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
Tim Wade (University of Warwick), Week 1, 7 October, 5pm.
Nicola Royan (University of Nottingham), 'Talking About Their Generations: Scottish engagements with European Humanism, c. 1460-c. 1560’. Week 5, 4 November, 5pm.
Joint EMECC/ CSR STVDIO event: 'Waste, Recycling and Leftovers in Early Modern and Renaissance Europe'. Week 7, Friday 21 November, 4-6pm.
Mercedes Blanco (Sorbonne Université), Week 8, 25 November, 5pm.
Spring 2026, Term 2
Joint EMECC/ CSR STVDIO event: Lunchtime seminar (lunch included) with Stuart Carroll (York) on violence and enmity in early modern Europe, Week 1, Thursday 15 January, 12.30-14.00pm; book launch 16.30-18.00pm (TBC) for Jonathan Davies on his edited volume A Cultural History of Violence in the Renaissance.
TBC, Week 2, 20 January, 5pm.
Simon Smets (KU Leuven), Week 5, 10 February, 5pm.
Kate Travers (University of Warwick), Week 9, 10 March, 5pm.
Summer 2026, Term 3
Cynthia Liu (American Academy in Rome/Blackfriars, Oxford), Week 2, 5 May, 5pm.
Joshua Rushton (University of Manchester), ‘Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Culture’, Week 4, 19 May, 5pm.
TBC, Week 8, 16 June, 5pm.
STVDIO Seminars are kindly sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre @HRCWarwick
and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance @renwarwick