{"id":3339,"date":"2023-07-18T19:35:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/emsi\/?page_id=3339"},"modified":"2026-05-28T04:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:16:51","slug":"british-history-past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/seminar-series\/british-history\/british-history-past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"British History Past Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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2025-2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 27, 2025<\/strong>
\nKaren Harvey, University of Birmingham
\n“Politics under Cover: Writing a New History of the Eighteenth-Century British Body”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

November 1, 2025<\/strong>
\nMarking Skin in the Early Modern British World
\nEsther Liberman Cuenca, Texas A&M University-Victoria
\n“Painted Bodies on Display in the Early Modern World”
\nCraig Koslofsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
\n“Skin Marked White in the Early Modern World”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

February 7, 2026<\/strong>
\nPhillip Emanuel, Barbara Thom Post-Doctoral Fellow, Huntington Library
\n“The Phippses of Cape Coast Castle: An Afro-English Family living between Fetu and England”
\nHuntington Library
\nCo-sponsored by the EMSI American Origins Seminar.<\/em><\/p>\n

April 11, 2026<\/strong>
\nBrooke Newman, Virginia Commonwealth University
\nThe Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas<\/em>
\nHuntington Library
\nCo-sponsored by the EMSI Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2024-2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 18, 2024<\/strong>
\nTroy Bickham, Texas A&M University
\n“World News and the World According to the News: Information Networks in the British Empire before the Telegraph”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

February 21, 2025<\/strong>
\nSimon Newman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
\n“Taken Not Given: The End of Slavery in Britain”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

March 8, 2025<\/strong>
\nLindsay O’Neill, USC
\nThe Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery<\/em>
\nInterview led by Vanessa Wilkie, The Huntington Library
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

March 25, 2025<\/strong>
\nMary Beth Norton, Cornell University
\n“‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column”
\nHuntington Library
\nCo-sponsored by the EMSI American Origins Seminar<\/em><\/p>\n

April 12, 2025<\/strong>
\nLucy Wooding, University of Oxford
\n“‘Accursed be he that first invented war’: Elizabethan drama and the wars of religion”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

May 3, 2025<\/strong>
\nSusan Amussen, University of California, Merced
\n“Patriarchy as a Social System in Early Modern Britain”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2023-2024<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

October 6, 2023<\/strong>
\nSteve Hindle, Washington University in St. Louis
\n\u201cSocial Reproduction in an Industrializing Village, c. 1680\u20131780\u201d<\/p>\n

November 15, 2023<\/strong>
\nVanessa Wilkie, Huntington Library
\nSpecial Book Event: Women of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England<\/em><\/p>\n

December 2, 2023<\/strong>
\nRachel Weil, Cornell University
\n\u201cThe Murder of Thomas Brown, and other Tales of Prisoners seeking Reform in London\u2019s Fleet Prison\u201d<\/p>\n

January 20, 2024<\/strong>
\nHolly Brewer, University of Maryland
\n\u201cCreating a fashion for slavery in the English court(s)\u201d<\/p>\n

April 6, 2024<\/strong>
\nJames Daybell, Plymouth University
\n\u201cLetters, Emotions and the Experience of Separation in the Early Modern World\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2022-2023<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

October 1, 2022<\/strong>
\nAndy Wood, Durham University
\n“Work and Social Relations in Early Modern England”<\/p>\n

October 22, 2022<\/strong>
\nKevin Dawson, University of California, Merced
\n“Waterscapes and Wet Bodies: Beach Culture in Atlantic Africa and the Diaspora, 1444-1888”<\/p>\n

January 28, 2023<\/strong>
\nAbigail Swingen, Texas Tech University
\n“Taxation, Popular Politics, and the State in Late Stuart England”<\/p>\n

March 4, 2023<\/strong>
\nCatherine Richardson, University of Kent
\n“Material Practices, Varied Locations: The Surprisingly Elaborate Cultures of the Early Modern English Middling Sort”<\/p>\n

