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. This
year we are announcing online events and activities relevant to the Boston area. Please
forward announcements of virtual socials, web-meetings, online exhibits, and application
deadlines for future conferences in our region. We’re planning a mailing roughly every two
weeks—please therefore send notices of events at least two weeks in advance. Please
forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail
addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu.
For security reasons the list will not disseminate zoom links directly, but we can list an
email contact to which to write for further details about attending. Alternatively, we can
circulate registration information for events. All times are EDT and change to EST on the
first Sunday in November.
Tuesday, Oct 13, 2020, 4:30-6pm
Early Modern Workshop at Harvard
“The America Company: from networks to institutions in the Anglo-Dutch
seventeenth-century Atlantic” (virtual talk)
Joris van den Tol (Post-doctoral Rubicon Scholar, Harvard University/University of
Leiden), Commentator: Sergio Leos
Please register
here<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvcumvrzwsHdHOt95uWkNkSXH_FakcxyRr>
to receive the zoom link.
**Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Brown University, Department of History
The 41st William F. Church Memorial Lecture
“Revisiting Mosquito Empires in the time of COVID-19"
John McNeill (Georgetown University)
More information and meeting registration at
https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/view/event/date/20201013/event_…
**Thursday, October 15, 11am
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
"'Writing by strange markes': The Invention and Inventiveness of English
Shorthand."
Kelly Rafey (History, Harvard)
To receive precirculated paper and zoom link, please email Vanessa Braganza (vbraganza
(at)
g.harvard.edu) or Karina Mathew (karinamathew (at)
g.harvard.edu)
More information:
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
Thursday, October 15, 2020, 6:00 p.m.
Boston College, Art, Art History, and Film Department
Webinar Lecture: “Black Women in Italian Renaissance Art and in Modern Whitewashing”
Patricia Simons, Professor Emerita, History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
To register for the event:
https://events.bc.edu/event/lecture_by_patricia_simons_black_women_in_itali…
*Monday, Oct. 19, 1-2:30pm (Harvard affiliates)
FAS Premodern Race Seminar 2020-21
This week's discussion will focus on race and Classics, chaired by Rachel Love and
Naomi Weiss.
Questions? Please contact Anna Wilson
(anna_wilson@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:vbraganza@g.harvard.edu>) or Vanessa Braganza
(vbraganza(a)g.harvard.edu).
Monday, Oct. 19, 5-7pm
Legal History Workshop at Harvard
“Justice for the poor? Jurisdiction and debt-credit relationships (Savoyard State, 18th
century)” (virtual talk)
Simona Cerutti (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan at
law.harvard.edu<mailto:jgrischkan@law.harvard.edu> if you wish to participate in
this event.
*Monday, Oct. 19, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and
Medium
"Almost Famous: Women Artists in France Before Vigée le Brun"
Melissa Hyde (University of Florida)
Please click here for registration
instructions.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harva…
*Monday, Oct. 19, 8pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on China Humanities
“Information and its Objects: Provenancing the Censers of the Xuande Court”
Bruce Rusk (University of British Columbia)
More information and registration instructions:
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/information-and-its-object…
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 3-5pm
Sponsor: The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and
Afro-Latin America” at Harvard
Discussion of Ana Pulido Rull. Mapping Indigenous Land. Native land Grants in Colonial New
Spain. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020, with author present.
Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:therzog@fas.harvard.edu> if you wish
to participate in this event.
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
'Music, Painting, and the Ideal of the "Renaissance (Wo)Man"'
Walter Denny, Distinguished Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
More information:
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/wedsat4denny
*Wednesday, October 21, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Brown University Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Conversation: On Adam Teller's Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee
Crisis of the Seventeenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2020)
Features Hal Cook (Brown), Adam Teller (Brown), and Francesca Trivellato (IAS Princeton).
Learn
more<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.us16.lis…
and
register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.us16…eICd82UYw0P-_Dw00pU&e=>.
*Thursday, Oct. 22, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early
Modern World
"In a manner that might have meant 'no'": Sexual Desire and
Intellectual Disability in Early Modern French Fairy Tales.”
Jennifer E. Row (University of Minnesota)
Registration:
https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkceGqqTkoE9CPyCPk5wWWlzNUiwzy…
*Friday, Oct. 23, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespeare Studies
“Great Thing of us Forgot: King Lear (Q1) and the Disappearing Page”
Jessica Beckman (Dartmouth)
Please contact William Carroll at wcarroll@bu.edu<mailto:wcarroll@bu.edu> to receive
a link to the event.
Postponed: The 2020 New England Renaissance Conference at Boston College (was: Saturday,
October 24, 2020), Theme: “Early Modern Europe: From Below, at the Margins, Behind the
Scenes.” Info: Prof. Franco Mormando (mormando (at)
bc.edu). We will send news and updates
as soon as possible.
*Monday, Oct. 26, 4:00PM
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Jewish Cultures and Societies
A Jewish Look at World Politics: The Catalan Mappamundi (Majorca, 1375)
Katrin Kogman-Appel (University of Münster, Germany)
Registration:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcodOGppzwsGNBf9W8DL0TMz-4EBqRh-h…
Tuesday, Oct. 27, 4:00PM
Early Sciences Working Group and Early Modern Workshop
"The Communications Circuit of Bureaucratic Knowledge: Production Crises and Refining
Innovations in Late 16th-Century Potosi" (virtual talk)
Renee Raphael (Associate Professor, History, UC Irvine)
Please register
here<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pd-2rqjwuEtEuE6BXtXRdJgD_f5_Fh_eq>
to receive the zoom link.
Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
TBA
Marina Rustow (Princeton University)
More information and zoom link at
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
**Friday October 30, 2020, at 19:00 GMT; 3:00 EDT
SCSC Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference
‘Faith and Survival: Writing a Religious History of the Thirty Years' War.’
The SCSC Plenary Address will be delivered virtually by Professor Bridget Heal of the
University of St Andrews.
Zoom link to follow.
The SCSC website is
https://sixteenthcentury.org/
Monday, Nov. 2, 5-7pm
Legal History Workshop at Harvard
“The Horrible Sepulture of Mannes Resoun: Drunkenness and the Medieval English Common
Law” (virtual talk)
Elizabeth Kamali (Harvard Law School)
Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan at
law.harvard.edu<mailto:jgrischkan@law.harvard.edu> if you wish to participate in
this event.
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 3-5 pm
Sponsor: The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and
Afro-Latin America” at Harvard
Virtual Discussion of Larissa Brewer García. Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in
Colonial Peru and New Granada. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020,
with author present.
Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:therzog@fas.harvard.edu> if you wish
to participate in this event.
Monday, Nov. 9, 5-7pm
Legal History Workshop at Harvard
"Writing the Common Law in Latin in the Late Thirteenth Century" (virtual talk)
Thomas J. McSweeney (William & Mary Law School)
Please email Jamie Grischkan at
jgrischkan@law.harvard.edu<mailto:jgrischkan@law.harvard.edu> if you wish to
participate in this event.
*Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies
“Staging Habla De Negros in Iberian Early Modernity”
Nicholas R. Jones (Bucknell University, Pennsylvania)
Please RSVP to Therese Banks (tbanks@g.harvard.edu<mailto:tbanks@g.harvard.edu>) or
Emily Epperson (epperson@g.harvard.edu<mailto:epperson@g.harvard.edu>) for the Zoom
link.
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2020, 5:30-7pm
Brown University Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Colloquium: Babel in Post-Conquest Mexico
Felipe Rojas and Andrew Laird, Brown University
Learn
more<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.us16.lis…
and
register<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__brown.us16…lQ_n30OWNPF8WVFkdGs&e=>.
**Thursday, November 12, 6-7:30 PM
Harvard English Graduate Symposium Keynote
"Haply for I am Black": Othello as White Property
Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd)
Register here for the link:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctd-mspjMsGtLS2IFHpdiPDI9UPZI_oH…
Thursday, November 12, 2020, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteen-Century Studies
"Ran Away From Her Master...A Negroe Girl Named Thursday": Examining Evidence of
Punishment, Isolation, Trauma, and Illness in Nova Scotia and Quebec Fugitive Slave
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Charmaine Nelson, Mcgill University
More information and zoom registration link:
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/“ran-away-her-master…-negr…
Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, 12pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Cartography
“’Impossible Matter’: Humanity, Agency, and Identity in ‘The Tempest’”
Daniel Vitkus (UCSD)
More information and zoom registration:
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/impossible-matter-humanity…
Nov. 17, 12-1pm
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
"How Islamic is Islamic Medicine? Text and the Body in Tibb" (virtual talk)
Shireen Hamza (PhD Candidate, History of Science)
For the precirculated paper and zoom link please contact Hannah Marcus at hmarcus (at)
fas.harvard.edu .
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
'European Museums With or Without Walls: Holding and Beholding Virgil in England
between Gutenberg and Milton'
Tim Markey, Worcester Academy
More information:
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/wedsat4markey
Monday, Nov. 23, 5-7pm
Legal History Workshop at Harvard
“Legal pluralism: from history to theory and back” (virtual talk)
Emanuele Conte (Università Roma Tre, Italy and EHESS, Paris)
Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan at
law.harvard.edu<mailto:jgrischkan@law.harvard.edu> if you wish to participate in
this event.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
TBA
Amy Remensnyder (History, Brown University)
More information and zoom link at
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Tuesday, December 1, 2020, 6pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteen-Century Studies
"Varieties of Bondage in the Early Atlantic"
Ramesh Mallipeddi, University of Colorado
More information and zoom registration link:
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/varieties-bondage-early-at…
Tuesday, December 1, 5:15pm-6:30pm
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston: Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar
"Caribbean Connections—Panel Discussion" (online)
Charlotte Carrington-Farmer, Rober Williams University; Casey Schmitt, Cornell University;
Comment: Ryan Quintana, Wellesley College
Registration and more information:
https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/early-american-history
*Thursday, Dec. 3, 3-5pm, on Zoom
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on German Studies: New Perspectives
“Kein Mensch muss müssen”: Exigencies of the German Stage from Lessing to Jelinek
Benjamin Lewis Robinson (University of Vienna)
Registration and more information:
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/kein-mensch-muss-müssen-ex…
Tuesday, Dec. 6, 4:30pm, on Zoom
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
"The Centaur Myth in Renaissance Florence" (virtual meeting)
Andrea Moudarres (Associate Professor of Italian, UCLA)
For a copy of the paper and more information about the zoom link, please contact Ester
Moran at emmoran at
wesleyan.edu
website:
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Dec. 15, 12-1pm
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
"March" (a chapter from her book with Ahmed Ragab) (virtual talk)
Katharine Park (Professor Emerita, History of Science)
For the precirculated paper and zoom link please contact Hannah Marcus at hmarcus (at)
fas.harvard.edu.
*Deadline: Jan 15, 2021
41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
“Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance”
Keene State College
Friday and Saturday April 16-17, 2021
More information and registration/paper upload link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCjExeUkIIeWiVppacgtuQ5KqVQvpsXAQ…
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