Events Archive

CEMS Lunchtime seminars Spring 2024

7 February 2024, 1-2 pm, in Edward Wright S86 and online

Dr Khrystyna Baziuk,  Institute of Ukrainian Studies named after I. Krypyakevych National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

"The Forbes family trade network in the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the late 17th century." 

Dr Khrystyna Baziuk works at the Medieval History Department at the Krypyakevych Institute and is a specialist of urban history, trade, migration and the history of L’viv. She is part of a team of specialists on Ukraine who put together resources for the study of Ukrainian history and culture, led by Suzanna Ivanic, Tom Grusiecki and Olenka Pevny. See https://research.kent.ac.uk/emcentraleu/early-modern-history-of-ukraine/. The talk has been organised in cooperation with the Centre for Polish-Lithuanian Studies and the Connected Central European Worlds, 1500-1700 group at the University of Kent.

21 February 2024, 13:00 - 14:15 in CB203 and online

Martin van Ittersum (University of Dundee)

The Afterlives of Hugo Grotius (1583-1645): The Leiden Internationalists, the League of Nations , 1917-1945

This talk focuses on the Grotius Forschung of Dutch jurists who either worked at or graduated from the University of Leiden during the Interbellum. In various capacities, they shaped Dutch foreign policy, particularly towards the League of Nations. They were also involved with Dutch NGOs closely associated with the League of Nations, such as the Vereniging voor Volkenbond en Vrede. Its leaflets and other publications quoted the work of Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) selectively to propagate disarmament and peaceful conflict resolution in Europe. It made Grotius the 'patron saint' of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) and the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) in The Hague - a position he arguably still holds today.

Dr Martine J. van Ittersum is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Dundee (UK).  She has published widely on book history, Dutch history, and the history of Western imperialism and colonialism, including Profit and Principle (Brill, 2006).  In The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius: Transmission, Dispersal, and Loss, 1604-1864 (in press), she examines the archival afterlives of documents used in Grotius’ day-to-day activities as a scholar, lawyer, and politician, and how these have shaped the reception of his life and work. 

6^th March 2024, 1pm in MacRobert 310 and online

Adam Morton (Newcastle University)

‘What to do with images? Visual culture and early modern British History’.

Dr Adam Morton is Senior Lecturer in British History at Newcastle University. His research focusses on the Reformation, anti-popery and visual culture. He has published widely on those themes and has also edited collections on laughter in early modern Britain and Queens Consort in early modern Europe. He is currently researching the AHRC-funded project ‘Integrating the Image’, which will relaunch the British Printed Images to 1700 database.

CEMS Seminars Spring term 2024 - … continued

13 March 2024, 13:00 - 14:15 in MacRobert 310 and online

Jakub Basista (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)

English and Polish Seventeenth-Century Almanacs as a Source for a History of Everyday Life

Professor Dr hab. Jakub Basista is a historian specializing in early modern European cultural and intellectual history, as well as world history. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and member of the Renaissance Society of America, the Society for Reformation Studies, and International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History.

Publications: published a monograph on religious propaganda during the English Civil War and a book on the image of the world and of England seen through Stuart calendars and almanacs; he also edited Britain and Poland-Lithuania Contact and Comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795 published with Brill – and has worked on Jewish history in the PLC, he edited, with Antony Polonsky The Jews in Old Poland, 1000-1795. He has also published on the grand tour and travel-writing, the global influence of Anglicanism and the common book of prayer, on fasting, food and drink as sources of sin and heresy in Seventeenth-Century England, on religious protests and the role and behaviour of crowds. His interests often take him to the 20th century as well, including communism in Poland and Russia.

24 April 2024, 13:00 - 14:15 in MR 310 and online

Waldemar Deluga (University of Ostrava, Czechia)

Gothic Art in Ukraine

Professor Waldemar Deluga is an Art Historian at the University of Ostrava, Czechia. He specializes in Ukrainian art, particularly on its influences and transformations from the medieval period onwards. In 2019, he published Ukrainian Painting Between the Byzantine and Latin Traditions. Deluga also runs the journal Series Byzantina on Byzantine and Post-byzantine art in territories largely dominated by the Eastern Churches.

