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. This
year we are announcing online events and activities relevant to the Boston area. Please
forward announcements of virtual socials, web-meetings, online 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, and e-mail
addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu.
For security reasons the list will 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 EDT.
Upcoming Events
Monday, April 19, 2021 1-2:30PM EDT
Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar
Discussing Chapter 2 of Geraldine Heng's "The Invention of Race in the European
Middle Ages," SJ Pearce's review essay of the book, and Heng's response to
the review.
Meets online via Zoom (contact alexandraschultz(a)g.harvard.edu for meeting info)
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 12PM EDT
Caroline Murphy (History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art, MIT)
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
To receive the pre-circulated paper and zoom link, please contact Hannah Marcus, hmarcus
at
fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, April 22, 2021 5:30PM EDT
Imagining a World: Selfhood and Empire in Safavid Iran
Kishwar Rizvi, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of
Art, Yale University
Spring 2021 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
Sponsored by Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2GL76E3uROWwH4KVQDvI2Q>Please visit the
AKPIA events
page<https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events> for more
information.
Thursday, April 22, 2021 6PM EDT
Desdemona’s Honest Friend
Jeremy Lopez, University of Toronto
Mahindra Humanities Center Shakespearean Studies Seminar
Registration
Link<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/desdemonas-honest-…
Friday, April 23, 2021 11AM-12PM EDT
Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning
Futures
Presented by the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the
Harvard Art Museums, and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and
Architecture
PART III: History, Memory, and Legacy: Jamaica Kincaid, Rosana Paulino, and Cheryl Finley
in Conversation
More
Information<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/history-memory-and-le…
Friday, April 23, 2021 1-2:30PM EDT
Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning
Futures
Presented by the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the
Harvard Art Museums, and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and
Architecture
PART IV: The Work of Objects: Interpretation within and beyond Museum Walls
More
Information<https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/the-work-of-objects-i…
Monday, April 26, 2021 6PM EDT
The History of Cartography and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Professor Íris Kantor (Universidade de São Paulo)
Sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard
University
Registration Link
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webinar_register_WN-5F5BD-5FUrhSR-5FWw3zDaUTuCjA&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=6WJ65_uEnH-b7c6MgZ62-ox53lM1eKObplmYhuEjLtY&m=U_lFwuPKlzQqCS0MO7W4W04jqZHF8K0EKphwGWwRtNg&s=hf8ko8yvC5woYlg__Y92uu7o_2p4py31UcCUpj3Dpqc&e=>
Thursday, April 29, 2021 1PM EDT
Isaac Abendana (c. 1638-1699): Rabbinic learning and the Hebrew book in Restoration
Cambridge and Oxford
Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge University)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Early Modern History Workshop and the
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, Harvard
Registration
Link<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMoceuppjMiHtJ2yhjHtle00fmIMcOlCwi3>
Monday, May 3, 2021 9:50AM-4:15PM EDT
Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History: "Materiality and Book History
(in the age of Zoom)”
Hosted by Harvard University
Early Modern Talks: Graeme R. Reynolds (Harvard): The Circulation of the History of Koryŏ
in Early Modern Korea ● Philippe Schmid (Harvard): Sharing Marks in Early Modern Books ●
Alicia Petersen (Yale): Decoding Early Modern Gossip ● Kaitlyn Quaranta (Brown): A New
Order of Things: Systems in the Encyclopédie
Full Program
<https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/files/history-of-the-book/files/harvard-yale-brown_graduate_conference_in_book_history_2021.pdf>Registration
Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlc-mprDkrGdAFTlYdOT0QI6jhLS2ucvPr>
May 4-7, 2021
Politics: A RaceB4Race® Symposium
Co-sponsored by Brandeis University and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies at Arizona State University
More Information
<https://asuevents.asu.edu/raceb4race-politics?eventDate=2021-05-04>Registration
Link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/politics-a-raceb4race-symposium-tickets-146373901279>
Friday, May 7, 2021 10AM-5PM EDT
Printed Afterlifes: Early Hispanic Books and Manuscripts in the 19th Century
A Virtual Symposium at the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University
Keynote: Neil F. Safier (Brown University) “Translation Generation: Constructing the
Colonial Encyclopedia in a Lisbon Printing-House”
More Information
<https://sites.bu.edu/printed-afterlives/>Registration Link
<https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsc-yurDMrH915x8rUC-yxeMnueIeMKED_>
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 12PM EDT
The Nature of Experience and the Experience of Nature in Ibn Sīna’s Kitab al-Ḥayawān
(The book of Animals)
Iman Darwish (History of Science, Harvard)
Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
To receive the pre-circulated paper and zoom link, please contact Hannah Marcus, hmarcus
at
fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, May 13, 2021 7PM EDT
Donald R. Friary Lecture: The Salem Witch Trials
A conversation with Emerson W. Baker, II Professor of History, Salem State University,
Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of History Emerita, Cornell University, and
Benjamin Ray, Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus, University of Virginia.
Sponsored by The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
More Information
<https://www.colonialsociety.org/>Registration
Link<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AyOGIOF6QSaZcavxa5fWrw>
June 14-15, 2021
Early Modern Symposium
Performing Objects and the Objects of Performance in the Global Early Modern
Sponsored by the John Hay Library and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
at Brown University
More
information<https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/date/…
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