Early Modern Seminar Programme 2011-2012

Tuesdays 5pm-7pm (unless indicated otherwise)

Room: Humanities H3.03

All Welcome

For information on the 2010-11 series please see here; or for series from 2001 here.

11th October

David Rollison (University of Sydney)- ‘Alterations in the social and political constitution of an English town: Cirencester 1066-1790.’

Friday 21st October- Afternoon seminar (2-5pm, H0.42)

With Mary Laven (Cambridge), Simon Mills (QMUL), Jean-Paul Ghobrial (Cambridge)- 'Does Early Modernity have a Global History?'

(jointly organised with the Global History Seminar)

1st November

Catherine Kovesi (University of Melbourne)- ‘Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in Renaissance Italy’- podcast

(jointly organised with STVDIO)

Monday 14th November

Thomas F. Mayer (Augustana College)- ‘Trying Galileo’- podcast (logged in users only)

(jointly organised with STVDIO)

22nd November

Postgraduate Research presentations on ‘Renaissance Conflict’

Rocco di Dio (Warwick), 'Marsilio Ficino as a Translator and Philologist: Conflicting Critical Views'

Kristi Woodward Bain (Northwestern University), ‘From Community Conflict to Collective Memory: Lived Religion and the Late Medieval Parish’

(jointly organised with Italian, STVDIO and the Warwick Network for Parish Research)

6th December

Andrew Pettegree (St. Andrews)- ‘Before the Daily. Getting the News in Early Modern Europe’- podcast

Tuesday 7th February

Dr Ole Peter Grell (Open University)

“A Natural Philosopher in Action. The Many Faces of an Early Modern Professor of Medicine: the Case of Ole Worm (1588-1654)”

(Joint with the History of Medicine Seminar Series; Room R0.14)

Tuesday 21st February

Dr John Watts (Oxford)

'Neo-classicism and English political culture in the decades around 1500’

(Joint with the Medieval Studies Seminar)

Tuesday 6th March

Dr Cesare Cuttica (Paris 8)

“Casting Light on a "Villain": Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) Between Patriarchalism and Patriotism in the Long Seventeenth Century”- podcast

For further information contact David Beck- D.C.Beck@warwick.ac.uk or the convenor Rosa Salzberg- R dot Salzberg at warwick dot ac dot uk