Harvard Early Modern World Fall Aperitivo
Date and Time
September 15, 2026
05:00PM - 07:00PM EDT
Location
Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge MA
Sponsor: Harvard Early Modern World initiative
The aperitivo features faculty flashtalks by
Cecile Fromont (History of Art and Architecture), “Slavery, Colony, Beauty”
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (Center for European Studies), “Empires of Privateering: The Case of La Cloche (South China Sea, 1713)”
Jennifer Oliver (Romance Languages and Literatures), “Forging French Fictions”
Robert Darnton (History), “Revolution, Information, and the Role of Writers in Eighteenth-Century France”