• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Martin Christ , Ian Maclean , Hannah Murphy , Lyndal Roper , Ed Wareham , Peter Wilson
• Timing: Wednesdays, 2-4 pm
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Monday 25 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The beginnings of the German ‘Royal Society’ (the Academia Naturae Curiosorum) 1652-1687, and the character of German intellectual life AND 'Johann Christoph Sturm’s Collegium Experimentale’
  Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh), Ian Maclean (Oxford)

Thursday 11 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Hands on Session: Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Silver ware from the Wellby Bequest'
  Matthew Winterbottom (Ashmolean)

Wednesday 24 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Mining as Subterranean Kunstkammer AND "The Wrong Trousers? Vernacular audiences and the 'striped layman' in Hieronymus Brunschwig's medical works"
  Lisa Skogh (V&A), Tillmann Taape (Cambridge)

Wednesday 9 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘A deed pleasing to God’: Church Donations in early modern Württemberg'
  Roisin Watson (Society for Renaissance Studies)