Past events

View all previous Early Modern Exchanges events here. Events are sorted in reverse chronological order.

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2019

6 December 2019:聽Re-Imagining Cleopatra/Postcolonial Shakespeare
6 November 2019:聽Lessons from the Golden Age: The Dutch Republic and the Future of Conflict in a Warming Climate
23 October 2019:聽The Spanish Comedias: The Intersecting Identities of Queens / Problematic Status in Dutch Republic
22 October 2019:聽Re-animating the Hispano-Philippine Ivory
6-8 June 2019:聽Seventeenth-Century Libraries: Problems & Perspectives
20 March 2019:聽Joachim du Bellay鈥檚 Roman Poetry / Teachers' salaries in Verona (1407-1515)
13 March 2019:聽鈥楾he very verge of his confine鈥�: Cicero, Shakespeare and Attitudes to Old Age
6 March 2019:聽The early editions of Paradise Lost
27 February 2019:聽Post-medieval Latin verse in English manuscript sources, c.1550-1700: initial findings
20 February 2019:聽Ovid's Heroides & Early Modern Literary Tradition / Division of Linguistic Labour in Communal Italy
25 January 2019:聽Digital Launch Event: The Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe

2018

20 November 2018:聽Birdsongs and Sonnets: Listening to Renaissance Lyric
14 November 2018:聽al-臓az膩l墨's Medieval Arabic Philosophy / Art, Architecture and Light Beams in Late-Medieval Italy
31 October 2018:聽Poetry and Usury: Symbolic Economies in Shakespeare鈥檚 Sonnets
17 October 2018:聽Performance and revelry in Rubens's St George and the Dragon
17 September 2018:聽The virtuosa singer in the academies of early modern Italy
28 June 2018:聽Archiving the Academies of Early Modern Italy: Critical methodologies and digital tools
4-8 June 2018:聽Magic, Milton and Medieval Dog Love! The 香港六合彩中特网 Festival of Culture 2018
30 May 2018:聽Being Black in Tudor England/Being English in Mughal India
25 May 2018:聽'Trust Me' - A Symposium on the Language of Medical Expertise and Imposture in English, 1400-1900
23 May 2018:聽鈥淭hou look鈥檚t pale鈥�: Narrating Physical Responses on the Early Modern Stage
9 May 2018:聽Fire Assay and Cupellation / Wit, Waterworks and Wanderlust
25 April 2018:聽Power in Iceland / Perfection and Colonialism
20 April 2018:聽The Science of Naples: Making Knowledge in Italy鈥檚 Pre-eminent City, 1500-1700
16 April 2018:聽香港六合彩中特网 IAS Lies: Lying in Early Modern English Culture
15 February 2018:聽Early Modern Studies Virtual Open Day
6 February 2018:聽Paper and pizza / Ink and drink: Considering an MA in Early Modern Studies?
31 January 2018:聽Dreams, Nightmares, and Insomnia
31 January 2018:聽Goldoni, the Masons, and the Mysteries

2017

7 December 2017:聽Fake News
6 December 2017:聽Alchemy and Education
29 November 2017:聽Neo-Latin and History of the Book
23 November 2017:聽The Early Modern Wound
20 November 2017:聽Binding the frontier: networking of 茅migr茅s in Habsburg Hungary & Kingdom of Naples 16-18th century
1 November 2017:聽Debt and doorways in Renaissance comedy
26 October 2017:聽Early Modern Insects
25 October 2017:聽Popular Literacies and the First Historians of the First Crusade
18 October 2017:聽Representing 鈥楻eality鈥� in European Travel Narratives of the Safavid Empire
20 September 2017:聽European Perspectives on the English Reformation - Workshop
5-10 June 2017:聽Gold, Shakespeare, Plague, Monsters and Written Treasures: The 香港六合彩中特网 Festival of Culture
17 May 2017:聽Madame de Stael
23 March 2017:聽Early Modern Studies Virtual Open Day
21 March 2017:聽Paper and pizza / Ink and drink: Considering an MA at 香港六合彩中特网?
15 March 2017:聽Recycling Books
8 March 2017:聽Reflecting聽on聽Dante's Aristotelianism / The Renaissance revival of Menippean satire
1 March 2017:聽Self-Narrative and Self-Description
23 February 2017:聽Migrant crises, past and present

