Seminar Programme 2011-12
Seminars take place at 1 pm in MacRobert 304
Autumn Term
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Wednesday 2nd November
- Adelyn Wilson 'Dutch influence in Scottish legal writing of the seventeenth century, with particular reference to Arnoldus Vinnius and Sir James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair'
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Wednesday 23rd November
- John Gash 'A Game of Tennis: Gérard Douffet and the Myth of Caravaggio'
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Wednesday 7th December
- Jackson Armstrong 'Friends and Friendship in Fifteenth-Century Scotland'
Spring Term
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Wednesday 8th February
- Syrithe Pugh 'Satire and the Ovidian Persona in Gascoigne's Steele Glas and Complaint of Philomene'
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Wednesday 22nd February
- Martyna Mirecka (St Andrews) 'Poland-Lithuania as the bulwark of Christendom'
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Wednesday 29th February
- Helen Pierce 'Playing for laughs? Cards, cartoons and controversy in England during the Exclusion Crisis (1678-81)'
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Wednesday 7th March
- Kirk Melnikoff (North Carolina) 'Translation as Vocation: Elizabethan Publishing Practice, Thomas Hacket and the Early Modern Travel Narrative.'
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Wednesday 21st March
- Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner 'The controversy about Bourignonism in late 17th century Aberdeen'.
Seminars 2010-2011
- Wed 13th October
- David Smith (Music) 'Early Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Culture at the Court of the Archdukes in Brussels: The Manuscript Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Mus. MS 40316', - 1 pm, Hums Manse
- Wed 10th November
- Andrew Gordon (English) 'Essex's Last Campaign: The Fall of the Earl of Essex and Manuscript Circulation' - 1 pm, Hums Manse
- Wed 8th December
- Caroline Erskine (History) 'Assembling histories of the Reformation: George Buchanan and the gradual consolidation of Scottish Protestantism, c. 1582-1637' - 1 pm, Hums Manse
- Wednesday 23rd February
- Michael Brown (History) 'The Conspiratorial World of John Toland' - 1 pm, MacRobert Room 304
- Wednesday 2nd March
- Barbara Fennell (Linguistics) 'Analysing Early Modern English Language in the 1641 Depositions' - 1 pm, MacRobert Room 304
- Wednesday 23rd March
- Robert Frost (History) 'On Unions' - 1 pm, MacRobert Room 304
- Wednesday 4th May
- Karin Friedrich (History) 'Notions of Citizenship and the Rule of Law in East Central Europe: the cases of Poland-Lithuania and Brandenburg-Prussia' - 1 pm, MacRobert Room 310. This seminar is held jointly with The Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and the Rule of Law.
- Wednesday 11th May
- Alison Saunders (French) 'An early English manuscript translation of Alciato's emblems' - 1 pm, MacRobert Room 304
- Thursday 16th June
- Tara Hamling (Art History, Birmingham) 'Shakespeare's Home Improvements' - 4 pm, MacRobert Rm 252
Seminars 2008-2009
- 17th June
- Professor Don Ostrowski, Early Modern Russia and the Military Revolution, - 3 pm, Old Townhouse Seminar Room
- Friday 1st May
- Professor James Collins (Georgetown University, Washington D.C./ Leverhulme Fellow University of Sussex),
The Three Sisters of European constitutional history: rethinking 19th-century paradigms - 3.30 pm, Humanities Manse G1
Seminar Programme Spring 2007
- 12th February
- NB:St Mary's B27, with Cultural History Anders Ingram (University of Durham) - Readers and Responses to George Sandys, 'Relation of a Journey begun anno domini 1610': travel and literature in the seventeenth century
- 27th February
- Catherine Lawless (University of Limerick) Sexuality, Sanctity and Representation in late medieval and early Renaissance Florence
- 5th March
- Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen) Sentiment and Manners in Irish Enlightenment Writing
- 19th March
- Paul Hammond (University of Leeds) Shakespeare’s all-male utopias
- 23rd April
- Dick Helmholz (University of Chicago/ Washington University in St Louis) Tradition and Innovation in legal education and legal practice in the late medieval and early modern ius commune
- 15th May (NB: exceptionally on a Thursday)
- Coppelia Kahn (Professor of English and Gender Studies at Brown University, USA)
Forbidden Mixtures: Shakespeare in Blackface Minstrelsy, 1844
Prof. Kahn is the author of Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare (1981) and Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds, and Women (1997). She has published articles on Shakespeare's plays and poems, and on gender theory, Freud, Jacobean drama, and questions of race and nation in 20th century constructions of Shakespeare.
- 21st May
- Michael Cordner (Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York)
The Hamlet Aftermath 1602-1604Prof. Cordner is interested in English drama c.1580-1720 and in the development of the theatre in the UK in the second half of the twentieth century