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.
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e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu.
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
Play Reading: Arden of Faversham
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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Welcome! Welcome to Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium! We are a
group of graduate students who meet every one to two weeks to discuss current work in
Renaissance and Early Modern literary studies.
Thurs Oct 11, 4-6pm
Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium
"Slaves, Subjects, and Citizens: Jean Bodin on the Boundaries of Political
Membership"
Daniel Lee (Berkeley)
Room K-401, CGIS, Harvard, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
There is a precirculated paper available one week ahead, please contact pmenon129 at
gmail.com for a copy.
Friday, October 12, 2018 - 5:30pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
"To See Thee Fight, To See Thee Foign": Dueling Culture and the Early Modern
English Theatre"
Kim H. Carrell, College of the Holy Cross
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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This seminar is designed to explore the broadest range of approaches to Shakespeare's
plays and those of his contemporaries. We welcome post-structuralist, feminist, formalist,
textual, historicist, and performance-based criticism.
Saturday, October 13, 2018
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
16th Annual Graduate Student Conference: "Spaces of Authority"
Keynote: Christopher R. Kyle, Syracuse University
UMass Amherst, 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002
$10 Entrance Fee includes lunch and breakfast
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The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst will host its sixteenth annual graduate student conference on
Saturday, October 13, 2018. We are delighted to welcome historian Christopher R. Kyle of
Syracuse University as our keynote speaker. This year’s conference theme is Spaces of
Authority.
October 17, 2018, 4:00pm
John Carter Brown Library
Lecture: “Customary Arrangements, Amelioration, and the Law in Jamaica, 1786-1838”
Michael Becker (Duke University), Paul W. McQuillen Fellow at JCB Library
Lecture: “The Political Economy of Information: State Intelligence and the Fiscal
Reorganization of the River Plate-Andean Region, 1760-1840”
Felice Physioc (Princeton University), Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Fellow at JCB Library
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details:
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 4 p.m.
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
"TBD"
Richard Ballon, Actor, Director, Writer and Retired from UMass
UMass Amherst, 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002
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Events @ the Center . The Center offers lectures, classes, conferences, concerts, and
performances, all of which are open to the community and the general public and most of
which are free of charge.
Thursday, October 18, 2018, 5:50 pm
The Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Brown University
Lecture: "Crusoe's Absence: Sugar Economics and the Ingenuity of Realism"
Barbara Fuchs, UCLA
The Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912
Fri Oct 19, 12:00pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Dyeing in the Renaissance: Labor, Business, and International Exchange in
Florentine Dyer’s Account Books"
Stephanie Leitzel
Room 252, Science Center, Harvard, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
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The Early Science Working Group brings together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows
and faculty members to discuss their works-in-progress on the history of ancient, medieval
and early modern knowledge and culture.
*Monday October 22, 5:30-7pm
Center for the Study of World Religion, Harvard Divinity School
"Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World"
Katharine Gerbner (University of Minnesota)
Common Room, CSWR, Harvard, 42 Francis Ave, Cambridge
Religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant
Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere established governments and
legal codes based on an ideology of "Protestant Supremacy," which excluded the
majority of enslaved men and women from Christian communities. For slaveholders,
Christianity was a sign of freedom, and most believed that slaves should not be eligible
for conversion. When Protestant missionaries arrived in the plantation colonies intending
to convert enslaved Africans to Christianity in the 1670s, they were appalled that most
slave owners rejected the prospect of slave conversion. Slaveholders regularly attacked
missionaries, both verbally and physically, and blamed the evangelizing newcomers for
slave rebellions. In response, Quaker, Anglican, and Moravian missionaries articulated a
vision of "Christian Slavery," arguing that Christianity would make slaves
hardworking and loyal. Over time, missionaries increasingly…
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The CSWR sponsors a variety of formal and informal academic programs designed to engage
scholars and students of religious studies in what is becoming an increasingly globalized
field, including lectures, film screenings, conferences and colloquia, panel discussions,
and more, many of which are open to the public.
Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 6pm
Novel Theory Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Cosponsored by the Long Eighteenth-Century Graduate Colloquium
Lecture: "Time, Media, the Eighteenth-Century Novel"
Christina Lupton, University of Warwick
Stuart Sherman, Fordham University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
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The novel is a radically capacious and always evolving genre, open to the full range of
world literature, across periods and locations. This seminar examines the novel and its
various, overlapping functions as aesthetic object, cultural artifact, historical text,
and conceptual resource.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 4 p.m.
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
"Monteverdi's Orfeo"
David Gruender, Boston Symphony Orchestra
UMass Amherst, 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002
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Events @ the Center . The Center offers lectures, classes, conferences, concerts, and
performances, all of which are open to the community and the general public and most of
which are free of charge.
Thursday, Oct 25, 2018, 3:30 pm
Catherine Frisone Scott Italian Cultural Studies Fund in memory of John B. Frisone Public
Lecture: "Machiavelli: Yesterday and Today"
Christopher Celenza (Georgetown)
Integrated Sciences Center, 3rd Floor, Rm 3300, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100
Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125
Friday, Oct 26 to Saturday Oct 27, 2018
The 7th Annual Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Science and Religion
Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
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The 7th Annual Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Science and Religion at Harvard
Divinity School will be held October 26-27, 2018.
*Friday, October 26, 5:00-6:30pm
The 7th Annual Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Science and Religion
Keynote Lecture: "Hematologies: The Political Life of Blood in India"
Dwaipayan Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society,
MIT
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Divinity School will be held October 26-27, 2018.
Friday, October 26, 2018, 4 p.m.
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Book History Lectures - Fall 2018
"Servant-Functions and Author-Functions in Early Modern Europe"
Ann Blair, C. H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University
UMass Amherst, 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002
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Events @ the Center . The Center offers lectures, classes, conferences, concerts, and
performances, all of which are open to the community and the general public and most of
which are free of charge.
October 27, 2018, 4:00pm
John Carter Brown Library
About 1783: Remaking the British Polity in the Wake of the American Revolution Program
Panel of the North American Conference on British Studies
Chair and commentator: Elizabeth Mancke, University of New Brunswick
Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in Britain, Ireland, and America, 1778-1783
Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire
The Irish Revolution of 1782 in an Age of Revolutions
Steve Pincus, University of Chicago
Coming to Terms with France: The Benefits and Burdens of Free Trade, 1783-1786
John Shovlin, New York University
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details:
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Tues Oct 30, 12:00pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "The Lost Serpent: Subterranean Knowledge in the Age of Enchantment"
Whitney Barlow Robles
Room 252, Science Center, Harvard, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
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Wednesday, October 31, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
"The 36 Bodies of Shakespeare's Henriad" (Graduate Workshop)
Patrick Durdel (Freie Universität Berlin)
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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Welcome! Welcome to Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium! We are a
group of graduate students who meet every one to two weeks to discuss current work in
Renaissance and Early Modern literary studies.
