Early Modern Work In Progress Seminars 2022/23
The seminars are very informal, and meant to give a forum for discussion for papers/ideas that are still in the early stages. Particularly welcome are papers by PhD students, and offers by staff likely to lead to a roundtable discussion of an issue, controversy, or recent publication that you think should be discussed. There is no set format, so it doesn't need to be a formal paper as such. Please don't hesitate to contact Tim Peacock if you have any possible suggestions that you think could work.
Organiser: Dr Tim Peacock
All seminars take place at 12.30-2pm.
Semester 3
Tuesday 2 May 2023
(Online only)
Karin Bowie, "The Gloucester disaster and the Royalist regime of James Duke of Albany in Scotland"
Wednesday 10 May 2023
In-person/hybrid - McKechnie Room, 10 University Gardens
Finn Manders, "Domestic Time? Modern Temporal Approaches and their Place in the Early Modern"
Monday 5 June 2023
In-person/hybrid - McKechnie Room, 10 University Gardens
Don Spaeth, "The Inquisitor in Elizabethan England"
Semester 2
Monday 23 January 2023
in the McKechnie Room, 10 University Gardens
Elizabeth Hunter, "Wonderful Sleepers: Medical and Supernatural Explanations for Extraordinary Sleep in Seventeenth-Century England."
Monday 6 February 2023
in the Brogan Room, 2 University Gardens
Rachel Porteus, "‘Where the abbot carries dice, the monks will gamble’: Entertainment and games at the court of James IV of Scotland."
Monday 6 March 2023
in the Brogan Room, 2 University Gardens
David Wilson, "Controlling the Coast: Inter-societal Law and Conflict in Early Modern Ghana." (Rescheduled from last semester.)
Semester 1
Monday 24 October 2022
Thomas Munck
Defining key historical concepts: 'enlightenment' and 'class' in 18th-century Europe.
Monday 7 November 2022
Kasja Varjonen
Rioting Against the Malt Tax - Popular political culture, local community, and divided loyalties in early modern Scotland.
Monday 21 November 2022
David Wilson
Controlling the Coast: Inter-societal Law and Conflict in Early Modern Ghana.
