Elvira Tamus

Late medieval and early modern European political, diplomatic, and religious history, with a focus on Central Europe and the Mediterranean; relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims; the later crusades; geopolitics; new diplomatic history; microhistory; global history; and connected histories.

Cambridge History Faculty:

Transition and Induction Programme - supervisions on medieval history and seminars on study skills (2021-2022)

History for Schools outreach initiative - workshop on early modern Transylvania (2022)

Part IA Study Skills Course: seminars (2022-2023)

Part IA Outline Paper O5: Europe in the World, c. 1450-1780 - supervisions (2022-2023, 2023-2024)

Part I Paper 16: European History 1450-1760 - revision lecture on 'Encounter and Diversity in Europe' with sessions on 'War' and 'Ottomans and Europeans' (2023)

Part II Historical Argument and Practice Course: seminars on 'Empires' (2023, 2024)

Other:

GEC Academy - lectures and seminars on pre-modern and modern European and world history (2022, 2023)

Global History Lab (Department of History, Princeton University / Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) - seminars on pre-modern and modern global history as well as qualitative research methods (2023-2024)

Lucy Cavendish College (Cambridge) - History subject taster session on 'Women in Diplomacy' in the Academic Attainment Programme (2024)

Antonio Rincón, Hieronymus Łaski, and European Great Power Politics, c. 1522-1542 (Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period, 29 January 2024).

Radical Reformation and Catholic Renewal: Antitrinitarians and Jesuits at the Transylvanian Court, 1559-1602 (Confraternitas Historica - Graduate Seminar, Sidney Sussex College, 23 January 2024).

Dangerous craft: Violence and diplomacy in early sixteenth-century Europe (Cambridge-Stockholm Doctoral Seminar on Violence, Stockholm University /Sweden/, 23 May 2023).

Diplomatic practices and the Ottoman expansion in early sixteenth-century Europe (Medieval History Graduate Workshop, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, 9 March 2023).

‘The lily and the crescent’: Anti-Habsburg diplomacy in sixteenth-century Europe (Early Modern World History Workshop, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, 1 December 2022).

Crossing Europe: Antonio Rincón’s diplomatic endeavours in the context of imperial affairs in the 1520s (‘Indirect Diplomacy: Cross-Imperial Contacts beyond Courts’ Conference, National Museum of Anthropology /Madrid, Spain/, 15 November 2022).

Franco-Hungarian envoys and the Ottoman Empire on the European diplomatic stage, 1522–1536 (1st International Congress on Ottoman and Turkish Studies – 'Important Figures Affecting Diplomacy from the Period of the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic', Necmettin Erbakan University /Konya, Turkey/, online presentation, 21 October 2022).

German Lutheran princes and French diplomacy, 1531–1547 (‘The German influence in the medieval Europe’ Workshop No. 1, DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service, /Mannheim – Heidelberg, Germany/, 21 September 2022).

Shifting allegiances and dynastic struggles in 16th–century Hungary (International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 6 July 2022).

Circulation of news between European courts in the 1520s (‘Exchange and Communication’ Workshop, Columbia-Cambridge Medieval History Exchange, online presentation, 10 June 2022).

Franco-Hungarian diplomatic relations in the context of the Italian Wars and the Habsburg-Ottoman rivalry, 1519–1541 (PhD Presentation Day, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, 4 March 2022).

Franco-Hungarian relations and European imperial rivalries, 1519–1541 (Research Seminar, Centre for Early Modern Studies, Eötvös Loránd University /Budapest, Hungary/, online presentation, 17 November 2021).

The memory of the Battle of Mohács ('Forging and Forgetting: The (Re)writing of history, community and memory', Early Medieval–Medieval–Reformation–Renaissance–Early Modern Postgraduate Forum 10th Annual Symposium, University of Birmingham, online presentation, 6 June 2021).

Franco-Hungarian diplomacy in the context of the Italian Wars and the Habsburg-Ottoman rivalry, 1522–1540 (Alumni Seminar, 'Decolonial, global, and subaltern perspectives in Medieval History' Seminar Series, The Leicester Medieval Research Centre, online presentation, 1 June 2021).

Between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans: The partition of the Kingdom of Hungary, 1526–1570 (‘Division, Dispute and Debate in the Early Modern World, c. 1500–1750’ – Cabinet of Curiosities Online Symposium, University of York, online presentation, 27 April 2021).

Foreign influences on Transylvania’s political elite and court community, 1559–1602 (Fall 2020 Seminar Series “Public Space and Community”, The Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society, University of Edinburgh, online presentation, 26 October 2020).

The development of Antitrinitarianism in Transylvania, 1558–1588 (History, Politics and International Relations Postgraduate Conference, University of Leicester, online presentation, 9 September 2020).

The legacy of St John of Capistrano in the Hungarian Catholic Church (Virtual International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, online presentation, 8 July 2020).

I co-organised the 'Central European Interdisciplinary Summer School, c. 1200–1700', hosted online by the University of Pécs (Hungary) in July 2022; the 'Cross-cultural entanglements in the Mediterranean and beyond, 1200–1600' conference, held at St Catharine's College (Cambridge) in October 2022; and the 'Primary Sources Workshop on Christian-Muslim Relations and the Ottoman Expansion (1396-1699)', held online in October 2023. In addition, I co-organised three Graduate Seminars for Confraternitas Historica, the History society of Sidney Sussex College.

In 2021, I was an Editor of Carnival: Journal of the International Students of History Association (ISHA). In 2021–2022, I co-convened the History Faculty's Workshop for the Early Modern Period. Since 2021, I have been working as a Research Assistant at The Centre for Geopolitics (Cambridge).