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modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization.
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
*Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 12:00-1:30pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
“Poison Trials on ‘Criminal Bodies’ in Renaissance Europe”
Alisha Rankin (Tufts University)
Harvard Science Center, Room 252
Lunch will be served. To RSVP please email
agjikola@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:agjikola@fas.harvard.edu> or
shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu<mailto:shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu>
**Tuesday, March 28, 4pm
Renaissance Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center
“Montaigne chez Esculape: Ecriture sceptique et modèle medical à la
Renaissance<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__harvard.…
Dominique Brancher (Université de Bâle)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University
**Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 5:15-7:00pm
Harvard Renaissance and Race & Ethnicity Colloquia
Reginald Wilburn (University of New Hampshire)
“Calling out Milton and putting him on Front Street in Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind
the Cedars”
Barker 211, Harvard University
Co-Sponsored with Race and Ethnicity Colloquium
**Friday, March 31, 5pm
Persian and Persianate Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
"Betrayed By Earth and Sky: Poetry of Disaster and Restoration in 18th Century
Iran"
Matthew C. Smith (Harvard University)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Friday, March 31, 8:30am–3:00pm
Bristol Community College's History Department and Holocaust Center
Conference: "Crimes Against Humanity: A Conference on Native American
Genocide"
Keynote Address: "History of Violence, The Violence of History: Native American
Genocide
Keynote speaker: Karl Jacoby (Columbia University)
Jackson Arts Center Auditorium, Bristol Community College, 777 Elsbree Street, Fall River,
MA, 02720
RSVP: ron.weisberger(a)bristolcc.edu
UPCOMING EVENTS
April
Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 4:30pm
Wesleyan University, Romance Languages and Literatures, College of Letters
“The French Machine”
Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University
Romance Languages and Literatures Highwaymen Common Room, 300 High Street, Middletown, CT
06459
In this lecture, Chenoweth will address the role of printing in the “rise” of the
vernacular in the sixteenth century.
Contact: Michael Meere, at mmeere@wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur…
Wednesday, April 5, 4:15pm
Sponsors: The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; The Study-Group
“Transformation of Work in Contemporary Capitalism”; and The Center for History and
Economics
Talk: “Resisting Capitalism and its Effects on Working Class Economic Strategies in Early
Modern Europe”
Laurence Fontaine, EHESS – CNRS
CGIS, S030, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
*Wednesday, April 5, 6pm
Renaissance Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
“Montaigne facétieux: Lire Les Essais en éclats”
Dominique Bertrand (Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand)
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
**Thursday, April 6, 2017, 4pm
Renaissance Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
Talk: "Pastoral Bronze Sculpture in Early Modern Venice"
Jodi Cranston (Boston University)
Room 201, Warren House, Harvard University
**Thursday, April 13, 2017, 6pm
Co-sponsored by Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, and Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
“L'Égalité Prescrite Par La Nature: Equality, Family Relations, and a Contested
Inheritance at the End of the Old Regime”
Hannah Callaway, Department of History, Harvard
Room 110, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, April 13, 2017, 5:00 pm
France and the World Seminar, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
Lecture: "The Voice of the Amerindian Convert in Jesuit Relations in Canada: From the
New Adam to the Universal Sinner, and from the Savage to the Noble Savage"
Anne Régent-Susini (University Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/voice-amerindian-convert-…
Tuesday April 18, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk: “English Seamen and the Realm: Were Medieval Mariners 'Political'?”
Maryanne Kowaleski (Joseph Fitzpatrick SJ Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval
Studies, Fordham University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI
02906
Friday, April 21, 5:30 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Seneca and the Antisocial in King Lear”
Curtis Perry (University of Illinois)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 21–22, 2017
Equinoxes Conference:
Memory/Rupture<http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/equinoxes-conferenc…
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
**Monday, April 24, 2017, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
“The Dream of the Red Chamber (1792) and its Effect on China’s Women Writers”
Ellen Widmer (Wellesley College)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
"Houses of Schame: The gender of Colonial New England Poetry"
Ana Schwartz (University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Room 515, Sackler Building, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Friday, April 28, 2017, 9:00 to 17.00 h.
Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
International Workshop: Arts and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400–1650)
Speakers: Prof. Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer (Universitat de València); Prof. Jorge Sebastián
(Universitat de València); Dr. Borja Franco (UNED, Madrid); Prof. Cristelle Baskins (Tufts
University); Prof. Felipe Pereda (Harvard University).
RCC Conference Room, Harvard University, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Visual strategies of legitimization became increasingly important for Iberian monarchies
during the late medieval and early modern periods. Mediterranean dynastic, diplomatic, and
military endeavors called for effective propaganda, both in the metropolis and in
viceregal territories, such as southern Italy. Such efforts include architecture, both
ephemeral and permanent, the decoration of palaces, court portraiture, and
historiography.
http://rcc.harvard.edu/event/arts-and-court-cultures-iberian-world-1400-1650
RSVP rcc@harvard.edu<mailto:rcc@harvard.edu> –
jorge.sebastian@uv.es<mailto:jorge.sebastian@uv.es>
May
Tuesday May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI
02906
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title: Text against Image: Morisco Tales of Transgression in Early Modern Spain
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a
copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at
mmeere@wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur…
Tuesday May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI
02906
Wednesday, May 3, or Thursday, May 4, 2017 (TBA)
Harvard Renaissance and Race & Ethnicity Colloquia
Maria Devlin (Harvard University)
"Renaissance Comedy: A Retrospective"
Location and Time TBA
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
"Some Early Modern Literary Legacies of Anne Boleyn"
F. Elizabeth Hart, Independent Scholar
Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
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