Greetings, and Happy New 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. 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<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 EDT.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
Thursday, January 26, 2023, at 6 PM
Brown Early Modern World Lecture, co-sponsored with the Hispanic Studies department
David Amelang, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, “Performing Women in the Theaters of Early Modern Europe”
Location: Pembroke Hall, 102, Brown University, Providence RI, 02912
Located at the intersection of theatre history, gender studies and Digital Humanities, this presentation explores the dynamics of gender – and more specifically the presence and protagonism of female characters – in the dramatic literature of late-sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe. In particular, it seeks to illustrate visually how women’s progressive involvement in the artistic process as writers, performers and spectators enhanced the protagonism of female roles in early modern European theatre.
For more information click here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>.
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
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
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.
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<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper)
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<mailto:agoeing@fas.harvard.edu> .
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<mailto:mateomontoya@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<mailto:cantave@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<mailto:mateomontoya@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<mailto:mateomontoya@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
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…
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<mailto:mateomontoya@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…
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<mailto:mateomontoya@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<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
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Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
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Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1800, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. This 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<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 EDT.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, Nov 29, 2022, 5pm
Smith College, Department of English, Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Endowment for Renaissance Studies
2022 Kennedy Lecture series: "Renaissance Poetry across Media: Poetry and Music"
Bruce R. Smith, 2022-2023 Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professor in Renaissance studies, Smith College
Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College, 10 Elm Street, Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/provost/events
Wednesday, 11/30/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Emily Vasiliauskas, Associate Professor of English at Williams College: "On the Way to Lyric"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
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…>
*Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 5:30pm ET
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Early Modern Lecture
Yasmin Haskell, University of Western Australia / Princeton Institute of Advanced Study: “Playing with hellfire? Pagan gods and Asian demons in Jesuit Latin epic”
Location: Brown University, Pembroke Hall, Room 305, Providence RI, 02912
Abstract: This paper considers the representation of Greco-Roman and Asian deities and demons in two Jesuit Latin epics: Francesco Benci’s Quinque martyres (1592), on the five Jesuits martyred in Cuncolim, southern India, in 1583; Bartolomeu Pereira’s Paciecis (1640), on the martyrdom of the poet’s cousin, Francisco Pacheco, in Nagasaki in 1626. More information<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236721>
**Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University): 'Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs.'
This talk will be held via Zoom. Register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damherst.zoom.u…>.
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Thursday, 12/1/2022 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable on the new Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English: "A Field of Many Voices: Early Modern Women's Writing in English Now"
Virtual event. Registration<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvc-CrqjMjE9dZaTj6P5O54gl492V0…>.
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century: XIII Dinner Symposium
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
*Monday, December 5, 2022, 5pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Renaissance Studies
VK Preston, Department of History at Concordia University (Montreal): “Intangible Baroques in Natural History: Entangled Indigenous and Settler Knowledge in Early Archives”
Location: Online. Registration<:%20https:/harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsc-6upjssH90pALS2nmqH8WqciUWoyvW6>
More information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/intangible-baroques-natura…>
Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Douglas Pfeiffer (Stony Brook University)
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrspfeiffer2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
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*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place or (in case of online events) be relevant to the greater Boston area. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. It would be a great help if you could follow this format:
Day, date, time
Sponsor (if available)
Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
Location: in-person or virtual
*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this, and include location details.
Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences)
RSVP or Registration information/link
Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1800, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. This 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<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 EDT.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
**Tuesday, 11/15/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Iman Darwish (History of Science), “Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath Book of Simples: The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/iman-darwish-history-science…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>
*Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 1:30pm to 2:45pm
Harvard Department of the Classics
Workshop: Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne) and Thomas Sagory (French Ministry of Culture): "Mapping, 3D Modelling: Interactive Tools for Middle Eastern Heritage"
Boylston Hall, Room 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA. Open to members of the Harvard community.
More Information: Methods and Practice in Classics Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-classics-worksh…>
*Tuesday, Nov 15, at 5:00 pm (time changed)
MEMHS, Brown University
Yekai (Kyle) Zhang (grad student, History, Brown University): "The Representation and Social Memory of the 1641 Irish Rebellion in Protestant England, c. 1642-1689."
Pavilion Room, History Department, Brown University, Providence RI
Please write to Maria Sokolova for more information and to receive the precirculated papter: maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu
*Tuesday, November 15, at 5 pm Eastern Time
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Pauline Goul (Assistant Professor of French Literature and the College, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago)
"Smother Nature: Sustainability and the New World in Renaissance France"
Please register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…> to receive the zoom link for this event.
Wednesday, 11/16/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Hudson Vincent, Harvard Writing Center: "Carceral Colonialism: Thomas Morton, John Eliot, and the Puritan Origins of the Carceral State in America"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More Information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “The Chinese Discovery of America? Franciscan Missionaries and Mexican Material Culture in Guangzhou, 1579”
Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
In 1579, a group of Franciscan friars under the leadership of one Fray Pedro Alfaro attempted to establish a mission in China. Taken into custody by the Ming authorities, their destiny was shaped by the work of both human and non-human mediators, specifically a Chinese interpreter and a series of objects that the friars had brought with them from New Spain. As far as we know, this incident represents the first encounter between Chinese literati and the material culture of colonial Spanish America. The encounter provides an opportunity to reflect on patterns of early modern globalization facilitated by trans-Pacific travel.
More information: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236965-early-modern-lectu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
**Thursday, 11/17/2022 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Department of History, Boston College: “Playing the Vanguard: Boundary-Busting Women and the Baroque Academies that Loved Them”
Location: Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-earl...<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…>
Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,” Literature Compass (2019).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Tuesday, Nov 29, 2022, 5pm
Smith College, Department of English, Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Endowment for Renaissance Studies
2022 Kennedy Lecture series: "Renaissance Poetry across Media: Poetry and Music"
Bruce R. Smith, 2022-2023 Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professor in Renaissance studies, Smith College
Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College, 10 Elm Street, Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/provost/events
Wednesday, 11/30/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Emily Vasiliauskas, Associate Professor of English at Williams College: "On the Way to Lyric"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
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…>
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
This talk will be held via Zoom. Register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damherst.zoom.u…>.
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Thursday, 12/1/2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable on the new Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English: "A Field of Many Voices: Early Modern Women's Writing in English Now"
Virtual event. Register here: https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvc-CrqjMjE9dZaTj6P5O54gl492V0…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century: XIII Dinner Symposium
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Douglas Pfeiffer (Stony Brook University)
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrspfeiffer2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
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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. This 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<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>.
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Upcoming Events
Monday, October 24, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 4: Reading: draft of article in progress by Anna Wilson, “Racial Innocence: Whiteness and Childhood in Chaucer’s ‘Prioress’ Tale’”.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Monday, October 24, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Medieval Studies
Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, 10/24/2022 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop and Scandinavian Studies, Harvard
James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/james-raven-university-cambr…>
Location: In person event: History Dept conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Wednesday, October 26th, 3:00pm
The Gladys Brooks Foundation; Department of History and Classics; Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program
Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America (PC-SHEA):
“At the Center of the World: Urban Life in Seventeenth Century Mexico City”
Tatiana Seijas; Rutgers University
Location: Providence College, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI, 02918
More information: https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…> or email Sharon.Murphy(a)providence.edu
Dr. Tatiana Seijas is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University who specializes in Early Modern Global History, the Pacific World, and Latin America. The Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America meets several times a year to discuss pre-circulated works in progress, including chapters of doctoral dissertations, book projects, and article drafts on any aspect of early American history.
