STVDIO Seminar Series 2025-26
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.
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.
Friday21 November(Week 7), 4-6 pm: Joint (hybrid) EMECC/ CSR STVDIO event: 'Waste, Recycling and Leftovers in Early Modern and Renaissance Europe'. With
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Franziska Neumann (Technische Universität Braunschweig) -Rubbish?! Waste and Recycling in Eighteenth-Century London
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Eleanor Barnett (University of Cardiff) - Leftovers: A History of Food waste and Preservation in Early Modern Europe
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Alessia Meneghin (University of Valencia) - 'An Economy of Leftovers in 15th-Century Arezzo: Textile Byproducts and the Secondhand Market in a Florentine Subject City'.
Respondent: Eloisa Ocando-Thomas and Chair: Beat Kümin
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)
POSTPONED Thursday15 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 in room OC0.05 (Oculus Building).Please note that Stuart Carroll's talk has been postponed. However, there will still be a reception and book launch at 4 pmfor Jonathan Davies (ed.),A Cultural History of Violence in the Renaissance.
20 January (week 2),6 pm: Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford), 'George Buchanan, Silvae 3: Desiderium Lutetiae.'
10 February (week 5), 5 pm: Simon Smets (KU Leuven), 'Metre Matters in Psalm Paraphrases—Meaning and Use 1500-1700'. Modern Records Centre seminar room.
10 March (Week 9), 5 pm: Helena Taylor (University of Exeter), 'Women, Philosophy and Sociability in Seventeenth-Century France'.
Summer 2026, Term 3 (Tuesday unless otherwise stated)
5 May (Week 2), 5pm: Cynthia Liu (American Academy in Rome/Blackfriars, Oxford), '"Just As" Stories: classical epic abroad'. Room:
12 May (Week 3), 4pm:BOOK LAUNCH:Marta Celati and Maria Pavlova (eds.),The Prince and the 'Condottiero’in Italian Humanism and Renaissance(Peter Lang).
19 May (Week 4), 5pm: Joshua Rushton (University of Manchester), 'Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World: Project Introduction and Some Early Thoughts'.
16 June (Week 8), 5pm:
Ileana Sasu (Tours), 'Translating Saint Audrey: Vernacular Hagiography and the Making of Sanctity'.