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@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mod@fas.harvard.edu>.
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 3-5pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Using History in Law: Indigenous Rights"
Thomas Duve (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog (at)
fas.harvard.edu or
delafuente (at)
fas.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: History of the Book
Lecture: "News, Newspapers, and the Limits of Copyright in the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries"
Will Slauter, Université Paris Diderot – Institut Universitaire de France
Room S250, CGIS South, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/news-newspapers-and-limit…
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Play Reading: Knight of the Burning Pestle
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 7pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Arts and Ideas
Screening of “Othello in the Seraglio”, Q&A
Introduction: Helen Greenwald, New England Conservatory
Discussants: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Producer, Composer; Robert Labaree, Co-Producer, Writer;
Nick Papps, Director, Cinematographer
Farkas Hall, 10-12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/%E2%80%9Cothello-seraglio…
Thurday, March 14, 2019, 5:30 pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture: "Poet in the Making: Salvation and Cosmology in the Poetry of Hester
Pulter"
Wendy Wall, Department of English, Northwestern University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
**Tuesday, March 19, 4:30 P.M.
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
“Concubinage and the Margins of Marriage”
Michelle Armstrong-Partida (U. of Texas at El Paso/Institute of Advanced Study,) Pavilion
Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/ (Pre-circulated paper)
Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 5:15-7:15
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Medieval Studies
Seminar
“The Classical Influence in Anglo-Saxon Poetry: An Introduction to the CLASP project”
Colleen Curran, Postdoctoral Researcher, Corpus Christi College Oxford
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Renaissance Wednesday
“Imitating the Words’ in Music: A View from the Poetics Commentary Tradition”
Russell O’Rourke, PhD Candidate, Columbis University, Music
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Thursday, March 21, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
Special Guests:
JesuitOnlineBibliography.com
Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College
To join these online discussions and for additional details please contact the Institute
(iajs (at)
bc.edu).
Monday, March 25, 5:00-6:30
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"Leibniz on Vital Principles and Plastic Natures"
Paul Lodge (Oxford)
Robbins Library, Harvard, Emerson Hall 211
(Reception to Follow 6:30-7:00)
Tuesday, March 26th, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Cinnamon"
Ahmed Ragab/ Katherine Park, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Renaissance Wednesday
“Philomela as Victim: Philomela as Monster,” a talk by
Daniel Armenti, PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst, Comparative Literature
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cartography
Lecture: Europe and its Amerasian Mirror, 1492-ca. 1700
Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University
Alexander Nagel, New York University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
In most accounts of European explorations and colonizations after 1492, it is assumed that
an initial confusion between America and Asia steadily, even swiftly, gave way to the
realization that America was a New World. By considering a wide array of texts, maps,
objects, and images produced between 1492 and ca. 1700, it becomes possible instead to
inhabit a coherent, if malleable, vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North
America was an extension of China, and South America was populated by a variety of
biblical and Asian sites.
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
Thursday, March 28, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
"Print, Knowledge Organization, and Halakha: Codification and Disorder"
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan
to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>.
Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard
guests.
Thursday, March 28, 2019, 6:00 PM
Lecture: “Adamastor’s Gate: The World Ocean from Pangea to the Anthropocene”
Steve Mentz, St. John’s University
Boylston Hall, room 403, Harvard University
For more information contact jblackmore (at)
fas.harvard.edu
March 29, 2019, 4:30-6pm
Providence College Seminar in the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Workshop: “Exemplary Women: Female Christian Indian Identity in Anglo-America and Ibero
America, 1500-1750”
Jessica Criales, Rutgers University
Ruane Center for the Humanities, 202
https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…
Paper will be circulated one week in advance of the meeting. To be added to the mailing
list, email request to
sharon.murphy@providence.edu<mailto:sharon.murphy@providence.edu>.
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 5:30pm reception, 6:00 seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center
“Props that Play Themselves: Books Onstage in Marlowe and Heywood”
Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College
Mahindra Humanities Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Room 133
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 12 pm
Book Presentation: House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo
Allison Levy, Brown University, in conversation with Sheila Bonde, Brown University.
Rockefeller Library, Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, 10 Prospect Street, Brown
University, Providence, RI
https://blogs.brown.edu/libnews/house-of-secrets/<https://urldefense.pro…
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
“‘Qualities of Breeding’: Race, Class, and Conduct in The Merchant of Venice”
Patricia Akhimie (English, Rutgers)
Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings 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@wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
Website:
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Dana Liebsohn
Dana Liebsohn (Smith College) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"No Strangers in Trade: Local Residents, Foreign Travelers, and the Art of Pacific
Exchange 1750-1850"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Dana
Liebsohn<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/eve…
Wednesday, Apr. 3, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture: "Marriage and Sacrifice: The Poetics of the Epithalamia"
Ramie Targoff (Brandeis University)
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
In Spenser’s “Epithalamion,” he invokes two figures from classical antiquity who bore
children for Jove. Why Spenser invokes Maia and Alcmene, who lay with Jove against their
will, is one question to be explored; another is why Spenser suggests that Jove has also
laid with his own bride, Elizabeth.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Harry R. McCarthy (Exeter)
"Busy Boys: Youthful Activity on Early Modern Stages"
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Thursday, April 4, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
“Studying and Collecting Medieval and Early Modern Judaica and Hebraica Treasures Between
Fascist Italy and Postwar America. Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960) and His Collection”
Martina Mampieri
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan
to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>.
Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard
guests.
Thursday, April 4, 2019, 4:00-6:00pm
Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Sovereignty and the purpose of politics: political thought and religious
division c1576-1610"
Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)
CGIS room K-401, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
The Paper will be pre-circulated about a week before the talk. Please email Priyanka Menon
at pmenon129 (at)
gmail.com for details
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/politicaltheory/home
*Wednesday, April 10, all day
First Annual Boston-Area Digital Scholarship Symposium
Harvard, Smith Campus Center, Harvard Square
This event will bring together scholars from the greater Boston area to share their work
in digital scholarship. The focus of this year’s symposium is “Institutional Models of
Collaborative Support”, and the event will feature talks, panel discussions, and poster
presentations. If you are interested, you may register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-annual-boston-area-digital-scholarship-s….
If you have graduate students who would like to showcase a digital project, please share
this call for posters with them:
https://goo.gl/forms/saz0ITiOCi7CAzZ72.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 3.00-5.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Slavery and Mastery in the South Sea Armada"
Tamara Walker (University of Toronto)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog (at)
fas.harvard.edu or
delafuente (at)
fas.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Shakespeare’s Aristotle: The Poetics in Early Modern England"
Micha Lazarus (Cambridge)
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Thursday, April 11, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
“Puzzles and Posts: Reconstructing the Correspondence of Robert Persons, SJ”
Victor Houliston, University of the Witwatersrand
Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College
To join these online discussions and for additional details please contact the Institute
(iajs (at)
bc.edu).
Friday, April 12, 2019, 4:15pm
History and Economics Seminar
"The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance
Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society"
Francesca Trivellato, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
CGIS-K262, Bowie Vernon Room, 1737 Cambridge Street
April 18-20, 2019
Harvard English Department Bloomfield Conference
“Reading Then, Reading Now”
Registration is free, but space is limited; if you would like to attend, please reply to
Yun Ni (yni (at)
fas.harvard.edu) to reserve a spot.
Website:
https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-university-department-englis…
Tuesday, April 23, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Mobility and Materiality: The Case of the Florentine Codex"
Isaac Magaña G Cantón, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
*Tuesday, April 23, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: The 2019 Collins
Lecture
“Shakespeare’s Reformation: Thinking with Conversion”
Paul Yachnin, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies (McGill University)
The Old Chapel, 144 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA
Tuesday, Apr. 23, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Amiri Ayanna (grad. stud., History)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
**Tuesday, April 23, 5.15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Republicanism and Humanism"
Gabriele Pedullà (Università degli Studi Roma 3 and IAS Princeton), with a response by
James Hankins (Harvard)
Belfer Case Study Room S020, CGIS South, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Wednesday, April 24, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
"Lyric Thinking in the Early Modern World: On the Possibilities of Cross-Cultural
Study"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale, Comp. Lit),
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
Can we usefully discuss lyric traditions in Europe and South Asia alongside each other—or
are the particular literary and linguistic histories of these regions too disparate to
make the comparison worthwhile?
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Jillian Luke (Edinburgh)
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Thursday, April 25, 3:00-4:30
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"Descartes in the Pantheon: The Editorial Work of Claude Clerselier"
Delphine Antoine-Mahut (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Robbins Library, Harvard, Emerson Hall 211
(Reception to Follow 4:30-5:00)
Friday, April 26, 2019, 12pm
Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Huchins Center, Seminar Meeting
Lecture: “Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Black Militiamen, Tribute, and Privilege”
Sally Hayes (Harvard)
(more information as time approaches!)
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cartography
Talk Title TBA
Surekha Davies, John Carter Brown Library Fellow
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
Tuesday, April 30, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: “Quid pro quo: Europeans and their ‘Skill Capital’ in Eighteenth-Century
Beijing”
Eugenio Menegon, BU
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Lecture: "Bible exegesis, the ancient Israelites and the early modern question of
usury"
Avinoam Naeh (Hebrew University and Harvard), with comment by Sophus Reinert (HBS).
Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Eighteenth Century Studies
Talk Title TBA
Stephanie De Gooyer, Radcliffe Institute, Willamette University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado
Fabrício Prado (The College of William & Mary) National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellow
"Inter-American Connections: North-South American Networks in the Age of Atlantic
Revolutions"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Fabrício
Prado<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/…
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 5:30 pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable discussion: "Reassessing the Field, Passing the Torch"
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join us for a roundtable discussion where we take up the pressing issues touching the
study of early modern women, gender, and sexuality in our present historical moment, and
help us
welcome the new co-chairs of the seminar, Sarah Wall-Randall (Wellesley) and Erin Murphy
(Boston University)
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
Thursday, May 9, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
“The Jesuits as the Last Medieval Order?”
Markus Friedrich, Universität Hamburg
Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College
To join these online discussions and for additional details please contact the Institute
(iajs (at)
bc.edu).
Save the Date:
June 11–13, 2019
Boston College, Institut for Advanced Jesuit Studies
International Symposium on Jesuit Studies
"Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of
Jesus"
www.bc.edu/iajs.
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