#  EMEWORK Program 2019/2020 

 



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 **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*”

 \[Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Colloquium and Department of English\]



 



 

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