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 March 28, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History
Anne D. Hedeman (Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor, Art History, University of Kansas): "Power and Authority in Visual Paratext"
In-person at Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Edison and Newman Room
Open to the public, but registration is required. Register for "Power and Authority"<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us15.list-2Dma…>
Tuesday, March 29, 2pm
MIT Global France Seminar
Christy Pichichero (Associate Professor of French and History, George Mason University)
"TALKING B(L)ACK: Theorizing Race and its Intersections in Critical Eighteenth-Century Studies”
Location: This lecture will take place in-person only in Building E51, Room 095 on the MIT Campus<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__whereis.mit.edu&d=DwMGa…>. MIT Covid Pass users do not need to register, but must present MIT ID or mobile ID at the door. Non-MIT community members must REGISTER<mailto:REGISTER> in MIT’s Tim Tickets system. Contact Jeff Ravel (ravel(a)mit.edu<mailto:ravel@mit.edu>) with questions. MORE INFO<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__languages.mit.edu_even…>.
*Wednesday, 3/30/2022, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Vincenzo De Risi (CNRS Paris): "Leibniz' Theory of Space and the Newton Affair"
Location: 105 Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard
April 6, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBA
Location: Online Event<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…>
*Thursday, April 7-Friday, April 8, 2022
Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture
Conference: Visual Poetry: The Politics and Erotics of Seeing, Titian and Beyond
Thursday, April 7 (evening; online and in-person)<https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/visual-poetry-keynote-lecture-miguel-falo…>
Friday, April 8, 2022 (all day; in-person only)<https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/conference-visual-poetry-politics-and-ero…>
Lower Level Lecture Hall; 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
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://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vf-yqrzgtG9MJRj8jK6MllX3pjbYV…> 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…<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, Pembroke Hall 305
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 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.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
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, March 23, 2022, 4:45
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Guest Scholar: Justin Shaw
Location: Online<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…>. Please click here<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fharvard.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregi…> to register for this event
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 5pm
MHC Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium
Katie Scott, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London: “Making and Unmaking the Rococo Street.”
Location: Zoom Meeting.
More information and Zoom registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-and-unmaking-rococo…>.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 6pm
MHC Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas
Pounamu Jade Aikman, Harvard University, University of Hawai'i: “Ungrounded Sovereignty: The nexus between Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler State Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.”
Location: Zoom Meeting. More information and registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/ungrounded-sovereignty-nex…>.
*March 24, 2022 1:00 PM
MHC Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Frank Lestringant (Sorbonne Université): Lire La Quinzaine de Du Bartas.
Location: Zoom Meeting. Please preregister for this event here<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqdO6spzsoG9Wtzmt5ziYHKuxCdXO1gD…> to receive the Zoom link.
March 24, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender and Culture
Susanne Sreedhar (Department of Philosophy, Boston University), "Hobbes on Sex."
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Monday March 28, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History
Anne D. Hedeman (Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor, Art History, University of Kansas): "Power and Authority in Visual Paratext"
In-person at Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Edison and Newman Room
Open to the public, but registration is required. Register for "Power and Authority"<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us15.list-2Dma…>
Tuesday, March 29, 2pm
MIT Global France Seminar
Christy Pichichero (Associate Professor of French and History, George Mason University)
"TALKING B(L)ACK: Theorizing Race and its Intersections in Critical Eighteenth-Century Studies”
Location: This lecture will take place in-person only in Building E51, Room 095 on the MIT Campus<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__whereis.mit.edu&d=DwMGa…>. MIT Covid Pass users do not need to register, but must present MIT ID or mobile ID at the door. Non-MIT community members must REGISTER<mailto:REGISTER> in MIT’s Tim Tickets system. Contact Jeff Ravel (ravel(a)mit.edu<mailto:ravel@mit.edu>) with questions. MORE INFO<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__languages.mit.edu_even…>.
April 6, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBA
Location: Online Event<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…>
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://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vf-yqrzgtG9MJRj8jK6MllX3pjbYV…><https://brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-ygqjIoEtSXI-1m4gh01QFLLkfvT…> 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-…>.
Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
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, Pembroke Hall 305
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
TBD
Location: Zoom
More information and registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>
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). More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…> is coming soon.
***
*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, March 15, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Jonathan Conant (Associate Professor of History and Classics, Brown University): “Fragments of a Narrative: Combat Trauma in the Early Medieval West.”
In-Person event. Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI
There will be a pre-circulated paper for this talk. More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…>.
Thursday, March 17, 2022 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
David Miros, Ph.D., Director: The Jesuit Archives & Research Center, St. Louis (MO)
Location: online
The Jesuit Archives & Research Center houses the collective memory of fourteen past and current administrative provinces of the Society of Jesus in the United States. These fourteen include the Buffalo, California, Central and Southern, Chicago, Chicago-Detroit, Detroit, Midwest, Missouri, New England, New Orleans, New York, Northeast, Oregon, and Wisconsin Provinces. The archives also house the records of the governing body of the Society of Jesus in the US, the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. More information and registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
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, March 23, 2022, 4:45
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Guest Scholar: Justin Shaw
Location: Online Event, more information to come.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 5pm
MHC Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium
Katie Scott, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London: “Making and Unmaking the Rococo Street.”
Location: Zoom Meeting.
More information and Zoom registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-and-unmaking-rococo…>.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 6pm
MHC Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas
Pounamu Jade Aikman, Harvard University, University of Hawai'i: “Ungrounded Sovereignty: The nexus between Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler State Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.”
Location: Zoom Meeting. More information and registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/ungrounded-sovereignty-nex…>.
March 24, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender and Culture
Susanne Sreedhar (Department of Philosophy, Boston University), "Hobbes on Sex."
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom.us_meet…>
Monday March 28, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History
Anne D. Hedeman (Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor, Art History, University of Kansas): "Power and Authority in Visual Paratext"
In-person at Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Edison and Newman Room
Open to the public, but registration is required. Register for "Power and Authority"<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us15.list-2Dma…>
*Tuesday, March 29, 2pm
MIT Global France Seminar
Christy Pichichero (Associate Professor of French and History, George Mason University)
"TALKING B(L)ACK: Theorizing Race and its Intersections in Critical Eighteenth-Century Studies”
Location: This lecture will take place in-person only in Building E51, Room 095 on the MIT Campus<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__whereis.mit.edu&d=DwMGa…>. MIT Covid Pass users do not need to register, but must present MIT ID or mobile ID at the door. Non-MIT community members must REGISTER<mailto:REGISTER> in MIT’s Tim Tickets system. Contact Jeff Ravel (ravel(a)mit.edu<mailto:ravel@mit.edu>) with questions. MORE INFO<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__languages.mit.edu_even…>.
April 6, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBA
Location: Online Event
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, 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_…> is coming soon.
*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://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jF4nzgNaQvSzgqxOiie0QA> 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-…>.
Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
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, Pembroke Hall 305
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
TBD
Location: Zoom
More information and registration link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_content_bc-…>
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). More information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown.edu_memhs_…> is coming soon.
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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.
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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 EST (prior to 3/13/22) and EDT (on/after 3/13/22).
Upcoming Events
**Friday, March 4, 2022 4:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Caroline Bicks, “Antiochus’s Daughter: Girlhood, Memory, and the ‘true History of the play of Pericles’”
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMod-2orDMiG9Y6fPF5FUiXBXwXPi14AP…>.
**Wednesday, March 9, 2022 11:45am to 1:15pm
Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica Seminars Spring 2022 Series
Sophia Schmitt (Starr Fellow and LMU Munich): "On the Defensive and On the Offensive: Jewish Resilience in 15th Century Ashkenaz." The paper will be circulated to those who let us know they will attend the seminar.
Location: in-person meeting, at Rm 201, Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE), 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
Registration: Sandy Cantave Vil, cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:cjs@fas.harvard.edu>
**Wednesday, March 9, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Lecture: “Early Modern Multiplicities.”
Guest Scholars: Ayesha Ramachandran and Carina Johnson
Location: Online Event. Register here<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAofuutqD0vHNHZ8-ZscA4BnRIQ8c5Zza…> for the zoom link.
