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 subscribe below.

 

In addition, if you would like to know more about Harvard’s interdisciplinary activities concerning the early modern period please visit https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Spring Semester 2024

 

Thursday, February 8, 5:15 pm EST
Nicholas Popper (College of William and Mary), Discussing his new book: The Specter of the Archive. Political Practice and the Nation State in Early Modern Britain (University of Chicago Press)
Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room

 

Friday, February 9–Saturday, February 10
17th Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History
Location: Robinson Hall, Department Conference Room

Program here: https://emworkshop.fas.harvard.edu/conferences

 

Tuesday, February 13, 4:30 pm EST
Peer Seminar
Sergio Leos (History), "Caravans of New World Silver between Portugal and Spain, 1580–1616"
Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room

Please RSVP here to receive the pre-circulated paper and Zoom information for this hybrid event.

 

Tuesday, February 20, 5 pm EST
Sally Hayes (University of Wisconsin and John Carter Brown Library), "Slavery and Civic Leadership in Lima's Black Confraternities," followed by a comment by Kevin Blacutt (History, Harvard).
Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room

 

Fall Semester 2023


Tuesday, September 12, 5 pm EDT
Early Modern World Aperitivo, featuring four flash talks:
Shawon Kinew (History of Art and Architecture), “St. Paul’s Earth and Sacred Sculpture”
Greg Given (Expository Writing Program), “Fixing the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch in 17th Century England”
Alison Simmons (Philosophy), "Our Bodies, Ourselves, Cartesian Style"
Tom Kelly (East Asian Languages and Civilizations), "The Ink-Maker's Mark in Early Modern China"
Followed by a reception
Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room

Sponsored by the Early Modern World Initiative, Harvard

 

Monday, September 18, 4:30 pm EDT
Annual Parry Lecture at Harvard
Cátia Antunes (Leiden University), “De-nationalizing empire: Dutch involvement in the Early Modern British, French, and Spanish empires”
Location: Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room, CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge St

Sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard

 

Tuesday, October 3, 5 pm EDT
Yves Coativy (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), "Contemporary interpretations of the Breton Middle Ages, from nationalism to the far left (1923–2023)"
Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room

Co-sponsored by Medieval History Workshop (History Department) and by Medieval Studies, Harvard

 

Tuesday, October 10, 4:30 pm EDT
Peer Seminar
Konrad Boeschenstein (G5, History), "The Refutation of Aristotle in Petrarch's De Ignorantia: Its Humanism and Anti-Scholasticism Reconsidered"
Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room

Please RSVP here to receive the pre-circulated paper and Zoom information for this hybrid event.

 

Tuesday, November 14, 5 pm EST
Book launch and discussion featuring Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau), author of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (CUP 2023) in conversation with Alex Csiszar (History of Science, Harvard) and Rishad Choudhury (Oberlin College)
Location: Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St

Please register here to receive the Zoom information for this hybrid event.

Co-sponsored by the Asia Center, Harvard

 

Tuesday, November 28, 4:30 pm EST
Peer Seminar
Miriam Campopiano (University of Padua), "Images from a New World. The idea of America and the communicative landscape in 18th century Europe"
Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room

Please RSVP here to receive the pre-circulated paper and Zoom information for this hybrid event.