Event Archive

2016

October

• Old tunes with new words: Scots Neo-Latin literary culture and the Hidden Revolution

  05 October 2016, 13:00 - 14:00

  Old tunes with new words: Scots Neo-Latin literary culture and the Hidden Revolution David McOmish (Glasgow)   

September

• Identity Doubtful: The Supposed Polish Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie

  29 September 2016, 18:00 - 20:00

  This paper offers the rationale for identifying a new portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

May

• Political Community in Historical Perspectives - medieval and early modern

  27 May 2016, 09:00 - 18:00

  An all-day workshop highlighting the historical developments and implications of political community.

March

• Sacred history, the Gentiles, and the early formation of society in the thought of Giambattista Vico.

  23 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:30

  Professor John Robertson, Clare College Cambridge: Sacred History and Political Thought

• The Sobieski-Stuart marriage: what did the Stuarts gain?

  10 March 2016, 16:00 - 17:30

  Paper by Mindaugas Sapoka

• Defining and Representing the City and the Periphery in Early Modern Florence

  09 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:30

  Dr Sandra Cardarelli (Honoray Research Fellow, History of Art/CEMS)

• Dr Tom Rist : Revenge/Religion: Renaissance Re-enactments from Mary Queen of Scots to the Present

  02 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:15

  Dr Tom Rist from the English Department will present paper on Revenge/Religion: Renaissance Re-enactments from Mary Queen of Scots to the Present.

February

• Seventeenth-Century English Organ Music: a Reappraisal

  24 February 2016, 13:00 - 14:30

  24 February 2016 Professor David Smith (Aberdeen), Music: Seventeenth-Century English Organ Music: a Reappraisal

January

• Subversions of Classical Learning

  15 - 17 January 2016

  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

2015

November

• Melanchthon and comedy in humanist pedagogy

  25 November 2015, 13:00 - 14:00

  25 November Dr Daniel Derrin (Durham University) Melanchthon and comedy in humanist pedagogy

• Bodies Behaving Badly in C17 Song

  18 November 2015, 13:00 - 14:00

  CEMS Research Seminar

October

• The Free Man and the Free Market: Ethics and Economics in Spinoza's Ethics IV

  21 October 2015, 13:00 - 14:00

  All seminars are taking place on Wednesdays, 1-2 pm in room KCT2. Please bring your lunch!

2014

November

• The University's museum collections and Early Modern studies

  05 November 2014, 13:00 - 14:00

  Dr Neil Curtis MR 258

2012

October

• Seminar 'Honour, Blood and Manhood.

  03 October 2012

  3 October, lecture at 1 pm (KCF 9), PhD student discussion of paper at 5.15 pmProf. Jörg Rogge (University Mainz, Germany) co-hosted with History Seminar 'Honour, Blood and Manhood. Late medieval fighters writing about their Bodies'.