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 online events and activities relevant to the Boston area. Please
forward announcements of virtual socials, web-meetings, online 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(a)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 EST.
Upcoming Events
Monday, March 8, 2021 1-2:30PM EST
Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar
"Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" & Teaching Indigeneity
Meets online via Zoom (contact alexandraschultz(a)g.harvard.edu for meeting info)
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 3-5PM EST
The Harvard workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and
Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Yuko Miki, Frontiers of Citizenship: A
Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2018, with author present.
Please email therzog at
fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Monday, March 15, 2021 3PM EST
Colonial North America at Harvard Library
A Closer Look at Colonial North America Across Harvard Library
Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8Y1A7BYhSC20HotJnEQFMw>Thursday, March
18, 2021 7PM EST
Next meeting of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts: Peter Mancall will speak about his
book The Trials of Thomas Morton.
For more information please visit Colonial Society of Massachusetts
events<https://www.colonialsociety.org/>g/>.
Friday, March 19, 2021 4-6PM EST
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
UMass Amherst
The Refinery: Caravaggio in Conversation
Andy Bowers (History of Art and Architecture, UMass) "Living Flesh,
Paint-as-Blood"
Siyu Shen (History of Art and Architecture, UMass) "Caravaggio: Scoundrel
Scholar?"
Danielle Carrabino, Curator of Sculpture & Painting, Smith College
Registration
Link<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwscu-uqDwiH91_5m2gqn0ZW4SsXvesV7Nm>
Monday, March 22, 2021 1-2:30PM EST
Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar
Guest speaker Adam Miyashiro (Stockton University) joins us to discuss a pre-circulated
forthcoming article. Tentative topic: indigeneity and medieval environment.
Meets online via Zoom (contact alexandraschultz(a)g.harvard.edu for meeting info)
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 3:00PM EST
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History
Karine Chemla (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study and CNRS, University Paris Diderot)
"A historical approach to the reading of ancient mathematical texts and why this
matters"
Registration
Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqdumgpjIuE9btybJGu4roEViQrwSToGN2>
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3-5PM EST
The Harvard workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and
Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Adriana Chira, “Peripheral Freedoms:
Afro-Descendant Cubans, Law, and Racial Identity, 1791-1868 (forthcoming manuscript), with
author present.
Please email therzog at
fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Thursday, March 25, 2021 3PM EST
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Occidentalizing Rhodes in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's
Tragedy"
Bailey Sincox, Harvard English Department
More
Information<https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloq…
Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Center Women, Gender and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar
"Epistemology, Women, and the Scientific Method in Early Modern England," with
Professor Julie Walsh (Wellesley College)
Registration
Link<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApc-murjMsGtYEIece0pBLLaIv1T-ZLMS_>
Tuesday March 30, 2021 12:00PM EST
Nathaniel Moses (History, Harvard)
“Plants in Translation: Botanical Hermeneutics and Seventeenth-Century Orientalism”
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard. To receive the pre-circulated
paper and zoom link, please contact Hannah Marcus, hmarcus at
fas.harvard.edu
Monday, April 5, 2021 1-2:30PM EST
Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar
Nandini Pandey (U Wisconsin-Madison) joins us, with a pre-circulated piece adapted from
her forthcoming book, to discuss Roman diversity and public-facing communication.
Meets online via Zoom (contact alexandraschultz(a)g.harvard.edu for meeting info)
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 11-12:30PM EST
Colonial North America at Harvard Library Symposium
Keynote Address - 'Digital Access and Making Early America Vast' by Karin Wulf,
renowned early American scholar from the Omohundro Institute
Registration
Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D-uAUV5GReuwepSSO9BXkQ>
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 11-12:30PM EST
Colonial North America at Harvard Library Symposium
Panel 1 - Using Digitized Manuscript Collections in New Contexts
Registration
Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D-uAUV5GReuwepSSO9BXkQ>
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 3-5PM EST
The Harvard workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and
Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Paulina Alberto. “Black Legend: “El
Negro” Raúl Grigera and Racial Storytelling in Modern Argentina” (forthcoming manuscript),
with author present.
Please email therzog at
fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Thursday, April 8, 2021 11-12:30PM EST
Colonial North America at Harvard Library Symposium
Panel 2 - Artificial Intelligence and Access to Manuscript Materials
Registration
Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D-uAUV5GReuwepSSO9BXkQ>
Thursday, April 15, 2021 4PM EST
Dror Wahrman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “The Prince, the Jeweler and the Mogul:
The Paradoxes on an Early Modern Object".
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard.
Please register here:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcuqspzwpGtKqc-gQcsVjIny7xJSIUA…
Monday, April 19, 2021 1-2:30PM EST
Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar
Discussing Chapter 2 of Geraldine Heng's "The Invention of Race in the European
Middle Ages," SJ Pearce's review essay of the book, and Heng's response to
the review.
Meets online via Zoom (contact alexandraschultz(a)g.harvard.edu for meeting info)
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 12:00PM EST
Caroline Murphy (History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art, MIT)
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard. To receive the pre-circulated
paper and zoom link, please contact Hannah Marcus, hmarcus at
fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, April 22, 2021, 5:30PM EST
"Imagining a World: Selfhood and Empire in Safavid Iran", Kishwar Rizvi,
Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, Yale
University.
Spring 2021 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
Sponsored by Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
Registration details TBA.
Please visit the AKPIA events
page<https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events> for
more information.
Thursday, April 29, 2021 1PM EST
Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge University), "Isaac Abendana (c. 1638-1699): Rabbinic
learning and the Hebrew book in Restoration Cambridge and Oxford."
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Early Modern History Workshop and the
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, Harvard.
Please register here:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMoceuppjMiHtJ2yhjHtle00fmIMcOlCw…
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 12:00PM EST
Iman Darwish (History of Science, Harvard)
“The Nature of Experience and the Experience of Nature in Ibn Sīna’s Kitab al-Ḥayawān
(The book of Animals)”
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard. To receive the pre-circulated
paper and zoom link, please contact Hannah Marcus, hmarcus at
fas.harvard.edu
June 14-15, 2021
Early Modern Symposium
Performing Objects and the Objects of Performance in the Global Early Modern
Sponsored by the John Hay Library and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
at Brown University
More
information<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/date/…
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