Graduate Studies

Professor Miri Rubin
(Department of History, Queen Mary - University of London)
'Medieval History - the Renaissance - and the Global'
Miri Rubin will share some of her experiences as a medieval historian working on a cultural history of the Virgin Mary. The work has involved crossing of boundaries - discplines (which is to be expected), period demarcations (which is challenging), and oceans (which is exciting). She hopes to share ideas about practice, present some ideas about the Virgin Mary, and benefit from discussion and comments.
Venue: Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College
Time: 2 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.

Professor Arpad Szakolczai
(University College, Cork)
'Renaissance Grace and the Trickster: Verrochio, Leonardo, and the Pollaioulo brothers'
poster
Venue: Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College
Time: 5 p.m. (followed by a drinks reception)

Dr Neil Kenny
(Reader at the Department of French, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge)
'Tenses for death: examples from sixteenth-century French writing'
poster
Venue: Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College
Time: 2 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.

Graduate Development Session
- Raphaele Fruet
(Department of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge and Trinity College)
Stairways to what Heavens? Problematic uses of analogy in two cosmological representations in vernacular French: la troisième journée of the Académie Franoise of Pierre de La Primaudaye (1596), and Pour parler de la Nature des cieux in Essays des Merveilles de nature et des plus nobles artifices, of Etienne Binet (1632)
- Dunstan Roberts
Faculty of English, University of Cambridge and Trinity Hall
In Search of the Reformation Reader: Used Books and the Limits of Historiography.
Venue: Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College
Time: 2 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.

Dr James Helgeson
Dr James Helgeson teaches at the University of Nottingham; he was formerly an Associate Professor at Columbia University in New York, and an Assistant Lecturer at Cambridge. He specializes in early-modern French literature and history of ideas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Mendax Speculum: Writing and the First Person Stance in Early Modern France and the Low Countries
poster
Venue: Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College
Time: 2 p.m. - 2.45 p.m.