Greetings and Welcome to the New Academic Year!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the
earlymodern 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.
Please mark Sept 20, 5pm in your calendar in case you can come to Harvard and join us for
our welcome reception. Thank you!
Upcoming Events
Friday, Sept 7, 2018, 3:30 (followed by a reception)
Department of Romance Languages, Harvard
Dissertation defense: Text and image in Dante's commedia and its early printed
illustrations (1481-1596)
Matthew Collins
Boylston Hall Room 335, Harvard Yard
Friday, Sept 7, 2018, 3:00-5:00pm
History of Philosophy Workshop, Harvard
Lecture: "Conviction, (Alternative) Facts, and Fake News in Aristotle's Natural
Science"
Mariska Leunissen (UNC)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Friday, Sept 7, 2-3pm, Saturday Sept 8, 2018, 2-4pm
The John Carter Brown Library
Early Modern Global Caribbean Symposium
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
On September 7 and 8, the John Carter Brown Library will host an Early Modern Global
Caribbean Symposium. This meeting, proposed and co-organized by Carla Pestana (UCLA) and
Molly Warsh (Pitt), will consist of a mix of conversations, primary and secondary source
discussion, and an opportunity to advance knowledge in a crucial part of the Library’s
collection. The symposium is the first of what we hope will be a series of events and a
broader initiative at the JCB examining the place of the early Caribbean in colonial
American and
early modern global studies.
Registration required
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In cooperation with symposium organizers Carla Pestana (Professor and Joyce Appleby
Endowed Chair of America in the World at UCLA) and Molly Warsh (Associate Professor of
World History at the University of Pittsburgh), the JCB will host a two-day workshop for
invited scholars to undertake ...
Thursday, September 13, 2018, 5:30pm
Cosponsored by the Shakespearean Studies Seminar and the Women and Culture in the Early
Modern World Seminar, both Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Lecture: King Lear, India, "good girls" and gratitude - some field notes on WE
THAT ARE YOUNG
Preti Taneja, Warwick University
Location TBA
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This seminar is designed to explore the broadest range of approaches to Shakespeare's
plays and those of his contemporaries. We welcome post-structuralist, feminist, formalist,
textual, historicist, and performance-based criticism.
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This seminar considers how gender is implicated in the formation of the political, social,
and artistic cultures of the early modern period. Topics addressed include religious and
allegorical representations of and by women; the economic and legal status of women in
specific communities; representations of male and female bodies in literature, art, and
science; and applications of competing ...
Thursday, Sept 20, 5:15pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard University
Aperitivo featuring short talks by Anja Goeing (History, Harvard), Felipe Pereda (HAA,
Harvard), Sophus Reinert (Harvard Business School), and Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity
School).
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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The Earlymod mailing list is designed to foster intellectual exchange among early
modernists of all disciplinary and regional specializations, especially in the greater
Boston area. The resources tab of this website also offers links to a variety of
databases, library catalogues and online projects.
Monday, September 24, 2018, 5:00pm
Renaissance Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
Stefano Tomassini, IUAV, University of Venice, Columbia University
Lecture: "New York FURIOSO. Luca Ronconi e «quelli dell'Orlando» a Bryant
Park"
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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Focused on the early modern period, this seminar explores a range of topics and issues at
the intersections of history, literature, music, philosophy, politics, popular culture,
history of science, and visual arts.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 12pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
From the Archives
Room 252, Science Center, Harvard, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 6:00pm
Eighteenth Century Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
Lecture: "Impossible Gluck"
Emily I. Dolan, Harvard University
Room 114, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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Eighteenth-Century Studies is a forum for new research and perspectives on the many
cultures of the "long" eighteenth century (1660-1820). The seminar explores
eighteenth-century literatures, histories, politics, philosophies, science, art, music,
and material cultures from diverse theoretical, methodological, and national standpoints.
Thursday, September 27, 2018, 5:00pm
Renaissance Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
Lecture: "The Voyage Through Montaigne's Ears"
Evan MacCarthy, West Virginia University
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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Focused on the early modern period, this seminar explores a range of topics and issues at
the intersections of history, literature, music, philosophy, politics, popular culture,
history of science, and visual arts.
Saturday, September 29 and Sunday, Sept 30, 2018
History of Philosophy Workshop, Harvard University
Two Day International Early Modern Workshop
Robbins Library, Second Floor, Emerson Hall, 25 Quincy Str, Cambridge
Program:
https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/event/international-workshop-early-mo…
If you would like to attend the International Workshop, please RSVP by Sept 17 to Jeff for
planning purposes at jkmcdon (at)
fas.harvard.edu
Monday, Oct 1, 5:15pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and History of Philosophy Workshop, both
Harvard University
Lecture: "The Critique of Scholastic Language in Renaissance Humanism and
Early-Modern Philosophy"
Lodi Nauta (University of Groningen)
Robbins Library, Second Floor of Emerson Hall, 25 Quincy St, Cambridge
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The Earlymod mailing list is designed to foster intellectual exchange among early
modernists of all disciplinary and regional specializations, especially in the greater
Boston area. The resources tab of this website also offers links to a variety of
databases, library catalogues and online projects.
