EMWorkshop Program 2024/2025
Fall Semester 2024
Tuesday, September 17 from 5 to 7pm
Early Modern Aperitivo featuring flashtalks by four members of the community of early modernists at Harvard: Wai-Yee Li (EALC), "The Artist and the Forger;" Natasha Sumner (Celtic), “How To Catch a Gaelic Hero;” John Hamilton (German and Comparative Literature), "Culture & Convenience;" Francesco Erspamer (History of Art and Architecture), “The Politics of Duration: Machiavelli and a Different Modernity.”
Location: Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA, 02138
This event is sponsored by the Early Modern World Initiative at Harvard University. It is followed by a reception.
Tuesday, October 8 at 5:15pm
Andrew Drenas (University of Massachusetts Lowell), "'Lawrence-Handkerchiefs': Reflections on Eucharistic Devotion and Christian Materiality during the Early Seicento," with a comment by Deeana Klepper (Boston University).
Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard.
This event is sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the History Department, Harvard University.
Tuesday, October 29 at 5:15 pm
Early Modern peer seminar with Sergio Leos (G6, Harvard History)
To workshop dissertation chapter, "Arribadas and Agents of Authority"
Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard.
Tuesday, Nov 19 at 5:15pm
Katie Ebner Landy (Harvard Society of Fellows and Utrecht University), “The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Theophrastus in Early Modern Europe,” with a comment by Thomas Noriega (Dept of History, Harvard).
Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard.
This event is sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the History Department, Harvard University.
Spring Semester 2025
Tuesday January 21, 11-12:30pm | Zoom
Kelly McCay
Mock Job-Talk, "The Invention of Shorthand and Cultures of Linguistic Experimentation in Early Modern England" (on Zoom)
Monday, February 24 12-1:30pm | Barker 133
David Sclar (Princeton/Frisch School)
“Messianic Messages: Paratexts, Secondary Elites, and a New Narrative for the Coronation of Sabbatai Tsevi”
Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and by the Center for Jewish Studies.
Tuesday, February 25, 5pm | Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall
Ellen Nye (Harvard Business School and Purdue University)
"Empires of Obligation: The Levant Company and Global Monetary Governance between Early Modern England and the Ottoman Empire," with a comment by Salmaan Mirza (HMES, Harvard).
Monday, March 24, 5:30-7:30 pm | Barker 133
Roundtable on early modern authorship
Featuring José Beltrán (CNRS, France), Sara Miglietti and Marco Spreafico (Warburg Institute, London) and Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa) in conversation with Harvard colleagues and the audience.
Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center seminar in book history and by the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History at Harvard.