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
Monday, March 25, 5:00-6:30
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"Leibniz on Vital Principles and Plastic Natures"
Paul Lodge (Oxford)
Robbins Library, Harvard, Emerson Hall 211
(Reception to Follow 6:30-7:00)
**Tuesday, March 26th, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Cinnamon"
Ahmed Ragab/ Katherine Park, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Please email Iman Darwish<mailto:imandarwish@g.harvard.edu> to RSVP and to receive a
copy of the paper
Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Renaissance Wednesday
“Philomela as Victim: Philomela as Monster,” a talk by
Daniel Armenti, PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst, Comparative Literature
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Cartography
Lecture: Europe and its Amerasian Mirror, 1492-ca. 1700
Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University
Alexander Nagel, New York University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
In most accounts of European explorations and colonizations after 1492, it is assumed that
an initial confusion between America and Asia steadily, even swiftly, gave way to the
realization that America was a New World. By considering a wide array of texts, maps,
objects, and images produced between 1492 and ca. 1700, it becomes possible instead to
inhabit a coherent, if malleable, vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North
America was an extension of China, and South America was populated by a variety of
biblical and Asian sites.
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
Cartography | Mahindra Humanities
Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
This seminar explores the spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities. It rethinks
cartography as an inter-discipline and investigates key words such as mapping, space,
place, and location across languages, cultures, and historical periods.
Thursday, March 28, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
"Print, Knowledge Organization, and Halakha: Codification and Disorder"
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan
to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>.
Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard
guests.
Thursday, March 28, 2019, 6:00 PM
Lecture: “Adamastor’s Gate: The World Ocean from Pangea to the Anthropocene”
Steve Mentz, St. John’s University
Boylston Hall, room 403, Harvard University
For more information contact jblackmore (at)
fas.harvard.edu
March 29, 2019, 4:30-6pm
Providence College Seminar in the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Workshop: “Exemplary Women: Female Christian Indian Identity in Anglo-America and Ibero
America, 1500-1750”
Jessica Criales, Rutgers University
Ruane Center for the Humanities, 202
https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…
Paper will be circulated one week in advance of the meeting. To be added to the mailing
list, email request to sharon.murphy(a)providence.edu.
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 5:30pm reception, 6:00 seminar
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center
“Props that Play Themselves: Books Onstage in Marlowe and Heywood”
Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College
Mahindra Humanities Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Room 133
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 12 pm
Book Presentation: House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo
Allison Levy, Brown University, in conversation with Sheila Bonde, Brown University.
Rockefeller Library, Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, 10 Prospect Street, Brown
University, Providence, RI
https://blogs.brown.edu/libnews/house-of-secrets/
Postponed :Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
“‘Qualities of Breeding’: Race, Class, and Conduct in The Merchant of Venice”
Patricia Akhimie (English, Rutgers)
Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Dana Liebsohn
Dana Liebsohn (Smith College) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"No Strangers in Trade: Local Residents, Foreign Travelers, and the Art of Pacific
Exchange 1750-1850"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Dana
Liebsohn<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/eve…
Wednesday, Apr. 3, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture: "Marriage and Sacrifice: The Poetics of the Epithalamia"
Ramie Targoff (Brandeis University)
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
In Spenser’s “Epithalamion,” he invokes two figures from classical antiquity who bore
children for Jove. Why Spenser invokes Maia and Alcmene, who lay with Jove against their
will, is one question to be explored; another is why Spenser suggests that Jove has also
laid with his own bride, Elizabeth.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Harry R. McCarthy (Exeter)
"Busy Boys: Youthful Activity on Early Modern Stages"
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Thursday, April 4, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
“Studying and Collecting Medieval and Early Modern Judaica and Hebraica Treasures Between
Fascist Italy and Postwar America. Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960) and His Collection”
Martina Mampieri
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan
to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>.
Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard
guests.
