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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Monday, October 24, 2016, 5pm-6:30pm
Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop
Lecture: “The Judgment of the Bleeding Corpse: Medieval Myth and Early Modern Law”
Emily Rose, Visiting Scholar, Medieval Studies, Harvard
Kates Room, Warren House, Harvard University
*Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 12-1:30pm
Harvard-Yenching Institute
Lecture: “Legitimating State Power and social Policies: A Comparative Study of Early
Modern England, Tokugawa Japan, and Qing China“
He Wenkai, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology
Chair/discussant: Daniel Ziblatt, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 6pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Lecture: Arts and Ideas
"The Place of the Mechanical in Liberal Studies"
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Barker Center, Thompson Room, Room 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_…
"'Evidence that Might Assist in a Further Research': Testimony, the Law,
and the Supernatural, 1688-1832"
Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh),
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 5-7pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Elias Muhanna (Brown University, Comparative Literature) Book talk, The Ultimate Ambition
in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World, by
Shihab al-Din
al-Nuwayri<http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/elias-muhanna-brown-uni…
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 4:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture, Rare Book Show
and Tell
Jeff Goodhind
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Renaissance Center,
Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club.
www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance> No reservations
required.
Wednesday, October 26 at 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"The Dumb Show Speaks: Religious Re-Creations in Early Modern Drama."
Bailey Sincox (Harvard University)
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Friday, October 28, 2016, 12:15-2pm
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Lecture: “Witchcraft, Emotion, and Social Order in Early Modern Russia”
Valerie Kivelson, Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan
CGIS South S354, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday, October 31, 2016, 5pm – 7 pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
Lecture, “Priests of the Law” or “Vipers of the Commonwealth”: Legal Professionals, Legal
Knowledge, and Litigiousness in Early Modern Europe
Michael Breen, Reed College
Wasserstein Hall, WCC 3034, Harvard Law School
Co-sponsored by the European Legal History Workshop
November
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, Noon – 1:30pm
The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University
"Humanism in New Spain and the huehuehtlahtolli (speech of the ancients)"
Aysha Pollnitz, Rice University
Robinson Hall, Lower Library and Great Space, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge,
MA
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Florin Morar (Harvard, History of Science), “Translation and Treason: The Demarcation
Controversy and Abraham Ortelius’ Map of China from 1584”
<http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/florin-morar-harvard-history-science-%E2%80%9Ctranslation-and-treason?delta=0>
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, November 3, 2016, 5:30pm
"The Unbearable Lightness of Anne Green: An Infanticide's Unlikely Afterlife,
1651-Present"
Marina Leslie, Northeastern University,
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 2:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
First Sunday Concert: “When I See Wynter Coming”
The Harper and The Minstrel
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA,
01002.
Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public.
www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance>
No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited. Seating is first
come, first served.
*Monday, November 7, 2016, 5:15 – 7:15 p.m.
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
“Setting (and binding) the table: Ancient Roman paratext in the age of print”
Joseph Howley, Columbia University
MIT Building 14E, Room 304
whereis.mit.edu<http://whereis.mit.edu/>
Monday, November 7, 2016, 3:00 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, Co-sponsored with MHC History of the Book Seminar
Master Course on Social History of Paper, Signcutting, and Signsewing.
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Location: Houghton Library
Monday, November 7, 2016, 5 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, Co-sponsored with MHC History of the Book Seminar
"Gleaning"
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Abstract at
http://bookhistory.harvard.edu<http://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/juli…
Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Efe Balıkçıoğlu (Harvard, History and CMES) “Determinism and Causation in the 15th Century
Ottoman Madrasas in
Constantinople”<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/event/efe-bal%C4%B1k…
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 5-6 PM and Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30–5:45 PM
Yale Program in the History of the Book
Lecture & Seminar, "Book-Piracy in the Reign of Mary Tudor"
Peter Blayney, University of Toronto
Yale University; Lecture, Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 5-6 PM (Yale, Beinecke Library
mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30–5:45 PM (Yale, Beinecke Library,
room 9 on lower level)
https://yalebookhistory.com/
Thursday, November 10, 4:15pm
MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND
NON-VIOLENCE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6…
"The Human Condition in the Anthropocene"
Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
Cosponsored with the Joint Center for History and Economics
Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Thursday, November 10, 2016, 4:30 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture, Five College:
“Antihonorificabilitudinitatibus: Love's Labour's Lost and the Pedantic Text.”
Adam Zucker, UMass Amherst
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA,
01002.
Free and open to the public.
www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance> No reservations
required.
