Wednesday 10th June

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar                                                                         12-1.30pm, GR04 English Faculty Building:

Will Rossiter (University of East Anglia)
‘Two English Ambassadors, A Welsh Exile and an Italian Pornographer: Is Pietro Aretino Some Kind of Joke?’

IHR Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar                                                           5.15pm, Montage Room, G26, ground floor, Senate House:

Sophie Read (University of Cambridge)                                                                               The Immaterial Object: Incense in Early Modern Poetry

Warburg Institute Work in Progress Seminar                                                                2.15pm, Lecture Theatre, Warburg Institute:

Stuart McManus
Humanism and Classical Rhetoric in Portuguese Asia during the Renaissance

Friday 12th June

Things That Matter conference: Matter and Materiality in the Early Modern World 9am-7pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building

A one-day conference, Matter and Materiality in the Early Modern World, in collaboration with the CRASSH graduate group Things that Matter seminar series. The conference is funded by the School of Arts and Humanities and supported by the Centre for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). It will be held in the Alison Richard Building, the home of CRASSH.The conference will be centered around the theme of ‘materiality’ in order to acknowledge the current ‘material turn’ in scholarship. This will allow speakers to emphasise how the economic, cultural, and physical attributes of certain materials contributed to understanding the value and connotations of objects in their original contexts. Discussions will also encourage a deeper awareness of the theories of matter that permeated early modern thought and how these philosophies contributed to understanding the meanings of objects in the early modern world. More information and the conference programme here.