IN CAMBRIDGE:

Early Modern French Seminar

Friday 3 June, 2-4 PM, New Gallery, Whipple Museum, Free School Lane

Alexander Marr, Department of History of Art and Trinity Hall, Cambridge

‘Simon Vouet’s Satyrs, Anamorphosis and an Elephant’

IN LONDON:

Early Modern Material Cultures Seminar (IHR)

Wednesday, 1 June, 5.15 pm

‘Urinating in early modern England: gender, space and iconoclasm’

Tim Reinke Williams (Northampton)

This paper, part of a broader project on masculinity and the body, explores when and where men urinated in early modern England. Existing scholarship has argued that leaky bodies were configured by early modern people as effeminate and weak, a thesis which this paper will question by arguing that for men, and sometimes women, urinating was a form of empowerment and might be a political action which enabled the desecration of particular objects. By considering places, circumstances and objects, as well as the positive uses to which urine was put, the paper will extend and modify existing understandings of gendered bodies in early modern England.

Venue: Gordon Room G34, Ground floor, South block, Senate House

Medieval and Tudor London Seminar (IHR)

Thursday, 5 May, 5.15pm

‘Medieval London almshouses’

Sarah Lennard-Brown (Birkbeck)

‘Meeting the monks: visitors to the London Charterhouse 1405-1537’
David Harrrap (QMUL)

Venue: Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House