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard
Yavuz Aykan, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, Paris 1 Sorbonne University: "SOHBET-I OSMANI: Making Justice in a Venal Context: The Provincial Council and the Deconcentration of Power in 18th-Century Harput"
CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge
More information: Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-justice-venal-context-provinci...<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-justice-venal-context-provincial-…>
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Jordan Katz, Department of Judaic Studies, UMass-Amherst, and Harvard Divinity School: "Mapping Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Amsterdam"
Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
More information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-earl...<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…>
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Talk: “Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine”
Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Oct 28, 2022, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Evan MacCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Orchestrating Shakespeare's Storms". 6th Annual Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
Evan MacCarthy is a Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History in the Department of Music & Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on the history of fifteenth-century music and music theory, late medieval chant, German music in the Baroque era, as well as nineteenth-century American music. His book Ruled by the Muses: Italian Humanists and their Study of Music in the Fifteenth Century explores the musical lives of scholars who sought to revive the cultural and intellectual traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/berlinmaccarthy2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Tuesday, 11/1/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Information Gaps and the Management of Tangier’s Fortifications, 1662-1683”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer-architecture-…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Jeff Dolven, Professor of English at Princeton University: "Verse, Turn, Trope"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More Information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Thursday, November 3, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Trevor Jackson (George Washington University)
"From Commodity Gluts to Savings Glut: Crises of Overabundance in Atlantic Economies, 1602-2008."
Harvard Law School (Room TBD)
More information: https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming
*Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, 5:30 PM
Brown University, Annual William Church Lecture<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
John Jeffries Martin (Duke University): “From the Apocalypse to the Idea of Progress in Early Modern Europe”
Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 106, Brown University, 95 Cushing St, Providence, RI
In the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth century, Europeans expressed their hopes for the future within an apocalyptic, even millenarian frame. But in the late seventeenth and throughout the eighteenth century a new language of hope emerged as the Idea of Progress took hold. This presentation explores this transition with attention both to the emergence of secular values and to shifting notions of Divine Providence in the early modern world.
Friday, Nov 4, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Coppelia Kahn, Brown University: “Reading Faces in Hamlet”
133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138
Monday, November 7, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 5: Reading: TBD, on topic of slavery in the ancient/medieval Mediterranean OR pedagogy session, “Teaching Difficult Issues With Cases,” with Dan Smail.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Tuesday, November 8, 5 PM,
Celtic Languages and Literatures Lecture
Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut): Legitimacy, Sovereignty and the Practice of Politics in Early Modern Ireland
Warren House, Room 201, Harvard University, 11 Prescott St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Thursday, Nov 10, 2022
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Catherine Infante (Amherst College): “The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain”
650 East Pleasant St, Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-infante-2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Tuesday, 11/15/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Iman Darwish (History of Science), “Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath Book of Simples: The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/iman-darwish-history-science…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Wednesday, 11/16/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Hudson Vincent, Harvard Writing Center: "Carceral Colonialism: Thomas Morton, John Eliot, and the Puritan Origins of the Carceral State in America"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More Information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_g.har…>
Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “The Chinese Discovery of America? Franciscan Missionaries and Mexican Material Culture in Guangzhou, 1579.”
Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
In 1579, a group of Franciscan friars under the leadership of one Fray Pedro Alfaro attempted to establish a mission in China. Taken into custody by the Ming authorities, their destiny was shaped by the work of both human and non-human mediators, specifically a Chinese interpreter and a series of objects that the friars had brought with them from New Spain. As far as we know, this incident represents the first encounter between Chinese literati and the material culture of colonial Spanish America. The encounter provides an opportunity to reflect on patterns of early modern globalization facilitated by trans-Pacific travel.
More information: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236965-early-modern-lectu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
Thursday, 11/17/2022 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Department of History, Boston College: Title TBA
Location: Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-earl...<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…>
Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,” Literature Compass (2019).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Wednesday, 11/30/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Emily Vasiliauskas, Associate Professor of English at Williams College: "On the Way to Lyric"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
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…>
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
This talk will be held via Zoom. Register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damherst.zoom.u…>.
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Thursday, 12/1/2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable on the new Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English: "A Field of Many Voices: Early Modern Women's Writing in English Now"
Virtual event. Register here: https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvc-CrqjMjE9dZaTj6P5O54gl492V0…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century: XIII Dinner Symposium
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdiscipinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Douglas Pfeiffer (Stony Brook University)
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrspfeiffer2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
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*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place or (in case of online events) be relevant to the greater Boston area. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. It would be a great help if you could follow this format:
Day, date, time
Sponsor (if available)
Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
Location: in-person or virtual
*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this, and include location details.
Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences)
RSVP or Registration information/link
Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1800, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. This 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<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 EDT.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
October 13–15, 2022
Harvard University Library, Harvard Department of Romance languages and Literatures, Harvard Department of History, and Harvard Early Modern World
Camões @ Harvard Conference
This conference marks the 450th anniversary of the publication of Luis Vaz de Camões' maritime epic Os Lusiada with contributions from scholars from Europe, Africa, and America. Schedule of Events:
https://camoes.fas.harvard.edu/schedule-bilingual
Location: This event will be hybrid, including in-person locations on Harvard University’s campus and a livestream via Zoom. Check the website<https://camoes.fas.harvard.edu/schedule-bilingual> for forthcoming information and registration for the zoom links.
Friday, Oct 14, 2022, 3pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Adam Zucker (University of Massachusetts Amherst): “The Soundscape of the Tempest”
Location: 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-zucker-2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Saturday, Oct 15, 2022
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC)
Theme: “Instruments of Power in the Global Early Modern.”
Amherst College, Amherst MA
Conference Website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nerc2022.org_&d=Dw…>
Monday, October 17, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 3: Reading: selections from Sarah Derbew, Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge 2022).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Tuesday, 10/18/2022, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ryan Low (History, Harvard), “Household Archival Sciences in Medieval Provence and Dauphiné” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ryan-low-history-harvard-%E2…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
**Tuesday, October 18 at 4:30pm
Medieval History Workshop
Angela Zhang, post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History at Harvard, “Race, Slavery, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Florence”
Location: History department conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Tuesday, October 18, 4:30-6:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Book Launch: Ari Friedlander, University of Mississippi: Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics
Online via Zoom, contact: rencen(a)umass.edu
*Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 5:00pm
Celtic Languages and Literatures Lecture, Harvard University
Deirdre Nic Charthaigh: Music, Myth, and Identity in Gaelic Ireland: the Evidence of Early Modern Irish Literature
Warren House, 11 Prescott St, Cambridge MA, 02138
*Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Stephen Greenblatt, Professor of English at Harvard: "The Master's Books"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...<https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…>
October 20–21, 2022
The Clark Art Institute. Clark Conference
Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean
Convened by Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton University) and Wayne Modest (National Museum of Worldcultures and Wereldmuseum)
225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267
Website: https://www.clarkart.edu/research-academic/rap-events/clark-conference-2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.clarkart.edu_resea…>
Friday, Oct 21, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Kristen Bennett, Framingham State University: “Cosmographical Contemplation in Shakespeare’s Theatrum Mundi”
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, October 24, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 4: Reading: draft of article in progress by Anna Wilson, “Racial Innocence: Whiteness and Childhood in Chaucer’s ‘Prioress’ Tale’”.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Monday, October 24, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Medieval Studies
Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, 10/24/2022 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop and Scandinavian Studies, Harvard
James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/james-raven-university-cambr…>
Location: In person event: History Dept conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
**Wednesday, October 26th, 3:00pm
The Gladys Brooks Foundation; Department of History and Classics; Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program
Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America (PC-SHEA):
“At the Center of the World: Urban Life in Seventeenth Century Mexico City”
Tatiana Seijas; Rutgers University
Location: Providence College, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI, 02918
More information: https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…> or email Sharon.Murphy(a)providence.edu
Dr. Tatiana Seijas is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University who specializes in Early Modern Global History, the Pacific World, and Latin America. The Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America meets several times a year to discuss pre-circulated works in progress, including chapters of doctoral dissertations, book projects, and article drafts on any aspect of early American history.
