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Early Modern History Workshop Aperitivo: Kate van Orden (Music); Adam Beaver (Bok Center); Katharina Piechocki (Comparative Literature); David Hall (Harvard Divinity School)

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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),...

Opening meeting: Michelle Warren (Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College), author of Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (2022) in conversation with Ann Blair (History, Harvard) (Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Medieval Studies)

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Author Michelle Warren, Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, discusses her new book Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Stanford University Press, 2022) with Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at...

Ancient Studies workshop on Comparative Approaches to Language Learning in the Premodern World, organized by Irene Peirano Garrison, Celine Debourse, Joe Glynias and Ivy Livingston

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There will be two paired comparative talks on issues of multilingualism and indigeneity from two fabulous scholars: Matylda Figlerowicz, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature will speak about "After Malinche’s Babel: The Perception of Nahuatl’s...

James Engell

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Region(s): Britain; America; France
Time Period(s): 18th century, and Restoration
Theme(s): Romantic, Eighteenth-Century, and Restoration British Literature; Comparative Romanticism; Criticism and Critical Theory; Rhetoric; Environmental Studies; History...

Kangni Huang

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Region: China
Time: 15th Century; 16th Century; 17th Century; 18th Century
Theme: Chinese Literature; Cultural History; Intellectual History

Kangni Huang studies the literature and culture of late imperial (Ming-Qing) China. She is particularly interested in...

Clio-Ragna Takas

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· Regions: Greece, England, Italy
· Time Periods: 15th-17th century
· Themes: Early Modern Drama; Trans-imperial Contact Zones; Travel Writing; Oral Poetry and Performance; World-Making; Translation Studies; Popular Literature; Embodied Cognition & Early...

Tianhu Hao, Zhejiang University: Shakespeare’s Influence on Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talks)

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Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talks, co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Lecture: Shakespeare’s Influence on Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Speaker: Tianhu Hao | Qiushi Distinguished Professor, Center for Medieval...

John Hamilton

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Region(s): Germany; France
Time Period(s): 18th century; 19th century
Theme(s): Hermeneutics and Poetics of the Classical Tradition; Music and Language; New Comparative Philology; Literature

Research Fields: Hermeneutics and Poetics of the...

Early Modern World Fall Aperitivo (with Faculty Flash-talks and Reception)

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Faculty Flash-talks: Natasha Sumner (Celtic Languages and Literatures), “How To Catch a Gaelic Hero” Introduced by Graham O’Toole (Celtic) John Hamilton (German, Comparative Literature), “Culture and Convenience” Introduced by Caroline Engelmayer (English...

Joseph Gauvreau (Comparative Literature, Harvard), dissertation defense of “The Contrafacta of Thomas Watson and Simon Goulart: Resignifying the Polyphonic Song in 16th-century England and France"

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Under the direction of Katharina Piechocki, Kate van Orden, and Tom Conley

Anthony T. Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University: "Strategies and Stereotypes in Renaissance Ethnography"

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Sponsor: Oakley Center and the History Department at Williams College, with additional support from Comparative Literature, the Graduate Program in the History of Art, Religion, Special Collections, and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty The Keynote...

David Stern

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Region: Near East; Europe; Americas
Time: 14th to 19th century
Theme: Jewish History; History of the Book; Hebrew Literature; Biblical Interpretation

Research Fields: Classical and Modern...

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Early Modern History Workshop Aperitivo: Kate van Orden (Music); Adam Beaver (Bok Center); Katharina Piechocki (Comparative Literature); David Hall (Harvard Divinity School)

Opening meeting: Michelle Warren (Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College), author of Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (2022) in conversation with Ann Blair (History, Harvard) (Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Medieval Studies)

Ancient Studies workshop on Comparative Approaches to Language Learning in the Premodern World, organized by Irene Peirano Garrison, Celine Debourse, Joe Glynias and Ivy Livingston

James Engell

Kangni Huang

Clio-Ragna Takas

Tianhu Hao, Zhejiang University: Shakespeare’s Influence on Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talks)

John Hamilton

Early Modern World Fall Aperitivo (with Faculty Flash-talks and Reception)

Joseph Gauvreau (Comparative Literature, Harvard), dissertation defense of “The Contrafacta of Thomas Watson and Simon Goulart: Resignifying the Polyphonic Song in 16th-century England and France"

Anthony T. Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University: "Strategies and Stereotypes in Renaissance Ethnography"

David Stern