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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Tuesday Feb 7, 12-1:30pm
Early Modern History Workshop
Talk: “Passport policy: administering the Habsburg-Dutch border through travel permits, 1580-1665”
Bram de Ridder, of the U of Leuven,
CGIS S153, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
Please RSVP to emework at fas.harvard.edu
*Monday, February 13th, 2:30-4:00
Boston University Jewish Studies Research Forum along with the Program in Scripture and the Arts
Forum
Talk: “Mapping and Unmapping Jewish History in Early Modern Bible”
Jeffrey Shoulson, Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies, University of Connecticut
Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, 2nd Floor Library, 147 Bay State Road, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215
“Mapping the Jewish Body onto the Holy Land” will examine the role played by maps depicting the Holy Land and other biblical locations—printed in Bibles as well as in other accounts of the region—in the construction
of spaces construed as “Jewish.”
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday Feb 14, 5pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Early Sciences Working Group
Talk: “A Centaur in London Observation and Reading in the Early Modern Study of Nature”
Fabian Kraemer (LMU Munich and Columbia Univ)
Science Center 300H, Harvard University
Thursday, February 16, 2017, 5:00pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Moon Voyage Reading Group
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard University
(co-sponsored with the Long 18th Century and Romanticism Colloquium)
Thursday, February 16, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
"The Queen's Two Corpora: Elizabeth I in Digital Contexts"
Kristen Abbott Bennett (Stone Hill College) and Erica Zimmer (Boston University)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
**Monday, February 27, 6pm
"Turks in Chains: Maritime Art and French Propaganda during the Reign of Louis XIV"
Meredith Martin (New York University), and
Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University),
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Tuesday, Feb 28, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Title TBA
Marcy Norton (Associate Professor of History, George Washington University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
March
Thursday March 2, 2017, 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title: Mutations of a “Fixed Form”: The Rondeau from 1350 to 1650 and beyond
Ned Duval, Yale University
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at
mmeere@wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Monday, March 6, 5:15-7pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Chaos is come again" (Othello 3.3.92): Latency and Opacity as Achievements of Shakespeare's Stage
Anselm Haverkamp (New York University)
Location TBA
*Tuesday, March 7, 5pm
VISUAL
REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM
Talk: "The Shape of Painting: Eighteenth-Century Departures from the Rectangle"
David Pullins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Thursday, March 16, 5:30pm
WOMEN
AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
Ana Schwartz (University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Houses of Shame: The Gender of Colonial New England Poetry"
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
*Friday, March 17, 5:30 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
"Disabling History in Julius Caesar"
Jessica Tabak (Providence College)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, March 22, 6pm
American Literature and Culture
Talk Title TBA
Leonard Von Morze, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, March 23, 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
“Global Cervantes”
Roger Chartier (Paris, and University of Pennsylvania)
Location TBA, Harvard University
Friday, March 24, 2017, 8:45am – 4:45pm
(Dis)entangling Global Early Modernities, 1300-1800, a one-day conference
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Panels on Ideas (speakers: Sophus Reinert, Anand Venkatkrishnan, Michael Tworek, Carolien Stolte), Books (speakers: Holly Shaffer, Nir Shafir, Devin Fitzgerald, Alexander Bevilacqua), and Scholarly Practices
(speakers: Ananya Chakravarti, Kirsten Windmuller-Luna, Stuart McManus, Gregory Afinogenov). Closing roundtable with panelists David Armitage, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Roger Chartier, Eugenio Menegon, Laura Mitchell. For the full schedule and to RSVP (by
March 10) see http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/disentangling-global-early-modernities-1300-1800
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Reginald Wilburn (University of New Hampshire)
Title TBA
Barker 211, 6:00-8:00
Co-Sponsored with Race and Ethnicity Colloquium
*Friday, March 31, 5pm
PERSIAN
AND PERSIANATE STUDIES
"Betrayed By Earth and Sky: Poetry of Disaster and Restoration in 18th Century Iran"
Matthew C. Smith (Harvard University)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
April
Tuesday May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Equinoxes Conference: Memory/Rupture
4/21/2017 (All day) to 4/22/2017 (All day)
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
CFP deadline extension: February 15, 2017
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 – 4:30pm
Sponsored by: Wesleyan University, Romance Languages and Literatures, College of Letters
Lecture title: The French Machine
Speaker and Institution: Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University
Where: Romance Languages and Literatures Highwaymen Common Room, 300 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459
Additional information: In this lecture, Chenoweth will address the role of printing in the “rise” of the vernacular in the sixteenth century.
Contact: Michael Meere, at mmeere@wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
*Wednesday, April 5, 4.15pm
Sponsors: The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; The Study-Group “Transformation of Work in Contemporary Capitalism”; and The Center for History and Economics
Talk: “Resisting Capitalism and its Effects on Working Class Economic Strategies in Early Modern Europe”
Laurence Fontaine, EHESS – CNRS
CGIS, S030, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
*Tuesday April 18, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk: “English Seamen and the Realm: Were Medieval Mariners 'Political'?”
Maryanne Kowaleski (Joseph Fitzpatrick SJ Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval Studies, Fordham University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
*Friday, April 21, 5:30 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Seneca and the Antisocial in King Lear”
Curtis Perry (University of Illinois)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
May
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title: Text against Image: Morisco Tales of Transgression in Early Modern Spain
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at
mmeere@wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
*Tuesday May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Wednesday, May 3, or Thursday, May 4, 2017 (TBA)
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Maria Devlin (Harvard University)
"Renaissance Comedy: A Retrospective"
Location and Time TBA
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