Low Countries history seminars, 2019/20

Date / time: 27 September - 15 May, 5:15 pm

Low Countries history seminars, 2019/20

Convenors:

  • Liesbeth Corens (Queen Mary)
  • Anne Goldgar (King’s College London)
  • Ben Kaplan (UCL)
  • Ulrich Tiedau (UCL)
  • Joanna Woodall (Courtauld)

Meetings: Fridays at 5:15 pm at the Institute for Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.

All meetings will be held in Wolfson Room I, in the basement. All welcome!

Website: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low-countries-history

Autumn Term

27 September – Jonas van Tol (Amsterdam), “William of Orange and the French Wars of Religion”

11 October – Karen Hollewand (Utrecht), “Sex and scholarship: the banishment of Hadriaan Beverland”

22 November – Anne Goldgar (KCL), “Marketing Arctic knowledge: travel literature and the passions in the seventeenth century”

Spring Term

17 January – Daniel Margócsy (Cambridge), “A Disease of ships and intestines: a maritime history of worms”

31 January – Mark Ponte (Amsterdam), “‘All blacks that come to this city’: An Afro-Atlantic community in seventeenth-century Amsterdam”

14 February – Jelle van Lottum (Huygens Institute, Amsterdam), “Labour migration to the Dutch Republic: a maritime perspective”

13 March – Ad Putter (Bristol), “The Dutch Hat Makers of Medieval London”

27 March – Freya Sierhuis (York), title t. b. c.

Summer Term

1 May – Margaret Schotte (York University, Ontario), “‘Paper Sailors’: Competing Notions of Expertise in Dutch Nautical Manuals”

15 May – Michael Depreter (Oxford), “The Count of Flanders, the Towns, and England. Patterns of Competing and Complementary Diplomacies in Times of Revolt (14th-15th c.)”