Greetings and Happy New Year! 

 

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 (prior to 11/7/21) and EST (on/after 11/7/21).  

  

Upcoming Events 

  

Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:30am to 11:45am  

Florence Hsia, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison: From Illiterate to Sinologists: Indexing Chinese (Science and Technology in Asia seminar series)
Location: Harvard University Asia Center Spring 2022 Online seminar series
Registration: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsf-irqjMiGNLcC1MbRsnIR4GjD3FUz48w 

 

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Mateo Montoya, "The Thirty Immortals of Geneva: Life Annuities, Smallpox Inoculation, and Probabilistic Thought c. 1760-1793"
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu. 

 

Thursday, February 3, 2022 6:00pm 

MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies 

William Carroll, Adapting 'Macbeth': Three Types of Revision
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpf-uuqj4rHdTDRgLvEvzEseseN6OdFZ3V 

 

Thursday, February 17, 2022, 7:00pm 

MHC Eighteenth-Century Studies 

Jared Hardesty, Western Washington University: Two Sisters, a Merchant, and a Mercenary: Rethinking Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Boston  

Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link: https://brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-ygqjIoEtSXI-1m4gh01QFLLkfvTSMv 

 

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Alejandro Nodarse, “Blood Lines: Drawing and Circulation in Marco Aurelio Severino’s Chirugia Illustrata (Surgery Illustrated)”
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu. 

 

Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"
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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu. 

 

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:30 to 11:45
Science and Technology in Asia seminar series
Faizah Zakaria: Camphor, Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies
Location: Harvard University Asia Center Spring 2022 Online seminar series 

 

Tuesday, April 19, 2022  4:30pm 

Early Modern Workshop
“Predestination: its Profile in Early British and American Modernity. A Debate” featuring David Hall (Harvard Divinity School) and James Simpson (English, Harvard), with Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) as moderator. Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library). In person, within the Covid regulations in force at the time. 

 

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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu. 

  

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. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu. 

  

 

 

 

*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod@fas.harvard.edu   

To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place or (in case of online events) be relevant to 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: in-person or virtual  

*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this, and include location details.   

Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences)   

RSVP or Registration information/link