Thursday, March 10, 4pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
The Refinery: Religio (Re)formed: The English Reformation and Race
Yunah Kae, University of Massachusetts; Kim Coles, University of Maryland
Registration<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance>.
**Tuesday, March 15, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Jonathan Conant (Associate Professor of History and Classics, Brown University): “Fragments of a Narrative: Combat Trauma in the Early Medieval West.”
There will be a pre-circulated paper for this talk. More information<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>.
Thursday, March 17, 2022 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
David Miros, Ph.D., Director: The Jesuit Archives & Research Center, St. Louis (MO)
Location: online
The Jesuit Archives & Research Center houses the collective memory of fourteen past and current administrative provinces of the Society of Jesus in the United States. These fourteen include the Buffalo, California, Central and Southern, Chicago, Chicago-Detroit, Detroit, Midwest, Missouri, New England, New Orleans, New York, Northeast, Oregon, and Wisconsin Provinces. The archives also house the records of the governing body of the Society of Jesus in the US, the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. More information and registration<https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…>.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
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, March 23, 2022, 4:45
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Guest Scholar: Justin Shaw
Location: Online Event, more information to come.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 5pm
MHC Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium
Katie Scott, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London: “Making and Unmaking the Rococo Street.”
Location: Zoom Meeting.
More information and Zoom registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-and-unmaking-rococo…>.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 6pm
MHC Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas
Pounamu Jade Aikman, Harvard University, University of Hawai'i: “Ungrounded Sovereignty: The nexus between Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler State Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.”
Location: Zoom Meeting. More information and registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/ungrounded-sovereignty-nex…>.
March 24, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender and Culture
Susanne Sreedhar (Department of Philosophy, Boston University), "Hobbes on Sex."
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrde-gqjkqHdT7yQ1OiHjOt_nfJ7M_…>
*Monday March 28, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History
Anne D. Hedeman (Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor, Art History, University of Kansas): "Power and Authority in Visual Paratext"
In-person at Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Edison and Newman Room
Open to the public, but registration is required. Register for "Power and Authority"<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us15.list-2Dma…>
April 6, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBA
Location: Online Event
*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, 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://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> is coming soon.
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://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…>
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://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…>.
Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApf-qrqD0rG9elMqbQnW9sN7Emk8le7V…>
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.
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://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYof-6sqTsjG9YyGwSP2izcNERvwyPY…>
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
TBD
Location: Zoom
More information and registration link<https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…>
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). More information<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> is coming soon.
***
*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 EST (prior to 3/13/22) and EDT (on/after 3/13/22).
Upcoming Events
Monday, February 28, 2022 12:00-1:15PM (new date, new title)
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
"Discussing Alejandro Octavio Nodarse's "Observation at the Margin: Salvator Rosa and the Neapolitan Coast" with comments from Paul Kosmin"
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
*Meum Signum Apposui: A Workshop on Notarial Cultures in Dante’s Italy. Speakers: Giuliano Milani (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée), Lorenzo Caravaggi (U of East Anglia), Eric Nemarich (Harvard), Sama Mammadova (Harvard)
3/1/2022 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: In person: Harvard Yard, Boylston Hall 335
More info: medieval(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:medieval@fas.harvard.edu>
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 3:45pm to 5:45pm
Warren Center’s Workshop on “Slavery and the Universities”
Elsa Barraza Mendoza (Middlebury College): “Property of the College: Enslaved People and the Origins of Jesuit Universities in America.”
Location: History Department Conference Room (125), Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas
Scott Manning Stevens, Syracuse University: “Cartographic Colonialism in the Haudenosaunee Homelands.”
Location: Zoom Meeting. More information and registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/cartographic-colonialism-h…>.
*Thursday, March 3, 2022, 12-1pm
Yale Program in Renaissance Studies
Race Before 1800: S J Pearce (NYU) discussing "Reading Judah Halevi as a Theorist of Race."
