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@fas.harvard.edu.
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UPCOMING EVENTS IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES
**Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - 6:00pm
Eighteen Century Studies, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century IX: Dinner Symposium
Speakers include: Alexander Creighton (Harvard University), Anna Ficek (CUNY Graduate Center), Kit Heintzman (Harvard University), Nicole Infanta Keller (Northeastern University), Astrid Pajur (Uppsala University)
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
More information: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Thursday, February 8, 2018, 5:30 pm
Women & Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
“Forms, Formlessness, and Literary Studies: The Case of Margaret Cavendish”
Lara Dodds, Department of English, Mississippi State University
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-modern-world
*Friday, February 9, 2018, 5:30 pm Reception, 6:00 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: William C. Carroll and Coppelia Kahn.
“The Rise of China and the Future of Shakespeare Studies”
Adele Lee, Emerson College
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Friday to Saturday, Feb 9-10, 2018
Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard
The Twelfth Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History
Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Harvard Yard
Program and further information at: https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/conferences
*Tues Feb 13, 5:30-7:30pm
Houghton Library’s 108th George Parker Winship Lecture
Seeing Text, Reading Maps
Tom Conley (Harvard University)
Lamont Library, Forum Room, Harvard Yard
followed by a viewing of the exhibition “Landmarks: Maps as Literary Illustration” and reception
Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room, Harvard Yard
RSVP: http://bit.ly/2DFosn9
Access: Please note that Harvard ID or other photo identification is required to enter Lamont Library. Lamont Library’s main entrance is wheelchair-accessible, whereas Houghton Library is only directly accessible via a short flight of steps.
Let us know if we can make arrangements to assist you in accessing Houghton. Email or call 617-495-2441
**Tues February 13, 10am
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
Fellow Talk
Cristiano Casalini and Claude Pavur, S.J. (Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies)
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
The editors of Jesuit Pedagogy, 1540–1616: A Reader present on the second volume of English translations of materials related to Jesuit approaches to pedagogy in theory and practice (1616–1703). To attend, please contact the Institute (iajs@bc.edu).
*Wednesday, February 14, 5pm
Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, co-sponsored with the Harvard University Native American Program, Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, and the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature
Lisa Brooks (Amherst College), on her new book, Our Beloved Kin, A New History of King Philip's War
Room 110, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
*Thursday, February 15, 6:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Textual Repair: Humanism, Lost Texts, and the Renaissance Pursuit of Completeness"
Leah Whittington (Harvard University)
Room 211, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Co-sponsored with the Harvard English Department
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, 4-6pm
Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School
“Past as Past: Foundations for a Philosophy of History, ca 1610 CE”
Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University
Register to be emailed the location at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgt7xDPIW61qpYCPsqDqn6vjDQfknyCcINDFKAERbep9u44Q/viewform
*Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, 6:00pm
Sponsor: Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures/Robert C. Smith, Jr. Fund for Portuguese Studies, Harvard University
“‘Congo de Guinea Soy’: Africanized Iberian Languages in the Early Ibero-Atlantic”
Nicholas R. Jones, Bucknell University
Kresge Room, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
*Thursday, 22 February, 5:30 pm
Boston College, Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series
Lecture: “The Renaissance of Bloody Sports in Fifteenth-Century Italy”
Anthony D'Elia, Queen's University, Ontario
Stokes Hall S-461, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill
https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/sites/bluhm/lectures-2017-18.html
Thursday Feb 22, 5-6:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the GSAS workshop “Post-Classicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond”
“Multi-lingualism in Early modern Europe: Readings of the Praise of Folly”
Jan Bloemendal (Huyghens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Princeton University)
Boylston Hall 237, Harvard Yard
**Tues Feb 27 (NEW DATE!) – 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar (MEMHS)
“Future Perfect, Future Past: Roger Bacon’s Inventions.”
Elly Truitt, Associate Professor of History (Bryn Mawr College)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI
Please note that there is a pre-circulated paper, which will be posted here 2 weeks before the event: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
**Tues Feb 27, 12pm
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
“Jesuit Archaeologies of the Crucifixion: From Trent to the Shores of Japan.”
Hitomi Omata Rappo, Harvard University
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Collaborative Scholar Hitomi Omata Rappo--also a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s History department--presents her research. To attend, please contact the Institute (iajs@bc.edu).
*Wednesday, February 28, 2018 – 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, "What Did Medieval and Early Modern Italy Sound Like?"
Dario del Puppo, Professor of Language and Culture Studies, Trinity College (Hartford)
Boger Hall 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 Esther Moran by email at emmoran@wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
*Wednesday, Feb 28, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Renaissance Center: Wednesdays @ 4 Lecture Series
“From Page to Performance: Diminution and other Improvisation Practice from Renaissance Italy”
Livio Tici (Visiting Fellow at Kinney Renaissance Center), and
“Myth and Memory: Medieval and Renaissance Music Sheets as Mindmaps”
Marcello Mazzetti (Visiting Fellow at Kinney Renaissance Center)
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Refreshments co-sponsored by the Amherst Woman’s Club
Thursday, March 1, 2018, 6:00 pm
Women & Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
“The Soldier’s Two Bodies: Margaret Cavendish, Singularity, and Wartime Violence”
Erin Murphy, Department of English, Boston University
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-modern-world
**Monday, March 5, 2018 - 6:00pm
Eighteen Century Studies, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University
“Efficacious Fictions and the Art of the Real”
Lisa Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
More information: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
*Wednesday, March 7, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Renaissance Center: Wednesdays @ 4 Lecture Series
“The reinvention of Othello in Diana Abu-Jaber’s novel ‘Cresent’”
Mazen Naous, UMass
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Refreshments co-sponsored by the Amherst Woman’s Club
*Thursday, March 8, 4:30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Renaissance Center: Five College Renaissance Seminar
Topic: TBD
Marjorie Rubright, UMass
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Monday, March 12, 2018, 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
"Earthquake Aesthetics"
Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
Seminar Discussion: Early American Environments
Boston College, Stokes Hall, S376, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Registration required: http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html
*Friday, March 16, 2018, 5:30 pm Reception, 6:00 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: William C. Carroll and Coppelia Kahn.
“Alternative Temporalities and the Grammar of Possibility in Marlowe's Edward II”
Emily L. King, Louisiana State University
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
**Monday, March 19, 12pm
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
“Jesuits, Superstition, and Rural Missions in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Northern Italy”
David Salomoni, University of Rome III
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
To attend, please contact the Institute (iajs@bc.edu).
Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 12:00-1:30 pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
“The ‘Catholic Cook’ and ‘Natural Transubstantiation’: Theologies of Nutrition in Seventeenth-Century French Medicine”
Julia Reed (Harvard, History of Science)
Room 252, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here <https://goo.gl/forms/vhScARAQ4xE8wN8s1> to receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper.
Tues March 20 – time to be announced
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar (MEMHS)
“Natural History in the ‘Aztec Encyclopedia’, c. 1576.”
Iris Montero Sobrevilla, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities (Brown University)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI
Please note that there is a pre-circulated paper, which will be posted 2 weeks before the event at: https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
*Thursday, March 22, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Renaissance Center: Five College Seminar in Book History
“Popol Vuh: Latin America’s Book of Creation”
Ilan Stavans, Amherst College
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
*Monday, March 26, 4–6 pm
Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard
"Francesco Pecorini’s Letter in Arabic to Francesco Redi (Florence, 1667)—an exercise in microhistory and world philology"
Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University)
Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Harvard Yard
*Wednesday, March 28, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Renaissance Center: Wednesdays @ 4 Lecture Series
Insects in the Renaissance
Brian Ogilvie, UMass
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Refreshments co-sponsored by the Amherst Woman’s Club
*Wednesday, April 4, 4:30pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"New Histories of the Blackfriars Playhouse"
Lucy Munro (King's College London)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Theater and Performance Colloquium
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 5:30 pm
Women & Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
“Women and Witnessing: Reading Rape and Reformation in Spenser’s Faerie Queene”
Stephanie Bahr, Department of English, Hamilton College
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-modern-world
April 6-8, 2018
Conference: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Healing Charms and Medicine
Harvard, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Website: https://harvardcharmsandmedicine.wordpress.com
Monday, April 9, 2018 - 6:00pm
Eighteen Century Studies, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University
“Materiality, Text and Image: What is Enlightened and Romantic Travel Literature?”
John Brewer, California Institute of Technology
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
More information: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Tues April 10, 4-6pm
Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard
"Apes, Slaves, and Global Markets: Boundaries of Humanity in Enlightenment Debates"
Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)
Goldman Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St, Cambridge
10 April–
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
"Jesuit Missionaries in China"
Elisa Frei (Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies) and Eugenio Menegon (BC)
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
At a colloquium hosted with Burns Library, Institute Fellow Elisa Frei and Affiliated Scholar Eugenio Menegon present their research on the motivations and experiences of the early Jesuit missionaries in China. Contact the Institute with any questions; invitations are forthcoming (iajs@bc.edu).
Wed April 11, time to be announced
Brown University
The 38th William F. Church Memorial Lecture
Lyndal Roper (Regius Professor of History, Oxford), TBD.
Brown University, Providence, RI
A reception will follow the lecture. More Information at https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
*Wednesday, April 18, 2018 – 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “Images of Oblivious Memory: Ritual Lament from Ancient Greece to El Greco”
Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Harvard University
Boger Hall 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 Esther Moran by email at emmoran@wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
April 23, 25, 27, 2018 4-6pm
The Robert P Benedict Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
"Thomas Hobbes on History, Politics, and Philosophy"
Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley)
Boston University, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
*Monday, April 23, lunchtime
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Lunchtime Discussion of "How to Theorize the World: An Early Modern Manifesto"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University)
Room TBD, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
Tuesday, April 24, 12-1:30 pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard, History of Science): “Who is an Expert in Taste?”
Room 259, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here <https://goo.gl/forms/vhScARAQ4xE8wN8s1> to receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper.
Thursday, April 26, 2018 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
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 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Medieval 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
*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.
Talk Title TBA
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
*Monday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBD
Elizabeth Samet (West Point)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Save the date:
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.
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