EMEWORK Program 2018/2019

Fall 2018

 

Thursday, September 20, 5:15 pm—Aperitivo featuring short talks by Anja Goeing (History, Harvard), Felipe Pereda (HAA, Harvard), Sophus Reinert (Harvard Business School), and Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School)

 

Monday, October 1, 5:15 pm—Lodi Nauta (University of Groningen), The Critique of Scholastic Language in Renaissance Humanism and Early-Modern Philosophy

[Co-sponsored by the History of Philosophy Workshop, Harvard]

 

Monday, November 12, 5:15 pm—Valeria Lopez Fadul (Wesleyan), The World in the Library (on knowledge gathering and history writing in early Latin America)

 

Monday, December 10, 12 pm—Daniel Juette (NYU), Sinful Slumbers: Sleeping in Church and the Prehistory of Boredom

 

Spring 2019

 

February 15–16—Thirteenth Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History . schedule available here: https://earlymod.fas.harvard.edu/conferences

Monday, February 25, 5:15 pm—Colin Kidd (University of St. Andrews; CES, Harvard), Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment

[Co-sponsored by the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History]

Tuesday, March 5, 4:15 pm—Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College; Cornell University), The Fragility of Difference: Animals, Humans, and the Renaissance Invention of Race [Co-sponsored by Medieval History Workshop]

Tuesday, April 23, 5:15 pm—Gabriele Pedullà (Università degli Studi Roma 3; IAS, Princeton), Republicanism and Humanism (with a response by James Hankins)

[Co-sponsored by the Harvard Political Theory Colloquium]

Tuesday, April 30, 5:15 pm—Avinoam Naeh (Hebrew University; Harvard), Bible Exegesis, the Ancient Israelites, and the Early Modern Question of Usury (with comment by Sophus Reinert, HBS)