You can register for the event here.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__yale.zoom.us_meeting_r…> To access the readings for this workshop, please email xavier.lee(a)yale.edu<mailto:xavier.lee@yale.edu>.
Friday, March 4, 2022 4:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Caroline Bicks, “Antiochus’s Daughter: Girlhood, Memory, and the ‘true History of the play of Pericles’”
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration<:%20https:/bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMod-2orDMiG9Y6fPF5FUiXBXwXPi14APzh>.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 11:45am to 1:15pm
Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica Seminars Spring 2022 Series
Sophia Schmitt (Starr Fellow and LMU Munich): Lecture TBA
Location: online.
Registration: Sandy Cantave Vil, cantave(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:cantave@fas.harvard.edu>
*Wednesday, March 9, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Guest Scholars: Ayesha Ramachandran and Carina Johnson
Location: Online Event. More Information to come.
*Thursday, March 10, 4pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
The Refinery: Religio (Re)formed: The English Reformation and Race
Yunah Kae, University of Massachusetts; Kim Coles, University of Maryland
Registration<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance>.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Jonathan Conant (Associate Professor of History and Classics, Brown University). More information<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> is coming soon.
Thursday, March 17, 2022 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
David Miros, Ph.D., Director: The Jesuit Archives & Research Center, St. Louis (MO)
Location: online
The Jesuit Archives & Research Center houses the collective memory of fourteen past and current administrative provinces of the Society of Jesus in the United States. These fourteen include the Buffalo, California, Central and Southern, Chicago, Chicago-Detroit, Detroit, Midwest, Missouri, New England, New Orleans, New York, Northeast, Oregon, and Wisconsin Provinces. The archives also house the records of the governing body of the Society of Jesus in the US, the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. More information and registration<https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…>.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
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, March 23, 2022, 4:45
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Guest Scholar: Justin Shaw
Location: Online Event, more information to come.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 5pm
MHC Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium
Katie Scott, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London: “Making and Unmaking the Rococo Street.”
Location: Zoom Meeting.
More information and zoom registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-and-unmaking-rococo…>.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 6pm
MHC Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas
Pounamu Jade Aikman, Harvard University, University of Hawai'i: “Ungrounded Sovereignty: The nexus between Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler State Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.”
Location: Zoom Meeting. More information and registration<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/ungrounded-sovereignty-nex…>.
*March 24, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender and Culture
Susanne Sreedhar (Department of Philosophy, Boston University), "Hobbes on Sex."
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrde-gqjkqHdT7yQ1OiHjOt_nfJ7M_…>
*April 6, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
TBA
Location: Online Event
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, 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). More information<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> is coming soon.
*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://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…>
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://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…>.
Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApf-qrqD0rG9elMqbQnW9sN7Emk8le7V…>
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.
*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://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYof-6sqTsjG9YyGwSP2izcNERvwyPY…>
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.
*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.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
TBD
Location: Zoom
More information and registration link<https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…>
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). More information<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> is coming soon.
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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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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 (prior to 11/7/21) and EST (on/after 11/7/21).
Late Breaking News
*Thursday, February 17, 2022, 4:30pm New England Time
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Marco Piana, Visiting Assistant Professor in Italian at Smith College: "Medusa Colonised: Euhemerism, Colonialism, and Proto-Feminism in Lodovico Domenichi’s La nobiltà delle donne."
Location: virtual; registration link: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudumvrD8jE9WKFBuI4nS_LGfk…
*Friday, February 18, 2022, 2:30-4pm
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Yavuz Aykan, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, École d'Histoire de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne: Beyond the Frontier Paradigm: Kurdistan(s) in Space and Time (16th-19th century) (Lecture).
Location: online; registration link: https://bit.ly/3L3xdpW
More information: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/title-beyond-frontier-paradigm-kurdistan…
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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 (prior to 11/7/21) and EST (on/after 11/7/21).
