Institute of Historical Research European History Seminar, 1500-1800
Convenors: Zoltan Biedermann, Philip Broadhead, Liesbeth Corens, Silvia Evangelisti, Filippo de Vivo, Joël Félix, John Henderson, Kat Hill, Julian Swann
Mondays at 17.15 unless otherwise stated
Past & Present Room, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Autumn Term 2019
6 November John Henderson (BBK), Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes) and Carole Rawcliffe (UEA), discussion of John Henderson’s Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City (Yale, 2019), Birkbeck, Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square. Note different day and venue.
11 November Hannah Murphy (KCL): ‘Skin before Colour in Early Modern Medicine’ and Lavinia Maddaluno (Warburg and Villa I Tatti), ‘“Things which are public and cannot be possessed”: Negotiating Public Health and Land Management in the eighteenth-century Duchy of Milan’
25 November Roundtable on Microhistory and Global History, Past & Present special supplement 2019, edited by John-Paul Ghobrial (Oxford), with Margot Finn (UCL and RHS), Maria Fusaro (Exeter), and Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford)
9 December Chloe Ireton (UCL) and Carmen Fracchia (BBK), discussion of Carmen’s Black but Human: Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700 (OUP, 2019)
Spring Term 2020
6 January Mette Ahlefeldt-Laurvig (Oxford), ‘Feast or Shame: The ritual of churching of women after childbirth in early modern Denmark’
20 January Tracey Sowerby (Oxford), ‘An English Book at European Courts: James VI/I’s Apologie (1609) as Diplomatic Gift’
27 January Jonathan Smyth (BBK) in collaboration with Modern France Seminar: ‘Revelation and Revolution – Prophets and revolutionaries in France from 1750 to 1860′ (note day change, room tbc).
17 February Alex Bamji (Leeds) ‘Corpses, Urban Space and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern Venice’
2 March Roundtable on ‘Witnessing Terror: French Revolutionary Prints, 1793-4’. Discussants: Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley (Exeter), Colin Jones (QMUL), Simon Macdonald (QMUL), Richard Taws (UCL). Held at UCL Art Gallery
16 March Peter Burke and Maria Lucia Pallares-Burke (Cambridge) ‘Knowledge for Travel/Travel for Knowledge’
Summer Term 2020
18 May Sharon Strocchia (Emory), ‘Fare la prova: The Use of Human Subjects in Renaissance Drug Trials’
1 June Oren Margolis (UEA), ‘After Daedalus: Printing as Architecture and the Invention of Publishing’
ALL WELCOME!