• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Neil Kenny
• Timing: Wednesdays 14:00-15:30, Weeks 1, 3, 5 & 7
• Organising department: All Souls College

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)

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)

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)

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)

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Puppets, Bibelots, and Ballad-sheets: Literature as Artefact in Early Modern Europe AND Reading, Writing, and Social Practice in Early Modern England
  Tiffany Stern (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), Phil Whitington (University of Sheffield)

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Building of Knowledge and the Building of Society: Montaigne’s bastiment AND Assessing the Learning of the Early Modern English Middling Sort: Material and Textual Sources
  Jenny Oliver (St John’s College, Oxford), Catherine Richardson (University of Kent)

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - It Takes One to Know One: Erasmian Ingenuity and the (Un)making of Scholarly Communities AND Amazons, Idlers, and the Republic of Letters
  Raphaële Garrod (University of Cambridge), Isabelle Moreau (École Normale Supérieure, Lyon)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Literature, Learning, and the Family Function (La Croix du Maine, Scévole de Sainte-Marthe) AND The Social Status of Publishers in Europe (1560–1630) and Their Place in the World of Learning
  Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford), Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford)

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Deaths of eminent persons’: Obituaries and Social Hierarchies in Early Eighteenth-Century England AND A Conversable Knowledge: Language-Learning in Early Modern Educational Travel
  REBECCA BULLARD (University of Reading), JOHN GALLAGHER (University of Leeds)

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Ore, Lore, Status: The Curious Case of the Baron and Baronne de Beausoleil AND French à la mode in Restoration England
  NEIL KENNY (All Souls College, Oxford), RICHARD SCHOLAR (Oriel College, Oxford)

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Urban Literacies: Learning to Write in the London Livery Companies, c.1540–1640 AND The Figure of the Merchant in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes
  JENNIFER BISHOP (Peterhouse College, Cambridge), BRIAN BREWER (Trinity College Dublin)

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Christopher Beeston: His Plays and Place in the Social Hierarchy of Early Stuart London AND Une petite Venise: The Seventeenth-Century Beaver
  EVA GRIFFITH (Independent Scholar), KATHERINE IBBETT (Trinity College, Oxford)

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Lost and Found. Some Reflections on 18th-Century Foundling Archives
  Catriona Seth (All Souls College, Oxford)
• 14:00 - History, Memory and the Making of the European Aristocracy
  Hamish Scott (Jesus College, Oxford)

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - An Epic Poet and his Audience: Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, and the Early Stuart Literary System
  Andrew McRae (University of Exeter)
• 14:00 - Rabelais and Social Hierarchy
  Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford)

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Quinquina in Favour at the Court of Louis XIV
  Please note this talk is in the Old Library not the Hovenden Room
  Emma Spary (University of Cambridge)
• 14:00 - Learning Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Spanish Ethnic Villancicos
  Please note this talk is in the Old Library not the Hovenden Room
  Diana Berruezo-Sanchez (Balliol College, Oxford)

Wednesday 18 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Renaissance Aristotelianism and the Problem of Publics between Latin and Vernacular
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  David Lines (University of Warwick)
• 14:00 - Erasmus, Citizen of the—or of a—World?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dorine Rouiller (Swiss National Science Foundation/Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford)

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

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

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)
• 14:00 - Peasants and Representation: The Case of Noël Du Fail
  Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford)

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

• 14:00 - "Greatness going off": Renaissance Antony and Cleopatra Plays
  Jonathan Patterson (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
• 14:00 - Renaissance Aristotelianism and the Problem of Publics between Latin and Vernacular
  David Lines (University of Warwick)

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

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

Wednesday 18 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Money Matters in Parnassus: Satirising in Fiction the Poets’ Ways to Achieve (16th and 17th Centuries)
  Raphaëlle Errera (Sorbonne Université)
• 14:00 - Rabelaisian Hierarchy and its Reception
  Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford)

Tuesday 31 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - ‘“Great” or otherwise, we don't use those terms here’: Social Hierarchy in the Dialogue of the Dead?
  Jessica Goodman (St Catherine’s College)
• 16:30 - Between Streets and Salons: The Social Status of Juggling and Conjuring in La Magie du Pont-Neuf (c. 1643–1651)
  Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL)

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Beastly Habitués: Animals and Exiles at the Salon of Hortense Mancini
  Please note change of date from 15 February to 8 February
  Annalisa Nicholson (The Queen's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - "learning has brought disobedience": Marginal Literacies and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Early Modern England
  Please note change of date from 1 March to 8 March
  Adam Bridgen (University of St Andrews)