual history. Exploring the nature of that role is the methodological aim of the paper, while its more substantive goal is to reconstruct Rymer’s story, which, like the Enlightenment itself, is at times serious, at times farcical, and offers an object lesson in the difficulty of disentangling humanitarian from instrumentalist motives.
**Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Diana Henderson, Professor of Literature at MIT: "What were they thinking? Garnier's Les Juifves, Marlowe's Massacre at Paris, and the Dramatization of Religious Slaughter."
In-person event. Barker Center 211, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
*Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Claire Gilbert (Saint Louis University): "Exporting Expertise: Artists and Artisans Between Spanish and Moroccan Courts at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century"
Rhode Island Hall, 108, Brown University Providence RI
Friday, 3/3/2023 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book at Harvard University
Holly Shaffer (History of Art, Brown), "Table Land": James Forbes's Voyages and Travels (1765-1784) to a Colonial Source of Still Life.”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/holly-shaffer-history-art-br…>
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge.
Please RSVP for lunch by Feb 24 here<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/holly-shaffer-history-art-br…>, or by email to agoeing at fas.harvard.edu .
Friday, March 3, 2023, 6:00 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Christopher Pye, Professor of English, Williams College: “Shakespearean Comedy and Romance: the Aesthetic Turn”
ZOOM Meeting. You must register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/shakespearean-comedy-and-r…
Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Shireen Hamza (History of Science) and Eric Moses Gurevitch (NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University), “The Promise of Medieval Sciences, the Perils of Global History.”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, 3/8/2023 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The Starr Seminar
Victor Couto Tiribás (Starr Fellow), Scuola Normale Superiore: “The Rabbi and the Painter: Menasseh ben Israel, Rembrandt van Rijn, and the ‘Glorious Stone’"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/victor-couto-tirib%C3%A1s-st…>
Location: HMANE (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, formerly the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge) RM201 or online
Note: Please confirm your attendance with Sandy Cantave cantave(a)fas.harvard.edu, as lunch (kosher) will be provided for these meetings. If you would like to attend remotely please write to Sandy Cantave to get the zoomlink.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Kelly McCay (History), “The ABCs of Universal Characters”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Tuesday, March 21, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Stacey Murrell (Brown University). More information will be coming soon.
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
Wednesday, March 22, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBD
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
*March 23, 11:30am
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke (Universite de Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris VIII): "L' Amerique dans les concours des Academies en France a l' epoque des Lumieres. Les concoursde Lyon (1781-1789) et de Toulouse (1784)" [in French]
Webinar. Registration link<https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BDMUm8QrSWS0Ahk7LSl2dg>
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 4:30pm-6:15pm
Wesleyan University Renaissance Seminar
Sara Díaz, Fairfield University: "Margherita Costa's Love Letters. An Introduction."
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information, see the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.e…>.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Valeria López Fadul (Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University), "Do Fish Breathe? Francisco Hernández, the Americas, and Renaissance Natural History.”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
**Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Folger Institute Information Session with Owen Williams, Interim Director of the Folger Institute and Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, on opportunities for graduate students of Renaissance literature at the Folger Institute.
Register for the Zoom event here. <https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvd-6hrjgrHtYXPhj8pOGEio1ZDZqzTK…>
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Tuesday, April 11, 5-6:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop of the History Department and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Early Modern Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe, organized by Sonia Tycko (PhD 2019)
Location: Robinson Hall conference room (formerly Lower Library, on the ground floor), Harvard Yard.
The panel will consist of three fifteen-minute papers, followed by Q&A.
Elizabeth Kamali (Law, Harvard), chair
Carissa M. Harris (English, Temple), "'Sey what ye wyll': Epistemologies of Sexual Consent in Premodern Pastourelles"
Emanuele Conte (Law, Roma Tre) "The Most Presumed Consent: Mario Salamonio (1450-1533) and the Social Contract"
Sonia Tycko (History, Edinburgh), "The Currency of Consent: Coins and Labor Contracts in Early Modern England"
For more information on the Historicizing Consent research network: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/historicizingconsent
Thursday, April 13, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Kimberly Coles, University of Maryland: TBA
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/kimberly-coles-tba
Tuesday, April 18, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Neil Safier (Brown University). “Translating the Plantationocene from the Prerevolutionary Caribbean to Colonial Brazil.”
