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Early Modern European History

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Seminar 2011-2012

The seminar meets on alternate Thursdays at 12:45 p.m. in the Leslie Stephen Room at Trinity Hall.  All are welcome to bring lunch to this seminar. Tea and coffee will be served.

 

EASTER 2012

 

26 April
Alex Walsham (Cambridge)
‘Antiquitates Cornu-Britannick: Language, Landscape and Memory in Early Modern Cornwall ’

10 May
Maartje van Gelder (University of Amsterdam)
‘Between North Africa and the Dutch Republic: The Mediating Roles of Dutch Converts to Islam in the 17th Century’.

24 May
Rebekka von Mallinckrodt (University of Bremen)
‘Slaveholders without Colonies: The Case of 18th-Century Brandenburg-Prussia’.

* Special end-of-year seminar:

Tuesday, 5 June, 12:45pm

Francesca Trivellato (Yale), with response by David Abulafia (Cambridge)
‘Credit, Honor, and the Early Modern French Legend of the Jewish Invention of Bills of Exchange'.

 

(N.B. Professor Trivellato's paper will be pre-circulated, and the session will begin with a response to the paper by Professor Abulafia followed by general discussion.)

For a copy of Professor Trivellato's paper, please contact J.P. Ghobrial at jpg52@cam.ac.uk

 

LENT 2012

 

19 January
Ines Zupanov (CNRS, Paris)
‘Catholic Orientalism in India: Missionary Philology between Translation and Conversion, 16th – 18th centuries’.

2 February
Andrew Laird (Warwick)
‘Humanism and its transformations in Spanish America, 1500-1700’.

16 February
Maria Fusaro (Exeter)
‘Sailing into Modernity? Sailors and Salary Litigation in the Early Modern Mediterranean’

1 March
(N.B. this session to take place in the Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall)
Ben Kaplan (UCL)
‘Religious Encounters in the Borderlands of Early Modern Europe’.

 

Related events:

2 March at 5pm
‘Storytelling and the Global Past: A Conversation with Natalie Zemon Davis and Amitav Ghosh’. For details and booking information, see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1899/

 

For questions or a printable version of this programme, contact J.P. Ghobrial at jpg52@cam.ac.uk

MICHAELMAS 2011

Michaelmas Term Programme

 

Upcoming Events

May 22, 2012

The John Robert Seeley Lectures & Seminar

The Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road, Cambridge

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