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
*May 21, 2022–August 14, 2022
Harvard Art Museums
Art Exhibit Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape
University Research Gallery, University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Website Link<https://harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/5902/crossroads-drawing-the-dutch…>
*June 18 - September 30, 2022
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Artist exhibit Mapping Terroir: Memory & Myth explores connections across the Center’s rare book collection of early modern agricultural and husbandry manuals and contemporary cultures of farming today.
All are welcome to view the exhibit and explore the Center’s kitchen garden, apple orchard, and meadows.
Free parking is available at 650 E. Pleasant Street, Amherst MA 01002.
*July 15, 2022-Deadline CFP
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC)
The 2022 New England Renaissance Conference at Amherst College (Saturday, October 15, 2022), Theme: “Instruments of Power in the Global Early Modern.” CFP link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.new-2Dengland-2Dre…>.
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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, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University): "Multispecies Migrations in the Fifteenth-Century Atlantic: Empire, Slavery and Capitalism in the Global Commons."
Pavilion Room, History Department, Brown University, Providence RI
To obtain a copy of the precirculated paper please write to Maria Sokolova: maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu . More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>.
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI)
Festo Mkenda, S.J., Academic Director, Rome, Italy
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI) are the archives of the general government of the Society of Jesus. Situated in Rome in the General Curia of the Order, their purpose is to preserve, to put in order, and to make available for research the documents related to the general government of the Society of Jesus and its activities from the beginning of its history in the sixteenth century up to the present day.
More information and registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>
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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.
Late Breaking News
*Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 4:00 pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Series: Early Modern World in US Libraries and Collections: The John Carter Brown Library
Karin Wulf, Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library: “Shouting from the Archives: The John Carter Brown Library and Navigating Silence and Volume in the Early Modern Record.”
305 Pembroke Hall, Brown University, 172 Meeting St, Providence RI
*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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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 April 26, 5 pm EST
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Katie Kadue (Cornell University): "'A Double Task': Erotic and Poetic Labor in Petrarchan Poetry."
Please pre-register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…> to receive the zoom link for this event.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations”
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
**Wednesday, April 27, 2022 7:00PM EST (NEW TIME!)
Harvard Medieval History Workshop and Early Modern Workshop
How Does Stuff Happen? A Roundtable on Causality in Medieval and Early Modern History
The opening discussants are Sama Mammadova, Reed Morgan, Konrad Boeschenstein, and Sergio Leos all in the History department at Harvard
Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly Lower Library)
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture “The Art of Hatching Contraven’d, or; the Problem of Reproducing the Freshwater Polypus"
Elizabeth Athens (University of Connecticut)
Brown University, Friedman Hall 102 (new location), in-person lecture
Dr. Athens is an art historian with research interests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and natural history, the art of empire, and the history of collecting. She is currently writing a book that examines the graphic practice of the eighteenth-century American naturalist, William Bartram.
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama"
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
*Friday, April 29, 2022 (9am-6pm) and Saturday, April 30, 2022 (9am-6pm)
Harvard Medieval Graduate Interdisciplinary Workshop
Two-day in person workshop with Dr. Sarah Lang (University of Graz, Austria): “Beyond TEI: A Workshop on Digital Editing of Premodern Texts.”
Location: In-person. Registration<https://forms.gle/qAwk4VGzGoKnu5Fo6>.
Monday, May 2, 2022, 9:00am to 5:00pm
MHC Seminar on Book History
Conference: “Communities of Book History”. 13th Annual Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History.
Online on Zoom. Registration<https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsduuppz4iHdINGjtWBuMJ462HaMxXtaMn>.
Program posted here: https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/2022-conference
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
*Wednesday, May 4, 2022 10:00am to 11:30am
Bailey Sincox (Harvard): Dissertation Defence "Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage."
Location: Barker Center 133 (Plimpton Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
*Wednesday, May 4, 2022 5pm EST
English Department Medieval Colloquium and Renaissance Colloquium
James Simpson (Harvard) & Leah Whittington (Harvard), “The Dark Age (16th and 17th centuries): A Debate.”
Location: Barker 133 (The Plimpton Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable in honor of World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Location: Online on zoom
More information to come.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:00pm
Five College Seminar in Book History
Joseph M. Adelman (Framingham State University): "Trans-Atlantic Correspondence and Imperial News Narratives in the Revolutionary Era"
Location: Online Event, Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…> and registration link
*May 11, 2022, 9am-5pm (Eastern Standard Time)
Think Tank, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Frost Library, Amherst College, MA in conjunction with the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies.
