Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies
an interdisciplinary research centre at The University of Sheffield
SCEMS Autumn Semester 2021 We are delighted to be hosting a selection of events this semester both in person and online, including lectures, seminars, and masterclasses. See below for our upcoming events: Thursday 7th October, 17:15– Maxine Berg (Warwick) Lecture: ‘Slavery, Continue reading SCEMS Autumn Schedule 2021
In November Alex Shepard, Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow, came to Sheffield to share her thoughts on her new project, on childcare, family and economy in early modern Britain. This project is in its infancy, but Continue reading Alex Shepard, ‘Childcare, family and economy in early modern Britain’
For our first visiting speaker of 2016–17, SCEMS was privileged to welcome Professor Markku Peltonen from the University of Helsinki, who (thanks to the generosity of the Humanities Research Institute) spent a week in Sheffield earlier this month. Best known Continue reading How Markku Peltonen revisited England’s Revolution
The programme for the 2015–2016 Visiting Speaker Series includes scholar and vocalist, Richard Wistreich (Royal College of Music), linguist and historian, Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster University), eminent historian Robert Tittler (Concordia University) and scholar of renaissance rhetoric, Lorna Hutson (St Continue reading Visiting Speaker Series: 2015–2016