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modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization.
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Monday, April 24, 2017, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
“The Dream of the Red Chamber (1792) and its Effect on China’s Women Writers”
Ellen Widmer (Wellesley College)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 5:30pm
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Lecture: “The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian
Enslavement in America”
Andrés Reséndez (UCDavis)
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets,
Providence, RI
Andrés Reséndez, professor of history at the University of California, Davis, is author of
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. The Other Slavery
examines the system of bondage that targeted Native Americans, an expansive system that
was every bit as terrible and degrading as African slavery. Anywhere between 2.5 and 5
million Native Americans may have been enslaved throughout the hemisphere in the centuries
between the arrival of Columbus and the beginning of the 20th century. And, interestingly,
in contrast to African slavery which targeted mostly adult males, the majority of these
Indian slaves were women and children. Please join us for this lecture with book signing
and reception to follow. Copies of The Other Slavery will be available for purchase.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 12pm–1:30pm
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
"Under your skin, in your bed, and in the water: Locating disease among veterinarians
in New Regime France."
Kathryn Heintzman (Harvard University)
Harvard Science Center, Room 252
Lunch will be served. To RSVP please email
agjikola@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:agjikola@fas.harvard.edu>or
shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu<mailto:shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu>.
*Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 12pm
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College
Lecture: “The Habit that Hides the Monk: Missionary Fashion Strategies at the Imperial
Court in Early Modern China”
Eugenio Menegon (Boston College)
Simboli Hall 035 – Boston College, Brighton Campus, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill
MA, 02467
A light lunch will be provided. Email: iajs(a)bc.edu
Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 5:30
Visual Representation, Materiality, and the Medium Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center at
Harvard
Lecture: “Cospetto! Che bella cosa!” Boucher’s Triumph of Venus
Colin Bailey (The Morgan Library & Museum, NY)
Room 515, Sackler Museum, Harvard University
*Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
“Constructing the Colonial ‘Other’: British Depictions of West Indian Slave Owners”
Matthew Wyman-McCarthy (Columbia University)
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets,
Providence, RI
In the final decades of the eighteenth century, misgivings about the British Atlantic
slave system coalesced into an organized antislavery movement. As part of their campaign
to convince the public of the need for reform, abolitionists portrayed West Indian
planters as possessing lower moral and cultural standards than their metropolitan
counterparts. Using sources from the JCB, this talk shows how depictions of slave owners
formed a major axis of dispute in the debate over the future of slavery in the British
Atlantic. In so doing, it highlights how slaveholding generated anxieties about British
identity and the resiliency of the British character on the frontiers of empire.
Thursday, April 27, 2017, 4:30pm
Lauro de Bosis Fellowship Lecture
“Michelangelo and the Bible: Religious Reading and Writing in Sixteenth-Century Italy”
Sarah Rolfe Prodan (Department of History, Harvard University)
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, Harvard Yard
*Thursday, April 27, 2017, 5:30pm
The John Carter Brown Library
Book Talk with Sowande’ M. Mustakeem
Sowande’ M. Mustakeem (Washington University in St. Louis)
Southside Cultural Center at 393 Broad Street, Providence RI. Please rsvp
here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evening-talk-with-sowande-mustakeem-sl…63>.
In partnership with the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown and the RI
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project, the JCB is cosponsoring a public
lecture featuring Sowande' Mustakeem, author of Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and
Sickness in the Middle Passage. Sowande' Mustakeem's study explores the social
conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery, and how the Middle
Passage was a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage.
*Friday, April 28, 2017, 11:00am to 12pm
The Harvard Art Museums: Art Study Center Seminar
“Bernard Berenson’s Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti”
Art Study Center, Level 4, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
Registration required at
am_visitorservices@harvard.edu<mailto:am_visitorservices@harvard.edu> (limited
capacity)
Join Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım, assistant curator for Islamic and Later Indian art; Penley
Knipe, the Philip and Lynn Straus Senior Conservator of Works of Art on Paper; and
Katherine Eremin, the Patricia Cornwell Senior Conservation Scientist, for a close look at
some of these exquisite paintings, on loan from Villa I Tatti in Florence.
Friday, April 28, 2017, 9:00 to 17.00 h.
Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
International Workshop: Arts and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400–1650)
Speakers: Prof. Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer (Universitat de València); Prof. Jorge Sebastián
(Universitat de València); Dr. Borja Franco (UNED, Madrid); Prof. Cristelle Baskins (Tufts
University); Prof. Felipe Pereda (Harvard University).