Upcoming Events
*Tuesday 15 Feb from 12-1:30pm (Boston time)
UMB Catherine Frisone Scott Center for Italian Cultural Studies
“Vittoria Colonna in Verse, Song and Print: A Celebration of Ramie Targoff's New Translation”
Book presentation with three short lectures, one series of dramatic readings, one or two performances of early music
Participants: Ramie Targoff (Brandeis), Troy Tower (UMB), Brian Kay (CIM/Case Western), Ashlee Foreman (Apollo's Fire/U of Akron) and Floriana D'Ammora (Burlesque Cabaret Napoli), moderated by Shannon McHugh (UMB)
Location: virtual; RSVP at bit.ly/FrisoneColonna<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bit.ly_FrisoneColonna&d…>
Additional info: In 1538, Colonna's earliest collection of poetry became the first printed book by a living Italian woman and has been translated into English for the first time by Ramie Targoff in a newly published volume co-edited by Troy Tower. Targoff and Tower will share their experiences preparing this collection for today's readers and will be joined by soprano Ashlee Foreman singing Colonna's poetry with lute accompaniment by Brian Kay, who has adapted arrangements from sixteenth-century composers drawn to Colonna's fame and talent. Actor Floriana D'Ammora will round out the celebration with dramatic readings of selected sonnets that reflect, among other things, Colonna's celebrity in Naples.
**Wednesday, February 16, 2022 11:45am to 1:15pm
Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica Seminars Spring 2022 Series
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (Starr Fellow), Harvard University: “Rupture and Religious Law: Legal Traditions and their Transmission from Medieval Ashkenaz to Early Modern Poland”
Location: online
Registration: write to Sandy Cantave Vil, cantave(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:cantave@fas.harvard.edu>
*Thursday, February 17, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
Jean Luc Enyegue, S.J., Director: The Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
Location: online
The Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa (JHIA) is an institute geared to preserving memory and promoting historical knowledge. It was started in 2010 as an idea of the Superior General of the Jesuits, Most Rev. Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., to encourage the study of his Order’s largely unexplored involvement in the evangelization of Africa. More information and registration link: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…
Thursday, February 17, 2022, 6:00pm (change of time!!!)
MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Jared Hardesty, Western Washington University: Two Sisters, a Merchant, and a Mercenary: Rethinking Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Boston
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link: https://brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-ygqjIoEtSXI-1m4gh01QFLLkfvT…
*Thursday, Feb. 17, 6-7 pm EST
College of Humanities and Fine Arts University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussion of Monika Schmitter’s (UMass) new book, The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy: Andrea Odoni and his Venetian Palace (Cambridge)
Panelists: Patricia Fortini Brown (Princeton) and David Kim (UPenn). Moderator: Jessica Maier (Mount Holyoke)
Location: Online. Registration link https://www.umass.edu/hfa/event/faculty-new-book-talk-art-collector-early-m…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.umass.edu_hfa_even…>
Tuesday, 22 Feb., 4:30-6:00 PM
Brown University, MEMHS
Sarah Christensen (PhD student in History, Brown University), “Remembering Enslaved Mothers in the Medieval Icelandic Laxdæla saga.”
Pavilion Room, History Department, Brown University, Providence, RI
There is no pre-circulated paper for this talk.
More information:https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
*Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 4:45 pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Visiting Scholar Katie Kadue
Location: Online Event (more information coming soon)
Monday, February 28, 2022 12:00-1:15PM (new date, new title)
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
"Discussing Alejandro Octavio Nodarse's "Observation at the Margin: Salvator Rosa and the Neapolitan Coast" with comments from Paul Kosmin"
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, March 2, 2022 3:45pm to 5:45pm
Warren Center’s Workshop on “Slavery and the Universities”
Elsa Barraza Mendoza (Middlebury College): “Property of the College: Enslaved People and the Origins of Jesuit Universities in America.”
Location: History Department Conference Room (125), Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*Wednesday, March 2, 2022 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas
Scott Manning Stevens, Syracuse University: “Cartographic Colonialism in the Haudenosaunee Homelands.”
