Michaelmas Term 2019
The workshop meets on alternate Thursdays during term in the Bateman Room, Gonville and Caius College, from 1-2 p.m. This is a space for scholars to air work-in-progress and to gain feedback on new projects or arguments. You are welcome to bring your lunch. Tea and coffee will be served.
24 October
Holly Fletcher (Cambridge),
Experiencing Weight in Early Modern Germany: Bodyweight and Shape in Self-Narrative Sources
Marina Inì (Cambridge),
The Quarantined Body: Cleanliness and the Senses in the Early Modern Mediterranean Lazzaretti
7 November
Justin Rivest (Cambridge),
Bulk Consumers in the Medical Marketplace and the Global Circulation of French Proprietary Drugs
21 November
Robyn Radway (Central European University)
Paper Portraits of Empire: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Constantinople
5 December
Nailya Shamgunova (Cambridge)
Travelling in the Age of the Beloveds: Anglophone concepts of Ottoman homosensuality
Valerio Zanetti (Cambridge)
Amazons in the Flesh: Defining the Female Athletic Body in Seventeenth-Century France
Convenors:
Melissa Calaresu (Caius)
Mary Laven (Jesus)
William O’Reilly (Trinity Hall)
Helen Pfeifer (Christ’s)
Ulinka Rublack (St John’s)
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