*Thursday, October 27, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard
Yavuz Aykan, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, Paris 1 Sorbonne University: "SOHBET-I OSMANI: Making Justice in a Venal Context: The Provincial Council and the Deconcentration of Power in 18th-Century Harput"
CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge
More information: Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-justice-venal-context-provinci...<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-justice-venal-context-provincial-…>
*Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Jordan Katz, Department of Judaic Studies, UMass-Amherst, and Harvard Divinity School: "Mapping Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Amsterdam"
Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
More information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-earl...<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…>
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Talk: “Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine”
Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Oct 28, 2022, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Evan MacCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Orchestrating Shakespeare's Storms". 6th Annual Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
Evan MacCarthy is a Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History in the Department of Music & Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on the history of fifteenth-century music and music theory, late medieval chant, German music in the Baroque era, as well as nineteenth-century American music. His book Ruled by the Muses: Italian Humanists and their Study of Music in the Fifteenth Century explores the musical lives of scholars who sought to revive the cultural and intellectual traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/berlinmaccarthy2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Tuesday, 11/1/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Information Gaps and the Management of Tangier’s Fortifications, 1662-1683”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer-architecture-…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
*Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Jeff Dolven, Professor of English at Princeton University: "Verse, Turn, Trope"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More Information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...<https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…>
*Thursday, November 3, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020”
Trevor Jackson (George Washington University)
"From Commodity Gluts to Savings Glut: Crises of Overabundance in Atlantic Economies, 1602-2008."
Harvard Law School (Room TBD)
More information: https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming
Friday, Nov 4, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Coppelia Kahn, Brown University: “Reading Faces in Hamlet”
133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138
Monday, November 7, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 5: Reading: TBD, on topic of slavery in the ancient/medieval Mediterranean OR pedagogy session, “Teaching Difficult Issues With Cases,” with Dan Smail.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Thursday, Nov 10, 2022
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Catherine Infante (Amherst College): “The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain”
650 East Pleasant St, Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-infante-2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Tuesday, 11/15/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Iman Darwish (History of Science), “Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath Book of Simples: The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/iman-darwish-history-science…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
*Wednesday, 11/16/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Hudson Vincent, Harvard Writing Center: "Carceral Colonialism: Thomas Morton, John Eliot, and the Puritan Origins of the Carceral State in America"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More Information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...<https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…>
Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “The Chinese Discovery of America? Franciscan Missionaries and Mexican Material Culture in Guangzhou, 1579.”
Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
In 1579, a group of Franciscan friars under the leadership of one Fray Pedro Alfaro attempted to establish a mission in China. Taken into custody by the Ming authorities, their destiny was shaped by the work of both human and non-human mediators, specifically a Chinese interpreter and a series of objects that the friars had brought with them from New Spain. As far as we know, this incident represents the first encounter between Chinese literati and the material culture of colonial Spanish America. The encounter provides an opportunity to reflect on patterns of early modern globalization facilitated by trans-Pacific travel.
More information: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236965-early-modern-lectu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
*Thursday, 11/17/2022 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Department of History, Boston College: Title TBA
Location: Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-earl...<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…>
Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,” Literature Compass (2019).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Wednesday, 11/30/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Emily Vasiliauskas, Associate Professor of English at Williams College: "On the Way to Lyric"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…<https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…>
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
This talk will be held via Zoom. Register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damherst.zoom.u…>.
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
*Thursday, 12/1/2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable on the new Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English: "A Field of Many Voices: Early Modern Women's Writing in English Now"
Virtual event. Register here: https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvc-CrqjMjE9dZaTj6P5O54gl492V0…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century: XIII Dinner Symposium
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdiscipinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Douglas Pfeiffer (Stony Brook University)
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrspfeiffer2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
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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. This 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<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>.
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Upcoming Events
*Monday, October 3 at 4:00 pm EST
Yale Department of the History of Art & Yale Early Modern Studies Colloquium
Talk: "Revisiting the Theme of Love in Vermeer"
Dr. Aneta Georgievska-Shine, University of Maryland
Location: virtual, https://yale.zoom.us/j/8472619307
Abstract: Though “love” is widely recognized as one of Vermeer’s central concerns, his approach to this theme is always full of self-conscious ambiguities. On the one hand, his deliberately structured, highly refined compositions convey a deep engagement with the object of representation as such. At the same time, they are often metaphors for something more universal – if not metaphysical. This double perspective allows him to draw a connection between the nourishments of physical love and those of art in works such as The Music Lesson, or between a seemingly worldly, pregnant woman holding a balance and the Virgin Mary. While this mode of thinking through analogies is part of his culture, what sets Vermeer apart is his fine balancing between various possible ways of seeing and representing these relationships between “things” observed and their culturally established symbolic meanings.
**New Time: Mon Oct 3, 5:15pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center seminar on Book History
Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town): "Book Collecting in Timbuktu."
In person event; Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA.
This lecture surveys five centuries of collecting in Timbuktu, a town in the interior of West Africa, that has come to symbolize a larger world of learning and book culture in the region. This lecture follows citations in texts written in the town in the 16th century, book borrowing and copying, through to a major collector of the early 20th century who both attempted to conserve the manuscript book tradition and imported printed books to Timbuktu.
Monday, October 3, 2022, 5:30-6:30pm, with reception to follow
Boston College's Art, Art History and Film Department and the McMullen Museum of Art
Lecture: “Thinking through the Objects: Displaying the Italian Renaissance at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” ( The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture In Italian Art)
Marietta Cambareri, Senior Curator of European Sculpture and Jetskalina H. Phillips Curator of Judaica, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In-person: The McMullen Museum of Art, 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 111, Brighton MA; directions and parking<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_sites_artmu…>
Tuesday, 10/4/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Sarah Koval (Music, Harvard), “Music in Early Modern Recipe Books: Notation, Genre, Wellbeing” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-koval-music-harvard-%E…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138. RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
**Thursday, Oct 6, 2022, 4pm
Brown University Early Modern World Event
Cécile Fromont (History of Art, Yale University): “Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola”
Location: Room 120, List Art Bulding, Brown University, 64 College St, Providence RI
The event is free and open to the public.
Cécile Fromont’s writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America with a special emphasis on the early modern period (ca 1500-1800) and on the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic World. More information about her talk: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236722-early-modern-lectu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
Thursday, 10/6/2022 4:30pm
Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut: "Paleography and power: Irish political thought in a multi-lingual archive." (The 18th John V. Kelleher Memorial Lecture)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/brendan-kane-university-conn…>
Location: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, October 6, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
The Non-Pursuit of Happiness: Childhood, Slavery, and Fugitivity in the Age of Revolution
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University
Location: Online
Please add your name and email address to this registration page.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__northeastern.zoom.us_m…> After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link and passcode to the event.
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Sue Lanser at lanser(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:lanser@brandeis.edu>
*10/7/2022 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Houghton Library Workshop: "Chaucer in Print, 16th & 17th Centuries"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/houghton-library-workshop-ch…>
Location: Hofer Classroom, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard (Registration link in details)
October 9, 2022, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Materials Lab Workshop: Modeling Material Culture in Paper<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvardartmuseums.org_…>
This workshop is inspired by the exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, which explores how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the so-called age of reason.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
**Wednesday, October 12, 4:30pm-6:15pm
Wesleyan University Renaissance Seminar
Miles P. Grier, Queens College of the City University of New York: "Rac'd All Over their Bodies": Charting the Study of Shakespeare, Race, and Book History
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…>.