Thursday, April 4, 2019, 4:00-6:00pm
Harvard Government Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Sovereignty and the purpose of politics: political thought and religious
division c1576-1610"
Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)
CGIS room K-401, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
The Paper will be pre-circulated about a week before the talk. Please email Priyanka Menon
at pmenon129 (at)
gmail.com for details
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/politicaltheory/home
Wednesday, April 10, all day
First Annual Boston-Area Digital Scholarship Symposium
Harvard, Smith Campus Center, Harvard Square
This event will bring together scholars from the greater Boston area to share their work
in digital scholarship. The focus of this year’s symposium is “Institutional Models of
Collaborative Support”, and the event will feature talks, panel discussions, and poster
presentations. If you are interested, you may register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-annual-boston-area-digital-scholarship-s….
If you have graduate students who would like to showcase a digital project, please share
this call for posters with them:
https://goo.gl/forms/saz0ITiOCi7CAzZ72.
First Annual Boston Area Digital Scholarship
Symposium<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-annual-boston-area-digital-…
www.eventbrite.com
On April 10th, 2019, Harvard University will host the first annual Boston Area Digital
Scholarship Symposium. This event will bring together scholars from the greater Boston
area to share their work in digital scholarship. The focus of this year's symposium
is "Institutional Models of Collaborative Support", and the event will feature
talks, panel discussions, and poster presentations. Invited speakers are affiliated with
Boston College, Boston University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Northeastern University, and Tufts University. A light breakfast, lunch, and
refreshments during the day will be provided. Please fill out this form if you have any
dietary requirements. FAQs Is there an event website?
https://harvard-dssg.github.io/boston-area-dss/ What are my transportation options? Please
see the Smith Campus Center's comprehensive visitor resources page for public
transportation and parking options. How do I connect to Harvard wireless? Harvard is a
part of eduroam. If your ins
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 3.00-5.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Slavery and Mastery in the South Sea Armada"
Tamara Walker (University of Toronto)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog (at)
fas.harvard.edu or
delafuente (at)
fas.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
"Shakespeare’s Aristotle: The Poetics in Early Modern England"
Micha Lazarus (Cambridge)
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
**Thursday, April 11, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
“Puzzles and Posts: Reconstructing the Correspondence of Robert Persons, SJ”
Victor Houliston, University of the Witwatersrand
Location: Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (Simboli Hall, Boston College: 9 Lake
Street, Brighton MA), OR participate via Zoom Video Conference by replying at this link:
RSVP<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.co…
Further information:
https://jesuitportal.bc.edu/news/february-2019-new-season-of-jesuit-studies…
Friday, April 12, 2019, 4:15pm
History and Economics Seminar
"The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance
Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society"
Francesca Trivellato, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
CGIS-K262, Bowie Vernon Room, 1737 Cambridge Street
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.
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
Tuesday, Apr. 23, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Amiri Ayanna (grad. stud., History)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History
Seminar<http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
blogs.brown.edu
A forum for faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars to share work in progress.
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)
Friday, April 26, 2019, 12pm
Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Huchins Center, Seminar Meeting
Lecture: “Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Black Militiamen, Tribute, and Privilege”
Sally Hayes (Harvard)
(more information as time approaches!)
*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
Cartography | Mahindra Humanities
Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
This seminar explores the spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities. It rethinks
cartography as an inter-discipline and investigates key words such as mapping, space,
place, and location across languages, cultures, and historical periods.
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
Details to follow. 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
Roundtable discussion: "Reassessing the Field, Passing the Torch"
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join us for a roundtable discussion where we take up the pressing issues touching the
study of early modern women, gender, and sexuality in our present historical moment, and
help us
welcome the new co-chairs of the seminar, Sarah Wall-Randall (Wellesley) and Erin Murphy
(Boston University)
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
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/
Wesleyan Renaissance
Seminar<http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/>
rensem.site.wesleyan.edu
An interdepartmental collaboration. I am delighted to announce our schedule for the Spring
2019 term and hope you will be able to join us for continued lively investigations of
issues that are invigorating our scholarly fields.
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.
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