The UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges is dedicated to the study of the
diverse cultural, historical, economic and social exchanges between
England and Europe, European countries, the Old World and the New in the
period 1450-1800. The work of the Centre focuses on the complex
intercultural interactions underlying the emergence of national identities
and vernacular literatures in this period, interrogating labels such as
‘England’ or ‘Britain’, ‘East’ and ‘West’, the ‘New World’ and ‘Europe’.
The UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges is delighted to invite you to a
series of seminars for the autumn term. Seminars will take place at 4.30pm
on Wednesdays in Foster Court 243. Details are as follows:
20th October. France and England: Medieval to Early Modern
Jane Gilbert (UCL, French), 'French sans frontières? Translation and
Translatio in the 15th Century'
Ardis Butterfield (UCL, English), '“Our self-stranger Nation”: England,
France and period boundaries'
Paul Davis (UCL, English), ‘Rochester's French'
8th December. Renaissance Virtues: Privation and Manipulation
Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary), ‘Machiavelli and the Manipulation of Virtue’
Angus Gowland (UCL, History), ‘European Melancholy’
Jeremy Robbins (Edinburgh), ‘The Place of Virtue in Baltasar Gracián's
Aphorism’
15th December. History of the Book
William Sherman (York, English), ‘Mapping the World of Knowledge: Hernando
Colon and the Biblioteca Colombina’
Henry Woudhuysen (UCL, English), ‘Continental Books in late 16th and 17th
century England: Gabriel Harvey and Ben Jonson’
Information can also be found at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/eme/Events or by
contacting Helen Hackett ([log in to unmask]) or Alexander Samson
([log in to unmask]). All welcome; we hope you can join us.
A map is available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/locations/
Dr Jane Gilbert,
Convenor of the MA in Comparative Literature,
Senior Lecturer in the Department of French/SELCS,
UCL,
Gower St,
London WC1E 6BT
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