Wednesday, October 12, 5:00-6:30 PM
MIT Global France Seminar
Lecture: "Avedik, Louis XIV's Armenian Prisoner: Confessional Conflicts, Involuntary Movement, and Incarceration in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
Junko Takeda, Department of History, Syracuse University
Building E51, Room 275, MIT
More Information: https://languages.mit.edu/events/juno-takeda-lecture/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__languages.mit.edu_even…>
Those not affiliated with MIT should secure a TIM Ticket for entrance to Building E51: https://visitors.mit.edu/?event=964dc363-079c-487b-b5a4-fbc7df30b2c7<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__visitors.mit.edu_-3Fev…>
October 13–15, 2022
Harvard University Library, Harvard Department of Romance languages and Literatures, Harvard Department of History, and Harvard Early Modern World
Camões @ Harvard Conference
This conference marks the 450th anniversary of the publication of Luis Vaz de Camões' maritime epic Os Lusiada with contributions from scholars from Europe, Africa, and America. Schedule of Events:
https://camoes.fas.harvard.edu/schedule-bilingual
Location: This event will be hybrid, including in-person locations on Harvard University’s campus and a livestream via Zoom. Check the website<https://camoes.fas.harvard.edu/schedule-bilingual> for forthcoming information and registration for the zoom links.
*Friday, Oct 14, 2022, 3pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Adam Zucker (University of Massachusetts Amherst): “The Soundscape of the Tempest”
Location: 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-zucker-2022
Saturday, Oct 15, 2022
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC)
Theme: “Instruments of Power in the Global Early Modern.”
Amherst College, Amherst MA
Conference Website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nerc2022.org_&d=Dw…>
Monday, October 17, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 3: Reading: selections from Sarah Derbew, Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge 2022).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Tuesday, 10/18/2022, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ryan Low (History, Harvard), “Household Archival Sciences in Medieval Provence and Dauphiné” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ryan-low-history-harvard-%E2…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
*Tuesday, October 18 at 4:30pm
Medieval History Workshop
Angela Zhang, post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History at Harvard, title TBA
Location: History department conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*Tuesday, October 18, 4:30-6:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Book Launch: Ari Friedlander, University of Mississippi: Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics
Online via Zoom, contact: rencen(a)umass.edu
October 20–21, 2022
The Clark Art Institute. Clark Conference
Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean
Convened by Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton University) and Wayne Modest (National Museum of Worldcultures and Wereldmuseum )
225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267
Website: https://www.clarkart.edu/research-academic/rap-events/clark-conference-2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.clarkart.edu_resea…>
Friday, Oct 21, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Kristen Bennett, Framingham State University: “Cosmographical Contemplation in Shakespeare’s Theatrum Mundi”
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, October 24, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 4: Reading: draft of article in progress by Anna Wilson, “Racial Innocence: Whiteness and Childhood in Chaucer’s ‘Prioress’ Tale’”.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Monday, October 24, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Medieval Studies
Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, 10/24/2022 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop and Scandinavian Studies, Harvard
James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/james-raven-university-cambr…>
Location: In person event: History Dept conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
**Wednesday, October 26th, 3:00pm
The Gladys Brooks Foundation; Department of History and Classics; Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program
Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America (PC-SHEA): “At the Center of the World: Urban Life in Seventeenth Century Mexico City”
Tatiana Seijas; Rutgers University
More information: https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…> or email Sharon.Murphy(a)providence.edu
Dr. Tatiana Seijas is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University who specializes in Early Modern Global History, the Pacific World, and Latin America. The Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America meets several times a year to discuss pre-circulated works in progress, including chapters of doctoral dissertations, book projects, and article drafts on any aspect of early American history.
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine
Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Oct 28, 2022, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Evan MacCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Orchestrating Shakespeare's Storms". 6th Annual Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
Evan MacCarthy is a Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History in the Department of Music & Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on the history of fifteenth-century music and music theory, late medieval chant, German music in the Baroque era, as well as nineteenth-century American music. His book Ruled by the Muses: Italian Humanists and their Study of Music in the Fifteenth Century explores the musical lives of scholars who sought to revive the cultural and intellectual traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/berlinmaccarthy2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Tuesday, 11/1/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Information Gaps and the Management of Tangier’s Fortifications, 1662-1683” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer-architecture-…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Friday, Nov 4, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Coppelia Kahn, Brown University: “Reading Faces in Hamlet”
133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138
Monday, November 7, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 5: Reading: TBD, on topic of slavery in the ancient/medieval Mediterranean OR pedagogy session, “Teaching Difficult Issues With Cases,” with Dan Smail.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Thursday, Nov 10, 2022
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Catherine Infante (Amherst College): “The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain”
650 East Pleasant St, Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-infante-2022
Tuesday, 11/15/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Iman Darwish (History of Science), “Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath Book of Simples: The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/iman-darwish-history-science…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “The Chinese Discovery of America? Franciscan Missionaries and Mexican Material Culture in Guangzhou, 1579.”
Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
In 1579, a group of Franciscan friars under the leadership of one Fray Pedro Alfaro attempted to establish a mission in China. Taken into custody by the Ming authorities, their destiny was shaped by the work of both human and non-human mediators, specifically a Chinese interpreter and a series of objects that the friars had brought with them from New Spain. As far as we know, this incident represents the first encounter between Chinese literati and the material culture of colonial Spanish America. The encounter provides an opportunity to reflect on patterns of early modern globalization facilitated by trans-Pacific travel.
More information: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236965-early-modern-lectu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.brown.edu_early…>
Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,” Literature Compass (2019).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
This talk will be held via Zoom. Register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damherst.zoom.u…>.
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…>
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century: XIII Dinner Symposium
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
*Thursday, December 8, 2022, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdiscipinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Douglas Pfeiffer (Stony Brook University)
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrspfeiffer2022
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*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
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Day, date, time
Sponsor (if available)
Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
Location: in-person or virtual
*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this, and include location details.
Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences)
RSVP or Registration information/link
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. This 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<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 EDT.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, September 28, 12pm
Center for the Humanities, The University of Rhode Island, RI
Lecture: “The Aroma of Legitimacy in the Late Middle Ages”
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island, Department of History
The University of Rhode Island, Hardge Forum, Multicultural Center, Kingston, RI
Both in-person and virtual
RSVP or Registration information/link:
https://web.uri.edu/humanities/the-aroma-of-legitimacy-in-the-late-middle-a…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__web.uri.edu_humanities…>
*Thursday, September 29, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
James Lewis, Associate Professor of Korean History, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, " Aspects of a macro-economic model for Chosŏn Korea" (Harvard Korea Institute Korea Colloquium)
In-person and online Event (register here<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrfuCpqT0iHtCqbD9nvYGxJlStx-mZTp…>)
In person at Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
More information: Harvard Korea Institute Korea Colloquium <https://korea.fas.harvard.edu/event/aspects-macro-economic-model-chos%C5%8F…>
September 30, 2022, 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Gallery Talk: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/gallery-talk-dare-to-know-prints-and…>
Join Sam Nehila, curatorial assistant in the Division of European and American Art, for an in-depth discussion about William Hogarth’s print series The Four Stages of Cruelty, on view in the special exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Sunday, October 2, 3-4 pm
Jeffrey R. Wilson<https://wilson.fas.harvard.edu> (Harvard University): Book Launch for Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tupress.temple.edu_boo…>
Location: lala books<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.lalabookstore.com&…> (189 Market St. Lowell, MA 01852)
free, kids welcome, drinks and snacks
October 2, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Exhibition Tour: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/exhibition-tour-dare-to-know-prints-…>
Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view through January 15, 2023. She will share insights about how works on paper played a critical role in the 18th century.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Mon Oct 3, 4:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center seminar on Book History
Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town): "Book Collecting in Timbuktu."
In person event; Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA.
This lecture surveys five centuries of collecting in Timbuktu, a town in the interior of West Africa, that has come to symbolize a larger world of learning and book culture in the region. This lecture follows citations in texts written in the town in the 16th century, book borrowing and copying, through to a major collector of the early 20th century who both attempted to conserve the manuscript book tradition and imported printed books to Timbuktu.
