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.
Upcoming Events
*Monday, April 11, 2022 5:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Jennifer Row (University of Minnesota): "Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on
the Early Modern Stage"
Location: Online on Zoom. To view this event online, individuals will need to
register<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtf--qrz4sHdbAWU63AuCZ4cy5UmXXP1yw>
via Zoom.
**Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:30 to 11:45
Science and Technology in Asia seminar series
Faizah Zakaria:
"Camphor<https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/camphor-celluloid-and-creating-the-indigenous-in-the-dutch-east-indies-1658>,
Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies"
Location: Harvard University Asia Center Spring 2022 Online seminar series. Zoom
registration<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lc-CgrjIvGtfYB9hZm81fxXuXCbUu4lWf>.
Tuesday, 4/12/2022 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
Derrick Spires, Cornell University: A Spirit of Inquiry: Early African American Criticism
from Phillis Wheatley to Dorothy Porter Wesley.
Location: Online Event
Please register
here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wellesley.zoom…
to receive a Zoom link to the event.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
Early Modern Workshop
“Predestination: its Profile in Early British and American Modernity. A Debate” featuring
David Hall (Harvard Divinity School) and James Simpson (English, Harvard), with Michelle
Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) as moderator. Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room
(formerly the Lower Library). In person, within the Covid regulations in force at the
time.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Anne E. Lester (John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Professor of Medieval History,
Johns Hopkins University): “Authority in the Aftermath: Power, Memory, and the Narrative
Capacity of Things.”
More
information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.b…nXMT7sFAslCpQNZA1ig&e=>.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 12pm
Mélanie Lamotte, Radcliffe Institute Fellow: "Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social
Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756.”
Online on Zoom. Free and open to the public. To view this event online, individuals will
need to
register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zo…
via Zoo.
More
information<https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-melanie-lamotte…
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 4:45pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa): “Tender Curiosities: Teaching the History of Science
in Early Modern Europe in terms of Gendered Knowledge-Craft.”
Location: Online Event
More
information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.g…
Thursday, April 21, 9:20-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
Maria Macchi, Ph.D., Archivist (Rome, Italy): The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean
Province
Location: Zoom
The Jesuit Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province is in Rome, near the Gesù Church. It
gathers the documents produced by the five ancient Italian Provinces (Venetian-Milanese,
Torinese, Roman, Neapolitan, and Sicilian and the former mission of Albania) and the
Italian Province, born in 1978 from the unification of the five provinces. The collections
include documents on the life of the Society of Jesus in Italy and the extra-European
mission lands after the 1814 restoration. More information and
registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc…duY5YtPkLO_UO03MZKs&e=>.
Canceled: Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
NEW meeting in its place:
Thursday, April 21, 4:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Dreaming Worlds: Living with 'Things Unknown' in A
Midsummer Night's Dream"
Location: Zoom Meeting.
Registration<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkd-CsqjIqGdNUqlCQpXEKetHVi9byLk2h>
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations”
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in
person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at
oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated
paper and the zoom link.
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 5:30 PM
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture “The Art of Hatching Contraven’d, or; the Problem of Reproducing the Freshwater
Polypus"
Elizabeth Athens (University of Connecticut)
Brown University, Friedman Hall 102 (new location)
in-person lecture
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis,
Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama"
Location: Online on Zoom.
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__welles…
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of
Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in
person portion will be held in Science Center 252. Please contact Ori at
oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated
paper and the zoom link.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:30pm
MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable in honor of World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern
Women's Place in Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Location: Online on zoom
More information to come.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5:00pm
Five College Seminar in Book History
Joseph M. Adelman (Framingham State University): "Trans-Atlantic Correspondence and
Imperial News Narratives in the Revolutionary Era"
Location: Online Event, Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies
More
information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistadelman2022&… and
registration link
Thursday, May 17, 2022 4:30pm
MEMHS, Brown University
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha (Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and
Brazilian Studies, Brown University). More
information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.b…
is coming soon.
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 9:20am-10am
Jesuit Studies Café at Boston College
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI)
Festo Mkenda, S.J., Academic Director, Rome, Italy
The Roman Jesuit Archives (Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu– ARSI) are the archives of the
general government of the Society of Jesus. Situated in Rome in the General Curia of the
Order, their purpose is to preserve, to put in order, and to make available for research
the documents related to the general government of the Society of Jesus and its activities
from the beginning of its history in the sixteenth century up to the present day.
More information and registration
link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bc.edu_con…
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