Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - “Literature”
  Neil Kenny
  Key Words in Early Modern French Culture Seminar

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - 1. Family Literature and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France / 2. How Early Modern Private Prayer Develops Dramatic Techniques in Empathy, Across Rank and Occupation
  Neil Kenny (University of Oxford), Ceri Sullivan (Cardiff University)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Monday 6 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - 1. Literature Patronage and Hierarchy / 2. Learning and Theatre in the Italian Academies
  Richard McCabe (University of Oxford), Lisa Sampson (UCL)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - 1. The [In]dignity of words: Learning to be politique in Sixteenth-Century France / 2. Wheatcroft's Written World: Elite and Non-Elite in Seventeenth-Century English Writting
  Emma Claussen (University of Oxford), Sue Wiseman (University of London)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - 1. Book Collecting, Social Connections and a Sense of the Past: The Tabourot Family / 2. God, Money and Posterity: The Uses of Writting Among Tradesmen in Early Modern England
  John O'Brien (Durham University), Brodie Waddell (University of London)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Wednesday 20 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - (Social) Places, Please! The Commedia dell’Arte and the Problem of "Class"
  Sarah Gwyneth Ross (Boston College)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Non-Elite Women and ‘the Network’: Compatible Categories?
  Susan Wiseman (Birkbeck, Unversity of London)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Wednesday 3 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Exile, Migration and Hospitality: Visions of a Cosmopolitan Society in the Poetry of the Sephardic Diaspora
  Imogen Choi (Exeter College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Peasants and Representation: The Case of Noël Du Fail
  Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Wednesday 17 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - "Greatness going off": Renaissance Antony and Cleopatra Plays
  Jonathan Patterson (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Renaissance Aristotelianism and the Problem of Publics between Latin and Vernacular
  David Lines (University of Warwick)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Wednesday 3 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Learning, Vernacular Cultures, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
  Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary, University of London)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Erasmus, Citizen of the – or of a – World?
  Dorine Rouiller (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe