October 6, 2007, Tamara Griggs (University of Chicago) "How to Write a History of the World."
December 11, 2007. Kelly de Luca, (Columbia University) "Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and English Law, 1575-1632."
January 16-17, “From Studiolo to Street.” This was a two-day conference featuring all ABD graduate students currently in residence at Harvard and at Princeton.We hope to make this an annual event in alternating locations. This year the conference was held at Harvard, with a total of 18 speakers. Harvard PhD candidates John Gagne, Erik Heinrichs, Ada Palmer, Adina Yoffie, Amy Houston, Monica Poole, and Noah McCormack each gave conference papers, received valuable feedback, and networked with student and faculty colleagues from Princeton University.
January 28, 2008, Amy Houston (PhD candidate, Harvard University) "Defending the City, Defending the Faith: the Sieges of the French Religious Wars." This was a mock job talk to prepare the speaker for an interview for a tenure-track job at a liberal arts college.
January 31, 2008, John Gagne (PhD candidate, Harvard University) "Renaissance Milan from the Ground Up." This was a mock job talk to prepare the speaker for an interview for a tenure-track job at a state university.
February 6: Elizabeth Mellyn, (Lecturer in History, Harvard University; PhD Harvard, 2007.) "Madness, Medicine and the Law in Early Modern Italy." This was a mock job talk to prepare the speaker for an interview for a tenure-track job at a state university. The preparation must have been useful, as the speaker was offered the job.
February 12: Martin Mulsow (Rutgers University and Erfurt University), "An Islam-Unitarian Plot: Huguenots, Moriscos, and the Long History of the Gospel of Barnabas."
February 20: panel of student work in history of the book featuring: Elizabeth Yale (PhD candidate, History of Science, Harvard),'Now what shall I say, or doe with these prity collections?' Manuscript Exchange and Natural Historical Knowledge in Early Modern England"; John Springford (PhD candidate, History, Oxford), 'The representation of American Indians in English print culture, 1550-1607'; Katherine Grandjean (PhD candidate, History, Harvard), "Faithful Subjects: Indians in Eighteenth-Century American Crime Literature." Co-sponsored with the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
April, exact date TBA: Adam Beaver (Harvard University).
May, tentative: Paul Halliday (University of Virginia)