May 6, 2023<\/strong>
\nMichelle Brock, Washington & Lee University
\n“‘Much witcherie up and downe our land’: witch-hunting in Covenanted Scotland”
\n
\n2021-2022<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 5, 2022<\/b>
\n<\/b>Karin Amundsen, Huntington Fellow<\/span>
\n<\/span> “From Brass I Will Bring Gold: Metals, Mad Exchanges, and the Dissolution of the Virginia Company”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 26, 2022<\/b>
\n<\/b>Deborah Valenze, Barnard College<\/span>
\n<\/span> “Malthus and the Noble Savage: Categories of Human Difference and Population History.”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 19, 2022<\/b>
\n<\/b>Paul D. Halliday, University of Virginia<\/span>
\n<\/span> \u201cMixing Media, Enclosing Spaces: Law\u2019s Containers, in England and Empire.”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RESCHEDULED<\/b>
\n<\/b>Catherine Richardson, University of Kent<\/span><\/p>\n

2020-2021<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 31, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/b>Jonathan Eacott, University of California Riverside<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Elephant and Castle:Pachyderm Politics in Early Modern England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, December 5, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/b>Amy Watson, University of Alabama<\/span>
\n<\/span>“A Patriot Colony: Party Politics in the Origins of Georgia, 1729-1743”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 27, 2021<\/b>
\n<\/b>Chris Kyle, Syracuse University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Visible State: Proclamations in Early Modern England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 10, 2021<\/b>
\n<\/b>James Davey, University of Exeter<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cA Tale of Two Sailors: Loyalism and Sedition in Britain\u2019s Age of Revolution\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

Canceled<\/b>
\n<\/b>Catherine Richardson, University of Kent, Mary Robertson Fellow at the Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2019-2020<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 28, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/b>Nicholas Popper, College of William and Mary<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cThe Specter of the State: Archives and Political Practice in Early Modern Britain\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 26, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/b>Amy Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore County<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Eighteenth-Century England\u2019s Charitable Corporation: A Cautionary Tale of Microlending, Financial Fraud, and Government Bailouts”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 18, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/b>Diarmaid MacCulloch, University of Oxford<\/span>
\n<\/span>Mary Robertson Fellow in Tudor History at the Huntington Library<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Matters Overlooked: Straightening Out the Story of the English Reformation”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 22, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/b>Andrea McKenzie, University of Victoria<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cSecret Writing and the Popish Plot: Deciphering the Shorthand of Sir George Treby and Bishop William Lloyd, c.1678-1688\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 14, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/b>Chris Kyle, Syracuse University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Visible State: Proclamations in Early Modern England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Canceled (COVID)<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 4, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/b>Amy Watson, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>“A Patriot Colony: Party Politics in the Origins of Georgia, 1729-43”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Canceled (COVID)<\/span><\/p>\n

