September 23, 2008, Prof. Robert Juette (Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart) “The Taming of the Senses in Early Modern Europe."
October 14, 2008, Dr. Philip Withington (Cambridge University): "The history of the concept of 'early modern'"
November 20, 2008, Dr. Markus Friedrich (University of Frankfurt and Boston College) "Archives and Administration in Early Modern Europe: The Jesuits as a Case Study."
December 15, 2008, Dr. Adam Beaver (Harvard, recent PhD from our program) "Pietro Martire in the Levant: Diplomacy and Orientalism in the Spanish Renaissance."
January 16-17, “Hierarchy and Humanism”: This was a two-day conference featuring all ABD graduate students currently in residence at Harvard and at Princeton. This year the conference was held at Princeton, with a total of 12 speakers. Seven Harvard graduate students travelled to Princeton along with Ann Blair; the two students in G-1 (Caroline Spence) and G-2 (Hannah Callaway) participated from the audience, while the students in G-3 and above presented papers on their dissertation and received valuable feedback; the Harvard students who presented were: Erik Heinrichs, Eleanor Hubbard, Adina Yoffie, and Michael Tworek. For everyone involved it was an excellent opportunity to make new contacts among faculty and students at Princeton and to feel part of a larger group of early modern history graduate students, since our program is quite small.
January 26, 2009, Dr. Scott Sowerby (Harvard, recent PhD from our program) "Opposition and Opportunity: The Revolution of 1688-9 in its Transnational Context."
January 27, 2009, Dr. Daniel Stein Kokin (Yale University, recent PhD from our program) "The Hebrew Question in Renaissance Humanism." This was a mock job talk to prepare the speaker for an interview at the University of Chicago.
January 27, 2009, Ada Palmer (Harvard G-8) "Opinio Non Christiana: Lucretius and his Renaissance Readers." This was a mock job talk to prepare the speaker for interviews for a tenure track job at several universities. Ada has since received and accepted an offer at Texas A&M.
March 16, 2009, Dr. Martine van Ittersum (University of Dundee, PhD from our program 2001) ‘Meanwhile, you may rest assured that those papers are well and safely preserved': Hugo Grotius and the Archeology of Archives (17th through 20th century)