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 (prior to 11/7/21) and EST (on/after 11/7/21).
Upcoming Events
Monday, September 27, 2021 5:30PM EDT
Boston College
The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, English Department, and the Institute for the Liberal Arts
"Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton"
Katie Kadue, Cornell University
Location: In-person, This event will be held in person at Boston College (Stokes Hall S195). Kindly note that masks are required for unvaccinated guests in BC buildings.
Please join us for a talk by Katie Kadue on her new book,
Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton (U Chicago Press, 2021). This event is free and open to the public, with no registration
required. Welcome!
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 4:30PM EDT
Brown University
Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Hannah Marcus (Harvard) will present a chapter draft for her book project Methuselah’s Children: The Renaissance Discovery of Old Age.
Location: In-person, Pavilion Room at Peter B. Green House, 79 Brown St, Providence, RI 02906
Please note: all community members — regardless of vaccination status — are required to wear masks indoors, unless in a private, non-shared space or when actively eating. See:
https://healthy.brown.edu/updates/brown-community-new-temporary-covid-19-restrictions
RSVP to maria_sokolova@brown.edu to receive the paper.
Thursday, September 30, 2021 12:30-1:30PM EDT
Suffolk University, Ford Hall Forum, WGBH
Book Talk/Discussion: Reframing Rousseau’s Lévite d’Ephraïm: The Hebrew Bible, Hospitality, and Modern Identity
Barbara Abrams, PhD, Suffolk University, Mira Morgenstern, PhD, The City College of New York, and
Karen Sullivan, PhD, Queens College/CUNY discuss their latest book, Reframing Rousseau’s Lévite d’Ephraïm: The Hebrew Bible, Hospitality, and Modern Identity. The afternoon’s moderator is
Jennifer Vanderheyden, PhD, Marquette University.
Location: Online, Registration Link.
More Information
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 7PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies
"TALKING B(L)ACK: Theorizing Race and its Intersections in Critical Eighteenth-Century Studies.”
Christy Pichichero, George Mason University
Location: Online, Registration Link
More Information
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 4:30PM EDT
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar with pre-circulated paper, “The Politics of Non-normativity in L’Isle des hermaphrodites.”
Kathleen Perry Long, Professor of French, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University
Location: In-person, Boger Hall, Rm. 110, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
RSVP: For a copy of the paper email Esther Moran at emmoran@wesleyan.edu.
More Information
Thursday, October 14, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EDT
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Gigi Barnhill (American Antiquarian Society), “How Prints are Made--Why Process Matters”
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information
Friday, October 15, 2021 12-1:30PM EDT
Early Modern Workshop of the Department of History at Harvard
David Lines (University of Warwick), “Questioning Authority in the Early Modern Classroom: Teaching the Sciences at the University of Bologna.”
Location: Online, Registration Link
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting
Thursday, October 21, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EDT
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Ken Botnick (emdash design), “A Conversation with Diderot: Making a Book to Discover My Subject”
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information
Friday, October 22, 2021 6:00PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
“Power, Politics, and Performance: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar on the Worcester Common.”
Kathryn Moncrief, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location: Online. Please register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies;
after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EDT
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Yingxue Wang, "'The Iridescent Effect': Beetle Wings in Early Medieval
East Asian Material Culture”
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.
NOW ON ZOOM
Friday, October 29, 2021 5:00PM EDT
Boston College
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art
Virtual Lecture: “Binding the Globe: Race and Empire in Luxury Atlases from the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World”
Dr. Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
Location: Online, Registration Link
Please register in advance for this lecture. After registering, you will receive information about joining the lecture.
NERC has been cancelled for 2021
Friday, October 29, 2021 5-7PM
Saturday, October 30, 2021 9AM-5PM EDT
Boston College
The Annual New England Renaissance Conference
Call for Papers and Invitation to Conference
Location: In-person, Boston College Conference Center, 2101 Commonwealth Ave, Brighton, MA
Free and open to public, but registration is required. Registration Link.
For further info: Franco Mormando (mormando@bc.edu).
Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:30PM EST
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar with pre-circulated paper
William Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Rochester
Location: In-person, Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
RSVP: For a copy of the paper email Esther Moran at emmoran@wesleyan.edu.
More Information
Friday, November 12, 2021 12-1:30pm EST
Early Modern Workshop of the Department of History at Harvard
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Rektorin, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), "Rituals and procedures of decision-making: Early Modern Assemblies of Estates."
Location: Online, Registration Link
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Kelly Minot McCay, "Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century
England: A Teacher’s Textbook Deciphered"
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, November 18, 2021 5:00-7:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Hannah Hunter-Parker (Amherst College), “Vanishing with a Trace: Medieval Manuscripts in the Age of Lithography”
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information
Friday, November 19, 2021 6:00PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
“Shakespeare as Memoir.”
Michelle Ephraim, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location: Online. Please register for this event at
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific
Personae, and Children in Italy, 1750-1810"
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, December 9, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Asheesh Siddique (UMass Amherst), “Print, Records, and the 'Science' of Law in the Early American Republic”
Location: In-person (650 East Pleasant St, Amherst, MA) & Online
More Information
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.
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 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.
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