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The Renaissance Witnessed seminars at Queen Mary
The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Queen Mary,
University of London presents its first series of Renaissance Witnessed
Seminars.
This series will review what the Renaissance now means to scholars across
the disciplines, and consider how new interdisciplinary methods and
approaches have refigured our understanding of developments traditionally
associated with the term and period Renaissance.
Over the last twenty years or so scholarship has revolutionised our
understanding of the Renaissance not only in details but in approaches and
methods. Even scholars remain less than well informed about developments in
other disciplines while a wider community of curators and librarians and
the interested public is often uninformed of the latest scholarship.
Queen Mary's new series aims to address these issues by covering a range of
themes and topics, delivered and commented on by leading experts from
within the college and the international scholarly community. The seminars
bring new approaches to the Renaissance, to scholars and students, the
museums, galleries, libraries and archives sector, and the broader public.
Seminars
All seminars start at 6.30pm
Thursday 24 November 2005
'Empires in General, or is there any such thing?'
Speaker: Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Commentator: Professor Sir John Elliott
Tuesday 13 December 2005
'History of the Book, Sociology of the Text, and Literature'
Speaker: Professor Roger Chartier
Commentator: Professor Graham Rees
Thursday 26 January 2006
'Forms of learning in Renaissance Europe: Humanism, Science, Technology'
Speaker: Professor Anthony Grafton
Commentator: Dr Warren Boutcher
Thursday 23 February 2006
'The Material Cultures of Renaissance Italy'
Speaker: Professor Evelyn Welch
Commentator: Dr Ulinka Rublack
Thursday 16 March 2006
'Monarchies, Republics and Liberties'
Speaker: Professor Quentin Skinner
Commentator: Dr David Colclough
Thursday 30th March 2006
"'In search of inner lives": Subjects and Sentiments 1600-1800'
Speaker: Professor Lisa Jardine CBE
Commentator: Dr Stella Tillyard
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