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Leeds Interdisciplinary Renaissance and Early Modern Seminars
By Karen | 8 November 2009
The Leeds Interdisciplinary Renaissance and Early Modern Seminar Programme for 2009-10. All seminars will take place in Room 3.40, School of History, University of Leeds (3rd floor, Michael Sadler building) at
5.15pm. Papers will be followed by wine and nibbles. All welcome!
BELIEF, RELIGION AND SOCIETY
Tuesday 27 October: Dr Iona McCleery (Leeds)
‘Bad Air and Healing Saints: responding to plague in the Early Portuguese Empire (the island of Madeira c. 1470-c.1540)’
Tuesday 10 November: Professor Lyndal Roper (Oxford)
‘The Stout Doctor: Martin Luther, the Body and Biography’
N.B. This seminar will begin at 5pm.
Tuesday 16 March: Dr Tim Chesters (Royal Holloway)
‘Beyond belief: ghost stories in early modern France’
EARLY MODERN CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE PAST
Tuesday 2 February: Dr Lucy Munro (Keele)
‘Archaism and constructions of the past’
Tuesday 23 February: Dr Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge)
‘Francis Bacon and the Politics of Learning’
Tuesday 27 April: Dr Paulina Kewes (Oxford)
Title TBC
This interdisciplinary seminar series provides a forum for anyone interested in the early modern period to meet and listen to research papers by visiting speakers. Bringing together a core group of scholars in the Schools of
History, English, Modern Languages and Cultures, and Philosophy, it reflects the current strength and diversity of early modern studies at Leeds.
For further information, please contact Dr Alex Bamji, School of History,
University of Leeds.
Found thanks to W4RF and Renaissance Lit.
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