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://scientiae.uk/2024/03/09/scientiae-2024-fall-conference-providence-rhode-island-25-26-october-cfp-open/>
Theme: ��The Global History of Knowledge�� with a specific, but not exclusive, focus on
the Americas and the Atlantic in the period 1450�C1750.
Location: Brown University, Providence RI
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
4/8/2024 5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Annual Hamilton A.R. Gibb Lecture Series, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Maria
Mavroudi<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/maria-mavroudi-p…=0>,
Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley: The Byzantine and
Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: The Historiographical
Stakes<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/maria-mavroudi-pro…
Location: Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge
4/8/2024 5:30pm
Houghton Library and the Committee on Medieval Studies
Bettina
Wagner<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/bettina-wagner-director-sta…
(Director, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg), ��The Nuremberg Humanist Hartmann Schedel and his
Books��<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/bettina-wagner-director-st…
Location: Edison and Newman Room, Floor 1, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
02138
*4/9/2024 4:30pm to 6:00pm
The Stanley Hoffmann Annual Lecture on France and the World, The Minda de Gunzburg Center
for European Studies, Harvard
David A.
Bell<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/david-bell-princeton…=0>,
Princeton University: How French was the
Enlightenment?<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/david-bell…
Location: Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University, 29
Kirkland Street, Cambridge MA
4/9/2024 5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Annual Hamilton A.R. Gibb Lecture Series, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard
Maria
Mavroudi<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/maria-mavroudi-p…=0>,
Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley: The Byzantine and
Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: Bureaucrats in Greek and Arabic:
Archival Documents (CMES Gibb
Lectures)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/maria-mavroudi-…
Location: Belfer Case Study Rm, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge
4/9/2024 5:30pm
Boston College, The Italian Studies Program and the Dept. of Art, Art History, and Film
Lecture by Dr. Alessandro Serrani (University of Bologna), ��Art Patronage in the
Bolognese Renaissance: Revealing the Forgotten Role of the Trade Guilds.��
Location: in-person, Boston College, Devlin Hall 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut
Hill, MA 02467
More
information<https://events.bc.edu/event/art_patronage_in_the_bolognese_r…
*4/10/2024 12:00pm
Joint Center for History and Economics Online Seminar, Harvard
M'hamed
Oualdi<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/mhamed-oualdi-scie…
(Sciences Po), Freeing the last Muslim slaves in Europe: Moroccan Sultan Muhammad Ibn
Abdallah��s social and economic policy from the 1750s to the late
1780s<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/mhamed-oualdi-scien…
Location: CGIS South Building, Room S-354, 1730 Cambridge Street (also on Zoom, link in
message details)
**4/10/2024 5:30pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Sam
Bozoukov<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sam-bozoukov-hid…=0>,
"The 'Hideous Noise' of Samson Agonistes: Milton's Crisis of
Dissonance" (Graduate Student
Talk)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sam-bozoukov-hideou…
Location: Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
(in-person event)
4/10/2024 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book
Spencer
Weinreich<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/spencer-weinrei…
(Harvard Society of Fellows and Dept of History of Science, Harvard), "Prison History
as Book
History"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/spencer-wei…
Location: Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
4/11/2024 10:30am to 12:30pm
Sponsored by Houghton Library and the Committee on Medieval Studies
Master Class with
<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabula-bavaria-sponsored-houghton-library?delta=0>
Bettina
Wagner<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner…
on Incunabula from
Bavaria<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagne…
Location: Houghton Library, Harvard Yard. Registration necessary, see event details
4/11/2024 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Sponsored by Houghton Library and the Committee on Medieval Studies
Master Class with
<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner-incunabula-bavaria-sponsored-houghton-library-0?delta=0>
Bettina
Wagner<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagner…
on Incunabula from
Bavaria<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/master-class-bettina-wagne…
Location: Houghton Library, Harvard Yard. Registration necessary, see event details
4/11/2024 5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Annual Hamilton A.R. Gibb Lecture Series, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Maria
Mavroudi<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/maria-mavroudi-p…=0>,
Professor of Byzantine History, University of California, Berkeley: The Byzantine and
Ottoman Intellectual Encounter, 14th-16th Centuries: Intellectuals in Greek and Arabic:
Philosophy and the Sciences (CMES Gibb Lectures,
2024)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/maria-mavroudi-prof…
Location: CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge
April 12-14, 2024
Okeghem Weekend
Cambridge and Somerville, MA
https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/season25/okeghem-weekend/
A weekend of concerts, talks, and master classes celebrating the sublime music of Johannes
Okeghem (c. 1420-1497) and his colleagues and contemporaries.
