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modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization.
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
*Sunday, January 15, 2017
CFP deadline, see below, Equinoxes
*Thursday, January 26, 2017, 5pm
Humanities Center Opera
Seminar<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/opera>ra>: experimental
Talk: Postdramatic Baroque: Revisiting Early Opera
Mauro Calcagno, University of Pennsylvania
Davison Room, Music Building
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/opera
UPCOMING EVENTS
February
**Wednesday, February 1, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Talk: Mapping the Strategies for the 18th Century Section of Femmes, littérature. Une
histoire culturelle (in progress): libertés, égalités, dilemmes
Christie McDonald, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, February 1, 2017, 5:15 PM
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Title TBA
Holger Syme, University of Toronto
Location TBA
*Tuesday Feb 7, 12-1:30
Early Modern History Workshop
“Passport policy: administering the Habsburg-Dutch border through travel permits,
1580-1665”
Bram de Ridder, of the U of Leuven,
CGIS S153, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
*Tuesday Feb 14, 5pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Early Sciences Working Group
Talk: “A Centaur in London Observation and Reading in the Early Modern Study of Nature”
Fabian Kraemer (LMU Munich and Columbia Univ)
Science Center 469, Harvard University
Monday, February 27, 6pm
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
STUDIES<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__r20.rs6.net_…
Talk Title TBA
Meredith Martin (New York University) and Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve
University),
Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
March
Thursday March 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title TBA
Ned Duval, Yale University
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a
copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at
mmeere@wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur…
Wednesday, March 22, 6pm
American Literature and Culture
Talk Title TBA
Leonard Von Morze, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
*Thursday, March 23, 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
“Global Cervantes”
Roger Chartier (Paris, and University of Pennsylvania)
Location TBA, Harvard University
*Friday, March 24, 2017, 8:45am – 4:45pm
(Dis)entangling Global Early Modernities, 1300-1800, a one-day conference
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Panels on Ideas (speakers: Sophus Reinert, Waleed Ziad, Michael Tworek, Carolien Stolte),
Books (speakers: Holly Shaffer, Nir Shafir, Devin Fitzgerald, Alexander Bevilacqua), and
Scholarly Practices (speakers: Ananya Chakravarti, Kirsten Windmuller-Luna, Stuart
McManus, Gregory Afinogenov). Closing roundtable with panelists David Armitage, Jorge
Canizares-Esguerra, Roger Chartier, Eugenio Menegon, Laura Mitchell. For the full
schedule and to RSVP (by March 10) see
http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/disentangling-global-early-modernitie…
April
*Equinoxes Conference:
Memory/Rupture<http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/equinoxes-conferenc…
4/21/2017 (All day) to 4/22/2017 (All day)
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
CFP deadline: January 15, 2017
May
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title TBA
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a
copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at
mmeere@wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur…
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