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.
Upcoming Events
Week of October 29, 2019
Tue 10/29/2019 5:00pm
Early Modern History Workshop
Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for
Historical Studies, Princeton University), “Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western
Slave Law in Portuguese Asia"
Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
10/30/2019 4:00pm-6:00pm
Renaissance Wednesday
Talk: "'Hearts more proof than shields': City Walls and Shakespeare's
Politic Feelings"
Greg Sargent, PhD Candidate, English Department, UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St.,
Amherst MA
Refreshments to follow, provided by the Amherst Woman's Club
More information: renaissance (at)
english.umass.edu
Wed 10/30/2019 4:30pm to 6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Miya Tokumitsu (Art historian and Curator, Wesleyan): “Israhel van Meckenem’s Paper
Currency”
Location: Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
10/30/2019 6:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Sean Moore, University of New Hampshire: "Mapping the Reading Networks of Enslavers:
Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries"
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Fri - Sat, Nov 1 to Nov 2, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Folger Institute Seminar: “The Visual Art of Grammar” (by registration only)
Location: Alumnae Hall, Chrystal Room. Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
*Friday, Nov 1, 2019, noon-6pm
Sponsor: Boston University Travel Literature Research Workshop
Workshop: "Through Women's Eyes: Travel and Gender"
Presenters: Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, Mary Beth Guzman, Eugenio Menegon, Roberta Micallef,
Sunil Sharma, James Uden.
Keynote lecture (5-6pm): Prof. Rebekah Mitsein (Boston College): "The World through
Ethiopian Women's Eyes, from Μakǝdda to Mǝntǝwwab"
Location: Boston University School of Theology Community Center (B23-B24), 745
Commonwealth Ave., Boston
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*11/3/2019 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Workshop/Symposium: Sugar and the Early Modern Atlantic World
Speakers include: Vincent Brown, professor of History and of African and African American
Studies, Harvard University; Dennis Carr, Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Decorative
Arts and Sculpture; Michiel van Groesen, professor of Maritime History, Leiden University;
Antien Knaap, curatorial research fellow, Art of Europe; Performance by Jean Appolon
Expressions
Location: Museum of Fine Art, Boston
For further details and ticketing click here:
https://www.mfa.org/event/lecture/sugar-and-the-early-modern-atlantic-world…
Later This Term
11/6/2019 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Boston College, Center for Ignatian Spirituality
Franco Mormando, Professor of Italian and History, Boston College: "Ignatius the
Franciscan: The Franciscan Roots of Jesuit Spirituality"
Location: Gasson Hall 100, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA
Lunch will be served; free and open to public. RSVP is required.
To register:
https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/offices/mission-ministry/sites/center-for…
November 6, 2019 4:00pm-6:00pm
Renaissance Wednesday
Talk: "Grottoes, Mazes and Labyrinths in the Renaissance Garden"
Ellen Kosmer
Location: Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East
Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
Refreshments to follow, provided by the Amherst Woman's Club
For more information contact renaissance (at)
english.umass.edu
11/6/2019 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College): TBA
Location: Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
*Thursday, November 7, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Seminar
Talk, "Raising the Dead : The Landscape of Violence in Early Modern France"
Kathleen Long, Cornell University, Folger Mellon-Mowat Fellow 2019-2020
Sever Hall, Room 212, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/renaissance-studies
Monday November 11, 12.15-2pm
Sponsor: Harvard STS circle
“Sin, science and seismic shocks: the Jamaica earthquake of 1692 and the science of
disaster.”
Louis Gerdelan (Dept of History, Harvard)
Harvard CGIS South, Room 050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Please RSVP via our online form before Thursday afternoon, November 8th:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7VGUkAvTU655Dub2FTGSNMjpVs6f8Qbu…
Tue 11/12/2019 5:30pm
Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Harvard University: "Systematizing Jewish Religious Legal
Knowledge in the Early Modern Period", commented by Charles Donahue, Harvard Law
School
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book
Wed 11/13/2019 5:00pm
Sponsor: Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures
Nicholas Rashad Jones (Bucknell Univ.), “Staging Habla de Negros across the African
Diaspora”
Location: Boylston Hall 403, Harvard Univ., Harvard Yard
More Information: jblackmore (at)
fas.harvard.edu
Wed 11/13/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Eugenio Menegon, Boston University: “The Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the
Countess: Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission and their Role in Early
Modern Chinese-European Relations”
Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown
Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
11/14/2019 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Co-sponsored by Intellectual History Colloquium, the Early Modern History Workshop and the
Political Theory Colloquium
Roundtable discussion of James Hankins, Virtue Politics, Soulcraft and Statecraft in
Renaissance Italy (HUP 2019) featuring comments by David Armitage (History, Harvard),
Michelle Clark (Government, Dartmouth), Eric Nelson (Government, Harvard).
Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room, Harvard Yard
Thu 11/14/2019 4:00pm
Sponsor: Harvard Political Theory Colloquium
Shannon Stimson (Georgetown), "Petty and Hobbes"
Location: CGIS Knafel K401, Harvard, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
Th., Nov. 14, 2019, 5:00 p.m.
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art; Art, Art History, and Film
Department, Boston College
Lecture: "A newly restored predella panel by Fra Angelico: attribution, documents,
technical examination"
Laurence Kanter, Chief Curator and Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art, Yale
University Art Gallery and Irma Passeri, Senior Conservator of Paintings, Yale University
Art Gallery
Devlin Hall 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA
Reception immediately following
Please r.s.v.p. by November 4, 2019: 617-552-4295 or previtro(a)bc.edu
Fri 11/15/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Sponsor: Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Richard Arthur (McMaster University), "Leibniz's Metaphysics of Change: Vague
States and Physical Continuity"
Location: Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard
https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop
Fri 11/15/2019 5:30pm reception, 6:00 seminar
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
“Reconceiving Shakespeare in Four-dimensional Spacetime: Performance, Archive, Pedagogy”
Diana Henderson, M.I.T.
Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Tue 11/19/2019 5:30pm
Early Modern History Workshop
Lecture: "Why Do We Think There Were No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda
Nochlin”
Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society of Fellows),
Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
Nov 20, 2019, 9am-4pm
What is a Legal Archive? A Half-Day Symposium Organized by the Center for History and
Economics, Harvard University and the American Society for Legal History
Location: Harvard CGIS South, Room 030, 1730 Cambridge St (Lee Gathering Room),
Cambridge
Talks with relevance to early modern topics in all panels. (EM Speakers: Caroline Cunill
(Universite du Maine), Elizabeth Lhost (Dartmouth College), Michelle McKinley (University
of Oregon School of Law), Durba Mitra (Harvard), Bhavani Raman (UToronto), Tatiana Sijas
(Rutgers University), Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania). More Information and
RSVP: kalyaniramnath(a)fas.harvard.edu. RSVP by Nov 15. Website:
https://aslh.net/conference/2019-annual-meeting/
11/20/2019 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Play Reading: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Location: TBD, Harvard University
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
Wednesday, November 20, 6 pm
Early Modern History Workshop
"Trade and Lawsuits Across the Atlantic: Litigation Involving Sephardic and Converse
Traders in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Amsterdam, Porto and Brazil"
Daniel Strum (University of São Paulo and Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton)
Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as the Lower Library),
Harvard Yard
**11/20/2019 6:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies and Cartography Seminar
Book Launch: Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe (Chicago 2019)
Katharina N. Piechocki (author, Harvard) in conversation with Phillip John Usher (NYU)
Thompson Room Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/renaissance-studies
11/21/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern
World
Reginald A. Wilburn (English, University of New Hampshire), title TBA
Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley
College)
Thu 11/21/2019 6:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies, co-sponsored by: MHC
Seminar on History of the Book
Caroline Wigginton, University of Mississippi: "Hymncraft: Making Musicbooks and
Community from the Native Northeast to Brotherton and Beyond", with comment by Phil
Deloria (History, Harvard)
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Tue 11/26/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History
Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
12/5/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern
World
"Making the Case for Early Modern Women's and Gender Studies": A
Roundtable
Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley
College)
Fri 12/6/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
“New Work in Early Modern Drama,” Graduate Symposium
Alexandra Carter, Tufts University: “Cymbeline and the Poetics of Proximity”
Elizabeth Fox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “Staging Innovation: Novelty and
Profit in London Comedy”
Emiliano Guitterez Popoca, Brandeis University: “Master-Servant Relations, the Body and
its Passions in Early Modern Drama”
Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
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