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UPCOMING EVENTS IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES
**Wednesday, April 4, 4:30pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Elizabethan Boy Actors and the Archive"
Lucy Munro (King's College London)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Theater and Performance Colloquium
Website URL:
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 6pm-7pm
Lecture, “Deciphering Rome”
Professor Joseph Connors, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard
University
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Professor Joseph Connors will explore the origins of the historic Renaissance center of
Rome and its links to the papacy.
Website URL:
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/deciphering-rome
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Thursday, April 5, 2018, 5:30 pm
Women & Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard
University, Co-Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
“Women and Witnessing: Reading Rape and Reformation in Spenser’s Faerie Queene”
Stephanie Bahr, Department of English, Hamilton College
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 4: 30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminars
"Of Keepers and Stewards, or the Princely Business of a Northern Renaissance
Court"
Jeun Cho, History Dep. Amherst College
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant
Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Friday, April 6, 2018, 9 am - 6 pm
Fairfield University Art Museum
Symposium: "Art of the Gesù: Bernini and His Age"
Barone Campus Center, Oak Room, Fairfield University, 1073 North Benson Rd, Fairfield,
CT
Free and open to public; reception to follow; for registration and further info:
https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/gesu/
April 6-8, 2018
Conference: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Healing Charms and Medicine
Harvard, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Website:
https://harvardcharmsandmedicine.wordpress.com<https://urldefense.proofp…
Monday, April 9, 2018 - 6:00pm
Eighteen Century Studies, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University
“Materiality, Text and Image: What is Enlightened and Romantic Travel Literature?”
John Brewer, California Institute of Technology
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
More information:
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Monday, April 9, 5-7pm
De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies 2018, Harvard University
“Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 (University of California Press).”
IN ENGLISH.
Ellen Lockhart (University of Toronto), respondent: Amelia Linsky, second respondent:
Francesco Guzzetti.
Boylston Hall, Room 403, Harvard Yard
More information:
https://debosiscolloquium.wordpress.com/program/
Monday, 9 April 2018, 5:00 PM
Sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Center for the Study
of World Religions, and Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, Harvard
University.
Lecture: “Female Sultan/Female Pope, Shajar and the Mamluk Origins of Pope Joan”
Benjamin Braude, Associate Professor of History, Boston College
CGIS South (1730 Cambridge Street), Cambridge MA 02138, Room S354, Harvard University.
Additional Info: From roughly the mid thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries,
Christians in the Latin West believed that a cross-dressing woman had been elected pope
and that to avoid a repetition of the scandal the masculinity of popes was inspected.
Tues April 10, 4-6pm
Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard
"Apes, Slaves, and Global Markets: Boundaries of Humanity in Enlightenment
Debates"
Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)
Goldman Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St, Cambridge
Apr 10, 2018, 6:00 pm
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
Lecture: “Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Discovers Himself: Excavations of the Great Aztec
Temple” (in Spanish, with English Translation)
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Professor Emeritus, National School of Anthropology and History,
Mexico
Geological Lecture Hall, Harvard University, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
The 1978 discovery of the Great Aztec Temple in downtown Mexico City riveted the
international archaeological world. This monumental shrine dedicated to the Aztec war and
rain gods had been buried beneath the city’s main plaza since the sixteenth-century
Spanish conquest. More information:
https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Eduardo-Matos-Moctezuma-Discovers-Himself
Wed April 11, 5:30pm
Brown University
The 38th William F. Church Memorial Lecture
“Luther, Manhood and Pugilism.”
Lyndal Roper (Regius Professor of History, Oxford)
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106, Brown University, 95 Cushing St., Providence, RI
A reception will follow the lecture. More Information at
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
**Thursday, April 12, 3-5pm
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies in collaboration with Boston College
Libraries
Colloquium: “Calamity from Within? Jesuits, Papal Legates, and Chinese Imperial Envoysin
the Eighteenth Century”
Elisa Frei (IAJS Fellow, Boston College) and Eugenio Menegon (Dept. of History, Boston
University & Collaborative Scholar IAJS, Boston College)
John J. Burns Library, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA
Website URL:
http://www.bc.edu/centers/iajs/Programs/institute-colloquium-.html<https…
Elisa Frei and Eugenio Menegon will focus their presentations on the lives of some Jesuits
of the China mission during the notorious Chinese Rites Controversy (1635-1742), a
theological and political struggle between Beijing and Rome. The experiences of these
Jesuits represent a microcosm of the Controversy and reveal its global reach as a clash of
cultures and a unique phenomenon in early modern intellectual and religious history.
