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 online events and activities relevant to the Boston area. Please
forward announcements of virtual socials, web-meetings, online 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(a)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 EST.
Upcoming Events
Monday February 8, 2021 4:30-5:45PM EST
Univ. of Connecticut Gender & History Visiting Scholars series in Gender &
History
Public talk and dialogue: Paula Findlen (Stanford University), "Inventing Medieval
Women: History, Memory, and Forgery in Early Modern Italy."
Prof. Findlen will speak briefly about her research project, followed by a dialogue with
Ken Gouwens, and then Q&A with the audience.
For the Zoom link, go to
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.uconn.edu_&d=DwMF-g&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=0zB0IoEY3iB0JtZm8LOQ3RfKVsHsJcujaWcOgU8Hr6g&m=bVQSXew8Yq_3UxL896tAsmSxnP6k23XrbStaYe6FnYY&s=W3U74VxdKZ8ly_hzvBVmUCyj-v6VMP_x2_A6F3UJ6SI&e=>
https://history.uconn.edu/.
Monday, February 8, 2021 5:30-6:45PM EST
Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society Fellows) will give a talk on Linda Nochlin's 1971
article "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"
Please click
here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__events.bc.edu_…
for full details and registration info. This webinar-style event will be free and open to
the public, but registration is required.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 6PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
To Buy or to Breed: The Shifting Business Model in Producing Enslaved Black Labour in the
18th Century
Speaker: Sir Hilary Beckles, University of the West Indies
Registration link
<https://brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkd-mupzwtEtf-QlLeTS1qVpaCgUluNar3>More
information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/buy-or-bree…
Wednesday February 10, 2021 12:15-1:30PM EST
Univ. of Connecticut Gender & History Visiting Scholars series in Gender &
History
Lunchtime seminar: Discussion with Paula Findlen (Stanford University) on a pre-circulated
paper, "Aristotle in the Pharmacy: The Ambitions of Camilla Erculiani in
Sixteenth-Century Padua."
For a pdf of the reading, email the faculty coordinator for the series,
cornelia.dayton@uconn.edu<mailto:cornelia.dayton@uconn.edu>.
For the seminar's zoom link, go to
https://history.uconn.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=ht…
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 3-5PM EST
The Harvard workshop on "Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous
and Afro-Latin America" will feature a discussion of José Carlos de la Puente Luna.
Andean Cosmopolitans. Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal court. Austin, TX:
University of Texas Press, 2018, with author present.
Please email therzog at
fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Saturday, February 13, 2021 1:30-3PM EST
"An Experimental Inquisition" an event focused on new books by Hannah Marcus,
Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy, and Jennifer
Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700 (in conversation
with Ann Blair, Harvard, and Anthony Grafton, Princeton).
This event is a part of the Fourteenth Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in
Early Modern History: Prisoners and Players, Merchants and Ministers: An Early Modern
Fair
Zoom Registration Required.
Register at:
https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqdOivqT4sE9GKiDdcAzvmrRrWp9ON…
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__princeton.zoom.us_meeting_register_tJAqdOivqT4sE9GKiDdcAzvmrRrWp9ONw7J4&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=d-51fevjuWJ7WzZY0y0BouTOvLCsE6Nbeq9XtutWF7k&m=FwZABCEc8xvtjOoexkZRz4TzEFNgwlji-IATwSz_NU0&s=rf3HfDshO7noitLgQZnO_tQrr6OHIQ8EDS0RUHMg278&e=>
Thursday, February 18, 2021 3PM EST
Next meeting of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts: Nancy Seasholes will speak about
the early chapters/plates from the "Atlas of Boston History" via Zoom.
For more information please visit Colonial Society of Massachusetts
events<https://www.colonialsociety.org/>g/>.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 3-5PM EST
The Harvard workshop on "Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous
and Afro-Latin America" will feature a discussion of Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr. Where
Caciques and Mapmakers Met. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2020, with author present.
Please email therzog at
fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Thursday, February 25, 2021 3PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on German Studies: New Perspectives
Threading the Needle: Painting as Experiment in Rubens' Four Philosophers
Speaker: Christopher Braider, University of Colorado
More information/registration
link<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/threading-needle-p…
Thursday March 4, 2021 4PM EST
Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth
and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae".
Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium, Department of English, and the Early Modern
History Workshop.
Register here:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpd-uhqTMpGNXknwr45LSSz8Jh61RuoI…
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 3-5PM EST
The Harvard workshop on "Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous
and Afro-Latin America" will feature a discussion of Yuko Miki, Frontiers of
Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postocolonial Brazil. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2018, with author present.
Please email therzog at
fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3-5PM EST
The Harvard workshop on "Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous
and Afro-Latin America" will feature a discussion of Adriana Chira, "Peripheral
Freedoms: Afro-Descendant Cubans, Law, and Racial Identity, 1791-1868 (forthcoming
manuscript), with author present.
Please email therzog at
fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 3-5PM
The Harvard workshop on "Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous
and Afro-Latin America" will feature a discussion of Paulina Alberto. "Black
Legend: "El Negro" Raúl Grigera and Racial Storytelling in Modern
Argentina" (forthcoming manuscript), with author present.
Please email therzog at
fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Thursday, April 15, 2021 4PM EST
Dror Wahrman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "The Prince, the Jeweler and the
Mogul: The Paradoxes on an Early Modern Object".
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard.
Please register here:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcuqspzwpGtKqc-gQcsVjIny7xJSIUA…
Thursday, April 22, 2021, 5:30PM EST
"Imagining a World: Selfhood and Empire in Safavid Iran", Kishwar Rizvi,
Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, Yale
University.
Spring 2021 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
Sponsored by Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
Registration details TBA.
Please visit the AKPIA events
page<https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events> for
more information.
Thursday, April 29, 2021 1PM EST
Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge University), "Isaac Abendana (c. 1638-1699): Rabbinic
learning and the Hebrew book in Restoration Cambridge and Oxford."
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Early Modern History Workshop and the
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, Harvard.
Please register here:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMoceuppjMiHtJ2yhjHtle00fmIMcOlCw…
June 14-15, 2021
Early Modern Symposium
Performing Objects and the Objects of Performance in the Global Early Modern
Sponsored by the John Hay Library and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
at Brown University
More
information<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/date/…
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