September 22, 2010: Elizabeth McCahill (University of Massachusetts, Boston), “Humanism and Scholasticism in mid-15th century Rome: The Collegio Capranica" and Anja-Silvia Goeing (Post-doctoral fellow, Harvard), “Between the University of Padua and the Republic of Venice: Intermediaries and Informal Instruction around 1500.”
November 10, 2010: Luka Špoljaric (Central European University, Budapest), “Reaching for the Cardinal's Hat: Nicholas of Modrus (ca. 1427-1480) and his History of the Gothic Wars” and Sarah Ross (Boston College), “Humanism in the Archives: the Case of Dr. Francesco Longo (1506-1576).”
January 13-14: Fourth Annual Harvard-Princeton Conference on Early Modern History 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 10 speakers. Three Harvard graduate students and one post-doc travelled to Princeton along with Ann Blair. The students (Tristan Stein, Monica Poole and Ariane Schwartz) presented papers on their dissertation and received valuable feedback. 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.
February 7, 2011: Mock job talk by Erik Heinrichs (recent Harvard PhD, adjunct at UMass-Lowell), "German medicine in the age of plague and Reformation."
February 17, 2011: Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut), “Ordinary violence: domestic state terror in Tudor-Stuart Ireland and England, 1520-1650” and Tristan Stein (Harvard University), “Contested Jurisdictions: The Authority of the High Court of Admiralty in Mediterranean Territorial Waters.”
March 9, 2011: Ariane Schwartz (Harvard), “Reading Lucian's Syria at the dawn of the Reformation: the "dangerous" East and Christianity” and Michael Tworek (Harvard), “The Copernican Paradox: Nation, Community, and Study Abroad in the Renaissance.”
March 10, 2011: recruitment dinner for those admitted to our graduate program in early modern European history
March 30, 2011: Oded Rabinovitch (Brown) "Beyond the Book Market: Family Strategies, Literary Careers and Court Capitalism in the Perrault Family, 1620-1705" and Darryl Dee (Wifrid Laurier University) “Was the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV a modern state?”