# Harvard University | Early Modern Workshop ## Welcome to the Early Modern Workshop The Early Modern Workshop (emework at fas.harvard.edu) is based in the History Department at Harvard and announces events sponsored or co-sponsored by early modern historians at Harvard. These events are also listed below on this page, including our annual graduate conference with Princeton. To join our mailing list, please send us an email. In addition, if you would like to know more about Harvard’s interdisciplinary activities concerning the early modern period please visit ## Announcements ### **Program Spring 2026** **Thursday Feb 5, 4:45pm:** Richard Calis (University of Utrecht): “Grecia Illustrata: Early Modern Visions of Ottoman Greece”. CGIS S250, 1730 Cambridge St. Co sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History, Harvard. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– **Fri-Sat Feb 6-7:** The Nineteenth Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History. Runs from Fri 2pm to Saturday 2pm. [Program link here](https://emworkshop.fas.harvard.edu/conferences). –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– **Monday Feb 9 5-6:30pm:** Lars Behrisch (University of Utrecht), on his new book: *Democracy’s Double Helix: Participation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe*. Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall. Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History, Harvard. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– **Feb 13-14:** A Conference in Honor of James Hankins. Runs from Fri 2:30pm to Sat noon. [Program link here](https://emworkshop.fas.harvard.edu/conference-honor-james-hankins-0). –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– **Tuesday March 3, 5:15pm:**Ludwig Pelzl (Harvard and Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), "The Age of Age. The Rise of Calendar Age Consciousness in Eighteenth-century Germany". Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall. Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History, Harvard. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– **Tuesday March 24, 5pm:**Paris Spies-Gans (Independent scholar and author), "Early Modern Art and Identities: Writing Women In", Basement seminar room, Robinson Hall. Sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History, Harvard. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– **Wednesday April 8, 3:45-5:45 pm:** Ellen Nye (Purdue/Harvard Academy), "The Ottoman Empire and the English Financial Revolution: Making Money Global in the Late Seventeenth Century, " with a comment by Ida Beckett (Harvard). History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall. Co-sponsored by the Early Modern workshop in the Dept of History and the International and Global History Seminar, Harvard University. For a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please contact Victoria Gonzalez Maltes: vgonzalezmaltes at fas.harvard.edu –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– **Wednesday April 22, 6pm:** Byron Hamann (University of Pennsylvania), "Fantasies of Latin and Nahuatl in Clement VII's Rome," CGIS S250, 1730 Cambridge St. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History, Harvard. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– **Monday April 27, 5:30-7pm**: Dmitri Levitin (All Souls College, Oxford), “The ‘Western’ Mind: The Origins of a Myth, 1700–1800,” CGIS S250. Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the Dept of History and the International and Global History Seminar, Harvard University. ![George Kendall Warren (photographer): Interior of the first dedicated library building at Harvard, Gore Hall (between 1861 and 1866). Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David B. Walters ](/sites/g/files/omnuum951/files/2025-12/Screenshot%202025-12-22%20at%2010.53.25%E2%80%AFAM.png) [George Kendall Warren](https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/21850) (photographer): Interior of the first dedicated library building at Harvard, Gore Hall, between 1861 and 1866. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David B. Walters ## News and CFPs (organized by date added) [### Folger Institute | Folger Shakespeare Library: How to Read an Early Modern Sentence (weekend seminar, deadline to apply by July 13, 2026) ](/folger-institute-folger-shakespeare-library-how-read-early-modern-sentence-weekend-seminar-deadline) Folger Institute | Folger Shakespeare Library: Please encourage your affiliates to apply for this upcoming fall seminar by July 13, 2026: How to Read an Early Modern Sentence (weekend seminar) Directed by Catherine Nicholson (Yale University) and Jeff... [### Deadline 15 January 2025: Erudition and the Republic of Letters 2025 Essay Competition ](/deadline-15-january-2025-erudition-and-republic-letters-2025-essay-competition) Deadline 15 January 2025: Erudition and the Republic of Letters is pleased to announce the 2025 Essay Competition. We invite submissions which make original contribution to the history of scholarship, intellectual history, and to the respublica literaria... [### CFA: Dutch language-course in May-June 2025 for Graduate Students (tuition-free) ](/cfa-dutch-language-course-may-june-2025-graduate-students-tuition-free) Applications are invited for a month-long course ("the summer course") in modern Dutch, early modern Dutch/paleography, and archival research in Amsterdam/The Hague* ('the archival week'). The first two sections can be taken separately. The third section... [### International Symposium on Jesuit Studies: The Societal Engagements of the Jesuits: Historical Perspectives (Lima, Peru | May 27–29, 2025) ](/international-symposium-jesuit-studies-societal-engagements-jesuits-historical-perspectives-lima) Deadline for CFP: December 2, 2024. Social engagements are foundational to the Society of Jesus. The Formula of the Institute (1550) states that Jesuits were to be “ready to reconcile the estranged, compassionately assist and serve those in prisons or... [### CFA: Historical Formations of Spatial Knowledge (The 7th Advanced School in the Humanities at The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies) ](/cfa-historical-formations-spatial-knowledge-7th-advanced-school-humanities-israel-institute) The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies is pleased to invite MA students, PhD candidates, and recent PhDs to register for the 7th Advanced School in the Humanities, which will focus on Historical Formations of Spatial Knowledge. Dates: March 9–14, 2025... [### Deadline October 24, 2024: Fellowship Opportunity for Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison 2025/26 ](/deadline-october-24-2024-fellowship-opportunity-institute-research-humanities-university-wisconsin) Deadline October 24, 2024: Fellowship Opportunity for Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison: 2025/26 Solmsen and Kingdon Fellowships to scholars from outside the University of Wisconsin-Madison. - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [4](?page=3 "Go to page 4") - [5](?page=4 "Go to page 5") - [6](?page=5 "Go to page 6") - [7](?page=6 "Go to page 7") - [8](?page=7 "Go to page 8") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")