Renaissance and Early Modern Discussion Group
The Renaissance and Early Modern Discussion Group
is open to all staff and postgraduates carrying out
research in any discipline.
This informal group meets fortnightly during the semester
on Thursdays 1pm-2pm in the common room of the Institute
for Advanced Study in the Humanities (IASH) . Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided and you are welcome to bring your lunch.
Each meeting discusses a particular theme with one or two speakers
briefly talking about their work, before discussion is opened up to
the group.
If you have suggestions for themes for future meetings, please contact
Sarah Cockram (S.Cockram@ed.ac.uk).
Semester 2, 2012-2013
31 January: The Digital Renaissance
David Rosenthal (University of Bath, Architecture and Civil
Engineering) will speak on developing a social history tourism app for
Florence.
14 February: The Household
Felicity Green (Chancellor's Fellow in History) will speak on
conceptions of the household and of household management in the 16th
and 17th centuries.
28 February: Collective Memory
Stephen McDowell (Chancellor's Fellow in History) will speak on inherited nostalgia of a seventeenth-century writer in Nanjing, China,
after the fall of the Ming dynasty.
14 March: The Written and Spoken Word
Stefano dall'Aglio (University of Leeds, Italian) will speak on the relationship between orality and writing in the preaching of sermons
in early modern Italy.
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