[earlymod-list] Early Modern Studies, from April 25, 2018

Greetings! 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(a)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 UPCOMING EVENTS IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES **Thursday, April 26, 4:30pm Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Dan S. Collins Memorial Lecture: “How to be Happy in Shakespeare and Hobbes” Katherine Eggert, University of Colorado Boulder organized by the English Literary Renaissance Journal The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Reception to follow Thursday, April 26, 2018 5:00–6:30 p.m. Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar "Spaces of Property in Colonial North America" Allan Greer, McGill University Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 **Thursday, April 26, 5pm Harvard Renaissance Colloquium "Babbling Bishops and 'Scurvy Jack-Dog Priests': Representing the Clergy in Early English Drama" Jay Zysk (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) Room 112, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA Co-sponsored with the Harvard Medieval Colloquium https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… <https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance-colloquium> Friday, April 27, 2018, 12:00–1:30 p.m. Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar Seminar Discussion: Land Boston College, 10 Stone Ave, Room 201, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Registration required: http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html The Early Americas Seminar - Institute for the Liberal ...<http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html> www.bc.edu The Early Americas Seminar aims to highlight ongoing scholarship on the intertwined histories and cultures of the Americas from the late-fifteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. The Seminar brings in four speakers a year, from different fields and specializations, but all committed to making ... Friday, April 27, 2018, 5:45 pm Reception, 6:15 pm Seminar Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: William C. Carroll and Coppelia Kahn. "Why Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies" Paul Kottman, New School for Social Research Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies *Friday, April 27, 2018, 4-6 pm The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series “The Business of Astrology in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire” A. Tunç Şen, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/business-astrology-early-modern-ottoman-… The Business of Astrology in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/business-astrology-early-moder… cmes.fas.harvard.edu The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents A. Tunç ŞenAssistant Professor of History, Department of History, Columbia University Monday, April 30, 11am to 1pm Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University Digital Humanities Colloquium “Roads, Routes and Networks: Visualizing Art Historical Information” Jodi Cranston, Professor of Renaissance Art, Boston University: “Mapping Paintings: Tracking the Lives of Artworks” Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Valencia: “SILKNOW: Improving the Access to Digitized Silk Heritage” Sharon C. Smith, Program Head, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT: “Capturing the Past: Collaborative Projects and the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT” Location: RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA Free registration and more information at https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/digital-humanities-colloquium-roads-routes-an… Three case studies will provide an update on new and ongoing projects in this area, and introduce a shared reflection about the possibilities of digital information within art history. **Monday, April 30, 5:15pm Harvard Renaissance Colloquium "'Look, Yorick, can't you give us nothin' but them poems?' : Shakespeare and the American Civil War" Elizabeth Samet (West Point) Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Monday, April 30, 2018, 6:30-8 pm. Boston College Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series "The Coming of the Italian Baroque to America: The Case of the Metropolitan Museum" Andrea Bayer, Wrightsman Curator of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art Boston College, 140 Comm Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA, Devlin Hall 101 Reception to follow. No RSVP necessary. For further info: Franco Mormando (mormando(a)bc.edu) http://events.bc.edu/event/andrea_bayer_the_coming_of_the_italian_baroque_t… Monday, May 7, 2018, 12pm Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Lunchtime Talk, TBD Maria Devlin (Independent Scholar) Room 018, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Cancelled Event: Monday May 7: A workshop on “Religion and the printed image in the 16th century” Featuring prof Olivier Christin (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris and Université de Neuchâtel). details TBA. *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(a)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. 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