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Opening event in the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book

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Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book. Features flashtalks by: Eric Gurevitch (History of Science, Harvard), Ann Blair (History, Harvard), Spence Weinreich (Society of Fellows, Harvard), Paul Russell (Celtic Languages and...

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History: History of the Book Opening Event

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Opening event in the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History, featuring three flashtalks: Neil Safier (History, Brown), “The Colonial Encyclopedia” Hannah Marcus (History of Science, Harvard), “Contagion and the Collections at Harvard” Priyasha...

Harvard-Yale-Brown Graduate Conference in Book History: "Materiality and Book History (in the age of Zoom)”

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Hosted by Harvard University Early Modern Talks: Graeme R. Reynolds (Harvard): The Circulation of the History of Koryŏ in Early Modern Korea ● Philippe Schmid (Harvard): Sharing Marks in Early Modern Books ● Alicia Petersen (Yale): Decoding Early Modern...

Spencer Weinreich (Harvard Society of Fellows and Dept of History of Science, Harvard), "Prison History as Book History"

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Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on the History of the Book

Opening event of the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book, featuring four flashtalks, followed by a reception

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Matt Aiello (Harvard Society of Fellows), “Material Traces of Linguistic Trauma in Twelfth-Century England” Devin Fitzgerald (Council on East Asia Studies and Beinecke Library), “Global and/or Comparative Book Histories: The Problem of Comparing Editions”...

Opening event in the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in History of the Book

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Flash talks by Arthur Bahr (Literature, MIT), “Between Close and Distant Reading”; Molly Taylor-Poleskey (Map Room, Harvard), “Reading the Raum: Spatial History in Early Modern German Itinerary Books”; Joseph Rezek (English, Boston University), “The...

Symposium on Trans/Queer Approaches to Bibliography and Book History (Series of Events)

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We are pleased to announce a series of events exploring trans and queer approaches to bibliography and book history, featuring scholars from Harvard and beyond. These events are co-sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America, the RBS Mellon...

Fantasies of Latin and Nahuatl in Clement VII's Rome

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Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard. Speaker: Byron Hamann (University of Pennsylvania)

Grecia Illustrata: Early Modern Visions of Ottoman Greece

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Sponsored by Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on History of the Book and the Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History at Harvard Speaker: Richard Calis, University of Utrecht

Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History: "A historical approach to the reading of ancient mathematical texts and why this matters" (Karine Chemla)

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"A historical approach to the reading of ancient mathematical texts and why this matters" Karine Chemla (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study and CNRS, University Paris Diderot) Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History...

Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard: Katharine Park (Professor Emerita, History of Science), "March" (a chapter from her book with Ahmed Ragab)

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Early Sciences Working Group at Harvard "March" (a chapter from her book with Ahmed Ragab) (virtual talk) Katharine Park (Professor Emerita, History of Science) For the precirculated paper and zoom link please contact Hannah Marcus at hmarcus (at) fas...

The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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Series: Harvard Science Book Talk Sponsors: Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library Speakers: Jessica Riskin, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University, in conversation with Naomi...