Saturday, October 6, 2018
NERC New England Renaissance Conference
Resistance and Refashioning in the Early Modern World
Locations: Assumption College and the Worcester Art Museum
Call for Papers: abstracts due Sept 7 (new deadline!)
More Information: llazar (at)
assumption.edu
Friday, October 12, 2018 - 5:30pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
Talk Title TBA
Kim H. Carrell, College of the Holy Cross
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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This seminar is designed to explore the broadest range of approaches to Shakespeare's
plays and those of his contemporaries. We welcome post-structuralist, feminist, formalist,
textual, historicist, and performance-based criticism.
Saturday, October 13, 2018, 9:00am
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Graduate Conference in Renaissance Studies
650 E. Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/conferences.htm
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Conferences & Symposiums. At least twice per semester the Center sponsors a full-day
conference on various topics of Renaissance study. Most conferences are free, and all are
open to the public.
Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 6pm
Novel Theory Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Cosponsored by the Long Eighteenth-Century Graduate Colloquium
Lecture: "Time, Media, the Eighteenth-Century Novel"
Christina Lupton, University of Warwick
Stuart Sherman, Fordham University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
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The novel is a radically capacious and always evolving genre, open to the full range of
world literature, across periods and locations. This seminar examines the novel and its
various, overlapping functions as aesthetic object, cultural artifact, historical text,
and conceptual resource.
Friday, November 2, 2018, 5:30pm
Cosponsored by the Shakespearean Studies Seminar and the Women and Culture in the Early
Modern World Seminar, both Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Lecture: "Turning Chaste: Thomas Dekker, Honest Whores, and the Conversions of
English Courtesans"
Stephen Spiess, Babson College
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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This seminar is designed to explore the broadest range of approaches to Shakespeare's
plays and those of his contemporaries. We welcome post-structuralist, feminist, formalist,
textual, historicist, and performance-based criticism.
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mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
This seminar considers how gender is implicated in the formation of the political, social,
and artistic cultures of the early modern period. Topics addressed include religious and
allegorical representations of and by women; the economic and legal status of women in
specific communities; representations of male and female bodies in literature, art, and
science; and applications of competing ...
Monday Nov 12 5:15pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard University
Lecture: “The World in the Library” (on knowledge gathering and history writing in early
Latin America)
Valeria Lopez Fadul (Wesleyan)
CGIS S354, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
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The Earlymod mailing list is designed to foster intellectual exchange among early
modernists of all disciplinary and regional specializations, especially in the greater
Boston area. The resources tab of this website also offers links to a variety of
databases, library catalogues and online projects.
Wednesday November 14, 2018, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Lecture: “A Redemptive Figure: Hagar, the Servant, and Queen Christina of Sweden”
Andrea Celli, Italian Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut
Room 113, Boger Hall, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars 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
Friday, November 30, 2018, 5:30pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
Graduate Student Symposium
Talk Title TBA
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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This seminar is designed to explore the broadest range of approaches to Shakespeare's
plays and those of his contemporaries. We welcome post-structuralist, feminist, formalist,
textual, historicist, and performance-based criticism.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
University (Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie)
Lecture: "Remaking Shakespeare Through Performance"
Karin Coonrod, Yale School of Drama/Compagnia de' Colombari
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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This seminar considers how gender is implicated in the formation of the political, social,
and artistic cultures of the early modern period. Topics addressed include religious and
allegorical representations of and by women; the economic and legal status of women in
specific communities; representations of male and female bodies in literature, art, and
science; and applications of competing ...
Monday, Dec 10, 12-2pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard University
Lecture: "Sinful Slumbers: Sleeping in Church and the Prehistory of Boredom"
Daniel Juette (NYU)
Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard Yard
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The Earlymod mailing list is designed to foster intellectual exchange among early
modernists of all disciplinary and regional specializations, especially in the greater
Boston area. The resources tab of this website also offers links to a variety of
databases, library catalogues and online projects.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
“Representations of Black Africans and Others in Orlando di Lasso’s Music for the 1568
Wedding of Wilhelm V to Renata of Lorraine”
Eric Rice, Music Department, University of Connecticut
Room 113, Boger Hall, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars 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
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