In general, studies of the Gothic art of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, almost no space is devoted to the monuments that have survived in the territory of today's western Ukraine (the former Ruthenian Voivodeship), including paintings, sculptures, or goldsmithing. Only the cathedral of Lviv is included in the canon of Gothic buildings. Yet in that city there are remains of Gothic decorations in tenement houses located on the Market Square, or fragments of the Golden Rose Synagogue. In other cities, we see extant medieval elements, such as those in Drohobych, not to mention Gothic elements in the architecture on the border of historical Moldavia (Khotyn castle), which in the 15th and 16th centuries was closely related to Poland as its fief. In this paper, I will present monuments that testify to the influence of the Latin tradition in Orthodox and Armenian art and also try to point to the possibilities of reconstructing Gothic art in the territories of today's Ukraine.

Centre for Early Modern Studies Research Seminar 2023-2024

Autumn Programme

Wed 27th September, 1pm

(joint seminar with the Centre for Modern Languages Research)

Meeting Room 1, Sir Duncan Rice Library

Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac (University of Orléans), ‘A Portraitist in Europe: Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’

Wed 11th October, 1-2 pm

Edward Wright Building, Rm S86

Edel Lamb (Queens University, Belfast) ‘Rewriting Romance: Adaptation and Early Modern Girl Authorship’

Wed 25th October, 1-2pm

A joint seminar with the Centre for Training and Research in Linguistics

Edward Wright Building, Rm S86

Helen Newsome, (University College, Dublin) '[A]n old battle constantly re-fought': Editing the Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)

Wed 8th November, 1-2 pm

Edward Wright Building, Rm S86

Clare Loughlin (History, Aberdeen), ''Barbary Prisoners and the Privy Council of Scotland, 1690-1708'

Wed 22nd November, 1-2 pm

Edward Wright Building, Rm S86

Harry McCarthy (Exeter) 'Not He, the Queen': Boyed Blackness and Queer Race on the Early Modern Stage’

Spring programme

The Centre for Early Modern Studies, in collaboration with the Musuems and Special Collections and the Friends of Aberdeen University Library

Present

Networking the Early Modern Past in North East Scotland

Saturday 18th May, 2024

at

Craig Suite, 7^th Floor, Sir Colin Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen

A one day event exploring networks and connections in the early modern north east of Scotland, and how we make connections from today with the experiences of the past.

Speakers:

Jennifer Morag Henderson, poet, playwright and author, ‘(writer) 'Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots and writing history for a wider audience' She will also be signing copies of Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots (Sandstone Press, 2022).

Andrew Gordon, (Professor of Renaissance Literature and Culture at Aberdeen), will be speaking on ‘'Making connections with Alexander Craig of Rosecraig: a Banffshire poet of the Seventeenth Century'.

Jane Pirie, (Curator of Rare Books, Museums and Special Collections, University of Aberdeen) 'The book, the bishop and the building: the bible of William Elphinstone (1431-1514)'

Dr Eilish Gregory (University of Durham) is a former Visiting Fellow of the Museums and Special Collections at the University of Aberdeen and will be speaking on 'Catholics and Property Confiscations in North-East Scotland and Beyond, 1689-1745'.

Panel Discussion: Cultural Networks Now

chaired by Lisa Collinson,

w involvement of panellists and Lesley Anne Rose (creative producer and writer and co-founder of Open Road)and Bruce Mann (Secretary of NE Scotland Heritage Network and Regional Archaeologist for Moray, Aberdeenshire, Angus & Aberdeen City Councils)

CEMS lunchtime seminars and conference programme 2022-2023

30 September 2022: Natural Law and Religious Violence in 16th and 17th Century Europe, in cooperation with the Centre for Polish-Lithuanian Studies, financed with outside funds from the Polish Embassy in London in addition to CEMS and CPLS funds. Speakers included Steffen Huber, Jagiellonian University Cracow, Gabor Gango Erfurt and Miskolc/Hungary, Ian Campbell QU Belfast, Piotr Wilczek current Polish ambassador in the UK and University of Warsaw, Brad Bow Aberdeen, Robert Frost, Karin Friedrich, Michael Brown, et al.

