[earlymod-list] Early Modern Studies, from April 30, 2019, 5:15pm

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. Upcoming Events Tuesday, April 30, 5:15pm Harvard Early Modern Workshop Lecture: "Bible exegesis, the ancient Israelites and the early modern question of usury" Avinoam Naeh (Hebrew University and Harvard), with comment by Sophus Reinert (HBS). Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard **Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 6:00pm Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Eighteenth Century Studies "Naturalization and the Novel" Stephanie De Gooyer, Radcliffe Institute, Willamette University Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA *Wednesday, May 1, 2019, 10:00am Harvard Dissertation Defense: "Captured Consent: Bound Service and Freedom of Contract in Early Modern England and English America" Sonia Tycko (Harvard) Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 4:00pm The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado Fabrício Prado (The College of William & Mary) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow "Inter-American Connections: North-South American Networks in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions" The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906 The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm. Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/… *Thursday, May 2, 2019, 10:00am Harvard Dissertation Defense: “Reframing Empire: Byzantium and the Transformation of European Identity, c. 1400-1520” Nate Aschenbrenner (Harvard) Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard *Thursday, May 2, 2019, 4:00-6:00pm Brown Program in Science, Technology and Society Book Launch: Tara Nummedal: Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany Discussants: Tara Nummedal (Brown), Harald Cook (Brown), Alisha Rankin (Tufts) Room 108, Rhode Island Hall, Brown University, Providence RI Thursday, May 2, 2019, 5:30pm Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, co-chairs Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie (outgoing); co-chairs Erin Murphy and Sarah Wall-Randall (incoming) Roundtable: "Reassessing the Field, Passing the Torch: A roundtable and open discussion, reception and celebration as the seminar leadership changes hands" Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m… Friday May 3, 2019, talk no 4 at the symposium held between 8:45 and 5:30pm Symposium Mecca: the Lived City Lecture: “Between Empire and Sacred Space: Mecca as a Global Space in the Early Modern World” Tyler Kynn (Yale University) location to be announced (on Harvard campus) Thursday, May 9, 9:15 am Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café “The Jesuits as the Last Medieval Order?” Markus Friedrich, Universität Hamburg Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College To join these online discussions and for additional details please contact the Institute (iajs (at) bc.edu). Thursday, May 9, 2019, 5:30pm Lecture: “Printing Books at the Blind Man’s Arch: Translation and Circulation in the Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment” Neil Safier, Brown University Houghton Library, Harvard Yard For more information contact jblackmore (at) fas.harvard.edu *Thursday, May 9, 2019, 5:30pm Mary Baker Eddy Library Author-talk: "Bible Culture & Authority in the Early United States (2018)". Seth Perry, Assistant Professor of Religion, Princeton University Mary Baker Eddy Library, 200 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA Perry's book looks at the development of Bible print culture in the United States in the decades immediately following the American Revolution. Prior to the America's war of independence, all English-language bibles came to the American colonies from Europe. After the Revolution, a dynamic Bible printing and publishing industry quickly emerged in the newly-formed nation. Perry's book tells the story of the rise of Bible printing and publishing in the United States, and what made it distinct from European, primarily English, bible printing. It examines the crucial role played by Bible printers, publishers, and Bible societies in the formation of civic consciousness and authority in the new republic. Learn more, live stream information, and registration: https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/event/author-talk-in-the-beginning-ame… Wednesday May 15, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar “Margaret Cavendish’s Fiction of Science” Debapriya Sarkar (English, U Conn) Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459 The seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu Website: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ June 11–13, 2019 Boston College, Institut for Advanced Jesuit Studies International Symposium on Jesuit Studies "Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus" www.bc.edu/iajs. Save the Date: *Tuesday, Sept 10, 2019, 5:15pm Harvard Early Modern Workshop Early Modern Aperitivo Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard **Saturday, Oct 5, 2019 New England Renaissance Conference (NERC): Motion, Rhythm, Shifts Chace auditorium, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence Extended deadline for proposals: Abstracts no longer than 300 words accompanied by a title and a brief CV to be sent to: prihouet(a)risd.edu by May 10, 2019. In 2019, the New England Renaissance Conference is hosted for the first time at Rhode Island School of Design, or RISD (pronounced “RIZ-dee”). We invite papers that explore the notion of rhythm in the period of ca. 1400–1700. Scholars from disciplines as varied as history, art history, literature and poetry, religion, theatre, music, environment, studio art and design are welcomed. The idea of motion, rhythm, and shifts is rich in significance for the Early Modern period as it touches upon global concepts, material culture, ritual, performance, and identity. Paper topics include, but are not limited to: - temporal aspects (codification of time, recurrence of a specific phenomenon, the timing of a performance, stages in the production of art, series, metamorphoses) - movements and crossings (body movements, dance, inter-arts, transportation / re-location of people, things, images, or relics) - mobilities (migrations, trade patterns, traveling artists, scansion of narratives or poetry, translations) - ritual and ceremonies (processions, parades, ceremonial entries, relics transfers, etc.) *If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu 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. It would be a great help if you could follow this format: 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. Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences) Website URL RSVP or Registration information/link