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Trinity College Dublin Centre for Early Modern History
Research Seminar Series

All seminars will take place on Mondays at 4.00pm at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

Michaelmas Term 2025


6 October

Can Women Have a Machiavellian Moment? Gender and Citizenship in Early Modern Republicanism
Jamie Gianoutsos (Mount St Mary’s University, US)


13 October

Medical Epistemologies of Transatlantic Slavery
Hannah Murphy (King’s College London)


20 October

Beefing Up Empire: Irish Provisions in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
David Brown (Trinity College Dublin)


27 October

Reading Week


3 November

Gift Exchange and the Tudor Subjugation of Ireland: Political Messaging through Material Culture
Melissa Shiels (University College Cork)


10 November

New Research in the Centre for Early Modern History (TCD)

Governing and Policing the Danish Oldenburg Empire with Investigative Commissions Across the Atlantic World and Asia, c. 1680–1780
Matthías Ólafsson

Industry, Empire and the Irish-Scottish Kelp Trade, c.1690–1890
Cianna Devitt

Reconciling the Irreconcilable: Patriotism and Loyalism in Ireland, 1756–1801
Henry Swords


17 November

Women Waging Law in Early Modern Ireland: The Chancery Court Pleadings
Daniel Patterson (Trinity College Dublin)


24 November

Migration, Community, and Gender: The Experience of Irish Women in La Rochelle, 1640–1770
Sandrine Tromeur (Maynooth University)

Additional Event
9–10 October
Ireland and the American Revolution Conference: 250th Anniversary Perspectives

Organised by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
Tickets available via Eventbrite.ie

Convenors
Robert Armstrong, Joseph Clarke, Susan Flavin, Graeme Murdock, Jane Ohlmeyer, Micheál Ó Siochrú, Patrick Walsh

Enquiries: murdocg@tcd.ie

Previous Seminars.