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All events are held at the Annmary Brown Memorial (21 Brown Street) at 5:30 PM and free of charge unless otherwise indicated.


2012-2013 REMS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (Flyer)

 

  • Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Folger Reception 6:00 PM

 

  • Thursday, October 25, 2012 6:00 PM (note time change)

Lisa Voigt (Assoc. Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University

NEH Fellow, John Carter Brown Library)

"The Traveling Illustrations of Sixteenth-Century Travel Narratives"


  • Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Ayesha Ramachandran (Asst. Prof., Stony Brook University, JCB Fellow, 2012)

"Worldmaking in Early Modern Europe: Mercator, Montaigne and Milton"

 

  • Tuesday, November 13, 2012 (note location!) Music Room, Rochambeau House

Christopher Johnson (Asst. Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard)

“Aby Warburg's Renaissance”

 

  • Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Richard Brown (Prof. Emeritus, UConn) and Doron Ben-Atar (Prof., Fordham College at Lincoln Center)

"Taming Lust: A Puritan Flashback in the Early Republic"

 

  • Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Suzanne Scanlan (Lecturer, RISD)

"Surrounding a Saint: The Canonization Print of Santa Francesca Romana"

  • Friday, March 1, 2013, RISD Museum

'Lines of Inquiry" symposium for "The Festive City" exhibition, curated by Evie Lincoln and Emily Peters (December 21, 2012 - July 14, 2013)

Schedule FestiveCity

 

  • Thursday, March 14, 2013

Helga L. Duncan (Assoc. Prof., Stonehill College)

"No Man Is an Island': Claustrophobia and Sacred Space in the Poetry of John Donne"

 

  • Wednesday, April 17, 2013 (co-sponsored with the department of Comparative Literature)

Ann Blair (Prof., Harvard University)

"Methods of Collaboration Among Early Modern Humanists"

 

  • Тuesday, April 23, 2013 (co-sponsored with the Program in Medieval Studies)

Catrien Santing (University of Groningen)

"The Heart of the Matter: Representations of Humaneness in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance"

 

 

 

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN HISTORY SEMINAR (with department of History) Schedule

 

 

OUTSIDE BROWN

 

September 13 - October 21

"King Lear" at the Trinity Repertory Theatre

by William Shakespeare
directed by Kevin Moriarty
A co-production with Dallas Theater Center

Trinity Repertory Company, 201 Washington Street, Providence, RI 02903
Administrative offices: (401) 521-1100 · Box office: (401) 351-4242 · info@trinityrep.com
Representatives are available daily by phone from 12-8PM.

 

Harvard Early Modern Workshop

Welcome to the Harvard Early Modern Workshop Fall 2012!

The Harvard Early Modern Workshop, based in the History department, brings together scholars from across the Harvard community with a shared passion for the Early Modern period. We have an exciting slate of speakers lined up for the fall semester, and are looking forward to seeing you at many of our events.

Workshop Events, Fall 2012:

Tues Sept 11, 4:15pm: A Conversation about Premodernity, held jointly with the Medieval History Workshop. Followed by a welcome reception. Robinson Lower Library.

Wed Oct 3, 4pm: Daniel Juette (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Early Modern Defenestrations: A New Window on Windows," Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard. Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop.

Wed Oct 31, 4pm: Peter Burke (Cambridge University), "Performing Academic
Knowledge, 1100-2000." Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard. Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop

Wed Nov 14, 4pm: Noah Millstone (Harvard Center for History and Economics), "Scribal Publication and the Clerical Underworld of Early Stuart London." Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard. Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop.

Wed Nov 28, 5pm : Susan Whyman (Princeton), " Becoming a Bookseller: William Hutton of Birmingham (1723-1815)," with comment by Kathryn James (Beinecke Library, Yale). Robinson Hall Lower Library. Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History.

Annual conference: the Harvard-Princeton grad conference to take place at Princeton on Thurs-Fri Jan 10-11, 2013. Harvard grad students in G3+ will receive a call for papers in early October.

 

This list announces talks pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements and e-mail addresses to: earlymod@fas.harvard.edu.

If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort.

*New listing
** Updated listing

 



OTHER EARLYMOD EVENTS:

This list announces talks pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements and e-mail addresses to: earlymod@fas.harvard.edu.

 

If you do not wish to be on this list, please reply to that effect. Many thanks to those who contributed to this effort.

 

*New listing

** Updated listing

 

 

EARLYMOD THIS WEEK

 

Wednesday, April 24, 6:15 pm

Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop: “The Pamphlet and the Amulet: Print, Heresy and Authority in Early Modern Jewish Ashkenaz,” Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, University of Pennsylvania

Barker Center, Room 403, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

*Thursday, April 25, 4:00 pm

The Center for Jewish Studies and the Early Modern History Workshop at Harvard present:

Piety and Pornorthography in Papal Rome: Egidio da Viterbo's Book on Hebrew Letters,”

Brian Copenhaver (Philosophy, UCLA)

CGIS S153, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

 

*Thursday, April 25, 5:00 pm

The Renaissance Colloquium at Harvard presents:  “Catastrophizing: Reading Disaster in Montaigne and Shakespeare,” Gerard Passannante (University of Maryland).

Kresge Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.  Refreshments and drinks will be provided.

 

*Thursday, April 25, 6:15-8:15 pm

“Early Modern Oligarchs: Towards a History of the Filatev Family,” Erika Monahan (assistant professor of Russian history at the University of New Mexico and a visiting fellow at the Davis Center at Harvard).

CGIS S-401, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.  For a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please write to Erika.monahan at gmail.com

 

Monday, April 29, 4:00 pm

The Early Modern History Workshop presents: “The Renaissance in Mexico”

Andrew Laird, University of Warwick

Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS (a star indicates a newly listed item)

 

Wednesday, May 1, 7:00 pm

Women and Culture in the Early Modern World and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Humanities Center Seminar) present: “The Creation of Anne Boleyn,” Susan Bordo, University of Kentucky

Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Thursday, May 2, 4:15 pm

The Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar presents: “How to Frame Your Government: The Constitutional Writing of Milton and Winstanley,” Rayna Kalas, Cornell University

41 Wyllys Avenue (Squash Court Building), Room 113, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

For a copy of this paper, please contact Liz Tinker at 860-685-2360 or etinker@wesleyan.edu

 

Thursday, May 9, 5:30 pm

Women and Culture in the Early Modern World (Humanities Center Seminar) presents: “Regularizing Compassion: Hospital Work in Seventeenth-Century Montreal”

Katherine Ibbett, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Barker Center, Room 133, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

*Tuesday, May 21, 3:00-5:00 pm

“To ‘Frenchify’ the Natives or to ‘Play the Savage’? Cultural Accommodation in the Jesuit Mission to New France,” Bronwen Catherine McShea, Visiting Scholar, CSWR / Part-Time Faculty, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.

Conference Room, Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR), Harvard Divinity School, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA

 

2011-2012 REMS lecture series: 'Truth and Fiction: Writing Science in the Early Modern World'(click here)

 

2011-2012 REMS LECTURES AND EVENTS (CLICK HERE)