Greetings and Happy New Year!
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. We
are announcing in person and online events and activities relevant to the Boston area.
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earlymod@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>.
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list an email contact to which to write for further details about attending.
Alternatively, we can circulate registration information for events. All times are
Boston/Eastern times.
CFP for Local Conferences
CFP:
https://shakespeareconference.com/; deadline Feb 29, 2024.
Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference: "Shakespeare & Play", an in-person
academic conference for undergraduate students from Greater Boston, Central Mass, and New
England more broadly.
Keynote speaker: David Sterling Brown, PhD (Assoc. Prof of English, Trinity College).
Conference Date: April 27, 2024 at Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA.
Please see the website (above) for submissions or email ClarkShaxConference2024(a)gmail.com
for more info
Upcoming Fortnight: Events
1/23/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Cicely
Bonnin<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/cicely-bonnin-bodi…=0>,
“Bodies and Colors in the Upaniṣads and early Āyurvedic
Texts”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/cicely-bonnin-bodi…
Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA)
For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at
brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or
analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
1/25/2024 6:00pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Welcome Event: Medieval & Renaissance Library Crawl
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/welcome-event-medieval-renaissance-library-crawl-harvard-english-department?delta=0>
(Harvard ID)
Location: Medieval Studies Library, Widener Library, Harvard Yard
2/2/2024 5:30pm
Mahindera Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Miles
Grier<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/miles-grier-queens-…=0>,
Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY: "In Aleppo Once": Othello’s Inky
Constitution
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/miles-grier-queens-college-and-graduate-center-cuny-aleppo-once-othello%E2%80%99s?delta=0>
Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Events later in the Semester:
2/6/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Manny
Medrano<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/manny-medrano-str…=0>,
String Theories: Hidden Astronomy, Temporary Canons, and Andean Quipu Decipherment at the
Göteborgs Museum, Sweden
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/manny-medrano-string-theories-hidden-astronomy-temporary-canons-and-andean?delta=0>
Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA)
For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at
brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or
analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
2/7/2024 5:00pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Adhaar Noor
Desai<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/adhaar-noor-desai-a…=0>,
Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College, "Rude Mechanicals: Shakespeare and
Aesthetic Education in the Age of Generative
AI"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/adhaar-noor-desa…
Location: TBA, Harvard University (In-Person Event)
2/8/2024 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Early Modern Workshop in History at Harvard
Nicholas
Popper<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/nicholas-popper-wi…
(William and Mary) discussing his new book: The Specter of the Archive. Political Practice
and the Nation State in Early Modern Britain (University of Chicago
Press)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/nicholas-popper-wi…
Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
2/8/2024 5:30pm
Brown University Early Modern World
Lia Markey (Newberry Library): The Persistent Portolan: Binding the Globe in the Early
Modern Mediterranean World
RI Hall, room 108, Brown University Providence RI
More
information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events>
2/9/2024 10:00am to 11:30am
Early Modern Workshop in History at Harvard
Kelly
McCay<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/kelly-mccay-dept-hi…
(Dept of History, Harvard), dissertation defense of “‘A writing by strange markes.’ The
Invention of Shorthand in Early Modern England,
1588-1700”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/kelly-mccay-de…
Location: Dept Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
Fri Feb 9, 2pm to Sat Feb 10, 3:30pm
Early Modern Workshop in History at Harvard
HUPU<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hupu-harvard-princet…
Princeton Grad Conference in Early Modern
History<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hupu-harvard-prin…
Location: History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall, Room 125
2/12/2024 6:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Paul
Kelleher<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/paul-kelleher-em…=0>,
Emory University: Persuasion's Queer Drift
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/paul-kelleher-emory-university-persuasions-queer-drift-mhc-seminar-eighteenth?delta=0>
Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA and on Zoom
2/15/2024 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine
Alisha Rankin, Ph.D., Tufts University Professor of History, Editor “Bulletin of the
History of Medicine”: “Women Healers in Early Modern Europe”
Zoom link:
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94337617055?pwd=M0pqNEFZQXVzRXluQ0llalVBRjB0UT09
For further information contact David G. Satin, M.D., Colloquium Director, e-mail:
david_satin@hms.harvard.edu<mailto:david_satin@hms.harvard.edu>
2/20/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Gio DiRusso
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/gio-dirusso-and-julia-hintlian-eclectic-hellenistic-science-sirr-al-khaliqa?delta=0>
and<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/gio-dirusso-and-julia…
Julia
Hintlian<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/gio-dirusso-and-…=0>,
Eclectic Hellenistic Science in the Sirr al-Khaliqa
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/gio-dirusso-and-julia-hintlian-eclectic-hellenistic-science-sirr-al-khaliqa?delta=0>
Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA)
For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at
brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or
analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
2/20/2024 5:00pm
Early Modern Workshop, Dept of History, Harvard
Sally
Hayes<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sally-hayes-univers…
(University of Wisconsin and John Carter Brown Library), "Slavery and Civic
Leadership in Lima's Black Confraternities," followed by a comment by
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sally-hayes-university-wisconsin-and-john-carter-brown-library-time-and-title?delta=0>
Kevin
Blacutt<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sally-hayes-unive…
(History,
Harvard)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sally-hayes-univ…
Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
2/20/2024 7:00-8:00 pm
American Antiquarian Society (Worcester)
Mark Valeri: “The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced
Religious Liberty”
This hybrid program will be held in person at Antiquarian Hall and livestreamed to a
virtual audience on YouTube. Advance registration is required for both. Doors open at
6:30pm.
