Fall Semester 2022
Tuesday, September 12, 4:30 pm EDT
Early Modern World Aperitivo, featuring four flash talks:
Melissa McCormick (EALC and History of Art and Architecture), “The Gilded Library: Reevaluating Early Modern Japanese Manuscripts as Bridal Books”
Eric Nelson (Government), “Philo and the Early-Modern Rehabilitation of ‘Democracy’”
Alan Niles (English), “Who Were Harvard’s First Indian Students?”
Si Nae Park (EALC), “How Printers of Vernacular Novels Made Reading Easier in Early Modern Korea”
Followed by a reception
Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as Lower Library) **New location
Tuesday, September 20, 4:30pm EDT
Peer Seminar
Ashley Gonik (G6, History), "Traversing Temporalities: The Historical Table as Diagram"
Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as Lower Library)
Tuesday, October 11, 4:30 pm EDT
Peer Seminar
Kelly McCay (G5, History), "The Making of Shorthand Manuals"
Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as Lower Library)
Monday, October 24, 6 pm EDT
James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), "Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan's The Natural History of Norway (1752–5)"
Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as Lower Library)
Co-sponsored by Scandinavian Studies, Harvard
Tuesday, November 8, 4:30 pm EST
Peer Seminar
Yuval Givon (Associate, History), "An Early-Modern Broadcast: News of the Manchu Conquest of China in the Jesuit Annual Letters, 1644–1649"
Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as Lower Library)
Spring Semester 2023
February 10–11
A Frost Fair for Early Modernists: The Sixteenth Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History
Location: Princeton University
Program and abstracts here
Wednesday, February 15, 5:15 pm EST
J. H. Chajes (University of Haifa), "Seeing the Kabbalah Through Its Trees: The New Perspectives of The Kabbalistic Tree"
Location: HMANE (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, formerly the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge), Room 201
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars in the History of the Book and Diagrams Across Disciplines
Tuesday, February 28, 4:30 pm EST
Peer Seminar
Adriana Zenteno Hopp (G5, History), "Spatial Stories: A genealogy of a people and their lands"
Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as Lower Library)
Friday, March 3, 12 pm EST
Holly Shaffer (Brown University), "'Table Land': James Forbes's Voyages and Travels (1765–1784) to a Colonial Source of Still Life”
Location: Barker Center 133
Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
Tuesday, March 28, 4:30 pm EDT
Peer Seminar
Sarah Koval (G6, Music), "Musical Economies: Managing Households and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century English Recipe Books"
Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as Lower Library)
Tuesday, April 11, 5 pm EDT
Early Modern Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe
Location: Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (formerly known as Lower Library)
Organized by Sonia Tycko (PhD 2019)
The panel will consist of three fifteen-minute papers, followed by Q&A.
Elizabeth Kamali (Law, Harvard), chair
Carissa M. Harris (English, Temple), "'Sey what ye wyll': Epistemologies of Sexual Consent in Premodern Pastourelles"
Emanuele Conte (Law, Roma Tre), "The Most Presumed Consent: Mario Salamonio (1450–1533) and the Social Contract"
Sonia Tycko (History, Edinburgh), "The Currency of Consent: Coins and Labor Contracts in Early Modern England"
For more information on the Historicizing Consent research network: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/historicizingconsent
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs