Seminar Programme 2010-11
Autumn Term
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Wed 13th October (week 3)‘Early Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Culture at the Court of the Archdukes in Brussels: The Manuscript Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Mus. MS 40316’
- David Smith (Music)
1 pm, Hums Manse
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Wed 10th November (week 7)‘Essex’s Last Campaign: The Fall of the Earl of Essex and Manuscript Circulation’
- Andrew Gordon (English)
1 pm, Hums Manse
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Wed 8th December (week 11)‘Assembling histories of the Reformation: George Buchanan and the gradual consolidation of Scottish Protestantism, c. 1582-1637’
- Caroline Erskine (History)
1 pm, Hums Manse
Spring Term
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Wednesday 23rd February (week 4)‘The Conspiratorial World of John Toland’
- Michael Brown (History)
1 pm, MacRobert Room 304
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Wednesday 2nd March (week 5)‘Analysing Early Modern English Language in the 1641 Depositions ’
- Barbara Fennell (Linguistics)
1 pm, MacRobert Room 304
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Wednesday 23rd March (week 8)‘On Unions'
- Robert Frost (History)
1 pm, MacRobert Room 304
Summer Term
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Wednesday 4th May (week 11)‘Notions of Citizenship and the Rule of Law in East Central Europe: the cases of Poland-Lithuania and Brandenburg-Prussia’
- Karin Friedrich (History)
1 pm, MacRobert Room 310
This seminar is held jointly with The Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and the Rule of Law.
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Wednesday 11th May (week 12)‘An early English manuscript translation of Alciato's emblems’
- Alison Saunders (French)
1 pm , MacRobert Room 304
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Thursday 16th June‘Shakespeare's Home Improvements’
- Tara Hamling (Art History, Birmingham)
4 pm, MacRobert Rm 252
Seminars 2008-2009
- Professor Don Ostrowski, Early Modern Russia and the Military Revolution, 17 June, Old Townhouse Seminar Room, 3 pm
- Professor James Collins (Georgetown University, Washington D.C./ Leverhulme Fellow University of Sussex),
The Three Sisters of European constitutional history: rethinking 19th-century paradigms, 15.30 on Friday 1 May, 2009, Humanities Manse G1
Seminar Programme Spring 2007
12 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
27 February
Catherine Lawless (University of Limerick) Sexuality, Sanctity and Representation in late medieval and early Renaissance Florence
5 March
Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen)
Sentiment and Manners in Irish Enlightenment Writing
19 March
Paul Hammond (University of Leeds)
Shakespeare’s all-male utopias
23 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
15 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.
21 May
Michael Cordner (Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York)
The Hamlet Aftermath 1602-1604
Prof. 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