Michaelmas 2016
Tuesdays: weeks 1, 3, 5 and 7
Ertegun House, 5.15pm
Convenors: Professor Rhodri Lewis and Professor Emma Smith
Week 1
Lorna Hutson (Oxford):"The Shakespearean Unscene: Sexual Phantasy in A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Week 3
Molly Murray (Columbia): "Prison and Pleasure: The Politics and Poetics of Carceral Liberty in Early Modern England"
Week 5
David Loewenstein (Penn State): "Writing in the Aftermath of Civil War: Paradise Lost, the Aeneid, and the Politics of Contemporary History"
Week 7
Hannah Crawforth (KCL): "George Buchanan and Early Modern Greek Tragedy"
History of the Book Room, St Cross Building, Thursdays at 5:15*
Convenor: Micah Coston
Week 2
Welcome Drinks and Social
Week 4
No Meeting (Oxford Wells Lecture Series on Wednesday)
Week 6
The Early Modernist and the Digital (Panel)*
- Pip Willcox, Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian
- Natasha Simonova, Centre for Early Modern Studies at Oxford
- Peter Auger, The Early Modern Boundaries Project
Week 8
MSt History of the Book Presentations
*Please note: The week 6 panel will be held on Tuesday at 5:15 at the Centre for Digital Scholarship in the Weston Library
Thursdays
5pm in The Breakfast Room, Merton College (tea from 4.45)
Week 1 (13 October)
Peter Ghosh (St Anne's College): ‘How Modern are early modern Historians?'
Week 2 (20 October)
Prof. Tony Claydon (Bangor University): ‘Time and the Revolution of 1688-9'
Week 3 (27 October)
Prof. Steven Ellis (NUI Galway and Merton College): ‘Defending English Ground: the Crisis of Lordship in early Tudor Northumberland'
Week 4 (3 November)
Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading): ‘“Painful Seamen”: Seafaring, Skill, and Craft in early modern England'
Week 5 (10 November)
Dr Jenni Hyde (University of Lancaster): ‘Text, Truth and Tonality in Mid-Tudor Ballads'
Week 6 (17 November)
Dr Emily Hansen (University of York): ‘A Prosopographical Study of English Schoolmasters c. 1500- c.1650'.
Week 7 (24 November)
Prof. Chris Kyle (Syracuse University): ‘“A Dog, a Butcher and a Puritan”: The Politics of Lent in Early Modern England'
Week 8 (1 December)
Reviews of recent work