2016

8 December 2016:聽Spatial margins and social marginality in fifteenth-century London / Rewriting Modernity
30 November 2016:聽Ariosto and the Cantimpanca
23 November 2016:聽MREMS 2016 - 17 Seminar 1
13 October 2016:聽Launch event for The Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe
1 October 2016:聽Mary I (1516-1558). A Conference in her 500th Anniversary Year
9 June 2016:聽The Physiology of Youth and The Vagueness of Vagrancy
7 June 2016:聽A discussion about the future of the early modern and adjacent moments at 香港六合彩中特网
3 May 2016:聽Specimens of Poetesses
24 March 2016:聽Seeing Bacon
23 March 2016:聽Oratory and Rhetoric
2 March 2016:聽Love and Law
2 March 2016:聽Revolution, Biopolitics and Roguery
25 February 2016:聽Clothing, Natural Knowledge and Parasitic Discourse
20 January 2016:聽Rabelais

2015

17 December 2015:鈥� Popular Piety and Medieval Religious Revivals: The Bianchi of 1399鈥�
25 November 2015:聽鈥楢 new comodye in englysh in maner of an enterlude鈥�: La Celestina in circulation between the Hispanic book market and the Tudor Stage
19 November 2015:聽'What's in a purse? 'Purse hoards' and classification in medieval numismatics
11 September 2015:聽Samuel Daniel, Poet and Historian
20 May 2015:聽Pregnancy and False Pregnancy
6 May 2015:聽Epic! Between Ancient and Early Modern Empires
19 March 2015:聽French Social Identity in 16th and 17th Century Travel Narratives
19 February 2015:聽Cardinal Oliviero Carafa's 1472 Naval Expedition against the Turks
18 February 2015:聽Fictional Embassies
5 February 2015:聽Early Modern Women Translators: A Re-evaluation of Their Creative and Political Agency

2014

5 December 2014:聽Travel and Writing in the Global Renaissance: Revisiting the聽Peregrination聽of Fern茫o Mendes Pinto
23 October 2014:聽Marsilio Ficino and the Mirror of the Soul
3 June 2014:聽The Many Faces of Cleopatra
9 May 2014:聽Revisiting Ivan Fedorov鈥檚 Legacy in Early Modern Europe
7 May 2014:聽Polemical Possessions
28 April 2014:聽Big History
26 March 2014:聽Shakespeare's Hamlet for Children聽
21 March 2014:聽Two Lamentable Tragedies
19 March 2014:聽Shakespeare and Venice
12 March 2014:聽Greek Tragedy's Renaissance Inflections
11 March 2014:聽Demonic Possession
12 February 2014:聽Historical Geography and the Early Modern