Location: Zoom Meeting. More information and registration link: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/cartographic-colonialism-h…
Friday, March 4, 2022 4:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Caroline Bicks, “Antiochus’s Daughter: Girlhood, Memory, and the ‘true History of the play of Pericles’”
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMod-2orDMiG9Y6fPF5FUiXBXwXPi14AP…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bostonu.zoom.us_meetin…>
**Wednesday, March 9, 2022 11:45am to 1:15pm
Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica Seminars Spring 2022 Series
Sophia Schmitt (Starr Fellow and LMU Munich): Lecture TBA
Location: online.
Registration: Sandy Cantave Vil, cantave(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:cantave@fas.harvard.edu>
*Tuesday, March 15, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Jonathan Conant (Associate Professor of History and Classics, Brown University). More information is coming soon.
See also: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
*Thursday, March 17, 2022 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
David Miros, Ph.D., Director: The Jesuit Archives & Research Center, St. Louis (MO)
Location: online
The Jesuit Archives & Research Center houses the collective memory of fourteen past and current administrative provinces of the Society of Jesus in the United States. These fourteen include the Buffalo, California, Central and Southern, Chicago, Chicago-Detroit, Detroit, Midwest, Missouri, New England, New Orleans, New York, Northeast, Oregon, and Wisconsin Provinces. The archives also house the records of the governing body of the Society of Jesus in the US, the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. More information and registration link: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
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, March 23, 2022, 5pm
MHC Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium
Katie Scott, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London: “Making and Unmaking the Rococo Street.”
Location: Zoom Meeting.
More information and zoom registration link: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-and-unmaking-rococo…
*Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 6pm
MHC Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas
Pounamu Jade Aikman, Harvard University, University of Hawai'i: “Ungrounded Sovereignty: The nexus between Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler State Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.”
Location: Zoom Meeting. More information and registration link: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/ungrounded-sovereignty-nex…
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, 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). More information is coming soon.
See also: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
*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 link: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…
Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApf-qrqD0rG9elMqbQnW9sN7Emk8le7V…<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.
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.
*Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
TBD
Location: Zoom
More information and registration link: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…
*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). More information is coming soon.
See also: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
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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 (prior to 11/7/21) and EST (on/after 11/7/21).
Upcoming Events
**Wednesday, February 2, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST (change of date!!!)
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Mateo Montoya, "The Thirty Immortals of Geneva: Life Annuities, Smallpox Inoculation, and Probabilistic Thought c. 1760-1793"
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, February 3, 2022 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
William Carroll, Adapting 'Macbeth': Three Types of Revision
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpf-uuqj4rHdTDRgLvEvzEseseN6OdFZ…
*Thursday, February 10, 2022, 5:00pm
MHC Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Alison Calhoun, Indiana University-Bloomington: Staging Robots: From Cartesian Intelligibility to Enlightenment Dehumanization
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlfuuqpzkpHd2eiV_BsSnxT-2aKeuBg6…
*Wednesday, February 16, 2022 11:45am to 1:15pm
Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica Seminars Spring 2022 Series
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (Starr Fellow), Harvard University: “Rupture and Religious Law: Legal Traditions and their Transmission from Medieval Ashkenaz to Early Modern Poland”
Location: HMANE, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave, RM201, Cambridge, MA, 02138 (In Person)
Registration: Sandy Cantave Vil, cantave(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:cantave@fas.harvard.edu>
**Thursday, February 17, 2022, 6:00pm (change of time!!!)
MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Jared Hardesty, Western Washington University: Two Sisters, a Merchant, and a Mercenary: Rethinking Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Boston
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link: https://brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-ygqjIoEtSXI-1m4gh01QFLLkfvT…
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Alejandro Nodarse, “Blood Lines: Drawing and Circulation in Marco Aurelio Severino’s Chirugia Illustrata (Surgery Illustrated)”
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
*Wednesday, March 2, 2022 3:45pm to 5:45pm
Warren Center’s Workshop on “Slavery and the Universities”
Elsa Barraza Mendoza (Middlebury College): “Property of the College: Enslaved People and the Origins of Jesuit Universities in America,”
Location: History Department Conference Room (125), Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*Wednesday, March 9, 2022 11:45am to 1:15pm
Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica Seminars Spring 2022 Series
Sophia Schmitt (Starr Fellow and LMU Munich): Lecture TBA
Location: HMANE, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave, RM201, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Registration: Sandy Cantave Vil, cantave(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:cantave@fas.harvard.edu>
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
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, 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 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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
*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 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. 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 (prior to 11/7/21) and EST (on/after 11/7/21).
