Forthcoming events
Trinity Term 2012
Seminar series
Relevant seminars from multi-period series
Lectures
Seminars
Literature and History in Early Modern England
The seminar will meet in the Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College on Mondays at 5 pm. All are very welcome (including undergraduates).
1st week (23 April) David Womersley (St. Catherine’s, Oxford), Defoe and the Standing Army Controversy: Memoirs of a Cavalier
2nd week (30 April) Kate Loveman (Dept. of English, Univ. of Leicester), How to Buy (or Steal) a Book in Restoration London
3rd week (7 May) Hugh Adlington (Dept. of English, Univ. of Birmingham), Donne and History
4th week (14 May) Jonathan Bate (Worcester College, Oxford), Staging the World
5th week (21 May) Arnold Hunt (British Library), TBA
6th week (28 May) Cathy Shrank (Dept. of English, Univ. of Sheffield), Through the Looking Glass: Utopia, Pierce Plowman, and Sixteenth-Century Dialogues
Susan Brigden
George Southcombe
Friends of the Bodleian Lectures
The following lectures will be given at 1 pm on Tuesdays in Convocation House, Bodleian Library.
Dr William Poole
1 May: ‘The Bodleian Library and the scientific revolution’
Michael Pickwoad
15 May: ‘The choice of Paris:
Early Modern Literature Graduate Seminar
Tuesdays, Breakfast Room, Merton College
Tuesday of 2nd week (1 May), 3.30pm (note different time to allow attendance at Lukas Erne’s Lyell Lecture, T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton, 5pm)
Stephen Orgel (Stanford University):
'Introducing Shakespeare’s Early Publishers'
Tuesday of 5th week (22 May), 5pm
Bradin Cormack (University of Chicago):
‘Knowing Action: Ethical Shakespeare’
Tuesday of 6th week (29 May), 5pm
Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary, University of London):
‘From Mimesis to the Material Text? Revising Auerbach's Montaigne’
Sharon Achinstein, Paulina Kewes, David Norbrook, Emma Smith, Bart van Es
Early Modern Graduate Forum
Breakfast Room, Merton.
Tuesday of Week 1, 3.30 p.m.
Louise Fang, “Shakespearean comedy and the Elizabethan discourse on games”, and Jakub Boguszak, “Aesop on the Title Page: Presenting the Fables on the Market from 1550 to 1650”.
Tuesday Week 3, 2pm.
Meeting with Professor Stephen Greenblatt.
Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty.
Open to graduate students only.
Tuesday, Week 7, 5pm
Tim Smith-Laing, 'Law and Magic in a Midsummer Night's Dream'
John-Mark Philo, 'An ocean untouched and untried': The early reception of Livy in print (1469-1533)'
Breakfast Room, Merton College
Thursday Week 8, 5pm
Meeting with Cambridge Gradutes
Michael Hetherington, 'Conceptualising Coherence in Late Sixteenth-Century Literature: The case of Abraham Fraunce'
Cassie Gorman, 'Atomised poetics: seventeenth century poetical responses to the scientific particular'
Austen Saunders, 'How Gabriel Harvey didn't read: approaching different sorts of early modern annotations'
Breakfast Room, Merton College
Art History Research Seminar
The following seminars will be given at 5 pm on Tuesdays in the Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes. Conveners: Dr C Payne, Oxford Brookes, Dr J Whiteley and Dr A Wright
Dr Charles Robertson, Oxford Brookes
1 May: 'Not Leonardism in Milan'
Professor Tim Screech, SOAS
15 May: 'The East India Company and the painting trade in the early 17th century'
Dr Joanna Walker, independent scholar
29 May: 'Nancy Spero, encounters'
Cultures of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Thursdays at 3-5pm in the Colin Matthew Room of the History Faculty on George Street. Papers and discussion will be followed by a wine reception. All are welcome!