International (hybrid) Conference: The Virgin’s Milk in Global Perspective: On the Fluidity of Images and the Production of Divine Presence
For the conference program and zoom link, click here:
https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/center-humanistic-inquiry/ev…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
*May 11, 2022, 9-10am
Keynote Lecture (in person): “Liquid Flesh and the Medicine of Immortality: The Nursing Virgin Mary in Egypt”
Elizabeth Bolman, Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts, Professor and Chair of Art History, Case Western Reserve University.
Location: Think Tank, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Frost Library, Amherst College, MA
Conference organizers: Jutta Sperling, Mati Meyer, Vibeke Olson, Bronwen Gulkis.
The conference is funded by the Department of Religious Studies, the Department of Art and Art History, the Department of History, the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and the Georges Lurcy Lecture Series Fund at Amherst College; the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, and the Time and Narrative Learning Collaborative at Hampshire College.
Thursday, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University). More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…> is coming soon.
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI)
Festo Mkenda, S.J., Academic Director, Rome, Italy
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI) are the archives of the general government of the Society of Jesus. Situated in Rome in the General Curia of the Order, their purpose is to preserve, to put in order, and to make available for research the documents related to the general government of the Society of Jesus and its activities from the beginning of its history in the sixteenth century up to the present day.
More information and registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>
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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.
Upcoming Events
*Tuesday April 26, 5 pm EST
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Katie Kadue (Cornell University): "'A Double Task': Erotic and Poetic Labor in Petrarchan Poetry."
Please pre-register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…> to receive the zoom link for this event.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations”
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
*Wednesday, April 27, 2022 5:00-6:30PM EST
Harvard Medieval History Workshop and Early Modern Workshop
How Does Stuff Happen? A Roundtable on Causality in Medieval and Early Modern History
The opening discussants are Sama Mammadova, Reed Morgan, Konrad Boeschenstein, and Sergio Leos all in the History department at Harvard
Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly Lower Library)
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture “The Art of Hatching Contraven’d, or; the Problem of Reproducing the Freshwater Polypus"
Elizabeth Athens (University of Connecticut)
Brown University, Friedman Hall 102 (new location), in-person lecture
Dr. Athens is an art historian with research interests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and natural history, the art of empire, and the history of collecting. She is currently writing a book that examines the graphic practice of the eighteenth-century American naturalist, William Bartram.
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama"
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
*Friday, April 29, 2022 (9am-6pm) and Saturday, April 30, 2022 (9am-6pm)
Harvard Medieval Graduate Interdisciplinary Workshop
Two-day in person workshop with Dr. Sarah Lang (University of Graz, Austria): “Beyond TEI: A Workshop on Digital Editing of Premodern Texts.”
Location: In-person. Registration<https://forms.gle/qAwk4VGzGoKnu5Fo6>.
Monday, May 2, 2022, 9:00am to 5:00pm
MHC Seminar on Book History
Conference: “Communities of Book History”. 13th Annual Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History.
Online on Zoom. Registration<https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsduuppz4iHdINGjtWBuMJ462HaMxXtaMn>.
Program posted here: https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/2022-conference
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable in honor of World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Location: Online on zoom
More information to come.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:00pm
Five College Seminar in Book History
Joseph M. Adelman (Framingham State University): "Trans-Atlantic Correspondence and Imperial News Narratives in the Revolutionary Era"
Location: Online Event, Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…> and registration link
*May 11, 2022, 9am-5pm (Eastern Standard Time)
Think Tank, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Frost Library, Amherst College, MA in conjunction with the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies.
International (hybrid) Conference: The Virgin’s Milk in Global Perspective: On the Fluidity of Images and the Production of Divine Presence
For the conference program and zoom link, click here:
https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/center-humanistic-inquiry/ev…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
*May 11, 2022, 9-10am
Keynote Lecture (in person): “Liquid Flesh and the Medicine of Immortality: The Nursing Virgin Mary in Egypt”
Elizabeth Bolman, Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts, Professor and Chair of Art History, Case Western Reserve University.
Location: Think Tank, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Frost Library, Amherst College, MA
Conference organizers: Jutta Sperling, Mati Meyer, Vibeke Olson, Bronwen Gulkis.
The conference is funded by the Department of Religious Studies, the Department of Art and Art History, the Department of History, the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and the Georges Lurcy Lecture Series Fund at Amherst College; the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, and the Time and Narrative Learning Collaborative at Hampshire College.
Thursday, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University). More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…> is coming soon.
