Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the
earlymodern 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
Week of September 23, 2019
Tue 9/24/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
Tara Nummedal: "Sound and Vision: The Alchemical Epistemology of Michael Maier's
Atalanta fugiens."
Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Information how to receive the paper at:
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History
Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
9/24/2019 6:00pm
Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Lisa Brooks, Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College: “Writing from
Wabanaki”
Location: Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Wed 9/25/2019 5:15pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Vanessa Braganza (Harvard): “'Many Ciphers, Although But One for Meaning': Lady
Mary Wroth’s Many-Sided Monogram"
Location: Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
Wed 9/25/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Carrie Gibson: “Pushing Historical Boundaries: Rediscovering El Norte and the Forgotten
Hispanic Past of the United States, 1500-1800”
Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown
Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
9/26/2019 6:00pm
Sponsors: Oakley Center and the History Department at Williams College, with additional
support from Comparative Literature, the Graduate Program in the History of Art, Religion,
Special Collections, and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty Anthony T. Grafton, Henry
Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University: "Strategies and
Stereotypes in Renaissance Ethnography"
Location: Griffin Hall 3, Williams College, Williamstown MA
The Keynote Lecture is part of the conference "The Global Archive of Comparison:
International Conference, Sept 26-28:
https://sites.williams.edu/global-archive-comparison/schedule/
Thu 9/26/2019 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Book Signing: Carrie Gibson, “El Norte and the Forgotten Hispanic Past of the United
States, 1500-1800”
Location: Books on the Square, Providence RI
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Fri 9/27/2019 9:00am to 6:00pm
Sponsors: French Center of Excellence and the Department of Comparative Literature and
co-sponsored by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the Department of French Studies,
and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Conference: “Theatre Without Borders/Théâtre sans frontières”
Location: Rochambeau House, Brown University, Providence RI
https://events.brown.edu/view/event/date/20190927/event_id/144720
*Sat 9/28/2019-ongoing
Sponsor: Northeastern University
Exhibit, "Decoding the Dragon"
Location: Snell Library lobby, Northeastern University
The exhibit showcases the historical, codicological, musicological, and bioarchaeological
research on Northeastern University's only parchment manuscript, the late fifteenth
century Dragon Prayer Book, since its discovery in 2011. Discover why the ghostly Sister
Cecilia has been haunting Snell Library.
https://dragonprayerbook.northeastern.edu/<https://urldefense.proofpoint…
Later This Term
*Tuesday, 10/1/2019 4:00pm
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, FEORE FAMILY LECTURE SERIES
"Comprehending the World: Jesuits, Language, and Translation in the Early Modern
Period"
Liam M. Brockey (Michigan State University)
Location: Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College , Heights Room, Corcoran
Commons, Boston
RSVP<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScu306Rl-Cv-ZOoHqv_bJ9DHuG…
*10/2/2019 4:00pm
JCB Fellows Talk
"Holistic Medicine, Spiritual Healing, and Dis-ease in the Early Caribbean"
Kristen Block (University of Tennessee-Knoxville, John Carter Brown InterAmericas Fellow)
Location: MacMillan Reading Room, John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence,
RI 02906
Wed 10/2/2019 4:30pm to 6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Emiliano Ricciardi (Assistant Professor of Music History, UMass Amherst): “‘Geloso
amante’: Luzzaschi, Tasso, and the Topos of Jealousy in Late Sixteenth-Century Ferrara”
Location: Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
10/2/2019 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Andrew Hui (Yale-NUS College), Workshop Discussion: "A Theory of the Aphorism from
Confucius to Twitter"
Location: Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
Wed 10/2/2019 5:30pm
Early Modern History Workshop, co-sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group
Abram Kaplan (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Erudition and algebraic practice at the end of
the sixteenth century,” with commentary by Calliope Dourou (Dept of the Classics,
Harvard)
Location: Robinson Hall Basement Seminar room, Harvard Yard
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
*Thu 10/3/2019, 11AM-1PM
Sponsor: Northeastern University
Transcription workshop & Opening Reception, "Read the Dragon"
Led by Erika Boeckeler, Associate Professor of English, Northeastern University and Laura
Packard, English major, Northeastern University
Location: 90 Snell Library (basement of Snell Library, Northeastern University)
Learn to decode and transcribe the late fifteenth century Latin of the Dragon Prayer Book,
Northeastern University's only parchment manuscript. The workshop is connected to
the Decoding the Dragon exhibit at Northeastern University's Snell Library. Lunch
will be served. Attendees are invited to view the manuscript in Special Collections
beginning at 10:30.
