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Erasure and Inscription in Early Modern Europe

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Roger Chartier (Dept of History, University of Pennsylvania, and Collège de France, Paris, emeritus), “Erasure and Inscription in Early Modern Europe" Barker Center 133. Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book and...

Harvard Early Modern Workshop: "The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Theophrastus in Early Modern Europe”

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Harvard Early Modern Workshop, History Department at Harvard University Katie Ebner Landy (Harvard Society of Fellows and Utrecht University), “The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Theophrastus in Early Modern Europe,” with a comment by Thomas Noriega...

Benjamin Schmidt '94: "Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, & Europe's Early Modern World"

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History Department Alum , Benjamin Schmidt '94: Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World Benjamin Schmidt "Benjamin Schmidt has written a remarkable and remarkably innovative account of a remarkable phenomenon. Inventing...

History Grad Student Assoc: The Invention of Byzantine Studies in Early Modern Europe

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Thurs. October 26 (from 5-7 pm) Fri. October 27 (9 am-5:30pm) Conference: The Invention of Byzantine Studies in Early Modern Europe, Harvard University 26–27 October A two-day international conference on the development of Byzantine scholarship in early...

Early Modern Workshop: Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe

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Early Modern Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe , organized by Sonia Tycko (PhD 2019) . Robinson Hall conference room (formerly Lower Library). The panel will consist of three fifteen-minute papers, followed by Q&A. Elizabeth...

The Many Meanings of Freedom of Conscience in Early Modern Europe: Ben Kaplan

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Please join us in welcoming Professor Kaplan at our inaugural Outside Speaker Seminar. Ben Kaplan is a specialist in the history of relations between religious groups in early modern Europe. He received his BA from Yale University (1981) and his PhD from...

WIGH Seminar: "The Moral Economies of Early Modern Europe"

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"The Moral Economies of Early Modern Europe " Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellow Professor, School of Historical Studies, Princeton University Graduate Student Commentator: Juliette Francoise, Department of Romance Languages, Harvard University...

Early Mod/GSAS Workshop: Multi-lingualism in Early modern Europe: Readings of the Praise of Folly

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Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop and the GSAS workshop “Post-Classicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond" Jan Bloemendal (Huyghens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Princeton University),...

Noah Millstone (University of Birmingham and Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton), “Judging Books in Early Modern Europe”

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Noah Millstone (University of Birmingham and Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton), “Judging Books in Early Modern Europe.” Co-sponsored by the Center for History and Economics and the Early Modern Workshop in the History Department, Harvard...

HIGHS Seminar: "The Temporal Life of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty"

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The Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS) https://highs.fas.harvard.edu/highs "The Temporal Life of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty " Speaker: Natasha Wheatley, Princeton University Comment: Raphael...

CES: tomorrow is Today's Uncertainty: Speculating on Futures in Early Modern Europe

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Zabel will examine speculation as a theological and philosophical concept in the 16th-18th centuries and will investigate the gradual emergence of speculation as an economic and financial tool. By looking at the development of the modern concept of risk...

SoHP: “What’s New in Genomic Archaeology? The Peopling of Europe from ancient and modern DNA”

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The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard invites you to this exciting talk and discussion: “What’s New in Genomic Archaeology? The Peopling of Europe from ancient and modern DNA” By Nick Patterson, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard...