[earlymod-list] Early Modern Studies, from Sept 23, 2019

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(a)fas.harvard.edu. Upcoming Events Week of September 23, 2019 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 Information how to receive the paper at: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> 9/24/2019 6:00pm Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies Lisa Brooks, Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College: “Writing from Wabanaki” Location: Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies 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: Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard University, 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 *Sat 9/28/2019-ongoing Sponsor: Northeastern University Exhibit, "Decoding the Dragon" Location: Snell Library lobby, Northeastern University The exhibit showcases the historical, codicological, musicological, and bioarchaeological research on Northeastern University's only parchment manuscript, the late fifteenth century Dragon Prayer Book, since its discovery in 2011. Discover why the ghostly Sister Cecilia has been haunting Snell Library. https://dragonprayerbook.northeastern.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint… Later This Term *Tuesday, 10/1/2019 4:00pm Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, FEORE FAMILY LECTURE SERIES "Comprehending the World: Jesuits, Language, and Translation in the Early Modern Period" Liam M. Brockey (Michigan State University) Location: Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College , Heights Room, Corcoran Commons, Boston RSVP<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScu306Rl-Cv-ZOoHqv_bJ9DHuG… *10/2/2019 4:00pm JCB Fellows Talk "Holistic Medicine, Spiritual Healing, and Dis-ease in the Early Caribbean" Kristen Block (University of Tennessee-Knoxville, John Carter Brown InterAmericas Fellow) Location: MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence, RI 02906 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/ *Thu 10/3/2019, 11AM-1PM Sponsor: Northeastern University Transcription workshop & Opening Reception, "Read the Dragon" Led by Erika Boeckeler, Associate Professor of English, Northeastern University and Laura Packard, English major, Northeastern University Location: 90 Snell Library (basement of Snell Library, Northeastern University) Learn to decode and transcribe the late fifteenth century Latin of the Dragon Prayer Book, Northeastern University's only parchment manuscript. The workshop is connected to the Decoding the Dragon exhibit at Northeastern University's Snell Library. Lunch will be served. Attendees are invited to view the manuscript in Special Collections beginning at 10:30. *10/4/2019 5:30pm John Carter Brown Library Lecture "Kings and Slaves: Diplomacy, Sovereignty, and Black Subjectivity in the Early Modern World" Herman Bennett (Historian) Location: John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence, RI 02906 **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 (RSVP) 10/10/2019 5:00pm Harvard English Renaissance Colloquium and Medieval Colloquium Jason Crawford (Union University) : "What the Wolf Knows: George Herbert's Book of Wisdom" Location: 114 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., 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<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> Wednesday October 23, 6pm Boston University Department of History of Art and Architecture and Latin American Studies Program Lecture: “Inheriting the Pacific: Can Art History Think an Ocean?” Dana Leibsohn, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art; Director of Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Smith College Location: BU CAS Building, room 132, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215 http://www.bu.edu/ah/news/haa-lecture-series/ *10/24/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World Kaara L. Peterson (English, Miami University of Ohio), "A Natural History of Queen Elizabeth I: Unriddling the Sieve Portraits" Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) Fri 10/25/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies Adam Zucker, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Gross Matter: Shakespeare and the Politics of Stupidity Location: Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies *Sun 10/27/2019 8PM-10PM Sponsor: Northeastern University Concert, "Chant the Dragon" NU Madrigals, Northeastern University Location: Raytheon Amphitheatre, 120 Forsyth St, Boston, MA 02115, Northeastern University Hear the NU Madrigals perform music from the fifteenth century Dragon Prayer Book, Northeastern University's only parchment manuscript. The concert is connected to the Decoding the Dragon exhibit at Northeastern University's Snell Library. 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 10/30/2019 6:00pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies Sean Moore, University of New Hampshire: "Mapping the Reading Networks of Enslavers: Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries" Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies 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… 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", commented by Charles Donahue, Harvard Law School Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book Wed 11/13/2019 5:00pm Sponsor: Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures Nicholas Rashad Jones (Bucknell Univ.), “Staging Habla de Negros across the African Diaspora” Location: Boylston Hall 403, Harvard Univ., Harvard Yard More Information: jblackmore (at) fas.harvard.edu 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 11/14/2019 12:00pm to 2:00pm Sponsors: Harvard Political Theory Colloquium and Intellectual History Colloquium James Hankins (Harvard), "Virtue Politics" Location: TBD, Harvard University 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 *Th., Nov. 14, 2019, 5:00 p.m. The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art; Art, Art History, and Film Department, Boston College Lecture: A newly restored predella panel by Fra Angelico: attribution, documents, technical examination Laurence Kanter, Chief Curator and Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery and Irma Passeri, Senior Conservator of Paintings, Yale University Art Gallery Devlin Hall 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA Reception immediately following Please r.s.v.p. by November 4, 2019: 617-552-4295 or previtro@bc.edu<mailto:previtro@bc.edu> 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 *11/21/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World Reginald A. Wilburn (English, University of New Hampshire), title TBA Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) 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", with comment by Phil Deloria (History, Harvard) 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<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> *12/5/2019 5:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World "Making the Case for Early Modern Women's and Gender Studies": A Roundtable Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College) 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 *If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing please send your event details to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place in the greater Boston area. 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