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI)
Festo Mkenda, S.J., Academic Director, Rome, Italy
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI) are the archives of the general government of the Society of Jesus. Situated in Rome in the General Curia of the Order, their purpose is to preserve, to put in order, and to make available for research the documents related to the general government of the Society of Jesus and its activities from the beginning of its history in the sixteenth century up to the present day.
More information and registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>
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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.
Late Breaking News
*Thursday, April 21, 12-1:15 PM, on Zoom
John Duffy Society: Two Day Text Editing Workshop Day 1
A two-day workshop led by Richard Tarrant (Classics, Emeritus) and Alexander Riehle (Classics), intended to introduce methods and challenges of editing texts beyond the basics of collation. Day 1 (Thursday) will feature broader discussion of stemmatics and open traditions from both traditional and New Philological perspectives.
Register<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqfu-gqjovHNxmFA7JBRAILyCdvHS93-…> for Day 1
*Friday, April 22, 2-3:15 PM, on Zoom
John Duffy Society: Two Day Text Editing Workshop Day 2
Day 2 (Friday) will focus on practical case studies involving specific issues like punctuation, interpolation, and the challenges posed by large traditions. Please register in advance (for each day separately) to receive the readings.
Register<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIoduuupzgtGNdXGbOfGxUqiiA0fEB0Sg…> for Day 2
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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.
Upcoming Events
*Monday, April 18, 2022, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the John Duffy Society, Ancient Studies, and Early Modern World at Harvard, with additional support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Community Renewal Fund.
A discussion of The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe<https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780884024842> (Harvard University Press, 2022), featuring editors Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Princeton University) and Jake Ransohoff (History, Harvard University) in conversation with Leah Whittington (English, Harvard University), Dimiter Angelov (History, Harvard University), and Maryam Patton (History, Harvard University).
Location: Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
Early Modern Workshop
“Predestination: its Profile in Early British and American Modernity. A Debate” featuring David Hall (Harvard Divinity School) and James Simpson (English, Harvard), with Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) as moderator.
Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library). In person, within the Covid regulations in force at the time.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Anne E. Lester (John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History, Johns Hopkins University): “Authority in the Aftermath: Power, Memory, and the Narrative Capacity of Things.”
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 12pm
Mélanie Lamotte, Radcliffe Institute Fellow: "Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756.”
Online on Zoom. Free and open to the public. To view this event online, individuals will need to register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…> via Zoo.
More information<https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-melanie-lamotte-fellow-present…>
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa): “Tender Curiosities: Teaching the History of Science in Early Modern Europe in terms of Gendered Knowledge-Craft.”
Location: Online Event
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_harva…>
Thursday, April 21, 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
Maria Macchi, Ph.D., Archivist (Rome, Italy): The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province
Location: Zoom
The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province is in Rome, near the Gesù Church. It gathers the documents produced by the five ancient Italian Provinces (Venetian-Milanese, Torinese, Roman, Neapolitan, and Sicilian and the former mission of Albania) and the Italian Province, born in 1978 from the unification of the five provinces. The collections include documents on the life of the Society of Jesus in Italy and the extra-European mission lands after the 1814 restoration. More information and registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>.
Canceled: Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
NEW meeting in its place:
Thursday, April 21, 4:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Dreaming Worlds: Living with 'Things Unknown' in A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bostonu.zoom.us_meetin…>
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations”
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
**Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture “The Art of Hatching Contraven’d, or; the Problem of Reproducing the Freshwater Polypus"
Elizabeth Athens (University of Connecticut)
Brown University, Friedman Hall 102 (new location), in-person lecture
Dr. Athens is an art historian with research interests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and natural history, the art of empire, and the history of collecting. She is currently writing a book that examines the graphic practice of the eighteenth-century American naturalist, William Bartram.
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama"
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
*Monday, May 2, 2022, 9:00am to 5:00pm
MHC Seminar on Book History
Conference: “Communities of Book History”. 13th Annual Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History.
Online on Zoom. Registration<https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsduuppz4iHdINGjtWBuMJ462HaMxXtaMn>.
Program posted here: https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/2022-conference
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable in honor of World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Location: Online on zoom
More information to come.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:00pm
Five College Seminar in Book History
Joseph M. Adelman (Framingham State University): "Trans-Atlantic Correspondence and Imperial News Narratives in the Revolutionary Era"
Location: Online Event, Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_renaissa…> and registration link
Thursday, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University). More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…> is coming soon.
