Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the
earlymodern 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.
Upcoming Events
April 18-20, 2019
Harvard English Department Bloomfield Conference
“Reading Then, Reading Now”
Registration is free, but space is limited; if you would like to attend, please reply to
Yun Ni (yni (at)
fas.harvard.edu) to reserve a spot.
Website:
https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-university-department-englis…
Harvard University Department of English Bloomfield Conference | The Standing Committee on
Medieval Studies -
medieval.fas.harvard.edu<https://medieval.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-…
medieval.fas.harvard.edu
Reading Then, Reading Now, the 2019 Bloomfield Conference, featuring plenary addresses by
Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe (University of California Berkeley), Suzanne Akbari
(University of Toronto), and Amy Appleford (Boston University). Click here for a complete
program.
*Monday, April 22, 2019, 5-7pm
De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies 2019, Convenor: Francesco Erspamer
Book Presentation and Discussion--Two Books on Machiavelli:
Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist
Politics<https://press.princeton.edu/titles/14172.html> (Princeton University
Press), John P. McCormick (University of Chicago);
Machiavelli in Tumult: The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political
Conflictualism<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/machiavelli-in-tumul…
(Cambridge University Press), Gabriele Pedullà (Università di Roma Tre and Institute for
Advanced Studies, Princeton)
IN ENGLISH. Respondents: Anne Ratnoff and Melissa Vise. Second respondents: Amelia Linsky
and Valentina Frasisti
Room 403, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard
https://debosiscolloquium.wordpress.com/
Tuesday, April 23, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Mobility and Materiality: The Case of the Florentine Codex"
Isaac Magaña G Cantón, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
**Tuesday, April 23, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: The 2019 Collins
Lecture
“Shakespeare’s Reformation: Thinking with Conversion”
Paul Yachnin, Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies (McGill University)
The Old Chapel, 144 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA
In this lecture Yachnin rethinks his “trauma theory” account of the theatre. He suggests
that, while a crisis of conversion was indeed a major feature of Shakespeare’s world and
is a central and underrecognized feature of his drama, Shakespeare is at his most creative
and most influential when he thinks with conversion rather than thinking about it.
**Tuesday, Apr. 23, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Lecture: “An Argument for the Moderation of Miracles: Dorothea von Hof’s Book of Godly
Love and the Sum of All Virtue”
Amiri Ayanna (grad. stud., History)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St., Providence RI
To receive a copy of the paper, please email maria_sokolova (at)
brown.edu
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Tuesday, April 23, 5.15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Republicanism and Humanism"
Gabriele Pedullà (Università degli Studi Roma 3 and IAS Princeton), with a response by
James Hankins (Harvard)
Belfer Case Study Room S020, CGIS South, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Wednesday, April 24, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
"Lyric Thinking in the Early Modern World: On the Possibilities of Cross-Cultural
Study"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale, Comp. Lit),
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
Can we usefully discuss lyric traditions in Europe and South Asia alongside each other—or
are the particular literary and linguistic histories of these regions too disparate to
make the comparison worthwhile?
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Jillian Luke (Edinburgh)
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Thursday, April 25, 3:00-4:30
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"Descartes in the Pantheon: The Editorial Work of Claude Clerselier"
Delphine Antoine-Mahut (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Robbins Library, Harvard, Emerson Hall 211
(Reception to Follow 4:30-5:00)
*Thursday April 25, 2019, 6pm
Brown University, Department of Hispanic Studies
Talk: "Pequeñas vidas. ¿Cómo hacer la historia de la 'gente menuda' en el
Siglo de Oro?"
Fernando Bouza (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) IN SPANISH
Rochambeau House, 84 Prospect St, Providence, RI 02906
*Friday April 26, 12 noon
John Carter Brown Library and the Department of Hispanic Studies, Brown University
Workshop
Fernando Bouza (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) IN SPANISH
94 George St, Providence, RI 02906
**Friday, April 26, 2019, 12pm
Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Huchins Center, Harvard, Seminar Meeting
Lecture: “Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Black Militiamen, Tribute, and Privilege”
Sally Hayes (Harvard)
Hutchins Center Seminar Room, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 3R, Cambridge MA
https://alari.fas.harvard.edu/event/seminar-series-cape-sword-and-dagger-bl…
*Friday, April 26, 3:00pm
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies and Burns Library, Boston College
"Material Cultures of Devotion in Early Modern Jesuit Missions: A Roundtable
Discussion"
Speakers: Laura Masur (Boston University) – Sacred Objects in the Archaeological Record of
the Maryland Mission
Eugenio Menegon (Boston University) – Healing and Converting: The Power of Sacred Objects
in the China Jesuit Mission
Aislinn Muller (Boston College) – Sacramentals, Dissent, and Resistance in Jesuit Missions
to Early Modern England
James O’Toole (Boston College) – Chair and Respondent
Location: Burns Library, Boston College
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegXBqFm2ara0KRyILFIxUblvNCQD27paG…
**Friday April 26, 5:30 reception, 6:00 seminar
Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
"Teach You Our Princess English: Language and Diplomacy in Shakespeare's Henry
V."
