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 EDT.
Upcoming Events
Friday, April 30, 2021 2-4PM EDT
Imagining Human Rights in Early Modernity
2021 Dan S. Collins Lecture with Sharon Achinstein (Sir William Osler Professor in
English, Johns Hopkins University)
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
More Information
<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/2021-dan-s-collins-lecture-imagining-human-rights-early-modernity>Registration
Link<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mjfbMgZXSvmIf5HnE03t-A?_x_zm_rtaid=HqLXsj8OQfmIUuPC1qjYDA.1618936093972.4074d5fca1630994ec24c5ba8f2223c4&_x_zm_rhtaid=371>
Monday, May 3, 2021 9:50AM-4:15PM EDT
Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History: "Materiality and Book History
(in the age of Zoom)”
Hosted by Harvard University
Early Modern Talks: Graeme R. Reynolds (Harvard): The Circulation of the History of Koryŏ
in Early Modern Korea ● Philippe Schmid (Harvard): Sharing Marks in Early Modern Books ●
Alicia Petersen (Yale): Decoding Early Modern Gossip ● Kaitlyn Quaranta (Brown): A New
Order of Things: Systems in the Encyclopédie
Full Program
<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/files/history-of-the-book/files/harvard-yale-brown_graduate_conference_in_book_history_2021.pdf>Registration
Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlc-mprDkrGdAFTlYdOT0QI6jhLS2ucvPr>May
4-7, 2021
Politics: A RaceB4Race® Symposium
Co-sponsored by Brandeis University and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies at Arizona State University
More Information
<https://asuevents.asu.edu/raceb4race-politics?eventDate=2021-05-04>Registration
Link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/politics-a-raceb4race-symposium-tickets-146373901279>
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 4-5PM EDT
Medical Racism from 1619 to the Present: History Matters
Participants: Jim Downs (Gilder Lehrman NEH Chair of Civil War Era Studies and History,
Gettysburg College), Susan M. Reverby (Marion Butler McLean Professor Emerita in the
History of Ideas and professor emerita of women’s and gender studies, Wellesley College)
Moderator: Evelynn Hammonds (chair of the Department of the History of Science, Barbara
Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, and professor of African and
American studies, Harvard University)
This program is presented as part of the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy
of Slavery, a University-wide effort housed at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, in
collaboration with the Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine at the
Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.
More Information
<https://www.legacyofslavery.radcliffe.harvard.edu/events/medical-racism-from-1619-to-the-present>Registration
Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EAMFaQytRlSNKy2xZCRS4w>
Friday, May 7, 2021 10AM-5PM EDT
Printed Afterlifes: Early Hispanic Books and Manuscripts in the 19th Century
A Virtual Symposium at the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University
Keynote: Neil F. Safier (Brown University) “Translation Generation: Constructing the
Colonial Encyclopedia in a Lisbon Printing-House”
More Information
<https://sites.bu.edu/printed-afterlives/>Registration
Link<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsc-yurDMrH915x8rUC-yxeMnueIeMKED_>
Thursday, May 13, 2021 7PM EDT
Donald R. Friary Lecture: The Salem Witch Trials
A conversation with Emerson W. Baker, II Professor of History, Salem State University,
Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of History Emerita, Cornell University, and
Benjamin Ray, Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus, University of Virginia.
Sponsored by The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
More Information
<https://www.colonialsociety.org/>Registration
Link<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AyOGIOF6QSaZcavxa5fWrw>
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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