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EMRC seminar: The Protestant and Catholic Body

The Early Modern Research Centre at Reading University welcomes you to a research seminar on 11 March at 1.15pm Tessa Storey, English and Italian Regimens Compared:​ The Protestant and the Catholic Body, 1500-1700 Dr Tessa Storey is an Honorary Research Associate in the … Continue reading

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EMRC event tomorrow – everyone welcome

The Early Modern Research Centre is holding an event this Wednesday, 28 January, at 1.15pm in Humss 128, Whiteknights Campus Elizabeth McKellar (Open University),  Landscapes of Pleasure: London’s suburban pleasure grounds c.1660-1760 Respondent Paul Davies (Reading)    Professor McKellar is … Continue reading

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Archives and Texts Seminar

Dr Daniel Starza Smith (Oxford) ‘The Curious History of the Conway papers’ <https://archivesandtexts.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/dr-daniel-starza-smith-oxford-the-curious-history-of-the-conway-papers/> by slheywood<https://archivesandtexts.wordpress.com/author/slheywood/> The Conway Papers were amassed between 1550 and 1700 by a family of statesman, soldiers, authors and collectors, including two secretaries of state – but … Continue reading

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EMRC seminar this week – all welcome!

Wednesday 26th November: Dr Chloe Houston (University of Reading): ‘Too Good to be True: Reforming Utopia in Thomas Nicholls’ A pleasant Dialogue… (1579) and Thomas Lupton’s Sivqila (1580)’.  1.15 pm  HUMSS 127, Whiteknights Campus

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EMRC seminar

Wednesday 12th November: Dr Hannah Newton (University of Reading), The Sick Child in Early Modern England, 1580-1720 (co-hosted as part of the ‘Annual Research Theme’ in History) 1.15pm  HUMMS 127

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Research Seminar – all welcome!

  Early Modern Research Centre Seminar Series, Autumn Term 2014 Wednesday 29th October Dr Djoeke van Netten, University of Amsterdam Investigating, not spreading, knowledge. Early Modern cultures of secrecy 1.15 pm HUMSS 127, Whiteknights Campus

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Early Modern Research Centre conference

Earlier this week, 85 academics from around the world gathered at the University of Reading for the three-day Reading Early Modern Studies Conference. This annual conference – first held 25 years ago — brings together scholars working on history, literature … Continue reading

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Early Modern Research Centre event

Prof. Andrew Burn will be delivering a paper entitled ‘Playing Shakespeare: developing a game-authoring tool for Macbeth with Shakespeare’s Globe’, on Wednesday 14 May, 5 pm, in HUMSS G74, Whiteknights Campus. Professor Andrew Burn, Institute of Education, University of London, will … Continue reading

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Early Modern Research Centre seminar

 Wednesday 5 March  Professor Clare Robertson (Reading): ‘Caravaggio: Rejection and Censorship in Context’   The seminar will be held in Humss 124, Whiteknights Campus, at 5 pm All welcome!

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Early Modern Research Centre Seminar

Please see details below of next week’s seminar: Wednesday 29 January, 5 pm in Humss 124, Whiteknights Campus: Karen Hearn (Honorary Professor, UCL): ‘”Great with child”: Elizabethan and Jacobean Pregnancy Portraits’ All Welcome!

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