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. 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, to:
earlymod@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>.
For security reasons the list will usually 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
Boston/Eastern times.
Deadlines for Local Conferences and Workshops
**5/15/2024 Deadline
Scientiae 2024 Fall Conference 25-26 October
CFP<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__scientiae.uk_20…
Theme: “The Global History of Knowledge” with a specific, but not exclusive, focus on the
Americas and the Atlantic in the period 1450–1750. The keynote speaker will be Pablo F.
Gomez<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.wisc.…
Location: Brown University, Providence RI
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
*4/30/2024 10:00am
Hannah Kaemmer,
Harvard<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-kaemmer-di…=0>:
Dissertation Defense "Expertise and Empire: Fortification Building and the English
Ordnance Office,
1660-1714"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hannah-ka…
Location: Gund Hall L08, Gropius Room, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
To receive a zoom link for this event, please send an email to
earlymod@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
4/30/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Alex
Garnick<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/alex-garnick-van-…=0>,
van Roomen on al- Khwārizmī and the Divergence of Early Modern
Algebras<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/alex-garnick-van…
Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA)
For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at
brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or
analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
*4/30/2024 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Richard
Kagan<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/richard-kagan-johns…=0>,
Johns Hopkins University: "Crafting a Classic: Henry C. Lea’s History of the
Inquisition of
Spain"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/richard-kagan…
Location: In Person & Via Zoom; Observatorio Cervantes - Harvard (FAS), 2 Arrow
Street. · 4th floor · Cambridge, MA 02138
5/1/2024 5:00pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Closing Event: Spenser on the Lawn: Picnic and Faerie Queene
Reading<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/closing-event-spe…
Location: Barker Center Lawn, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
*5/2/2024 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Evelina
Gužauskytė<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/evelina-gu%C5%…=0>,
Wellesley College: "Myth and Its Fabric: Spinning, Weaving, and Other Sacred Arts in
New Spain Casta Paintings" (Observatorio Cervantes,
Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/evelina-gu%C5%BE…
Location: Via Zoom, please RSVP (see message details)
**5/2/2024 5:30pm
Erica
Zimmer<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-mary-eri…
(Concourse Program, MIT), "Profiles in Publishing: Reconsidering Evidence of Early
Modern Women in the English Book Trade" (Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and
Culture in the Early Modern
World)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-mary-eri…
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
*5/3/2024 2:00pm to 4:30pm
Radical Aesthetics: A Symposium on New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics,
sponsored by the Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
University<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/radical-aesthe…
Location: Barker Center, Room 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
5/6/2024, 9:30am-5pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book
Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History: Preservation, Absence,
Erasure<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-annual-…
Location: Harvard, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
(For RSVP-link and schedule details see link above)
Friday, May 10, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Center for Netherlandish Art’s 2024
Colloquium<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mfa.…
Online
Marking the culmination of the academic year, this annual hybrid event is a platform for
the next generation of specialists in Dutch and Flemish art and culture, providing CNA
research fellows and other emerging scholars an opportunity to share their projects with
an international community. Follow this
link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mfa.org_ev…
to see the event schedule and the line-up of speakers and their topics.
Events later on:
June 3-7, 2024
The Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
Introduction to English Paleography (directed by Dr. Heather Wolfe at the Kinney Center at
UMass Amherst)
https://www.folger.edu/research/the-folger-institute/scholarly-programs/cur…
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