Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the earlymodern period ca. 1350-1800, 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@fas.harvard.edu.
Upcoming Events
Tue 9/10/2019 5:30pm
Early Modern History Workshop Aperitivo featuring flash talks by Kate van Orden (Music), “Metrolingualism in Print”; Adam Beaver (Bok Center), “Some Early Modern Origins of Modern Academic Culture”; Katharina Piechocki (Comparative Literature), "Cartographic Humanism and the Making of Early Modern Europe”; and David Hall (Harvard Divinity School), “Lessons learned from doing comparative and Atlantic history of the Reformation?”
Location: Robinson Hall History Department Conference Room (formerly Lower Library), Harvard Yard
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
*9/12/2019 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Julis-Rabinowitz Program of Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School and the Judaica Division of the Harvard Library
Dr. Charles Berlin (Harvard), Menachem Butler (Harvard): Materials from the State of Israel at the Harvard Library: Orientation Workshop (RSVP)
Location: Widener Library, Room 240, Harvard Yard
The workshop is open to Harvard Scholars
RSVP required to mbutler (at) law.harvard.edu
Mon 9/16/2019 4:00pm
Sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Dr. Yaacob Dweck of Princeton University: "Rabbinic Reactionaries in the Sephardic Diaspora: Notes on a Social Type"
Location: Harvard Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
*9/17/2019 5:30pm
Boston Athenaeum
Exhibition Opening Talk: "Required Reading: Reimagining a Colonial Library"
Location: Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
Thu 9/19/2019 4:00pm
Sponsor: Harvard Political Theory Colloquium
Michael Rosen (Harvard), "On Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Kant"
Location: CGIS Knafel K401, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
*9/19/2019 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Concord Museum
Jay Robert Stiefel: The Cabinetmaker's Account (RSVP)
Location: Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA 01742
https://concordmuseum.org/events/the-cabinetmakers-account/
*9/21/2019 9:15am to 3:00pm
Lewis Walpole Library Symposium
Scholarly Editing of Literary Texts from the Long 18th Century
Location: The Graduate Club (Yale), 155 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06511
https://walpole.library.yale.edu/programs/lectures-conferences#Editing%20Scholary%20Editions
Tue 9/24/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Tara Nummedal: "Sound and Vision: The Alchemical Epistemology of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens."
Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Wed 9/25/2019 5:15pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Vanessa Braganza (Harvard): “'Many Ciphers, Although But One for Meaning': Lady Mary Wroth’s Many-Sided Monogram"
Location: Barker Center, Harvard University (Room TBD), 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
Wed 9/25/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Carrie Gibson: “Pushing Historical Boundaries: Rediscovering El Norte and the Forgotten Hispanic Past of the United States, 1500-1800”
Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
*9/26/2019 6:00pm
Sponsors: Oakley Center and the History Department at Williams College, with additional support from Comparative Literature, the Graduate Program in the History of Art, Religion, Special Collections, and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty Anthony T. Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University: "Strategies and Stereotypes in Renaissance Ethnography"
Location: Griffin Hall 3, Williams College, Williamstown MA
The Keynote Lecture is part of the conference "The Global Archive of Comparison: International Conference, Sept 26-28:
https://sites.williams.edu/global-archive-comparison/schedule/
Thu 9/26/2019 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Book Signing: Carrie Gibson, “El Norte and the Forgotten Hispanic Past of the United States, 1500-1800”
Location: Books on the Square, Providence RI
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Fri 9/27/2019 9:00am to 6:00pm
Sponsors: French Center of Excellence and the Department of Comparative Literature and co-sponsored by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the Department of French Studies, and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Conference: “Theatre Without Borders/Théâtre sans frontières”
Location: Rochambeau House, Brown University, Providence RI
https://events.brown.edu/view/event/date/20190927/event_id/144720
Wed 10/2/2019 4:30pm to 6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Emiliano Ricciardi (Assistant Professor of Music History, UMass Amherst): “‘Geloso amante’: Luzzaschi, Tasso, and the Topos of Jealousy in Late Sixteenth-Century Ferrara”
Location: Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
*10/2/2019 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Andrew Hui (Yale-NUS College), Workshop Discussion: "A Theory of the Aphorism from Confucius to Twitter"
Location: Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
Wed 10/2/2019 5:30pm
Early Modern History Workshop, co-sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group
Abram Kaplan (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Erudition and algebraic practice at the end of the sixteenth century,” with commentary by Calliope Dourou (Dept of the Classics, Harvard)
Location: Robinson Hall Basement Seminar room, Harvard Yard
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
