Monday 18th January
Fitzwilliam College Literary Society Talk, 5.30pm, Upper Hall 1, Fitzwilliam College Professor Helen Hackett (UCL) The Elizabethan Imagination All welcome. Drinks will be served after the talk. No booking requirement but please contact Hero Chalmers (hac26@cam.ac.uk) if you have any questions.
London Shakespeare Seminar, 5.15pm Senate Room, Senate House Library Preti Taneja (QMUL) Shakespeare responses to the Syrian conflict: a presentation of research from Jordan and Syria 2015-16 Katherine Hennessey (Warwick) ‘All the Perfumes of Arabia’: Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula
Wednesday 20th January
Things, (Re)constructing the Material World: Alcohol, 12.30pm, Alison Richard SG1 Dr Richard Stone (History, University of Bristol) What is Cider? What was Cider? Recovering Seventeenth Century Material Culture Dr Deborah Toner (History, University of Leicester) Pulque and Pulquerías
Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall Richard Ansell (Leicester) Education, Travel and Family Strategy in Britain and Ireland, c. 1650–1750
Bibliographical Society Lecture, 5.30pm, Society of Antiquaries, Piccadilly, London Scott Mandelbrote Isaac Newton, his library, and the history of scholarship More information here.
Thursday 21st January
History of Material Texts Seminar, 5pm, SR24
Friday 22nd January
Crossroads of Knowledge, Reading Group Contact Tim Stuart-Buttle (ts630) for more information.
Graduate Lecture Series, 1pm, GR06/07 Rosalind Lintott Everything you always wanted to know about Isidore of Seville (but were afraid to ask)
Early Modern French Seminar, 2pm, Free Gallery, Whipple Museum Simon Schaffer (Downing College, Cambridge)
Optical Philosophy in the Republic of Letters
Saturday 23rd January
Authorship and Attribution in Early Modern Drama: John Marston and Others Room 114, 43 Gordon Square, London, more information here.
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