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UPCOMING EVENTS IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES
Monday, March 12, 2018, 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
"Earthquake Aesthetics"
Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia
Room 101, Devlin Hall, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
*Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 12:30–1:00 p.m.
Gallery Talk: 17th Century Dutch Landscape Painting
Jessie Park (Curatorial Fellow, Harvard Art Museums)
Harvard Art Museums, Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Meet in the Calderwook Courtyard
Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Boston College, The Early Americas Seminar
Seminar Discussion: Early American Environments
Boston College, Stokes Hall, S376, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Registration required:
http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/events/early-americas.html
Friday, March 16, 2018, 5:30 pm Reception, 6:00 pm Seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Co-Chairs:
William C. Carroll and Coppelia Kahn.
“Alternative Temporalities and the Grammar of Possibility in Marlowe's Edward II”
Emily L. King, Louisiana State University
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Monday, March 19, 12pm
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
“Jesuits, Superstition, and Rural Missions in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Northern
Italy”
David Salomoni, University of Rome III
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
To attend, please contact the Institute (iajs(a)bc.edu).
Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 12:00-1:30 pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
“The ‘Catholic Cook’ and ‘Natural Transubstantiation’: Theologies of Nutrition in
Seventeenth-Century French Medicine”
Julia Reed (Harvard, History of Science)
Room 252, 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.
Tues March 20 – time to be announced
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar (MEMHS)
“Natural History in the ‘Aztec Encyclopedia’, c. 1576.”
Iris Montero Sobrevilla, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities (Brown University)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI
Please note that there is a pre-circulated paper, which will be posted 2 weeks before the
event at:
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Thursday, March 22, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Renaissance Center: Five College Seminar in Book History
“Popol Vuh: Latin America’s Book of Creation”
Ilan Stavans, Amherst College
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant
Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Reception to follow. Lecture free; $10 donation requested for a reception following the
lecture.
*Friday, March 23, 4-6pm
De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies 2018, Harvard University
“Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy (Yale University Press).”
IN ENGLISH.
James G. Turner (University of California, Berkeley), respondent: Luca Politi, second
respondent: Amelia Linsky.
Boylston Hall, Room 403, Harvard Yard
More information:
https://debosiscolloquium.wordpress.com/program/
Monday, March 26, 4–6 pm
Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard
"Francesco Pecorini’s Letter in Arabic to Francesco Redi (Florence, 1667)—an exercise
in microhistory and world philology"
Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University)
Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Harvard Yard
Wednesday, March 28, 4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Renaissance Center: Wednesdays @ 4 Lecture Series
“Insects in the Renaissance”
Brian Ogilvie, UMass
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant
Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Refreshments co-sponsored by the Amherst Woman’s Club
*Monday, April 2, 5-7pm
De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies 2018, Harvard University
“Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy
(Oxford University Press).”
IN ENGLISH.
Lucia Dacome (University of Toronto), respondent: Valentina Frasisti, second respondent:
TBA.
Boylston Hall, Room 403, Harvard Yard
More information:
https://debosiscolloquium.wordpress.com/program/
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.
Talk Title "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
Wednesday, April 4, 4:30pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"New Histories of the Blackfriars Playhouse"
Lucy Munro (King's College London)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Theater and Performance Colloquium
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 5:30 pm
Women & Culture in the Early Modern World, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard
University, Co-Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie
“Women and Witnessing: Reading Rape and Reformation in Spenser’s Faerie Queene”
Stephanie Bahr, Department of English, Hamilton College
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 4: 30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Five College Renaissance Seminars
"Of Keepers and Stewards, or the Princely Business of a Northern Renaissance
Court"
Jeun Cho, History Dept. Amherst College
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant
Street, Amherst, MA 01002
Friday, April 6, 2018, 9 am - 6 pm
Fairfield University Art Museum
Symposium: "Art of the Gesù: Bernini and His Age"
Barone Campus Center, Oak Room, Fairfield University, 1073 North Benson Rd, Fairfield,
CT
Free and open to public; reception to follow; for registration and further info:
https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/gesu/
April 6-8, 2018
Conference: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Healing Charms and Medicine
Harvard, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Website:
https://harvardcharmsandmedicine.wordpress.com<https://urldefense.proofp…
Monday, April 9, 2018 - 6:00pm
Eighteen Century Studies, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard University
“Materiality, Text and Image: What is Enlightened and Romantic Travel Literature?”
John Brewer, California Institute of Technology
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
More information:
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
*Monday, April 9, 5-7pm
De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies 2018, Harvard University
“Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 (University of California Press).”
IN ENGLISH.
Ellen Lockhart (University of Toronto), respondent: Amelia Linsky, second respondent:
Francesco Guzzetti.
Boylston Hall, Room 403, Harvard Yard
More information:
https://debosiscolloquium.wordpress.com/program/
*Monday, 9 April 2018, 5:00 PM
Sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Center for the Study
of World Religions, and Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval Studies Seminar, Harvard
University.
Lecture: “Female Sultan/Female Pope, Shajar and the Mamluk Origins of Pope Joan”
Benjamin Braude, Associate Professor of History, Boston College
CGIS South (1730 Cambridge Street), Cambridge MA 02138, Room S354, Harvard University.
Additional Info: From roughly the mid thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries,
Christians in the Latin West believed that a cross-dressing woman had been elected pope
and that to avoid a repetition of the scandal the masculinity of popes was inspected.
Tues April 10, 4-6pm
Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard
"Apes, Slaves, and Global Markets: Boundaries of Humanity in Enlightenment
Debates"
Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)
Goldman Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St, Cambridge
Wed April 11, time to be announced
Brown University
The 38th William F. Church Memorial Lecture
“Luther, Manhood and Pugilism.”
Lyndal Roper (Regius Professor of History, Oxford)
Brown University, Providence, RI
A reception will follow the lecture. More Information at
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Thursday, April 12, 3pm
Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
"Jesuit Missionaries in China"
Elisa Frei (Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies) and Eugenio Menegon (BC)
Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Simboli Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
At a colloquium hosted with Burns Library, Institute Fellow Elisa Frei and Affiliated
Scholar Eugenio Menegon present their research on the motivations and experiences of the
early Jesuit missionaries in China. Contact the Institute with any questions; invitations
are forthcoming (iajs(a)bc.edu).
Friday, April 13, 2018, 12pm
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
“Trans-Imperial Archives: Rethinking Spatial Knowledge Production in the Venetian-Ottoman
Borderlands”
Natalie Rothman, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto
Brown University, Department of Italian Studies, 190 Hope Street, room 102, Providence
RI
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/
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
Monday, April 23, lunchtime
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Lunchtime Discussion of "How to Theorize the World: An Early Modern Manifesto"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University)
Room TBD, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
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
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
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
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.
Talk Title TBA
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, 5:15pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBD
Elizabeth Samet (West Point)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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…
*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.
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