The Renaissance Witnessed seminars at Queen Mary, University of London
The Centre for Renaissance and early Modern Studies at Queen Mary,
University of London presents its second series of renaissance Witnessed
seminars.
The seminars 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.
Recent 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 witnessed seminars aim to address these issues by covering
a range of themes and topics delivered and commented upon by leading
experts from within the college and the international scholarly community.
Following last year’s lively programmes, the seminars communicate new
approaches to the Renaissance to scholars and students, the museums,
galleries, libraries and archives sector, and the broader public.
Programme
Tuesday 30 January, 6.30 pm
Renaissance Conversions: Religion and the fashioning of Identity.
Speakers: Natalie Davis and Miri Rubin
Chair: Diarmaid MacCulloch
Venue: Mason Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building
Tuesday 27 February, 6.30 pm
The early Modern World Order
Speakers: David Armitage and Noel Malcolm
Chair: Quentin Skinner
Venue: Mason Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building
Wednesday 21 March, 6.30 pm
The Renaissance and Graduate Studies: Problems, Approaches, New Directions
Speakers: Pete Langman, Jacqueline Johnson and Judith Hudson
Venue: Drapers Lecture Theatre, Geography Building
Wednesday 2 May, 6.00 pm
The Renaissance and the Public: A Colloquium
Speakers: James Shapiro, Jonathan Bate, Sarah Dunant and Simon Winder
Venue: Drapers Lecture Theatre, Geography Building
Thursday 7 June, 6.30 pm
The Renaissance Body: Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Representation
Speakers: Ian Maclean and Ludmilla Jordanova
Chair: Colin Jones
Venue: Drapers Lecture Theatre, Geography Building
For further details, and to book a place, visit
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/renaissance
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