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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.
News and CFPs (organized by date added)
- *!!!Deadline for applications: Monday, March 25: Workshop on the Central Archives of the Religious Orders in Rome, June 3-7, 2024
- Call for Applications IEG Fellowships for Doctoral Students in Mainz, Germany (deadline Feb 15, 2024 for start in Sept '24 or later)
- Deadline October 26, 2023: Fellowship Opportunity for Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison 2024/25 Solmsen and Kingdon Fellowships
- CFP Deadline: October 15, 2023: Virtual Conference "Enterprise, Engagement, Integration: Jews of Seventeenth-Century Britain and the Empire" (Oxford, March 6-8, 2024)
- New Research Project: Writing Bilingually, 1465-1700: Self-translated books in Italy and France (Sara Miglietti, SAS London)
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