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2024
November
October
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Research Seminar: Dr Aleksandra Ziober (University Wroclaw): Jan Stanisław Sapieha (1589-1635) and early modern mental health
NB: the paper will be in person and online
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CEMS and History Masterclass with Professor Alexandra Walsham, Emmanuel College Cambridge: 'Unravelling the Reformation'
-For online attendance from outside the university please register via eventbrite under booking information below.
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Prof. Robert Kozyrski (Catholic University Lublin): Divisions and Boundaries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. State - Churches - Society
-Professor Robert Kozyrski s a historical geographer and professor at the Institute of History (Centre for Research on the Historical Geography of the Church in Poland) at the Faculty of Humanities of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. In 2013 he published Clergy, churches and religion in the documents...
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Research Seminar: Dr Jo Edge (Edinburgh), 'Alice Thornton's Medical World'
-Takes place in Taylor A36 and online -if you are an external visitor wanting to register please e-mail a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk for the link
September
May
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Networking the Early Modern Past in North East Scotland
-An afternoon 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. All very warmly welcome to attend all or part of the event!
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Recovering Europe's Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700
-Early Modern Parliamentary Culture in Poland-Lithuania and the Kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland
April
March
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English and Polish Seventeenth-Century Almanacs as a Source for a History of Every Day Life
-In this lecture, Professor Jakub Basista from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, will combine his research on popular culture, book history and early modern piety in the Polish and English public spheres.
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What to do with images? Visual culture and early modern British History
-The speaker is Dr Adam Morton (Newcastle). His AHRC-funded project 'Integrating the Image' will relaunch the "British Printed Images to 1700" database.
February
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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...
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"The Forbes family trade network in the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the late 17th century."
-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...
2023
November
September
March
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Professor Wayne Te Brake (Purchase College, State University of New York): The Hidden History of Religious Peace
-NB: Due to the UCU strike, this seminar will now take place on Tuesday 14 March at 5 pm in CB009 (in person and online)
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Dr Stefan Hanss (University of Manchester): Medicine, Material Culture and Hair in Early Modern Germany
-Online and in Room MR 303
February
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The Burn excursion 17-19 February 2023
-A postgraduate training weekend across Arts and Humanities Disciplines for PGR and PGT students, 17-19 February 2023 at the Burn in Edzell
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Dr Jaroslaw Pietrzak, "A History of Polish-Scottish contacts in the early modern period" - Please note change of time and venue due to UCU strike!
-Dr Pietrzak is an Erasmus exchange guest at Aberdeen/CEMS from the Jagiellonian University Kraków.
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CEMS Research Seminar. Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami (Liverpool) 'An Early Anglo-Indian: The Case of Maryam Khan'.
-1-2 pm, MacRobert Rm 303, and live online.
January
2022
November
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Dr Suzanna Ivanič (Kent): Material Connections across Central and Eastern Europe, 1500-1700: The Case of Chalcedony
-Online seminar, link will be sent out nearer the time
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Dr Meha Priyadarshini (Edinburgh) "The China, the Manola, and the María Clara: Dress and Identity in the Spanish Empire"
-This project ranges across early modern and nineteenth century materials. It explores how “national types” were created in the nineteenth century whose costumes were made from foreign textiles introduced via early modern global trade. Meha Priyadarshini is Lecturer of Early Modern History at University of Edinburgh. She studies connections between colonial Latin...
October
September
March
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Dr Joanne Anderson (Aberdeen) - Slow Art: an experiential study of art in its late medieval landscape - CEMS Research Seminar
-The Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Aberdeen welcomes Dr Joanne Anderson for this CEMS Research Seminar. She will speak on 'Slow Art: an experiential study of art in its late medieval landscape.’
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Urvashi Chakravarty (Toronto) - The Stain of Slavery in Early Modern England - CEMS Research Seminar
-This talk explores the ideologies of slavery in early modern England, in a moment which preceded the development of an organized trade in enslaved persons. Despite the persistent fiction that England was innocent of racialized slavery, I argue that the ideologies of slavery were seeded in the quotidian spaces of early...