More information:
https://www.americanantiquarian.org/hybrid-program-mark-valeri
2/21/2024 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book and by
the Renaissance Colloquium, Dept of English, Harvard
Whitney
Trettien<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/whitney-trettien…
(Dept of English, University of Pennsylvania), “Copy / Document / Remix: Toward a Theory
of the
Facsimile”<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/whitney-tretti…
Location: Barker Center, room 114, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
2/22/2024 5:30pm
Brown University Early Modern World
Keith Sidwell (U. Calgary, CA): The End of History? Michael Murrin, The Gunpowder
Revolution and the Fate of Epic in the 16th and 17th Centuries
RI Hall, room 108, Brown University Providence RI
More
information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events>
2/28/2024 5:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Chad
Córdova<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/chad-c%C3%B3rdova…=0>,
Emory University, Margins Without Center: Grotesque Ontologies and the Ecopolitical
Thinking of Montaigne's
Essays<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/chad-c%C3%B3rdova-…
Location: Online (See Details)
Registration
link<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUldu-hqzoiGNAFiYIlSGl9yQ3CsuC4X6No>
3/5/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Wenfei
Wang<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/wenfei-wang-epistemo…
- An Epistemology of Surgery as Technique in Early Modern
China<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/wenfei-wang-epistem…
Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA)
For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at
brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or
analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
3/6/2024 5:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Buddhist Studies Forum
Rae Erin
Dachille<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/rae-erin-dachill…=0>,
University of Arizona: Regard the Seams and Sutures: Exegesis and Imagination in
Fifteenth-Century
Tibet<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/rae-erin-dachille-u…
Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
3/13/2024 5:30pm
Brown University Early Modern World
Natalie Van Deusen, Relics of an Ancient Past: Catholic Saints in Early Modern Iceland
Location: TBD
More
information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events>
3/14/2024 5:30pm-7:00pm
Brown University Early Modern World and Brown Center for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies
Keynote Lecture: Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University: “The Gift: A French Atlantic History
of Slavery and Memory”
Location: Cogut Institute, Pembroke Hall, room 305, Brown University, Providence RI
This keynote lecture opens “France and the Black Atlantic: Geographies of Slavery and
Memory,” a workshop that seeks to engage with the burgeoning scholarship on French and
francophone ideas and ideologies of race, Blackness (“négritude” in French), and the
economic foundations of the transatlantic slave trade, in the context of inter-imperial
rivalries and colonization schemes from Africa to the Americas. More
information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events>
3/15/2024 9:30pm-5:30pm
Brown University Early Modern World and Brown Center for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies
Workshop “France and the Black Atlantic: Geographies of Slavery and Memory”
Location: Brown University, Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, Petteruti Lounge
Provisional
Schedule<https://events.brown.edu/cogut/event/277319-keynote-lecture-ana…
3/15/2024 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Shankar
Raman<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/shankar-raman-profe…=0>,
Professor of Literature, MIT: Shankar Raman
Seminar<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/shankar-raman-pro…
Location: Harvard Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
3/26/2024 5:00pm
Sponsored by the International Academic Programs--Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
The IAP Annual Lecture in Legal History,
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/silvia-di-paolo-medieval-and-modern-legal-history-roma-tre-university-law?delta=0>
Silvia Di
Paolo<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/silvia-di-paolo-med…
(Medieval and Modern Legal History in the Law Department, University of Rome Tre),
“Restitution: How ill-gotten gains produced public good in Early Modern canon law”
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/silvia-di-paolo-medieval-and-modern-legal-history-roma-tre-university-law?delta=0>
Location: TBA, Harvard University (in-person event)
3/27/2024 5:00pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Kristen
Poole<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/kristen-poole-profe…=0>,
Professor of English at University of Delaware, "Living Insphered: Milton’s Cosmic
Proprioception."<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/kri…
Location: TBA, Harvard University (in-person event)
3/28/2024 2pm-3pm
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester MA
Duncan Faherty: “The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters”
Zoom Event. This virtual program is free, but registration is required:
Register<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BpqC1h4JSGynimujy7J8yw>
American periodicals covered the Haitian revolution from its outbreak in 1791 until well
after it ended in 1804, describing it with sentimental and sensationalist undertones that
helped shape U.S. literary culture in the early nineteenth century. Yet, scholars have
often ignored how early Americans understood their nation as entwined with Haiti. Drawing
on his new book, The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters (Oxford
University Press, January 2024), Duncan Faherty explores this phenomenon and shows how
obsessed early American readers were with the seismic force of the Haitian Revolution and
its aftershocks in the US domestic sphere. Not just an enigma occasionally deployed by
American writers, Haiti was rather the inspiration for new ideas of freedom and resistance
in a still-young nation.