RCC Conference Room, Harvard University, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Visual strategies of legitimization became increasingly important for Iberian monarchies
during the late medieval and early modern periods. Mediterranean dynastic, diplomatic, and
military endeavors called for effective propaganda, both in the metropolis and in
viceregal territories, such as southern Italy. Such efforts include architecture, both
ephemeral and permanent, the decoration of palaces, court portraiture, and
historiography.
http://rcc.harvard.edu/event/arts-and-court-cultures-iberian-world-1400-1650
RSVP rcc@harvard.edu<mailto:rcc@harvard.edu> –
jorge.sebastian@uv.es<mailto:jorge.sebastian@uv.es>
*Friday, April 28, 2017, 3:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
Panel Discussion: “The Americas and The Generative Power of Fire”
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets,
Providence, RI
Please join us for "The Americas and the Generative Power of Fire," a special
panel discussion and a feature of the IBES event What Fire Does. This discussion will be
chaired by Associate Professor of History and Director of John Carter Brown Library Neil
Safier and will feature presentations by Andrew Scherer ("Ceremonies of Smoke and
Flame among the Ancient Maya"), Matt Liebmann ("When the Little Firekeeper Ran
Away: Pueblo People, Franciscan Missions, and Wildfires in 17th Century New Mexico"),
Guilhem Olivier ("The New Fire Ceremony: Religion and Power in Ancient Central
Mexico"), and Alessandra Russo ("Fury and Beauty: Fire in the Limits of
Conquest"). Following the panel discussion, Jake Frederick (Lawrence University) will
present the exhibition The Americas on Fire, co-curated by Jake Frederick and Júnia
Ferreira Furtado. A performance by Wendy Woodson (Amherst College) and reception will
follow. The event is free and open to the public.
*Saturday, April 29 2017, 6:00 pm, and Monday, May 1 2017, 7:30 pm
La Troupe presents Le Siège de Calais, a 1765 tragedy by Pierre-Laurent de Belloy.
A performance (in French) directed by Sylvaine Guyot (Harvard University).
Starring Harvard University Graduate Students: Matthew Barfield, Josh Cohen, Effie Gonis,
Nikhita Obeegadoo, Matthew Rodriguez, Madeleine Wolf andEmma Zitzow-Childs.
April 29 2017, 6:00 pm: Thompson Room, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St.,
Cambridge, MA 02138
May 1 2017, 7:30 pm: Farkas Hall Studio (303), Harvard University, 12 Holyoke St.,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tickets at the door. Contact: guyot@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:guyot@fas.harvard.edu>
*Thursday, April 29, 5:15
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
“‘His fault was thought’: Imagined Treason in Richard III”
Nick Utzig (Harvard University)
Room 114 (Kresge), Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title: Text against Image: Morisco Tales of Transgression in Early Modern Spain
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
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…
Tuesday May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI
02906
*Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
"Slavery, Sanctuary, and Sovereignty in the Early Modern Caribbean"
Linda Rupert (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), InterAmericas Fellow
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets,
Providence, RI
This talk traces the development of the so-called Spanish sanctuary, a series of royal
decrees offering freedom to slaves who escaped from the colonies of rival European
empires. Three intertwined factors spurred the Spanish Crown: the migrations of enslaved
individuals who crossed Caribbean waters and landscapes in search of freedom; disagreement
among Spanish colonial denizens about what to do with the refugees; and the Crown’s
efforts to exert control over relatively marginal or contested parts of its domains.
Thursday, May 4, or Friday, May 5, 2017 (TBA)
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Maria Devlin (Harvard University)
"Renaissance Comedy: A Retrospective"
Location and Time TBA
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
"Some Early Modern Literary Legacies of Anne Boleyn"
F. Elizabeth Hart, Independent Scholar
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
*Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
Chloe Ireton(University of Texas at Austin), Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow
Details to follow.
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets,
Providence, RI
*Friday, May 12, 2017, 5:30pm
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
New England Bound: lecture by Wendy Warren
Details to follow.
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets,
Providence, RI
Friday, May 12, 2017, 4–6pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
“On Living Mirrors and Mites: Leibniz’s Encounter with Pascal on Infinity and Living
Things circa 1696”
Robbins Library on the second floor of Emerson hall, Harvard Yard
Please write to Jeff McDonough for a copy of the paper: jkmcdon at
fas.harvard.edu
*Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
VK Preston (University of Toronto), Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow
Details to follow.
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets,
Providence, RI
*Wednesday, May 24, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
Rafael da Silva Campos (CHAM, New University of Lisbon), Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow
Details to follow.
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets,
Providence, RI
*Wednesday, May 31, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
"Visualizing Colonial France in the Eighteenth Century: Using Digital Humanities to
Map a New Approach to an Old Claim"
Elizabeth Heath (Baruch College-CUNY)
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets,
Providence, RI
*Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow’s Talk
Marcy Norton (George Washington University), National Endowment for the
Humanities/InterAmericas Fellow
Details to follow.
MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, Corner of George and Brown Streets,
Providence, RI
Saturday, October 14, 2017
New England Renaissance Conference
“Deceit, Deception, and Dishonesty in the Early Modern Era”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Call for Papers, Deadline: May 31, 2017.
Email for more information Lorenzo Buonanno,
lorenzo.buonanno@umb.edu<mailto:lorenzo.buonanno@umb.edu> and Shannon McHugh,
shannon.mchugh@umb.edu<mailto:shannon.mchugh@umb.edu>
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