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Dr Toby Wikström (Iceland) - 'Before Sentimental Empire: Slavery, Genre and Emotion on the Seventeenth-Century French Stage - Joint CEMS and CMLR Research Seminar
-The University of Aberdeen welcomes Dr Toby Wikström (University of Iceland) for this seminar: 'Before Sentimental Empire: Slavery, Genre and Emotion on the Seventeenth-Century French Stage' with
February
2021
December
November
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CEMS Research Seminar: Thomas Coryate and the Histories of "Tourism"
-We welcome Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki (Warwick) whose paper is entitled 'Thomas Coryate and the Histories of "Tourism". All are welcome to this online meeting of the CEMS Research Seminar.
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CEMS Research Seminar: Taking Licences: Shakespeare, Forgery & Early Modern Rogue Culture
-Derek Dunne 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...
October
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CEMS Research Seminar: Municipal Play and the Home Fans (A Leisure Complex in Congleton)
-What can a council leisure centre from the 16th and 17th 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...
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CEMS Research Seminar: Welcome
-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.
March
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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
-On 31st March, at 1pm Centre for Early Modern Studies will host Dr Clare Egan (Lancaster), via MS Teams. Please register for the meeting here. The CEMS Research Seminar welcome Dr Clare Egan (Lancaster) for the final research seminar of the term. All Welcome. Dr Clare Egan (Lancaster) ‘Upon that text dilate I coulde,...
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24th March: "The Salvage Imaginary: Gender and Objects in The Taming of the Shrew."
-On March 24th, at 1pm Centre for Early Modern Studies will host Dr McKenna Rose (Georgia IT), via MS Teams. Please register for the meeting here The Taming of the Shrew stages the ways that laying waste to domestic material commodities produces an idealized division of the sexes. The broken glasses and...
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17th March: 'Dispossession in Lace: Jacobean Ruffs and Early English Colonialism'
-Wed 17th March If you wish to attend this seminar please register here. Dr Lauren Working (TIDE Project, Oxford): 'Dispossession in Lace: Jacobean Ruffs and Early English Colonialism' Three thousand miles from London, amidst tobacco leaves and animal bones, archaeologists in Jamestown have unearthed five goffering irons – the tools used to shape...
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Friday 12th March CEMS Research Symposium: Print and Prints in the Early Modern World
-This CEMS symposium presents new research into early modern print culture, in both textual and visual contexts. Each paper consists of twenty minutes for the speaker, and a further ten minutes for questions.
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3rd March: 'Itching ears: Desire for news in the 1620s'
-Wed 3rd March If you wish to attend the seminar please register here. Dr Kirsty Rolfe (Leiden), 'Itching ears: Desire for news in the 1620s' In the early 1620s, a flood of foreign news entered England, dealing with the war in Bohemia and Germany (the beginnings of the conflict that would later become...
February
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Tuesday 23rd February, 4 pm: 'James VI and I and his empire of islands: the view from the periphery'
-On February 23rd (Tuesday) at 4pm Centre for Early Modern Studies, in collaboration with RIISS will host Dr Ali Carthcart (Striling), via MS Teams. Details on how to get access to the meeting will be updated soon. If you require help please contact zuzanna.muszynska@abdn.ac.uk
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17th February: REED project, '"A playe in the hall": civic performance, c.1560-90'
-On February 17th at 1pm Centre for Early Modern Studies will host Prof Tracey Hill (Bath Spa), via MS Teams. To gain acces to this event please register here. If you require help please contact zuzanna.muszynska@abdn.ac.uk
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10th February: 'The Sportswoman's Paradox: Medicalising the Athletic Female Body in Early Modern Europe'
-On February 10th at 1pm Centre for Early Modern Studies will host Dr Valerio Zanetti from St Johns, Cambridge, via MS Teams. To gain acces to this event please register here. If you require help please contact zuzanna.muszynska@abdn.ac.uk
2020
December
November
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Bradford Bow: The Wise Club in the Aberdeen Enlightenment
-To download the full programme click here. Wednesday 25 November 2020, 1pm Bradford Bow (History/RIISS, University of Aberdeen) The Wise Club in the Aberdeen Enlightenment Please note that to get the information regarding the Zoom meeting you must register for the seminar here.
