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.
* indicates a newly announced event, ** indicates an updated event
Upcoming Events
**Tuesday, 11/15/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Iman Darwish (History of Science), “Ibn Abī al-Ashʿath Book of Simples: The Formative
Period of the Arabic Tradition of Materia Medica”
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/iman-darwish-history-science-%E2%80%9Cibn-ab%C4%AB-al-ash%CA%BFath-book-simples-formative?delta=0>
Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street,
Cambridge MA, 02138, RSVP
mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>
*Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 1:30pm to 2:45pm
Harvard Department of the Classics
Workshop: Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne) and Thomas Sagory (French Ministry of
Culture): "Mapping, 3D Modelling: Interactive Tools for Middle Eastern
Heritage"
Boylston Hall, Room 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA. Open to members of the Harvard
community.
More Information: Methods and Practice in Classics
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/methods-and-practice-cla…
*Tuesday, Nov 15, at 5:00 pm (time changed)
MEMHS, Brown University
Yekai (Kyle) Zhang (grad student, History, Brown University): "The Representation and
Social Memory of the 1641 Irish Rebellion in Protestant England, c. 1642-1689."
Pavilion Room, History Department, Brown University, Providence RI
Please write to Maria Sokolova for more information and to receive the precirculated
papter: maria_sokolova(a)brown.edu
*Tuesday, November 15, at 5 pm Eastern Time
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Pauline Goul (Assistant Professor of French Literature and the College, Romance Languages
and Literatures, University of Chicago)
"Smother Nature: Sustainability and the New World in Renaissance France"
Please register
here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.u…
to receive the zoom link for this event.
Wednesday, 11/16/2022 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Hudson Vincent, Harvard Writing Center: "Carceral Colonialism: Thomas Morton, John
Eliot, and the Puritan Origins of the Carceral State in America"
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/renai...…
Wednesday, November 16, 5:30 pm
Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia: “The Chinese Discovery of America? Franciscan
Missionaries and Mexican Material Culture in Guangzhou, 1579”
Pembroke Hall 305, Brown University, Providence, RI
In 1579, a group of Franciscan friars under the leadership of one Fray Pedro Alfaro
attempted to establish a mission in China. Taken into custody by the Ming authorities,
their destiny was shaped by the work of both human and non-human mediators, specifically a
Chinese interpreter and a series of objects that the friars had brought with them from New
Spain. As far as we know, this incident represents the first encounter between Chinese
literati and the material culture of colonial Spanish America. The encounter provides an
opportunity to reflect on patterns of early modern globalization facilitated by
trans-Pacific travel.
More information:
https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/236965-early-modern-lectu…
**Thursday, 11/17/2022 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Department of History, Boston College: “Playing the Vanguard:
Boundary-Busting Women and the Baroque Academies that Loved Them”
Location: Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-earl...…
Monday, November 21, 12pm-1pm
Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
Harvard Premodern Race Seminar
Session 6: Reading: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure,”
Literature Compass (2019).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
For a more detailed description of PRS and its goals, please visit the Canvas site:
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/81116.
*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…
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Seminar in Book History with Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
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
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. Register here:
https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvc-CrqjMjE9dZaTj6P5O54gl492V0…
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
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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