Past Events

2021 Dec 10

Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific Personae, and Children in Italy, 1750-1810"

12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location:
Online & In-Person (Science Center 252)
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific Personae, and Children in Italy, 1750-1810"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu. Read more about Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific Personae, and Children in Italy, 1750-1810"
2021 Dec 09

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World: Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Transculturation and 'English' Daughters in Early Modern Morocco”

5:30pm
Location:
Online
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Transculturation and 'English' Daughters in Early Modern Morocco”
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-...
Read more about Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World: Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Transculturation and 'English' Daughters in Early Modern Morocco”
2021 Dec 03

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies: Kent Cartwright (University of Maryland), "Shakespearean Comedy and the Problem of Forgiveness"

4:00pm
Location:
Online
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Kent Cartwright (University of Maryland), "Shakespearean Comedy and the Problem of Forgiveness"
Location: Online, Registration Link.
After registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.
2021 Nov 19

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies: "Shakespeare as Memoir" (Michelle Ephraim, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

6:00pm
Location:
Online
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
“Shakespeare as Memoir.”
Michelle Ephraim, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location: Online. Please register for this event at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/shakespearean-studies; after registration, you will be sent an email with Zoom instructions.

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2021 Nov 19

Harvard Art Museums and Department of History of Art and Architecture: The 2021 Erasmus Lectures: Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic (Part 3)

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
Online
Harvard Art Museums and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture

The 2021 Erasmus Lectures: Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic (Part 3, “Room for Reflection: The Space of Painting”)

Hanneke Grootenboer, Professor of Art History at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and the 2021 Erasmus Lecturer on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders at...
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2021 Nov 18

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World: Divya Cherian (Princeton University), “Diabolical Women: Witches and the Law in Early Modern South Asia”

5:30pm
Location:
Online
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World
Divya Cherian (Princeton University), “Diabolical Women: Witches and the Law in Early Modern South Asia”
Location: Online
You must register for events in order to gain access. We will send out links for each event closer to the date, and they will also soon be available at https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/women-gender-and-culture-early-modern-world. After... Read more about Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World: Divya Cherian (Princeton University), “Diabolical Women: Witches and the Law in Early Modern South Asia”
2021 Nov 16

Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Kelly Minot McCay, "Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England: A Teacher’s Textbook Deciphered"

12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location:
Online & In-Person (Science Center 252)
Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard
Kelly Minot McCay, "Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England: A Teacher’s Textbook Deciphered"
Location: This meeting will be held in hybrid format, both on Zoom and in person. The in person portion will be held in Science Center 252. To receive the zoom link please write to mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu. Read more about Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Kelly Minot McCay, "Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England: A Teacher’s Textbook Deciphered"
2021 Nov 12

Harvard Mahindra Center Renaissance Studies Seminar: Michael Meere (Wesleyan University), “(Un)Popular Theater and Traveling Troupes in Late Renaissance France”

5:00pm
Location:
Online
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar
Michael Meere (Wesleyan University), “(Un)Popular Theater and Traveling Troupes in Late Renaissance France”
Location: Online
Please RSVP to Emily Epperson (epperson@g.harvard.edu) or to Lisa Kostur (kostur@g.harvard.edu) for the Zoom link.

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Read more about Harvard Mahindra Center Renaissance Studies Seminar: Michael Meere (Wesleyan University), “(Un)Popular Theater and Traveling Troupes in Late Renaissance France”
2021 Nov 12

Harvard Art Museums and Department of History of Art and Architecture: The 2021 Erasmus Lectures: Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic (Part 2)

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
Online
Harvard Art Museums and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture

The 2021 Erasmus Lectures: Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic (Part 2, “Sensing the Self: Early Modern Female Artists”)

Hanneke Grootenboer, Professor of Art History at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and the 2021 Erasmus Lecturer on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders...
Read more about Harvard Art Museums and Department of History of Art and Architecture: The 2021 Erasmus Lectures: Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic (Part 2)
2021 Nov 12

Harvard Early Modern Workshop: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, "Rituals and procedures of decision-making: Early Modern Assemblies of Estates"

12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:
Online
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Rektorin, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), "Rituals and procedures of decision-making: Early Modern Assemblies of Estates."

Organized by the Early Modern Workshop of the Department of History at Harvard.

Please register in advance here:

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Past Events

Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific Personae, and Children in Italy, 1750-1810"

Location:

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World: Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Transculturation and 'English' Daughters in Early Modern Morocco”

Location:

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies: Kent Cartwright (University of Maryland), "Shakespearean Comedy and the Problem of Forgiveness"

Location:

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Shakespearean Studies: "Shakespeare as Memoir" (Michelle Ephraim, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Location:

Harvard Art Museums and Department of History of Art and Architecture: The 2021 Erasmus Lectures: Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic (Part 3)

Location:

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World: Divya Cherian (Princeton University), “Diabolical Women: Witches and the Law in Early Modern South Asia”

Location:

Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Kelly Minot McCay, "Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England: A Teacher’s Textbook Deciphered"

Location:

Harvard Mahindra Center Renaissance Studies Seminar: Michael Meere (Wesleyan University), “(Un)Popular Theater and Traveling Troupes in Late Renaissance France”

Location:

Harvard Art Museums and Department of History of Art and Architecture: The 2021 Erasmus Lectures: Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic (Part 2)

Location:

Harvard Early Modern Workshop: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, "Rituals and procedures of decision-making: Early Modern Assemblies of Estates"

Location:

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January 2022

Upcoming Events

Florence Hsia, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison: From Illiterate to Sinologists: Indexing Chinese (Science and Technology in Asia seminar series)

Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Mateo Montoya, "The Thirty Immortals of Geneva: Life Annuities, Smallpox Inoculation, and Probabilistic Thought c. 1760-1793"

William Carroll, Adapting 'Macbeth': Three Types of Revision (MHC Seminar on Shakespearean Studies)

Alison Calhoun, Indiana University-Bloomington: Staging Robots: From Cartesian Intelligibility to Enlightenment Dehumanization (MHC Renaissance Studies)

Jared Hardesty, Western Washington University: Two Sisters, a Merchant, and a Mercenary: Rethinking Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Boston (MHC Eighteenth-Century Studies)

Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Alejandro Nodarse, “Blood Lines: Drawing and Circulation in Marco Aurelio Severino’s Chirugia Illustrata (Surgery Illustrated)”

Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"

Faizah Zakaria: Camphor, Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies (Science and Technology in Asia seminar series)

“Predestination: its Profile in Early British and American Modernity. A Debate” featuring David Hall (Harvard Divinity School) and James Simpson (English, Harvard), with Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School) as moderator

Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations”