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. 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 are 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.
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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, May 8, 2023, 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center's Renaissance Studies Seminar
Alani Hicks-Bartlett: Material Failure: Embodiment and Access in Early Modern Lyric
Laments (Lecture)
Location: Zoom event: registration link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMld-CrrjwoHtWNaAo1RaOkbT01a51PfHbu>
Monday, May 8, 2023, 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Symposium in two parts, presenting ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century”
Location: Thomson Room of the Barker Center, Harvard University (12 Quincy St., Cambridge
MA)
Twelve leading feminist scholars, including Ros Ballaster, Kristina Straub, Mona Narain,
Jennie Batchelor, Tita Chico, Betty Schellenburg, Manushag Powell, Regulus Allen, and
Susan Carlisle will present ideas recovered from “The Radical Eighteenth Century.” The
first roundtable discussion, from 1-3 will be about “Critiques of Capitalism” that
surfaced in the eighteenth century. The second roundtable discussion from 3:30 to 5:30,
will be about those ideas that went against the grain of individualism but were examples
of ”Thinking Through the Community.” Questions will also be taken from the floor and
discussion among the participants and the audience will be encouraged.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Daily Bread: Towards a Material History
of the Eucharist”
Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford
St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya(a)g.harvard.edu, to
register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the
precirculated paper)
June 5-9, 2023
Co-sponsored by Folger Institute and Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction to English Paleography (course)
Course Director: Dr. Heather
Wolfe<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.ed…PK-Y1COYuswrlCqHkR4&e=>,
Curator of Manuscripts and Archivist, Folger Shakespeare Library.
This weeklong course provides an intensive introduction to handwriting in early modern
England, with a particular emphasis on the English secretary hand of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. The course will highlight the strengths of our rare book collection
and materials related to The Renaissance of the Earth. Find more information
here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folger.edu…
Application deadline 6 March 2023 was for admission and grants-in-aid for Folger Institute
Consortium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.folg…
affiliates.
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