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Equinoxes Conference: Memory/Rupture

Apr. 21 - Apr 22, 2017

12:00AM - 12:00AM EDT

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

In Person

CALL FOR PAPERS MEMORY/RUPTURE April 21-22, 2017 | Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island Keynote: Odile Cazenave, Professor of French, Boston University Memory is a deceptively simple concept, seemingly universal in its experiential familiarity, yet...

(Dis)entangling Global Early Modernities, 1300-1800

March 24, 2017

8:45AM - 4:45PM EDT

Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

In Person

Organizers: Michael Tworek (Harvard), Stuart McManus (UChicago), Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard), Anja Goeing (Harvard) New: Download the Opening Remarks here! This conference proposes a new concept—“(dis)entanglement”—in order to provide alternative...

Roger Chartier (Paris, and University of Pennsylvania): “Global Cervantes”

Mar 23, 2017

5:30PM EDT

Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University

In Person

Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History

Meredith Martin (New York University) and Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University): Talk Title TBA

Feb 27, 2017

6:00PM EST

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

In Person

Sponsor: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

Fabian Kraemer (LMU Munich and Columbia Univ): Talk: “A Centaur in London Observation and Reading in the Early Modern Study of Nature”

Feb 14, 2017

5:00PM EST

Science Center 469, Harvard University

In Person

Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Early Sciences Working Group

Bram de Ridder (U of Leuven): "Passport policy: administering the Habsburg-Dutch border through travel permits, 1580-1665"

February 7, 2017

12:00PM - 1:30PM EST

CGIS S153, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA

In Person

Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania): "What is a Letter?" (Lecture & Seminar, Yale University)

Dec 7, 2016

5:00PM EST

Yale University

In Person

Lecture, Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 5-6pm (Yale, Beinecke Library mezzanine); Seminar, Thursday, December 8, 2016, 4:30–5:45pm (Yale, Beinecke Library, room 9 on lower level)

Eva Piirimäe, Harvard University/Yale University/Tartu University, "Herder’s Critique of Kant on Perpetual Peace"

December 7, 2016

12:15PM - 1:45PM EST

Center for European Studies, Hoffmann Room, Busch Hall, Harvard

In Person

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University Visiting Scholars' Seminar: New Research on Europe "Herder’s Critique of Kant on Perpetual Peace" Eva Piirimäe, Harvard University/Yale University/Tartu University Eva Piirimäe will...

AyreCraft: Renaissance Holiday Concert

Dec 4, 2016

2:00PM EST

Renaissance Center, Reading Room, UMass Amherst, 650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002

In Person

Sponsor: The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Refreshments will be available after the concert. Free and open to the public. www.umass.edu/renaissance No reservations required. Please arrive on time as space is limited...

Graduate Student Symposium

Dec 2, 2016

5:30PM EST

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

In Person

Sponsor: SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES

Robert Darnton (Harvard): “The Book Trade and the Demand for Literature in France, 1769-1789” (Lecture)

November 29, 2016

4:00PM - 6:00PM EST

Barker Center, Room 110, Thompson Room, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA

In Person

Molly Greene (Princeton), “Ottoman Christians and the Question of Ottoman Society”

Nov 22, 2016

5:30PM EST

Brown University, Details of time and place TBA

In Person

Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar The 37th William F. Church Memorial Lecture, “Ottoman Christians and the Question of Ottoman Society” Molly Greene (Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University)