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI)
Festo Mkenda, S.J., Academic Director, Rome, Italy
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI) are the archives of the general government of the Society of Jesus. Situated in Rome in the General Curia of the Order, their purpose is to preserve, to put in order, and to make available for research the documents related to the general government of the Society of Jesus and its activities from the beginning of its history in the sixteenth century up to the present day.
More information and registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>
***
*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:
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Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
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*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this, and include location details.
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Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1800, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. 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
*Monday, April 11, 2022 5:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Jennifer Row (University of Minnesota): "Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage"
Location: Online on Zoom. To view this event online, individuals will need to register<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtf--qrz4sHdbAWU63AuCZ4cy5UmXXP1…> via Zoom.
**Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:30 to 11:45
Science and Technology in Asia seminar series
Faizah Zakaria: "Camphor<https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/camphor-celluloid-and-creating-the-in…>, Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies"
Location: Harvard University Asia Center Spring 2022 Online seminar series. Zoom registration<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lc-CgrjIvGtfYB9hZm81fxXuXCbUu4l…>.
Tuesday, 4/12/2022 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Derrick Spires, Cornell University: A Spirit of Inquiry: Early African American Criticism from Phillis Wheatley to Dorothy Porter Wesley.
Location: Online Event
Please register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…> to receive a Zoom link to the event.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
Early Modern Workshop
“Predestination: its Profile in Early British and American Modernity. A Debate” featuring David Hall (Harvard Divinity School) and James Simpson (English, Harvard), with Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) as moderator. Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library). In person, within the Covid regulations in force at the time.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Anne E. Lester (John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History, Johns Hopkins University): “Authority in the Aftermath: Power, Memory, and the Narrative Capacity of Things.”
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 12pm
Mélanie Lamotte, Radcliffe Institute Fellow: "Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756.”
Online on Zoom. Free and open to the public. To view this event online, individuals will need to register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…> via Zoo.
More information<https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-melanie-lamotte-fellow-present…>
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa): “Tender Curiosities: Teaching the History of Science in Early Modern Europe in terms of Gendered Knowledge-Craft.”
Location: Online Event
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_harva…>
Thursday, April 21, 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
Maria Macchi, Ph.D., Archivist (Rome, Italy): The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province
Location: Zoom
The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province is in Rome, near the Gesù Church. It gathers the documents produced by the five ancient Italian Provinces (Venetian-Milanese, Torinese, Roman, Neapolitan, and Sicilian and the former mission of Albania) and the Italian Province, born in 1978 from the unification of the five provinces. The collections include documents on the life of the Society of Jesus in Italy and the extra-European mission lands after the 1814 restoration. More information and registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>.
Canceled: Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
NEW meeting in its place:
Thursday, April 21, 4:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Dreaming Worlds: Living with 'Things Unknown' in A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkd-CsqjIqGdNUqlCQpXEKetHVi9byLk…>
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations”
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture “The Art of Hatching Contraven’d, or; the Problem of Reproducing the Freshwater Polypus"
Elizabeth Athens (University of Connecticut)
Brown University, Friedman Hall 102 (new location)
in-person lecture
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama"
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable in honor of World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Location: Online on zoom
More information to come.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:00pm
Five College Seminar in Book History
Joseph M. Adelman (Framingham State University): "Trans-Atlantic Correspondence and Imperial News Narratives in the Revolutionary Era"
Location: Online Event, Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies
More information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistadelman2022> and registration link
Thursday, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University). More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…> is coming soon.
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI)
Festo Mkenda, S.J., Academic Director, Rome, Italy
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI) are the archives of the general government of the Society of Jesus. Situated in Rome in the General Curia of the Order, their purpose is to preserve, to put in order, and to make available for research the documents related to the general government of the Society of Jesus and its activities from the beginning of its history in the sixteenth century up to the present day.
More information and registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>
***
*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.
Late Breaking News
The Early Modern panel in the Inaugural Conference<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us12.list-2Dma…> of Harvard's Association of Global Political Thought might be of interest to some here:
*Friday, April 8, 10:45AM-12:00 PM
Panel 2: The State between States in Early-Modern Political Thought. Speakers: Prof. Eileen Hunt<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us12.list-2Dma…> (University of Notre Dame) "Going Global with Democracy: Wollstonecraft, Shelley, and the International Politics of Popular Independence;" Prof. Shoufu Yin<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us12.list-2Dma…> (殷守甫, University of British Columbia) "Liu Bei, Plato, et al. on Kingship: A Microhistory of Seventeenth-Century Globalization and Political Thought;" Sergio Leos<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us12.list-2Dma…> (Harvard University) "'Americae sive Novi Orbis: The Spanish Indies and the Language of Contested Global Geography." Chair and Discussant: Prof. James Hankins<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us12.list-2Dma…> (Harvard University), moderated by Yidi Wu 吳一笛<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us12.list-2Dma…> (Boston University).