More information:
https://www.americanantiquarian.org/virtual-book-talk-duncan-faherty-0
3/28/2024 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book
Roger
Chartier<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/roger-chartier-d…
(Dept of History, University of Pennsylvania, and Collège de France, Paris, emeritus),
“Erasure and Inscription in Early Modern Europe”
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/roger-chartier-dept-history-university-pennsylvania-and-coll%C3%A8ge-de-france?delta=0>
Location: Barker Center, room 133. 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 (Harvard
University)
4/2/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Ana Luiza
Nicolae<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ana-luiza-nicolae…=0>,
The Geometrization of Winds in Mesopotamian and Greek
Antiquity<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/ana-luiza-nicol…
Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA)
For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at
brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or
analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
4/10/2024 5:00pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Sam
Bozoukov<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sam-bozoukov-hid…=0>,
"The 'Hideous Noise' of Samson Agonistes: Milton's Crisis of
Dissonance" (Graduate Student
Talk)<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/sam-bozoukov-hideou…
Location: TBA, Harvard University (in-person event)
4/10/2024 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book
Spencer
Weinreich<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/spencer-weinrei…
(Harvard Society of Fellows and Dept of History of Science, Harvard), "Prison History
as Book
History"<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/spencer-wei…
Location: Harvard University, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
4/16/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Briana
Brightly<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/briana-brightly-…=0>,
Dreaming of Tanaduk: Painting the Medicine Buddha’s Pure Land in the Golden Age of Tibetan
Medicine<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/briana-brightly-…
Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA)
4/18/2024 5:30pm
Brown University Early Modern World
James Hankins (Harvard): Can Political Virtue be Taught? Answers from the Western
Tradition
Location: TBD
More
information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events>
4/18/2024 9am to 5pm
Brown University Early Modern World
Early Modern World Colloquium “Mirrors for Princes”
Location: TBD
More
information<https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/upcoming-events>
4/24/2024 5:00pm
Co-hosted by the Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium and the Theater and
Performance Colloquium, Harvard
Jane Hwang
Degenhardt<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/jane-hwang-deg…=0>,
Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, "Shakespeare's
Speculative Horizons: The Impossible, the Unknowable, and the Dream of Other Worlds"
<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/jane-hwang-degenhardt-professor-english-university-massachusetts-amherst?delta=0>
Location: TBA, Harvard University (In-Person Event)
4/30/2024 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Harvard Early Sciences Working Group
Alex
Garnick<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/alex-garnick-van-…=0>,
van Roomen on al- Khwārizmī and the Divergence of Early Modern
Algebras<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/alex-garnick-van…
Location: Harvard Science Center 252, Lunch is provided (1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA)
For any questions, please contact ESWG coordinators at
brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu<mailto:brianabrightly@g.harvard.edu> or
analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu<mailto:analuiza_nicolae@g.harvard.edu>
5/1/2024 5:00pm
Closing Event: Spenser on the Lawn: Picnic and Faerie Queene
Reading<https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/closing-event-spe…
Location: Barker Center Lawn, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
5/6/2024
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book
Save the date for the annual Harvard-Yale-Brown graduate conference in Book History which
will include some sessions on the early modern context.
Harvard, Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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