Seminars

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar Programme

Seminars will take place at 5.15pm in the Old Class Library, St John’s House, South Street unless indicated otherwise.

2025-2026

Semester 2

Thursday 5 Feb

Christophe Gillain (St Andrews), ‘Troubling the Kingdom Across Land and Sea: Exile and Revolt in Seventeenth-Century France’. [email protected]

Thursday 19 Feb

Sara Rindlisbacher (Bern), ‘Godly Agents. Swiss Reformed Clergymen and their Influence on Foreign Relations with England in the 1650s’. [email protected]

Thursday 12 March

Sukwoo Choi (St Andrews), ‘Calvin’s long print afterlife in Protestant England’. [email protected]>

Thursday 26 March

Helen Williams (Northumbria), ‘Towards a Global Women’s Book History, 1600-1900’,  [email protected]

Thursday 16 April

Joel Harrington (Vanderbilt), ‘The Marketing of Hans Staden’s True History: Cannibals, Cannibals, Cannibals’ [email protected]

Thursday 30 April

Alisa van de Haar (Leiden) ‘Netherlandish Migrants in the Language Sector of Early Modern England’. [email protected]

Semester 1

Thursday 18 September

Giovanni Petrocelli (St Andrews), ‘The University of Padua and the reluctant adoption of print’. [email protected]

Thursday 2 October

Mhairi Winfield (St Andrews) ‘Deleterious Duodecimo Pills’ and their Providers: Scottish Circulating Libraries (1720-1883)

Thursday 16 October

Adyan Sharda (St Andrews), ‘The Popularity of English Roman Catholic Writers in Early Modern Europe’

Thursday 6 Nov

Suzanna Ivanic (Kent), ‘An Ecology of Values: The Spiritual, Aesthetic and Economic in the Stones of Sacred Bohemia, c.1600.’  [email protected]

Thursday 20 Nov

Sara Beam (Victoria, British Columbia, Cameron Faculty Fellow), ‘Torture, Moral Reform and Witches in Reformation Geneva’  [email protected]

Thursday 4 Dec

Saba Alkuwari (St Andrews), ‘Wittenberg University, Philipp Melanchthon, and the making of the third best-selling author in the sixteenth century’