Department of French

Early Modern French Research Seminar

Programme 2012/2013

26 October 2012
Jenny Mander (Cambridge): Turkish delight: the confecting of theatrical entertainment for Ottoman guests.
Philip Ford (Cambridge): Du Bellay's notion of nationhood: Constructing the petite patrie.
30 November 2012
David McCallam (University of Sheffield): Metrology: measures of the everyday in Les Liaisons dangereuses.
Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde (Cambridge): Crossing over: suicide and liminal states in seventeenth-century French tragedy.

18 January 2013
Alex Walsham (Faculty of History, Cambridge): Visions, politics and Catholicism in Elizabethan Britain: some French connections.
Jason Scott-Warren (Faculty of English, Cambridge): Surveying France from an Elizabethan shopping-basket.

15 February 2013
Liz Guild (Cambridge): The cannibal comes to Rouen.
Richard Parish (St Catherine's College, Oxford): Hoc est enim corpus meum: questions surrounding the Real Presence in seventeenth-century France.

17 May 2013
Joan DeJean (University of Pennsylvania): Painting the early modern city: Amsterdam, London, and Paris in 17th-century cityscapes.

31 May 2013
Isabelle Moreau (University College, London)
Kate Tunstall (Worcester College, Oxford)
Caroline Warman (Jesus College, Oxford)
Le livre, l'âme et l'asticot: trois images de la matière pensante.

All sessions take place in the Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College, between 5 and 7 pm. All are very welcome to attend.

For further information please contact the organisers, Dr Jenny Mander (Newnham College) jsm15@cam.ac.uk or Dr Nick Hammond ngh20@cam.ac.uk