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.
Upcoming Events
From Nov 12, 2019
**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
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@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-decoded-an-interdisciplinary-panel-discussion-and-digital-installation/
**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
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)
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
*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
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