**Monday, October 3, 2022, 5:30-6:30, with reception to follow
Boston College's Art, Art History and Film Department and the McMullen Museum of Art
Lecture: “Thinking through the Objects: Displaying the Italian Renaissance at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” ( The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture In Italian Art)
Marietta Cambareri, Senior Curator of European Sculpture and Jetskalina H. Phillips Curator of Judaica, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In-person: The McMullen Museum of Art, 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 111, Brighton MA; directions and parking<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_sites_artmu…>
Tuesday, 10/4/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Sarah Koval (Music, Harvard), “Music in Early Modern Recipe Books: Notation, Genre, Wellbeing” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-koval-music-harvard-%E…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138. RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Thursday, Oct 6, 2022, 4pm
Brown University Early Modern World Event
Cécile Fromont (History of Art, Yale University): Title TBA
Location TBD
Cécile Fromont’s writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America with a special emphasis on the early modern period (ca 1500-1800) and on the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic World. More information about her talk is coming soon at https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236722-early-modern-lectu…
Thursday, 10/6/2022 4:30pm
Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut: "Paleography and power: Irish political thought in a multi-lingual archive." (The 18th John V. Kelleher Memorial Lecture)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/brendan-kane-university-conn…>
Location: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, October 6, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
The Non-Pursuit of Happiness: Childhood, Slavery, and Fugitivity in the Age of Revolution
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University
Location: Online
Please add your name and email address to this registration page.<https://northeastern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rf-qvqz4rHdcpzBskWazOT2iYZ…> After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link and passcode to the event.
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Sue Lanser at lanser(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:lanser@brandeis.edu>
October 9, 2022, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Materials Lab Workshop: Modeling Material Culture in Paper<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/materials-lab-workshop-modeling-mate…>
This workshop is inspired by the exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, which explores how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the so-called age of reason.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Wednesday, October 12, 4:30pm-6:15pm
Wesleyan University Renaissance Seminar
Miles P. Grier, Queens College of the City University of New York: "Rac'd All Over their Bodies": Clothing, Tattoo, and Stigma in Early Modern English Racecraft
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information or to RSVP (required), please email mtokumitsu(a)wesleyan.edu
*Wednesday, October 12, 5:00-6:30 PM
MIT Global France Seminar
Lecture: "Avedik, Louis XIV's Armenian Prisoner: Confessional Conflicts, Involuntary Movement, and Incarceration in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
Junko Takeda, Department of History, Syracuse University
Building E51, Room 275, MIT
More Information: https://languages.mit.edu/events/juno-takeda-lecture/
Those not affiliated with MIT should secure a TIM Ticket for entrance to Building E51: https://visitors.mit.edu/?event=964dc363-079c-487b-b5a4-fbc7df30b2c7
*October 13–15, 2022
Harvard University Library, Harvard Department of Romance languages and Literatures, Harvard Department of History, and Harvard Early Modern World
Camões @ Harvard Conference
This conference marks the 450th anniversary of the publication of Luis Vaz de Camões' maritime epic Os Lusiada with contributions from scholars from Europe, Africa, and America. Schedule of Events:
https://camoes.fas.harvard.edu/schedule-bilingual
Location: This event will be hybrid, including in-person locations on Harvard University’s campus and a livestream via Zoom. Check the website<https://camoes.fas.harvard.edu/schedule-bilingual> for forthcoming information and registration for the zoom links.
**Saturday, Oct 15, 2022
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC)
Theme: “Instruments of Power in the Global Early Modern.”
Amherst College, Amherst MA
Conference Website<https://www.nerc2022.org/>
Monday, October 17, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 3: Reading: selections from Sarah Derbew, Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge 2022).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Tuesday, 10/18/2022, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ryan Low (History, Harvard), “Household Archival Sciences in Medieval Provence and Dauphiné” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ryan-low-history-harvard-%E2…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
October 20–21, 2022
The Clark Art Institute. Clark Conference
Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean
Convened by Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton University) and Wayne Modest (National Museum of Worldcultures and Wereldmuseum )
225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267
Website: https://www.clarkart.edu/research-academic/rap-events/clark-conference-2022
Friday, Oct 21, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Kristen Bennett, Framingham State University: “Cosmographical Contemplation in Shakespeare’s Theatrum Mundi”
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, October 24, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 4: Reading: draft of article in progress by Anna Wilson, “Racial Innocence: Whiteness and Childhood in Chaucer’s ‘Prioress’ Tale’”.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Monday, October 24, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Medieval Studies
Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, 10/24/2022 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop and Scandinavian Studies, Harvard
James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/james-raven-university-cambr…>
Location: In person event: History Dept conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine
Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Oct 28, 2022, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Evan MacCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Orchestrating Shakespeare's Storms". 6th Annual Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
Evan MacCarthy is a Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History in the Department of Music & Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on the history of fifteenth-century music and music theory, late medieval chant, German music in the Baroque era, as well as nineteenth-century American music. His book Ruled by the Muses: Italian Humanists and their Study of Music in the Fifteenth Century explores the musical lives of scholars who sought to revive the cultural and intellectual traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/berlinmaccarthy2022
Tuesday, 11/1/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Information Gaps and the Management of Tangier’s Fortifications, 1662-1683” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer-architecture-…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Friday, Nov 4, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Coppelia Kahn, Brown University: “Reading Faces in Hamlet”
133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138
Monday, November 7, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 5: Reading: TBD, on topic of slavery in the ancient/medieval Mediterranean OR pedagogy session, “Teaching Difficult Issues With Cases,” with Dan Smail.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Tuesday, 11/15/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Iman Darwish (History of Science), “Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath Book of Simples: The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/iman-darwish-history-science…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “The Chinese Discovery of America? Franciscan Missionaries and Mexican Material Culture in Guangzhou, 1579.”
Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
In 1579, a group of Franciscan friars under the leadership of one Fray Pedro Alfaro attempted to establish a mission in China. Taken into custody by the Ming authorities, their destiny was shaped by the work of both human and non-human mediators, specifically a Chinese interpreter and a series of objects that the friars had brought with them from New Spain. As far as we know, this incident represents the first encounter between Chinese literati and the material culture of colonial Spanish America. The encounter provides an opportunity to reflect on patterns of early modern globalization facilitated by trans-Pacific travel.
More information: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236965-early-modern-lectu…
Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,” Literature Compass (2019).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
This talk will be held via Zoom. Register here<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvce6vqjooG9LGb3Ag5MePA_6Z…>.
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century: XIII Dinner Symposium
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
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Upcoming Events
*September 18, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Exhibition Tour: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/exhibition-tour-dare-to-know-prints-…>
Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view through January 15, 2023.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Tuesday, 9/20/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Mateo Montoya (History of Science, Harvard), Prospectus Workshop: "Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní: 1600-1780" (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/mateo-montoya-history-scienc…>
Location: on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu
*Wednesday, September 21, 5:15pm EST
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Chris Barrett, Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State Univ., "Spenserian Lepidoptera and Parenthetical Ecologies"
In-person Event
Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
*September 22, 2022, 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Gallery Talk: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/gallery-talk-dare-to-know-prints-and…>
Join Margaret Morgan Grasselli for an in-depth discussion about the 18th-century invention of the multicolor, multiplate printing technique that laid the foundation for today’s CMYK process.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
*Thursday, September 22, 6:30–7:45 pm
Where Art and the Life Sciences Meet: Exploring Health Innovation through Dutch Art (Conversation)
Marisa Bass, professor of the History of Art, Yale University
David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Harvard University
Moderated by Cristela Guerra, arts and culture reporter, WBUR
Museum of Fine Art, Remis Auditorium, 161, 465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Museum+of+Fine+Arts,+Boston/@42.3391059,-…>
Members Free, Nonmembers $15
Tickets<https://www.mfa.org/event/lecture/where-art-and-life-sciences-meet?event=87…>
How can Dutch art from the 17th century propel conversations and inspire creative thinking today, especially when it comes to managing the ongoing COVID-19 global health crisis? At this event, copresented by the Center for Netherlandish Art and Netherlands Innovation Network, join a conversation between professors from different disciplines to explore art, health, and disease in society and times of pandemic—then and now—and take a closer look at the pivotal roles the Netherlands and Greater Boston have played in health innovation through the centuries.
