The EMRC / South, West and Wales DTP seminars in early modern studies continue for 2021/ 22.
We meet at 1pm on Mondays by Zoom. If you would like the link to any (or all) of our meetings, please email emrc@reading.ac.uk.
This terms schedule:
Monday 11 October
Dr Eilish Gregory (RHS), ‘Petitioning during the English Revolution, 1642-1660: the Catholic experience of the sequestration and compounding process’
Monday 25 October
Dr. Alun Withey (Exeter), ‘Do Beards matter?’ Facial hair, health and medicine in Britain’.
Monday 8 November
Dr. Clodagh Tait (University College Dublin), ‘How to mess with the kids from beyond the grave: cursing, swearing and blessing in early modern Ireland’.
Monday 22 November
Dr Elaine Murphy (Plymouth), ‘ “A watery bowdy-house”: Thinking about women and the Stuart navy’.
Monday 6 December
Dr Polina Ignatova (Lancaster), ‘ “Scratching, as if by something that had iron talons”: the soundscape of ghosts in the early modern imagination’.
All welcome.