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 in person and online events and activities relevant to the Boston
area. Please forward announcements of events, including 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@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@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 (prior to 11/7/21) and
EST (on/after 11/7/21).
Upcoming Events
Friday, October 29, 2021 5:00PM EDT
Boston College
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art
Virtual Lecture: "Binding the Globe: Race and Empire in Luxury Atlases from the
Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World"
Dr. Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://bccte.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwofuupqD0iHt0-ygn5hSDb4dA2gJHKoGhf>Please
register in advance for this lecture. After registering, you will receive information
about joining the lecture.
NERC has been cancelled for 2021
Friday, October 29, 2021 5-7PM
Saturday, October 30, 2021 9AM-5PM EDT
Boston College
The Annual New England Renaissance Conference
Call for Papers and Invitation to Conference
Location: In-person, Boston College Conference Center, 2101 Commonwealth Ave, Brighton,
MA
Free and open to public, but registration is required. Registration
Link.<https://www.new-england-renaissance-conference.org/?page_id=241>
For further info: Franco Mormando (mormando@bc.edu<mailto:mormando@bc.edu>).
Thursday, November 4, 2021 3PM EDT
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Vittoria Fallanca (New College, Oxford), "How Do You Design an Essay? Some Lessons
from Montaigne and Dessein"
Location: Online
Please RSVP to Emily Epperson
(epperson@g.harvard.edu<mailto:epperson@g.harvard.edu>) or Lisa Kostur
(kostur@g.harvard.edu<mailto:kostur@g.harvard.edu>) for the Zoom link.
More
Information<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/vittoria-fa…
Friday, November 5, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EDT
UMass Amherst
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Normand Berlin Memorial Lecture in Shakespeare Studies
Justin Shaw (Clark University), "Killing Race, Curing Melancholy: White Obsessions in
Early Modern Mediterranean Drama
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlc-6trjkqHNDZCtwvUtEq5mjZ2ytnzsp5>More
Information<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.uma…
Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:30PM EST
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Seminar with pre-circulated paper
William Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Rochester
Location: In-person, Boger Hall, Rm. 113, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Avenue,
Middletown, CT 06459
RSVP: For a copy of the paper email Esther Moran at
emmoran@wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
More Information<https://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu>
Friday, November 12, 2021 12-1:30pm EST
Early Modern Workshop of the Department of History at Harvard
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Rektorin, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), "Rituals and
procedures of decision-making: Early Modern Assemblies of Estates."
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpdemsqzwpE9ChPdx9CeYorWszUhdH0xaz>After
registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining
the meeting.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Kelly Minot McCay, "Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England: A
Teacher's Textbook Deciphered"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in
person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write
to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 5:30PM EST
Brown University
Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Daniel Strum (University of São Paulo, Brazil), "Jewish-Converso Atlantic Trade:
Legal disputes between Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands, 1585-1617"
Location: In-person, Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106, 95 Cushing Street, Providence, RI
02906
Please note: all community members - regardless of vaccination status - are required to
wear masks indoors, unless in a private, non-shared space or when actively eating. See:
https://healthy.brown.edu/updates/brown-community-new-temporary-covid-19-re…
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__healthy.brown.edu_updates_brown-2Dcommunity-2Dnew-2Dtemporary-2Dcovid-2D19-2Drestrictions&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=0zB0IoEY3iB0JtZm8LOQ3RfKVsHsJcujaWcOgU8Hr6g&m=3lAlrwwqjVXmcGdS5sC2uAgA144elPPCCiaOV9SFzzo&s=_PYvMn1x1vtzGz-umP3XqaNqe91j7sYqLKGwBffcLL0&e=>RSVP
to maria_sokolova@brown.edu<mailto:maria_sokolova@brown.edu>.
Thursday, November 18, 2021 5:00-7:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Hannah Hunter-Parker (Amherst College), "Vanishing with a Trace: Medieval Manuscripts
in the Age of Lithography"
Location: Online, Registration Link
<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIodeCvrz4sGNLlrgSJ3DI1-DHF9xvBtE9s>More
Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/hunter-parker-book-h…
Thursday, November 18, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early
Modern World
Divya Cherian (Princeton University), "Diabolical Women: Witches and the Law in Early
Modern South Asia"
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each
event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m….
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about
joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at
ermurphy@bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Friday, November 19, 2021 6:00PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Michelle Ephraim (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), "Shakespeare as Memoir."
Location: Online. Please register for this event at
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you
will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Friday, December 3, 2021 4:00PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Kent Cartwright (University of Maryland), "Shakespearean Comedy and the Problem of
Forgiveness"
Location: Online. Please register for this event at
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you
will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific Personae, and
Children in Italy, 1750-1810"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in
person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write
to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, December 9, 2021 4:00-6:00PM EST
Five College Seminar in Book History
UMass Amherst
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Asheesh Siddique (UMass Amherst), "Print, Records, and the 'Science' of Law
in the Early American Republic"
Location: Online, Registration Link Forthcoming
More
Information<https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/siddique-2021> (format
listed on website to be updated to reflect switch to Zoom)
Thursday, December 9, 2021 5:30PM EST
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early
Modern World
Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Transculturation and
'English' Daughters in Early Modern Morocco"
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each
event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-m….
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about
joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at
ermurphy@bu.edu<mailto:ermurphy@bu.edu>.
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Mateo Montoya, "The Thirty Immortals of Geneva: Life Annuities, Smallpox Inoculation,
and Probabilistic Thought c. 1760-1793"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in
person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write
to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Alejandro Nodarse, "Blood Lines: Drawing and Circulation in Marco Aurelio
Severino's Chirugia Illustrata (Surgery Illustrated)"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in
person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write
to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in
Print"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in
person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write
to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, "Towards a New Reading of Descartes'
Meditations"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in
person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write
to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:00-1:15PM EST
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of
Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in
person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write
to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu<mailto:mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu>.
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