Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Early Modern Circle

Convenors:

Dr Peter Sherlock - melbournehistorian@gmail.com
Claudia Guli - c.guli@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Dr Dolly Mackinnon - a.mackinnon@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Jenny Spinks - jspinks@unimelb.edu.au

The Early Modern Circle is an informal discussion group open to interested students, academics and researchers. The Circle meets monthly and meetings are generally followed by a dinner nearby for those interested. The group aims to be interdisciplinary and welcomes people from outside the University of Melbourne.

The Early Modern Circle meets at 6:15 on the third Monday of the month in the Baillieu Library Ground Floor Tutorial and Committee Rooms.

Programme for 2008      

15 September

Introducing New Postgraduates and Researchers
Forum with Natasha Amendola, Matthew Champion and Nicole Donato

20 October

Charlotte Smith
The Terrible Turk: Images of the Ottomans Following the Siege of Vienna

Julie Davies
Poisonous Vapours: Joseph Glanvill and the Witchcraft Debate in Late Seventeenth-century England

17 November

Dianne Hall
Rape in Early Modern Ireland

Previous Papers for 2008

17 March

Nationalism and National Identities
Discussion led by Peter Sherlock

Recommended reading for this session:
Richard Bosworth, Nationalism (Longman, 2007), ch. 2 'Nationalism before nations, nations before nationalism'
Patrick Geary, The Myth of Nations (Princeton UP, 2002)

21 April

Julie Robarts
Dante Alighieri and Arcangela Tarabotti in Hell: An Intertextual Journey

19 May

Grantley McDonald
Doubt, Irony and Authority: Sebastian Franck's use of Hermes Trismegistus, Cyril of Alexandria, Cornelius Agrippa and Erasmus

16 June

Jenny Smith
Metametaphor: Fools, Mirrors and Lunacy in the Early Sixteenth Century  

18 August

Beyond the Text: Sounds and Images as Historical Sources
Discussion led by Dolly Mackinnon and Jenny Spinks

We hope that people will have a look at these two short pieces of reading in preparation for the discussion:

Alain Corbin, 'The Auditory Markers of the Village' in Michael Bull and Les Back (eds), The Auditory Cultural Reader (Oxford: Berg, 2003), pp. 117-123.

Theodore K. Rabb, 'The Historian and Art: A New Maturity.' [Review of Peter Burke, Eyewitnessing: The Use of Images as Historical Evidence, 2001.] Journal of Interdisciplinary History 33.1 (2002): 87-93.

Photocopies of both readings will be pinned to the door of Charles Zika's office, John Medley East, room 544. You can also access the Rabb review of Burke's book electronically via Supersearch.

Previous Papers for the Early Modern Circle

The programme and abstracts for 2007 are available here.

The programme and abstracts for 2006 are available here.

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