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>.
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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
Tuesday, Nov 29, 2022, 5pm
Smith College, Department of English, Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Endowment for Renaissance
Studies
2022 Kennedy Lecture series: "Renaissance Poetry across Media: Poetry and
Music"
Bruce R. Smith, 2022-2023 Ruth and Clarence Kennedy Professor in Renaissance studies,
Smith College
Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College, 10 Elm Street, Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/provost/events
Wednesday, 11/30/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Emily Vasiliauskas, Associate Professor of English at Williams College: "On the Way
to Lyric"
Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
More information:
https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/harvard-eng-grad-colloquium/renaissa…
*Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 5:30pm ET
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Early Modern Lecture
Yasmin Haskell, University of Western Australia / Princeton Institute of Advanced Study:
“Playing with hellfire? Pagan gods and Asian demons in Jesuit Latin epic”
Location: Brown University, Pembroke Hall, Room 305, Providence RI, 02912
Abstract: This paper considers the representation of Greco-Roman and Asian deities and
demons in two Jesuit Latin epics: Francesco Benci’s Quinque martyres (1592), on the five
Jesuits martyred in Cuncolim, southern India, in 1583; Bartolomeu Pereira’s Paciecis
(1640), on the martyrdom of the poet’s cousin, Francisco Pacheco, in Nagasaki in 1626.
More
information<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236721>
**Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass Amherst
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University):
'Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in
Almanacs.'
This talk will be held via Zoom. Register
here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__umass-2Damhers…MIWHHia06fbITwE_XBU&e=>.
More information:
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/bookhistchaplin2022<https://urld…
Thursday, 12/1/2022 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Roundtable on the new Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English: "A
Field of Many Voices: Early Modern Women's Writing in English Now"
Virtual event.
Registration<https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvc-CrqjMjE9dZaTj6P5O54gl492V07o3H>.
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century: XIII Dinner Symposium
Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
*Monday, December 5, 2022, 5pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Renaissance Studies
VK Preston, Department of History at Concordia University (Montreal): “Intangible Baroques
in Natural History: Entangled Indigenous and Settler Knowledge in Early Archives”
Location: Online.
Registration<:%20https:/harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsc-6upjssH90pALS2nmqH8WqciUWoyvW6>
More
information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/intangible-…
Tuesday, 12/6/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), “Approaching Error in Early Modern Printed Tables” (ESWG,
Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-his…
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street,
Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP:
oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu>
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 4:30pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminar with Douglas Pfeiffer (Stony Brook University)
650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrspfeiffer2022<https://urldefe…
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