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				Keynote lecture: Miguel Falomir (Museo Nacional del Prado): “Titian, Philip and the Poesie: The Artist, The Patron” (Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture, Conference "Visual Poetry") 4/7/2022 6:00pm Keynote lecture: Miguel Falomir (Museo Nacional del Prado): “Titian, Philip and the Poesie: The Artist, The Patron” (Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture, Conference "Visual Poetry") 4/7/2022 6:00pm Location: Online and in-person. See details for registration link	Conference: Visual Poetry: The Politics and Erotics of Seeing, Titian and Beyond (Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture) 4/8/2022 9:30am to 6:00pm Conference: Visual Poetry: The Politics and Erotics of Seeing, Titian and Beyond (Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture) 4/8/2022 9:30am to 6:00pm Location: In-person only--Lower Level Lecture Hall; 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138 Please see detailed information for registration link Inaugural Conference of Harvard's Association of Global Political Thought: Panel 2: The State between States in Early-Modern Political Thought 4/8/2022 10:45am to 12:00pm Inaugural Conference of Harvard's Association of Global Political Thought: Panel 2: The State between States in Early-Modern Political Thought 4/8/2022 10:45am to 12:00pm Location: Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium), Harvard Yard Eveline Szarka (Visiting Fellow in History, Harvard): “Safer, Simpler, Swifter, Shorter. Practical Knowledge in Daniel Schwenter’s Handbook on Secret Communication (1618)”, with comment by Kelly McCay (History, Harvard) (Harvard Early Modern Worksho 4/8/2022 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eveline Szarka (Visiting Fellow in History, Harvard): “Safer, Simpler, Swifter, Shorter. Practical Knowledge in Daniel Schwenter’s Handbook on Secret Communication (1618)”, with comment by Kelly McCay (History, Harvard) (Harvard Early Modern Worksho 4/8/2022 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: Robinson Hall Conference room, Harvard Yard. In-person event within the covid restrictions in effect at the time.
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	Jennifer Row (University of Minnesota): "Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage" (Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar) 4/11/2022 5:00pm Jennifer Row (University of Minnesota): "Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage" (Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar) 4/11/2022 5:00pm Location: Online on Zoom. To view this event online, individuals will need to register via Zoom (see detailed announcement for the link).	Derrick Spires, Cornell University: A Spirit of Inquiry: Early African American Criticism from Phillis Wheatley to Dorothy Porter Wesley (MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies) 4/12/2022 6:00pm Derrick Spires, Cornell University: A Spirit of Inquiry: Early African American Criticism from Phillis Wheatley to Dorothy Porter Wesley (MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies) 4/12/2022 6:00pm Location: Online Event Faizah Zakaria: Camphor, Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies (Science and Technology in Asia seminar series) 4/12/2022 10:30pm to 11:45pm Faizah Zakaria: Camphor, Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies (Science and Technology in Asia seminar series) 4/12/2022 10:30pm to 11:45pm Location: Harvard University Asia Center Spring 2022 Online seminar series
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	The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe 4/18/2022 5:00pm to 7:00pm The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe 4/18/2022 5:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138	“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 4/19/2022 4:30pm “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 4/19/2022 4:30pm Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library). In person, within the Covid regulations in force at the time.	Mélanie Lamotte, Radcliffe Institute Fellow: "Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756.” 4/20/2022 12:00pm Mélanie Lamotte, Radcliffe Institute Fellow: "Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756.” 4/20/2022 12:00pm Location: Online on Zoom. Free and open to the public. To view this event online, individuals will need to register via Zoom. Canceled: Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa): "Tender Curiosities: Teaching the History of Science in Early Modern Europe in terms of Gendered Knowledge-Craft." (Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium) 4/20/2022 4:45pm Canceled: Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa): "Tender Curiosities: Teaching the History of Science in Early Modern Europe in terms of Gendered Knowledge-Craft." (Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium) 4/20/2022 4:45pm Location: Online Event	Richard Tarrant (Classics, Emeritus) and Alexander Riehle (Classics): First day of a two-day workshop on the basics of text editing (John Duffy Society) 4/21/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm Richard Tarrant (Classics, Emeritus) and Alexander Riehle (Classics): First day of a two-day workshop on the basics of text editing (John Duffy Society) 4/21/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm Location: Online on Zoom. To view this event online, individuals will need to register via Zoom (see detailed announcement for the link).	Richard Tarrant (Classics, Emeritus) and Alexander Riehle (Classics): Second day of a two-day workshop on the basics of text editing (John Duffy Society) 4/22/2022 2:00pm to 3:15pm Richard Tarrant (Classics, Emeritus) and Alexander Riehle (Classics): Second day of a two-day workshop on the basics of text editing (John Duffy Society) 4/22/2022 2:00pm to 3:15pm Location: Online on Zoom. To view this event online, individuals will need to register via Zoom (see detailed announcement for the link).
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		Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations” 4/26/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Abram Kaplan & Alex Garnick, “Towards a New Reading of Descartes’ Meditations” 4/26/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm Location: Online & In-Person (Science Center 252) Katie Kadue (Cornell University): "'A Double Task': Erotic and Poetic Labor in Petrarchan Poetry." (MHC Seminar on Renaissance Studies) 4/26/2022 5:00pm Katie Kadue (Cornell University): "'A Double Task': Erotic and Poetic Labor in Petrarchan Poetry." (MHC Seminar on Renaissance Studies) 4/26/2022 5:00pm Location: Online on Zoom. To view this event online, individuals will need to register via Zoom (see detailed announcement for the link).	How Does Stuff Happen? A Roundtable on Causality in Medieval and Early Modern History (Harvard Medieval History Workshop and Early Modern Workshop) 4/27/2022 7:00pm to 8:30pm How Does Stuff Happen? A Roundtable on Causality in Medieval and Early Modern History (Harvard Medieval History Workshop and Early Modern Workshop) 4/27/2022 7:00pm to 8:30pm Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library).	Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama" (MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World) 4/28/2022 5:30pm Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama" (MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World) 4/28/2022 5:30pm Location: Online on Zoom. Registration at https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYof-6sqTsjG9YyGwSP2izcNERvwyPYITvk	Harvard Medieval Graduate Interdisciplinary Workshop: Two-day in person workshop with Dr. Sarah Lang (University of Graz, Austria): “Beyond TEI: A Workshop on Digital Editing of Premodern Texts” Harvard Medieval Graduate Interdisciplinary Workshop: Two-day in person workshop with Dr. Sarah Lang (University of Graz, Austria): “Beyond TEI: A Workshop on Digital Editing of Premodern Texts” 4/29/2022 (All day) to 4/30/2022 (All day) Location: In-person. See details for registration link.

