Greetings! This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu. If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort. * indicates a newly announced event ** indicates an updated or corrected event UPCOMING EVENTS IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES *Monday, April 16, 4pm Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Cartography Lecture: “‘With Savage Pictures Fill their Gaps’: On Cartographers’ Fears of Blank Spaces” Chet van Duzer, John Carter Brown Library Room 250, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 6-8pm Harvard Divinity School Public Conversation: “Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind” Michael Massing (Author, contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review) 14 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA, 02138 United States RSVP at https://www.ministryofideas.org/events/fataldiscord [http://static1.squarespace.com/static/58de7f181e5b6ce8febe661a/5978e3fe2e69… Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the ...<https://www.ministryofideas.org/events/fataldiscord> www.ministryofideas.org Join us for a public conversation with Michael Massing, the author of Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind which explores the enduring fault line in Western thinking between Christian humanism and evangelical Christianity. Wednesday, April 18, 2018 – 4:30-6:15pm Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar Seminar, “Images of Oblivious Memory: Ritual Lament from Ancient Greece to El Greco” Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Harvard University Boger Hall 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457 The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of this paper please contact Esther Moran by email at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/ Thursday, April 19, 5:30pm John Carter Brown Library: Vasco da Gama Lecture “Navigation and Narrative: The Epic Seas of Luís de Camões” Josiah Blackmore (Harvard) MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI Reception to follow. RSVP to jcb-events(a)brown.edu not necessary but appreciated. More Information<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/… Thursday, April 19, 5-7pm De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies 2018, Harvard University “Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy (University of Toronto Press).” IN ENGLISH. Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College); respondent: Sarah Axelrod, second respondent: Corrado Confalonieri. Boylston Hall, Room 403, Harvard Yard More information: https://debosiscolloquium.wordpress.com/program/ * Thursday, April 19, 12-1:30pm Environmental History Working Group Lecture: “An American Colony in 18th-century France: Les Nantuckois of Dunkirk and the Spread of Enlightened Illumination” Darrin M. McMahon (Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College) Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE), 26 Oxford St., 4th floor, Museum of Comparative Zoology. For more information or to be added to our mailing list, please email Daniel Zizzamia at zizzamia@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:zizzamia@fas.harvard.edu>. *Monday, April 23, 2018, 4-6pm Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University 2nd international Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650) Panelists: Cristina Morilla, Associate Paintings Conservator, Harvard Art Museums: “Replicating the Royal Image: Philip III's portrait at Harvard Art Museums” Jessie Park, Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art, Harvard Art Museums: “Alliance, Emulation and Competition in the Habsburg Netherlands: The Case of a 16th-Century Alabaster Funerary Monument in Heverlee” Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Valencia: “Sofonisba Anguissola’s Self-Portraiture, from Court Propaganda to Meta-Artistic Sign” Location: RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA Free registration. Please RSVP at https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/2nd-international-workshop-art-and-court-cult… 2nd International Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the ...<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/2nd-international-workshop-art-and-court-cultures-iberian-world-1400-1650> rcc.harvard.edu 2nd International Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650) The advent of the Monarchia Hispanica under Habsburg rule required careful elaborations of national, religious, racial, and gender identities, across a mosaic of multilingual and multiethnic populations. This second workshop aims to highlight some of these strategies, and to consolidate a forum for discussion of further research avenues, under the guidance of scholars from Spanish and American universities. April 23, 25, 27, 2018 4-6pm The Robert P Benedict Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy "Thomas Hobbes on History, Politics, and Philosophy" Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley) Boston University, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 For more information see https://sites.bu.edu/benedict/ Monday, April 23, 12pm Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Lunchtime Discussion of "How to Theorize the World: An Early Modern Manifesto" Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University) Room 018, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… *Monday, April 23, 5pm Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Cartography, Harvard University Lecture: “Making Universals: Portuguese Manuscript Atlases, 1550-1580” Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale University Room 354, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA Tuesday, April 24, 12-1:30 pm Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG) Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard, History of Science): “Who is an Expert in Taste?” Room 259, Science Center, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here <https://goo.gl/forms/vhScARAQ4xE8wN8s1> to receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper. **Thursday, April 26, 4pm Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Dan S. Collins Memorial Lecture: “How to be Happy in Shakespeare and Hobbes” Katherine Eggert, University of Colorado Boulder organized by the English Literary Renaissance Journal The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002 Reception to follow Thursday, April 26, 2018 5:00–6:30 p.m. Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar "Spaces of Property in Colonial North America" Allan Greer, McGill University Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Thursday, April 26, 5pm Harvard Renaissance Colloquium "Babbling Bishops and 'Scurvy Jack-Dog Priests': Representing the Clergy in Early English Drama" Jay Zysk (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA Co-sponsored with the Harvard Medieval Colloquium https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Friday, April 27, 2018, 12:00–1:30 p.m. Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar Seminar Discussion: Land Boston College, 10 Stone Ave, Room 201, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Registration required: http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html The Early Americas Seminar - Institute for the Liberal ...<http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html> www.bc.edu The Early Americas Seminar aims to highlight ongoing scholarship on the intertwined histories and cultures of the Americas from the late-fifteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. The Seminar brings in four speakers a year, from different fields and specializations, but all committed to making ... Friday, April 27, 2018, 5:45 pm Reception, 6:15 pm Seminar Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Co-Chairs: William C. Carroll and Coppelia Kahn. "Why Shakespeare Stopped Writing Tragedies" Paul Kottman, New School for Social Research Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies *Monday, April 30, 11am to 1pm Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University Digital Humanities Colloquium “Roads, Routes and Networks: Visualizing Art Historical Information” Jodi Cranston, Professor of Renaissance Art, Boston University: “Mapping Paintings: Tracking the Lives of Artworks” Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Valencia: “SILKNOW: Improving the Access to Digitized Silk Heritage” Sharon C. Smith, Program Head, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT: “Capturing the Past: Collaborative Projects and the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT” Location: RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA Free registration and more information at https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/digital-humanities-colloquium-roads-routes-an… Digital Humanities Colloquium. Roads, Routes and Networks ...<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/digital-humanities-colloquium-roads-routes-and-networks-projects-visualization-art> rcc.harvard.edu Digital Humanities Colloquium. Roads, Routes and Networks: Projects for the Visualization of Art Historical Information Three case studies will provide an update on new and ongoing projects in this area, and introduce a shared reflection about the possibilities of digital information within art history. Monday, April 30, 5:15pm Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Title TBD Elizabeth Samet (West Point) Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Monday, April 30, 2018, 6:30-8 pm. Boston College Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series "The Coming of the Italian Baroque to America: The Case of the Metropolitan Museum" Andrea Bayer, Wrightsman Curator of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art Boston College, 140 Comm Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA, Devlin Hall 101 Reception to follow. No RSVP necessary. For further info: Franco Mormando (mormando(a)bc.edu) http://events.bc.edu/event/andrea_bayer_the_coming_of_the_italian_baroque_t… Monday, May 7, 2018, 12pm Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Lunchtime Talk, TBD Maria Devlin (Independent Scholar) Room 018, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance… Cancelled Event: Monday May 7: A workshop on “Religion and the printed image in the 16th century” Featuring prof Olivier Christin (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris and Université de Neuchâtel). details TBA. *If you would like to request that your announcement be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events e-mail: Please send your listing to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu It would be a great help if you could follow the format below. To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place in the greater Boston area. 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