University of Melbourne: Early Modern Circle – Program 2014

The Early Modern Circle is an informal, interdisciplinary seminar group open to interested students, academics and researchers. The group meets at 6:15 pm, generally on the third Monday of the month, in the Old Arts building at The University of Melbourne. Please see below for details of dates and venues.

Monday 17 March [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Dr Laura Kounine (Max Planck Institute): Emotions on trial: reading for emotions in 17th century German witch-trials

Monday 7 April [Video Conference Rm 231]
Dr Massimo Rospocher (Leeds): Playing to the Crowd: street singers, war reporting and the manipulation of emotions in early modern Italy

Monday 19 May [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Dr Patricia Pender (University of Newcastle): What is a female patron in early modern England?

Monday 16 June [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Dr Andrea Rizzi: Renaissance Emotions in Translation

Monday 18 August [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Speaker TBC

Monday 15 September [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Postgraduate workshop. More details soon

Monday 20 October [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Dr Hugh Hudson: A New Document for Ghiberti at Santa Maria Novella in Florence: The Confraternity of St Peter Martyr between Convent and Commune

Monday 17 November [Old Arts Room 209 Graduate Seminar Rm 2]
Prof. Veronique Duché [title and abstract TBA]

Please direct any enquiries to the convenors: