Location
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House
Please find below the programme for the IHR Low Countries history seminar this academic year. All welcome!
IHR Low Countries History Seminar, 2025/26
Meetings: Fridays at 5:30 pm in the Wolfson Suite 2 in the IHR basement, Senate House, Malet St. Attendance of either sort, on site or online, is free and open to all, though prior registration is needed in case of online attendance — via https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low-countries-history until 24 hours before the start of a seminar. A Zoom link will be distributed to online participants on the day of the seminar.
Term 1 – Autumn 2025
17 October 2025 (in the IHR and online)
- Alexander Marr (Cambridge), “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys”
31 October 2025 (in the IHR and online)
- Dirk van Miert (Meertens Instituut), “The Synod of Dordrecht: Binding the Anglo-Dutch Orthodox Republic of Letters”
28 November 2025 (in the IHR and online)
- Eliot Benbow (London), “Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350–1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods”
Term 2 – Spring 2026
30 January 2026 (in the IHR and online)
- David Hopkin (Oxford), “Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion”
13 February 2026 (in the IHR and online)
- Jeroen Puttevils (Antwerp), “Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries”
27 February 2026 (in the IHR and online)
- Feike Dietz (Amsterdam), “Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770–1840)”
13 March 2026 (in the IHR and online)
- Sam Geens (Antwerp), “Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries”
Term 3 – Summer 2026
22 May 2026 (in the IHR and online)
- Valika Smeulders (Rijksmuseum), “The Rijksmuseum: New Horizons”
5 June 2026 (in the IHR and online)
- Gloria Moorman (Notre Dame), “Colonialism and the Colours of the Chigi Atlas: Shedding New Light on Art and Books as Diplomatic Tools between Amsterdam, Rome, and Brazil (c. 1660s–1690s)”
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