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Previous Seminars

Hilary Term 2024
29 January	Parliaments and Politics in Britain and Ireland: The History of Parliament, House of Commons 1640-60 Jennifer Davey, Stephen Roberts, Patrick Little (The History of Parliament Trust)
5 February	Bank Holiday/No Seminar
12 February	Legacies of the 'Protestant Nestor': William Perkins and the Doctrinal Maturation of the Church of England, 1584-1625 Bryn Blake (King’s College, London)
19 February	The Economy of Intoxicants in Early Modern England Phil Withington (Sheffield University)
26 February	Justice, and Elite Violence in an Aristocratic Republic. Politics, Courts, and the Nobility in Sixteenth-Century Venice Andrew Vidali (Trinity College Dublin)
4 March	Reading Week/No Seminar
11 March	Smell and the Past: Noses, Archives, Narratives (Title TBC) Will Tullett (University of York)
18 March	Bank Holiday/No Seminar
25 March	The Labour Relations of Childcare in Eighteenth-Century London (Aidan Clarke Annual Lecture) Alex Shepard (University of Glasgow)
1 April	Bank Holiday/No Seminar
8 April	Food Culture and Identity in Ireland (ERC FoodCult Project) Susan Flavin & Charlie Taverner (TCD), Meriel McClatchie (UCD), Alice Rose University of York), Fiona Beglane (ATU Sligo), Julie Dunne (University of Bristol)

 

Michaelmas Term 2023
29 September	Special Event - 6.30 pm (Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival & European Researchers Night) Launch & Screening of a new documentary on brewing early modern beer as part of the ERC funded FoodCult Project. Discussion with the PI, Susan Flavin; Film Director, Shreepali Patel; & Food Historian Marc Meltonville; with sampling of beer produced from Irish heritage grains by Maurice Deasy at Canvas Brewery. BOOKING ONLY on Eventbite.
2 October	Philip J Stern (Duke University), Corporations and the Making of the British Empire, 1603-1660
9 October	Stuart Caroll (University of York), Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe
16 October	Richard Kirwan (University of Limerick), Metrics and Mitigation: Religious Conversion and the Jesuits in Early Modern Germany
6 November	Pat Palmer (Maynooth University), Enter MACMORRIS: Digitising the Past in a Precarious Present?
13 November	Sean Moore (University of New Hampshire), English Protestantism as Whiteness: The Racialization of Christianity in the British Isles
20 November	Jane Ohlmeyer, Patrick Walsh, Ciaran O Neill (Trinity College Dublin) & Finola O'Kane (University College Dublin), Making Empire and the after lives of Empire in Ireland. Panel discussion, chaired by Prof. Nicholas Canny, followed by the launch of Making Empire at 6 pm
27 November	Timothy Murtagh (Trinity College Dublin), Apprenticeship to Revolution: Urban Workers and Irish radicals, 1790-1820

 

Hilary Term 2023
30 January	Charlie Taverner (TCD) ‘Street food: hawkers, urban history, and the limits of early modernity’
6 February	No seminar (public holiday)
13 February	Gianmarco Braghi (University of Palermo / FSCIRE - Foundation for Religious Studies) ‘The predicaments of a rising elite: the first generation of French Reformed pastors (c.1550-c.1580)’
20 February	Julia Pohlmann (University of Aberdeen) ‘Imagined Jewishness in early American and British responses towards the American Revolutionary War’
27 February	Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut) ‘Action and justification in early modern Ireland’
6 March	Reading Week – No seminar
13 March	Karin Friedrich (University of Aberdeen) ‘From borderlands to bloodlands’: a short introduction to Ukrainian history’
20 March	Amy Prendergast (TCD) ‘“A means of my doing better”: 18th century diary-writing as a tool for individual improvement and better mental health’
27 March	The Aidan Clarke Annual Lecture in Early Modern History Ann Hughes (Keele University) ‘From Warwick Castle to Dublin Castle: Colonel John Bridges, Revolution and Restoration in England and Ireland’.
3 April	Laura Stewart (University of York) ‘With laughing on both sides': truth, honour, and status in mid-seventeenth century Scotland’

 

Michaelmas Term 2022
03 October	Celeste McNamara (DCU) ‘From Servitude to Sex Work: Strategies for Family Management in 18th Century Venice’
10 October	Maria Elisa Navarro Morales (TCD) ‘Architectura Natural, the unpublished volume of Juan Caramuel's Architectura Civil Recta y Obliqua’
17 October	Joel Herman (TCD) ‘An Imperial Public Sphere: Newspapers and the Destabilization of Empire, c.1760-1770'
24 October	Study Week – No Seminar
31 October	Public Holiday - No Seminar
07 November	Maria Zukovs (University of St Andrews) ‘The Dublin Press and the French Revolution’
14 November	Emily Monty (Brown University and TCD Fagel Fellow) ‘Colonial Collecting: Mapping the Americas in the Fagel Collection at TCD’
21 November	Andrew Mackillop (Glasgow) 'Ireland and the East India Company: rethinking Empire in the age of Union'
28 November	Micheál Ó Siochrú (TCD) and John Morrill (Cambridge) ‘Editing Oliver Cromwell’

Michaelmas Term 2021

Hilary Term 2019
03 February	Professor Julian Hoppit (University College London) Territoriality and the British fiscal state, 1707-1817
10 February	Dr Harumi Goto (Koyo University, Japan/ TCD Long Room-Hub) Print, law and public sphere in early modern Britain
17 February	Dr Frances Nolan (Maynooth) Memory palace: a posthumous inventory of the contents of Lady Tyrconnell's house on Conduit St., London (1751)
24 February	Dr Vivienne Larminie (Oxford/History of Parliament) 'Anglo-Swiss relations in the Seventeenth Century: networks and perceptions'.
02 March	Study Week
09 March	Dr Peter Williams (Cambridge) Erasmus, Novum Instrumentum omne (BB.b.23) and Codex Monfortianus (TCD MS 30) Seminar hosted in association with the TCD Manuscript, Book and Print Cultures Research Theme
16 March	Dr Christine Walker (Yale-NUS College (Singapore) Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire (Provisional Title)
23 March	Dr Gianmarco Braghi (Bologna) How a New Elite Was Born: The French Reformed Pastorate, c.1555-c.1572
30 March	Dr Deirdre Serjeantson (Cambridge) Thomas Wyatt, Certayne psalmes chosen out of the psalter of Dauid, commonlye called the .vii. penytentiall psalmes, drawen into englyshe meter by Sir Thomas Wyat knight P.00.q.no.6 Seminar hosted in association with the TCD Manuscript, Book and Print Cultures Research Theme
06 April	Centre for Early Modern History Annual Lecture Professor Beat Kumin (Warwick) How much is too much? Negotiating boundaries of excess in early modern drinking cultures