Talks since 2003

December 2017
- John Money (Emeritus, History)
  "John Cannon and the Great Reforging"
November 2017
- Margaret Cameron (Philosophy) and James Young (Philosophy)
  "Abbé du Bos: Sensational Aesthetics"
October 2017
- Edward Pechter (Emeritus, English, Concordia University)
  "Against Attribution"
April 2017
- Ali McDonald (MA student, UVic, History of Art)
  "Idle Talk: Portraiture, Visual Culture and Politics in Eighteenth-Century England"
March 2017
- Thomas Heyd (Philosophy)
  "Pilgrimage journeying in Bashō and Alexander von Humboldt"
February 2017
- Catherine Bates (University of Warwick, English)
  "Shakespeare and the Female Voice in Soliloquy"
January 2017
- Jill Walshaw (History)
  "Power, Prestige and Prosecution: Unravelling the Riddle of Jurisdiction in 18th-century French Counterfeiting Cases"
November 2016
- Sara Beam (History)
  "Violence and Justice in Europe: Punishment, Torture and Execution"
October 2016
- Greg Blue (Emeritus-History)
  "China, a Model for Europe? Physiocratic Political Economy and Its Critics"
March 2016
- Pablo Restrepo-Gautier (Hispanic and Italian)
  "Judging her husband: exploring gender and justice in /La dama corregidor/[/The Lady is Judge/] (1658)"
January 2016
- Andrea McKenzie (History)
  "His Barbarous Usages", Her "Evil Tongue": Spouse Murder, Character and Legal Defenses at the Old Bailey, 1674-1790"
October 2015
- Catherine Harding (Art History and Visual Studies)
  "Faith Space and Place: Constructing a Sacred Environment for Christ's Blood at Orvieto Cathedral, 1264-1731."
March 2015
- Brian Pollick (Art History and Visual Studies, Ph.D.candate)
  "Introduction to Hell to Pay: Money, Merchants, and the Visualization of Morality in Trecento Italy."
February 2015
- Kim McLean Fiander (English, Postdoctoral fellow)
  "Liminal Lives: Paratext in Lanyer, Cary and Speght."
January 2015
- Edward Pechter (English, Concordia University, Emeritus)
  "Othello in its own Time."
November 2014
- Simon Devereaux (History)
  "Execution and Pardon at the Old Bailey, 1730-1837: A Core Analysis."
February 2014
- Edward Pechter (Emeritus, Department of English, Concordia University)
  "Shakespearean Tragedy: The Romantic Inheritance"
January 2014
- Jeremy Caradonna (Department of History, University of Alberta)
  "Deconstructing Enlightenment - versus - Counter Enlightenment: Or, One Means of Rethinking a Troublesome Binary”
November 2013
- Dr. Peter Cook (History)
  "‘A King in Every Countrey’: French and English Encounters with Indigenous Leaders in Sixteenth-Century America”
October 2013
- Dr. Sara Beam (History)
  "Calvinist 'Comedie' and Conversion during the French Reformation: La comedie du Pape malade (1561) and La comedie du Monda malade et mal pense (1568)"
March 2013
- Desmond Cheung (post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History)
  "Smash and Spit! Cultural Destruction at Urban Sites in Early Modern China"
February 2013
- Dr. Thomas Heyd (Philosophy)
  "Do we consider the function of useful objects when we judge them to be beautiful? Two ways of reading Kant on 'adherent beauty"
January 2013
- Frances Timbers (post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History)
  "'The staine of my offence': Gender, Race, and Gypsies in Seventeenth-century England."
October 2012
- Laura Estill (postdoc in the department of English and in Digital Humanities)
  "Early modern excerpting of dramatic texts"
September 2012
- Gordon Fulton (Department of English)
  Garrison Mentality in Eighteenth-Century Literature
February 2012
- Peter Cook (History)
  An Alliance of Brothers: Algonquins, Innu, Wendat and the French in the St. Lawrence Valley, 1603-33
January 2012
- Erin Campbell (History in Art)
  Order in the House: Domesticity and the Social Agency of Objects in the Early Modern Home
December 2011
- Mitchell Lewis Hammond (History)
  Medical Discourse and Social Renewal in Sixteenth-Century Germany
October 2011
- Terry Sherwood (Department of English, Emeritus) ‘The second English Satyrist,’ the Bishops’ Ban, and the Satirist as Beadle
September 2011
- Sandra Friesen (Department of English, Ph.D. candidate) Restoration Satire and the Many Manuscript Contexts of 'Signior Dildo'
April 2011
- Dr. Jill Walshaw (Department of History)
  From 'Émotion populaire' to Seditious Words: Peasants Voice Protest in the Ancien Régime
March 2011
- Dr. Beatriz de Alba Koch (Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies)
  The Colloquy of the New Conversion and Baptism of the Last Four Kings of Tlaxcala: Rewriting the Conquest in Seventeenth-Century New Spain
January 2011
- Dr. Eva Baboula (Department of History in Art)
  Dr. Marcus Milwright (Department of History in Art)
  Bayezid's Cage: A Re-examination of a Venerable Academic Controversy
November 2010
- Dr. Richard Sher (Department of History, New Jersey Institute of Technology)
  William Buchan's Domestic Medicine: A Scottish Enlightenment Best-Seller
October 2010
- Jude Goertzen (Department of History, Ph.D. candidate)
  'To Hang or Wed?': Shift Weddings in Early Modern England
September 2010
- Dr. Hélène Cazes (Department of French)
  Humanists among friends? The Case Study of Bonaventura Vulcanius'Album Amicorum, 1575-1614
February 2010
- Dr. Sara Beam (Department of History)
  Torturous Rites in Early Modern Geneva
November 2009
- Dr. Gary Kuchar (Department of English)
  Prayer Terminable and Interminable: George Herbert's Perseverance
October 2009
- Dr. Paul Wood (Department of History)
  A Virtuoso Reader: Thomas Reid and the Practices of Reading in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
September 2009
- Dr. Andrea McKenzie (Department of History)
  'God's Hat and the Highwayman's Shoes': The Gestural and Sartorial Language of Trial and Execution in Early Modern England
March 2009
- Dr. John Money (Department of History, Emeritus)
  John Cannon and the Sin of Onan
January 2009
- Dr. Nancy Frelick (Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia)
  Medusas and Basilisks: Ambivalent Mirrors of Desire
November 2008
- Dr. Erin Campbell (Department of History in Art)
  Prophets, Saints, and Matriarchs: Portraits of Old Women in Early Modern Italy
October 2008
- Dr. Sarah Ferber (School of History, University of Queensland)
  Possession and the Sexes in Early Modern Europe
September 2008
- Brodie Waddell (Department of History, University of Warwick, Ph.D. candidate)
  Patriarchy, Paternalism and Petition in English Economic Relations, 1660-1720
March 2008
- Dr. Jeremy Schmidt (Department of History)
  Samuel Clarke and the St. James's Westminster Charity-school for Girls
February 2008
- Dr. Edward Pechter (Department of English, Concordia University,Emeritus)
  Introduction to Discipline and Desire
January 2008
- Dr. Tony Claydon (Department of History, University of Bangor)
  Latitudinarianism and Apocalypticism in Late Stuart Britain
November 2007
- Dr. Simon Devereaux (Department of History)
  William Wilberforce and the English Penal Crisis, 1782-1787
October 2007
- Dr. Mitchell Lewis Hammond (Department of History)
  Medicine and Nature in the Early Reformation
September 2007
- Dr. Michael Best (Department of English, Emeritus)
  Variation and Mutabilities: Representing Variants in Shakespeare's Texts
April 2007
- Dr. Gregory Blue (Department of History)
  Three Sinophile Libertines: Remodeling Antiquity in the Late Seventeenth Century
March 2007
- Dr. Peter King (Department of History, Open University, UK)
  Ethnicity, Crime and Justice in Eighteenth-Century England
February 2007
- Dr. Gordon Fulton (Department of English)
  Samuel Richardson and the Infidel Convicted
November 2006
- Dr. Janelle Jenstad (Department of English)
  Scripting the Brotherhood: Guild Records and Mayoral Pageantry in Early Modern London
October 2006
- Dr. Stephen Snobelen (Department of History, University of King's College at Dalhousie University)
  'Paul Best, Prisoner in the Gatehouse': Socianism and the Toleration of Radical Heresy during the English Civil War
September 2006
- Dr. D. Gillian Thompson (Department of History, University of New Brunswick, Emeritus)
  What the Parlement Destroyed: A Study of the Jesuit Province of France on the Eve of its Destruction in 1762
March 2006
- Dr. Erin Campbell (Department of History in Art)
  Picturing Old Age in Early Modern Italian Art: A Cultural Aesthetics of Aging
November 2005
- Dr. Simon Devereaux (Department of History)
  Recasting the Theatre of Execution
October 2005
- Dr. Dennine Dudley (History in Art)
  Dressing up the Other: Shining New Light on Hogarth's Indian Emperor
September 2005
- Dr. Gary Kuchar (Department of English)
  John Donne and the Melancholic Imagination
March 2005
- Dr. Herbert Weil (Department of English, University of Manitoba, Emeritus)
  Montaigne and Falstaff: Truth, Lying, and Friendship
February 2005
- Dr. Christopher Friedrichs (Department of History, University of British Columbia)
  Urban Political Cultures in the Early Modern World: Eurasian Perspectives
January 2005
- Monica Roman (Department of History in Art, Ph.D. candidate)
  French Genre Painting
November 2004
- Dr. John Money (Department of History, Emeritus)
  John Cannon, the Fiscal Crisis and the Exciseman's Qualification
November 2004
- Dr. Andrea McKenzie (Department of History)
  From True Confessions to True Reporting? The Decline and Fall of the Ordinary's Account
September 2004
- Dr. Claire Carlin (Department of French)
  Perfect Harmony: Love and Marriage in Early Modern Pedagogy
March 2004
- Dr. Sara Beam (Department of History)
  Farce, Honour and the Bounds of Satire
February 2004
- Dr. Susan Lewis Hammond (Department of Music)
  Collecting Madrigals in Nuremberg: De' fiori del giardino (1604) and the Music Anthology as Kunstkammer
January 2004
- Dr. Edward Pechter (Department of English, Concordia University, Emeritus)
  What's wrong with literature?
October 2003
- Dr. Andrew R. Buck (Faculty of Law, Macquarrie University)
  Cordelia's Estate: Women, Land and Literature in Early Modern England
September 2003
- Dr. Mitchell Lewis Hammond (Department of History)
  Medicine, Charity, and Civic Life in sixteenth-century Germany

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