*Thursday, September 22, 2022, 4:30pm to 5:30pm
James Simpson (Harvard): "Recognition, Reading and Riddles: An Exeter Book Poem" (The Morton W. Bloomfield Lecture 2022)
Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and via Zoom (Registration)
More information and registration: kaileybennett(a)fas.harvard.edu
*Thursday, September 22, 2022 to Friday, September 23, 2022
Pop-Up Exhibit "Illuminated and Unsettled"
Edison and Newman Room, 1st Floor Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Curated by Harvard graduate students in English, this pop-up exhibition is inspired by “Trans-Reformation English Writing,” a graduate seminar taught by professor James Simpson for many years using objects from Houghton. Items include texts by Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. The exhibition is part of "Illuminated and Unsettled: Literary Forms and Cultural Power, Medieval to Early Modern," Harvard English Department's 2022 Morton W. Bloomfield Conference honoring Simpson’s career as a teacher and scholar.
*Thursday, September 22, 2022 to Saturday, September 24, 2022
Illuminated and Unsettled: Literary Forms and Cultural Power, Medieval to Early Modern: A Morton W. Bloomfield Conference in Honor of James Simpson (Harvard University, Department of English)
Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and via Zoom (Registration)
More Information and RSVP: kaileybennett(a)fas.harvard.edu
Monday, September 26, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 2: Reading: Dan-el Padilla Peralta, “Anti-Race” in A Cultural History of Race, Vol. 1, ed. Denise McCoskey (Bloomsbury 2021).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Monday, September 26, 4pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on China Humanities
Tian Yuan Tan, University of Oxford: “Writing and Reading ‘Local Court Drama’ in Late Imperial China: Texts, Genres, and Identities”
Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 136, Cambridge MA, 02138
**Tuesday, September 27, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar (MEMHS)
Andrew Romig (NYU Gallatin): “The Wrong Kind of Flattery: Critique and Praise in Walahfrid Strabo’s De imagine Tetrici.”
More information at: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Please email Maria Sokolova at maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu to register and for the precirculated paper.
*Wednesday, September 28, 12pm
Center for the Humanities, The University of Rhode Island, RI
Lecture: “The Aroma of Legitimacy in the Late Middle Ages”
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island, Department of History
The University of Rhode Island, Hardge Forum, Multicultural Center, Kingston, RI
Both in-person and virtual
RSVP or Registration information/link:
https://web.uri.edu/humanities/the-aroma-of-legitimacy-in-the-late-middle-a…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__web.uri.edu_humanities…>
*September 30, 2022, 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Gallery Talk: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/gallery-talk-dare-to-know-prints-and…>
Join Sam Nehila, curatorial assistant in the Division of European and American Art, for an in-depth discussion about William Hogarth’s print series The Four Stages of Cruelty, on view in the special exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
*October 2, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Exhibition Tour: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/exhibition-tour-dare-to-know-prints-…>
Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view through January 15, 2023. She will share insights about how works on paper played a critical role in the 18th century.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
*Sunday, October 2, 3-4 pm
Jeffrey R. Wilson<https://wilson.fas.harvard.edu/> (Harvard University): Book Launch for Richard III’s Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability History<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tupress.temple.edu_boo…>
Location: lala books<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.lalabookstore.com&…> (189 Market St. Lowell, MA 01852)
free, kids welcome, drinks and snacks
Mon Oct 3, 4:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center seminar on Book History
Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town): "Book Collecting in Timbuktu."
In person event; Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA.
This lecture surveys five centuries of collecting in Timbuktu, a town in the interior of West Africa, that has come to symbolize a larger world of learning and book culture in the region. This lecture follows citations in texts written in the town in the 16th century, book borrowing and copying, through to a major collector of the early 20th century who both attempted to conserve the manuscript book tradition and imported printed books to Timbuktu.
Monday, October 3, 2022, 5:30-6:30, with reception to follow
Boston College's Art, Art History and Film Department and the McMullen Museum of Art
Lecture: “Thinking through the Objects: Displaying the Italian Renaissance at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
Marietta Cambareri, Senior Curator of European Sculpture and Jetskalina H. Phillips Curator of Judaica, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In-person: The McMullen Museum of Art, 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 111, Brighton MA; directions and parking<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_sites_artmu…>
Tuesday, 10/4/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Sarah Koval (Music, Harvard), “Music in Early Modern Recipe Books: Notation, Genre, Wellbeing” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-koval-music-harvard-%E…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138. RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu
Thursday, Oct 6, 2022, 4pm
Brown University Early Modern World Event
Cécile Fromont (History of Art, Yale University): Title TBA
Location TBD
Cécile Fromont’s writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America with a special emphasis on the early modern period (ca 1500-1800) and on the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic World. More information about her talk is coming soon at https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236722-early-modern-lectu…
*October 9, 2022, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Materials Lab Workshop: Modeling Material Culture in Paper<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/materials-lab-workshop-modeling-mate…>
This workshop is inspired by the exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, which explores how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the so-called age of reason.
In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Thursday, 10/6/2022 4:30pm
Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut: "Paleography and power: Irish political thought in a multi-lingual archive." (The 18th John V. Kelleher Memorial Lecture)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/brendan-kane-university-conn…>
Location: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Thursday, October 6, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
The Non-Pursuit of Happiness: Childhood, Slavery, and Fugitivity in the Age of Revolution
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University
Location: Online
Please add your name and email address to this registration page.<https://northeastern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rf-qvqz4rHdcpzBskWazOT2iYZ…> After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link and passcode to the event.
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Sue Lanser at lanser(a)brandeis.edu
Wednesday, October 12, 4:30pm-6:15pm
Wesleyan University Renaissance Seminar
Miles P. Grier, Queens College of the City University of New York: "Rac'd All Over their Bodies": Clothing, Tattoo, and Stigma in Early Modern English Racecraft
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information or to RSVP (required), please email mtokumitsu(a)wesleyan.edu
Saturday, Oct 15, 2022
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC)
Theme: “Instruments of Power in the Global Early Modern.”
Amherst College, Amherst MA
Registration by September 23, 2022
Conference Website<https://www.nerc2022.org/>
Monday, October 17, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 3: Reading: selections from Sarah Derbew, Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge 2022).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Tuesday, 10/18/2022, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ryan Low (History, Harvard), “Household Archival Sciences in Medieval Provence and Dauphiné” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ryan-low-history-harvard-%E2…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu
October 20–21, 2022
The Clark Art Institute. Clark Conference
Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean
Convened by Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton University) and Wayne Modest (National Museum of Worldcultures and Wereldmuseum )
225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267
Website: https://www.clarkart.edu/research-academic/rap-events/clark-conference-2022
Friday, Oct 21, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Kristen Bennett, Framingham State University: “Cosmographical Contemplation in Shakespeare’s Theatrum Mundi”
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, October 24, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 4: Reading: draft of article in progress by Anna Wilson, “Racial Innocence: Whiteness and Childhood in Chaucer’s ‘Prioress’ Tale’”.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Monday, October 24, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Medieval Studies
Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, 10/24/2022 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop and Scandinavian Studies, Harvard
James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/james-raven-university-cambr…>
Location: In person event: History Dept conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine
Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
*Oct 28, 2022, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Evan MacCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Orchestrating Shakespeare's Storms". 6th Annual Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
Evan MacCarthy is a Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History in the Department of Music & Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on the history of fifteenth-century music and music theory, late medieval chant, German music in the Baroque era, as well as nineteenth-century American music. His book Ruled by the Muses: Italian Humanists and their Study of Music in the Fifteenth Century explores the musical lives of scholars who sought to revive the cultural and intellectual traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/berlinmaccarthy2022
Tuesday, 11/1/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Information Gaps and the Management of Tangier’s Fortifications, 1662-1683” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer-architecture-…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu
Friday, Nov 4, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Coppelia Kahn, Brown University: “Reading Faces in Hamlet”
133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138
Monday, November 7, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 5: Reading: TBD, on topic of slavery in the ancient/medieval Mediterranean OR pedagogy session, “Teaching Difficult Issues With Cases,” with Dan Smail.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Tuesday, 11/15/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Iman Darwish (History of Science), “Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath Book of Simples: The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/iman-darwish-history-science…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu
Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “The Chinese Discovery of America? Franciscan Missionaries and Mexican Material Culture in Guangzhou, 1579.”
Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
In 1579, a group of Franciscan friars under the leadership of one Fray Pedro Alfaro attempted to establish a mission in China. Taken into custody by the Ming authorities, their destiny was shaped by the work of both human and non-human mediators, specifically a Chinese interpreter and a series of objects that the friars had brought with them from New Spain. As far as we know, this incident represents the first encounter between Chinese literati and the material culture of colonial Spanish America. The encounter provides an opportunity to reflect on patterns of early modern globalization facilitated by trans-Pacific travel.
More information: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236965-early-modern-lectu…
Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,” Literature Compass (2019).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
This talk will be held via Zoom. Register here<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvce6vqjooG9LGb3Ag5MePA_6Z…>.
More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022
*Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century: XIII Dinner Symposium
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.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. This 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<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 EDT.
Upcoming Events
*Tuesday, 9/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard (ESWG): Reception with food (all are welcome)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/early-sciences-working-group…>
Location: Science Center North Tent, Outside Harvard Yard.
RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu
*Tuesday, 9/7/2022 5:15pm
English Department Renaissance Colloquium: Welcome Picnic and Amoretti Reading!<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/english-department-renaissan…>
Location: In-person, Barker Tent (outdoors), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Mon Sept 12, 2022, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 1: Introductions; What Is PRS?; Plans for the year.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
More information: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116
Harvard’s Premodern Race Seminar, a combination speaker series and discussion group, now entering its third year, is for those interested broadly in the topic of race in the premodern past. This fall, the seminar will meet biweekly for an hour on Mondays at 12:00 pm in Barker Center 133 (the Plimpton Room), most often to discuss precirculated readings. PRS is jointly organized by faculty in the Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Everyone is welcome to attend single sessions, but the organizers hope for a core group who attend regularly, to foster open and rich discussion. If you are interested in regular attendance, please email the organizers at prs(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:prs@fas.harvard.edu>.
**Mon Sept 12, 2022, 4:30pm
Opening aperitivo in the Early Modern World Initiative at Harvard featuring four flash talks: Melissa McCormick (East Asian Languages and Civilizations and History of Art and Architecture), “The Gilded Library: Reevaluating Early Modern Japanese Manuscripts as Bridal Books”; Eric Nelson (Government), “Philo and the Early-Modern Rehabilitation of ‘Democracy’”; Alan Niles (English), “Who Were Harvard’s First Indian Students?”; Si Nae Park (EALC), “How Printers of Vernacular Novels Made Reading Easier in Early Modern Korea.” Followed by a reception.
Event held in person in Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard, History Conference Room (Former Lower Library), 1st/ground floor of Robinson Hall.
Wed Sept 14, 2022, 5:15pm
Opening event in the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book, featuring four flash talks by:
Irene Peirano Garrison (Classics, Harvard), “Writing from the margins: women in the Latin classroom”; Jeffrey Hamburger (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard), “Color in Cusanus”; John Brewer (History, Harvard), “Visitors' Books: narratives, anecdotes and data"; Matthew Battles (Arnold Arboretum, Harvard), “Cuttings: of leaves and names.” Followed by a reception.
In person, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138.
Wednesday, September 14, at 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on American Literature and Culture
Britt Rusert (U-Mass, Amherst), “The World is a Severe Schoolmaster: Phillis Wheatley's Poetry of Domination and Submission.”<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/britt-rusert-world-severe-…> Ianna Hawkins Owen (Boston University), will respond. The organizers request that all attendees to this event wear face coverings.
Barker 403, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
*Tuesday, 9/20/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Mateo Montoya (History of Science, Harvard), Prospectus Workshop: "Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní: 1600-1780" (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/mateo-montoya-history-scienc…>
Location: on Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Monday, September 26, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 2: Reading: Dan-el Padilla Peralta, “Anti-Race” in A Cultural History of Race, Vol. 1, ed. Denise McCoskey (Bloomsbury 2021).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Monday, September 26, 4pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on China Humanities
Tian Yuan Tan, University of Oxford: “Writing and Reading ‘Local Court Drama’ in Late Imperial China: Texts, Genres, and Identities”
Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 136, Cambridge MA, 02138
Tuesday, September 27, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar (MEMHS)
Andrew Romig (NYU Gallatin): “The Wrong Kind of Flattery: Critique and Praise in Walahfrid Strabo’s De imagine Tetrici.”
More information coming soon at: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Mon Oct 3, 4:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center seminar on Book History
Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town): "Book Collecting in Timbuktu."
In person event; Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA.
This lecture surveys five centuries of collecting in Timbuktu, a town in the interior of West Africa, that has come to symbolize a larger world of learning and book culture in the region. This lecture follows citations in texts written in the town in the 16th century, book borrowing and copying, through to a major collector of the early 20th century who both attempted to conserve the manuscript book tradition and imported printed books to Timbuktu.
*Monday, October 3, 2022, 5:30-6:30, with reception to follow
Boston College's Art, Art History and Film Department and the McMullen Museum of Art
Lecture: “Thinking through the Objects: Displaying the Italian Renaissance at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
Marietta Cambareri, Senior Curator of European Sculpture and Jetskalina H. Phillips Curator of Judaica, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In-person: The McMullen Museum of Art, 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 111, Brighton MA; directions and parking<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_sites_artmu…>
*Tuesday, 10/4/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Sarah Koval (Music, Harvard), “Music in Early Modern Recipe Books: Notation, Genre, Wellbeing” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-koval-music-harvard-%E…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138. RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Thursday, Oct 6, 2022, 4pm
Brown University Early Modern World Event
Cécile Fromont (History of Art, Yale University): Title TBA
Location TBD
Cécile Fromont’s writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America with a special emphasis on the early modern period (ca 1500-1800) and on the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic World. More information about her talk is coming soon at https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236722-early-modern-lectu…
*Thursday, 10/6/2022 4:30pm
Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut: "Paleography and power: Irish political thought in a multi-lingual archive." (The 18th John V. Kelleher Memorial Lecture)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/brendan-kane-university-conn…>
Location: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Wednesday, October 12, 4:30pm-6:15pm
Wesleyan University Renaissance Seminar
Miles P. Grier, Queens College of the City University of New York: "Rac'd All Over their Bodies": Clothing, Tattoo, and Stigma in Early Modern English Racecraft
Boger Hall 113, 41 Wyllys Ave., Middletown, CT 06459
For more information or to RSVP (required), please email mtokumitsu(a)wesleyan.edu
Saturday, Oct 15, 2022
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC)
Theme: “Instruments of Power in the Global Early Modern.”