28-29 October 2022: Northern Networks, Aberdeen: Astronomical and Medical Knowledge from the Baltic to East Central Europe, 1550-1750, funded by an AHRC Research Networking Scheme brought to CEMS by Dr Cassie Gorman (Anglia Ruskin University) and Dr Stefano Gulizia (University of Milan and the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies, Warsaw), in cooperation with the Museum and Special Collections, University of Aberdeen. Programme:

David McOmish (Edinburgh): ‘Failures and successes in educational reform in the new sciences at the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh: Duncan Liddel and the Edinburgh circle’

Andrew Gordon (Aberdeen): ‘The Print Voyages and Literary Communities of Alexander Craig’

Kathrin Zickermann (UHI): ‘Scots in Early Modern Pomerania’

Catherine Jones (Aberdeen): ‘The Moscow Printing House, the European Enlightenment, and the Book’

Jane Pirie (Aberdeen): Duncan Liddel’s library, exhibition and talk

Vladimir Urbanek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic): Simeon Partlicius, medicine and astronomy

Richard Oosterhoff (CRASSH and Edinburgh): Henri de Monantheuil: Medicine and maths after Ramus and before Liddel was in Paris

Stefano Gulizia (Polish Institute of Advanced Studies, Warsaw): ‘A Bottomless Lake: Ambrosius Rhodius (1605-96) and the Origins of Early Modern Paracelsianism in Saxony and Denmark’

9 November 2022, Lunchtime seminar Dr Meha Priyadarshini (Edinburgh), The China, the Manola and the Maria Clara: Dress and Identity in the Spanish empire, (in person).

23 November 2022, Lunchtime seminar with Dr Suzanna Ivanič (Kent), Material Connections across Central Europe, 1500-1700 (Online)

Spring 2023:

1 February 2023: Dr Diana Barnes (UNE): The Contested Bubble in Early Modern Thought (in person)

8 February 2023: Dr Lubabba Al-Azami (Liverpool), Early modern England and the Mughal Empire (online)

17 February 2023: Jaroslaw Pietrzak (Pedagogical University Cracow, Erasmus exchange), Scottish-Polish contacts in the early modern period and on 18 February (at the Burn): "Magnate courts - ceremonial, art and propaganda"

17-19 February 2023: The Burn Training weekend for PGT ad PGRs

22 February 2023: Dr Edel Lamb (QUB): Gendering Juvenilia: Writing by Early Modern Girls (online)

8 March 2023: Dr Stefan Hanss (U of Manchester)> Medicine, Material Culture and Hair in Early Modern Germany (onlilne)

15 March 2023: Professor Wayne Te Brake (Purchase, SUNY, USA, on European tour): the Hidden history of Religious Peace (in person)

22 March 2023: Helena Newsome (Aston): Correspondence of Margaret Tudor and James IV (online)

28-29 March 2023: Symposium - Entangled History and Transnational Perspectives, a conference of papers by members of staff from Aberdeen, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Krakow, LMU Munich and University of Prague, funded entirely by the Jagiellonian University 

Thursday 27 April

18:00–19:15

Lecture: Dr Laimonas Briedis (Vancouver).

Vilnius at 700.

Friday 28 April Linklater Rooms

12:30–12:45 Welcome: Karin Friedrich & Stanisław Witecki

12:45–14:15

I. Entangled Art and Its European Networks

Izabela Curyłło-Klag, Entanglements among Polish, British and French Artistic Bohème in early 20th-century Brittany

Agata Dworzak, When follower becomes an influencer – entangled art in the 18th Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Case studies from the Ruthenian and Sandomierz Voivodeships

Coffee break 14.15–14:30

14:30–15:30

II Entangled Knowledge, Circulation and Presentation (i)

Tomáš W. Pavlíček, Mathematical Olympiade as a Postwar Generational Expectation for the Circulation of Knowledge (online)

Lisa Collinson, Entanglements, Networks and Neurotypes in History and Heritage

15:30–15:45 Break

15:45–16:45

III. Entangled Knowledge, Circulation and Presentation (ii)

Tomasz Pudłocki, Science against current political trends? Polish and Czech Anglicists and their British milieu, 1918–1939

Jan Surman, Inter-Slavic interconnections in scholarship in the 19th and 20th centuries

16:45–17:30

Entangled Knowledge: Discussion

17.45–18.45Keynote Lecture by Dr Stanisław Witecki, Jagiellonian University, Kraków:

The Entangled History of the Catholic Enlightenment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

19.00–20.30

Drinks and Buffet Reception

Saturday 29 April

College Bounds CB 009

10:00–11:30

IV. Entangled Societies and Labour History

Kamil Ruszała, What do the people of Tyrol, Styria and Galicia have in common? Society and the entangled history of the Habsburg Empire

Marcin Jarząbek, An Entangled History of Labour in Modern Poland: Networks, Technologies, Cultures

11:00–11.30 Coffee

11:30–13:00

V. Entangled Dynasties and Aristocracies

Katarzyna Kuras, Between Warsaw, Dresden and Paris. The world of Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France

Gellért Marton, Archival sources in Krakow regarding Prince Gábor Bethlen

13.00–14:30 Lunch

14:30–16:00

VI. Religious and National Entanglement

Stanisław Witecki, Parish Book Culture in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. Internal and external entanglements

Kilian Harrer, Entangled intimacies. Intermarriage of Latin- and Greek-rite Catholics between Poland-Lithuania and Rome

16.00–16:15: Break

16:15–17:15

VII. Round-Table: The Future of the Project

Robert Frost, Helen Lynch, Stanisław Witecki, Karin Friedrich

19:00 for 19:30: Dinner, Royal Northern and University Club

CEMS Research Seminar & Events Spring Programme

Weds 10th February 

Dr Valerio Zanetti (SRS Postdoctoral Fellow, St Johns, Cambridge) 
‘The Sportswoman’s Paradox: Medicalising the Athletic Female Body in Early Modern Europe’ 

Wed 17th February 

Prof Tracey Hill (Bath Spa), Civic London Project, 
"A playe in the hall": civic performance, c.1560-90'

Tuesday 23rd Feb 4 pm 

RIISS SEMINAR in collaboration with CEMS
Dr Ali Cathcart (Stirling), 
‘James VI and I and his empire of islands: the view from the periphery’ 

Wed 3rd March 

Dr Kirsty Rolfe (Leiden), 
'Itching ears: Desire for news in the 1620s'

Friday 12th March 

CEMS Research Symposium: 
Print and Prints in the Early Modern World
Organised by Dr Helen Pierce 
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/cems/events/16339/

Wed 17th March 

Dr Lauren Working (TIDE Project, Oxford):  
'Dispossession in Lace: Jacobean Ruffs and Early English Colonialism' 

Wed 24th March

Dr McKenna Rose (Georgia IT), 
‘The Salvage Imaginary: Gender and Objects in The Taming of the Shrew.’

Wed 31st March 

Dr Clare Egan (Lancaster)  ‘Upon that text dilate I coulde, durst I with betters to be boulde’: Performing Libel in Early Modern England

CEMS Research Seminar Programme 2021 Autumn Programme

Wed 6^th Oct, 1-2 pm.

A welcome event open to all staff, PGRs, and PGT students with research interest in Late medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern studies across all disciplines. 

This is an opportunity to connect with others working in related fields and to find out about our programme of events, and the various opportunities that (free!) CEMS membership provides via our links with research institutes across Europe and US. It's also an opportunity for you to shape the agenda of CEMS going forward, and to let us know about ideas and events you'd like to see happen and find out about how CEMS can support you.

Weds 13^th Oct, 1-2 pm

CEMS Research Seminar: ‘Municipal Play and the Home Fans (A Leisure Complex in Congleton)’

Callan Davies (Roehampton/Kent)

What can a council leisure centre from the 16^th and 17^th centuries tell us about the early modern English playhouse?  And what connections does it reveal between recreation and community identity? I address these questions by sharing a draft case study from the forthcoming book, What is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620 (Routledge 2022), and research emerging from the AHRC Box Office Bears and Middling Culture projects (www.boxofficebears.com | www.middlingculture.com).  We will take a visit back in time to a sports complex run by the Corporation of Congleton in Cheshire, comprised of a cockpit, archery butts, bearbaiting sites, and bull-rings, with spaces for music and drama.

Wed 3rd November, 1-2 pm

CEMS Research Seminar: ‘Taking Licences: Shakespeare, Forgery & Early Modern Rogue Culture’

Derek Dunne (Cardiff)

Derek is a lecturer in English literature at Cardiff University. His current research project is on ‘Shakespeare’s Licence’, examining the power of paperwork in early modern England and how this makes its presence felt in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. His first monograph, Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy, and Early Modern Law: Vindictive Justice (Palgrave, 2016) was in the area of Law & Literature. He has written articles on Shakespeare and forgery, the mathematics of revenge, and the forensics of the blush in early modern drama. Previously he has worked at Shakespeare’s Globe (London), Queen’s University Belfast, and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). 

Wed 17th November, 1-2 pm

CEMS Research Seminar: ‘Thomas Coryate and the Histories of “Tourism”’

Natalya Din-Kariuki (Warwick)

16 February, 2022,

Urvashi Chavravarty (Toronto) speaking on ideologies of slavery in early modern England, 1-2 pm.

Expert and Forensic Witnesses in Genevan Trials, c. 1540-1640

In collaboration with the Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS)

Bill Naphy (University of Aberdeen)

9 December 2020, 1-2pm, via Teams

CEMS events Autumn 2019

Lunchtime seminars Wednesdays 1-2 pm

Wednesday 25 September  MacRobert 266 and live broadcast via Blackboard Collaborate
Dr Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster), ‘Shakespeare on the Surface’

Seminars in Collaboration with other Departments

Dr Aaron Thom (History of Art incooperation with CEMS), Casting Light on Cavarozzi: One of Caravaggio’s Finest Followers, September 4.15, CB009, 50-52 College Bounds

CEMS events Autumn 2018

19th September

Dr Jill Burke (Edinburgh), 'Pleasure, Drunkenness and Power in the Italian Renaissance Nude'
12-1 pm (Taylor A36)

10th October

Dr Erin McCarthy (NUI, Galway), 'By a Lady: Women’s Authorship and Attribution in Manuscript Miscellanies'
1-2 pm (Taylor A31)

7th November

Jane Pirie (Special Collections)  ‘From Italy to Aberdeen: The History of a Book. Our Aristophanes’ Comoediae’

14th November

Researching the Material Object/Researching the Material Text:
An open session, exploring research possibilities and pathways through the University's collections, with Lisa Collinson (Academic Engagement & Research Lead, University Museums) and Jane Pirie (Special Collections, University Library)

Reading the Ministry, 1520-1848

A three day, international conference exploring the history of archives, the material text and memory in the cultural life of the ministry. The full programme is available here

CEMS Research Seminar Spring 2018

Wednesday 24th January

Zohar Adromi-Hallouche (Divinity)

‘Images of the first woman: Eve in Islamic Fāl-nāma paintings’
1 pm, Taylor A36

Wednesday 14th February

Ruth Karras (Minnesota)

‘Masculinity, Dynastic Thinking, and the Messiah’
1 pm, Taylor A36

Wednesday 21st March

Craig Smith (Glasgow)

‘Adam Smith on the Natural History of Religion and the Moral Sentiments’
1 pm, Taylor A36

CEMS Events Autumn 2017

Wednesday 11th October

Alan Ross (Berlin)

‘The African mirror. Monkey theatre in ancien-régime Paris’
1 pm, Taylor A36

Wednesday 25th October

Barry Robertson (City Archives)

‘Sources of Early Modern History in Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives’
1 pm, Taylor A36

Monday 30th October

CEMS Public Lecture in association with Friends of the University Library

Jerzy Limon (Gdansk)

‘King James VI and the Beheading Game’
6 pm, Special Collections Centre, Duncan Rice Library

Wednesday 1st November

Sarah Carpenter (Edinburgh)

‘The Turk, the More and the Egyptien’: Exotic visitors in entertainments at the court of James VI’
1 pm, A36 Wednesday 8th November Adrian Streete (Glasgow)

‘Polemical Laughter in Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess’
1 pm, Taylor A36

Thursday 9th November

Lyndal Roper (Oriel, Oxford)

‘Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet’
Meeting Room 1, Duncan Rice Library, 4.15 pm

Wednesday 22nd November

Ralph Moffat (Glasgow Museums)

‘Advance on us like mad Men!’: The Scottish Highland Warrior
1 pm, Taylor A36

CEMS Research Seminar Spring 2017

• Wed 22 March Harriet Archer (Newcastle), '"The earth shall eat us all": Exemplary History and Posthumanism in Elizabethan England'
• Wed 8 March (8) Jacqueline Murray (Guelph) 'Rethinking Medieval Masculinity in Light of the Male Body
• Wed 22 Feb (6) Frederik Pedersen (History) 'Women’s access to the law in fourteenth-century York’
• Wed 8 Feb (wk 4) Lena Liapi (History) 'Laughter and Crime'
• Wed 1 Feb (wk 3) Katherine Heavey (Glasgow), 'Are you talking to me? Myths and readers in early modern English literature'

Conference at the Grierson Centre, in association with the Centre for Early Modern Studies, and the Centre for Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies, 15-17 January 2016

The conference commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Herbert Grierson (1866-1960), Inaugural Chalmers Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen, who was also a Classicist. The objective is to provide new analyses of the ways in which Classical learning was changed, manipulated, re- and mis-interpreted, performed, and subverted (deliberately or otherwise) in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the early modern world. The ‘Subversions of Classical Learning’ project as a whole comprises a series of events (in 2015 and 2016) to consider some of the most dynamic and exciting transformations and subversions of Classical themes. This international, interdisciplinary conference is the highlight of the series. A selection of papers will be published in a conference volume.

Speakers : Ralph M. Rosen (University of Pennsylvania), Anna Caughey, (Keble College, Oxford) and Cairns Craig (University of Aberdeen), organizer Dr Aideen O’Leary: a.oleary@abdn.ac.uk.

2015 Autumn Seminar Series

• 25 November -- Dr Daniel Derrin (Durham University): Melanchthon and comedy in humanist pedagogy
• 18 November --Professor Nicholas Hammond (Cambridge), French Literature and Culture: Bodies behaving badly in French seventeenth-century poetry and song
• 28 October -- Professor Mark Robson, Professor of English and Theatre Studies (University of Dundee): The nothing in between, or, Adapting with David Greig
• 21 October -- Dr Beth Lord (Aberdeen): The Free Man and the Free Market: Ethics and Economics in Spinoza’s Ethics IV

Making Unions

30 September, 2015. Launch of the book Making Unions: Political Union and Composite States in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. A Roundtable and Reception marking the publication of The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1569 by Robert Frost, published by Oxford University Press (2015) in the the Great Hall, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, chaired by Alvin Jackson, at 6 pm, link. Speakers: Sir John Elliott, Prof. Norman Davies, Professor Colin Kidd, Professor Robert Frost.

