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.
Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and
e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu. To keep this list during our time of
self-isolation, we are announcing video conferences relevant to the Boston area. Please
forward announcements of virtual socials, web-meetings, online exhibits, and application
deadlines for future conferences in the Boston area. We hope to see you soon in good
health!
Upcoming:
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium and Harvard Early Modern History
Workshop
"Material Afterlives of University Drama: The Actor's Part"
Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows)
Join the Zoom meeting
here<https://harvard.zoom.us/j/703015199?pwd=NXRCR2VJZStYdHdCSUZJNWVsZVBjQT09>
April 27, 2020
CFP deadline: Sixteenth Century Society & Conference (SCSC)
conference to be held on October 29-Nov 1, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland.
The official website with more information:
https://sixteenthcentury.org/<https://sixteenthcentury.org/#https://sixt…
**April 28, 2020, 4:30pm (new link below!)
“Monastic Technologies of Authority: Cistercian Diplomatic Praxis, Crusade, and the
Colonization of the Midi.”
<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/files/2020/04/Occitania-Chapter-no.-2.pdf> (The link
opens the PDF file of the book chapter)
Leland Grigoli (Brown University, History)
Join the Zoom meeting here.<https://brown.zoom.us/j/218497046>
August 15, 2020
Deadline CFP: The 2020 New England Renaissance Conference at Boston College (Saturday,
October 24, 2020), Theme: “Early Modern Europe: From Below, at the Margins, Behind the
Scenes.” Info: Prof. Franco Mormando (mormando (at)
bc.edu)
Earlymod and Epidemics (Open Sources of the Month):
Frank Snowden (Yale): Hist 234--Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (Recorded in
Spring 2010)
https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234
<https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234>
*Kinney Center for Interdiscipinary Renaissance Studies
The Musical Settings of Tasso's Poetry. An Online Concert, directed by UMass music
history professor Emiliano Ricciardi. Guest ensemble Palma Choralis (Brescia, Italy)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMOYhD9u7sNJYty0kEtTcAg/featured
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