Thursday 26 April (Week One)
Alison Wiggins (University of Glasgow): Editing Bess of Hardwick’s Letters Online
Thursday 3 May (Week Two)
Florike Egmond (Scaliger Institute, Leiden University): The Webs of Clusius and Gessner: Correspondence, Images, and Collecting in Sixteenth-Century Natural History
Thursday 10 May (Week Three)
Chantal Grell (University of Versailles): Editing the Correspondence of Johannes Hevelius: Networks, Themes, and Methodological Challenges
Thursday 17 May (Week Four)
Glenn Roe (University of Oxford): Text Mining Electronic Enlightenment: Influence and Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters
Thursday 24 May (Week Five)
Nadine Akkerman (Leiden University): Opening Up the Winter Queen’s Cabinet: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
Thursday 31 May (Week Six)
Konstantin Dierks (Indiana University): An Index of Modernity: Narratives of Communications in the Late Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic
Thursday 7 June (Week Seven)
Joe Moshenska (University of Cambridge): 'An After-Suppers Work': Sir Kenelm Digby and Varieties of Correspondence in the 1630s
Thursday 14 June (Week Eight)
David Galbraith (University of Toronto): Editing Evelyn Editing Evelyn
For further details and to download the poster please visit the seminar webpage: http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/cofk/events/seminars-2011-12
The Demonic Seminar
Thursdays of even weeks, 5pm; The MacGregor Room, Oriel College
3 May | The Early Modern Devil as Burlesque
Anthony Ossa-Richardson is a Research Associate for the forthcoming edition of Thomas Browne's Complete Works, based at Cambridge University; he is currently editing Browne's manuscript notebooks held in the British Library. His paper will explore the Devil and his minions as figures of burlesque in early modern English literature and polemics, focusing on Canidia, or, The Witches (1683), an enormous, bizarre, and now forgotten Hudibrastic satire attributed to the royalist clergyman Robert Dixon (1614-88).
17 May | How anti-Catholicism inspired the landmark book against the witch trials: Jan Wier (1515-1588)
Vera Hoorens is Professor of Social Psychology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She was previously a research fellow in psychology at Wolfson College, Oxford, and recently obtained a second doctoral degree in history from the University of Groningen. She will be presenting on her recent book: Een ketterse arts voor de heksen. Jan Wier (1515-1588) (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2011), a biography of the Dutch physician and witchcraft sceptic Jan Wier (Johannes Weyer).
31 May | Early Modern Vampires
Koen Vermeir is a Senior Research Fellow in History of Science at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris). He will present at the seminar his research on 'Vampires as "creatures of the imagination" in the Early Modern Period', recently published in the collective volume Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period, ed. by Y. Haskell
(Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2011).
14 June | The Witch of Endor and the Apparition of Samuel
François Lecercle is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne (Paris IV). He will be presenting on his recent book entitled Le Retour du mort (Geneva: Droz, 2011), which traces, in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, the history of the early modern debates surrounding the evocation of the prophet Samuel by the witch of Endor (I Samuel/Kings, 28) - the only instance in the Old Testament of contact between the living and the dead.
Jan Machielsen and Thibaut Maus de Rolley
Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700
Thursdays at 5.00 pm in the Memorial Room, Jesus College. [Note change from usual venue] Refreshments to follow
26th April Polly Ha (UEA) ‘Religious Conspiracy in Early Modern England’
3rd May Jonathan Willis (Birmingham University) ‘ “Our Schoolemaster Unto Christ”: Evangelical Uses of the Decalogue in Reformation England’ [Note this session will be in the Habakkuk Room, Jesus]
10th May Jane Dawson (Edinburgh University) ‘Singing the Reformation’
17th May John MacCafferty (University College, Dublin) ‘Donatus Mooney’s De Provinciae Hiberniae (1617) and the Once and Future Glory of the Irish Franciscans’
24th May James Clark (Bristol University) ‘The Dissolution of the Monasteries in European Perspective’
31st May Alex Walsham (Trinity, Cambridge) ‘The Holy Maid of Wales: Visions, Politics and Catholicism in Elizabethan Britain’
7th June Ken Fincham (Kent University) ‘The King, the Bishops, the Parishes and the King James Bible’
14th June Erica Longfellow (New College, Oxford) ‘John Donne alone: Prayer, Privacy and the Protestant Self’
Sarah Apetrei, Felicity Heal, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Judith Maltby, Sarah Mortimer
Early Modern French Seminar
The following seminars will be given at 5.15 pm on alternate Thursdays, unless otherwise noted. Conveners: Jessica Goodman, Richard Parish, Caroline Warman and Wes Williams.
26 Apr: Graduate research showcase
2.15 pm, 4 May, MacGregor Room, Oriel
Mimi Sheller, Drexel, in association with the Caribbean Globalizations Research Network: ‘The virtual reality of the Early Modern Caribbean’
24 May
Wilda Anderson, Johns Hopkins: ‘ “Motion is of bodies”: does that mean it thinks?’
Relevant seminars from multi-period series
Literature and Medicine Seminar Series
6.15 pm on Thursdays in the E P Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton.
26 April
Martin Kemp, 'Leonardo's philosophical anatomies'
David Patterson Seminars
8 pm on Wednesdays at Yarnton Manor
6 Jun. Dr Nurit Pasternak, Hebrew University: ‘Lorenzo de’ Medici’s state censorship of Hebrew manuscripts: Florence, August 1472’
Lectures and special events
The Lyell Lectures 2012
TS Eliot Lecture Theatre at Merton College. All sessions at 5pm.
Lukas Erne, University of Geneva: Shakespeare and the Book Trade
Tuesday, 24 April, 'Shakespeare and the Book Trade, 1593-1622: An Introduction'
Thursday, 26 April, 'Shakespeare, Publication, and Authorial Misattribution'
Tuesday, 1 May , 'Introducing Shakespeare’s Early Publishers'
Thursday, 3 May, 'Investing in Shakespeare’s Playbooks'
Tuesday, 8 May ,'Investing in Shakespeare’s Poems'
Demons Land - A Faerie Queene Adaptation
Professor Simon Palfrey of Brasenose College has written a new adaptation of the Faerie Queene. A rich pick of Oxford's actors showcase the script in a rehearsed reading in the Burton Taylor Studio at 7.45 on Friday 27 April. The event is free, but seats are limited, so please come early to ensure a place.
Museum of the History of Science
Dr Marcos Martinon-Torres, UCL, and Dr Anna Marie Roos will present research papers at 3 pm on 2 May in the basement gallery, Museum of the History of Science.
Subject: ‘Chemistry in seventeenth-century Oxford’
CEMS Event: Universities in Historical Context
Thursday 3 May, 1-2.30. Hawkins Room, Merton
(drinks and coffee provided; please bring lunch if needed)
Professor T. J. Reed, ‘Kant’s The Conflict of the Faculties’
For more information contact david.norbrook@ell.ox.ac.uk
The Astor Lecture
5.15pm, Tuesday 15th May (Week 4), Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, St Cross Building
Professor Stephen Greenblatt,
'Shakespeare and the Shape of Life'
Astor Visiting Lecture
5 pm on 21 May at Magdalen College Auditorium.
Professor James Vernon (Berkeley), ‘Distant strangers: how imperial Britain became modern’
Dacre Lecture 2012
5pm Friday 18th May
IBM al Jaber Building, Corpus Christi College
JOHN ROBERTSON (Professor of the History of Political Thought, University of Cambridge):
'RELIGIOUS OBSTACLES TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT'
Following the lecture there will be a reception in Corpus which all members of the audience will be welcome to attend.
CEMBIH Lunchtime Workshop
POSTPONED till later in the term
Paulina Kewes, Jesus College: 'Associations and Enterprises: The Scottish Context of the Bond of Association'.
CEMBIH Colloquium
Friday 22 June, Lecture Theatre, Lincoln College EPA Centre, Museum Road
'Taming the Many-Headed Monster: Regulating Society in Early Modern England'. A colloquium in honour of Martin Ingram.
Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book
Friday 22 June
Susan Nalezyty (Renaissance Society of America Fellow), A Poet Collects: Pietro Bembo's Renaissance Art Museum
1:00 pm, Convocation House, Bodleian Library
Exeter 700th Anniversary Lectures
Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala will deliver the next 700th Anniversary Lecture at 2.30 pm on Sunday, 13 May, in the Sheldonian Theatre. Ticketed event open to all members of the University. To attend, email: development@exeter.ox.ac.uk.
Subject: 'The origins of sex: a history of thefirst sexual revolution'
Thomas Harriot Lecture
5 pm on 31 May at Oriel
Professor L B Cormack (Alberta), Subject: ‘“The whole earth, a present for a Prince”. Molyneux’s English globes and the creation of a global vision in Harriot’s time’
Between the Lines Lecture
Nicolas Crane, BBC, will lecture on his book at 7 pm on 12 June at the Museum of the History of Science.
Subject: ‘Mercator: the man who mapped the planet’