Sat 10/5/2019 9:00am to 6:00pm
New England Renaissance Conference: Motion, Rhythm, Shifts. An interdisciplinary conference
Location: Chace Auditorium, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
http://www.new-england-renaissance-conference.org/?page_id=241
*10/10/2019 5:00pm
Harvard English Renaissance Colloquium
Jason Crawford (Union University) : TBA
Location: Kates Room, Warren House, Harvard, 1 Prescott Street, Cambridge MA
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
Fri 10/11/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Sponsor: Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Vili Lähteenmäki (university of Helsinki), "Cartesian Self-Relations"
Location: Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard
https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop
Wed 10/16/2019 9:00am to 5:00pm
Sponsor: Andover-Harvard Theological Library
Open house: “Meet the Special Collections”
Location: Rabinowitz Room (3rd floor), Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Wed 10/16/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Shahzad Bashir: “Imagining Time in Early Modern India: Persian Chroniclers and Their Interpreters”
Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Tue 10/22/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
TBA
Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Fri 10/25/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Adam Zucker, University of Massachusetts Amherst: TBA
Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Mon 10/28/2019 5:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Classical Traditions
Stuart M. McManus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World"
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
Tue 10/29/2019 5:00pm
Early Modern History Workshop
Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University), “Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia"
Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
Wed 10/30/2019 4:30pm to 6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Miya Tokumitsu (Art historian and Curator, Wesleyan): “Israhel van Meckenem’s Paper Currency”
Location: Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
Fri - Sat, Nov 1 to Nov 2, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Folger Institute Seminar: “The Visual Art of Grammar” (by registration only)
Location: Alumnae Hall, Chrystal Room. Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
*11/6/2019 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Boston College, Center for Ignatian Spirituality
Franco Mormando, Professor of Italian and History, Boston College: "Ignatius the Franciscan: The Franciscan Roots of Jesuit Spirituality"
Location: Gasson Hall 100, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA
Lunch will be served; free and open to public. RSVP is required.
To register: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/offices/mission-ministry/sites/center-for-ignatian-spirituality/events/
*11/6/2019 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College): TBA
Location: Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
Tue 11/12/2019 5:30pm
Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Harvard University: "Systematizing Jewish Religious Legal Knowledge in the Early Modern Period"
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book
Wed 11/13/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Eugenio Menegon, Boston University: “The Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the Countess: Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission and their Role in Early Modern Chinese-European Relations”
Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Thu 11/14/2019 4:00pm
Sponsor: Harvard Political Theory Colloquium
Shannon Stimson (Georgetown), "Petty and Hobbes"
Location: CGIS Knafel K401, Harvard, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
Fri 11/15/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Sponsor: Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Richard Arthur (McMaster University), "Leibniz's Metaphysics of Change: Vague States and Physical Continuity"
Location: Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard
https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop
Fri 11/15/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Diana Henderson, M.I.T.: TBA
Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Tue 11/19/2019 5:30pm
Early Modern History Workshop
Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Why Do We Think There Were No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin”
Location: Robinson Hall History Department Conference Room (formerly Lower Library), Harvard Yard
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
*11/20/2019 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Play Reading: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Location: TBD, Harvard University
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
Thu 11/21/2019 6:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies, co-sponsored by: MHC Seminar on History of the Book
Caroline Wigginton, University of Mississippi: "Hymncraft: Making Musicbooks and Community from the Native Northeast to Brotherton and Beyond"
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Tue 11/26/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
TBA
Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Fri 12/6/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
“New Work in Early Modern Drama,” Graduate Symposium
Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
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