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Lecture: "The Place of the Mechanical in Liberal Studies"

Oct 25, 2016

6:00PM EDT

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

In Person

Ann Blair, Harvard University Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Lecture

Talk Title TBA

Oct 25, 2016

6:00PM EDT

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

In Person

Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh), Sponsor: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

Elias Muhanna (Brown University, Comparative Literature) Book talk, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World, by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri

October 25, 2016

5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT

Science Center, Room 469, Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

In Person

Sponsor: Harvard Early Sciences Working Group

Lecture: "Marginal Lives and Fractured Families: Archives and Rural Farmworkers in Early Modern Iceland"

Oct 20, 2016

5:00PM EDT

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

In Person

Douglas Bolender, University of Massachusetts, Boston Sponsor: GENDER AND SEXUALITY: Bodies, Archives, Databases

Lecture: “Shakespeare vs. The Audience.”

Oct 19, 2016

4:00PM EDT

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

In Person

Brett Gamboa, Dartmouth College Sponsor: The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Lecture Free and open to the public. Refreshments co-sponsored by The Amherst Woman’s Club. www.umass.edu/renaissance No reservations required.

Liise Lehtsalu (Brown University), “‘Using the means of such a retreat’: Third Order Monastic Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Italy”

Oct 18, 2016

4:30PM EDT

Pavilion Room, Department of History, Brown University, 79 Brown St., Providence, RI, 02912

In Person

Sponsor: Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar

Lecture: "Knowing Kinship. Epistemologies of Relatedness in Medieval Law"

October 17, 2016

5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT

Wasserstein Hall, WCC 3034, Harvard Law School

In Person

Simon Teuscher, University of Zurich Sponsor: The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University Co-sponsored by the European Legal History Workshop

Talk Title TBA

Oct 14, 2016

5:30PM EDT

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

In Person

Mary Thomas Crane, Boston College Sponsor: SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES

Keynote: “Why was Kish a Historian?”

October 14, 2016

2:00PM - 3:00PM EDT

Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Harvard University,  35 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA

In Person

John Morrill, University of Cambridge Program at http:// earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/contesting-english-revolution

Contesting the English Revolution: A Conference in Memory of Mark Kishlansky

Oct. 14 - Oct 15, 2016

12:00AM - 12:00AM EDT

Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Harvard University,  35 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA

In Person

Conference organized by Paul Halliday, Eleanor Hubbard and Scot Sowerby Sponsor: The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University Program at http:// earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/contesting-english-revolution

Alexander Bevilacqua (Harvard, Society of Fellows) “The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment”

October 13, 2016

6:00PM - 8:00PM EDT

Andover Hall, Room 102, HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge MA

In Person

Sponsor: Harvard Early Science Working Group, co-sponsored with the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School

Lecture: "Mary Wroth's Blank Spaces"

Oct 13, 2016

4:30PM EDT

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

In Person

Jennifer Higginbotham, Ohio State University Sponsor: The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Le cture, Five College Renaissance Seminar Free and open to the public. www.umass.edu/renaissance No reservations required.