Cambridge Workshop programme for the Michaelmas Term (pasted)

 

Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period

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  • The Workshop for the Early Modern Period (WEMP) provides a forum for graduate students to present research on any aspect of early modern history. The meetings will be held at 5-6:30 pm (UK Time) in Seminar Room 3, Christ’s College, Cambridge, unless otherwise specified. The link to join the virtual meetings will be circulated to the workshop mailing list. To be added to the mailing list, please follow this link: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/history-emhgw. For any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the convenors at camwemp2024@gmail.com.

20 October- Spaces and Material Culture

Sophia Feist (Cambridge): Mapping Technical Knowledge across Sixteenth-Century German Tailors’ Workshops

Francis Taylor (York): Engines of divine art': The Material and Metaphoric Culture of Weeding Tools in Early Modern England


3 November- Science and Philosophy of the Environment

Guy Erez (NYU): Animal Experiments and the Environmental Foundations of Seventeenth-Century Science

Kenneth Novis (Oxford): The Politics of Environment in Spinoza and Montesquieu


17 November- Urban Living

Marlies Crouch (Huygens Institute): Determinants of space in recognising sexual violence in early modern London: uncovering care for survivors from the Old Bailey Proceedings, 1674-1800. 

Robin Shrimpton (Cambridge): Envisioning Environment in Colonial Mesoamerican Urbanism, 1578-86


1 December- Imagined Geographies and Identities  in Early Modern Literature

Adrija Chakraborty (University of Delhi): Sacred Geographies and Collective Belonging: Religion, Ritual, and Identity Formation in Early Modern South Asia

Okan Keleş (Istanbul University): The Reality Behind Şehrengiz: City Descriptions, Imaginary Spaces, and Cultural Environments in Ottoman Literature



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