[earlymod-list] Early Modern Events from October 31, 2016

This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>. If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort. * indicates a newly announced event ** indicates an updated or corrected event EARLYMOD THIS WEEK **Monday, October 31, 2016, 5pm – 7 pm The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University Lecture, “Priests of the Law” or “Vipers of the Commonwealth”: Legal Professionals, Legal Knowledge, and Litigiousness in Early Modern Europe Michael Breen, Reed College Wasserstein Hall, WCC 3034, Harvard Law School Co-sponsored by the European Legal History Workshop Please email jminnich@law.harvard.edu<mailto:jminnich@law.harvard.edu?subject=Michael%20Breen%20paper&body=Dear%20Ms.%20Minnich%2C%20%0A%0AI%20would%20like%20to%20join%20the%20European%20Legal%20History%20Workshop%20and%20Early%20Modern%20Workshop%20for%20Michael%20Breen's%20talk%20on%20October%2031.%20Could%20you%20please%20send%20me%20the%20precirculated%20paper%20for%20his%20talk%3F%20%0A%0AThank%20you.%20> for the pre-circulated paper. November **Tuesday, November 1, 2016, Noon – 1:30pm The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University "Humanism in New Spain and the huehuehtlahtolli (speech of the ancients)" Aysha Pollnitz, Rice University Robinson Hall, Lower Library and Great Space, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA RSVP appreciated to marcellahayes@g.harvard.edu<mailto:marcellahayes@g.harvard.edu> **Tuesday, November 1, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Florin Morar (Harvard, History of Science), “Translation and Treason: The Demarcation Controversy and Abraham Ortelius’ Map of China from 1584”<http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/florin-morar-harvard-history… Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Refreshments will be served. Thursday, November 3, 2016, 5:30pm "The Unbearable Lightness of Anne Green: An Infanticide's Unlikely Afterlife, 1651-Present" Marina Leslie, Northeastern University, Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA Sunday, November 6, 2016, 2:00 pm The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies First Sunday Concert: “When I See Wynter Coming” The Harper and The Minstrel Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002. Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public. www.umass.edu/renaissance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt… No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited. Seating is first come, first served. UPCOMING EVENTS Monday, November 7, 2016, 5:15 – 7:15 p.m. MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series “Setting (and binding) the table: Ancient Roman paratext in the age of print” Joseph Howley, Columbia University MIT Building 14E, Room 304 whereis.mit.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__wher… **Monday, November 7, 2016, 3:00 PM Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, Co-sponsored with MHC History of the Book Seminar Master Course on Social History of Paper, Signcutting, and Signsewing. Juliet Fleming, New York University Location: Houghton Library Please rsvp to Hudson Vincent at rvincent@g.harvard.edu<mailto:rvincent@g.harvard.edu> (space is limited) Monday, November 7, 2016, 5 PM Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, Co-sponsored with MHC History of the Book Seminar "Gleaning" Juliet Fleming, New York University Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA Abstract at http://bookhistory.harvard.edu<http://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/juli… Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Efe Balıkçıoğlu (Harvard, History and CMES) “Determinism and Causation in the 15th Century Ottoman Madrasas in Constantinople”<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/event/efe-bal%C4%B1k… Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 5-6 PM and Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30–5:45 PM Yale Program in the History of the Book Lecture & Seminar, "Book-Piracy in the Reign of Mary Tudor" Peter Blayney, University of Toronto Yale University; Lecture, Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 5-6 PM (Yale, Beinecke Library mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30–5:45 PM (Yale, Beinecke Library, room 9 on lower level) https://yalebookhistory.com/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=… *Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 2:30-4 PM PANEL: 400 Years of Desires: New Approaches to Jesuit Missions through the Litterae Indipetae Speakers: Emanuele Colombo, DePaul University; Marco Rochini, University of Milan Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall (Brighton Campus), Room 035, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Contact: 617-552-2568 or iajs(a)bc.edu *Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 6-7 PM Harvard Arts Museum: Norma Jean Calderwood Lecture “Impressions of People: The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-76)” Sheila Canby, Patti Circh Curator for Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Free and open to the public: Please enter via entrance on Broadway Thursday, November 10, 4:15pm MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6… "The Human Condition in the Anthropocene" Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago) Cosponsored with the Joint Center for History and Economics Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30 pm The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture, Five College: “Antihonorificabilitudinitatibus: Love's Labour's Lost and the Pedantic Text.” Adam Zucker, UMass Amherst Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002. Free and open to the public. www.umass.edu/renaissance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt… No reservations required. Friday, November 11, 2016
4:00 - 5:30 Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop "'Prince of the Nullibists'? Descartes, Henry More, and the Location of the Mind" Dan Kaufman, University of Colorado
 Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard University, 25 Quincy Street, Cambridge: Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Catherine Abou-Nemeh (Victoria University of Wellington, History), “Cartesian Medicine at Leiden University in the Late 17th Century”<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/event/catherine-abou-nemeh-… Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 4:30pm Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown… “The Many Bodies of King James VI and I,” Alastair Bellany, (Professor of History, Rutgers University,) Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence RI Tuesday, November 15, 2016 – 4:30pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Seminar, “‘Every bodies fancy varies’: Historicizing Early Modern Sexual Practice” Will Fisher, Lehman College/Graduate Center, CUNY Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457 The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere@wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu> http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur… Tuesday, November 15, 6pm, MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6… "Art in a State of Siege: Hieronymus Bosch in Retrospect" Joseph Koerner (Harvard University) Room 029, Sackler Lecture Hall, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA *Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 