School of History, Classics & Archaeology

Edinburgh Early Modern Network Seminars

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology hosts seminars throughout the academic year, which are open to all.

All events take place on Tuesdays at 5:15pm unless otherwise stated on Zoom To book your place, please register on Eventbrite.

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To Join the Edinburgh Early Modern Network, please email your name and academic affiliation (if any) to early.modern@ed.ac.uk or on its website https://edearlymodernnetwork.wixsite.com/ednetwork

Events schedule

Semester 1 2021/22
Date Topic Speakers
Tuesday 21st Sept

Culture and Spaces in the 18th Century

Dr Millie Schurch (University of St Andrews) ‘’Where ye sweetness of a cultivated Country is intermixd with the sublime’’: Cultivating Land, Letters and Literature in Elizabeth Montagu’s Travels in Scotland’

Anna Myers (University of Edinburgh) ‘From Public to Private: Shakespeare at Home in 18th Century England’

Tuesday 28th Sept

‘Reassessing Forests and the State in the Early Modern World: The Longevity of State Forestry in Early Modern Korea’

Professor John Lee (University of Durham)

Tuesday 12th Oct

TBC

Dr Georg Christ (University of Manchester) 

Tuesday 26th Oct

‘These things seem wondrous, yet more wondrous I’: Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Weelkes's 'Thule, the period of cosmographie’

Dr Katie Bank (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 2nd Nov

What Happened to Scots? Contact and Identity in Early Modern Scotland

Sarah Van Eyndhoven (University of Edinburgh) and Lisa Gotthard (University of Edinburgh)

Tuesday 9th Nov

Travel and Identity in the Early Modern World

Cecilia Mazzocchio (University of St Andrews): 'In Search of the ‘Other’: Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Martyrdom of the Franciscans (c. 1340)'

Imani Khaled (University of Manchester): 'Collecting non-normative bodies at Early Modern Courts’'

Tuesday 16th Nov

‘Library Failure in the First Age of Print’

Professor Andrew Pettegree and Dr Arthur der Weduwen (University of St Andrews)

Wednesday 24th Nov Jesuit Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Silvia Cinnella Della Porta (University of Florence): "Jesuit knowledge in Early Modern England: the translation of José de Acosta's Historia and the mysteries of Peru"

Dr Richard Oosterhoff (University of Edinburgh): 'Ingenious Jesuitical Knowledge'

Professor Ulrike Strasser (University of California San Diego) and Professor Renate Durr (University of Tübingen): 'Jesuits and the Enlightenment: De-centering the Enlightenment, Micro-historical perspectives on global transfers'

In Collaboration with the Society of Renaissance Studies via CrowdCast.

Wednesday 1st Dec

Pre Modern Migrations: Communities, Ideas and Materials on the Move

In Collaboration with Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society, Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Research Group and the Edinburgh Early Modern Network

Tue 7th Dec

‘Shit for Brain’: Constipation, Missing the Mark and the Grotesque Outcomes of Literalness in François Rabelais’s Papimanes episode (Quart Livre 51-52)'

Dr Raphaële Garrod (University of Oxford)

Thurs 14th Dec

Early Modern Law Roundtable

Dr Rebecca Mason (University of Glasgow), Matthew Cleary (University of Edinburgh), Dr Guido Rossi (University of Edinburgh)

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Find out what else is on

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology offers an exciting programme of seminars across many subjects areas. Visit the research seminars website to find out what else is happening.

Find out what else is on

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology offers an exciting programme of seminars across many subjects areas. Visit the research seminars website to find out what else is happening.