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
*Thursday, February 10, 2022 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Kinney Center for Renaissance Studies--Five College Seminar in Book History
Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi): 'Angel de Cora, Ho-Chunk Craftwork,
and the Design of Native Print'.
Location: Online. Registration link:
https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcO-rrDsuH9w_UfsYNIbDQ49B…
Thursday, February 10, 2022, 5:00pm
MHC Seminar on Renaissance Studies
Alison Calhoun, Indiana University-Bloomington: Staging Robots: From Cartesian
Intelligibility to Enlightenment Dehumanization
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlfuuqpzkpHd2eiV_BsSnxT-2aKeuBg6…
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 11:45am to 1:15pm
Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica Seminars Spring 2022 Series
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (Starr Fellow), Harvard University: “Rupture and Religious Law:
Legal Traditions and their Transmission from Medieval Ashkenaz to Early Modern Poland”
Location: HMANE, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave, RM201, Cambridge, MA, 02138 (In Person)
Registration: Sandy Cantave Vil,
cantave@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:cantave@fas.harvard.edu>
Thursday, February 17, 2022, 6:00pm (change of time!!!)
MHC Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Jared Hardesty, Western Washington University: Two Sisters, a Merchant, and a Mercenary:
Rethinking Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Boston
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link:
https://brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-ygqjIoEtSXI-1m4gh01QFLLkfvT…
*Tuesday, 22 Feb., 4:30-6:00 PM
Brown University, MEMHS
Sarah Christensen (PhD student in History, Brown University),
“Remembering Enslaved Mothers in the Medieval Icelandic Laxdæla saga.”
Pavilion Room, History Department, Brown University, Providence, RI
There is no pre-circulated paper for this talk.
More information:
https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
**Monday, February 28, 2022 12:00-1:15PM (new date, new title)
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
"Discussing Alejandro Octavio Nodarse's "Observation at the Margin:
Salvator Rosa and the Neapolitan Coast" with comments from Paul Kosmin"
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. Please contact Ori at
oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated
paper and the Zoom link
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 3:45pm to 5:45pm
Warren Center’s Workshop on “Slavery and the Universities”
Elsa Barraza Mendoza (Middlebury College): “Property of the College: Enslaved People and
the Origins of Jesuit Universities in America,”
Location: History Department Conference Room (125), Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
*Friday, March 4, 2022 4:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Caroline Bicks, “Antiochus’s Daughter: Girlhood, Memory, and the ‘true History of the play
of Pericles’”
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link:
https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMod-2orDMiG9Y6fPF5FUiXBXwXPi14AP…
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 11:45am to 1:15pm
Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica Seminars Spring 2022 Series
Sophia Schmitt (Starr Fellow and LMU Munich): Lecture TBA
Location: HMANE, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave, RM201, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Registration: Sandy Cantave Vil,
cantave@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:cantave@fas.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. Please contact Ori at
oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated
paper and the Zoom link.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:30 to 11:45
Science and Technology in Asia seminar series
Faizah Zakaria: Camphor, Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies
Location: Harvard University Asia Center Spring 2022 Online seminar series
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:30pm
Early Modern Workshop
“Predestination: its Profile in Early British and American Modernity. A Debate” featuring
David Hall (Harvard Divinity School) and James Simpson (English, Harvard), with Michelle
Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) as moderator. Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room
(formerly the Lower Library). In person, within the Covid regulations in force at the
time.
*Thursday, April 21, 6:00pm
MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Suparna Roychoudhury, “Shakespearean Cunning”
Location: Zoom Meeting. Registration Link:
https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApf-qrqD0rG9elMqbQnW9sN7Emk8le7V…
**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. Please contact Ori at
oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated
paper and the Zoom link.
**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. Please contact Ori at
oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu<mailto:oribenshalom@g.harvard.edu> for the pre-circulated
paper and the Zoom link.
*If you would like your announcement to be posted in an upcoming Early Mod Events listing
please send your event details to:
earlymod@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>
To be included in the Early Mod Events mailing, the event must take place or (in case of
online events) be relevant to the greater Boston area. Announcements are posted at the
discretion of the Early Mod Listserv administrator. It would be a great help if you could
follow this format:
Day, date, time
Sponsor (if available)
Type of event (ex. Lecture/Symposium/Workshop), Event Title
Person giving talk (in bold), their home institution (if applicable)
Location: in-person or virtual
*If the event is virtual, please include either a Zoom registration link OR a contact
email with the announcement. If your event is being held in-person, please specify this,
and include location details.
Additional info (no more than a couple of sentences)
RSVP or Registration information/link