Fall 2019
Tuesday, September 10, 5:30 pm—Aperitivo featuring flash talks by Kate van Orden (Music), “Metrolingualism in Print”; Adam Beaver (Bok Center), “Some Early Modern Origins of Modern Academic Culture”; Katharina Piechocki (Comparative Literature), “Cartographic Humanism and the Making of Early Modern Europe”; and David Hall (Harvard Divinity School), “Lessons learned from doing comparative and Atlantic history of the Reformation?”
Wednesday, October 2, 5:30 pm—Abram Kaplan (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Erudition and Algebraic Practice at the End of the Sixteenth Century” (with commentary by Calliope Dourou, Department of the Classics)
[Co-sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group]
Tuesday, October 29, 5:00 pm—Stuart McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University), “Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia”
Thursday, November 14, 12–2 pm—Roundtable discussion of James Hankins, Virtue Politics, Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (HUP 2019) featuring comments by David Armitage (History, Harvard), Michelle Clark (Government, Dartmouth), and Eric Nelson (Government, Harvard)
[Co-sponsored with the Intellectual History Colloquium and the Political Theory Colloquium]
Tuesday, November 19, 5:30 pm—Paris Spies-Gans (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Why Do We Think There Have Been No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin”
Wednesday, November 20, 6 pm—Daniel Strum (University of São Paulo and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), “Trade and Lawsuits Across the Atlantic: Litigation Involving Sephardic and Converso Traders in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Amsterdam, Porto and Brazil”
Spring 2020
February 14 and 15—The Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History: “From Extracting Treasure to Creating Knowledge: Early Modernities” with a record 23 speakers
Tuesday, March 3, 5:30 pm—Rob Iliffe (Oxford University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), “'As if conjured by the force of magic': the emergence of the scientific genius and the celebration of the imagination in natural philosophy, 1750–1820”
[Co-sponsored with the Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop and Early Sciences Working Group]
Monday, April 13, 4:30 pm—Surekha Davies (Utrecht University), “Monsters in the Closet: The Biopolitics of the Far North in Early Modern Europe”
[Co-sponsored with the MIT History Faculty]—this will likely be cancelled
Thursday, April 16, 5:15 pm—James Simpson (English, Harvard) and David Hall (Harvard Divinity School, emeritus), moderated by Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School), “Predestination and Piety in the Early Modern World”—a debate
[Co-sponsored with the Medieval English Colloquium]
Thursday, April 23, 5:15 pm—Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae”
[Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Colloquium and Department of English]