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Early Modern Japanese Mathematics in Context

May 7, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT
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Harvard Science Center, Room 252, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

Sponsor: Harvard Early Sciences Working Group

Speaker: Mark Chen (PhD Candidate, HEAL/Japan) 

Lunch is provided upon RSVP to ESWG coordinators: cmayhew at fas.harvard.edu or courtney_gragson at g.harvard.edu

 

Who Were Harvard’s First Indigenous Students?

May 4, 2026
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6:00PM EDT
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Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room), Harvard University (Please use the main entrance to enter Barker Center)

Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Native Cultures of the Americas

Speakers: Alan Niles (Harvard University), Wanda Hopkins (Naragansett), and Mack Scott III (Naragansett)

Undergraduate Symposium on Premodern Studies

May 4, 2026
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9:30AM - 4:30PM EDT
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Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA

Co-sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Department of Classics, the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Ancient Studies at Harvard, and Harvard Early Modern World. 

Free and open to the public

Christianizing Coffee: a Maronite Origin of the Devilish Drink

May 1, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:45PM EDT
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This is a hybrid event. In person: Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room), Harvard University (Please use the main entrance to enter Barker Center)

Sponsors: Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on the History of the Book 

Speakers: Ida Beckett, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Jin-Woo Choi, History Department, both Harvard University

This is a hybrid event. Please...

"these curious arts": the queer space-time of paint on the early modern stage

April 30, 2026
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5:30PM EDT
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Barker Center, Room 024, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA

Sponsor: Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World

Speaker: Sophie Richardson (Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT)

Please use the main entrance to enter Barker Center, as the side entrance won't be open.

The ‘Western’ Mind: The Origins of a Myth, 1700–1800

April 27, 2026
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5:30PM - 7:00PM EDT
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CGIS S250, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA

Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History and the International and Global History Seminar, Harvard University.

Speaker: Dmitri Levitin (Oxford)