Early Modern Material Cultures
Convenors: Marta Ajmar (V&A/RCA), Sandra Cavallo (Royal Holloway),
Christine Guth (V&A/RCA), Angela McShane (V&A/RCA), Filipo de Vivo
(Birkbeck)
Venue: Senate House and the Institute of Historical Research, Senate
House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
Rooms are listed below Please allow at least five minutes to get to the
seminar rooms
Time: Wednesday 5.15 pm
PLEASE NOTE EXTRA SESSION ON MONDAY 1 JUNE
This annual summer series brings together scholars from a range of
disciplines and approaches whose research engages directly with material
culture in the early modern period (c. 1450 - c.1850).
This year all seminars will take place at the Institute of Historical
Research and Senate House from 5:15pm until 06:30pm and will be followed
by drinks reception. This year the series has been put together by the
current Renaissance and Early Modern V&A/RCA History of Design MA students.
29 April Selling Silks in Early Modern Europe
Lesley Miller (Victoria and Albert Museum)
17.15 - IHR, Wolfson Room II, basement, Senate House, North Block
6 May Black Slaves in Early Modern Spain: From Commodities to Freedom
Carmen Fracchia (Birbeck, University of London)
17.15 - IHR, G21A, ground floor, Senate House, South Block
13 May 'With Great Pomp and Magnificence': Royal Gifts and the
Embassies between Siam and France in the 1680s
Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick)
17.15 - IHR, G21A, ground floor, Senate House, South Block
1 June Doctor Dildo's 'Dauncing Schoole': Sexual Instruments and
Women's Erotic Agency in England, c.1600-1725
William Fisher (Lehman College, City University of New York)
17.15 - IHR, Wolfson Room II, basement, Senate House, North Block
10 June The Immaterial Object: Incense in Early Modern Poetry
Sophie Read (University of Cambridge)
17.15 - IHR, Montage Room, G26, ground floor, Senate House, South Block
Details from http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/308
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