AUTUMN QUARTER:
MONDAY October 5th, 2015
Elisa Jones
University of Chicago
“Monarchy, Religion, and the Politics of Liberté de Conscience in Mid-Sixteenth Century France”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
MONDAY October 19th, 2015
Maura J. Capps
University of Chicago
“All Flesh is Grass: A Political Ecology of Agrarian Improvement in Britain’s Settler Empire, 1760-1846.”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
MONDAY November 2nd, 2015
Ahmet Tunç Şen
University of Chicago
“Where Astrology Meets Architecture in Suleyman’s Istanbul: The Foundation Horoscope for the Suleymaniye Complex”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
MONDAY November 16th, 2015
Mara Caden
Yale University
“‘A dangerous and dishonourable thing’: Overseas Mints and the Rise of Technocratic Expertise in the British Empire, 1650-1700”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
MONDAY November 30th, 2015
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney
University of Chicago
“Immanent Vitalism, Alchemical Cornucopianism, and Hartlib Circle Projects, 1630-1665”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
Winter Quarter Schedule 2016
MONDAY January 25th, 2016
Lisa Scott
PhD Candidate, History
University of Chicago
“Governing Without a King: The Efforts of the Bohemian Assembly in the Post-Luxembourg Interregnum.”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
(co-sponsored with Central Europe workshop)
MONDAY February 8th, 2016
Lindsey Martin, PhD (Stanford University)
Mellon Career Development Officer, Department of History,
University of Chicago
“The Problem with Pokrovskoe: Policing and Competing Conceptions of Urban Order in Eighteenth-Century Moscow.”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
MONDAY February 15th, 2016
Steve Pincus
Bradford Durfee Professor of History
Yale University
“Patriot Fever: Georgia and the Ideological Origins of the War of Jenkins Ear”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
(co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture)
MONDAY February 22nd, 2016
Basil Salem
PhD Candidate, History
University of Chicago
“Group Sentiment Among Arabic-Speaking Scholars of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
MONDAY March 7th, 2016
Ralph Austen
Professor Emeritus of African History
University of Chicago
“Monsters of Early Modern Colonialism: The East India Companies and Slave Plantations as Primitive Accumulation or Hyper-Capitalism.”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 319
Spring Quarter Schedule 2016
MONDAY April 4th, 2016
Kat Lecky
Assistant Professor of English, Bucknell University
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Newberry
“Pocket Empire: Portable Maps and Public Poetry, 1590-1649.”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 222
MONDAY April 18th, 2016
Hannah Marcus
PhD Candidate, History
Stanford University
“Censored Objects: Expurgating Medical Books in Counter-Reformation Italy.”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 222
MONDAY May 2nd, 2016
Jakub Wysmulek
Visiting Scholar, History
Loyola University Chicago
“Identities, Communities, and Emotions in Early Modern Lviv – Research Project.”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 222
MONDAY May 16th, 2016
Carlos Grenier
PhD Candidate, History
University of Chicago
“Marvels and the Microcosm: Touring the Natural World in Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Turkish Writing.”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 222
TUESDAY May 31, 2016* (odd date due to Memorial Day)
N. İpek Hüner-Cora
PhD Candidate, NELC
University of Chicago
“The Infidel” in Fiction: A Case Study.”
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Pick 222