Category Archives: Seminar Series

2014 NEH Summer Seminar: “Tudor Books and Readers” 23 June – 26 July 2014 John N. King of The Ohio State University and Mark Rankin of James Madison University will direct a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on the construction and dissemination of books and the nature of […]

The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 12 October 2013 in the Senate Room (1st floor, Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. Speaker: Philipp Nothaft (Warburg Institute): ‘Early Human History and the Uses of Diodorus in Renaissance Scholarship’   The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) […]

Seminar Series: Education in the Long Eighteenth Century Institute of Historical Research, London Saturdays, 2.00-4.00 pm.   12 October 2013 (The Court Room): Sarah Faulkner (Edinburgh): ‘Suitors as Tutors in Frances Burney and Jane Austen’. 9 November 2013 (Room 349): Sophie Bankes (Open University), ‘The Confessions of J. Lackington, Late Bookseller (1804): A Pattern for Education […]

EMPHASIS 2013-2014  The purpose of EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) is to provide a London forum for scholars working in the history of philosophy, intellectual history and the history of science of Europe in the period 1400-1650. The term ‘philosophy’ is interpreted in its fullest Renaissance sense, and includes such themes as: […]