Events This Week

IN CAMBRIDGE

Renaissance Graduate Seminar

Tuesday, 31/01/17, 5.15pm in G-R06-07
John Gillies (Essex)
The conversational turn in Shakespeare

 

History of Material Texts Workshops

Monday, 30 January, 12.30-2, Milstein Exhibition Centre/Seminar Room, University Library

A guided tour of the Cambridge University Library exhibition ‘Curious Objects’, in the company of lead curator Jill Whitelock, followed by discussion.

Places are limited–please email jes1003 to reserve.

 

Early Modern Interdisciplinary Seminar

Wednesday, 1st February, 12-1:15pm, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site

Dr Hannah Murphy (University of Oxford)
“No day without a line”: calligraphy, perspective and the craft of writing in early modern Nuremberg

 

Cambridge Early Modern French Seminar

Friday, 3 February, 2-4pm, Clare College, Latimer Room

Sophie WAHNICH (CNRS)

Émeutes, émotions: la scène de quel conflit?

 

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar

Wednesday, 1 February, 5.15pm, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Carys Brown (St John’s), Julie Kelsoe (Clare), and Fred Smith (Clare), ‘Historiography panel: toleration, coexistence and neighbourliness’

 

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar

Thursday 2nd February, 5pm in Room 9 of the History Faculty

Christof Jeggle (University of Würzburg)
Divergences or varieties in European economic development?

The debate over divergence in early modern Europe sees the Dutch Republic and Great Britain as the core of progressive economic development, and considers that the rest of the continent lagged behind. Using qualitative indicators I will question the notion of divergence in a continental perspective, offering case studies and proposing some reassessments in respect of comparing economic development.

We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards. All welcome.

 

Early Modern European History Seminar

Thursday, 2 February 2017, 1-2pm, Green Room, Gonville and Caius College

Record-keeping as a tool of female self-formation in Early Modern Tuscany

Emma Nicholls (Cambridge)

Attendees are welcome to bring lunch to this brown-bag seminar. Tea and coffee will be served. All welcome.

 

Writing Women in History

Tuesday 31 January, 11am-noon, RFB142 (the media centre)

Our first session of the new year and new ‘Women and the Law’ theme for the term will be focused on an angry woman, Calefurnia, and the depiction of female rage in the Sachsenspiegel, a Germanic law code circulated in the 13th-15th centuries. We will be reading and considering the article ‘Calefurnia’s Rage: Emotions and Gender in Late Medieval Law and Literature’ by Sarah Westphal exploring how how gender and emotion are framed in literary and legal sources from medieval Central Europe.

Email writingwomeninhistory@gmail.com for article.

 

 

IN LONDON

Tudor & Stuart History Seminar (IHR)

Monday, 30 Jan 2017, 17:15- 19:15, IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

‘Rewriting the figure of the martyr: John Donne and the foundation of Christianity’

Shanyn Altman (Sussex University)

‘Sir Francis Walsingham and Anglo-Scottish politics, c. 1580-90’

Hannah Coates (Leeds University)

 

European History 1500-1800 (IHR)

Monday, 30 January, 5:15pm, IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

‘A Magnificent Faith: Art and Identity in Lutheran Germany’

Bridget Heal (University of St Andrews)