Fall 2020
Tuesday, Sept 15 2020, 4-6pm. Aperitivo, the opening event of the Early Modern World Initiative at Harvard University: featuring introductory remarks by Leah Whittington and flash talks by David Atherton (East Asian Languages and Civilizations); Anne-Marie Eze (Houghton Library); Jeff McDonough (Philosophy); and Gordon Teskey (English). Followed by a virtual reception.
Tuesday, Oct 13, 2020, 4:30-6pm. Joris van den Tol (Post-doctoral Rubicon Scholar, Harvard University/University of Leiden), “The America Company: from networks to institutions in the Anglo-Dutch seventeenth-century Atlantic.” Commentator: Sergio Leos.
Tues Oct 27 4-6pm Renee Raphael (University of California at Irvine), "The communications circuit of bureaucratic knowledge: Production crises and refining innovations in late 16th-century Potosi."
Spring 2021
Harvard-Princeton grad conference on Zoom: Fri-Sat-Sun Feb 12-13-14, 2021. “at” Princeton. Program here: https://emworkshop.fas.harvard.edu/conferences
Saturday Feb 13, 1:30pm: “An Experimental Inquisition” an event focused on new books by Hannah Marcus, Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy, and Jennifer Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700 (in conversation with Ann Blair, Harvard, and Anthony Grafton, Princeton).
Thursday March 4, 4pm Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae". Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium, Dept of English, and the Early Modern History Workshop.
April 15, 4pm, Dror Wahrman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The Prince, the Jeweler and the Mogul: The Paradoxes on an Early Modern Object".
April 29, 1pm Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge University), "Isaac Abendana (c. 1638-1699): Rabbinic learning and the Hebrew book in Restoration Cambridge and Oxford." Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Early Modern History Workshop and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History