Cambridge Interdisciplinary Seminar

[details via the LRS]

The seminar intends to promote exchanges between scholars working in various disciplines in the broad field of Early Modern studies. Everyone is welcome to attend it, but also to ask for more information if any of the papers presented match specific interests.

Lent 2008 Programme

Tuesday 22 January
Professor Miri Rubin (Department of History, Queen Mary - University of London)
'Medieval History - the Renaissance - and the Global'
Venue: Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College
Time: 2 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.

Wednesday 30 January
Professor Arpad Szakolczai (University College, Cork)
'Renaissance Grace and the Trickster: Verrochio, Leonardo, and the Pollaioulo brothers' Venue: Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College Time: 5 p.m. (followed by a drinks reception)

Wednesday 6 February Dr Neil Kenny (Reader at the Department of French, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge)
'Tenses for death: examples from sixteenth-century French writing'
Venue: Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College
Time: 2 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.

Wednesday 20 February Graduate Development Session Raphaele Fruet (Department of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge and Trinity College) 'Stairways to what Heavens? Problematic uses of analogy in two cosmological representations in vernacular French: la troisième journée of the Académie Françoise of Pierre de La Primaudaye (1596), and Pour parler de la Nature des cieux in Essays des Merveilles de nature et des plus nobles artifices, of Etienne Binet (1632)'

Other graduate speaker T.B.C.

Venue: Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College
Time: 2 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.

All welcome. Coffee and tea will be served.

Conveners:
Emanuel Buttigieg (History; Peterhouse)
Eleonora Carinci (MML; St Catharine's College) Raphaele Fruet (MML; Trinity College) Katie Rees (MML; Trinity Hall)

http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/gradstudies/seminars/renaiss_seminars.html