Fall 13 events:
Wed Sept 11 , 5pm, Hal Cook(Brown University) "The Unexpected Descartes: Exile in The Netherlands?" co-sponsored by Early Modern History Workshop and the Early Sciences Working Group. Science Center 469
Thurs Sept 12, 5pm: Laurie Nussdorfer (Wesleyan), "Masculine Hierarchies in Roman Ecclesiastical Households." Co-sponsored with the Lauro de Bosis lectureship in the history of Italian civilization. Precirculated paper with comment by Joseph Connors (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard). Robinson Hall Lower Library
Wed Sept 18, 12-2pm: Joint event with medieval workshop: "When was global history. Robinson Hall Lower Library.
Tues Oct 8, 5pm: Louis Gerdelan, "Symbolism and Public Space in Renaissance Florence" Robinson Basement Seminar room.
Thurs October 24, 4pm: Timothy Walker (UMass Dartmouth) "Global Cross-Cultural Dissemination of Indigenous Medical Knowledge and Practices through the Portuguese Colonial System: Evidence from 16th-18th Century Ethno-Botanical Manuscripts". Robinson Hall, Lower Lib. Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
Monday Nov 4, 5pm: Jason Peacey, 'Fixed like a ballad on the wall': printed lobbying and public persuasion in the seventeenth century. Robinson Hall Basement Seminar room. Co-sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop and the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History.
Thursday, November 14, 2013 – 5:00pm
Sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop
"The pleasure of querying: what Eighteenth-Century questionnaires can teach us about the information society"
Ida Federica Pugliese, National University of Ireland, Galway
Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Tues Dec 3, 5:30pm Cornel Zwierlein (Harvard), "African Stonehenge. Early Modern Science and the Mediterranean Consular network" Robinson Hall Basement seminar room. Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop.
December: Dec 9, 4pm. Robinson Hall Basement Seminar room.
Entangled Traditions: Jews and Christians in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia, featuring:
Pavel Sládek, Charles University in Prague and Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania : A Catholic priest is ordained as a Rabbi: Studying with Jews during the Counter-Reformation in Bohemia
Rachel L. Greenblatt, Harvard University: A Judeo-Christian Performance? Biblical Themes in Prague Jews’ Procession Honoring the Birth of a Habsburg Heir (1716)
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History workshop, the Center for Jewish Studies and the Humanities Center Seminar on Jewish Cultures & Societies
Harvard-Princeton grad conference at Harvard, Thurs-Fri Jan 9-10, 2014.
Simon Grote (Wellesley College) Tues March 11, 5pm: "Why Study German Pietism?" CGIS S153, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge.
Tuesday March 25, 5pm: Robert Mankin (Université Paris Diderot), “Gibbon's mind and libraries in European context" Robinson Hall, Basement seminar room.
Wed April 16, 5pm: John Thornton (Boston University), “The Kingdom of Kongo and the Thirty Years’ War” CGIS S030, 1730 Cambridge St. Co-sponsored with Center for African Studies.
Thurs April 17, 5pm. Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut University), What is a Werewolf? Genres, Practices and Cataloguing Monsters from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution' Co-sponsored with the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the Early Sciences Working Group. Science Center 469.