2018-2019<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 22, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/b>Naomi Tadmor, Lancaster University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The settlement of the poor and the fiscal-military state c. 1660-1780\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 20, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/b>Vanessa Wilkie, Huntington Library<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Reading Images: The Heraldic and Emblematic Manuscript Culture of Early Modern England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 10, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/b>Kevin Siena, Trent University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Plague, Memory, and the Plebeian Body in the Long 18th Century”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, December 1, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/b>Steven Pincus, University of Chicago<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Thinking the Empire Whole: An Agenda for the History of the British Empire to 1784”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 26, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/b>Diarmaid MacCulloch, University of Oxford<\/span>
\n<\/span>EVENT CANCELED<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 23, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/b>Will Cavert, University of St. Thomas<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Great Hedgehog Massacre: Vermin Bounties and the State in Early Modern England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 30, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/b>Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cHow The Parker Society Got Its Name: the invention of \u2018Anglicanism\u2019 in 19th c. Britain\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2017-2018<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 21, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/b>Susannah Ottaway, Carleton College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“A ‘Failure Ludicrous in Its Completeness’? Putting the Right Spin on the Workhouse”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 11, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/b>Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Problem with Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 27, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/b>Leah Astbury, University of Cambridge<\/span>
\n<\/span>“‘Multiplying in the World’: Fertility and the Early Modern English Home”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 17, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/b>James Delbourgo, Rutgers University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Origins of Public Museums: Hans Sloane’s Collections and Creation of the British Museum”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 21, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/b>Markku Peltonen, University of Helsinki<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Republican Moment of the English Revolution”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, June 2, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/b>Alexandra Walsham, University of Cambridge<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Blood and Trees: Ancestry and Genealogy in England’s Long Reformation”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2016-2017<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 1, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/b>Margo Todd, University of Pennsylvania<\/span>
\n<\/span>“\u2018Ane holpe to Chrystis puir\u2019: Relieving the Destitute in an Early Modern Scottish Town”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 29, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/b>Ted McCormick, Concordia University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Multitudes before Population: Demographic Thinking in Tudor England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, December 10, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/b>Philip J. Stern, Duke University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Empire, Incorporated: Companies, Colonialism, and the Early Modernity of the Modern British World”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 18, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/b>Keith D. Pluymers, Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in the Humanities, Caltech<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Constructing Scarcity: The Political Ecology of Wood in Early Modern Ireland”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 11, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/b>Greg Walker, University of Edinburgh<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Complaining about the We[a]ther: John Heywood, Thomas More, and Henry VIII’s Reformation Parliament”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 1, 2017<\/b>
\n<\/b>Tawny Paul, Exeter University<\/span>
\n<\/b>“Accounting for Failure: The Debtor’s Prison and the Decayed Tradesman in Eighteenth-Century Britain”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2015-2016<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 26, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/b>Alex Shepard, University of Glasgow<\/span>
\n<\/b>“Minding their own Business: Married Women and Credit in Early Eighteenth-Century London”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, October 2, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/b>Mesrob Vartavarian, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/b>“Reorienting Global History: Lecture in Memoriam Sir Christopher A. Bayly”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 31, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/b>Felicity Heal, University of Oxford<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Only Anglican in Essex? Richard Stonley\u2013Embezzlement and Belief in Elizabethan England?”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 16, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/b>Katherine Grandjean, Wellesley College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Paper Pilgrims: Letter Writing and Communication in the Early Modern British World”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Lindsay O’Neill, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Paper Pilgrims: Letter Writing and Communication in the Early Modern British World”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 26, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/b>Norman Jones, Utah State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Unraveling Lord Burghley’s Religion”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 9, 2016<\/b>
\n<\/b>Amanda Herbert, Christopher Newport University<\/span>
\n<\/b>“In Quest After Health: Spa Cures in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2014-2015<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 13, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>Susan Brigden, University of Oxford<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cReading Romance at the Court of Henry VIII\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 25, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>Tim Harris, Brown University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cWas there such a thing as \u2018British public opinion\u2019 in the 17th Century?\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 22, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cPentecost Barker and the Path to Enlightenment\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, December 15, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>Steve Pincus, Yale University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Stamp Act in Global Context”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 7, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/b>Sears McGee, University of California, Santa Barbara<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Merry Wives of D’Ewes: Sex and Two Single Puritan Girls in Early Stuart England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 21, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/b>Brent Sirota, North Carolina State University<\/span>
\n<\/b>\u201cRobert Nelson’s Festivals and Fasts and the Problem of Sacrilege in Eighteenth Century England\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 11, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/b>Amanda Vickery, Queen Mary, University of London<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cSartorial Conformity & the Moral Politics of Fashion in 18th century England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2013-2014<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 7, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>Isaac Stephens, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Playing the Martyr and Martyrologist: Thomas Swadlin in Stuart London”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

