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European History 1500-1800

Convenors: Philip Broadhead (Goldsmiths), Peter Campbell (Sussex), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), Joel Felix (Reading), John Henderson (Birkbeck)Julian Swann (Birkbeck)

Venue: Low Countries Room, IHR

Time: Monday, 5.00pm

Building on last year's success we are again placing a special emphasis on comparing roughly every other session, in order to encourage greater discussion from a wider audience.
Spring Term 2010
18 January Professor Mark Greengrass (Sheffield)
Massacres and Elites: Antoine Caron's Massacres of the Triumvirate
1 February Dr Mark Steele
Dr Johnson and Paolo Sarpi
15 February Dr Valerie Mainz (Leeds)
Gloire and the imagery of military sign-up in France before the Revolution
1 March Professor Robert Frost (Aberdeen)
The Ethiopian and the Elephant: Queen Louise Marie Gonzaga and Queenship in an Elective Monarchy, 1645-1667
15 March James Arnold (Birkbeck)
Serious fun: The politics of amusement in post-Revolutionary Paris

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Summer Term 2010
19 April Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg
Englishness, Europeanness, and travel to the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
17 May Dr Paul Stock (LSE)
Almost a Separate Race: Race Theory and the Idea of Europe, 1771-1830
14 June Professor Lisa Jane Graham (Haverford College)
(Provisional title) Debauchery in eighteenth-century France

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