Welcome to a new year at Cambridge! As ever, we will be posting interesting events, series, publications, or whatever else throughout the term. If you have tips or suggestions, please send them to cam.renresearch@gmail.com. Follow us on twitter @Cam_Renaissance. We have an exciting term ahead, so here are some events this coming week to get you started.
IN CAMBRIDGE:
Middle English Graduate Seminar
Wednesday October 12, 5:15, English Faculty Room SR24
“Piers Plowman” and God’s Thought Experiment – Mishtooni Bose (Oxford)
Overview: These advanced research talks, followed by discussion, are aimed at graduate students, senior members and visiting scholars. The seminar begins at 5.15, but do bring a cup of tea along at 4.15 for an informal get-together (biscuits provided!). This term we will experiment with drinks after questions; we are trying out a new room to see if this makes it more possible for people to circulate. Afterwards all are welcome to come to supper with the speaker.
IN LONDON:
Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 (IHR at UCL)
Thursday, October 13, 17:30
Venue: John S Cohen Room N203, 2nd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House
Chris Kissane (London School of Economics)
Deciphering Early Modern Food Cultures
Tudor & Stuart History (IHR at UCL)
Monday, October 10, 17:15
Venue: Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House
Steven Gunn (Oxford)
‘Everyday life and accidental death in sixteenth-century England’
Warburg Institute, The E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series on the Classical Tradition 2016
Celestial Aspirations: 17th and 18th Century British Poetry and Painting, and the Classical Tradition
Philip Hardie, Honorary Professor of Latin and Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
11 October at 17.30 – Visions of apotheosis and glory on painted ceilings: from Rubens’ Banqueting House, Whitehall to Thornhill’s Painted Hall, Greenwich
12 October 2016 at 17:30 – Poetic ascents and flights of the mind: Neoplatonism to Romanticism
13 October at 17.30 – ‘No middle flight’: Miltonic ascents and their reception
Pre-registration is required for these free lectures. Register here.