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Rebecca Gill on Virtual Veronese
We welcome you to Rebecca Gill's talk on Virtual Veronese taking place November 25th. "Virtual Veronese is a research and development (R&D) project looking at how we can share research with a wider audience by using immersive technologies to explore new ways of telling stories. The project will enable us to...
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Divine Ascent by Dr Joanna W Anderson
-11th November 2020 at 19:30 GMT on Zoom "Mary Magdalen was popular in the late medieval Alps. Across the central European arc, images of the saint graced the walls, altars and glass windows of numerous parish and pilgrimage churches, functioning as indexical markers of faith but also crucially as evidence of...
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Michael Tworek: A (Dis)entangled History of Early Modern Cannibalism
-A (Dis)entangled History of Early Modern Cannibalism: Theory and Practice in Global History
October
June
March
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'The Wise Club in the Aberdeen Enlightenment' -- cancelled --!!
-'The Wise Club in the Aberdeen Enlightenment'
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CEMS Annual Lecture
-This event was cancelled
Brian Cummings - 'Petrarch and the Arts of Memory'
February
January
2019
November
October
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CEMS Research Seminar - Chloe Preedy (Exeter), 'The Mists of Error': Predicting Disaster on the Early Modern Stage'
-Wednesday 16th October 1-2 pm. MacRobert 266 (and live broadcast via Blackboard Collaborate) Chloe Preedy (Exeter), 'The Mists of Error': Predicting Disaster on the Early Modern Stage' In early modern England, moral and medical understandings of pollution often converged. As a result, errors in judgment or character might be figured through references to...
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Newberry joint conference.
-On 10-11 October 2019, a joint conference will be held at the Newberry Library Chicago. The event is a follow up to the Reading the Ministry event, held at the University of Aberdeen in November 2018.
September
March
2018
November
October
May
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Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
-SSEMP IX is the 9th edition of a yearly event that brings together established scholars, young researchers and advanced graduate students working in the field of Early Modern Philosophy. The aim is to foster scholarly exchange among the different generations of academics in the UK and to strengthen international collaboration.
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What is an Archive?
-What is an Archive? The Archives Concept in Central European Legal Writings during the Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Moving the Renaissance - A Symposium on Early Modern Travels
-CEMS invites Moving the Renaissance - A Symposium on Early Modern Travels
March
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Shakespearean Surfaces
CEMS Lunchtime Seminar
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Adam Smith on the Natural History of Religion and the Moral Sentiments
CEMS Lunchtime seminar
February
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Sir Thomas Roe & India
-Cems lunchtime seminar
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Masculinity, Dynastic Thinking, and the Messiah
-Cems lunchtime seminar
January
2017
November
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"Advance on us like Mad Men!". The Scottish Highland Warrior
-CEMS Lunchtime seminar
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Martin Luther: Manhood and Pugilism
-Please register via Eventbrite: Professor Roper's recent book on Martin Luther provides a critical reassessment of the German Reformer during the anniversary of his alleged 'posting of the 95 theses' on a church door in Wittenberg - which most probably did not even happen. Luther, not the 'deus ex machina', and...
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Polemical Laughter in Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess
-Cems lunchtime seminar
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The Turk, the Moor and the Egyptian: Exotic visitors in entertainments at the court of James VI
-CEMS lunchtime seminar
October
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King James VI and the Beheading Game
-CEMS Public Lecture in Assoiation with the Friends of the Library
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Sources of Early Modern History of Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire
-Paper by Dr Barry Robertson on sources that can be found on Early Modern History in the Aberdeen City Archives. Strongly recommended to postgrad students in medieval and early modern history an culture.