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>
How was the language of plantation society ported from the French and English-dominated Caribbean to colonial Brazil in the eighteenth century? What role did agro-industrial treatises play in the perpetuation of systems of enslaved labor as plantation societies shifted from sugar production to a wider array of foodstuffs, beverages, and profit-oriented utilitarian crops? Long understood to be powerful manuals for naturalists and plantation masters alike, these pragmatic instructional texts, focused around questions of climate, natural history, and commodity-driven agriculture, have only recently been understood to have circulated outside the narrow Caribbean world for which they were destined. One iconic protagonist of this translation process was the Franciscan friar José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo (1742-1811), who served as a linguistic conduit for moving natural knowledge from an array of texts produced in colonial cultures around the globe into print – and into Portuguese in particular. This talk examines Vellozo’s multi-volume and multi-faceted Fazendeiro do Brazil (1798-1806) with an eye toward connecting the eighteenth-century natural sciences, the ambitions of expanding plantation-based economies, and the politics of translation across the multilingual geographies of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
**Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Debapriya Sarkar, Assistant Professor of English at University of Connecticut, "Geographies of Race in The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra."
In-person event. Barker Center, 211, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
*April 20, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Center of Excellence: New Perspectives on New France
Micah True (University of Alberta, Canada)
"lndigenous Literacies and the Jesuit Relations from New France: The Case of Joseph
Chi hoatenhwa"
Webinar. Registration link<https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9gDkKN2yQPyQPNS5JmWCiw>
*Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:00pm
British actor and writer Paterson Joseph will read from his brand new novel, The Secret Diaries of Ignatius Sancho. Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard Hutchins Center and Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Location: TBA, Harvard University
The novel, The Secret Life of Charles Ignatius Sancho<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegu…> is based on the life and published letters (1780) of the Black British letter-writer. The novel was released in the UK in October 2022 and will be released in the US in April 2023. The novel also draws upon the one-man performance Paterson created in 2014, Sancho, A Remembrance<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytim…>.
Friday, April 21, 2023, 5:30 pm reception, 6:00 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Gregory Semenza, Professor of English, University of Connecticut, “‘Please, just no Shakespeare’: Reinventing Authorship in Station Eleven.”
Location: In-person Event, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Maryam Patton (History and Middle Eastern Studies), “Past as Prelude: The Role of Historical Knowledge Among Early Ottoman Astrologers”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
*Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Dr. Syrithe Pugh, Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen, Human Resources: Class and Cannibalism in ‘The Hock-Cart’.
Pembroke Hall, 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
*Thursday, April 27 to Sat, April 29, 2023
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
Conference: Nahuatl Texts and Contexts: Annual Meeting of the Association of Nahuatl Scholars
Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room, Brown University, Providence RI
Website Link<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/240556-early-modern-confe…>
Monday, 5/1/2023
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Graduate Conference
Location: Brown University, Providence RI (In-person event)
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Closing Event
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Thursday, May 4, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Harvard Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Simon Middleton (College of William and Mary), “Current Money and Community in Early America”
Harvard Law School (WCC 3019)
*Monday, May 8, 2023, 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Symposium in two parts, presenting ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century”
Location: Thomson Room of the Barker Center, Harvard University (12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA)
Twelve leading feminist scholars, including Ros Ballaster, Kristina Straub, Mona Narain, Jennie Batchelor, Tita Chico, Betty Schellenburg, Manushag Powell, Regulus Allen, and Susan Carlisle will present ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century.” The first roundtable discussion, from 1-3 will be about “Critiques of Capitalism” that surfaced in the eighteenth century. The second roundtable discussion from 3:30 to 5:30, will be about those ideas that went against the grain of individualism but were examples of ”Thinking Through the Community.” Questions will also be taken from the floor and discussion among the participants and the audience will be encouraged.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History of the Eucharist”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
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*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu
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. As last year 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, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)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 EDT.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
**Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Gordon Teskey, Professor of English at Harvard, "Prophetic Philology: Paradise Lost in the Twenty-First Century."
In-person event, Barker Center, Room 211, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Monday, 2/6/2023 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Medieval Studies
Opening meeting: Michelle Warren (Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College), author of Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (2022) in conversation with Ann Blair (History, Harvard)
Location: Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building (1730 Cambridge Street)
Prior to this event, from 4pm to 5:30pm, the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies invites all interested to join them for their Spring Semester welcoming reception, featuring food, drink, and lively conversation. The location is in front of Tsai Auditorium, at CGIS South Building Lower Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street.
Wednesday, 2/8/2023 5:15pm
Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on Diagrams Across Disciplines and the History of the Book
Matthew Landrus (Oxford University and Rhode Island School of Design), “Diagrammatic reasoning for early modern artist/engineers, with particular attention to Leonardo da Vinci.”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/matthew-landrus-oxford-unive…>
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
*Friday, February 10, 2023, 6:00 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Bradley J. Irish, Associate Professor of English, Arizona State University, “The Cycles of Disgust in Timon of Athens”
ZOOM Meeting. You must register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/cycles-disgust-timon-athens
Wednesday, February 15th, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Katherine Horgan, doctoral candidate in English at Harvard, "Playing Sappho: Biography as Form in Early Modern Sapphic Reception."
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, 2/15/2023 5:15pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Early Modern Workshop, and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars in the History of the Book and Diagrams Across Disciplines
J.H. Chajes (Wolfson Professor of Jewish Religious Thought, University of Haifa), “Seeing the Kabbalah Through Its Trees: The New Perspectives of The Kabbalistic Tree.”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/jh-chajes-wolfson-professor-…>
Location: HMANE (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, formerly the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge) Room 201.
*Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on American Literature and Culture
Meredith Neuman, Clark University: “Book Copies and Textual Desires: Reading Early American Poetry Against the Imprint.” Respondent: Sarah Robbins, Tufts University
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-copies-and-textual-de…
Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Alejandro Octavio Nodarse (History of Art and Architecture), “(Ir)reparable Errors: Marco Aurelio Severino’s Drawings as Surgical Practice”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
*Wednesday, 2/22/2023 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Lorraine Daston, Director emerita, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin: "The End of Natural Disasters" (The Inaugural Frederick A. Jakobiec Lecture, Harvard History of Science)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/lorraine-daston-director-eme…>
Location: Harvard Loeb House Ballroom, 17 Quincy St., Cambridge
Reception to Follow.
*Thursday, February 23, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Harvard Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Ellen M. Nye, “Early Modern Money Between England and the Ottoman Empire”
Location: Harvard Law School (WCC 3019)
*Thursday, February 23, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Boston College, Department of History: “Playing the Vanguard: Boundary-Busting Women and the Baroque Academies That Loved Them.”
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-gwyneth-ross-tba
*Thursday, February 23, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Travis Chi Wing Lau, Kenyon College: “The Pain of Race”
Online: registration link see
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/pain-race
Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Matthew Kadane (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), 'Mind-Forged Manicules, or, What was “Enlightenment”?'
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
This paper focuses on the first person to use the now common English word “enlightenment,” a naval surgeon named James Rymer (1750-1827). “The Enlightenment” existed without Rymer’s word—this is not an exercise in Begriffsgeschichte. But the investigation of the word nevertheless opens up an unexpected world in which obscure people have an important role to play in intellectual history. Exploring the nature of that role is the methodological aim of the paper, while its more substantive goal is to reconstruct Rymer’s story, which, like the Enlightenment itself, is at times serious, at times farcical, and offers an object lesson in the difficulty of disentangling humanitarian from instrumentalist motives.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Diana Henderson, Professor of Literature at MIT.
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Friday, 3/3/2023 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book at Harvard University
Holly Shaffer (History of Art, Brown), "Table Land": James Forbes's Voyages and Travels (1765-1784) to a Colonial Source of Still Life.”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/holly-shaffer-history-art-br…>
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge.
Please RSVP for lunch by Feb 24 here<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/holly-shaffer-history-art-br…>, or by email to agoeing(a)fas.harvard.edu .