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:30am to 11:45am
Florence Hsia, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison: From Illiterate to Sinologists: Indexing Chinese (Science and Technology in Asia seminar series)
Location: Harvard University Asia Center Spring 2022 Online seminar series
Registration: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsf-irqjMiGNLcC1MbRsnIR4GjD3FUz4…
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Mateo Montoya, "The Thirty Immortals of Geneva: Life Annuities, Smallpox Inoculation, and Probabilistic Thought c. 1760-1793"
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, February 3, 2022 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
William Carroll, Adapting 'Macbeth': Three Types of Revision
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpf-uuqj4rHdTDRgLvEvzEseseN6OdFZ…
Thursday, February 17, 2022, 7:00pm
MHC Eighteenth-Century Studies
Jared Hardesty, Western Washington University: Two Sisters, a Merchant, and a Mercenary: Rethinking Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Boston
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link: https://brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-ygqjIoEtSXI-1m4gh01QFLLkfvT…
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Alejandro Nodarse, “Blood Lines: Drawing and Circulation in Marco Aurelio Severino’s Chirugia Illustrata (Surgery Illustrated)”
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
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, 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 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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
*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 EST.
Upcoming Events
Thursday, December 2, 2021 4:30PM EST
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Jutta Sperling (Amherst College) Five College Renaissance Seminar, "The Nursing Virgin in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ethiopia"
Location: Online (Registration Link<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrduGvpzwiE9FILoKeTF6R2pz7…>) and In-Person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA)
More Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/sperling-fcrs>
Friday, December 3, 2021 11:00AM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Renaissance Studies
Surekha Davies (Utrecht University), "What to Wear, and Who Cares? Confecting Nations through Costume Books in Early Modern Europe"
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsdu2uqTwtGtyWiBgavj9UTJWzWNLUrm…>More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/surekha-davies-what-wear-a…>
Friday, December 3, 2021 4:00PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Kent Cartwright (University of Maryland), "Shakespearean Comedy and the Problem of Forgiveness"
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sfuGsrDouHNO5iOmuZxb8IlCqGmpyin…>More Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/shakespearean-comedy-and-p…>
Friday, December 3, 2021 4:00PM EST
Society of Architectural Historians
"Sensing Architecture"
Panelists:
Niall Atkinson, University of Chicago
Joseph L. Clarke, University of Toronto
David Karmon, College of the Holy Cross
Bissera V. Pentcheva, Stanford University
Mark Smith, University of South Carolina
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://sah1365.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J9CWreJbQEySWIGNSYk54g>More Information<https://www.sah.org/conferences-and-programs/sah-connects/2021/sensing-arch…>
Thursday, December 9, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Asheesh Siddique (UMass Amherst), "Print, Records, and the 'Science' of Law in the Early American Republic"
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkfuCsqT8iHNePkCHcLkOVxUlI…>More Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/siddique-2021>
Thursday, December 9, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Transculturation and 'English' Daughters in Early Modern Morocco"
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m…. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at ermurphy(a)bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
NEW DATE: Friday, December 10, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific Personae, and Children in Italy, 1750-1810"
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Note: Original date was scheduled for Tuesday, December 7, 2021.
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Mateo Montoya, "The Thirty Immortals of Geneva: Life Annuities, Smallpox Inoculation, and Probabilistic Thought c. 1760-1793"
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Alejandro Nodarse, "Blood Lines: Drawing and Circulation in Marco Aurelio Severino's Chirugia Illustrata (Surgery Illustrated)"
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
*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
