Interdisciplinary Early Modern Seminars

Programme 2011-2012

Seminars are held in St. Catharine's College OCR, 2.00pm – 3.30pm, unless otherwise stated. Tea, coffee and biscuits are served. All welcome!

Michaelmas 2011

Wednesday, October 19^th: Graduate session

Austen Saunders, English Department, University of Cambridge

'John Dixon's annotations to The Faerie Queene: the 1590s blogosphere?'

and

Harriet Phillips, English Department, University of Cambridge

'How the ploughman learned, and then forgot, his Pater Noster: figuring the Tudor everyman'

Wednesday, November 2nd

Round-table session: 'Letter writing and networking in the early modern world'

Wednesday, November 16^th

Professor Thomas Mayer, Augustana College (USA)

'Trying Gallileo', 2.15 pm, Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity

Wednesday, November 23rd

Dr Paul White, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

‘Does Poetry Teach Morality? Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535) and Debates about Humanist Education’ – Ramsden Room, St. Catharine’s College

Wednesday, November 30th: Graduate Session

Hannah August, King’s College London, and Simon Smith, Birkbeck College, London

‘Early modern English commercial drama and the creation of delight’

Lent 2012

Wednesday, February 1st

Hannah Newton, University of Cambridge

'Cur'd in a different manner: children's medicine in early modern England, c.1580-1720'      Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College

Wednesday, February 15^th

Richard Serjeantson, University of Cambridge

'"Published after the old fashion": Reconstructing a scribal publishing operation in an age of print'    Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College

Wednesday, March 14th

Joe Moshenska, , University of Cambridge

'Sir Kenelm Digby's Interruptions: Piracy and Romance in the 1620s'

Easter 2012

Wednesday, May 2nd:

Professor John O'Brien, Royal Holloway, University of London

'The Disclosure of Truth in Montaigne'

Wednesday May 9^th

Will Poole, University of Oxford

'Some English and French Encounters with Chinese Culture c.1650-1700: The Coming of Confucius'

Wednesday May 23rd

Meredith Hale, Cambridge

'Text and Image in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Satire', Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College

Wednesday June 6th

Tom Blaen, University of Exeter

'Medical Jewels, Magical Gems: Precious Stones in Early Modern Medicine'

For further details please contact:

Jennifer Bishop (jjb74)

Cassie Gorman (ceg47)

Jonathan Patterson (jhcp3)

Erin Walters (epw25)

http://groups.pwf.cam.ac.uk/mmlgsems/rengrad/index.html