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.
Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and
e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu.
Upcoming Events
From Nov 18, 2019
Tue 11/19/2019 5:30pm
Early Modern History Workshop
Lecture: "Why Do We Think There Have Been No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda
Nochlin”
Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society of Fellows),
Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
Nov 20, 2019, 9am-4pm
What is a Legal Archive? A Half-Day Symposium Organized by the Center for History and
Economics, Harvard University and the American Society for Legal History
Location: Harvard CGIS South, Room 030, 1730 Cambridge St (Lee Gathering Room), Cambridge
Talks with relevance to early modern topics in all panels. (EM Speakers: Caroline Cunill
(Universite du Maine), Elizabeth Lhost (Dartmouth College), Michelle McKinley (University
of Oregon School of Law), Durba Mitra (Harvard), Bhavani Raman (UToronto), Tatiana Sijas
(Rutgers University), Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania). More Information and
RSVP: kalyaniramnath(a)fas.harvard.edu. RSVP by Nov 15. Website:
https://aslh.net/conference/2019-annual-meeting/
11/20/2019 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus (Re/De)Coded: An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion
and Digital Installation
Location: ISEC Auditorium & Atrium Northeastern University Interdisciplinary Science
& Engineering Complex, Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA, USA
Through a collaboration with the design firm, The Visual Agency, and the Biblioteca
Ambrosiana in Milan (which has housed the original Codex since the seventeenth century),
Northeastern University hosts the debut U.S. presentation of this interactive digital
installation. More Information:
https://camd.northeastern.edu/event/leonardo-da-vincis-codex-atlanticus-re-…
11/20/2019 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Play Reading: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Location: Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard University
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
*11/20/2019 5:30pm
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture
Lecture: Capturing and Eroding the Self: From Self-Portraiture to the Selfie
John Garton (Art History, Clark University)
South College E245, University of Massachusetts Amherst
**Wednesday, November 20, 6 pm
Early Modern History Workshop
"Trade and Lawsuits Across the Atlantic: Litigation Involving Sephardic and Converse
Traders in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Amsterdam, Porto and Brazil"
Daniel Strum (University of São Paulo and Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton)
Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room (previously History Department Conference Room
(formerly known as the Lower Library)), Harvard Yard
11/20/2019 6:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Renaissance Studies and Cartography Seminar
Book Launch: Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe (Chicago 2019)
Katharina N. Piechocki (author, Harvard) in conversation with Phillip John Usher (NYU)
Thompson Room Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/renaissance-studies
**11/21/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern
World
Lecture: "Milton and Tarell Alvin McCraney's Poetics of Hair-Raising Drag in Wig
Out!"
Reginald A. Wilburn (English, University of New Hampshire)
Location: Room 373, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley
College)
Thu 11/21/2019 6:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies, co-sponsored by: MHC
Seminar on History of the Book
Caroline Wigginton, University of Mississippi: "Hymncraft: Making Musicbooks and
Community from the Native Northeast to Brotherton and Beyond", with comment by Phil
Deloria (History, Harvard)
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
**Tue 11/26/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Lecture: "Imperial Models: Design and Technology in State-Controlled Porcelain
Manufacture in Early Modern China"
Kajun Chen (East Asian Studies)
Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History
Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
*12/4/2019 6:00pm
Boston University Department of History of Art and Architecture and Latin American Studies
Program
Lecture: “Inheriting the Pacific: Can Art History Think an Ocean?”
Dana Leibsohn, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art; Director of Latin American and Latino/a
Studies,Smith College:
Location: BU CAS Building, room 132, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215
http://www.bu.edu/ah/news/haa-lecture-series/
12/5/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern
World
"Making the Case for Early Modern Women's and Gender Studies": A
Roundtable
Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley
College)
Fri 12/6/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
“New Work in Early Modern Drama,” Graduate Symposium
Alexandra Carter, Tufts University: “Cymbeline and the Poetics of Proximity”
Elizabeth Fox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “Staging Innovation: Novelty and
Profit in London Comedy”
Emiliano Guitterez Popoca, Brandeis University: “Master-Servant Relations, the Body and
its Passions in Early Modern Drama”
Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
*Friday, December 13, 10:00 - 6:00
Boston Area Kant Colloquium
Location: Emerson Hall, Harvard University
https://www.bostonareakantcolloquium.site<https://urldefense.proofpoint.…
Call for Papers (local):
*Abstract deadline: January 15
The 41st Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, will take place on Friday, April 17 and Saturday April 18, 2020 at Keene
State College in Keene, New Hampshire.
More information: Dr. Robert G. Sullivan, Assistant Forum Director at
sullivan@german.umass.edu<mailto:sullivan@german.umass.edu>.
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