*Thursday, November 1st, 12:30pm
Sponsored by the Humanities Institute and English Department, University of Connecticut
Lecture, The UCONN Early Modern Studies Working Group's Fall Lecture: The “Kindness”
of Humans: Empathy, Race, and Kind in The Tempest and The Shape of Water
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Homer Babbidge Library, UCHI Conference Room, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
RSVP for lunch at earlymod(a)UCONN.edu
The talk will be proceeded by a lunch that requires an RSVP and followed by informal
discussion and coffee. Details:
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Friday, November 2, 2018, 5:30pm
Cosponsored by the Shakespearean Studies Seminar and the Women and Culture in the Early
Modern World Seminar, both Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Lecture: "Turning Chaste: Thomas Dekker, Honest Whores, and the Conversions of
English Courtesans"
Stephen Spiess, Babson College
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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November 7, 2018, 4:00pm
John Carter Brown Library
Lecture: “Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire”
Surekha Davies, Historian and writer, InterAmericas Fellow at JCB Library
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details:
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Thursday, November 8, 2018, 4pm
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Lecture: "News, real and fake, from the front: Mapping the great siege of Malta
(1565)"
Jessica Maier, Associate Professor Art History, Mt. Holyoke
UMass Amherst, 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002
http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/events.htm
Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, 5 p.m., with reception to follow
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art
Art, Art History, and Film Department, Boston College
"Piranesi's Layers"
Heather Hyde Minor, Professor, Notre Dame University
Devlin Hall 101, Boston College
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Monday Nov 12 5:15pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard University
Lecture: “The World in the Library” (on knowledge gathering and history writing in early
Latin America)
Valeria Lopez Fadul (Wesleyan)
CGIS S354, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
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Tues Nov 13, 12:00pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Renaissance Bodies: The Human Form in Art and Medicine"
Daniele Macuglia
Room 252, Science Center, Harvard, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/home
Wednesday November 14, 2018, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Lecture: “A Redemptive Figure: Hagar, the Servant, and Queen Christina of Sweden”
Andrea Celli, Italian Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut
Room 113, Boger Hall, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars 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 (at)
wesleyan.edu
Wednesday, November 14, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
"Pleading the Belly and the Body Politic: Leaticia Wigington and Elizabeth
Cellier"
Marina Leslie (Northeastern)
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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Saturday, November 17th, 2018, all day
45th Annual New England Medieval Conference
Government and Governance from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance: Representation and
Reality
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Keynote Speakers:
Amy Appleford (Boston University), “Governing Bodies in Late Medieval London”
Jonathan Lyon (University of Chicago), “Was there a Difference Between Lordship and
Governance in Late Medieval Germany?”
Tues Nov 27, 12:00pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "‘By the Declining Day’: Time and Temporal Cultures of the Early Modern
Mediterranean"
Maryam Patton, Harvard
Room 252, Science Center, Harvard, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/home
Thursday, November 29, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
“'Behold, my life is but a distraction': Ascetic Reading, Poetry, and
Prayer"
Amy Appleford (Boston University),
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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Friday, November 30, 2018, 5:30pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
Graduate Student Symposium
Talk Title TBA
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
University (Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie)
Lecture: "Remaking Shakespeare Through Performance"
Karin Coonrod, Yale School of Drama/Compagnia de' Colombari
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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December 6, 2018, 4:00pm
John Carter Brown Library
Lecture: “Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America”
Kathrinne Duffy (Brown University), Interdisciplinary Opportunities Fellow at JCB
Library
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details:
https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events
December 6, 2018, 5:30pm
John Carter Brown Library
Lecture: "Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West,
1765-1776: The untold story of the 'Black Boys,' a rebellion on the American
frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution."
Patrick Spero, American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia
In 1763, the Seven Years’ War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French
army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing that the British
Empire would expand onto their lands and conquer them, refused to lay down their weapons.
Under the leadership of a shrewd Ottawa warrior named Pontiac, they kept fighting for
their freedom, capturing several British forts and devastating many of the westernmost
colonial settlements. The British, battered from the costly war, needed to stop the
violent attacks on their borderlands. Peace with Pontiac was their only option―if they
could convince him to negotiate.
Copies of Frontier Rebels will be available for purchase.
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details:
https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events
Mon Dec 10, 12-2pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard University
Lecture: "Sinful Slumbers: Sleeping in Church and the Prehistory of Boredom"
Daniel Juette (NYU)
Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard Yard
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Tuesday December 11, 2018, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
“Representations of Black Africans and Others in Orlando di Lasso’s Music for the 1568
Wedding of Wilhelm V to Renata of Lorraine”
Eric Rice, Music Department, University of Connecticut
Room 113, Boger Hall, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars 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 (at)
wesleyan.edu
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