Early Modern Exchanges Seminar

The UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges runs a term-time seminar series with invited and UCL speakers.

The centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, historical, economic and social exchanges between England and Europe, European countries, the Old World and the New in the period 1450-1800. 

8 December 2010: Renaissance Virtues: Privation and Manipulation

• Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary), Machiavelli and the Manipulation of Virtue
• Angus Gowland (UCL, History), European Melancholy
• Jeremy Robbins (Edinburgh), The Place of Virtue in Baltasar Gracián's Aphorism

15 December 2010: The History of the Book

• William Sherman (York, English), Mapping the World of Knowledge: Hernando Colon and the Biblioteca Colombina
• Henry Woudhuysen (UCL, English), Continental Books in late 16th and 17th century England: Gabriel Harvey and Ben Jonson

All seminars take place at 4.30pm in Foster Court 243.

For further information, see here.

The Centre also organises a launch conference for September 2011, for which it invites proposals. For further information, click here.