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Exhibition Tour: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Elizabeth Rudy) 10/2/2022 12:00pm to 1:00pm Exhibition Tour: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Elizabeth Rudy) 10/2/2022 12:00pm to 1:00pm Location: In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA	Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town): "Book Collecting in Timbuktu." 10/3/2022 5:15pm Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town): "Book Collecting in Timbuktu." 10/3/2022 5:15pm Location: Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA	Sarah Koval (Music, Harvard), “Music in Early Modern Recipe Books: Notation, Genre, Wellbeing” (ESWG, Harvard) 10/4/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm Sarah Koval (Music, Harvard), “Music in Early Modern Recipe Books: Notation, Genre, Wellbeing” (ESWG, Harvard) 10/4/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138		Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut: "Paleography and power: Irish political thought in a multi-lingual archive." (The 18th John V. Kelleher Memorial Lecture) 10/6/2022 4:30pm Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut: "Paleography and power: Irish political thought in a multi-lingual archive." (The 18th John V. Kelleher Memorial Lecture) 10/6/2022 4:30pm Location: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University: The Non-Pursuit of Happiness: Childhood, Slavery, and Fugitivity in the Age of Revolution (Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies) 10/6/2022 6:00pm Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University: The Non-Pursuit of Happiness: Childhood, Slavery, and Fugitivity in the Age of Revolution (Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies) 10/6/2022 6:00pm Location: Online	Houghton Library Workshop: "Chaucer in Print, 16th & 17th Centuries" 10/7/2022 1:00pm to 2:30pm Houghton Library Workshop: "Chaucer in Print, 16th & 17th Centuries" 10/7/2022 1:00pm to 2:30pm Location: Hofer Classroom, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard (Registration link in details)
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Materials Lab Workshop: Modeling Material Culture in Paper (Workshop) 10/9/2022 10:00am to 1:00pm Materials Lab Workshop: Modeling Material Culture in Paper (Workshop) 10/9/2022 10:00am to 1:00pm Location: In-Person, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA				Camões @ Harvard Conference - 450th anniversary of the publication of Luis Vaz de Camões' maritime epic Os Lusiada, with contributions from scholars from Europe, Africa, and America Camões @ Harvard Conference - 450th anniversary of the publication of Luis Vaz de Camões' maritime epic Os Lusiada, with contributions from scholars from Europe, Africa, and America 10/13/2022 (All day) to 10/15/2022 (All day) Location: Hybrid (see details for more information)

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	Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard: Premodern Race Seminar, Session 3 10/17/2022 12:00pm to 1:00pm Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard: Premodern Race Seminar, Session 3 10/17/2022 12:00pm to 1:00pm Location: Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138	Ryan Low (History, Harvard), “Household Archival Sciences in Medieval Provence and Dauphiné” (ESWG, Harvard) 10/18/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm Ryan Low (History, Harvard), “Household Archival Sciences in Medieval Provence and Dauphiné” (ESWG, Harvard) 10/18/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm Location: On Zoom and in person in Science Center room 252 (SC252), 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, 02138 Angela Zhang, post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History at Harvard,“Race, Slavery, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Florence” (Medieval History Workshop) 10/18/2022 4:30pm Angela Zhang, post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History at Harvard,“Race, Slavery, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Florence” (Medieval History Workshop) 10/18/2022 4:30pm Location: History department conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard POSTPONED TBA: Deirdre Nic Charthaigh: Music, Myth, and Identity in Gaelic Ireland: the Evidence of Early Modern Irish Literature (Celtic Languages and Literatures Lecture), was on 10/18/2022 5:00pm POSTPONED TBA: Deirdre Nic Charthaigh: Music, Myth, and Identity in Gaelic Ireland: the Evidence of Early Modern Irish Literature (Celtic Languages and Literatures Lecture), was on 10/18/2022 5:00pm Location: Postponed to a later date to be announced.	Stephen Greenblatt, Professor of English at Harvard: "The Master's Books" (Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium) 10/19/2022 5:15pm Stephen Greenblatt, Professor of English at Harvard: "The Master's Books" (Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium) 10/19/2022 5:15pm Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, room 211, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138		Kristen Bennett, Framingham State University: “Cosmographical Contemplation in Shakespeare’s Theatrum Mundi” 10/21/2022 5:30pm Kristen Bennett, Framingham State University: “Cosmographical Contemplation in Shakespeare’s Theatrum Mundi” 10/21/2022 5:30pm Location: Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138
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	Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard: Premodern Race Seminar, Session 4 10/24/2022 12:00pm to 1:00pm Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard: Premodern Race Seminar, Session 4 10/24/2022 12:00pm to 1:00pm Location: Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138 Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, Harvard University 10/24/2022 5:30pm Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, Harvard University 10/24/2022 5:30pm Location: 110 Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138 James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)” 10/24/2022 6:00pm James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)” 10/24/2022 6:00pm Location: In person event: History Dept conference room (formerly the Lower Library) on the ground/first floor, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard			Yavuz Aykan, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, Paris 1 Sorbonne University: "SOHBET-I OSMANI: Making Justice in a Venal Context: The Provincial Council and the Deconcentration of Power in 18th-Century Harput" (CMES, Harvard) 10/27/2022 4:30pm to 6:00pm Yavuz Aykan, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, Paris 1 Sorbonne University: "SOHBET-I OSMANI: Making Justice in a Venal Context: The Provincial Council and the Deconcentration of Power in 18th-Century Harput" (CMES, Harvard) 10/27/2022 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa: Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine (Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies) 10/27/2022 6:00pm Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa: Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine (Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies) 10/27/2022 6:00pm Location: Barker Center, Harvard University, Room 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA, 02138 Jordan Katz, Department of Judaic Studies, UMass-Amherst, and Harvard Divinity School: "Mapping Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Amsterdam" (MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World) 10/27/2022 6:00pm Jordan Katz, Department of Judaic Studies, UMass-Amherst, and Harvard Divinity School: "Mapping Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Amsterdam" (MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World) 10/27/2022 6:00pm Location: Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
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Exhibition Tour: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Elizabeth Rudy)

10/2/2022 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town): "Book Collecting in Timbuktu."

10/3/2022 5:15pm

Sarah Koval (Music, Harvard), “Music in Early Modern Recipe Books: Notation, Genre, Wellbeing” (ESWG, Harvard)

10/4/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut: "Paleography and power: Irish political thought in a multi-lingual archive." (The 18th John V. Kelleher Memorial Lecture)

10/6/2022 4:30pm

Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University: The Non-Pursuit of Happiness: Childhood, Slavery, and Fugitivity in the Age of Revolution (Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies)

10/6/2022 6:00pm

Houghton Library Workshop: "Chaucer in Print, 16th & 17th Centuries"

10/7/2022 1:00pm to 2:30pm

Materials Lab Workshop: Modeling Material Culture in Paper (Workshop)

10/9/2022 10:00am to 1:00pm

Camões @ Harvard Conference - 450th anniversary of the publication of Luis Vaz de Camões' maritime epic Os Lusiada, with contributions from scholars from Europe, Africa, and America

Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard: Premodern Race Seminar, Session 3

10/17/2022 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Ryan Low (History, Harvard), “Household Archival Sciences in Medieval Provence and Dauphiné” (ESWG, Harvard)

10/18/2022 12:00pm to 1:15pm

Angela Zhang, post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History at Harvard,“Race, Slavery, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Florence” (Medieval History Workshop)

10/18/2022 4:30pm

POSTPONED TBA: Deirdre Nic Charthaigh: Music, Myth, and Identity in Gaelic Ireland: the Evidence of Early Modern Irish Literature (Celtic Languages and Literatures Lecture), was on

10/18/2022 5:00pm

Stephen Greenblatt, Professor of English at Harvard: "The Master's Books" (Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium)

10/19/2022 5:15pm

Kristen Bennett, Framingham State University: “Cosmographical Contemplation in Shakespeare’s Theatrum Mundi”

10/21/2022 5:30pm

Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard: Premodern Race Seminar, Session 4

10/24/2022 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois Chicago: Book Discussion of his Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black death to COVID-19 with Hannah Marcus, Harvard University

10/24/2022 5:30pm

James Raven (University of Cambridge, UK), “Monsters, Myths and Methods: A Global Book Biography and the Enlightenment Reception of Erik Pontoppidan’s The Natural History of Norway (1752-5)”

10/24/2022 6:00pm

Yavuz Aykan, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, Paris 1 Sorbonne University: "SOHBET-I OSMANI: Making Justice in a Venal Context: The Provincial Council and the Deconcentration of Power in 18th-Century Harput" (CMES, Harvard)

10/27/2022 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Zoe Beenstock, University of Haifa: Historicizing Eighteenth-Century Palestine (Harvard MHC Seminar on Eighteenth Century Studies)

10/27/2022 6:00pm

Jordan Katz, Department of Judaic Studies, UMass-Amherst, and Harvard Divinity School: "Mapping Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Amsterdam" (MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World)

10/27/2022 6:00pm

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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)

12:00pm

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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

October 2022

October 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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