Trinity College Dublin Centre for Early Modern History
Previous Seminars
Michaelmas Term 2023 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |