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.
Upcoming Events
*Monday, April 18, 2022, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the John Duffy Society, Ancient Studies, and Early Modern World at Harvard, with additional support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Community Renewal Fund.
A discussion of The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe (Harvard University Press, 2022), featuring
editors Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Princeton University) and Jake Ransohoff (History, Harvard University) in conversation with
Leah Whittington (English, Harvard University), Dimiter Angelov (History, Harvard University), and
Maryam Patton (History, Harvard University).
Location: Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
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 19, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Anne E. Lester (John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History, Johns Hopkins University): “Authority in the Aftermath: Power, Memory,
and the Narrative Capacity of Things.”
More information.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 12pm
Mélanie Lamotte, Radcliffe Institute Fellow: "Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756.”
Online on Zoom. Free and open to the public. To view this event online, individuals will need to
register
via Zoo.
More information
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa): “Tender Curiosities: Teaching the History of Science in Early Modern Europe in terms of Gendered Knowledge-Craft.”
Location: Online Event
More information
Thursday, April 21, 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
Maria Macchi, Ph.D., Archivist (Rome, Italy): The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province
Location: Zoom
The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province is in Rome, near the Gesù Church. It gathers the documents produced by the five ancient Italian Provinces (Venetian-Milanese, Torinese, Roman, Neapolitan, and Sicilian and the former
mission of Albania) and the Italian Province, born in 1978 from the unification of the five provinces. The collections include documents on the life of the Society of Jesus in Italy and the extra-European mission lands after the 1814 restoration.
More information and registration.
Canceled: Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
NEW meeting in its place:
Thursday, April 21, 4:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Dreaming Worlds: Living
with 'Things Unknown' in A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration
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.
Please contact Ori at oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
**Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture “The Art of Hatching Contraven’d, or; the Problem of Reproducing the Freshwater Polypus"
Elizabeth Athens (University of Connecticut)
Brown University, Friedman Hall 102 (new location), in-person lecture
Dr. Athens is an art historian with research interests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and natural history, the art of empire, and the history of collecting.
She is currently writing a book that examines the graphic practice of the eighteenth-century American naturalist, William Bartram.
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama"
Location: Online on Zoom. Registration
*Monday, May 2, 2022, 9:00am to 5:00pm
MHC Seminar on Book History
Conference: “Communities of Book History”. 13th Annual Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History.
Online on Zoom. Registration.
Program posted here: https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/2022-conference
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.
Please contact Ori at oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu for the pre-circulated paper and the zoom link.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable in honor of World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Location: Online on zoom
More information to come.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:00pm
Five College Seminar in Book History
Joseph M. Adelman (Framingham State University): "Trans-Atlantic Correspondence and Imperial News Narratives in the Revolutionary Era"
Location: Online Event, Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies
More information
and registration link
Thursday, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University). More
information
is coming soon.
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI)
Festo Mkenda, S.J., Academic Director, Rome, Italy
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI) are the archives of the general government of the Society of Jesus. Situated in Rome in the General Curia of the Order, their purpose is to preserve, to put in order,
and to make available for research the documents related to the general government of the Society of Jesus and its activities from the beginning of its history in the sixteenth century up to the present day.
More information and registration link
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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
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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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