[earlymod-list] Early Modern Studies, from Oct 23, 2018

Greetings! This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the earlymodern period ca. 1450-1750, 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 Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 6pm Novel Theory Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Cosponsored by the Long Eighteenth-Century Graduate Colloquium Lecture: "Time, Media, the Eighteenth-Century Novel" Christina Lupton, University of Warwick Stuart Sherman, Fordham University Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/novel-theory Novel Theory | Mahindra Humanities Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/novel-theory> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu The novel is a radically capacious and always evolving genre, open to the full range of world literature, across periods and locations. This seminar examines the novel and its various, overlapping functions as aesthetic object, cultural artifact, historical text, and conceptual resource. Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 4 p.m. The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies "Monteverdi's Orfeo" David Gruender, Boston Symphony Orchestra UMass Amherst, 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002 http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/events.htm [http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/images/mcrs_sidepic_calendar.jpg]<http:… The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance ...<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/events.htm> www.umass.edu Events @ the Center . The Center offers lectures, classes, conferences, concerts, and performances, all of which are open to the community and the general public and most of which are free of charge. Thursday, Oct 25, 2018, 3:30 pm Catherine Frisone Scott Italian Cultural Studies Fund in memory of John B. Frisone Public Lecture: "Machiavelli: Yesterday and Today" Christopher Celenza (Georgetown) Integrated Sciences Center, 3rd Floor, Rm 3300, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125 Friday, Oct 26 to Saturday Oct 27, 2018 The 7th Annual Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Science and Religion Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 https://src.hds.harvard.edu/waysofknowing/2018-conference 2018 Conference | Science, Religion, and Culture Program<https://src.hds.harvard.edu/waysofknowing/2018-conference> src.hds.harvard.edu The 7th Annual Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School will be held October 26-27, 2018. Friday, October 26, 5:00-6:30pm The 7th Annual Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Science and Religion Keynote Lecture: "Hematologies: The Political Life of Blood in India" Dwaipayan Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 https://src.hds.harvard.edu/waysofknowing/2018-conference 2018 Conference | Science, Religion, and Culture Program<https://src.hds.harvard.edu/waysofknowing/2018-conference> src.hds.harvard.edu The 7th Annual Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School will be held October 26-27, 2018. Friday, October 26, 2018, 4 p.m. The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Five College Book History Lectures - Fall 2018 "Servant-Functions and Author-Functions in Early Modern Europe" Ann Blair, C. H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University UMass Amherst, 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002 http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/events.htm [http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/images/mcrs_sidepic_calendar.jpg]<http:… The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance ...<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/events.htm> www.umass.edu Events @ the Center . The Center offers lectures, classes, conferences, concerts, and performances, all of which are open to the community and the general public and most of which are free of charge. October 27, 2018, 4:00pm John Carter Brown Library About 1783: Remaking the British Polity in the Wake of the American Revolution Program Panel of the North American Conference on British Studies Chair and commentator: Elizabeth Mancke, University of New Brunswick Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in Britain, Ireland, and America, 1778-1783 Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire The Irish Revolution of 1782 in an Age of Revolutions Steve Pincus, University of Chicago Coming to Terms with France: The Benefits and Burdens of Free Trade, 1783-1786 John Shovlin, New York University John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906 Details: https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events Upcoming Events | The John Carter Brown Library<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/even… www.brown.edu AMERICAN EDEN David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic This illustrated... Learn More *Monday, October 29th, 12:15-2:00 pm
 STS Circle at Harvard "Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonization in the Dutch East Indies" Hans Pols, University of Sydney CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge Street Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
 Please RSVP via our online form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7VGUkAvTU655Dub2FTGSNMjp… before Thursday afternoon, October 25th.

 Through their studies, their medical practice, and their participation in the Association of Indonesian Physicians, Indonesian physicians in the Dutch East Indies developed and articulated a strong professional identity. The promises of modern medicine were important elements of this professional identity as it motivated them to develop critical perspectives on colonial society. These physicians participated in the various social, cultural, and political movements that made up what is now called the Indonesian nationalist movement. At various times, they criticised traditional culture, advocated public health measures and increases in funding for health, criticised income disparities between Indonesian and European physicians, and defended traditional culture and embraced it as a model for an alternate modernity for Indonesia. During the process of decolonisation, they transformed colonial medicine into a modern approach to maintain health, inspired by examples and connections all over the world. *Monday, October 29, 2018, 3:45pm to 5:45pm Weatherhead Inintiative for Global History Seminar: "Ganga Global: Implications of the Ganga (Ganges) River’s Integration with the Global Maritime Economy during the Early Modern Period (c. 1600–1800)" Murari Jha, WIGH Fellow Commentator: Sunil Amrith<https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/sunil-amrith>th>, Harvard Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge Papers will be pre-circulated and are available by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu> one week ahead of time. https://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/wigh-seminar-murari-jha-ganga-global-i… *Monday, October 29, 2018, 4:30pm to 6:00pm Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series "Alî Ufukî and Musical Knowledge Transfer in 17th-century Istanbul" Dr. Judith I. Haug, Orient Institut Istanbul CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/title-be-announced-14 Tues Oct 30, 12:00pm Early Science Working Group, Harvard Lecture: "The Lost Serpent: Subterranean Knowledge in the Age of Enchantment" Whitney Barlow Robles Room 252, Science Center, Harvard, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/home Early Sciences Working Group - Home | Projects at Harvard<https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/home> projects.iq.harvard.edu The Early Science Working Group brings together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty members to discuss their works-in-progress on the history of ancient, medieval and early modern knowledge and culture. Wednesday, October 31, 5:15pm Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium "The 36 Bodies of Shakespeare's Henriad" (Graduate Workshop) Patrick Durdel (Freie Universität Berlin) Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Harvard English Department Graduate Colloquia ...<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance-colloquium> sites.google.com Welcome! Welcome to Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium! We are a group of graduate students who meet every one to two weeks to discuss current work in Renaissance and Early Modern literary studies. Thursday, November 1st, 12:30pm Sponsored by the Humanities Institute and English Department, University of Connecticut Lecture, The UCONN Early Modern Studies Working Group's Fall Lecture: The “Kindness” of Humans: Empathy, Race, and Kind in The Tempest and The Shape of Water Jane Hwang Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Homer Babbidge Library, UCHI Conference Room, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT RSVP for lunch at earlymod(a)UCONN.edu The talk will be proceeded by a lunch that requires an RSVP and followed by informal discussion and coffee. Details: https://humanities.uconn.edu/blog-uconn-early-modern-studies-working-group Friday, November 2, 2018, 5:30pm Cosponsored by the Shakespearean Studies Seminar and the Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar, both Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University Lecture: "Turning Chaste: Thomas Dekker, Honest Whores, and the Conversions of English Courtesans" Stephen Spiess, Babson College Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies [http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Shakespeare.j… Shakespearean Studies | Mahindra Humanities Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-s… mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu This seminar is designed to explore the broadest range of approaches to Shakespeare's plays and those of his contemporaries. We welcome post-structuralist, feminist, formalist, textual, historicist, and performance-based criticism. http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m… [http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Women.jpg]<… Women and Culture in the Early Modern World | Mahindra ...<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-modern-world> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu This seminar considers how gender is implicated in the formation of the political, social, and artistic cultures of the early modern period. Topics addressed include religious and allegorical representations of and by women; the economic and legal status of women in specific communities; representations of male and female bodies in literature, art, and science; and applications of competing ... November 7, 2018, 4:00pm John Carter Brown Library Lecture: “Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire” Surekha Davies, Historian and writer, InterAmericas Fellow at JCB Library John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906 Details: https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events Upcoming Events | The John Carter Brown Library<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/even… www.brown.edu AMERICAN EDEN David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic This illustrated... Learn More Thursday, November 8, 2018, 4pm The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture: "News, real and fake, from the front: Mapping the great siege of Malta (1565)" Jessica Maier, Associate Professor Art History, Mt. Holyoke UMass Amherst, 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002 http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/events.htm [http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/images/mcrs_sidepic_calendar.jpg]<http:… The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance ...<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/events.htm> www.umass.edu Events @ the Center . The Center offers lectures, classes, conferences, concerts, and performances, all of which are open to the community and the general public and most of which are free of charge. Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, 5 p.m., with reception to follow The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art Art, Art History, and Film Department, Boston College "Piranesi's Layers" Heather Hyde Minor, Notre Dame University Devlin Hall 101, Boston College Please RSVP to jelliot(a)bc.edu For further information: leonest(a)bc.edu Monday Nov 12 5:15pm Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard University Lecture: “The World in the Library” (on knowledge gathering and history writing in early Latin America) Valeria Lopez Fadul (Wesleyan) CGIS S354, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/ [https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/files/early_modern_studies_group/files/pet… Harvard University | Early Modern European History<https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/> earlymod.fas.harvard.edu The Earlymod mailing list is designed to foster intellectual exchange among early modernists of all disciplinary and regional specializations, especially in the greater Boston area. The resources tab of this website also offers links to a variety of databases, library catalogues and online projects. Tues Nov 13, 12:00pm Early Science Working Group, Harvard Lecture: "Renaissance Bodies: The Human Form in Art and Medicine" Daniele Macuglia Room 252, Science Center, Harvard, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/home [https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/eswg/files/persian_anatomy.jpg?m=1473… Early Sciences Working Group - Home | Projects at Harvard<https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/home> projects.iq.harvard.edu The Early Science Working Group brings together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty members to discuss their works-in-progress on the history of ancient, medieval and early modern knowledge and culture. Wednesday November 14, 2018, 4:30-6:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Lecture: “A Redemptive Figure: Hagar, the Servant, and Queen Christina of Sweden” Andrea Celli, Italian Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut Room 113, Boger Hall, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457 The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu Wednesday, November 14, 5:15pm Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium "Pleading the Belly and the Body Politic: Leaticia Wigington and Elizabeth Cellier" Marina Leslie (Northeastern) Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Harvard English Department Graduate Colloquia ...