Shane Bobrycki (Program in Economics, History, and Politics), Plus quam civile bellum in Isidore of Seville. Please RSVP by Thursday, 23 March to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

A one-day symposium exploring how distinct global “early modernities” emerged across time, space, and place in the period from 1300-1800, and re-contextualizing the contingent rise of Western Europe among other hegemonic areas in the eighteenth century. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center, Colloquium for Intellectual History, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for African Studies, History Department, Early Modern History Workshop, Center for History and Economics, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Mellon Rare Book School. A complete program may be found...

Sonja Drimmer (University of Massachusetts), Illuminating Chaucer When He Was Obscure. Co-sponsored with the Medieval English Colloquium.

Julian Weiss (King's College London), Creating Vernacular 'Literature' in Renaissance Spain and Portugal. A workshop exploring how paratexts (prologues, glosses, commentaries) and the layout of manuscripts and early printed books helped to construct ideas of authorship and canonicity, and to create the conditions for the emergence of the idea of a national 'literature' before the term 'literature' itself was coined. Space in the workshop is limited; to reserve a place, please email Monique Duhaime (duhaime@fas.harvard.edu) with "afternoon workshop registration" in the subject line...