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modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization.
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EARLYMOD THIS WEEK
*Monday, April 3, 2017, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
History of Medicine Working Group (HMWG)
“‘We Bleed from our Noses’: Religious Responses to Hemorrhagic Fever in
Sixteenth-Century Mexico”
Jennifer Hughes (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study/UC Riverside)
Room 469, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Dinner will be served. RSVP required at
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/hmwg/home for
catering purposes.
*Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 12:00 - 1:30 / Science Center 252
Early Sciences Working Group (ESWG)
“The Speculative Foundations of the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and the
Epistemology of the Uncertain”
Christine Zabel (Harvard University)
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA
Lunch will be served. To RSVP and for copies of pre-circulated material please email to
agjikola@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:agjikola@fas.harvard.edu> or
shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu<mailto:shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu>.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 4:30pm
Wesleyan University, Romance Languages and Literatures, College of Letters
Lecture title: The French Machine
Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University
Romance Languages and Literatures Highwaymen Common Room, 300 High Street, Middletown, CT
06459
Additional information: In this lecture, Chenoweth will address the role of printing in
the “rise” of the vernacular in the sixteenth century.
Contact: Michael Meere, at mmeere@wesleyan.edu<mailto:mmeere@wesleyan.edu>
http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur…
*Wednesday, April 5, 2017, 12:30 – 1:45pm
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia
Center
Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series: “The Beautiful Country and the Middle
Kingdom<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__harvard.us8.…
John Pomfret, former Washington Post correspondent
S020, Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, April 5, 4:15pm
Sponsors: The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; The Study-Group
“Transformation of Work in Contemporary Capitalism”; and The Center for History and
Economics
Talk: “Resisting Capitalism and its Effects on Working Class Economic Strategies in Early
Modern Europe”
Laurence Fontaine, EHESS – CNRS
CGIS, S030, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, April 5, 6pm
Renaissance Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
“Montaigne facétieux: Lire Les Essais en éclats”
Dominique Bertrand (Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand)
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Thursday, April 6, 2017, 4pm
Renaissance Studies, Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center
Talk: "Pastoral Bronze Sculpture in Early Modern Venice"
Jodi Cranston (Boston University)
Room 201, Warren House, Harvard University
UPCOMING EVENTS
**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-…
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, 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.
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__houghtonlibrary.cmail19.com_t_d-2Dl-2Dhdiktty-2Dmdhlyhhkd-2Di_&d=CwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=d-51fevjuWJ7WzZY0y0BouTOvLCsE6Nbeq9XtutWF7k&m=DwtM_0C-CpBkWnaC9gF4KWJqVJmf6c7t3SKKYKyaoRQ&s=wWfYjkDkhD5BDXaS3FwYdRe9lkAY8Ll28HYSdcI0GY0&e=>
RSVP by April 6, 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)
Location TBA
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
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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