Events

Fall 2023:

 

Sept 11 – Reception at Jefferson Tent

 

Sept 26th - Ashley Gonik (History), "Day Counters and Decision Makers: Printed Calendars in Early Modern Europe"

 

Oct 24 - Sherah Bloor (Committee on the Study of Religion), “Anatomy of the Soul: Swedenborg and Kant on the Mechanics of the Internal Senses

 

Nov 7 - Hannah Kaemmer (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning)“Engineers as Imperial Agents in 17th-Century England”

 

Nov 28 - Co-hosting an event with the Philosophy Department, 3pm, special guest Gideon Manning (Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Humanities at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine)

 

Dec 5 - Ori Ben-Shalom (History of Science), “With Armed Eyes: Plague, the Perplexities of the Microscope, and the Struggle over History

 

Spring 2024:

 

Jan 23 - Cicely Bonnin (Visiting Fellow, South Asian Studies), “Bodies and Colors in the Upaniṣads and Early Āyurvedic Texts

 

Feb 6 - Manny Medrano (History), “String Theories: Hidden Astronomy, Temporary Canons, and Andean Quipu Decipherment at the Göteborgs Museum, Sweden

 

Feb 20 - Gio DiRusso and Julia Hintlian (Committee on the Study of Religion), “Eclectic Hellenistic Science in the Sirr al-Khaliqa

 

March 5 - Wenfei Wang (East Asian Languages and Civilizations),  "Tinkering with your Body: An Epistemology of Surgery as Technique in Early Modern China"

 

April 2 - Ana Nicolae (History of Science), “The Geometrization of Winds in Mesopotamian and Greek Antiquity”

 

April 16 - Briana Brightly (Committee on the Study of Religion), “Painting the Medicine Buddha's Pure Land: Epistemic Images in Early-Modern Tibet

 

April 30 - Alex Garnick (History of Science ), van Roomen on al-Khwārizmī and the Divergence of Early Modern Algebras"

 

 

 

 

 

 

PAST EVENTS

 

ESWG Schedule Fall 2021 through Spring 2022

(All meetings will take place 12:00-1:15pm ET, both in person and on Zoom)

 

Oct. 26 - Yingxue Wang, "‘The Iridescent Effect’: Art, Surface, and Ecology in Early Medieval East Asia”

Nov. 16 - Kelly Minot McCay, "Learning to Write Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England: A Teacher’s Textbook Deciphered"

Dec. 7 - Ori Ben-Shalom, "Observing Smallpox: Medical Empiricism, Scientific Personae, and Children in Italy, 1750-1810"

Feb. 1 - Mateo Montoya, "The Thirty Immortals of Geneva: Life Annuities, Smallpox Inoculation, and Probabilistic Thought c. 1760-1793"

Feb. 28 - Alejandro Nodarse, "Observation at the Margin: Salvator Rosa and the Neapolitan Coast"

March 22 - Ashley Gonik, "From Heller to the Heavens: Making Sense of Quantitative Tables in Print"

April 26 - Alex Garnick and Abram Kaplan, “Humanist Mens and the Cartesian Corpus: Some New Directions for the Meditations” 

May 3 - Patrick Graham, "Lionel Cranfield's Audits: Computing at the Intersection of Finance, State and the New Science in Early Stuart England"

 

 

Fall 2020-  all events will take place on zoom from 12:00-1:00EST

 

Sept. 22, Hannah Kaemmer (PhD Candidate, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning)

Expertise and Empire: Fortification Building under the English Board of Ordnance, 1660-1688

 

Oct. 27 4:00PM, Renee Raphael (Associate Professor, History, UC Irvine)

The Communications Circuit of Bureaucratic Knowledge: Production Crises and Refining Innovations in Late 16th-Century Potosi

 

Nov. 17, Shireen Hamza (PhD Candidate, History of Science)

How Islamic is Islamic Medicine? Text and the Body in Tibb

 

Dec. 15, Katharine Park (Professor Emerita, History of Science)

March (a chapter from her book with Ahmed Ragab)

 

Spring 2020

ESWG Spring 2020 poster

Fall 2019

ESWG Fall 2019 poster

Spring 2019

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Fall 2018

Fall 2018

 

Spring 2018

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Fall 2017

Fall 2017 ESWG Schedule

Spring 2017

 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

5:00-7:00 PM / Bok Center 300H

Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop

Fabian Kraemer (LMU Munich and Columbia University)

“A Centaur in London: Observation and Reading in the Early Modern Study of Nature” 

Refreshments will be served. 

 

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 9

6:00-8:00 PM / Science Center 469

Cosponsored by the South Asia Institute and South Asia Across Disciplines

Owen Cornwall (Columbia University)

“The Astrolabe in Medieval India” 

Dinner will be served. To RSVP please email agjikola@fas.harvard.edu or shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu

 

 

TUESDAY, MARCH 28

12:00-1:30 / Science Center 252

Alisha Rankin (Tufts University)

[Title TBD]

Lunch will be served. To RSVP please email agjikola@fas.harvard.edu or shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu

 

 

THURDSAY, APRIL 20

12:00-1:30 / Science Center 252

Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard University)

“The Formation of a Taste Judgment: How Benjamin Haydon Came to Evaluate the Elgin Marbles”

Lunch will be served. To RSVP please email agjikola@fas.harvard.edu or shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu

 

 

TUESDAY, APRIL 25

12:00-1:30 / Science Center 252

Shireen Hamza (Harvard University) and Kathryn Heintzman (Harvard University)

“Back from the Archives”

Lunch will be served. To RSVP please email agjikola@fas.harvard.edu or shireenhamza@g.harvard.edu

 

Fall 2016

Graphic Designer: Jon Varriano.

 

Spring 2016