EMEWORK Program 2015/2016

2015-2016 Schedule:

Fall

Thursday, September 10, 2015, 5-7pm, welcome back aperitivo, featuring short talks by four faculty members in History and neighboring Departments: Josiah Blackmore (Romance Languages), Ann Blair (History), Joyce Chaplin (History), and James Simpson (English). We had an excellent turnout of 40 people which enabled graduate students in early modern fields to meet and mingle across different departments.

 

Wednesday, September 23, 4pm. Philip Stern (Duke), "The Nomos of the Island: Law and Geography in the Anglo-Portuguese 'Transfer' of Bombay in the Late Seventeenth Century." Pre-circulated paper. Co-sponsored with the Harvard International and Global History Seminar.

 

Tuesday, September 29, 4pm. Alex Bevilacqua (Harvard Society of Fellows), "The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment.” Pre-circulated paper.

 

Wednesday, October 21, 12-1:30pm, Jennifer Blanke (Univ of Göttingen), "Historical expertise and the production of almanacs in the Age of Enlightenment." Robinson Hall Lower Library.

 

Monday, November 2, 5pm: Aldair Rodrigues (Yale University), " Slave Trade, Ethnicity and Ethnonym: Southeastern Brazil and the African West Coast," Basement seminar room, Robinson Hall.

Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop, the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, the Department of Romance Languages, and the Brazil Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

 

Spring

February 5-6: Harvard-Princeton grad conference in early modern, held at Harvard, with 16 speakers (7 from Harvard, 9 from Princeton) and 19 additional attendees. See the full schedule here: http://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/conferences.

 

Thursday, February 25, 5pm. Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth College), “Luminous Reflections: Thoughts on Enlightened Illumination and Illuminating the Enlightenment.”

 

Wednesday, March 2, 5pm. Brian Copenhaver (UCLA), “Two Books of Magic: From Antiquity to Enlightenment.”

 

Monday, March 7, 5pm. Heather Wolfe (Folger Library), "Writing paper and filing systems in early modern English households." Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Colloquium of the English Department, and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History.

 

Wednesday, March 30, 12-2pm. Angela de Benedictis (University of Bologna), "Neither Disobedients nor Rebels: Early Modern/Modern Arguments for Lawful Resistance between the Old and the New World."