Location: Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium)
*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
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Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
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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.
Upcoming Events
**Thursday, April 7, 2022 6pm
Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture
Conference: Visual Poetry: The Politics and Erotics of Seeing, Titian and Beyond
Keynote lecture: Miguel Falomir (Museo Nacional del Prado): “Titian, Philip and the Poesie: The Artist, The Patron”
Location: Online and in person: Lower Level Lecture Hall; 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
More information<https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/visual-poetry-keynote-lecture-miguel-falo…>
**Friday, April 8, 2022 9:30am to 6pm
Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture
Conference: Visual Poetry: The Politics and Erotics of Seeing, Titian and Beyond
Location: In-person only: Lower Level Lecture Hall; 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
More information<https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/conference-visual-poetry-politics-and-ero…>
Friday, April 8, 2022, noon-1:30pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Eveline Szarka (Visiting Fellow in History, Harvard): “Safer, Simpler, Swifter, Shorter. Practical Knowledge in Daniel Schwenter’s Handbook on Secret Communication (1618)”, with comment by Kelly McCay (History, Harvard).
Robinson Hall Conference room, Harvard Yard. In-person event within the covid restrictions in effect at the time.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:30 to 11:45
Science and Technology in Asia seminar series
Faizah Zakaria: Camphor, Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies
Location: Harvard University Asia Center Spring 2022 Online seminar series
Tuesday, 4/12/2022 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Derrick Spires, Cornell University: A Spirit of Inquiry: Early African American Criticism from Phillis Wheatley to Dorothy Porter Wesley.
Location: Online Event
Please register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…> to receive a Zoom link to the event.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
Early Modern Workshop
“Predestination: its Profile in Early British and American Modernity. A Debate” featuring David Hall (Harvard Divinity School) and James Simpson (English, Harvard), with Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) as moderator. Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library). In person, within the Covid regulations in force at the time.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Anne E. Lester (John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History, Johns Hopkins University): “Authority in the Aftermath: Power, Memory, and the Narrative Capacity of Things.”
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 12pm
Mélanie Lamotte, Radcliffe Institute Fellow: "Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756.”
Online on Zoom. Free and open to the public. To view this event online, individuals will need to register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…> via Zoo.
More information<https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-melanie-lamotte-fellow-present…>
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa): “Tender Curiosities: Teaching the History of Science in Early Modern Europe in terms of Gendered Knowledge-Craft.”
Location: Online Event
More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_harva…>
Thursday, April 21, 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
Maria Macchi, Ph.D., Archivist (Rome, Italy): The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province
Location: Zoom
The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province is in Rome, near the Gesù Church. It gathers the documents produced by the five ancient Italian Provinces (Venetian-Milanese, Torinese, Roman, Neapolitan, and Sicilian and the former mission of Albania) and the Italian Province, born in 1978 from the unification of the five provinces. The collections include documents on the life of the Society of Jesus in Italy and the extra-European mission lands after the 1814 restoration. More information and registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>.
Canceled: Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
NEW meeting in its place:
Thursday, April 21, 4:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Dreaming Worlds: Living with 'Things Unknown' in A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkd-CsqjIqGdNUqlCQpXEKetHVi9byLk…>
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations”
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
**Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture “The Art of Hatching Contraven’d, or; the Problem of Reproducing the Freshwater Polypus"
Elizabeth Athens (University of Connecticut)
Brown University, Friedman Hall 102 (new location)
in-person lecture
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama"
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at oribenshalom(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable in honor of World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Location: Online on zoom
More information to come.
*Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:00pm
Five College Seminar in Book History
Joseph M. Adelman (Framingham State University): "Trans-Atlantic Correspondence and Imperial News Narratives in the Revolutionary Era"
Location: Online Event, Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies
More information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistadelman2022> and registration link
Thursday, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University). More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…> is coming soon.
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI)
Festo Mkenda, S.J., Academic Director, Rome, Italy
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI) are the archives of the general government of the Society of Jesus. Situated in Rome in the General Curia of the Order, their purpose is to preserve, to put in order, and to make available for research the documents related to the general government of the Society of Jesus and its activities from the beginning of its history in the sixteenth century up to the present day.
More information and registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>
***
*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
