Current Events

Please note that seminars will now start at 4pm and will usually be in S0.17 (Social Sciences) in term 1 and H3.03 (Humanities) in terms 2 and 3; 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 events that may be of interest.

Sat 20 Oct '18

10am - 5:30pm: symposium: Seventeenth Century England - in celebration of Bernard Capp's 50 years at Warwick

Wed 24 Oct '18

2:15pm - 6:15pm: workshop (with GHCC): The Legitimation of Early Modern States: England (1530-1750), Japan (1660-1895), and China (1720-1895). Speakers include Wenkai He, Oleg Benesch, Song-Chuan Chen, Kiri Paramore, Mike Braddick and Mark Knights

Thu 01 Nov '18

12:15pm - 1:45pm: PG WiP session: David Fletcher and Martyn Cutmore

4pm - 6pm: seminar/WiP: Dr Noah Millstone (Birmingham) ‘The Economy of Judgments: Book Talk, Scarcity, and the Production of Dissensus in the Early Modern (Confessional) Republic of Letters’

Thu 15 Nov '18

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Prof. Nicholas McDowell (Exeter) 'Huguenot Refugees and the Politics of Translating Rabelais in Britain'

Fri 30 Nov '18

2pm - 6pm: workshop: Orality in ancien regime France. Speakers: Mack Holt, Mark Greengrass, David Nicoll, Kate Astbury, Tom Hamilton and Emily Butterworth

Thu 17 Jan '19

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Dr Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge) title tbc

Thu 24 Jan '19

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Prof. Peter Wilson (Oxford) the Fiscal Military System 1530-1870 (title tbc)

Fri 08 Feb '19

2pm - 6pm: workshop: ''Gender Roles and Identities in Early Modern Society' (title tbc)

Thu 21 Feb '19

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Prof. David Garrioch (Monash) title tbc

Thu 07 Mar '19

4pm - 6pm: seminar: Dr Natasha Glaisyer (York) 'Fraud' title tbc

Thu 25 Apr '19

4pm - 6pm: seminar: details tbc

Fri 17 May '19

10am - 11am: workshop 'Re-Imagining the Mediterranean: Trans-cultural networks in the Early Modern World'

date tbc: annual one-day Warwick-Birmingham Symposium

External Events

Thu 10 Jan '19

10/01 - 11/01: conference: Pretty Ugly: Early Modern Beauty, 1400-1800

Thu 04 Apr '19

04/04 - 05/04: conference: Literature and the Early Modern State

Thu 06 Jun '19

06/06 - 07/06: conference: Small Things in the Eighteenth Century

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