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<mailto: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. * indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event Upcoming Events Monday, October 24, 12pm-1pm Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies Harvard Premodern Race Seminar Session 4: Reading: draft of article in progress by Anna Wilson, “Racial Innocence: Whiteness and Childhood in Chaucer’s ‘Prioress’ Tale’”. Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116. Monday, October 24, 5:30pm Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Medieval Studies Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences 110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138 Monday, 10/24/2022 6:00pm Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop and Scandinavian Studies, Harvard James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/james-raven-university-cambridge-uk-%E2%80%9Cmonsters-myths-and-methods-global-book?delta=0> Location: In person event: History Dept conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard Wednesday, October 26th, 3:00pm The Gladys Brooks Foundation; Department of History and Classics; Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America (PC-SHEA): “At the Center of the World: Urban Life in Seventeenth Century Mexico City” Tatiana Seijas; Rutgers University Location: Providence College, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI, 02918 More information: https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of… or email Sharon.Murphy(a)providence.edu Dr. Tatiana Seijas is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University who specializes in Early Modern Global History, the Pacific World, and Latin America. The Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America meets several times a year to discuss pre-circulated works in progress, including chapters of doctoral dissertations, book projects, and article drafts on any aspect of early American history. Thursday, October 27, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard Yavuz Aykan, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, Paris 1 Sorbonne University: "SOHBET-I OSMANI: Making Justice in a Venal Context: The Provincial Council and the Deconcentration of Power in 18th-Century Harput" CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge More information: Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/making-justice-venal-context-provinci...… Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World Jordan Katz, Department of Judaic Studies, UMass-Amherst, and Harvard Divinity School: "Mapping Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Amsterdam" Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 More information: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-earl...… Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:00pm Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies Talk: “Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine” Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138 Oct 28, 2022, 4:30pm – 6:30pm The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Evan MacCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Orchestrating Shakespeare's Storms". 6th Annual Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002 Evan MacCarthy is a Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History in the Department of Music & Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on the history of fifteenth-century music and music theory, late medieval chant, German music in the Baroque era, as well as nineteenth-century American music. His book Ruled by the Muses: Italian Humanists and their Study of Music in the Fifteenth Century explores the musical lives of scholars who sought to revive the cultural and intellectual traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/berlinmaccarthy2022<https://urld… Tuesday, 11/1/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Harvard), “Information Gaps and the Management of Tangier’s Fortifications, 1662-1683”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer… Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Jeff Dolven, Professor of English at Princeton University: "Verse, Turn, Trope" Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138 More Information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...… Thursday, November 3, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World, 1620-2020” Trevor Jackson (George Washington University) "From Commodity Gluts to Savings Glut: Crises of Overabundance in Atlantic Economies, 1602-2008." Harvard Law School (Room TBD) More information: https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming *Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, 5:30 PM Brown University, Annual William Church Lecture<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/> John Jeffries Martin (Duke University): “From the Apocalypse to the Idea of Progress in Early Modern Europe” Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 106, Brown University, 95 Cushing St, Providence, RI In the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth century, Europeans expressed their hopes for the future within an apocalyptic, even millenarian frame. But in the late seventeenth and throughout the eighteenth century a new language of hope emerged as the Idea of Progress took hold. This presentation explores this transition with attention both to the emergence of secular values and to shifting notions of Divine Providence in the early modern world. Friday, Nov 4, 2022, 5:30pm Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies Coppelia Kahn, Brown University: “Reading Faces in Hamlet” 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA 02138 Monday, November 7, 12pm-1pm Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies Harvard Premodern Race Seminar Session 5: Reading: TBD, on topic of slavery in the ancient/medieval Mediterranean OR pedagogy session, “Teaching Difficult Issues With Cases,” with Dan Smail. Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116. *Tuesday, November 8, 5 PM, Celtic Languages and Literatures Lecture Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut): Legitimacy, Sovereignty and the Practice of Politics in Early Modern Ireland Warren House, Room 201, Harvard University, 11 Prescott St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Thursday, Nov 10, 2022 Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Five College Renaissance Seminar with Catherine Infante (Amherst College): “The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain” 650 East Pleasant St, Amherst MA https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-infante-2022<https://urldef… Tuesday, 11/15/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Iman Darwish (History of Science), “Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath Book of Simples: The Formative Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica” <https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/iman-darwish-history-science-%E2%80%9Cibn-ab%C4%AB-al-ash%CA%BFath-book-simples-formative?delta=0> Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> Wednesday, 11/16/2022 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Hudson Vincent, Harvard Writing Center: "Carceral Colonialism: Thomas Morton, John Eliot, and the Puritan Origins of the Carceral State in America" Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138 More Information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renai...… Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “The Chinese Discovery of America? Franciscan Missionaries and Mexican Material Culture in Guangzhou, 1579.” Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University, Providence, RI In 1579, a group of Franciscan friars under the leadership of one Fray Pedro Alfaro attempted to establish a mission in China. Taken into custody by the Ming authorities, their destiny was shaped by the work of both human and non-human mediators, specifically a Chinese interpreter and a series of objects that the friars had brought with them from New Spain. As far as we know, this incident represents the first encounter between Chinese literati and the material culture of colonial Spanish America. The encounter provides an opportunity to reflect on patterns of early modern globalization facilitated by trans-Pacific travel. More information: https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236965-early-modern-lectu… Thursday, 11/17/2022 5:30pm Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Department of History, Boston College: Title TBA Location: Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-earl...… Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies Harvard Premodern Race Seminar Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,” Literature Compass (2019). Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116. Wednesday, 11/30/2022 5:15pm Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium Emily Vasiliauskas, Associate Professor of English at Williams College: "On the Way to Lyric" Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138 More information: https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa… Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University) This talk will be held via Zoom. Register here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damhers…MIWHHia06fbITwE_XBU&e=>. More information: https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022<https://urld… Thursday, 12/1/2022 5:30pm MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World Roundtable on the new Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English: "A Field of Many Voices: Early Modern Women's Writing in English Now" Virtual event. Register here: https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvc-CrqjMjE9dZaTj6P5O54gl492V0… Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00pm Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century: XIII Dinner Symposium Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138 Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG, Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-his… Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP: oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> Thursday, December 8, 2022, 4:30pm Kinney Center for Interdiscipinary Renaissance Studies Five College Renaissance Seminar with Douglas Pfeiffer (Stony Brook University) 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrspfeiffer2022<https://urldefe… *** *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: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. 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