IN CAMBRIDGE
Renaissance Graduate Seminar
Tuesday 9th May, 5.15, GR06/07
Julie Sanders (Newcastle University)
‘Fire, Flood, Ice and Inundation: Environmental Event and Narrative Description in the Early Modern Period’
Hapsburg Seminar
Tuesday 9th May, 5.00, Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College
William O’Reilly (University of Cambridge)
‘Hapsburg Control on the Ottoman Frontier: Medicine, The Military and Vampire Mania in an 18th Century Borderland’
History of Christianity Seminar
Wednesday 10th May, 2.15, Faculty of Divinity, Lightfoot Room
Colin Armstrong (Queens’ University, Belfast)
‘A Laudian in Ulster: The Irish Career of Bishop Jeremy Taylor (1658-67)’
Public Lecture: Professor Sven Dupré
Wednesday 10th May, 5.00, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site
‘Ingenious Failure: Artisanal Languages of Error’
Sven Dupré is Professor and Chair of History of Art, Science and Technology at Utrecht University, and Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology at the University of Amsterdam. He is a visiting fellow on the Genius before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science project during May 2017.
Followed by a wine reception in the atrium, Alison Richard building.
Early Modern French Seminar
Friday 12th May, 2.00, Clare College, Latimer Room
Emma Herdman (Saint Andrews)
‘Singing Out: Avian Uprisings in Renaissance France’
CAMBRIDGE ELSEWHERE
The Dudley White Local History Lecture 2017
Wednesday 10th May, 7.00, Room EBS.2.34, Essex Business School, University of Essex, Colchester Campus
John Morrill (University of Cambridge)
‘Living with the Revolution: Family Dilemmas in Civil War East Anglia’