EMEWORK Program 2009/2010

October 20, 2009, Panel on Orality and Writing in Early Modern France featuring Giora Sternberg (Harvard Society of Fellows): "Beyond Re-presentations: Manuscript Correspondence as Unmediated Status Interaction” and Eva Guillorel (Visiting Scholar, Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard): "Justice, Orality and Writing in Early Modern Western France"

November 10, 2009, Panel on "Fasts and Thanksgivings: Public Worship in Reformation Britain and its Afterlife," featuring presentations by Natalie Mears (Durham University), Stephen Taylor (University of Reading), Philip Williamson (Durham University)

January 14-15, 2010 “Settling Accounts: Words, Numbers and Power in Early Modern Europe”: 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 Harvard, with a total of 11 speakers.  Four Harvard students presented, and seven Princeton students  presented. Ten Princeton students travelled to Harvard (including three Princeton students in G-1 and G-2 who did not present) along with three Princeton faculty members: Anthony Grafton, who co-founded this conference, and Adam Beaver and Eleanor Hubbard, who are recent PhDs from our program hired as assistant professors at Princeton last year.

 

February 3, 2010, “Consumerism and Experimentation in German Plague Medicine,” Erik Heinrichs (History, G-8). This event was a mock job talk, allowing Erik to practice his talk and hear feedback on content and presentation from faculty and peers.

 

March 9, 2010, “Good Neighbors? Reformation, Community, and Charity in Early Modern Wales and the Marches,” Katharine Olsen (Bangor University, Wales). Katharine is a recent PhD from the History Department.

March 30, 2010, Ryan Glomsrud (Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Harvard University), "Historiographies of Calvinism"

 

May 4, 2010, David Smith (Lecturer on History, Harvard University), "Edmund Spenser and Legal Ethnography: Property and Ethnocide"