Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the
earlymodern period ca. 1450-1750, 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
Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 6pm
Novel Theory Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Cosponsored by the Long Eighteenth-Century Graduate Colloquium
Lecture: "Time, Media, the Eighteenth-Century Novel"
Christina Lupton, University of Warwick
Stuart Sherman, Fordham University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/novel-theory
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The novel is a radically capacious and always evolving genre, open to the full range of
world literature, across periods and locations. This seminar examines the novel and its
various, overlapping functions as aesthetic object, cultural artifact, historical text,
and conceptual resource.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 4 p.m.
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
"Monteverdi's Orfeo"
David Gruender, Boston Symphony Orchestra
UMass Amherst, 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002
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Events @ the Center . The Center offers lectures, classes, conferences, concerts, and
performances, all of which are open to the community and the general public and most of
which are free of charge.
Thursday, Oct 25, 2018, 3:30 pm
Catherine Frisone Scott Italian Cultural Studies Fund in memory of John B. Frisone Public
Lecture: "Machiavelli: Yesterday and Today"
Christopher Celenza (Georgetown)
Integrated Sciences Center, 3rd Floor, Rm 3300, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100
Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125
Friday, Oct 26 to Saturday Oct 27, 2018
The 7th Annual Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Science and Religion
Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
https://src.hds.harvard.edu/waysofknowing/2018-conference
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The 7th Annual Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Science and Religion at Harvard
Divinity School will be held October 26-27, 2018.
Friday, October 26, 5:00-6:30pm
The 7th Annual Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Science and Religion
Keynote Lecture: "Hematologies: The Political Life of Blood in India"
Dwaipayan Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society,
MIT
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
https://src.hds.harvard.edu/waysofknowing/2018-conference
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src.hds.harvard.edu
The 7th Annual Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Science and Religion at Harvard
Divinity School will be held October 26-27, 2018.
Friday, October 26, 2018, 4 p.m.
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Five College Book History Lectures - Fall 2018
"Servant-Functions and Author-Functions in Early Modern Europe"
Ann Blair, C. H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University
UMass Amherst, 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002
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Events @ the Center . The Center offers lectures, classes, conferences, concerts, and
performances, all of which are open to the community and the general public and most of
which are free of charge.
October 27, 2018, 4:00pm
John Carter Brown Library
About 1783: Remaking the British Polity in the Wake of the American Revolution Program
Panel of the North American Conference on British Studies
Chair and commentator: Elizabeth Mancke, University of New Brunswick
Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in Britain, Ireland, and America, 1778-1783
Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire
The Irish Revolution of 1782 in an Age of Revolutions
Steve Pincus, University of Chicago
Coming to Terms with France: The Benefits and Burdens of Free Trade, 1783-1786
John Shovlin, New York University
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details:
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AMERICAN EDEN David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic This
illustrated... Learn More
*Monday, October 29th, 12:15-2:00 pm
STS Circle at Harvard
"Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonization in the Dutch East Indies"
Hans Pols, University of Sydney
CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
Please RSVP via our online
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before Thursday afternoon, October 25th.
Through their studies, their medical practice, and their participation in the Association
of Indonesian Physicians, Indonesian physicians in the Dutch East Indies developed and
articulated a strong professional identity. The promises of modern medicine were important
elements of this professional identity as it motivated them to develop critical
perspectives on colonial society. These physicians participated in the various social,
cultural, and political movements that made up what is now called the Indonesian
nationalist movement. At various times, they criticised traditional culture, advocated
public health measures and increases in funding for health, criticised income disparities
between Indonesian and European physicians, and defended traditional culture and embraced
it as a model for an alternate modernity for Indonesia. During the process of
decolonisation, they transformed colonial medicine into a modern approach to maintain
health, inspired by examples and connections all over the world.
*Monday, October 29, 2018, 3:45pm to 5:45pm
Weatherhead Inintiative for Global History Seminar: "Ganga Global: Implications of
the Ganga (Ganges) River’s Integration with the Global Maritime Economy during the Early
Modern Period (c. 1600–1800)"
Murari Jha, WIGH Fellow
Commentator: Sunil
Amrith<https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/sunil-amrith>th>,
Harvard
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Papers will be pre-circulated and are available by request to
jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu> one week ahead of time.
https://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/wigh-seminar-murari-jha-ganga-global-i…
*Monday, October 29, 2018, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, CMES Sohbet-i Osmani
Lecture Series
"Alî Ufukî and Musical Knowledge Transfer in 17th-century Istanbul"
Dr. Judith I. Haug, Orient Institut Istanbul
CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/title-be-announced-14
Tues Oct 30, 12:00pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "The Lost Serpent: Subterranean Knowledge in the Age of Enchantment"
Whitney Barlow Robles
Room 252, Science Center, Harvard, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
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The Early Science Working Group brings together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows
and faculty members to discuss their works-in-progress on the history of ancient, medieval
and early modern knowledge and culture.
Wednesday, October 31, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
"The 36 Bodies of Shakespeare's Henriad" (Graduate Workshop)
Patrick Durdel (Freie Universität Berlin)
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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Welcome! Welcome to Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium! We are a
group of graduate students who meet every one to two weeks to discuss current work in
Renaissance and Early Modern literary studies.
Thursday, November 1st, 12:30pm
Sponsored by the Humanities Institute and English Department, University of Connecticut
Lecture, The UCONN Early Modern Studies Working Group's Fall Lecture: The “Kindness”
of Humans: Empathy, Race, and Kind in The Tempest and The Shape of Water
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Homer Babbidge Library, UCHI Conference Room, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
RSVP for lunch at earlymod(a)UCONN.edu
The talk will be proceeded by a lunch that requires an RSVP and followed by informal
discussion and coffee. Details:
https://humanities.uconn.edu/blog-uconn-early-modern-studies-working-group
Friday, November 2, 2018, 5:30pm
Cosponsored by the Shakespearean Studies Seminar and the Women and Culture in the Early
Modern World Seminar, both Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Lecture: "Turning Chaste: Thomas Dekker, Honest Whores, and the Conversions of
English Courtesans"
Stephen Spiess, Babson College
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
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mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
This seminar is designed to explore the broadest range of approaches to Shakespeare's
plays and those of his contemporaries. We welcome post-structuralist, feminist, formalist,
textual, historicist, and performance-based criticism.
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mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
This seminar considers how gender is implicated in the formation of the political, social,
and artistic cultures of the early modern period. Topics addressed include religious and
allegorical representations of and by women; the economic and legal status of women in
specific communities; representations of male and female bodies in literature, art, and
science; and applications of competing ...
November 7, 2018, 4:00pm
John Carter Brown Library
Lecture: “Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire”
Surekha Davies, Historian and writer, InterAmericas Fellow at JCB Library
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details:
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AMERICAN EDEN David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic This
illustrated... Learn More
Thursday, November 8, 2018, 4pm
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Lecture: "News, real and fake, from the front: Mapping the great siege of Malta
(1565)"
Jessica Maier, Associate Professor Art History, Mt. Holyoke
UMass Amherst, 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002
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Events @ the Center . The Center offers lectures, classes, conferences, concerts, and
performances, all of which are open to the community and the general public and most of
which are free of charge.
Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, 5 p.m., with reception to follow
The Annual Josephine Von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art
Art, Art History, and Film Department, Boston College
"Piranesi's Layers"
Heather Hyde Minor, Notre Dame University
Devlin Hall 101, Boston College
Please RSVP to jelliot(a)bc.edu
For further information: leonest(a)bc.edu
Monday Nov 12 5:15pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard University
Lecture: “The World in the Library” (on knowledge gathering and history writing in early
Latin America)
Valeria Lopez Fadul (Wesleyan)
CGIS S354, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
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modernists of all disciplinary and regional specializations, especially in the greater
Boston area. The resources tab of this website also offers links to a variety of
databases, library catalogues and online projects.
Tues Nov 13, 12:00pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Renaissance Bodies: The Human Form in Art and Medicine"
Daniele Macuglia
Room 252, Science Center, Harvard, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
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The Early Science Working Group brings together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows
and faculty members to discuss their works-in-progress on the history of ancient, medieval
and early modern knowledge and culture.
Wednesday November 14, 2018, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
Lecture: “A Redemptive Figure: Hagar, the Servant, and Queen Christina of Sweden”
Andrea Celli, Italian Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut
Room 113, Boger Hall, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a
copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at
emmoran (at)
wesleyan.edu
Wednesday, November 14, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
"Pleading the Belly and the Body Politic: Leaticia Wigington and Elizabeth
Cellier"
Marina Leslie (Northeastern)
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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Harvard English Department Graduate Colloquia
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Welcome! Welcome to Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium! We are a
group of graduate students who meet every one to two weeks to discuss current work in
Renaissance and Early Modern literary studies.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018, all day
45th Annual New England Medieval Conference
Government and Governance from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance: Representation and
Reality
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Keynote Speakers:
Amy Appleford (Boston University), “Governing Bodies in Late Medieval London”
Jonathan Lyon (University of Chicago), “Was there a Difference Between Lordship and
Governance in Late Medieval Germany?”
Tues Nov 27, 12:00pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "‘By the Declining Day’: Time and Temporal Cultures of the Early Modern
Mediterranean"
Maryam Patton, Harvard
Room 252, Science Center, Harvard, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
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The Early Science Working Group brings together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows
and faculty members to discuss their works-in-progress on the history of ancient, medieval
and early modern knowledge and culture.
Thursday, November 29, 5:15pm
Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium
“'Behold, my life is but a distraction': Ascetic Reading, Poetry, and
Prayer"
Amy Appleford (Boston University),
Room 114, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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Harvard English Department Graduate Colloquia
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sites.google.com
Welcome! Welcome to Harvard English Department's Renaissance Colloquium! We are a
group of graduate students who meet every one to two weeks to discuss current work in
Renaissance and Early Modern literary studies.
Friday, November 30, 2018, 5:30pm
Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
Graduate Student Symposium
Talk Title TBA
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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This seminar is designed to explore the broadest range of approaches to Shakespeare's
plays and those of his contemporaries. We welcome post-structuralist, feminist, formalist,
textual, historicist, and performance-based criticism.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 5:30pm
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
University (Chairs: Diana Henderson and Marina Leslie)
Lecture: "Remaking Shakespeare Through Performance"
Karin Coonrod, Yale School of Drama/Compagnia de' Colombari
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
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mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
This seminar considers how gender is implicated in the formation of the political, social,
and artistic cultures of the early modern period. Topics addressed include religious and
allegorical representations of and by women; the economic and legal status of women in
specific communities; representations of male and female bodies in literature, art, and
science; and applications of competing ...
*Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar
on Migration and the Humanities
"The Dragoman’s Proposal: Creating a Road Network in the Early Modern
Mediterranean"
Jesse Howell, postdoc fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
Room 133, Barker Center, Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Migration and the Humanities presents Jesse
HowellPost-doctoral fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center; Harvard PhD 2017 (CMES alum) RSVP
to Andrea Volpe to attend and to receive a copy of the paper in advance of the seminar:
alvolpe(a)fas.harvard.edu. Seating is limited.
December 6, 2018, 4:00pm
John Carter Brown Library
Lecture: “Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America”
Kathrinne Duffy (Brown University), Interdisciplinary Opportunities Fellow at JCB
Library
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details:
https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events
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AMERICAN EDEN David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic This
illustrated... Learn More
December 6, 2018, 5:30pm
John Carter Brown Library
Lecture: "Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West,
1765-1776: The untold story of the 'Black Boys,' a rebellion on the American
frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution."
Patrick Spero, American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia
In 1763, the Seven Years’ War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French
army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing that the British
Empire would expand onto their lands and conquer them, refused to lay down their weapons.
Under the leadership of a shrewd Ottawa warrior named Pontiac, they kept fighting for
their freedom, capturing several British forts and devastating many of the westernmost
colonial settlements. The British, battered from the costly war, needed to stop the
violent attacks on their borderlands. Peace with Pontiac was their only option―if they
could convince him to negotiate.
Copies of Frontier Rebels will be available for purchase.
John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details:
https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/events
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AMERICAN EDEN David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic This
illustrated... Learn More
Mon Dec 10, 12-2pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard University
Lecture: "Sinful Slumbers: Sleeping in Church and the Prehistory of Boredom"
Daniel Juette (NYU)
Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard Yard
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The Earlymod mailing list is designed to foster intellectual exchange among early
modernists of all disciplinary and regional specializations, especially in the greater
Boston area. The resources tab of this website also offers links to a variety of
databases, library catalogues and online projects.
Tuesday December 11, 2018, 4:30-6:15pm
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
“Representations of Black Africans and Others in Orlando di Lasso’s Music for the 1568
Wedding of Wilhelm V to Renata of Lorraine”
Eric Rice, Music Department, University of Connecticut
Room 113, Boger Hall, Wesleyan University, 41 Wyllys Ave, Middletown, CT 06457
The seminars are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a
copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at
emmoran (at)
wesleyan.edu
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