Harvard University | Early Modern Workshop
Welcome to the Early Modern Workshop
The Early Modern Workshop (emework at fas.harvard.edu) is based in the History Department at Harvard and announces events sponsored or co-sponsored by early modern historians at Harvard. These events are also listed below on this page, including our annual graduate conference with Princeton. To join our mailing list, please send us an email.
In addition, if you would like to know more about Harvard’s interdisciplinary activities concerning the early modern period please visit https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu
Announcements
Program Spring 2026
Thursday Feb 5, 4:45pm: Richard Calis (University of Utrecht): “Grecia Illustrata: Early Modern Visions of Ottoman Greece”. CGIS S250, 1730 Cambridge St. Co sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History, Harvard.
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Fri-Sat Feb 6-7: The Nineteenth Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History.
Runs from Fri 2pm to Saturday 2pm. Program link here.
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Monday Feb 9 5-6:30pm: Lars Behrisch (University of Utrecht), on his new book: Democracy’s Double Helix: Participation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall. Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History, Harvard.
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Feb 13-14: A Conference in Honor of James Hankins.
Runs from Fri 2:30pm to Sat noon. Program link here.
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Tuesday March 3, 5:15pm:Ludwig Pelzl (Harvard and Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), "The Age of Age. The Rise of Calendar Age Consciousness in Eighteenth-century Germany". Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall. Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History, Harvard.
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Tuesday March 24, 5pm:Paris Spies-Gans (Independent scholar and author), "Early Modern Art and Identities: Writing Women In", Basement seminar room, Robinson Hall. Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History, Harvard.
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Wednesday April 8, 3:45-5:45 pm: Ellen Nye (Purdue/Harvard Academy), "The Ottoman Empire and the English Financial Revolution: Making Money Global in the Late Seventeenth Century, " with a comment by Ida Beckett (Harvard). History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall. Co-sponsored by the Early Modern workshop in the Dept of History and the International and Global History Seminar, Harvard University. For a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please contact Victoria Gonzalez Maltes: vgonzalezmaltes at fas.harvard.edu
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Wednesday April 22, 6pm: Byron Hamann (University of Pennsylvania), "Fantasies of Latin and Nahuatl in Clement VII's Rome," CGIS S250, 1730 Cambridge St. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History, Harvard.
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Monday April 27, 5:30-7pm: Dmitri Levitin (All Souls College, Oxford), “The ‘Western’ Mind: The Origins of a Myth, 1700–1800,” CGIS S250. Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History and the International and Global History Seminar, Harvard University.
George Kendall Warren (photographer): Interior of the first dedicated library building at Harvard, Gore Hall, between 1861 and 1866.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David B. Walters