Current Events

Please note that seminars now start at 4pm and for the whole of 2019-20 will usually be in H3.03 (Humanities); workshops will be held in other locations. Please browse the list of events below and click on each event to check the details. At the end of the list you will find some external/non-EMECC events that may be of interest.

Thu 10 Oct '19

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Prof. Helen Berry (Newcastle) 'Philanthropy and Empire at the London Foundling Hospital: research and reflections on public history’

Thu 24 Oct '19

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Prof. Adam Fox (Edinburgh) 'Cheap Print and Society in Early Modern Scotland'

Wed 20 Nov '19

2pm - 6pm: workshop: Languages of Slavery

Thu 21 Nov '19

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Dr Laura Kounine (Sussex) 'Witchcraft' title tbc

Thu 28 Nov '19

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Dr Ed Holberton (Bristol) 'Literature in Early C18th Barbados'

Thu 09 Jan '20

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Dr David van der Linden (Groningen) and Prof. Penny Roberts (Warwick) 'Letter-locking in Renaissance France'

Thu 23 Jan '20

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Dr John Shovlin (New York)

Fri 07 Feb '20

10am - 5pm: workshop: details tbc

Thu 20 Feb '20

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Dr Lauren Working (Oxford) title tbc

Thu 27 Feb '20

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Dr Stella Tillyard (independent) Historical Novels (title tbc)

Fri 06 Mar '20

10am - 5pm: workshop: How Can You Tell? Judgment in Early Modern Europe

Fri 01 May '20

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Dr Jean-Francois Dunyach (Sorbonne) tbc

Fri 08 May '20

10am - 5pm: MECRN Symposium: details tbc

non-EMECC/External Events

Fri 30 Aug '19

conference: Rethinking James Watt (1736-1819) Innovation, Culture and Legacy

Wed 18 Sep '19

18/09 - 20/09: conference/study week: MIGRATION AND THE EUROPEAN CITY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES FROM EARLY MODERNITY TO THE PRESENT

Thu 19 Sep '19

19/09 - 20/09: conference: Global Skins in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700

Thu 23 Apr '20

23/04 - 25/04: conference: ‘How to do things with Early Modern words: Interdisciplinary opportunities, dialogues and methodologies’

Events calendar

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For further information please contact Mark Knights

m dot j dot knights at warwick dot ac dot uk

EMECC's events are

part-funded by the

Humanities Research Centre

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These may also be of interest:

Renaissance Studies Centre events

seminars and other events offered by

Birmingham University Eighteenth Century Committee