Cultures of Knowledge in
Early Modern Europe

An Annual Seminar in the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford

Dates: Trinity Term 2012, Thursdays, 3–5pm

Venue: Colin Matthew Room, Faculty of History

Convenor: Howard Hotson  

Thursday 26 April (Week One)

Alison Wiggins (University of Glasgow)
Editing Bess of Hardwick’s Letters Online
Chaired by Kim McLean-Fiander ¦ Summary ¦ Download MP3 (59.4mb) ¦ Link

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Thursday 3 May (Week Two)

Florike Egmond (Scaliger Institute, Leiden University)
The Webs of Clusius and Gessner: Correspondence, Images, and Collecting in Sixteenth-Century Natural History
Chaired by Anna Marie Roos

Thursday 10 May (Week Three)

Chantal Grell (University of Versailles)
Editing the Correspondence of Johannes Hevelius: Networks, Themes, and Methodological Challenges
Chaired by Philip Beeley

Thursday 17 May (Week Four)

Glenn Roe (University of Oxford)
Text Mining Electronic Enlightenment: Influence and Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters

Thursday 24 May (Week Five)

Nadine Akkerman (Leiden University)
Opening Up the Winter Queen’s Cabinet: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
Chaired by Howard Hotson

Thursday 31 May (Week Six)

Konstantin Dierks (Indiana University)
An Index of Modernity: Narratives of Communications in the Late Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic

Thursday 7 June (Week Seven)

Joe Moshenska (University of Cambridge)
‘An After-Suppers Work’: Sir Kenelm Digby and Varieties of Correspondence in the 1630s
Chaired by Noel Malcolm

Thursday 14 June (Week Eight)

David Galbraith (University of Toronto)
Editing Evelyn Editing Evelyn

Seminars, which are open to all, will be followed by a wine reception. For information about reaching the Faculty of History, which is located in central Oxford within close proximity to the train and bus stations, please see this map. The seminar poster can be downloaded here (pdf). For further information about the series, please Contact Us.

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