Welcome Back Aperitivo & Faculty Research Projects Panel,
Thursday, September 8, 5pm – 7 pm, Robinson Hall Lower Library and Great Space
An opportunity to connect with early modernists from across the
University and to learn about the work of some of our colleagues. A short
panel discussion followed by wine and refreshments.
Panelists: David Armitage, History; Joe Connors, History of Art and
Architecture; Sylvaine Guyot, Romance Languages and Literatures; Tamar
Herzog, History
How the Humanities Changed the World
Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam
With comments by Ann Blair (History) and James Simpson (English)
Monday, October 3, 5-7pm, Robinson Hall Lower Library
Co-sponsored by the Colloquium in Intellectual History
Contesting the English Revolution
A Conference in Memory of Mark Kishlansky
Friday & Saturday, October 14 – 15, Robinson Hall Lower Library
Organized by Paul Halliday, Eleanor Hubbard and Scot Sowerby.
Fri October 14, 2-3pm: Keynote: “Why was Kish a Historian?” John Morrill,
University of Cambridge
Knowing Kinship. Epistemologies of Relatedness in Medieval Law
Simon Teuscher, University of Zurich
Monday, October 17, 5pm – 7 pm, WCC 3034 (Harvard Law School)
Co-sponsored by the European Legal History Workshop
“Priests of the Law” or “Vipers of the Commonwealth”: Legal Professionals, Legal Knowledge, and Litigiousness in Early Modern Europe.
Michael Breen, Reed College
Monday, October 31, 5pm – 7 pm, WCC 3034 (Harvard Law School)
Co-sponsored by the European Legal History Workshop
"Humanism in New Spain and the huehuehtlahtolli (speech of the ancients)"
Aysha Pollnitz, Rice University
Tuesday, November 1, Noon – 1:30pm, Robinson Hall Lower Library
Spring 2017:
Tuesday Feb 7, 12-1:30
Early Modern History Workshop
“Passport policy: administering the Habsburg-Dutch border through travel permits, 1580-1665”
Bram de Ridder, of the U of Leuven,
CGIS S153, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday Feb 14, 5pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Early Sciences Working Group
Talk: “A Centaur in London Observation and Reading in the Early Modern Study of Nature”
Fabian Kraemer (LMU Munich and Columbia Univ)
Science Center 300H, Harvard University
Thursday March 23, 5:30pm
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
Talk: "Global Cervantes"
Roger Chartier (EHESS Paris and UPennsylvania)
Location: Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University