Event Archive

2025

March

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  Research Seminar: Dr Iryna Klymenko (Historisches Kolleg and LMU Munich), Food intolerance in the early modern period, online

  19 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Room Taylor A36 (online only)

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  Symposium: Entanglements and Disentanglements: Towards A Transnational History of East Central Europe, Speakers: Dr Derrick McClure, Dr Paul Hulsenboom and Dr Izabela Curyłło-Klag

  14 March 2025, 12:30 - 16:30

  In cooperation between the Research Centres for Early Modern Studies and for Polish-Lithuanian Studies, University of Aberdeen, with the Zakład Antropologii Historycznej i Teorii Historii Instytutu Historii Jagiellonian University, Kraków. This symposium brings together three scholars, from Nijmegen, from Krakow and from Aberdeen, to discuss the cultural and international entanglement of...

February

• Research Seminar: Dr Riccarda Suitner (LMU Munich): Venice and the Radical Reformation: an Italian Republic in European Context

  26 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Room: Taylor A36 in person, and online

January

• Research Seminar: Dr Mirjam Hähnle (GHI London), Laboratories of Cosmos and Empire. Ecologies of Early Modern Utopian Projects in a Transatlantic Perspective

  29 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Seminar on campus Taylor A36, and online.

2024

December

• Research Seminar: Michał Nowakowski (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin): 'The Other Ambassador: Ethos in Polish-Lithuanian Diplomatic Manuals'

  04 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Michal Nowakowski is a PhD student at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Department of Early Modern Polish Literature) and has just handed in his doctoral dissertation which focuses on Jesuit  literature. He already published a book which appeared in 2023 under the title 'Ambassador at the Crossroads. The...

November

• Research Seminar: Dr Brandi Adams (Arizona State University) More than Milton's Holinshed: The Phoenix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection

  27 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  This talk will address the founding of the Arizona Book History Group and some of the material in The Pheonix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection, 2300 rare books, many of which were published between 1300-1700. This collection has formed the basis of my (and Jonathan Hope's) call to return to...

• Research Seminar: Dr Sara Pennell (Greenwich), 'Rewriting the early modern women's conduct book: Hannah Wolley's A Guide to Ladies (1668)'

  20 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  In 1668 Hannah Wolley published her first (and, it turns out, only) non-recipe book: A Guide to Ladies and Gentlewomen.  This book survives in but one physical copy (in the Folger Shakespeare Library), and its rediscovery in their collection eight years ago brought to light a text which marks a...

October

• Research Seminar: Dr Aleksandra Ziober (University Wroclaw): Jan Stanisław Sapieha (1589-1635) and early modern mental health

  30 October 2024

  NB: the paper will be in person and online

• CEMS and History Masterclass with Professor Alexandra Walsham, Emmanuel College Cambridge: 'Unravelling the Reformation'

  25 October 2024, 09:30 - 11:00

  For online attendance from outside the university please register via eventbrite under booking information below.

• Prof. Robert Kozyrski (Catholic University Lublin): Divisions and Boundaries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. State - Churches - Society

  23 October 2024, 16:30 - 17:30

  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...