October 26, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>David Cressy, Ohio State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Trouble with Gypsies in Tudor England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday-Saturday, February 14-15, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>Program in Tudor History in Honor of Mary Robertson<\/span>
\n<\/span>Steven Gunn, Merton College, Oxford<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Work, Leisure, and Accidental Death in Tudor England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Neil Younger, University of Essex<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Confessional State and the Political Nation in Elizabethan England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Alison Wiggins, University of Glasgow<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Bess of Hardwick’s Letters From Script to Screen (Or, the opportunities and implications of editing women’s letters online)”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

April 12, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/b>Rupali Mishra, Auburn University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Corporate Espionage: The East Indies Ambitions of Charles I”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2012-2013<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 8, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Krista Kesselring, Dalhousie University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“‘That Saucie Paradox’: The Politics of Duelling in Early Modern England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

October 27, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Derek Hirst, Washington University, St. Louis<\/span>
\n<\/b>“Imperial instincts in later seventeenth century England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 17, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Eleanor Hubbard, Princeton University
\n“Staging Conflict: Sailors, Pirates, and Merchants in the Early Seventeenth Century”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

February 23, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>Jennifer Andersen, Cal State San Bernardino<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Red Herrings in Nashe Criticism: Patronage, Copia, and Generic Play”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 6, 2013<\/b>
\n<\/b>Christopher Brooks, University of Durham<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Through the looking glass: law and revolution in England 1640-1660”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2011-2012<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 24, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Steve Hindle, Huntington Library<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Work, Reward and Labor Discipline in late Seventeenth Century England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 29, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Karen Britland, University of Wisconsin<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Elizabeth Cary, family networks, and the publication of The Tragedy of Mariam<\/em>“<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, December 10, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Heather James, USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Bison Hamlet”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, January 14, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Ian Archer, Oxford<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Networks of Charity in Elizabethan England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 11, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Barbara Donagan, Huntington Library<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Kin, friends, and others: civil war and the social commonwealth”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 7, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Noah Millstone, Harvard<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Manuscript Circulation and Parliament: Rethinking the Political Texts of the Early Stuart Era”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2010-2011<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 25, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Eric Carlson, Gustavus Adolphus College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Seven Deadly Sins in the English Post-Reformation”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, October 16, 2010<\/b>
\n<\/b>Laura Gowing, King’s College, University of London<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Manner of Submission: Gender, Gesture and Demeanour in Early Modern London”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 19, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Chris Kyle, Syracuse University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Let’s kill all the lawyers: Parliamentary Management and the Fall of Lord Chancellor Bacon”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 12, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Linda Levy Peck, George Washington University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Three Sisters: Marriage, Money, Mobility, and Agency in Late Seventeenth-Century England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 16, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Debora Shuger, University of California, Los Angeles<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The girls of Little Gidding: a forgotten masterpiece of radical feminism”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, May 14, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Michael Questier, Queen Mary, University of London<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2009-2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 12, 2009<\/strong>
\nPaul Hammer, University of Colorado
\n“The Popish Plot of 1601 (by ‘the darling of the puritans’)”<\/p>\n

Saturday, October 31, 2009<\/strong>
\nOne Day Symposium: “1688”
\nOrganizer: Steven Pincus, Yale University
\nPanelists:
\nRobert Brenner, UCLA
\nJohn Brewer, Caltech
\nDavid Como, Stanford University
\nRachel Weil, Cornell University
\nJohn Wills, USC<\/span><\/p>\n

Songs from the 1689 London Popery Collection
\nJeanne McDougall, USC and Adam Knight Gilbert, USC<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 16, 2010<\/strong>
\nLindsay O’Neill, USC
\n“Speaking Letters, Stirring News and the Wider British World, 1660-1760”<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 13, 2010<\/strong>
\nSusan Amussen, University of California, Merced
\n“Restoring Miranda: Gender and the Early Modern Atlantic World”<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 6, 2010<\/strong>
\nAlistair Bellany, Rutgers University
\n“Adonis, Ganymede and the Duke of Fuckingham: Art, Sex and Libel in the 1620s”<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, May 22, 2010<\/strong>
\nCyndia Clegg, Pepperdine University
\n“Star Chamber Secrets”<\/p>\n

2008-2009<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 13, 2008<\/strong>
\nRebecca Lemon, USC<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 8, 2008<\/strong>
\nKeith Wrightson, Yale University<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 10, 2009<\/strong>
\nShannon McSheffrey, Concordia University<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 21, 2009<\/strong>
\nPaul Hammer, University of Colorado<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 7, 2009<\/strong>
\nJulia Merritt, University of Nottingham<\/p>\n

Saturday, May 9, 2009<\/strong>
\nAmy Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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Saturday, September 15, 2007<\/strong>
\nAnn Hughes, University of Keele<\/p>\n

Saturday, October 27, 2007<\/strong>
\nBarbara Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 26, 2008<\/strong>
\nJoseph Block, Cal Poly Pomona<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 23, 2008<\/strong>
\nFrances Dolan, University of California, Davis<\/p>\n

Saturday, April 19, 2008<\/strong>
\nEric Carlson, Gustavus Adolphus<\/p>\n

Saturday, May 10, 2008<\/strong>
\nPolly Ha, Cambridge\/USC<\/p>\n

2006-2007<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 16, 2006<\/strong>
\nPeter Lake, Vanderbilt University<\/p>\n

November 4, 2006<\/strong>
\nStefania Tutino, University of California, Santa Barbara<\/p>\n

January 20, 2007<\/strong>
\nAnthony Parr, University of the Western Cape<\/p>\n

February 10, 2007<\/strong>
\nAlexandra Walsham, University of Exeter<\/p>\n

April 21, 2007<\/strong>
\nCynthia Herrup, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

May 5, 2007<\/strong>
\nDavid Armitage, Harvard University<\/p>\n

2005-2006<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, September 10, 2005\u00a0<\/strong>
\n“Cultures of War in Early Modern Britain: A Conference Honoring Barbara Donagan”
\nJason Peacey, Institute for Historical Research
\nDavid Cressy, Ohio State University
\nPaul Hammer, University of St. Andrews
\nIan Gentles, York University
\nMark Kishlansky, Harvard University<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 19, 2005<\/strong>
\nDavid Como, Stanford University<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 21, 2006<\/strong>
\nPaul Seaver, Stanford University<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 18, 2006<\/strong>
\nDeborah Harkness, USC<\/p>\n

Saturday, April 29, 2006<\/strong>
\nKenneth Fincham, University of Kent, Canterbury<\/p>\n

Saturday, May 20, 2006<\/strong>
\nThomas Cogswell, University of California, Riverside<\/p>\n

2003-2004<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 20, 2003<\/strong>
\nPaulina Kewes, Jesus College, Oxford
\n“History and Civic Pageantry in Renaissance England”<\/p>\n

October 18, 2003<\/strong>
\nDavid Cressy, The Ohio State University
\n“The Lambeth Disturbances, or the Insurrection of May 1640”<\/p>\n

November 15, 2003<\/strong>
\nJean Howard, Columbia University
\n“Staging Commercial London at the Royal Exchange: Drama and Society in Elizabethan and Jacobean London”<\/p>\n

November 15, 2003<\/strong>
\nSears McGee, University of California, Santa Barbara
\n“Sir Simonds D’Ewes and ‘The Poitovin Cholick’: Persecution, Toleration, and the Mind of a Puritan Member of the Long Parliament”<\/p>\n

January 17, 2004<\/strong>
\nAnita Guerrini, University of California, Santa Barbara<\/p>\n

February 14, 2004<\/strong>
\nKeith Wrightson, Yale University<\/p>\n

March 6, 2004<\/strong>
\nDavid Hall, Harvard University
\n“The Past and Future of Puritan Studies”<\/p>\n

April 17, 2004<\/strong>
\nAnn Hughes, University of Keele<\/p>\n

May 15, 2004<\/strong>
\nSteven Pincus, University of Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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