2013

11聽December 2013:聽Borderlands: From the California Missions to Manila Ivories.聽Ana Ruiz Guiterrez (University of Granada), Manila Ivories and Transnational Exchanges. Miguel Sorroche Cuerva (University of Granada), Building Frontiers in the Californian Missions. **These talks will be in Spanish**
4 December 2013:聽Literary Geographies and Roaming Relics.聽Jaime Goodrich (Wayne State University), Mapping the Literary Geography of Early Modern English Benedictine Convents. James Kelly (Durham), Roaming Relics: English Women Religious and Identity Formation in Counter-Reformation Europe
24聽November 2013:聽Iphigenia at Aulis: A Special Performance.聽A special performance of Lady Jane Lumley's 1555 translation of the Euripides play.聽
13聽November 2013:聽Moving: Pathways, Transport and Place.聽A workshop on early modern travel writing, historical geography and environmental criticism with a view to exploring how Digital Humanities, in particular the visualisation of data and the interactive mapping of historical information can be employed to produce new ways of seeing the early modern world.聽
23 October 2013:聽Donne's Conversions III.聽This seminar will directly address the question of early modern religious conversion, particularly as it pertains to Donne鈥檚 sermons.聽
16 October 2013: Crying Out in Pain: Understanding Physical Suffering in the Early Modern Period.聽Guido Giglioni (The Warburg Institute), Raw imagination and Mental Pain in Elijah Montalto鈥檚 Archipathologia (1614). Mary Ann Lund (University of Leicester), 鈥淭he Pain's Nothing鈥�: Relative Perceptions of Pain in Early Modern Literature.
10 September 2013:聽Dennis Flynn, Donne's Enclosures: the etiquette of privacy and secrecy in his correspondence
29聽May 2013:聽Gabriel Harvey's Reading.聽Matthew Symonds (香港六合彩中特网, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters), Matching up the Margins: Across Gabriel Harvey's Books; Chris Stamatakis (香港六合彩中特网, English), How Gabriel Harvey Read His Castiglione.聽
16聽May 2013:聽Staging Daniel's Cleopatra.聽Professor Helen Hackett in conversation with one of the directors of the world premiere of Samuel Daniel's Tragedie of Cleopatra, Yasmin Arshad, as well as two of the actors from the show.
24聽April 2013:聽*Special Guest Lecture* Stephen Pender (University of Windsor, Ontario), Heat and Moisture, Rhetoric and Spiritus
21 March 2013:聽Good Friday, 1613鈥�2013: John Donne鈥檚鈥楻iding Westward鈥� at 400.聽Daniel Starza Smith (香港六合彩中特网), The intelligence that moves: 鈥淕oodfriday鈥� in context; Katherine Rundell (All Souls, Oxford), I am carried towards the West: rethinking Donne鈥檚 critical history.聽
20聽March 2013:聽Social, Intellectual and Political Networks and Exchanges across the Italian Peninsula (1500-1700).聽Simone Testa (British Library), Networks and Exchanges in Italy 1525-1700. Lorenza Gianfrancesco (Royal Holloway), Academies and cultural exchange in early modern Spanish Naples: from intellectual debates to propaganda.聽
3聽March 2013:聽Samuel Daniel's Tragedie of Cleopatra.聽Our Jacobean-style production will shed light on female participation in drama in Shakespeare's time, and on early modern ideas of female heroism.聽
6聽February 2013:聽Early Modern Women and Drama.聽This seminar will introduce the performance of Samuel Daniel's Cleopatra to take place on 3rd March (see above).聽
24聽January 2013:聽Special Lecture: Nigel Smith (Princeton), Literature, Politics and the Dutch Republic

2012

In addition to our own seminars detailed below we were delighted to be associated with Reevaluating the Literary Coterie, 1550-1825: A series of seminars organised by Will Bowers and Hannah Crumme.

6聽December 2012:聽Special Lecture: Karen Hearn (Honorary Research Professor, 香港六合彩中特网), 'Representing Pregnancy in Elizabethan & Jacobean Portraits'
28聽November 2012:聽Catholic Archives and Collections
24聽October 2012:聽Shakespeare: Staging the World
10聽October 2012:聽Erica Fudge (Strathclyde), The Animal Face of Early Modern England
2聽May 2012:聽Theory and the Medieval Animal.聽Karl Steel (Brooklyn College), On Worms; Bob Mills (KCL), On Animals
21聽March 2012:聽Catholic Aesthetics.聽Peter Davidson (Aberdeen), Rubens's design for the 1635 'Arch of the Mint' and the Virgin of the Andes?; Lilla Grindlay (University College London), 鈥樷€淪ome out of vanity will call her the Queene of heauen鈥�: polemical representations of the Virgin Mary in early modern religious discourse鈥�
29聽February 2012:聽Borderlands.聽Sizen Yiacoup (Liverpool University), Chivalrous Moors: Warfare and Cultural Hybridity in the Castilian Frontier Ballads; Claire Norton (St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill), Blurred Boundaries: the Mediterranean World as a Site of Interaction and Integration
1聽February 2012:聽War and the French Sixteenth Century.聽Wes Williams (St Edmund Hall, Oxford), Battle-scarred stories: Rabelais and/in Scots translation; Andrea Frisch (Maryland), The French Wars of Religion and the Boundaries of Tragedy
18聽January 2012:聽Early Modern Theories of the Soul.聽Richard Serjeantson,(Cambridge), The soul and the human sciences before the Enlightenment; Guido Giglioni (Warburg), Bacon on the Soul

