// European History 1500-1800 Seminar Programme //

Welcome the website for the IHR Seminar: European History 1500-1800. Below you can find details of our programme. If you want to be on the mailing list please contact the organisers.

Venue: Past and Present Room N202, 2nd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House unless otherwise stated

Time: Mondays 17:15

Convenors:  Philip Broadhead (University of the Arts), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), Joël Félix (Reading), John Henderson (Birkbeck), Katherine Hill (Birkbeck), Julian Swann (Birkbeck), Silvia Evangelisti (UEA), Zoltan Biedermann (UCL), Liesbeth Corens (QMUL)

Autumn Term 2018
Date Seminar details
8 October
17:15
The map as medium and message: a 17th-century Swedish geographer and the discovery of Atlantis // Abstract
Charlotta Forss (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR
22 October
17:15
Elusive networks? Analysing the lives of Moriscos enslaved in elite households in colonial Spanish America // Abstract
Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway University of London)
IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR
5 November
17:15
Wine and politics in early modern Burgundy // Abstract
Mack Holt (George Mason University)
IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR
19 November
17:15
Supernatural Matter: Enchantment and the Everyday in Early Modern Prague // Abstract
Suzannah Ivanic (Kent)
IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR
29 November
17:15
Discussion of Andrea Giardina, Emmanuel Betta, Maria Pia Donato, Amedeo Feniello (eds), Storia Mondiale dell’Italia (Laterza, 2017) // Abstract
The Court Room, First Floor, South Block
3 December
17:15
Visible hands: mœurs, sexuality, and the state at the collèges Mazarin and Dornans-Beauvais, 1660-1760
Benjamin Bernard (Princeton)
IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR
Spring Term 2019
Date Seminar details
14 January
17:15
Cheesemaking in the Scientific Revolution: Dairy Products and The History of Early Modern European Knowledge // Abstract
Paolo Savoia (King’s College)
IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR
28 January
17:15
‘Those are far happier who become wholly Africans’: Germans at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1806 // Abstract
Olga Witmer (Cambridge)
IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR
11 February
17:15
After mentalités: Human nature under the microscope of Ancien regime judicial archives // Abstract
Gregory Hanlon (Dalhousie University)
IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR
25 February
17:15
The Graffiti of theDucal Palace of Urbino (15th-21st Centuries): Wall Writing and Drawing froma Historical Perspective // Abstract
Raffaella Sarti (University of Urbino)
IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR
11 March
17:15
Matthew Laube (Birkbeck)
IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR
Summer Term 2019
Date Seminar details
13 May
17:30
230 Years Since the French Revolution: Time to Rethink the Terror? // Abstract
Marisa Linton (Kingston University)
Joint session with Modern French History seminar
IHR Wolfson Room, NB02, IHR
20 May
17:15
‘Surveillance in early modern cities: comparative reflections on the role of popular actors’ // Abstract
Brigitte Marin (Aix-Marseille University), Solène Rivoal (Aix-Marseilles University and Birkbeck University of London)
IHR Past and Present Room, N202, Second Floor, IHR

Please click on the individual papers for more details about the speakers and their topics. We look forward to seeing you at the seminars.