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.
Thursday, Sept 10, 12-1pm
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston
John Adams and China Globalizing early America (Brown Bag, online event)
Yiyun Huang, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Registration and more information:
https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/event?event=3348
Thursday, Sept 10, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender and Culture in the Early
Modern World
"Fantasies of Whiteness and Colonial Violence in the Anglo-Portuguese Match of
1662"
Mira Assaf Kafantaris, Ohio State University and the Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies
To receive the zoom link please contact Sarah Wall-Randell at swallran (at)
wellesley.edu
Tuesday, September 15, 4-6pm
Early Modern World Initiative at Harvard University
2020 Fall Aperitivo (opening event), featuring introductory remarks by Leah Whittington
(English) and flash talks by Jeff McDonough (Philosophy), Anne-Marie Eze (Houghton
Library), Gordon Teskey (English), and David Atherton (East Asian Languages &
Civilizations). The talks will be followed by a virtual reception. Please email
earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu to RSVP and get the zoomlink.
Thursday, September 17, 5:15 pm
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
"Translation and the Erotic in Hero and Leander: Marlowe and His Ovids,"
Graduate Roundtable.
Katherine Horgan (English, 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…
Monday, Sept 21, 2020, 3pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Carthography
“Clouds, Place, and Poetic Style in Early Modern France”
Prof. Jeffrey N. Peters, University of Kentucky
Registration:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcu-urDsiH9xoDbgdeWvseaF0bA68O5…
Monday, Sept 21, 5-7pm
Legal History Workshop at Harvard
“Shakespeare and the European ius commune” (virtual talk)
R.H. Helmholz (The University of Chicago),
Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan at
law.harvard.edu<mailto:jgrischkan@law.harvard.edu> if you wish to participate in
this event.
Sept. 22, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
"Expertise and Empire: Fortification Building under the English Board of Ordnance,
1660-1688" (virtual talk)
Hannah Kaemmer (PhD Candidate, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning)
For the precirculated paper and zoom link please contact Hannah Marcus at hmarcus (at)
fas.harvard.edu .
Tuesday, Sept 22, 5:15pm-6:30pm
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston: Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar
"The Horrid Deeds of our Enemies" (online)
Lauren Duval, University of Oklahoma, Comment: Carolyn Eastman, Virginia Commonwealth
University
Registration and more information:
https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/early-american-history
Wednesday, Sept 23, 3-5pm
Sponsor: The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and
Afro-Latin America” at Harvard
will feature a virtual discussion of Ben Vinson III. Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of
Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018, with author
present. Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:therzog@fas.harvard.edu> if
you wish to participate in this event.
Thursday, October 1, 5 pm
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium, co-sponsored with the Medieval
Race Exploratory Seminar
"Premodern Critical Race Studies: A Work in Progress"
Margo Hendricks (Emerita, UC Santa Cruz)
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…
Monday, Oct. 5, 5-7 pm
Legal History Workshop at Harvard
“The Tawantisuyo invaded by demons: Inca interventions in Spanish colonial law” (virtual
talk)
Arnulf Becker Loria (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)
Please email Jamie Grischkan at jgrischkan at
law.harvard.edu<mailto:jgrischkan@law.harvard.edu> if you wish to participate in
this event.
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 4:30pm, on Zoom
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
"Copy, Patch, and stitch: Making Time and the Album in South Asia" (virtual
meeting)
Yael Rice (Assistant Professor of Art History, Amherst College)
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/
Tuesday, Oct 6, 5:15pm-6:30pm
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston: Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar
"'Our Turn Next': Slavery and Freedom on French and American Stages,
1789-99" (online)
Heather S. Nathans, Tufts University; Comment: Jeffrey Ravel, MIT
Registration and more information:
https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/early-american-history
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 3-5pm
Sponsor: The workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and
Afro-Latin America” at Harvard
Discussion of Joanne Rappaport and Thomas Cummins. Beyond the Lettered City. Indigenous
Literacies in the Andes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011, with authors present.”
Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:therzog@fas.harvard.edu> if you wish
to participate in this event.
Thursday, October 8, time TBD
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
Open Discussion:Criticism as Activism (Race in the Renaissance and Today). (Details about
our new Open Discussion series to be sent via email. Please feel free to reach out to the
colloquium coordinators with any questions or ideas, 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…
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 email emework at
fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Thursday, October 15, time TBA
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
Kelly Rafey (History, Harvard). Title TBA. (Topic: Early Modern shorthand)
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, 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.
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.
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.
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 email emework(a)fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
Canceled: SCSC Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference
The Sixteenth Century Society was scheduled to meet in Baltimore 29 October – 1 November
2020
Organizers of papers, sessions, and roundtables are invited to resubmit their proposals
for the coming annual meeting at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, 28-31 October 2021,
once the new CFP will be sent out early next year.
The 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.
Thursday, November 12, time TBA
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
Open Discussion: Topic TBA
More information:
https://sites.google.com/harvard.edu/english-graduate-colloquia/renaissance…
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 .
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, 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
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 .
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