#  EMEWORK Program 2016/2017 

 



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**Fall 2016:** **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