Amherst College, Amherst MA
Registration by September 23, 2022
Conference Website<https://www.nerc2022.org/>
Monday, October 17, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 3: Reading: selections from Sarah Derbew, Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge 2022).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Tuesday, 10/18/2022, 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ryan Low (History, Harvard), “Household Archival Sciences in Medieval Provence and Dauphiné” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ryan-low-history-harvard-%E2…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
October 20–21, 2022
The Clark Art Institute. Clark Conference
Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean
Convened by Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton University) and Wayne Modest (National Museum of Worldcultures and Wereldmuseum )
225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267
Website: https://www.clarkart.edu/research-academic/rap-events/clark-conference-2022
Friday, Oct 21, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Kristen Bennett, Framingham State University: “Cosmographical Contemplation in Shakespeare’s Theatrum Mundi”
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
Monday, October 24, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 4: Reading: draft of article in progress by Anna Wilson, “Racial Innocence: Whiteness and Childhood in Chaucer’s ‘Prioress’ Tale’”.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
Monday, October 24, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Medieval Studies
Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
*Monday, 10/24/2022 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop and Scandinavian Studies, Harvard
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/james-raven-university-cambr…>
James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/james-raven-university-cambr…>
Location: In person event: History Dept conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*Tuesday, 11/1/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Information Gaps and the Management of Tangier’s Fortifications, 1662-1683” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer-architecture-…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Friday, Nov 4, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Coppelia Kahn, Brown University: “Reading Faces in Hamlet”
133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138
Monday, November 7, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 5: Reading: TBD, on topic of slavery in the ancient/medieval Mediterranean OR pedagogy session, “Teaching Difficult Issues With Cases,” with Dan Smail.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Tuesday, 11/15/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Iman Darwish (History of Science), “Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath Book of Simples: The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/iman-darwish-history-science…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
*Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “The Chinese Discovery of America? Franciscan Missionaries and Mexican Material Culture in Guangzhou, 1579.”
Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
In 1579, a group of Franciscan friars under the leadership of one Fray Pedro Alfaro attempted to establish a mission in China. Taken into custody by the Ming authorities, their destiny was shaped by the work of both human and non-human mediators, specifically a Chinese interpreter and a series of objects that the friars had brought with them from New Spain. As far as we know, this incident represents the first encounter between Chinese literati and the material culture of colonial Spanish America. The encounter provides an opportunity to reflect on patterns of early modern globalization facilitated by trans-Pacific travel.
More information: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236965-early-modern-lectu…
Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,” Literature Compass (2019).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-history-harvard…>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
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*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
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Day, date, time
Sponsor (if available)
Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
Location: in-person or virtual
*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this, and include location details.
Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences)
RSVP or Registration information/link
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. This 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<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 EDT.
Upcoming Events
*Tuesday, August 30, 2022, 7pm
Paris Spies-Gans, Discussion of her new book A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830, moderated by art historian Joseph Koerner, Harvard University.
Location: At the independent bookstore Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline, MA. Info here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brooklinebooksmith…>, complete with a registration link! (It's free.)
*Mon Sept 12, 2022, 4:30pm
Opening aperitivo in the Early Modern World Initiative at Harvard featuring four flash talks: Melissa McCormick (East Asian Languages and Civilizations and History of Art and Architecture), “The Gilded Library: Reevaluating Early Modern Japanese Manuscripts as Bridal Books”; Eric Nelson (Government), “Philo and the Early-Modern Rehabilitation of ‘Democracy’”; Alan Niles (English), “Who Were Harvard’s First Indian Students?”; Si Nae Park (EALC), “How Printers of Vernacular Novels Made Reading Easier in Early Modern Korea.” Followed by a reception.
Event held in person in Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard, Basement seminar room.
*Mon Sept 12, 2022, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 1: Introductions; What Is PRS?; Plans for the year.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
More information: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116
Harvard’s Premodern Race Seminar, a combination speaker series and discussion group, now entering its third year, is for those interested broadly in the topic of race in the premodern past. This fall, the seminar will meet biweekly for an hour on Mondays at 12:00 pm in Barker Center 133 (the Plimpton Room), most often to discuss pre-circulated readings. PRS is jointly organized by faculty in the Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. Everyone is welcome to attend single sessions, but the organizers hope for a core group who attend regularly, to foster open and rich discussion. If you are interested in regular attendance, please email the organizers at prs(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:prs@fas.harvard.edu>.
*Wed Sept 14, 2022, 5:15pm
Opening event in the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book, featuring four flash talks by:
Irene Peirano Garrison (Classics, Harvard), “Writing from the margins: women in the Latin classroom”; Jeffrey Hamburger (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard), “Color in Cusanus”; John Brewer (History, Harvard), “Visitors' Books: narratives, anecdotes and data"; Matthew Battles (Arnold Arboretum, Harvard), “Cuttings: of leaves and names.” Followed by a reception.
In person, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138.
*Wednesday, September 14, at 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on American Literature and Culture
Britt Rusert (U-Mass, Amherst), “The World is a Severe Schoolmaster: Phillis Wheatley's Poetry of Domination and Submission.”<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/britt-rusert-world-severe-…> Ianna Hawkins Owen (Boston University), will respond. The organizers request that all attendees to this event wear face coverings.
Barker 403, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
*Monday, September 26, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 2: Reading: Dan-el Padilla Peralta, “Anti-Race” in A Cultural History of Race, Vol. 1, ed. Denise McCoskey (Bloomsbury 2021).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Monday, September 26, 4pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on China Humanities
Tian Yuan Tan, University of Oxford: “Writing and Reading ‘Local Court Drama’ in Late Imperial China: Texts, Genres, and Identities”
Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 136, Cambridge MA, 02138
*Tuesday, September 27, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar (MEMHS)
Andrew Romig (NYU Gallatin): “The Wrong Kind of Flattery: Critique and Praise in Walahfrid Strabo’s De imagine Tetrici.”
More information coming soon at: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
*Mon Oct 3, 4:30pm
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center seminar on Book History
Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town): "Book Collecting in Timbuktu."
In person event; Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA.
This lecture surveys five centuries of collecting in Timbuktu, a town in the interior of West Africa, that has come to symbolize a larger world of learning and book culture in the region. This lecture follows citations in texts written in the town in the 16th century, book borrowing and copying, through to a major collector of the early 20th century who both attempted to conserve the manuscript book tradition and imported printed books to Timbuktu.
*Thursday, Oct 6, 2022, 4pm EDT
Brown University Early Modern World Event
Cécile Fromont (History of Art, Yale University): Title TBA
Location TBD
Cécile Fromont’s writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America with a special emphasis on the early modern period (ca 1500-1800) and on the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic World. More information about her talk is coming soon at https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236722-early-modern-lectu…
*Saturday, Oct 15, 2022
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC)
Theme: “Instruments of Power in the Global Early Modern.”
Amherst College, Amherst MA
Registration by September 23, 2022
Conference Website<https://www.nerc2022.org/>
*Monday, October 17, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 3: Reading: selections from Sarah Derbew, Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge 2022).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*October 20–21, 2022
The Clark Art Institute. Clark Conference
Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean
Convened by Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton University) and Wayne Modest (National Museum of Worldcultures and Wereldmuseum )
225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267
Website: https://www.clarkart.edu/research-academic/rap-events/clark-conference-2022
*Friday, Oct 21, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Kristen Bennett, Framingham State University: “Cosmographical Contemplation in Shakespeare’s Theatrum Mundi”
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
*Monday, October 24, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 4: Reading: draft of article in progress by Anna Wilson, “Racial Innocence: Whiteness and Childhood in Chaucer’s ‘Prioress’ Tale’”.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Monday, October 24, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Medieval Studies
Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
*Friday, Nov 4, 2022, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Coppelia Kahn, Brown University: “Reading Faces in Hamlet”
133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138
*Monday, November 7, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 5: Reading: TBD, on topic of slavery in the ancient/medieval Mediterranean OR pedagogy session, “Teaching Difficult Issues With Cases,” with Dan Smail.
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,” Literature Compass (2019).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
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