Public Lecture before the Polish Constitutional Tribunal

4 May 2015. The Constitution of The 3 May 1791 and Royal Prussia's Fate in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Public Lecture by Professor Karin Friedrich, Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw, see link

Reviving the Dead: Classical Imitation in Renaissance Literature

22-23 May 2015. An interdisciplinary symposium organised by Dr Aideen O’Day and Dr Syrithe Pugh in collaboration with the Grierson Centre bringing together early modernists and classicists to discuss aspects of imitation, allusion and intertextuality.

Renaissance Society of America Annual Conferences in Berlin

26–28 March 2015, Participation of members of staff and students from English and History

Re-Staging the Renaissance

20 March 2015 - A one-day research colloquium on early modern drama involving invited external speakers and members of staff from Aberdeen.

Between Metaphysics, Theology, Text and Aesthetics: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Early Modern Thought and Religion, 20 February 2015

This one-day workshop involved speakers from Warsaw, Glasgow and Aberdeen/Budapest. Speakers: Dr Giovanni Gellera, Dr Simon Burton, Dr hab. Endre Szécsényi.

Postgraduate Study Week-End at The Burn, Edzell

in cooperation with the Centre for Reformation Studies, University of St Andrews 8-9 November 2014. Information here

The Fifteenth-Century Conference, 4-6 September 2014, University of Aberdeen

hosted among other institutions by the Centre for Early Modern Studies and the University of Aberdeen

Cultures of Union: the British and Polish-Lithuanian union in comparison

The second conference in the Comparing Unions series, a cooperation between CEMS, RIISS and the Newberry Library’s Centre for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, organised by Professor Robert Frost and Professor Michael Brown, following the first conference that was organised and partly financed by the Newberry in September 2013 and the University of Chicago. The Burn Edzell, 5-6 September 2014, as a cooperation between CEMS and RIISS and in cooperation with Durham and Glasgow’s HERA project on ’Cultural Encounters in Political Unions’. This conference was also timed to precede the Referendum on Scottish Independence.

Ars effectiva et methodus: the Body in early modern science and thought

Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, 30 June – 1 July 2014. Follow link to programme

Society for French Studies Annual Conference

Organised from 30 June - 2 July 2014 at the University of Aberdeen, with support by the Centre for Early Modern Studies

Renaissance Society of America, 27-29 March 2014 in New York City

Participation by members of staff and postgraduate students from English, History, Divinity and History of Art.

Stacks Alive: The Hunter Caldwell Awards, 15 May 2014.

A research workshop to present interim findings of CEMS manuscript research projects, involving representatives from the following research projects: Sir Robert Beale Correspondence Project (Andrew Gordon); Bannatyne Manuscript Project (Elizabeth Elliott); Spalding’s Practicks Project (Adelyn Wilson) and the Duncan Liddell project (Karin Friedrich). The event provided an opportunity to share research methodologies, and to discuss ways of facilitating next-stage, and collaborative, funding applications.

Popular Culture at the Crossroads: A one day interdisciplinary colloquium

This event brings together scholars from English, History and Visual Culture to debate approaches to early modern popular culture, Friday 14th March 2014 at Sir Duncan-Rice Library

Between religious conflict and reform: New approaches to late medieval and early modern confessional culture in Central European towns, c. 1400-1700

CEMS Workshop in co-operation with the Palacky-University of Olomouc, Czech Republic, 3-4 October 2013, Seminar Room One, Craig Suite 7th floor Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen

Comparing Political Unions in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, 1350-1801

A conference organised at the Centre for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library Chicago, in cooperation with CEMS, organised by Prof. Robert Frost, 19-21 September 2013.

International Conference Medical Knowledge between Polymathy and Disciplinarity: Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) in Context

8-10 May 2013, Sir Duncan Rice Library Conference Room 1, Floor 7, with Key note speaker Prof. Mordechai Feingold fom CalTech. 