Thursday, April 12, 4:30pm
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program
Lecture: “Shakespeare, Race, and Performance: What We Still Don't Know”
Ayanna Thompson, George Washington University
Collins Cinema, Wellesley College, 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA
Professor Thompson, 2018-19 President of the Shakespeare Association of America, will
discuss non-traditional or so-called "race-blind" casting in contemporary
Shakespeare performance. For more information, contact Sarah Wall-Randell at
swallran@wellesley.edu<mailto:swallran@wellesley.edu>
Friday, April 13, 2018, 12pm
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
“Trans-Imperial Archives: Rethinking Spatial Knowledge Production in the Venetian-Ottoman
Borderlands”
Natalie Rothman, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto
Brown University, Department of Italian Studies, 190 Hope Street, room 102, Providence
RI
*Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 6-8pm
Harvard Divinity School
Public Conversation: “Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind”
Michael Massing (Author, contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review)
14 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA, 02138 United States
RSVP at
https://www.ministryofideas.org/events/fataldiscord
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Join us for a public conversation with Michael Massing, the author of Fatal Discord:
Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind which explores the enduring fault line
in Western thinking between Christian humanism and evangelical Christianity.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 – 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar, “Images of Oblivious Memory: Ritual Lament from Ancient Greece to El Greco”
Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Harvard University
Boger Hall 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 Esther Moran by email at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Thursday, April 19, 5:30pm
John Carter Brown Library: Vasco da Gama Lecture
“Navigation and Narrative: The Epic Seas of Luís de Camões”
Josiah Blackmore (Harvard)
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI
Reception to follow. RSVP to jcb-events(a)brown.edu not necessary but appreciated.
More
Information<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/…
Thursday, April 19, 5-7pm
De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies 2018, Harvard University
“Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy (University of Toronto
Press).” IN ENGLISH.
Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College); respondent: Sarah Axelrod, second respondent: Corrado
Confalonieri.
Boylston Hall, Room 403, Harvard Yard
More information:
https://debosiscolloquium.wordpress.com/program/
April 23, 25, 27, 2018 4-6pm
The Robert P Benedict Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
"Thomas Hobbes on History, Politics, and Philosophy"
Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley)
Boston University, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
For more information see
https://sites.bu.edu/benedict/
**Monday, April 23, 12pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Lunchtime Discussion of "How to Theorize the World: An Early Modern Manifesto"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University)
Room 018, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Tuesday, April 24, 12-1:30 pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard, History of Science): “Who is an Expert in Taste?”
Room 259, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here <https://goo.gl/forms/vhScARAQ4xE8wN8s1> to
receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper.
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On Tuesday, April 3rd, from 12:15 - 1:30 pm, we will meet in Science Center 252 to discuss
Meredyth Winter's presentation and paper, “Corporate, Mediate and Immediate”:
Property for Prosperity in Medieval Qazwīn." NOTE: Please download the paper using
the link which appears after you submit the form. If you'd like to RSVP for a future
meeting, please email shireenhamza(a)g.harvard.edu with your name and its details.
Thursday, April 26, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Dan S. Collins Memorial Lecture
Katherine Eggert, University of Colorado Boulder organized by the English Literary
Renaissance Journal
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant
Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Reception to follow.
Thursday, April 26, 2018 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
"Spaces of Property in Colonial North America"
Allan Greer, McGill University
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
**Thursday, April 26, 5pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Babbling Bishops and 'Scurvy Jack-Dog Priests': Representing the Clergy in
Early English Drama"
Jay Zysk (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Medieval Colloquium
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Friday, April 27, 2018, 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
Seminar Discussion: Land
Boston College, 10 Stone Ave, Room 201, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Registration required:
http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html
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www.bc.edu
The Early Americas Seminar aims to highlight ongoing scholarship on the intertwined
histories and cultures of the Americas from the late-fifteenth through the mid-nineteenth
centuries. The Seminar brings in four speakers a year, from different fields and
specializations, but all committed to making ...
**Friday, April 27, 2018, 5:45 pm Reception, 6:15 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Co-Chairs:
William C. Carroll and Coppelia Kahn.
"Why Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies"
Paul Kottman, New School for Social Research
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
**Monday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBD
Elizabeth Samet (West Point)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Monday, April 30, 2018, 6:30-8 pm.
Boston College Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series
"The Coming of the Italian Baroque to America: The Case of the Metropolitan
Museum"
Andrea Bayer, Wrightsman Curator of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston College, 140 Comm Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA, Devlin Hall 101
Reception to follow. No RSVP necessary.
For further info: Franco Mormando (mormando(a)bc.edu)
http://events.bc.edu/event/andrea_bayer_the_coming_of_the_italian_baroque_t…
*Monday, May 7, 2018, 12pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Lunchtime Talk, TBD
Maria Devlin (Independent Scholar)
Room 018, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Cancelled Event: Monday May 7: A workshop on “Religion and the printed image in the 16th
century” Featuring prof Olivier Christin (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris and
Université de Neuchâtel). details TBA.
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