6 PM Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium “The Tastemakers and Trendsetters: A Closer Look on the Process of Creation in Eighteenth-Century France” Ulrich Leben, Bard Graduate Center Room 515, Sackler Museum, Harvard, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA, 02138 **Wednesday, November 16 at 5:15 PM Harvard Renaissance Colloquium David Nee, Harvard University "Tragedy as Simple Form: Romeo and Juliet, 1475-1599" Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Colonial North America Project at Harvard Library “Unconference”: What’s Next? Exploring New Ways to Use Digital Early American Manuscripts Knafel Center, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. To find out more about the meeting and to register (note that space is limited) please visit this on-line invitation: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/colonial *Thursday, November 17, 2016, 4pm Renaissance Studies “’Well Painted and Illuminated, But Not Very Accurate’: Maps and Their Makers in Early Modern France” Camille Serchuk, Southern Connecticut State University Room 204, Sever Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6pm EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_… "New Eyes VIII Dinner Symposium" Megan Gallagher (Brown University), Jess Keiser (Tufts University), Rebecca Mitsein (Boston College), and Jenny Reed (Brandeis University) Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA **Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6:00pm to 8:00pm 2016-2017 RENATO POGGIOLI LECTURE Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, New York University Barker Ctr, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA This event is free and open to the public. Friday, November 18, 2016, 5:30pm SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_… “All’s Well and the Art of Love” James Kuzner, Brown University Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA Friday and Saturday, November 18th – 19th, 2016 Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop co-sponsored with the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science and the BU College of Fine Arts Theater Program Event: “Émilie Du Châtelet: 310th Anniversary” -Friday, November 18th, 4:00 – Staged Reading of Émilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson BU Theater Lab, Rm. 104, College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave -Saturday, November 19th, 10:00 – 5:30pm: Talks by Judith Zinsser, George Smith, Ruth Hagengruber, Marius Stan, Andrew Janiak, and Katherine Brading. The Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave. Further details available at http://www.bu.edu/cphs/colloquium/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/… Tuesday, November 22, 5:30 PM Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.brown… The 37th William F. Church Memorial Lecture, “Ottoman Christians and the Question of Ottoman Society.” Molly Greene (Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University) Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 106, Brown University, 95 Cushing St., Providence, RI, 02912 A reception will follow the lecture. Monday, November 28, 5:30pm Harvard Cartography Seminar "Political Propaganda and the Mapping of the Russian Borderland in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century: Strubicz, Kochanowski, Mercator" Jakub Niedzwiedz (Jagiellonian University) Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 4:00pm to 6:00pm Lecture: “The Book Trade and the Demand for Literature in France, 1769-1789” Robert Darnton, Harvard University Barker Center, Room 110, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA Tuesday, November 29, 6:00pm Dialectical Thinking and the Humanities Talk Title TBA Julie Walsh, Wellesley College Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA Wednesday, November 30, 2016 5:15 PM Harvard Renaissance Colloquium William Porter (Harvard University) Title TBA Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA December Friday, December 2, 2016, 5:30pm SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_… "Graduate Student Symposium" Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA Sunday, December 4, 2016, 2:00 pm The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Holiday Concert AyreCraft Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002. Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public. www.umass.edu/renaissance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt… No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited. Seating is first come, first served. Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5:00pm and Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30pm Lecture & Seminar, "What is a Letter?" Peter Stallybrass, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania Yale University; Lecture, Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5-6pm (Yale, Beinecke Library mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30–5:45pm (Yale, Beinecke Library, room 9 on lower level) Thursday, December 8, 5:30pm Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Lecture, "Monstrous Un-Making: Blood, Milk, Maternity, and Murder as Female Agency in Early Modern England" Dianne E. Berg Tufts University Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA February Wednesday, February 1, 6pm Eighteenth-Century Studies Talk Title TBA Christie McDonald, Harvard University Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA Wednesday, February 1, 2016, 5:15 PM Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Title TBA Holger Syme, University of Toronto Location TBA Monday, February 27, 6pm EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_… Talk Title TBA Meredith Martin (New York University) and Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University), Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA March Thursday March 2, 2017 - 4:30pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Seminar title TBA Ned Duval, Yale University Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457 The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere@wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu> http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur… Wednesday, March 22, 6pm American Literature and Culture Talk Title TBA Leonard Von Morze, University of Massachusetts, Boston Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA May Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Seminar title TBA Catherine Infante, Amherst College Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457 The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at mmeere@wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu> http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur… *If you would like to request that your announcement be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events e-mail: Please send your listing to: earlymod@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu> It would be a great help if you could follow the format below. To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place in the greater Boston area. Announcements are posted at the discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. 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 (Building, Room, St., Address, Institution, City, State) * Event must take place in the greater Boston area. 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