[earlymod-list] Early Modern Studies, from Nov 12, 2019

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. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mod@fas.harvard.edu>. Upcoming Events **Tue 11/12/2019 5:30pm Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Harvard University: "Humanists, Halakhists, and Legal Codification: 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 *11/13/2019 4:00pm Sponsor: Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Renaissance Wednesdays Lecture: "Healing-Place for the Soul": Diodorus, Egyptian Libraries, & Renaissance Reception Mark Roblee (UMass Amherst) Location: 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA Reception to follow. Mark Roblee’s research interests include intellectual and cultural history in Late Antiquity, Neoplatonism, and philosophy of history. As a public historian, he wonders about the allure of objects from the far past. 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<https://www.brown.edu/academics/early-modern-world> 11/14/2019 12:00pm to 2:00pm Co-sponsored by Intellectual History Colloquium, the Early Modern History Workshop and the Political Theory Colloquium Roundtable discussion of James Hankins, Virtue Politics, Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (HUP 2019) featuring comments by David Armitage (History, Harvard), Michelle Clark (Government, Dartmouth), Eric Nelson (Government, Harvard). Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Harvard Yard 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 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 reception, 6:00 seminar Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies “Reconceiving Shakespeare in Four-dimensional Spacetime: Performance, Archive, Pedagogy” Diana Henderson, M.I.T. Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies Later This Term: **Tue 11/19/2019 5:30pm Early Modern History Workshop Lecture: "Why Do We Think There Have Been No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin” Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society of Fellows), Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/ Nov 20, 2019, 9am-4pm What is a Legal Archive? A Half-Day Symposium Organized by the Center for History and Economics, Harvard University and the American Society for Legal History Location: Harvard CGIS South, Room 030, 1730 Cambridge St (Lee Gathering Room), Cambridge Talks with relevance to early modern topics in all panels. (EM Speakers: Caroline Cunill (Universite du Maine), Elizabeth Lhost (Dartmouth College), Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon School of Law), Durba Mitra (Harvard), Bhavani Raman (UToronto), Tatiana Sijas (Rutgers University), Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania). More Information and RSVP: kalyaniramnath(a)fas.harvard.edu. RSVP by Nov 15. Website: https://aslh.net/conference/2019-annual-meeting/ *11/20/2019 5:00pm to 7:00pm Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus (Re/De)Coded: An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion and Digital Installation Location: ISEC Auditorium & Atrium Northeastern University Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex, Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA, USA Through a collaboration with the design firm, The Visual Agency, and the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan (which has housed the original Codex since the seventeenth century), Northeastern University hosts the debut U.S. presentation of this interactive digital installation. More Information: https://camd.northeastern.edu/event/leonardo-da-vincis-codex-atlanticus-re-… **11/20/2019 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Play Reading: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Location: Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard University Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.googl… Wednesday, November 20, 6 pm Early Modern History Workshop "Trade and Lawsuits Across the Atlantic: Litigation Involving Sephardic and Converse Traders in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Amsterdam, Porto and Brazil" Daniel Strum (University of São Paulo and Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton) Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library), Harvard Yard 11/20/2019 6:30pm Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies and Cartography Seminar Book Launch: Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe (Chicago 2019) Katharina N. Piechocki (author, Harvard) in conversation with Phillip John Usher (NYU) Thompson Room Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/renaissance-studies 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) <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us4.list-2Dmanage.com_track_click-3Fu-3D13887ccfa49aba4bb9d73d8d6-26id-3D42232e6ddb-26e-3D3b8bb1123b&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=yjVeNy_lVgaQCTq8ugTW4PJWK1jZoA3T5hQpYEEpems&m=bLR_ZWcNbQIKrnIka4IOMTW1CF38Gu5YRjXLIPTw4CU&s=IOIEO4gnyX7zD0Ct0Ac5xTp5dqe0BMK2RfzWRc16T8M&e=> 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 Kajun Chen (East Asian Studies): 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/> *12/4/2019 6:00pm 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/ 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 Alexandra Carter, Tufts University: “Cymbeline and the Poetics of Proximity” Elizabeth Fox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “Staging Innovation: Novelty and Profit in London Comedy” Emiliano Guitterez Popoca, Brandeis University: “Master-Servant Relations, the Body and its Passions in Early Modern Drama” 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@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mod@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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