*Friday, March 3, 2023, 6:00 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Christopher Pye, Professor of English, Williams College: “Shakespearean Comedy and Romance: the Aesthetic Turn”
ZOOM Meeting. You must register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/shakespearean-comedy-and-r…
Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Shireen Hamza (History of Science) and Eric Moses Gurevitch (NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University), “The Promise of Medieval Sciences, the Perils of Global History.”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, 3/8/2023 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The Starr Seminar
Victor Couto Tiribás (Starr Fellow), Scuola Normale Superiore: “The Rabbi and the Painter: Menasseh ben Israel, Rembrandt van Rijn, and the ‘Glorious Stone’"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/victor-couto-tirib%C3%A1s-st…>
Location: HMANE (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, formerly the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge) RM201 or online
Note: Please confirm your attendance with Sandy Cantave cantave(a)fas.harvard.edu, as lunch (kosher) will be provided for these meetings. If you would like to attend remotely please write to Sandy Cantave to get the zoomlink.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Kelly McCay (History), “The ABCs of Universal Characters”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Tuesday, March 21, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Stacey Murrell (Brown University). More information will be coming soon.
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Wednesday, March 22, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBD
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 4:30pm-6:15pm
Wesleyan University Renaissance Seminar
Sara Díaz, Fairfield University: "Margherita Costa's Love Letters. An Introduction."
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information, see the Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rensem.site.wesleyan.e…>.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Valeria López Fadul (Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University), "Do Fish Breathe? Francisco Hernández, the Americas, and Renaissance Natural History.”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBD
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
Tuesday, April 11, 5-6:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop of the History Department and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Early Modern Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe, organized by Sonia Tycko (PhD 2019)
Location: Robinson Hall conference room (formerly Lower Library, on the ground floor), Harvard Yard.
The panel will consist of three fifteen-minute papers, followed by Q&A.
Elizabeth Kamali (Law, Harvard), chair
Carissa M. Harris (English, Temple), "'Sey what ye wyll': Epistemologies of Sexual Consent in Premodern Pastourelles"
Emanuele Conte (Law, Roma Tre) "The Most Presumed Consent: Mario Salamonio (1450-1533) and the Social Contract"
Sonia Tycko (History, Edinburgh), "The Currency of Consent: Coins and Labor Contracts in Early Modern England"
For more information on the Historicizing Consent research network: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/historicizingconsent
*Thursday, April 13, 2023, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Kimberly Coles, University of Maryland: TBA
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/kimberly-coles-tba
Tuesday, April 18, 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Neil Safier (Brown University). “Translating the Plantationocene from the Prerevolutionary Caribbean to Colonial Brazil.”
Location: Brown University, to be announced. More information: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
How was the language of plantation society ported from the French and English-dominated Caribbean to colonial Brazil in the eighteenth century? What role did agro-industrial treatises play in the perpetuation of systems of enslaved labor as plantation societies shifted from sugar production to a wider array of foodstuffs, beverages, and profit-oriented utilitarian crops? Long understood to be powerful manuals for naturalists and plantation masters alike, these pragmatic instructional texts, focused around questions of climate, natural history, and commodity-driven agriculture, have only recently been understood to have circulated outside the narrow Caribbean world for which they were destined. One iconic protagonist of this translation process was the Franciscan friar José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo (1742-1811), who served as a linguistic conduit for moving natural knowledge from an array of texts produced in colonial cultures around the globe into print – and into Portuguese in particular. This talk examines Vellozo’s multi-volume and multi-faceted Fazendeiro do Brazil (1798-1806) with an eye toward connecting the eighteenth-century natural sciences, the ambitions of expanding plantation-based economies, and the politics of translation across the multilingual geographies of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Debapriya Sarkar, Assistant Professor of English at University of Connecticut, "Geographies of Race in The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra."
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Friday, April 21, 2023, 5:30 pm reception, 6:00 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Gregory Semenza, Professor of English, University of Connecticut, “‘Please, just no Shakespeare’: Reinventing Authorship in Station Eleven.”
Location: In-person Event, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Maryam Patton (History and Middle Eastern Studies), “Past as Prelude: The Role of Historical Knowledge Among Early Ottoman Astrologers”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
Monday, 5/1/2023
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Save the date: Harvard-Yale-Brown grad conference in book history <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-harvard-yale-brown…>
Location: Brown University, Providence RI (In-person event)
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 5pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Closing Event
In-person event
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Thursday, May 4, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Harvard Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Simon Middleton (College of William and Mary), “Current Money and Community in Early America”
Harvard Law School (WCC 3019)
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History of the Eucharist”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
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