Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early
modern period ca. 1450-1750, 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.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Lecture: "Bible exegesis, the ancient Israelites and the early modern question of
usury"
Avinoam Naeh (Hebrew University and Harvard), with comment by Sophus Reinert (HBS).
Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard
**Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Eighteenth Century Studies
"Naturalization and the Novel"
Stephanie De Gooyer, Radcliffe Institute, Willamette University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*Wednesday, May 1, 2019, 10:00am
Harvard Dissertation Defense: "Captured Consent: Bound Service and Freedom of
Contract in Early Modern England and English America"
Sonia Tycko (Harvard)
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado
Fabrício Prado (The College of William & Mary) National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellow
"Inter-American Connections: North-South American Networks in the Age of Atlantic
Revolutions"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Fabrício
Prado<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/…
*Thursday, May 2, 2019, 10:00am
Harvard Dissertation Defense: “Reframing Empire: Byzantium and the Transformation of
European Identity, c. 1400-1520”
Nate Aschenbrenner (Harvard)
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*Thursday, May 2, 2019, 4:00-6:00pm
Brown Program in Science, Technology and Society
Book Launch: Tara Nummedal: Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood: Alchemy and End
Times in Reformation Germany
Discussants: Tara Nummedal (Brown), Harald Cook (Brown), Alisha Rankin (Tufts)
Room 108, Rhode Island Hall, Brown University, Providence RI
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World,
co-chairs Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie (outgoing); co-chairs Erin Murphy and Sarah
Wall-Randall (incoming)
Roundtable: "Reassessing the Field, Passing the Torch: A roundtable and open
discussion, reception and celebration as the seminar leadership changes hands"
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
Friday May 3, 2019, talk no 4 at the symposium held between 8:45 and 5:30pm
Symposium Mecca: the Lived City
Lecture: “Between Empire and Sacred Space: Mecca as a Global Space in the Early Modern
World”
Tyler Kynn (Yale University)
location to be announced (on Harvard campus)
Thursday, May 9, 9:15 am
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College: Jesuit Studies Café
“The Jesuits as the Last Medieval Order?”
Markus Friedrich, Universität Hamburg
Institute Library, Simboli Hall, Boston College
To join these online discussions and for additional details please contact the Institute
(iajs (at)
bc.edu).
Thursday, May 9, 2019, 5:30pm
Lecture: “Printing Books at the Blind Man’s Arch: Translation and Circulation in the
Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment”
Neil Safier, Brown University
Houghton Library, Harvard Yard
For more information contact jblackmore (at)
fas.harvard.edu
*Thursday, May 9, 2019, 5:30pm
Mary Baker Eddy Library
Author-talk: "Bible Culture & Authority in the Early United States (2018)".
Seth Perry, Assistant Professor of Religion, Princeton University
Mary Baker Eddy Library, 200 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA
Perry's book looks at the development of Bible print culture in the United States in
the decades immediately following the American Revolution. Prior to the America's war
of independence, all English-language bibles came to the American colonies from Europe.
After the Revolution, a dynamic Bible printing and publishing industry quickly emerged in
the newly-formed nation. Perry's book tells the story of the rise of Bible printing
and publishing in the United States, and what made it distinct from European, primarily
English, bible printing. It examines the crucial role played by Bible printers,
publishers, and Bible societies in the formation of civic consciousness and authority in
the new republic.
Learn more, live stream information, and registration:
https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/event/author-talk-in-the-beginning-ame…
Wednesday May 15, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
“Margaret Cavendish’s Fiction of Science”
Debapriya Sarkar (English, U Conn)
Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers.
For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther
Moran at emmoran (at)
wesleyan.edu
Website:
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
June 11–13, 2019
Boston College, Institut for Advanced Jesuit Studies
International Symposium on Jesuit Studies
"Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of
Jesus"
www.bc.edu/iajs.
Save the Date:
*Tuesday, Sept 10, 2019, 5:15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Early Modern Aperitivo
Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard
**Saturday, Oct 5, 2019
New England Renaissance Conference (NERC): Motion, Rhythm, Shifts
Chace auditorium, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Extended deadline for proposals:
Abstracts no longer than 300 words accompanied by a title and a brief CV to be sent to:
prihouet(a)risd.edu by May 10, 2019.
In 2019, the New England Renaissance Conference is hosted for the first time at Rhode
Island School of Design, or RISD (pronounced “RIZ-dee”). We invite papers that explore the
notion of rhythm in the period of ca. 1400–1700. Scholars from disciplines as varied as
history, art history, literature and poetry, religion, theatre, music, environment, studio
art and design are welcomed.
The idea of motion, rhythm, and shifts is rich in significance for the Early Modern period
as it touches upon global concepts, material culture, ritual, performance, and identity.
Paper topics include, but are not limited to:
- temporal aspects (codification of time, recurrence of a specific phenomenon, the timing
of a performance, stages in the production of art, series, metamorphoses)
- movements and crossings (body movements, dance, inter-arts, transportation / re-location
of people, things, images, or relics)
- mobilities (migrations, trade patterns, traveling artists, scansion of narratives or
poetry, translations)
- ritual and ceremonies (processions, parades, ceremonial entries, relics transfers,
etc.)
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