**4/12/2024 (All day) to 4/13/2024 (All day)
Hosted by the Center for History & Economics at Harvard University; and supported by
the Harvard Early Modern Workshop, the University of Birmingham, and the Arts and
Humanities Research Council (UK)
Conference ��Rethinking Early Modern
Confessionalism��<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/confere…
Location: History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Room 125 (former lower
library), Harvard Yard, (in-person event, registration required, program and info see link
details)
Events later on:
4/15/2024 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Noah
Millstone<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/noah-millstone-…
(University of Birmingham and Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton), ��Judging Books
in Early Modern
Europe��<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/noah-millstone-u…
Location: Harvard CGIS-S030, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA (RSVP)
4/16/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Briana
Brightly<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/briana-brightly-…=0>,
Dreaming of Tanaduk: Painting the Medicine Buddha��s Pure Land in the Golden Age of
Tibetan
Medicine<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/briana-brightly-…
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>
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 9:20 - 10:00 a.m. (U.S. Eastern, UTC-4)
Jesuit Studies Caf��, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College
The Research Group on the Congregation of the Council and the Study of Religious Orders
(Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Theory, Frankfurt)
Dr. Benedetta Albani, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in
Frankfurt
Dr. Francesco Giuliani, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in
Frankfurt
Online on Zoom, registration link at
https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/jesuit-studies-cafe…
The Congregation of the Council was one of the leading actors of the post-Tridentine
Catholic Reform: it was responsible for the authentic interpretation of the Council��s
disciplinary decrees and their implementation throughout the Catholic world. This
presentation will focus on the multiple interactions between the Congregation of the
Council and the Society of Jesus and suggest fascinating avenues for future research in
this field.
*4/18/2024 1pm
John Carter Brown Library and Brown University��s Center for Study of the Early Modern
World
Berenice Alc��ntara and Mario Alberto S��nchez, Christian Texts in Nahuatl at the JCB
Library and Sermons of Codex Indorum 23
Location: John Carter Brown Library Conference Room, Providence RI (Pizza will be served!
Please use the back door to the Library!)
**Canceled: 4/18/2024 5:30pm
Brown University Early Modern World
James Hankins (Harvard): Can Political Virtue be Taught? Answers from the Western
Tradition
**4/19/2024 11am to 6pm
Brown University Early Modern World
Early Modern World Colloquium ��Mirrors for Princes��
Location: Alumnae Hall, Commons, Brown University, Providence, RI
More
information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events>
4/19/2024 (All day)
Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium in Premodern
Studies<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-undergrad…
Sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Committee on Degrees in
History and Literature, the Department of Classics, Early Modern World at Harvard, and the
Ancient Studies Program
Location: Barker Center, Room 110, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
Please find more information
here<https://harvard.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8e96d4412d9749e…2d2eb40e6d>.
4/19/2024 10:30am
Ashley
Gonik<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-histor…
(History, Harvard), dissertation defense of ��Structuring Information: Printed Tables as
Organizing Tools in Early Modern
Europe��<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ashley-gonik-his…
Location: History Dept Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*4/19/2024 2:00pm
Sarah
Koval<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-koval-harvard…=0>,
Harvard University: Dissertation colloquium "Music and Bodily Health in 17th-century
England"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sarah-koval…
Location: Davison Room of the Harvard Music Building, 3 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
**4/19/2024 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Leah
Whittington<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/leah-whitting…=0>,
Professor of English, Harvard University: "What Did Shakespeare Read? New Approaches
to Classical Books and the Early Modern
Stage"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/leah-whitting…
Location: Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 (Harvard
University)
4/23/2024 6:30pm
Zerner Lecture at the Harvard Art Museums
Paris
Spies-Gans<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/paris-spies-ga…=0>:
Imprints and Erasures: A New Story of
Art<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/paris-spies-gans-impr…
Location: Harvard Arts Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge MA (entrance on
Broadway)
**4/24/2024 6:00pm
Co-hosted by the Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium and the Theater and
Performance Colloquium, Harvard
Jane Hwang
Degenhardt<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/jane-hwang-deg…=0>,
Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, "Shakespeare's
Speculative Horizons: The Impossible, the Unknowable, and the Dream of Other Worlds"
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/jane-hwang-degenhardt-professor-english-university-massachusetts-amherst?delta=0>
Location: Barker Center, Room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
4/25/24 4:30-6:00pm
Providence College Seminar on the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Dr. Jessica Roney
(<https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of-early-america/>Temple
University), ��The Colony That Wasn��t, and What That Meant for the Future of North
America, c.
1774��<https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-…
Location: Ruane Center for the Humanities LL49, Providence College, One Cunningham Square,
Providence, RI
*4/26/2024 10:30am to 12:00pm
Center for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: CNA Student Session with
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/center-netherlandish-art-museum-fine-arts-boston-cna-student-session-anna?delta=0>
Anna
Koopstra<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/center-netherlan…
and
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/center-netherlandish-art-museum-fine-arts-boston-cna-student-session-anna?delta=0>
Bart
Fransen<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/center-netherland…
(open to all
students)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/center-netherla…
Location: Zoom Event, registration required (see details)
April 27, 2024
Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference: "Shakespeare & Play", an in-person
academic conference for undergraduate students from Greater Boston, Central Mass, and New
England more broadly.
Keynote speaker: David Sterling Brown, PhD (Assoc. Prof of English, Trinity College).
Location: Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA.
Please see the website
https://shakespeareconference.com/ for submissions or email
ClarkShaxConference2024@gmail.com<mailto:ClarkShaxConference2024@gmail.com> for more
info
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- Khw��rizm�� 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>
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 5:30pm
Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Save the date:
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-mary-erica-zimmer-concourse-program-mit-title-tba-harvard-mhc?delta=0>
Mary Erica Zimmer
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-mary-erica-zimmer-concourse-program-mit-title-tba-harvard-mhc?delta=0>
(Concourse Program, MIT), title
TBA<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/save-date-mary-erica-…
Location: Harvard, TBD
5/6/2024
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book
Save the date for the annual Harvard-Yale-Brown graduate conference in Book History which
will include some sessions on the early modern context.
Harvard, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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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