# EMEWORK Program 2022/2023 ## expand\_more ### **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](/conferences) 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: Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs See also:- [ Just Pages ](/news-and-announcements/just-pages)