Past Events

Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies Professor Lisa Brooks, Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College and author most recently of Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, will speak on:...

Tara Nummedal will kick things off with "Sound and Vision: The Alchemical Epistemology of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens." We will be sending out directions for how to link to the in-progress/near-completion website in the next week or two. Brown...

Scholarly editions are fundamental to the development of scholarship for their respective authors, and their shelf-life is far longer than for many other academic texts. They provide the authoritative and annotated text to which readers and scholars...

Jay Robert Stiefel, historian of Colonial Philadelphia society and its material culture, will introduce the life and work of English emigrant joiner John Head (1688-1754). Head’s Philadelphia account book is the earliest and most complete to have survived...

Please join the Mahindra Humanities Center seminar Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World for our first event of the semester, as we welcome Debapriya Sarkar Assistant Professor of English University of Connecticut, Avery Point "Romance at...

Sponsor: Harvard Political Theory Colloquium Convenors: Eric Beerbohm, Michael Rosen, Dimitrios Halikias For the paper, please email: dhalikias (at) g.harvard.edu

A major exhibition, Required Reading: Reimagining a Colonial Library, showcases and interprets the King’s Chapel Library Collection, one of the surviving treasures of 17th century Boston. Come explore the city's colonial history, the fine crafts of...

Sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations More information: Yaacob Dweck is a professor of history and Judaic studies at Princeton University. His work explores reactionary movements and figures that redefined the intellectual...

Sponsor: Julis-Rabinowitz Program of Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School and the Judaica Division of the Harvard Library The workshop is open to Harvard Scholars RSVP required to Menachem Butler mbutler (at) law.harvard.edu

Early Modern History Workshop Aperitivo featuring flash talks by: Kate van Orden (Music), “Metrolingualism in Print”; Adam Beaver (Bok Center), “Some Early Modern Origins of Modern Academic Culture”; Katharina Piechocki (Comparative Literature),...

Sponsor: Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop