IHR seminars > Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800
Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800
Convenors: Surekha Davies (Birkbeck College, London; s.davies@bbk.ac.uk), Laura Gowing (King's College London; laura.gowing@kcl.ac.uk), Kate Hodgkin (University of East London; K.Hodgkin@uel.ac.uk), Michael Hunter (Birkbeck College, London; m.hunter@bbk.ac.uk) and Adam Sutcliffe (King's College, London; adam.sutcliffe@kcl.ac.uk).
Venue: Ecclesiastical History Room, IHR
Time: Thursday, 5.30pm
The programme for the academic year 2009-10 concludes our series on The Senses, with the theme: Sound and Hearing.
Venue: Ecclesiastical History Room, IHR
Time: Thursday, 5.30pm
The programme for the academic year 2009-10 concludes our series on The Senses, with the theme: Sound and Hearing.
| 21 January | Dr Michael Fleming (University of Huddersfield) 'Old English viols': what they were and where they went |
| 4 February | Dr Penelope Gouk (University of Manchester) Theories of hearing in the Enlightenment: some English examples |
| 18 February | Katherine Hunt (London Consortium) From 'allowed ceremonie' to 'enchanting melody': the changing sound of church bells in the English Reformation |
| 4 March | Stefan Putigny (KCL) 'Sounding British': Song culture and British nationhood, 1718-63 Please note: this session will take place in the Pollard Room, 1st Floor, right, right again straight to the end of the corridor |
| 18 March | Dr Caroline Warman (Jesus College, Oxford) 'Ouie difficile a expliquer': Diderot and the difficulty of explaining hearing from the 'Lettre sur les sourds et muets' (1751) to the 'Elements de physiologie' (c.1780) |