Andrew Fleck, University of Texas, El Paso
Mahindra Humanities Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/calendar-month
Sat. April 27, 2019, 9am-4pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Raymond J. Lord Symposium on Historical European Martial Arts
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
This day-long event will feature presentations on martial traditions and their social
contexts. Our keynote speaker this year is Ann
Tlusty<https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/arts-and-sciences-college-of/a…ty>,
Professor of History at Bucknell University and author of The Martial Ethic in Early
Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms, and Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture
of Drink in Early Modern Germany.
There is no charge for attendance but there is a $10 fee for lunch. Pre-registration is
required by April 25. Email jgoodhind (at)
hfa.umass.edu
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cartography
"Knowing with Images: Natural History and Cartography in the Global
Renaissance"
Surekha Davies, John Carter Brown Library Fellow
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
Tuesday, April 30, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: “Quid pro quo: Europeans and their ‘Skill Capital’ in Eighteenth-Century
Beijing”
Eugenio Menegon, BU
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Lecture: "Bible exegesis, the ancient Israelites and the early modern question of
usury"
Avinoam Naeh (Hebrew University and Harvard), with comment by Sophus Reinert (HBS).
Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Eighteenth Century Studies
Talk Title TBA
Stephanie De Gooyer, Radcliffe Institute, Willamette University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
**Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado
Fabrício Prado (The College of William & Mary) National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellow
"Inter-American Connections: North-South American Networks in the Age of Atlantic
Revolutions"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Fabrício
Prado<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/…
**Thursday, May 2, 2019, 5:30 pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World,
co-chairs Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie (outgoing); co-chairs Erin Murphy and Sarah
Wall-Randall (incoming)
Roundtable: "Reassessing the Field, Passing the Torch: A roundtable and open
discussion, reception and celebration as the seminar leadership changes hands"
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
*Friday May 3, 2019, talk no 4 at the symposium held between 8:45 and 5:30pm
Symposium Mecca: the Lived City
Lecture: “Between Empire and Sacred Space: Mecca as a Global Space in the Early Modern
World”
Tyler Kynn (Yale University)
location to be announced (on Harvard campus)
Thursday, May 9, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
“The Jesuits as the Last Medieval Order?”
Markus Friedrich, Universität Hamburg
Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College
To join these online discussions and for additional details please contact the Institute
(iajs (at)
bc.edu).
Thursday, May 9, 2019, 5:30PM
Lecture: “Printing Books at the Blind Man’s Arch: Translation and Circulation in the
Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment”
Neil Safier, Brown Univ.
Houghton Library, Harvard Yard
For more information contact jblackmore (at)
fas.harvard.edu
Wednesday May 15, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
“Margaret Cavendish’s Fiction of Science”
Debapriya Sarkar (English, U Conn)
Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers.
For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther
Moran at emmoran (at)
wesleyan.edu
Website:
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Save the Date:
June 11–13, 2019
Boston College, Institut for Advanced Jesuit Studies
International Symposium on Jesuit Studies
"Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of
Jesus"
www.bc.edu/iajs.
Saturday, Oct 5, 2019
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC): Motion, Rhythm, Shifts
Chace auditorium, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
We invite abstracts no longer than 300 words accompanied by a title and a brief CV to be
sent to: prihouet(a)risd.edu by May 1, 2019.
In 2019, the New England Renaissance Conference is hosted for the first time at Rhode
Island School of Design, or RISD (pronounced “RIZ-dee”). We invite papers that explore the
notion of rhythm in the period of ca. 1400–1700. Scholars from disciplines as varied as
history, art history, literature and poetry, religion, theatre, music, environment, studio
art and design are welcomed.
The idea of motion, rhythm, and shifts is rich in significance for the Early Modern period
as it touches upon global concepts, material culture, ritual, performance, and identity.
Paper topics include, but are not limited to:
- temporal aspects (codification of time, recurrence of a specific phenomenon, the timing
of a performance, stages in the production of art, series, metamorphoses)
- movements and crossings (body movements, dance, inter-arts, transportation / re-location
of people, things, images, or relics)
- mobilities (migrations, trade patterns, traveling artists, scansion of narratives or
poetry, translations)
- ritual and ceremonies (processions, parades, ceremonial entries, relics transfers,
etc.)
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