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The African mirror. Monkey theatre in ancien-régime Paris
-Lunchtime seminar
September
March
February
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CEMS Research Seminar. 'Women's access to the law in fourteenth-century York' Frederik Pedersen (History)
-CEMS Research Seminar. Frederik Pedersen (History) ‘Women’s access to the law in fourteenth-century York’
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CEMS Research Seminar. 'Laughter and Crime' Lena Liapi (History)
-Dr Lena Liapi is teaching fellow in History.
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CEMS Research Seminar. 'Are you talking to me? Myths and readers in early modern English literature' Dr Katherine Heavey (Glasgow)
-Katherine Heavey is a lecturer in early modern English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests are primarily focused on classical adaptation and translation in early modern English literature. Her book, The Early Modern Medea: Medea in English Literature 1558-1688, was published by Palgrave in 2015. She is...
2016
November
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War and Diplomacy in East Central Europe - Launch of Patrick Gordon's Diaries, volume 6
-International Conference to mark the launch of the last volume of Patrick Gordon’s Diary, in conjunction with RIISS and CEMS
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Literacy 'under the Lock': Education, Spirituality and Enclosure in Dominican Reform Convents
-Wed 16th November, 1-2 pm Literacy 'under the Lock': Education, Spirituality and Enclosure in Dominican Reform Convents Marie Luise Ehrenschwendtner (University of Aberdeen, Divinity) Venue: NK11
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Touching Skin: Why Medieval Readers Rubbed and Kissed their Manuscripts
-Wed 9th November, 1-2 pm Touching Skin: Why Medieval Readers Rubbed and Kissed their Manuscripts Kathryn Rudy (St Andrews) Venue: NK7
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Friends and Enemies in Julius Caesar
-Wed 2nd November, 1-2 pm Friends and Enemies in Julius Caesar Dermot Cavanagh (Edinburgh) Venue: NK7
October
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'What legacy shall I bequeath to thee?' - Shakespeare in the Context of his Time
-Shakespeare Postgraduate and Early Career Symposium on 22 October 2016
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Shakespeare Recreated: Carlos Gamerro's Cardenio
-Thursday 20th October 5.30 pm. Shakespeare Recreated: Carlos Gamerro’s Cardenio A reading and discussion with the Argentinian writer of his novel that reimagines the lost Shakespeare play inspired by an incident in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Part of Shakespeare Week at the University of Aberdeen.
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Playing Aberdeen, 1601
-A performance event exploring the visit to Aberdeen of a theatre company in 1601
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Playing Spaces: The Early Modern Stage Today
-3 visiting speakers come together to investigate the stage spaces of Shakespeare's time and how we can use them today.
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'Equal by Design': a film about Spinoza and the UK housing crisis
-“Equal by Design”: a film about Spinoza and the UK housing crisis Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen, Philosophy) Venue: NK7
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Old tunes with new words: Scots Neo-Latin literary culture and the Hidden Revolution
-Old tunes with new words: Scots Neo-Latin literary culture and the Hidden Revolution David McOmish (Glasgow)
September
May
March
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Sacred history, the Gentiles, and the early formation of society in the thought of Giambattista Vico.
-Professor John Robertson, Clare College Cambridge: Sacred History and Political Thought
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The Sobieski-Stuart marriage: what did the Stuarts gain?
-Paper by Mindaugas Sapoka
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Defining and Representing the City and the Periphery in Early Modern Florence
-Dr Sandra Cardarelli (Honoray Research Fellow, History of Art/CEMS)
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Dr Tom Rist : Revenge/Religion: Renaissance Re-enactments from Mary Queen of Scots to the Present
-Dr Tom Rist from the English Department will present paper on Revenge/Religion: Renaissance Re-enactments from Mary Queen of Scots to the Present.