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
**Wednesday, February 2, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
(change of date!!!)
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 10, 2022, 5:00pm
MHC Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Alison Calhoun, Indiana University-Bloomington:
Staging Robots: From Cartesian Intelligibility to Enlightenment Dehumanization
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlfuuqpzkpHd2eiV_BsSnxT-2aKeuBg6Ha
*Wednesday, February
16, 2022 11:45am to 1:15pm
Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica Seminars Spring 2022 Series
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg
(Starr Fellow), Harvard University: “Rupture and Religious Law: Legal Traditions and their Transmission from Medieval Ashkenaz to Early Modern Poland”
Location: HMANE, Harvard, 6 Divinity
Ave, RM201, Cambridge, MA, 02138 (In Person)
**Thursday, February 17, 2022, 6:00pm
(change of time!!!)
MHC Seminar on 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.
*Wednesday, March 2, 2022 3:45pm to
5:45pm
Warren Center’s
Workshop on “Slavery and the Universities”
Elsa Barraza
Mendoza
(Middlebury College): “Property of the College: Enslaved People and the Origins of Jesuit Universities in America,”
Location: History Department Conference
Room (125), Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*Wednesday, March 9, 2022 11:45am
to 1:15pm
Harry Starr Fellowship
in Judaica Seminars Spring 2022 Series
Sophia Schmitt
(Starr Fellow and LMU Munich): Lecture TBA
Location: HMANE, Harvard, 6 Divinity
Ave, RM201, Cambridge, MA, 02138
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.
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RSVP or Registration information/link