The Twelfth Annual Harvard-Princeton

The Twelfth Annual Harvard-Princeton

Graduate Conference in

Early Modern History

February 9-10, 2018

Robinson Hall, Lower Library

Harvard University

35 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

Friday, February 9, 2018

Welcome: Ann Blair

Session 1 1:30-3:30 Cultures of learning
Chair: Hannah Marcus (History of Science, Harvard)
Alex Schultz (Classics, Harvard)

The Alexandrian Mouseion in the Third Century and the Anatomy of an Institution

Graeme Reynolds (HEAL, Harvard)

Idealized Types: Ideologies of Printing Technology in the Chosŏn Dynasty

Maddy McMahon (Princeton)

Carlo Sigonio's De episcopis Bononiensibus and Religious Bodies in Motion in Gabriele Paleotti's Bologna

Christian Flow (Princeton)

Timing Philological Work
Coffee Break3:30-4:00
Session 2 4:00-6:00Governing and Controlling
Chair: Tony Grafton (Princeton)

Nate Aschenbrenner (Harvard)

The Empire Strikes Back: The Fall of Constantinople and the Rise of the Imperium Orientale

Ben Bernard (Princeton)

The sodomy consultant of early modern Paris: moral authority, sexuality, and the Collège

Miles Macallister (Princeton)

The Necessary Nine Years War: Legitimating Taxation after the Glorious Revolution

Julia Stone (Princeton)

The Case of the ‘Illegal, But Not Immoral or Fattening Cheese Cake’: Why Dr. Robert C. Atkins Recommended a Banned Substance for Healthy Living

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Modest breakfast foods in the Great Space from 8:30 am

Session 3 9:30-11amColonial dynamics

Chair: David Armitage (Harvard)

James Almeida (Harvard)

Minting Society: Labor and Race in Potosí, 1570-1800

Benjamin Sacks (Princeton)

Networking: City-Planning Dynasties in the English and French Atlantic, 1670-1740

Mariusz Kaczka (European University Institute, Florence)

The King’s Will and the Diplomat’s Craft: Forging Borders in the ‘Polish Indies’ in the Eighteenth Century

Coffee Break11:00-11:30
Session 4 11:30-12:30Social signaling
Chair: David Bell (Princeton)

Astrid Pajur (Uppsala University)

Materiality and Meaning: Clothing and Social Practices in the seventeenth-century Swedish Baltic Empire

Matthew McDonald (Princeton)

Splendor and Sociability: Charting the French Cosmopolis in 18th-Century Berlin

Lunch in the Great Space 12:30-1:30

Session 5 1:30-3:00Forms of attention to nature
Chair:Jenny Rampling (Princeton)
Jinsong Guo (Princeton)

Imperial Astronomer and Master Communicator: Contextualizing Ferdinand Verbiest’s (1623-1688) Typi Eclipsis

Sarah Bramao-Ramos (EALC, Harvard)

Speaking of The Manchu Anatomy: Translated pages and page layouts in translation

Kit Heintzman (History of Science, Harvard)

Pour one out for my fallen ponies: The ethics of equine death in the ancien régime