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The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe

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A discussion of The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe (Harvard University Press, 2022), featuring editors Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Princeton University) and Jake Ransohoff (History, Harvard University) in conversation with Leah Whittington...

Escape Ecologies: Peasants, Nature, and Power in Eastern Europe, 1700-1850

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MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society Speaker: Michał Pospiszyl Michał Pospiszyl traces how the presence of escape ecologies (forests, swamps, wastelands) influenced the relationship between subjects and centers of power (nobility and state) in...

The Cold Standard: Climate Information and Memory in the Great Winter of 1709

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Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar Speaker: Jin-Woo Choi , Prize Fellow, Joint Center for History and Economics. Harvard University Chair: Ailish Lalor , Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair...

Ashley Gonik (History, Harvard), "Generating New Insight or Perpetuating Old Narratives? Printed Historical Tables in Early Modern Europe" (Center for European Studies, Dissertation Workshop)

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https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023/11/generating-new-insight-or-pe…

Sovereigns in Question: Maritime Prize Courts and Non-European Princes in the Eighteenth Century

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Center for European Studies Harvard: New Research on Europe Seminar Speaker: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California Dornsife Discussant: Daniel Smail, Harvard University Chair: Albana Shehaj, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies...

Alisha Rankin, Tufts University, “A Useless Sack of Bones”: Old Women as Medical and Political Agents in Early Modern Europe (Harvard MHC Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World)

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https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/%E2%80%9C-useless-sack…

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

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Harvard University Library, Harvard Department of Romance languages and Literatures, Harvard Department of History, and Harvard Early Modern World Camões @ Harvard Conference This conference marks the 450th anniversary of the publication of Luis Vaz de...

CFP: Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges University of Exeter, UK (2-4 June 2025). Deadline: Nov 29, 2024

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The Cultures of Philosophy project at the University of Exeter in the UK invites proposals for our first conference, ‘Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges’ to be held at Reed Hall, the University of Exeter, 2-4...

M'hamed Oualdi (Sciences Po), Freeing the last Muslim slaves in Europe: Moroccan Sultan Muhammad Ibn Abdallah’s social and economic policy from the 1750s to the late 1780s

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Joint Center for History and Economics Online Seminar From the 1750s to the late 1780s, the sultan of Morocco, Muhammad Ibn Abdallah, implemented a policy to ransom a large number of enslaved Muslim men and women across Mediterranean Europe (from Spain to...

Book Talk: Democracy’s Double Helix. Participation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe

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Sponsor: Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard. Speaker: Lars Behrisch (University of Utrecht)

The People without Age. Ethnography and the Rise of Age Consciousness in 18th-century Europe

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Sponsor: Harvard Early Sciences Working Group Speaker: Dr. Ludwig Pelzl (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University) Lunch is provided upon RSVP to ESWG coordinators: cmayhew at fas.harvard.edu or courtney_gragson at g.harvard.edu

Hannah Kaemmer

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• Region(s): Europe; Britain
• Time Period(s): 16th Century; 17th Century
• Theme(s): Architecture