The Uses of Space In Early Modern History
1500-1850
Seminar Series 2011-12
International History Department,
The study of space and place is
an increasingly important research-field in the humanities and social sciences.
This series explores how spatial ideas and approaches can be used to understand
the societies, cultures and mentalities of the past. Leading scholars from a
range of disciplines will reflect on the uses of space in two respects: how
spatial concepts can be employed by or applied to the study of history; and how
particular spaces were used for practical and ideological purposes in specific
periods
Series Organiser: Dr Paul Stock
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Time: 18.00
All welcome
13 October
2011: Dr David Lambert (Warwick)
'Mastering the Niger: Spaces of cartography, accounting and slavery, 1797-1845'.
27 October
2011: Dr Paul Keenan (LSE)
10 November
2011: Prof Matthew Johnson
(Northwestern) 'Everyday Living in English Vernacular Houses, 1500-1800'
24 November
2011: Dr Rachel Hewitt (Oxford)
'Mapping History: Cartographic Revolution in the Eighteenth Century'
8 December
2011: Prof Jerry Brotton (Queen
Mary) 'The Cartographic Rhetoric of Early Modern Globalism'
12 January
2012: Dr Andrew Rudd (Open
University) 'Geographical morality on trial: Edmund Burke and the impeachment of
Warren Hastings'
26 January
2012: Prof Robert Mayhew (Bristol)
"Relocating Malthus's 'Essay': Reflections on spatio-temporal contexts and
narrative history"
9 February
2012: Prof Michael Heffernan
(Nottingham) 'Disciplining Space: Geography and Cartography in the Paris Academy
of Sciences 1666-1793'
23 February
2012: Dr Amanda Flather (Essex)
'Gender and the use and organisation of sacred space in early modern
England'.
8 March 2012: Prof Beat Kumin (Warwick) 'Value added? The
spatial turn in the historiography of the Holy Roman Empire'.
[posted by Tony Campbell, but enquiries to the
organiser]