*10/4/2019 5:30pm
John Carter Brown Library Lecture
"Kings and Slaves: Diplomacy, Sovereignty, and Black Subjectivity in the Early Modern
World"
Herman Bennett (Historian)
Location: John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence, RI 02906
**Sat 10/5/2019 9:00am to 6:00pm
New England Renaissance Conference: Motion, Rhythm, Shifts. An interdisciplinary
conference
Location: Chace Auditorium, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
http://www.new-england-renaissance-conference.org/?page_id=241 (RSVP)
10/10/2019 5:00pm
Harvard English Renaissance Colloquium and Medieval Colloquium
Jason Crawford (Union University) : "What the Wolf Knows: George Herbert's Book
of Wisdom"
Location: 114 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
Fri 10/11/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Sponsor: Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Vili Lähteenmäki (University of Helsinki), "Cartesian Self-Relations"
Location: Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard
https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop
Wed 10/16/2019 9:00am to 5:00pm
Sponsor: Andover-Harvard Theological Library
Open house: “Meet the Special Collections”
Location: Rabinowitz Room (3rd floor), Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis
Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Wed 10/16/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Shahzad Bashir: “Imagining Time in Early Modern India: Persian Chroniclers and Their
Interpreters”
Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown
Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Tue 10/22/2019 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar
TBA
Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History
Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
Wednesday October 23, 6pm
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/
*10/24/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern
World
Kaara L. Peterson (English, Miami University of Ohio), "A Natural History of Queen
Elizabeth I: Unriddling the Sieve Portraits"
Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
Seminar leaders: Erin Murphy (Boston University) and Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley
College)
Fri 10/25/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Adam Zucker, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Gross Matter: Shakespeare and the
Politics of Stupidity
Location: Room 133, Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
*Sun 10/27/2019 8PM-10PM
Sponsor: Northeastern University
Concert, "Chant the Dragon"
NU Madrigals, Northeastern University
Location: Raytheon Amphitheatre, 120 Forsyth St, Boston, MA 02115, Northeastern
University
Hear the NU Madrigals perform music from the fifteenth century Dragon Prayer Book,
Northeastern University's only parchment manuscript. The concert is connected to the
Decoding the Dragon exhibit at Northeastern University's Snell Library.
Mon 10/28/2019 5:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Classical Traditions
Stuart M. McManus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Empire of Eloquence: The
Classical Tradition in the Hispanic World"
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/classical-traditions
Tue 10/29/2019 5:00pm
Early Modern History Workshop
Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for
Historical Studies, Princeton University), “Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western
Slave Law in Portuguese Asia"
Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
Wed 10/30/2019 4:30pm to 6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Miya Tokumitsu (Art historian and Curator, Wesleyan): “Israhel van Meckenem’s Paper
Currency”
Location: Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06459
10/30/2019 6:00pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies
Sean Moore, University of New Hampshire: "Mapping the Reading Networks of Enslavers:
Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries"
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Fri - Sat, Nov 1 to Nov 2, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Folger Institute Seminar: “The Visual Art of Grammar” (by registration only)
Location: Alumnae Hall, Chrystal Room. Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
11/6/2019 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Boston College, Center for Ignatian Spirituality
Franco Mormando, Professor of Italian and History, Boston College: "Ignatius the
Franciscan: The Franciscan Roots of Jesuit Spirituality"
Location: Gasson Hall 100, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA
Lunch will be served; free and open to public. RSVP is required.
To register:
https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/offices/mission-ministry/sites/center-for…
11/6/2019 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Sarah Wall-Randell (Wellesley College): TBA
Location: Room 218, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
Tue 11/12/2019 5:30pm
Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Harvard University: "Systematizing Jewish Religious Legal
Knowledge in the Early Modern Period", commented by Charles Donahue, Harvard Law
School
Location: Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/history-book
Wed 11/13/2019 5:00pm
Sponsor: Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures
Nicholas Rashad Jones (Bucknell Univ.), “Staging Habla de Negros across the African
Diaspora”
Location: Boylston Hall 403, Harvard Univ., Harvard Yard
More Information: jblackmore (at)
fas.harvard.edu
Wed 11/13/2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Eugenio Menegon, Boston University: “The Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the
Countess: Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission and their Role in Early
Modern Chinese-European Relations”
Location: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University, Annmary Brown
Memorial, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912
Brown Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
11/14/2019 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Sponsors: Harvard Political Theory Colloquium and Intellectual History Colloquium
James Hankins (Harvard), "Virtue Politics"
Location: TBD, Harvard University
Thu 11/14/2019 4:00pm
Sponsor: Harvard Political Theory Colloquium
Shannon Stimson (Georgetown), "Petty and Hobbes"
Location: CGIS Knafel K401, Harvard, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
*Th., Nov. 14, 2019, 5:00 p.m.
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art; Art, Art History, and Film
Department, Boston College
Lecture: A newly restored predella panel by Fra Angelico: attribution, documents,
technical examination
Laurence Kanter, Chief Curator and Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art, Yale
University Art Gallery and Irma Passeri, Senior Conservator of Paintings, Yale University
Art Gallery
Devlin Hall 101, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA
Reception immediately following
Please r.s.v.p. by November 4, 2019: 617-552-4295 or
previtro@bc.edu<mailto:previtro@bc.edu>
Fri 11/15/2019 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Sponsor: Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
Richard Arthur (McMaster University), "Leibniz's Metaphysics of Change: Vague
States and Physical Continuity"
Location: Robbins Library, Second Floor Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard
https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/history-philosophy-workshop
Fri 11/15/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies
Diana Henderson, M.I.T.: TBA
Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Tue 11/19/2019 5:30pm
Early Modern History Workshop
Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Why Do We Think There Were No Great
Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin”
Location: Robinson Hall History Department Conference Room (formerly Lower Library),
Harvard Yard
https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/
11/20/2019 5:15pm
Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium
Play Reading: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Location: TBD, Harvard University
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium Website
*11/21/2019 5:30pm
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern
World
Reginald A. Wilburn (English, University of New Hampshire), title TBA
Location: 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
TBA
Location: Pavilion Rm of Peter Green House, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History
Seminar<https://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
*12/5/2019 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
Location: Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge,
MA 02138
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
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