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modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization.
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
Thursday, April 13, 2017, 6pm
Co-sponsored by Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, and Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
“L'Égalité Prescrite Par La Nature: Equality, Family Relations, and a Contested
Inheritance at the End of the Old Regime”
Hannah Callaway, Department of History, Harvard
Room 110, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
More Information:
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
Thursday, April 13, 2017, 5:00 pm
France and the World Seminar, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
Lecture: "The Voice of the Amerindian Convert in Jesuit Relations in Canada: From the
New Adam to the Universal Sinner, and from the Savage to the Noble Savage"
Anne Régent-Susini (University Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/voice-amerindian-convert-…
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday April 18, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk: “English Seamen and the Realm: Were Medieval Mariners 'Political'?”
Maryanne Kowaleski (Joseph Fitzpatrick SJ Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval
Studies, Fordham University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI
02906
Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 5:15
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Talk: “The Memory Arts and Early Modern Mnemonic Culture”
Bill Engel (Sewanee)
Room 316, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
*Thursday, April 20, 4 p.m.
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Lecture: "Macbeth’s Bubbles and Shakespeare’s Cosmopolitics."
Presenter: Julian Yates (professor of English, Delaware)
Room 4-153, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, Homer Babbidge Library, 4th
Floor
369 Fairfield Way, Unit 1234, Storrs, CT, 06269-1234
Drawing on the work of Isabelle Stengers and Peter Sloterdijk, this paper concerns
bubbles: time-bound, communities of breath, or atmospheres, pneumatic pacts of shared air.
If, in the near future, explicit climate policy will become the foundation of community
formation against (or with) increasingly hostile environs, then what do texts past,
written from within an immediate and knowable precarity, offer us as we seek to imagine
successive bubbles today? The “bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble” of Macbeth’s,
extro-terrestrial witches, outside, beyond, or within the infrastructures of the world of
the play, provides one place to think in these terms.
**Thursday, April 20, 2017, 5:30 – 6:30pm
George Parker Winship Lecture, Houghton Library
“The Objects of Houghton Library: Past, Present and Future”
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Loeb House, Harvard
Yard<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__houghtonlibrary…
Followed by a party, including...The BOOK LAUNCH for Houghton Library at 75: A Celebration
of its Collections; and A VIEWING of the exhibition HIST 75H: A Masterclass on Houghton
Library at Hougthon Library, Harvard University, 6:30 – 8:00pm. RSVP by calling
617-495-2441<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__houghto…
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 12:00 – 1:30 pm
“The Formation of a Taste Judgment: How Benjamin Haydon Came to Evaluate the Elgin
Marbles”
Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard University)
Harvard University, Science Center, Room 252
Lunch will be served. To RSVP please email
agjikola@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:agjikola@fas.harvard.edu> or
shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu<mailto:shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu>.
Friday, April 21, 5:30 pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar
“Seneca and the Antisocial in King Lear”
Curtis Perry (University of Illinois)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 21–22, 2017
Equinoxes Conference:
Memory/Rupture<http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/event/equinoxes-conferenc…
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Monday, April 24, 2017, 6pm
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
“The Dream of the Red Chamber (1792) and its Effect on China’s Women Writers”
Ellen Widmer (Wellesley College)
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
**Thursday, April 27, 2017, 4:30pm
Lauro de Bosis Fellowship Lecture
“Michelangelo and the Bible: Religious Reading and Writing in Sixteenth-Century Italy”
Sarah Rolfe Prodan (Department of History, Harvard University)
Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, Harvard Yard
Friday, April 28, 2017, 9:00 to 17.00 h.
Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
International Workshop: Arts and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400–1650)
Speakers: Prof. Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer (Universitat de València); Prof. Jorge Sebastián
(Universitat de València); Dr. Borja Franco (UNED, Madrid); Prof. Cristelle Baskins (Tufts
University); Prof. Felipe Pereda (Harvard University).
RCC Conference Room, Harvard University, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Visual strategies of legitimization became increasingly important for Iberian monarchies
during the late medieval and early modern periods. Mediterranean dynastic, diplomatic, and
military endeavors called for effective propaganda, both in the metropolis and in
viceregal territories, such as southern Italy. Such efforts include architecture, both
ephemeral and permanent, the decoration of palaces, court portraiture, and
historiography.
http://rcc.harvard.edu/event/arts-and-court-cultures-iberian-world-1400-1650
RSVP rcc@harvard.edu<mailto:rcc@harvard.edu> –
jorge.sebastian@uv.es<mailto:jorge.sebastian@uv.es>
May
Tuesday May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI
02906
Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 4:30pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar title: Text against Image: Morisco Tales of Transgression in Early Modern Spain
Catherine Infante, Amherst College
Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a
copy of this paper please contact Michael Meere at
mmeere@wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur…
Tuesday May 2, 4:30-6:00 PM
Spring MEMHS series
Talk title TBA
Charles Carroll (PhD candidate, Department of History, Brown University)
Pavilion Room of Peter Green House, Brown University, 79 Brown Street, Providence, RI
02906
Thursday, May 4, or Friday, May 5, 2017 (TBA)
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Maria Devlin (Harvard University)
"Renaissance Comedy: A Retrospective"
Location and Time TBA
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
"Some Early Modern Literary Legacies of Anne Boleyn"
F. Elizabeth Hart, Independent Scholar
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Saturday, October 14, 2017
New England Renaissance Conference
“Deceit, Deception, and Dishonesty in the Early Modern Era”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Call for Papers, Deadline: May 31, 2017.
Email for more information Lorenzo Buonanno,
lorenzo.buonanno@umb.edu<mailto:lorenzo.buonanno@umb.edu> and Shannon McHugh,
shannon.mchugh@umb.edu<mailto:shannon.mchugh@umb.edu>
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