<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance-colloquium> sites.google.com Welcome! Welcome to Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium! We are a group of graduate students who meet every one to two weeks to discuss current work in Renaissance and Early Modern literary studies. Saturday, November 17th, 2018, all day 45th Annual New England Medieval Conference Government and Governance from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance: Representation and Reality University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Keynote Speakers: Amy Appleford (Boston University), “Governing Bodies in Late Medieval London” Jonathan Lyon (University of Chicago), “Was there a Difference Between Lordship and Governance in Late Medieval Germany?” Tues Nov 27, 12:00pm Early Science Working Group, Harvard Lecture: "‘By the Declining Day’: Time and Temporal Cultures of the Early Modern Mediterranean" Maryam Patton, Harvard Room 252, Science Center, Harvard, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/home [https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/eswg/files/persian_anatomy.jpg?m=1473… Early Sciences Working Group - Home | Projects at Harvard<https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/home> projects.iq.harvard.edu The Early Science Working Group brings together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty members to discuss their works-in-progress on the history of ancient, medieval and early modern knowledge and culture. Thursday, November 29, 5:15pm Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium “'Behold, my life is but a distraction': Ascetic Reading, Poetry, and Prayer" Amy Appleford (Boston University), Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Harvard English Department Graduate Colloquia ...<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance-colloquium> sites.google.com Welcome! Welcome to Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium! We are a group of graduate students who meet every one to two weeks to discuss current work in Renaissance and Early Modern literary studies. Friday, November 30, 2018, 5:30pm Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard Graduate Student Symposium Talk Title TBA Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies [http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Shakespeare.j… Shakespearean Studies | Mahindra Humanities Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-s… mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu This seminar is designed to explore the broadest range of approaches to Shakespeare's plays and those of his contemporaries. We welcome post-structuralist, feminist, formalist, textual, historicist, and performance-based criticism. Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 5:30pm Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University (Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie) Lecture: "Remaking Shakespeare Through Performance" Karin Coonrod, Yale School of Drama/Compagnia de' Colombari Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m… [http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Women.jpg]<… Women and Culture in the Early Modern World | Mahindra ...<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-modern-world> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu This seminar considers how gender is implicated in the formation of the political, social, and artistic cultures of the early modern period. Topics addressed include religious and allegorical representations of and by women; the economic and legal status of women in specific communities; representations of male and female bodies in literature, art, and science; and applications of competing ... *Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 3:00pm to 5:00pm The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Migration and the Humanities "The Dragoman’s Proposal: Creating a Road Network in the Early Modern Mediterranean" Jesse Howell, postdoc fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard Room 133, Barker Center, Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/dragoman’s-proposal-creating-road-networ… The Dragoman’s Proposal: Creating a Road Network in the Early Modern Mediterranean<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/dragoman%E2%80%99s-prop… cmes.fas.harvard.edu The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Migration and the Humanities presents Jesse HowellPost-doctoral fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center; Harvard PhD 2017 (CMES alum) RSVP to Andrea Volpe to attend and to receive a copy of the paper in advance of the seminar: alvolpe(a)fas.harvard.edu. Seating is limited. December 6, 2018, 4:00pm John Carter Brown Library Lecture: “Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America” Kathrinne Duffy (Brown University), Interdisciplinary Opportunities Fellow at JCB Library John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906 Details: https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events Upcoming Events | The John Carter Brown Library<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/even… www.brown.edu AMERICAN EDEN David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic This illustrated... Learn More December 6, 2018, 5:30pm John Carter Brown Library Lecture: "Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776: The untold story of the 'Black Boys,' a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution." Patrick Spero, American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia In 1763, the Seven Years’ War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing that the British Empire would expand onto their lands and conquer them, refused to lay down their weapons. Under the leadership of a shrewd Ottawa warrior named Pontiac, they kept fighting for their freedom, capturing several British forts and devastating many of the westernmost colonial settlements. The British, battered from the costly war, needed to stop the violent attacks on their borderlands. Peace with Pontiac was their only option―if they could convince him to negotiate. Copies of Frontier Rebels will be available for purchase. John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906 Details: https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events Upcoming Events | The John Carter Brown Library<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/even… www.brown.edu AMERICAN EDEN David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic This illustrated... Learn More Mon Dec 10, 12-2pm Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard University Lecture: "Sinful Slumbers: Sleeping in Church and the Prehistory of Boredom" Daniel Juette (NYU) Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard Yard https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/ [https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/files/early_modern_studies_group/files/pet… Harvard University | Early Modern European History<https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/> earlymod.fas.harvard.edu The Earlymod mailing list is designed to foster intellectual exchange among early modernists of all disciplinary and regional specializations, especially in the greater Boston area. The resources tab of this website also offers links to a variety of databases, library catalogues and online projects. Tuesday December 11, 2018, 4:30-6:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar “Representations of Black Africans and Others in Orlando di Lasso’s Music for the 1568 Wedding of Wilhelm V to Renata of Lorraine” Eric Rice, Music Department, University of Connecticut Room 113, Boger Hall, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457 The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu *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. 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. 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