Friday, November 11, 2016
4:00 - 5:30
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"'Prince of the Nullibists'? Descartes, Henry More, and the Location of the
Mind"
Dan Kaufman, University of Colorado
Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard University, 25 Quincy Street,
Cambridge:
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Catherine Abou-Nemeh (Victoria University of Wellington, History), “Cartesian Medicine at
Leiden University in the Late 17th
Century”<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eswg/event/catherine-abou-nemeh-…
Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History
Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
“The Many Bodies of King James VI and I,”
Alastair Bellany, (Professor of History, Rutgers University,)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence RI
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 – 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “‘Every bodies fancy varies’: Historicizing Early Modern Sexual Practice”
Will Fisher, Lehman College/Graduate Center, CUNY
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a
copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at
mmeere@wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur…
Tuesday, November 15, 6pm,
MELLON FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON VIOLENCE AND
NON-VIOLENCE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6…
"Art in a State of Siege: Hieronymus Bosch in Retrospect"
Joseph Koerner (Harvard University)
Room 029, Sackler Lecture Hall, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA
Wednesday, November 16 at 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
David Nee, Harvard University
"Tragedy as Simple Form: Romeo and Juliet, 1475-1599"
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Colonial North America Project at Harvard Library
“Unconference”: What’s Next? Exploring New Ways to Use Digital Early American
Manuscripts
Knafel Center, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
To find out more about the meeting and to register before October 26 (note that space is
limited) please visit this on-line invitation:
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/colonial
Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_…
"New Eyes VIII Dinner Symposium"
Megan Gallagher (Brown University), Jess Keiser (Tufts University), Rebecca Mitsein
(Boston College), and Jenny Reed (Brandeis University)
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, November 17, 2016, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
2016-2017 RENATO POGGIOLI LECTURE
Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, New York University
Barker Ctr, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
This event is free and open to the public.
Friday, November 18, 2016, 5:30pm
SHAKESPEAREAN
STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_…
“All’s Well and the Art of Love”
James Kuzner, Brown University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
**Friday and Saturday, November 18th – 19th, 2016
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop co-sponsored with the Boston Colloquium for
Philosophy of Science and the BU College of Fine Arts Theater Program
Event: “Émilie Du Châtelet: 310th Anniversary”
-Friday, November 18th, 4:00 – Staged Reading of Émilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends
Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson
BU Theater Lab, Rm. 104, College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave
-Saturday, November 19th, 10:00 – 5:30pm: Talks by Judith Zinsser, George Smith, Ruth
Hagengruber, Marius Stan, Andrew Janiak, and Katherine Brading.
The Terrace Lounge, George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave.
Further details available at
http://www.bu.edu/cphs/colloquium/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/…
Tuesday, November 22, 5:30 PM
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History
Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
The 37th William F. Church Memorial Lecture, “Ottoman Christians and the Question of
Ottoman Society.”
Molly Greene (Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University,)
Smith-Buonanno Hall, room 106, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912
A reception will follow the lecture
Monday, November 28, 5:30pm
Harvard Cartography Seminar
"Political Propaganda and the Mapping of the Russian Borderland in the Second Half of
the Sixteenth Century: Strubicz, Kochanowski, Mercator"
Jakub Niedzwiedz (Jagiellonian University)
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Lecture: “The Book Trade and the Demand for Literature in France, 1769-1789”
Robert Darnton, Harvard University
Barker Center, Room 110, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, November 29, 6:00pm
Dialectical Thinking and the Humanities
Talk Title TBA
Julie Walsh, Wellesley College
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
William Porter (Harvard University)
Title TBA
Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
December
Friday, December 2, 2016, 5:30pm
SHAKESPEAREAN
STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_…
"Graduate Student Symposium"
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Sunday, December 4, 2016, 2:00 pm
The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Holiday Concert
AyreCraft
Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA,
01002.
Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public.
www.umass.edu/renaissance<http://www.umass.edu/renaissance>
No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited. Seating is first
come, first served.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5:00pm and Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30pm
Lecture & Seminar, "What is a Letter?"
Peter Stallybrass, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Yale University; Lecture, Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5-6pm (Yale, Beinecke Library
mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30–5:45pm (Yale, Beinecke Library, room
9 on lower level)
Thursday, December 8, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture, "Monstrous Un-Making: Blood, Milk, Maternity, and Murder as Female Agency in
Early Modern England"
Dianne E. Berg Tufts University
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
February
Wednesday, February 1, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Talk Title TBA
Christie McDonald, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, February 1, 2016, 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Holger Syme, University of Toronto
Location TBA
Monday, February 27, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_…
Talk Title TBA
Meredith Martin (New York University) and Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve
University),
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
March
Thursday March 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title TBA
Ned Duval, Yale University
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a
copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at
mmeere@wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur…
Wednesday, March 22, 6pm
American Literature and Culture
Talk Title TBA
Leonard Von Morze, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
May
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title TBA
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a
copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at
mmeere@wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur…
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