[earlymod-list] Early Modern Studies from Nov 3, 2017

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. For exhibitions and *call-for-papers for events in the Boston area*, see the end of this email. 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 *Saturday, Nov 4, 10am-4pm Harvard Art Museums Symposium: Dutch Drawings on the Horizon: A Day of Talks in Honor of George S. Abrams Harvard, Menschel Hall, Lower Level Program Link<https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/dutch-drawings-on-… **Tuesday Nov 7, 12-1:30pm Early Science Working Group, Harvard Maryam Patton (Harvard, History & CMES): "Copernicus in Istanbul: Transmission and Translation in the 17th Century" Harvard, Science Center, Room 359 https://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/eswg Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 6-7:30 pm The Early Americas Seminar, Boston College Lecture: "The Alchemy of Conversion: From Ramón Llull to José de Acosta" Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland Higgins Hall, Room 225 140 Commonwealth Ave. Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02446 Free and open to the public Thursday, November 9, 2017, 12-1:30 pm Seminar discussion and lunch with Ralph Bauer Sponsored by the Early Americas Seminar, Boston College 10 Stone Ave Institute for the Liberal Arts Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 RSVP -- register online for lunch: http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html<https://urldefe… Thurs Nov 9, 4pm Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center and the Early Modern History Workshop Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia University) "Archive Envy: An Early Modern Jewish Community and its Records." Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge The formation of archives has become the object of critical historical inquiry. This lecture explores dimensions of Jewish communal archives from the early modern period with particular emphasis on the rich archive of the Hamburg-Altona community and its fate. Thursday, November 9, 2017, 5:30-7:00 pm Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, co-chairs Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie Erin Murphy, Department of English, Boston University "The Soldier’s Two Bodies: Margaret Cavendish, Singularity, and Wartime Violence” Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA **Thursday Nov 9, 4 pm Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Five College Renaissance Seminar Steven Mentz, from St Johns University "Hostile Environments in Hamlet: Nutshells, Bodies, Oceans" Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst UPCOMING EVENTS Friday Nov 10, 4 pm Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Classical Legacy Lecture Jessica Wolfe (UNC- Chapel Hill) presents, “Homer and Milton”. Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst No reservations. Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club. Friday November 10, 5:30 Reception, 6:00 Seminar Shakespearean Studies Seminar “Literature and Carnival, New Orleans Style” Richard Rambuss (Brown University) Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies Tuesday Nov 14, 12-1:30pm Early Science Working Group, Harvard Joshua Ehrlich (Harvard, History): "Between Corporation and State: The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth Century." Room TBA Thursday, November 16, 2017, 4:30 pm Wellesley College Music Department Lecture: “Italian Songs from the Time of Christopher Columbus” Anne MacNeil, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Pendleton West Room 101, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley MA 02482 For further information call Claire Fontijn at 781-283-2072 Thursday Nov 16, 4:30 pm Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Five College Renaissance Seminar in Book History Doctoral Candidate Amy Sopcak-Joseph (UCONN) presents, "Combating Swindlers and Borrowers: Buying and Selling Godey's Lady's Book in the Nineteenth Century" Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst Free and open to the public. No reservations. *Thursday Nov 16, 2017, 5:00pm to 6:30pm CMES Director's Series "Krikor Beledian's Dazzling Journey from Medieval Mystical Poets to Postmodern Fiction" Hagop Kouloujian (Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, UCLA) CMES, Room 102, Harvard, 38 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA 02138 *Thursday Nov 16, 2017, 6pm Cartography, Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Elizabeth Mellyn (University of New Hampshire), Talk Title TBA Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA *Friday, Nov 17, 4:30pm Celtic Literature and Culture, Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar "Pastoral for Warriors: 18th-Century Scottish Enlightenment in Gaelic Poetry" Sim Innes (University of Glasgow) Room 201, Warren House, Harvard Saturday, Nov 18, 6-9 pm Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Italian Renaissance Harvest Banquet, Tickets are $75 per person, $125 per couple, *Student Discount* $35 per person at the Great Hall on the, 2nd Floor of the Old Chapel at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Come for an evening of juggling, music, food, theater, door prizes, and more! Call the Renaissance Center Program Director at 577-3603 for more information. Ticket purchase required prior to event. Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst Mon Nov 20, 4–6 pm Early Modern Workshop, Harvard Conference "New Approaches to Early Modern Political Economy," featuring Sophus Reinert (Harvard Business School) "Political Economy and the Medici," and Doohwan Ahn (Seoul National University) "Bringing International Relations Back In: Anglo-French Relations and the Financial Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Britain." Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge Mon Nov 27, 6-8 pm History of Medicine Working Group "The Utility of Medicine: Medicine and the Printed Book in Early Modern Europe." Hannah Marcus, Harvard University Science Center 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge Thursday, November 30, 2017, 4:30-6:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Seminar, “What is an author? Rabelaisian avatars” Virginia Krause, Professor of French Studies, Brown 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<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu> http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ Friday December 1, 5:30 Reception, 6:00 Seminar Shakespearean Studies Seminar “New Work in Early Modern Drama: A Graduate Symposium” Dianne E. Berg (Tufts University) Deanna Malvesti (Boston College) Bailey Sincox (Harvard University) Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center 12 Quincy Street, Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies *Saturday, Dec 2, 2017, 11am and 1pm Museum of Printing, Haverhill Lectures and Exhibition: "Gutenberg and the History of the Printed Bible" Frank Romano (Rochester Institute of Technology) The Museum of Printing, 15 Thornton Ave, Haverhill, MA http://www.museumofprinting.org Thursday, December 14, 2017, 5:30 -7:00 pm Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, co-chairs Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie Emily Fine, Department of English, University of Alabama, ‘“The Law of Thy Mother’: Women and Inheritance in 17th-Century Mother’s Legacy Texts” Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA Call for Papers: 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<https://urldefense.proofp… Save the Dates: 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 Exhibitions: Sept 6-Dec 15, 2017 Exhibit: Reformation: Dialogue and Identity, Opening Reception Andover-Harvard Theological Library (2nd floor), 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA Focusing on the exchange of ideas between Luther, his contemporaries, and subsequent generations of reformers, on display are foundational texts, popular printed images, and objects that reflect the connection between texts and their readers. The exhibit also highlights examples of how books and images influenced and reflected religious and social identity in early Protestant communities. Michelle C. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Theology, will offer brief introductory remarks at the reception. Watch for other Reformation-themed events in October, sponsored by Andover-Harvard Theological Library as part of Theological Libraries Month. More Information: ncarlson(a)hds.harvard.edu September 19 - December 17, 2017 The Davis Museum at Wellesley College Exhibit: "Martin Luther: Protest in Print" Morelle Lasky Levine '56 Works on Paper Gallery Wellesley College, Davis Museum, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481 http://www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/whats-on/upcoming/node/118061 May 19, 2017–December 31, 2017 The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820 Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums Between 1766 and 1820, Harvard College assembled an extraordinary collection of paintings, portraits, and prints; mineral, plant, and animal specimens; scientific instruments; Native American artifacts; and relics from the ancient world. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/4916/the-philosophy-cham… *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. 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