2011

16聽November 2011:聽Women and the Early Modern Sermon.聽Guest Lecture with Jeanne Shami (University of Regina)
2聽November 2011:聽Careers in the Early Modern.聽Lucy Worsley (Historic Royal Palaces) and Laura Massey (Rare Books Seller, Peter Harrington Books).
5聽October 2011:聽Portraiture and Dolls Houses.聽Maria Loh (香港六合彩中特网, Art History)
8聽June 2011:聽Francis Bacon in International Collaboration.聽Alan Stewart (Columbia)
9聽March 2011:聽England and Spain.聽Alexander Samson (香港六合彩中特网, Spanish), Translating the Reign of Philip and Mary; John Ardila (Edinburgh), The English Reception of Don Quixote in the Performing Arts; Catherine Scheybeler (KCL), Jorge Juan y Santacilia's mission to London: An example of naval espionage in the eighteenth century
9聽February 2011:聽English Catholics, European Contexts.聽Caroline Bowden (QMUL, History), Islands of Englishness? The English convents as centres of cultural production in seventeenth-century Flanders; Helen Hackett (香港六合彩中特网, English), The international perspectives of English Catholics: the Aston family in Spain and elsewhere;l Alison Shell (香港六合彩中特网, English), English Catholic Womanhood in Richard Verstegan's 'Odes';聽
19聽January 2011:聽Travel and the Idea of Europe.聽Wendy Bracewell (香港六合彩中特网, SSEES), Double vision: writing back from Europe's eastern margins; Daniel Andersson (Wolfson College, Oxford), Of books, measurement and coloured shoes: the humanist Orientalism of a Renaissance traveller; Anthony Payne (香港六合彩中特网), Hakluyt, America and the Ancients: a New World or an Old?

2010

15聽December 2010:聽History of the Book.聽William Sherman (York, English), Mapping the World of Knowledge: Hernando Colon and the Biblioteca Colombina; Henry Woudhuysen (香港六合彩中特网, English), Buying Continental Books in late 16th- and 17th-century England
8 December 2010:聽Renaissance Virtues: Privation and Manipulation.聽Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, History), Machiavelli and the Manipulation of Virtue; Angus Gowland (香港六合彩中特网, History), European Melancholy; Jeremy Robbins (Edinburgh, Spanish), The Place of Virtue in Baltasar Graci谩n's Aphorism
20聽October 2010:聽France and England: Medieval to Early Modern.聽Jane Gilbert (香港六合彩中特网, French), French sans fronti猫res? Translation and Translatio in the 15th Century; Ardis Butterfield (香港六合彩中特网, English), 'Our self-stranger Nation': England, France and period boundaries; Paul Davis (香港六合彩中特网, English), Rochester's French
11聽May 2010:聽First Guest Talk: From Bacon to Hobbes: Samuel Sorbiere and the Intellectual Origins of late seventeenth-century French Libertinism. Professor Richard Hodgson, University of British Columbia
29聽April 2010:聽Centre Launch Event: Shakespeare and the Inquisition.聽Professor Brian Cummings, Sussex University

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