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Keynote lecture: Miguel Falomir (Museo Nacional del Prado): “Titian, Philip and the Poesie: The Artist, The Patron” (Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture, Conference "Visual Poetry")

4/7/2022 6:00pm

Conference: Visual Poetry: The Politics and Erotics of Seeing, Titian and Beyond (Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture)

4/8/2022 9:30am to 6:00pm

Inaugural Conference of Harvard's Association of Global Political Thought: Panel 2: The State between States in Early-Modern Political Thought

4/8/2022 10:45am to 12:00pm

Eveline Szarka (Visiting Fellow in History, Harvard): “Safer, Simpler, Swifter, Shorter. Practical Knowledge in Daniel Schwenter’s Handbook on Secret Communication (1618)”, with comment by Kelly McCay (History, Harvard) (Harvard Early Modern Worksho

4/8/2022 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Jennifer Row (University of Minnesota): "Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage" (Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies Seminar)

4/11/2022 5:00pm

Derrick Spires, Cornell University: A Spirit of Inquiry: Early African American Criticism from Phillis Wheatley to Dorothy Porter Wesley (MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies)

4/12/2022 6:00pm

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

4/12/2022 10:30pm to 11:45pm

The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe

4/18/2022 5:00pm to 7:00pm

“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

4/19/2022 4:30pm

Mélanie Lamotte, Radcliffe Institute Fellow: "Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756.”

4/20/2022 12:00pm

Canceled: Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa): "Tender Curiosities: Teaching the History of Science in Early Modern Europe in terms of Gendered Knowledge-Craft." (Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium)

4/20/2022 4:45pm

Richard Tarrant (Classics, Emeritus) and Alexander Riehle (Classics): First day of a two-day workshop on the basics of text editing (John Duffy Society)

4/21/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Richard Tarrant (Classics, Emeritus) and Alexander Riehle (Classics): Second day of a two-day workshop on the basics of text editing (John Duffy Society)

4/22/2022 2:00pm to 3:15pm

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

4/26/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Katie Kadue (Cornell University): "'A Double Task': Erotic and Poetic Labor in Petrarchan Poetry." (MHC Seminar on Renaissance Studies)

4/26/2022 5:00pm

How Does Stuff Happen? A Roundtable on Causality in Medieval and Early Modern History (Harvard Medieval History Workshop and Early Modern Workshop)

4/27/2022 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Elisa Oh (Department of English, Howard University): “Moving like a Witch: Kinesis, Gender, and Race in Early Modern English Drama" (MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World)

4/28/2022 5:30pm

Harvard Medieval Graduate Interdisciplinary Workshop: Two-day in person workshop with Dr. Sarah Lang (University of Graz, Austria): “Beyond TEI: A Workshop on Digital Editing of Premodern Texts”

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Alejandro Octavio Nodarse (History of Art and Architecture), “(Ir)reparable Errors: Marco Aurelio Severino’s Drawings as Surgical Practice” (Harvard Early Sciences Working Group)

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Hybrid format: In-person at Science Center room 252 (SC252), Harvard University, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge MA, 02138 and on Zoom (see event details)

Email Mateo Montoya, mateomontoya@g.harvard.edu, to register either for the in-person meeting or for the Zoom link, and to receive the precirculated paper.

Events

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April 2022

Upcoming Events

Matthew Landrus (Oxford University and Rhode Island School of Design), “Diagrammatic reasoning for early modern artist/engineers, with particular attention to Leonardo da Vinci.”

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Bradley J. Irish, Associate Professor of English, Arizona State University, “The Cycles of Disgust in Timon of Athens” (Shakespearean Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University)

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Katherine Horgan, doctoral candidate in English at Harvard, "Playing Sappho: Biography as Form in Early Modern Sapphic Reception." (Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium)

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J.H. Chajes (Wolfson Professor of Jewish Religious Thought, University of Haifa), “Seeing the Kabbalah Through Its Trees: The New Perspectives of The Kabbalistic Tree.”

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Meredith Neuman, Clark University: “Book Copies and Textual Desires: Reading Early American Poetry Against the Imprint.” Respondent: Sarah Robbins, Tufts University (Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on American Literature and Culture)

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Alejandro Octavio Nodarse (History of Art and Architecture), “(Ir)reparable Errors: Marco Aurelio Severino’s Drawings as Surgical Practice” (Harvard Early Sciences Working Group)

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