2012-2013 Schedule:
Tues Sept 11, 4:15pm: A Conversation about Premodernity, held jointly with the Medieval History Workshop. Followed by a welcome reception.
Wed Oct 3, 4pm: Daniel Juette (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Early Modern Defenestrations: A New Window on Windows."
Wed Oct 31, 4pm: Peter Burke (Cambridge University), "Performing Academic Knowledge, 1100-2000."
Wed Nov 14, 4pm: Noah Millstone (Harvard Center for Economics and History), "Scribal Publication and the Clerical Underworld of Early Stuart London."
Wed Nov 28, 5pm: Susan Whyman (Princeton), " Becoming a Bookseller: William Hutton of Birmingham (1723-1815)," with comment by Kathryn James (Beinecke Library, Yale). Co-sponsored with the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History.
January 10-11, 2013: Harvard-Princeton grad conference held at Princeton. Schedule here: http://www.princeton.edu/cch/events/conferences/princetonharvard2013/
7 graduate students from Harvard spoke; 10 Harvard graduate students (including 3 students in G1 and G2 who were not invited to speak) made the trip. They were lodged for free with other students, but our workshop covered travel expenses.
Tues Feb 12, 4pm: joint session with medieval "Taming the (Data)Beast: A Workshop for Historians on Designing and Using Databases"
Tues March 5, 5pm: David Hall (Harvard Divinity School, Emeritus, and Committee on the Study of Religion), "What is the place of Puritanism in the social history of Tudor-Stuart England?" Pre-circulated paper with comment by Mark Kishlansky (History, Harvard)..
Wednesday April 10, 4pm Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford), "Renaissance Bodies and Their Imperfections"
Tuesday April 23, 4pm: John Gagne (University of Sydney), "Borderlands, 1513: War, Illicit Traffic, and State Security in Renaissance Milan."
Mon April 29, 4pm: Andrew Laird (University of Warwick), "The Renaissance in Mexico."