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 2026, Term 1 (Tuesday unless otherwise stated)
6 Oct (Week 1), 5pm: George Woudhuysen (University of Nottingham), 'Hunting for Manuscripts and Reading Symmachus in Sixteenth-Century Europe'.
13 Oct (Week 2), 5pm: James Poskett (University of Warwick), 'Worlds Reborn: Science and the Global Renaissance, 800–1500'.
3 Nov (Week 5), 5pm: Laura Cesco-Frare (University of Milan), 'Forms and Degrees of Divination: Girolamo Cardano on Predictive Disciplines'.
4 December (Week 9), 2-4.30pm: External EMECC Workshop on 'Espionage, Intelligence and Code Breaking in Early Modern Europe' with Nadine Akkerman (University of Leiden, Jade Scott (Glasgow University), Ioanna Iordanou (Oxford Brookes) and Penny Roberts (Warwick). The workshop will be followed by a wine reception to celebrate the publication of Penny Roberts' book Huguenot Networks: Truth and Secrecy in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge University Press).
Spring 2027, Term 2 (Tuesdays unless otherwise stated)
19 Jan (Week 2), 5pm: Joint ECR book talk: Maria Czepiel, Vittoria Fallanca and Tim Wade will discuss their recent books on Benito Arias Montano, Michel de Montaigne and Desiderius Erasmus.
- Maria Czepiel, Humanism and the Bible in the Poetry of Benito Arias Montano (Bloomsbury)
- Vittoria Fallanca, The Design of Montaigne's Essais (Oxford University Press)
- Tim Wade, Readers of Erasmus: Humanism and the Reformation in Early Tudor England (Brill)
9 Feb (Week 5), 5pm: Katrin Ettenhuber (University of Cambridge), title TBC.
9 March (Week 9), 5pm: Andrew Jotischky (Royal Holloway), title TBC.
STVDIO Seminars are kindly sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre @HRCWarwick
and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance @renwarwick