Early Modern History Workshop

In his 1982 essay "Nonmoral Nature," the historian of science Stephen Jay Gould meditated on the role that morality should or should not play in our understanding of the natural world. Animals are neither evil nor kind, in Gould's view, and morality has...

The Dead Hand of the Past, a roundtable discussion featuring Sofia Carbonell Realme (English), Joe Currie (Committee on the Study of Religion), Reed Morgan (History), and Ana Luiza Nicolae (History of Science). Co-sponsored with Ancient Studies at Harvard...

Sylvia di Paolo (University of Roma III), How Ill-Gotten Gains Produced Public Good in Late Medieval Law. Sponsored by the IAP-UAM International Lectureship in Law, the Legal History Colloquium, and the Early Modern History Workshop.