Seminar on Low Countries History, 2018-19 session
Convenors: Liesbeth Corens (Queen Mary), Anne Goldgar (King’s College London), Ben Kaplan (UCL), Ulrich Tiedau (UCL), Joanna Woodall (Courtauld)
Meetings: Fridays at 5:15 pm at the Institute for Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. All meetings except 28 September will be held in Wolfson Room I, in the basement.
Autumn Term
28 September Gary Waite (New Brunswick), ‘Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse: From Religious Enemies to Allies and Friends’ -- to be held in Seminar Room N304, on third floor of IHR.
19 October Jonas Roelens (Ghent), ‘Citizens & Sodomites. Perception and Persecution of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700)’
2 November Esther van Raamsdonk (Exeter), ‘Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Imagology’
30 November Janet Dickinson (Oxford), ‘Drowned books and their histories: making sense of the remarkable cargo of a seventeenth-century shipwreck discovered off the Texel islands’
Spring Term
25 January David Trim (Silver Spring), ‘The Sea Beggars and their Huguenot and English allies: Transnational Calvinist maritime cooperation, 1568-1577’
8 February Matthew Champion (Birkbeck), ‘Chronological Devotions in the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries’
22 February Suze Zijlstra (Leiden), ‘Anglo-Dutch Americas: migration and labor in New Netherland and Suriname’
8 March Marisa Bass (Yale), ‘Monuments and the Making of History in the Dutch Republic’
Summer Term
3 May Sietske Fransen (Cambridge), ‘Antoni van Leeuwenhoek: microscopist and draughtsman’
17 May Matthew Laube (Cambridge), ‘The Acoustics of Violence in the Dutch Revolt’
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