STVDIO Seminar Series
The STVDIO series of research seminars promotes the collaborative, interdisciplinary study of the Renaissance in the UK and internationally, and aims to showcase the rich variety of work that is done on Renaissance topics, both at Warwick and beyond.
Most seminars will be in hybrid format this year, in person at the University of Warwick, on Tuesdays at 17:00 (UK time) unless otherwise specified below, and online circa 5.05pm (set-up time). The link for accessing the seminars will be provided on this page.
If you have any queries, please contact this year's organisers:
Autumn 2025, Term 1 (Tuesday unless otherwise stated)
7 October (Week 1), 5 pm: Tim Wade (University of Warwick), 'Fraught friendship, celebrity and party politics: English humanists in printed letter collections, 1516-1524'. Room: FAB2.32. Link to online registration HERE.
4 November (Week 5), 5 pm: Nicola Royan (University of Nottingham), 'Talking About Their Generations: Scottish engagements with European Humanism, c. 1460-c. 1560’. Room: FAB2.32.
Friday 21 November (Week 7), 4-6 pm: Joint EMECC/ CSR STVDIO event: 'Waste, Recycling and Leftovers in Early Modern and Renaissance Europe'. Room OC1.07 Oculus Building. (In-person only)
25 November (Week 8), 5 pm: Mercedes Blanco (Sorbonne Université), 'Vernacular Poetry and Humanist Culture in Golden Age Spain: Sánchez de las Brozas and Martín Vázquez Siruela, annotators of Garcilaso and Góngora'. Room: FAB2.32.
Spring 2026, Term 2 (Tuesday unless otherwise stated)
Thursday 15 January (week 1): Joint EMECC/ CSR STVDIO event. 12.30-2 pm: lunchtime seminar (lunch included) with Stuart Carroll (York) on violence and enmity in early modern Europe. 4.30-6 pm (TBC): book launch, Jonathan Davies on his edited volume A Cultural History of Violence in the Renaissance. Room TBC
20 January (week 2), 5 pm: Speaker TBC. Room: FAB5.01
10 February (week 5), 5 pm: Simon Smets (KU Leuven), title tbc. Room: FAB2.42
10 March (Week 9), 5 pm: Helena Taylor (University of Exeter), title tbc. Room: FAB2.42
Summer 2026, Term 3 (Tuesday unless otherwise stated)
5 May (Week 2), 5 pm: Cynthia Liu (American Academy in Rome/Blackfriars, Oxford), title tbc. Room: FAB2.32.
19 May (Week 4), 5 pm: Joshua Rushton (University of Manchester), ‘Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Culture’. Room: FAB2.32.
16 June (Week 8), 5 pm: Kate Travers (University of Warwick), title tbc. Room: FAB2.32.
STVDIO Seminars are kindly sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre @HRCWarwick
and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance @renwarwick