Past Events

2021 Mar 05

Celebrating French Women Writers: A conference to launch the two-volume publication of Femmes et littérature. Une histoire culturelle (Éditions Gallimard)

10:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Virtual Event
Celebrating French Women Writers: A conference to launch the two-volume publication of Femmes et littérature. Une histoire culturelle (Éditions Gallimard)

This two-volume publication (1600 pages) explores the continuity of women’s writing in French (in France and francophone countries) from the Middle Ages to today. It constitutes the first study of its kind in breadth and depth written by French and American scholars.

Sponsors for the conference include the Bacon Funds and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The France and the World Seminar (Mahindra...
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2021 Mar 04

Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae".

4:00pm
Location:
Virtual Event
Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae".
Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium, Department of English, and the Early Modern History Workshop.

Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpd-uhqTMpGNXknwr45LSSz8Jh61RuoIyw
2021 Mar 04

Unveiling the Virtual Exhibition: "Portals to the Past - Selections from Colonial North America at Harvard Library”

3:00pm
Location:
Virtual Event
Join us for an exclusive curator tour and special first look at the virtual Colonial North America Exhibition. Gallery co-curator and archives expert, Ross Mulcare will lead you through this new enhanced exhibition within the 360 virtual Widener Library platform.

Are you interested in a particular person, place, or theme from early America? Use the Questions & Comments field to let us know if there are topics you’d like to see discussed.

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2021 Feb 25

Harvard Mahindra Center Women, Gender and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar: "Rethinking Early Modern Women’s Authorship: Anne Bradstreet, Lucy Hutchinson and Epic" (Mihoko Suzuki)

5:30pm
Location:
Virtual Event
Harvard Mahindra Center Women, Gender and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar

"Rethinking Early Modern Women’s Authorship: Anne Bradstreet, Lucy Hutchinson and Epic" with Professor Mihoko Suzuki (University of Miami)

To join the event, please add your name and email address to...
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2021 Feb 25

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on German Studies: New Perspectives: Threading the Needle: Painting as Experiment in Rubens's Four Philosophers

3:00pm
Location:
Virtual Event

Speaker: Christopher Braider, University of Colorado

The talk threads the needle between recent attempts to find a way round the hermeneutics of suspicion defining the mode of reading called “critique” and acknowledgment of the fact that critique will always be with...
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2021 Feb 24

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Seminar: “Honor and Gender in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron” (Cynthia Nazarian)

5:30pm
Location:
Virtual Event
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Seminar

Cynthia Nazarian (Northwestern University), who will be giving a talk entitled “Honor and Gender in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron.”

Please RSVP to Emily Epperson (epperson@g.harvard.edu) and Therese Banks (tbanks@g.harvard.edu) for the Zoom link.
2021 Feb 24

Harvard Workshop: “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” (Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr.)

3:00pm to 5:00pm
The Harvard workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2020, with author present.

Please email therzog at fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.
2021 Feb 22

Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar: Race in Geography, "Ethnography" and other Genres of Arabic Texts

1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location:
Virtual Event
Race in geography, "ethnography" and other genres of Arabic texts, run by guest organizers Shireen Hamza (History of Science) and Conor Dube (NELC)

Co-organized by Anna Wilson (Dept. of English) and Rachel Love (Dept. of Classics), this seminar meets every other Monday to discuss pre-circulated readings on race and critical race studies in the premodern world. This semester we have an exciting line-up of guest speakers, including Jackie Murray, Adam Miyashiro, and Nandini Pandey, and we will be tackling issues ranging from the myth of 'Western Civ...
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2021 Feb 18

Harvard Renaissance Colloquium: Shakespeare For All: Teaching and the Public Humanities

4:00pm to 5:15pm
Location:
Virtual Event
Shakespeare for All:

Maria Devlin McNair and Jeff Wilson Discuss a New Teaching Resource

Shakespeare For All...
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2021 Feb 16

Harvard Early Sciences Working Group: “Seven Apples: Structuring Vision in the Still Lifes of Juan Sánchez Cotán” (Alejandro Octavio Nodarse)

12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location:
Virtual Event
Event to workshop Alejandro Octavio Nodarse’s article draft, “Seven Apples: Structuring Vision in the Still Lifes of Juan Sánchez Cotán.” Mackenzie Cooley will deliver the opening comment.

Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard.

Alejandro Octavio Nodarse...
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Past Events

Celebrating French Women Writers: A conference to launch the two-volume publication of Femmes et littérature. Une histoire culturelle (Éditions Gallimard)

Location:

Daniel Blank (Harvard Society of Fellows), "Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae".

Location:

Unveiling the Virtual Exhibition: "Portals to the Past - Selections from Colonial North America at Harvard Library”

Location:

Harvard Mahindra Center Women, Gender and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar: "Rethinking Early Modern Women’s Authorship: Anne Bradstreet, Lucy Hutchinson and Epic" (Mihoko Suzuki)

Location:

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on German Studies: New Perspectives: Threading the Needle: Painting as Experiment in Rubens's Four Philosophers

Location:

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Seminar: “Honor and Gender in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron” (Cynthia Nazarian)

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Harvard Workshop: “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” (Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr.)

Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar: Race in Geography, "Ethnography" and other Genres of Arabic Texts

Location:

Harvard Renaissance Colloquium: Shakespeare For All: Teaching and the Public Humanities

Location:

Harvard Early Sciences Working Group: “Seven Apples: Structuring Vision in the Still Lifes of Juan Sánchez Cotán” (Alejandro Octavio Nodarse)

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March 2021

Upcoming Events

Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar: "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" & Teaching Indigeneity

Harvard Workshop: “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” (Yuko Miki)

A Closer Look at Colonial North America Across Harvard Library

Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar: "Indigeneity and Medieval Environment" (Adam Miyashiro)

Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History: "A historical approach to the reading of ancient mathematical texts and why this matters" (Karine Chemla)

Harvard Workshop: “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” (Adriana Chira)

Harvard Renaissance Colloquium: "Occidentalizing Rhodes in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy" (Bailey Sincox)

Harvard Mahindra Center Women, Gender and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar: "Epistemology, Women, and the Scientific Method in Early Modern England" (Julie Walsh)

Harvard Early Sciences Working Group: “Plants in Translation: Botanical Hermeneutics and Seventeenth-Century Orientalism” (Nathaniel Moses)

Harvard FAS Premodern Race Seminar: Nandini Pandey (U Wisconsin-Madison)