• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Felicity Brown , Christopher Archibald , Dan Haywood
• Timing: Mondays 12:30, Weeks 1, 3, 5, 6 & 8. See individual events for other timings

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - ‘Civic Writing: Cultures of Record-Keeping in Early Modern London’
  Jennifer Bishop (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)

Wednesday 3 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - ‘Metadata, Surveillance and the Tudor State: Digital Methods and the State Papers Archive’
  Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary University of London)

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - 'One False Tenet in the Political Philosophy”: Hobbes and Cowley’s Poems (1656)’
  Niall Allsopp (Oriel College, Oxford)

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - ‘Equality in Early Modern England: Two Diverging Accounts?’
  Joseph Wallace (University of Birmingham)

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - ‘Poetry and Perversion in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Cambridge’
  Scott Mandelbrote (Peterhouse, Cambridge)

Wednesday 31 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - ‘On Not Defending Poetry: The Economics of Sidney’s Golden World’
  Catherine Bates (University of Warwick)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - ‘British Catholic College Drama in the Early Modern Period: Masters, Mentors and Brothers’
  Alison Shell (University College London)

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - ‘“She Rules Alone the Whole Mind’s Commonweal”: The Politics of the Mind in the Elizabethan Period’
  Helen Hackett (University College London)

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - ‘Scottish Court Writers in England'
  Astrid Stilma (Canterbury Christ Church University)

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - ‘Coercing or Contesting? Political Dialogues in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England’
  Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield)

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - ‘“Greatness Going Off”: Antony and Cleopatra Tragedies in Renaissance France and England’
  Jonathan Patterson (St Hilda’s College, Oxford)

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Ben Jonson, Ovid, and the Fall of Essex 1600-01’
  Blair Worden (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)

Monday 6 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Shakespeare’s Licence’
  Derek Dunne (Cardiff University)

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Place, Identity and Brennus the Gaul in Early Modern Imaginative Historiography’
  Harriet Archer (University of St Andrews)

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Manuscript Sleuthing: An Introduction to Invisible Agents’
  Copies of Invisible Agents will be available for purchase at a special discount
  Nadine Akkerman (Leiden University)

Monday 27 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Performing Provincial Libel in Early Modern England’
  Clare Egan (Lancaster University)

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Shakespeare’s London Words’ (Title subject to alteration)
  Sarah Dustagheer (University of Kent)

Monday 11 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Alec Ryrie (Durham/Gresham’s College)

Monday 26 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - America in the European Imagination: The Contrasting Cases of Chapman (1613) and Rubens (1635)
  Peter Davidson (Oxford)

Monday 3 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - “Difficile est Satyram non scribere”: The Parnassus Plays, The Bishops’ Ban and English Juvenalian Satire in the 1590s
  Please note this talk is at 17:15 (BST)
  Brandi Adams (Arizona)

Monday 10 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - The Meaning of Marks: Reassessing Writing Ability in Rural England, 1550-1700
  Mark Hailwood (Bristol)

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Transnational Early Modern Literature: Diplomacy, Migration, Theatre and the International Public Sphere
  Please note this talk is at 17:00 (BST)
  Nigel Smith (Princeton)

Monday 24 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Reflections on Early Modern Brutan Drama
  Kim Gilchrist (Cardiff)

Monday 31 May 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - “A Model of a Reunited Christendom”? Britain and Religious Exiles and Travellers in the Short Peace (1592-1620)
  Anthony Milton (Sheffield)

Monday 7 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Dwelling, Labour and the Task-scape in Seventeenth-Century England: The Case of the Village Blacksmith
  Please note this talk is at 17:00 (BST)
  Steve Hindle (Huntington Library)

Monday 14 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - History, Literature, and Suzerainty: English, Scottish and ‘British’ Histories in sixteenth-century France
  Amy Blakeway (St Andrews)