The Fourteenth Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History: Prisoners and Players, Merchants and Ministers: An Early Modern Fair

Date:

Friday, February 12, 2021 (All day) to Sunday, February 14, 2021 (All day)

Location:

Virtual Event

Organizers: Ann Blair (Harvard) and Tony Grafton (Princeton)

Featuring a special book event at 1:30 pm on February 13, An Experimental Inquisition? Hannah Marcus and Jennifer Rampling in conversation with Ann Blair and Anthony Grafton. The discussion will introduce new work by Hannah Marcus (Harvard), Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science and Censorship in Early Modern Italy and Jennifer Rampling (Princeton), The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700

All proceedings will be held on Zoom, based at Princeton.

Please click here for the conference's full schedule of events and speakers

Please email earlymod@fas.harvard.edu if you wish to participate in this event.

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