Wednesday 3rd June
CRASSH Things That Matter Seminar ARB SG1 from 12.15pm – 2pm: ‘Sexy Things’
Professor Will Fisher (English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
’Doctor Dildo’s Dauncing Schoole’: Sexual Instruments and Women’s Erotic Agency in England, c.1600-1725
Dr Jen Evans (History, University of Hertfordshire)
Kindling Cupid’s Fire: Aphrodisiacs in early modern England
More information and abstracts here.
Thursday 4th June
IHR British History in the Seventeenth Century Seminar 5.15pm, Peter Marshall Room 204, 2nd floor, Senate House:
Sean Kelsey (University of Buckingham) The now king of England: conscience, duty and the death of Charles
Friday 5th June
Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series 5.15pm, G.21, Faculty of Classics:
Professor David Lupher (University of Puget Sound) “Whether Any Larned Man Will Come Unto You Or Not, I Know Not”: Classical Presences in Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1657 All welcome, more information here.
Saturday 6th June
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) Seminar 2pm-4pm, Room G35 (Ground Floor), Senate House:
Angus Vine (University of Stirling) Francis Bacon’s Notes: Scribes, Secretaries and Storage
Rocco di Dio (University of Warwick) ‘Silvae Platonicorum Locorum’: Marsilio Ficino and Humanist Reading Practices
