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the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional
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UPCOMING EVENTS IN EARLY MODERN STUDIES
**Thursday, April 26, 4:30pm
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 112, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Medieval Colloquium
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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
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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
*Friday, April 27, 2018, 4-6 pm
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series
“The Business of Astrology in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”
A. Tunç Şen, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University
CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/business-astrology-early-modern-ottoman-…
The Business of Astrology in the Early Modern Ottoman
Empire<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/business-astrology-early-moder…
cmes.fas.harvard.edu
The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents A. Tunç ŞenAssistant Professor of
History, Department of History, Columbia University
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…
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
"'Look, Yorick, can't you give us nothin' but them poems?' :
Shakespeare and the American Civil War"
Elizabeth Samet (West Point)
Room 211, 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.
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