Early Modern Circle

Pinturicchio, Libreria Piccolomini, Duomo, Sienna
(Photograph: Andrew Stephenson)

The Early Modern Circle is an interdisciplinary seminar open to interested students, academics and researchers.  The Circle meets on the third Monday of the month, during semester, at 6:15.  Unless noted otherwise, meetings will be conducted in Room 253, Level 2 of the Arts West Building, North Wing.

Convenors

Catherine Kovesi

Jenny Spinks

Matthew Champion

Nat Cutter

Shannon Kuziow

Charlotte-Rose Millar
Enquiries: charlotte.millar@unimelb.edu.au

To be added to the mailing list, please email Andrew Stephenson.

Programme for 2024

18 March

Three Early Career Researchers and their Research Projects: Presentations and Roundtable

Dr Nat Cutter

Merchant Networks in Ottoman Tunis, 1675-1715: Wheat and War

Nat Cutter is the Mary Lugton Postdoctoral Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. His research on early modern British-Maghrebi relations, media history, and digital humanities has appeared in Cultural and Social History, Renaissance Studies and Gender & History, and won the 2021 Hakluyt Society Essay Prize. He is currently completing a monograph on the experiences and influence of English-speaking merchant communities in the Ottoman Maghreb.

Dr Shannon Kuziow

Marian Devotion in Early Modern Rome and Nineteenth-Century Australia

Shannon E. Kuziow is a Teaching Associate in History at the University of Melbourne and recipient of an Early Career Grant. She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Australian Catholic University with forthcoming articles in Renaissance Quarterly and Sixteenth Century Journal. She is completing a monograph on miracle-working images in Renaissance Tuscany.

Dr Charlotte-Rose Millar

Ghosts, Emotions, and Supernatural Space in Early Modern England

Charlotte-Rose Millar is Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne and a recipient of a Melbourne Research Fellowship. Her first book, Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England was published by Routledge in 2017. She is currently working on a new book for Manchester University Press: Haunting Emotions: Space and the Supernatural in post-Reformation England.

15 April

Dr Lana Stephens, Australian Catholic University

Pre-existence in Renaissance Florence: Ficinian Perspectives on the Origins of the Soul

20 May

Dr Leigh Penman, Monash University

Sons of the Indies: The Ambonese Embassy to the United Provinces (1621-1630) in European History and Imaginary

19 August

Professor Ulinka Rublack, University of Cambridge

PUBLIC LECTURE: The Triumph of Fashion: A Global History

16 September

Dr Paige Donaghy, University of Melbourne

False Conceptions, Mooncalves and Moles: Women’s Experiences of False Generation in Early Modern England

21 October

Professors Véronique Duché, Charles Zika, both University of Melbourne and David Garrioch, Monash University

The Legacy and Impact of Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-2023): A Roundtable Discussion

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