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@fas.harvard.edu.
For security reasons the list will not disseminate zoom links directly, but we can list an email contact to which to write for further details about attending. Alternatively, we can circulate registration information
for events. All times are EDT.
Upcoming Events
*Tuesday April 26, 5 pm EST
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Katie Kadue (Cornell University): "'A Double Task': Erotic and Poetic Labor in Petrarchan Poetry."
Please
pre-register here to receive the zoom link for this event.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations”
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252.
Please contact Ori at oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
**Wednesday, April 27, 2022 7:00PM EST (NEW TIME!)
Harvard Medieval History Workshop and Early Modern Workshop
How Does Stuff Happen? A Roundtable on Causality in Medieval and Early Modern History
The opening discussants are Sama Mammadova, Reed Morgan,
Konrad Boeschenstein, and Sergio Leos all in the History department at Harvard
Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly Lower Library)
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture “The Art of Hatching Contraven’d, or; the Problem of Reproducing the Freshwater Polypus"
Elizabeth Athens (University of Connecticut)
Brown University, Friedman Hall 102 (new location), in-person lecture
Dr. Athens is an art historian with research interests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and natural history, the art of empire, and the history of collecting.
She is currently writing a book that examines the graphic practice of the eighteenth-century American naturalist, William Bartram.
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama"
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration
*Friday, April 29, 2022 (9am-6pm) and Saturday, April 30, 2022 (9am-6pm)
Harvard Medieval Graduate Interdisciplinary Workshop
Two-day in person workshop with Dr. Sarah Lang (University of Graz, Austria): “Beyond TEI: A Workshop on Digital Editing of Premodern Texts.”
Location: In-person. Registration.
Monday, May 2, 2022, 9:00am to 5:00pm
MHC Seminar on Book History
Conference: “Communities of Book History”. 13th Annual Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History.
Online on Zoom. Registration.
Program posted here: https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/2022-conference
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252.
Please contact Ori at oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
*Wednesday, May 4, 2022 10:00am to 11:30am
Bailey Sincox (Harvard): Dissertation Defence "Female Revenge on the Early Modern Stage."
Location: Barker Center 133 (Plimpton Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
*Wednesday, May
4, 2022 5pm EST
English Department Medieval Colloquium
and Renaissance Colloquium
James Simpson (Harvard) & Leah Whittington (Harvard), “The Dark Age (16th and 17th centuries): A Debate.”
Location: Barker 133 (The Plimpton
Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable in honor of World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Location: Online on zoom
More information to come.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:00pm
Five College Seminar in Book History
Joseph M. Adelman (Framingham State University): "Trans-Atlantic Correspondence and Imperial News Narratives in the Revolutionary Era"
Location: Online Event, Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies
More information
and registration link
*May 11, 2022, 9am-5pm (Eastern
Standard Time)
Think Tank, Center for Humanistic
Inquiry, Frost Library, Amherst College, MA in conjunction with the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies.
International (hybrid) Conference:
The Virgin’s Milk in Global Perspective: On the Fluidity of Images and the Production of Divine Presence
For the conference program and
zoom link, click here:
https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/center-humanistic-inquiry/events/node/837123
*May 11, 2022, 9-10am
Keynote Lecture (in person):
“Liquid Flesh and the Medicine of Immortality: The Nursing Virgin Mary in Egypt”
Elizabeth Bolman,
Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts, Professor and Chair of Art History, Case Western Reserve University.
Location: Think Tank, Center
for Humanistic Inquiry, Frost Library, Amherst College, MA
Conference organizers: Jutta
Sperling, Mati Meyer, Vibeke Olson, Bronwen Gulkis.
The conference is funded by the
Department of Religious Studies, the Department of Art and Art History, the Department of History, the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and the Georges Lurcy Lecture Series Fund at Amherst College; the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies,
and the Time and Narrative Learning Collaborative at Hampshire College.
Thursday, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University). More
information
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
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earlymod@fas.harvard.edu
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