Past Events

Colonial North America at Harvard Library Symposium: Panel: Using Digitized Manuscript Collections in New Contexts

April 7, 2021

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11:00AM - 12:30PM EDT

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Wednesday, April 7: Panel 1 - Using Digitized Manuscript Collections in New Contexts Join us for a 3-part celebratory culmination event of the Colonial North America at Harvard Library digitization project. Below is a snapshot of the program’s panel...

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Seminar: “On Race and Reinscription: Writing Enslaved Women Back into the Early Modern Archive” (Jennifer L. Morgan)

Apr 6, 2021

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5:00PM EDT

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Virtual Event

In Person

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Seminar Jennifer L. Morgan (New York University) “On Race and Reinscription: Writing Enslaved Women Back into the Early Modern Archive” RSVP to Therese Banks (tbanks@g.harvard.edu) or Emily Epperson (epperson...

Colonial North America at Harvard Library Symposium (Karin Wulf)

April 6, 2021

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11:00AM - 12:30PM EDT

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Virtual Event

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Tuesday, April 6: Keynote Address - 'Digital Access and Making Early America Vast' by Karin Wulf, renowned early American scholar from the Omohundro Institute Join us for a 3-part celebratory culmination event of the Colonial North America at Harvard...

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

April 5, 2021

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1:00PM - 2:30PM EDT

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Virtual Event

In Person

Nandini Pandey (U Wisconsin-Madison) joins us, with a pre-circulated piece adapted from her forthcoming book, to discuss Roman diversity and public-facing communication. Co-organized by Anna Wilson (Dept. of English) and Rachel Love (Dept. of Classics)...

Harvard Department of History of Art + Architecture: “Print, Painting, and the Contours of the Baroque” (Aaron M. Hyman)

Apr 1, 2021

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6:00PM EDT

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Virtual Event

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Harvard Department of History of Art + Architecture New Directions in Art History Lecture Series Aaron M. Hyman, “Print, Painting, and the Contours of the Baroque” This talk reexamines "the Baroque” by tracking the transmission of compositions both across...

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

Mar 30, 2021

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12:00PM EDT

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Virtual Event

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Nathaniel Moses (History, Harvard) “Plants in Translation: Botanical Hermeneutics and Seventeenth-Century Orientalism” Sponsored by the Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard. To receive the pre-circulated paper and zoom link, please contact Hannah...

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)

Mar 25, 2021

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5:30PM EDT

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Virtual Event

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Harvard Mahindra Center Women, Gender and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar "Epistemology, Women, and the Scientific Method in Early Modern England," with Professor Julie Walsh (Wellesley College) Registration Link

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

Mar 25, 2021

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3:00PM EDT

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Virtual Event

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Harvard Renaissance Colloquium "Occidentalizing Rhodes in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy" Bailey Sincox, Harvard English Department More Information

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

March 24, 2021

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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT

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Virtual Event

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The Harvard workshop on “Administrating differences: Recent Scholarship on Indigenous and Afro-Latin America” will feature a discussion of Adriana Chira, “Peripheral Freedoms: Afro-Descendant Cubans, Law, and Racial Identity, 1791-1868 (forthcoming...

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

Mar 23, 2021

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3:00PM EDT

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Virtual Event

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"A historical approach to the reading of ancient mathematical texts and why this matters" Karine Chemla (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study and CNRS, University Paris Diderot) Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History...

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

March 22, 2021

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1:00PM - 2:30PM EDT

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Virtual Event

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"Race and Environment" Guest speaker Adam Miyashiro (Stockton University) joins us to discuss a pre-circulated forthcoming article. Co-organized by Anna Wilson (Dept. of English) and Rachel Love (Dept. of Classics), this seminar meets every other Monday...

Mahindra Humanities Center Shakespearean Studies Seminar: “Hamlet and Euclid, Those Amazing Twins” (Travis Williams, University of Rhode Island)

Mar 19, 2021

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6:00PM EDT

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Virtual Event

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Mahindra Humanities Center Shakespearean Studies Seminar Travis Williams (University of Rhode Island) “Hamlet and Euclid, Those Amazing Twins.” Registration link at: https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/hamlet-and-euclid-thos…