The Hand in the Text: Renaissance Acts of Writing and Printerventions

A one-day conference examining material textuality in print and mansucript organised by Andrew Gordon in collaboration with Early Modern Studies in Scotland Seminar, Saturday 25th May, 2013 Sir Duncan Rice Library Seminar Room

2012

Friday 16th March, 2012

Tradition and Cultural Memory: Representations, Reflections, and the Relationship to the Past in Early Modern Europe

A CEMS Postgraduate conference at Humanities Manse 12-5.15 pm.

2011

20 May, 2011

Liminal Communities: Living at the Margins in Early Modern Europe

A Postgraduate Symposium featuring speakers from the disciplines of Art History, English and History. Humanities Manse 1-6 pm.

14-16 April, 2011

Cultures of correspondence in early modern Britain 1550-1640

A Joint Conference to be held at the University of Plymouth in collaboration between by the Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing Arts (Plymouth) and the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Aberdeen. A full programme is now available via the above link.

1-3 March, 2011

Musical, Cultural and Religious Networks in Early Modern Europe

A three day international conference organised in celebration of Peter Philips's 450th Anniversary. This conference centres on the many and varied networks of cultural practitioners in early modern Europe: musicians, writers, and other artists whose work and lives can be traced through surviving manuscripts, early prints, correspondence and other artefacts.

2010

24 July, 2010

Cultures of Correspondence Colloquium

A One Day Colloquium exploring the meaning and practice of letter writing in the early modern period. Organised by Andrew Gordon in coloration with the Early Modern Studies in Scotland Seminar. This event will be followed by a joint conference held at the University of Plymouth. 

14 June, 2010

Transnational allegiances and Cultural Transfer: Relations between early modern Poland and France in the European Context, 1570-1770

A workshop held by CEMS in co-operation with the Aberdeen Centre for Russian and East European History.

8-10 April, 2010 The Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Venice

At this year’s meeting CEMS sponsored the following panels of postgraduates and staff members

• Crown, Public, and Publicity in Scotland, 1603-1649

• Purgatory and Its Early Modern Displacements

• Liminal Spaces: Marginality, Locality and Plurality in Early Modern English Literature

21-23 March, 2010

Thomas Reid: From His Time To Ours

The Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy 2010 held at Aberdeen in conjunction with RIISS.

2009

26-29 August, 2009

Opening spaces: Constructions, visions and depictions of spaces and boundaries in the Baroque

An International Conference at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, organised by Karin Friedrich, with the participation of members of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

15-16 June, 2009

Slavery, Ransom and Liberation in Russia and the Steppe Area, 1500-1850

Two-day Conference in cooperation with the Aberdeen Centre for Russian and East European History, Linklater rooms.

2008

5 December, 2008

Competing for Souls: Education and Religion in East Central Europe, 1550-1750

A One-Day Symposium organised by the Centre for Early Modern Studies and the Aberdeen Centre for Russian and East European History. 

2007

3 July, 2007

Scottish Catholicism and The Visual Arts, 1560-1807

A Colloquium in the Downside-Aberdeen Series Speakers: Prof. Michael Bath (Strathclyde), Dr John Morrison (Aberdeen), Dr Mary Pryor (Aberdeen), Professor Peter Davidson (Aberdeen), Respondents: Rt Rev Aidan Bellenger, OSB (Downside Abbey), Dr Anne Dillon (Cambridge)

Linklater Rooms, King's College, 1.15 – 4.00 pm

1-2 May, 2007

Tercentenary Conference on the Anglo-Scottish Union 1707: European Perspectives

Organisers: Dr Micheál Ó Siochrú and Dr Andrew Mackillop – Venue: Aberdeen Townhouse (Union Street)

12-13 April, 2007

Conference: Emigrants and exiles from the Three Kingdoms in Europe, 1603-1688

The aim of this conference (and ensuing publication) will be to provide an opportunity for participants to analyse expatriate groups from the three Stuart kingdoms together as an identifiable unit (or even a community) within the continental and/or Scandinavian settings.

2006

20 July - 22 July, 2006

Conference: Icons and Iconoclasts: The Long Seventeenth Century, 1603 to 1714