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, Cambridge MA 02138

Harvard Early Modern World Fall Aperitivo, sponsored by the 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”