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Early Modern Workshop
Schedule of Sessions
(2008-2009)

If you are interested in presenting a paper, dissertation chapter, journal article or other scholarly work in progress
at the Early Modern Workshop, please contact Colin F. Wilder at niloc7@uchicago.edu.  Though the Workshop
is primarily composed of historians, we gladly welcome presenters from outside of the History Department.

Autumn 2008

September 29, 2008
Sean Dunwoody
University of Chicago
Dividing Church and State: Hiring and Firing Ministers
in Later Sixteenth-Century Augsburg

October 8, 2008
Fall Reception and Welcome
a special session of the Workshop

October 13, 2008
Chris Dudley
University of Chicago
The Whig Realignment of 1715

of possible interest to early modernists
the Social Theory Workshop presents:
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Peter Linebaugh
University of Toledo
The Magna Carta Manifesto:
Liberties and Commons for All
 

October 27, 2008
Nicolay Antov
University of Chicago
The Northern Ottoman Balkans in the
‘Turbulent’ Fifteenth Century:
Deliorman as a Special Case

of possible interest to early modernists are
two Nicholson Center events:

October 30, 2008, 4:30 PM
Mark Salber Phillips
Carleton University
Distance and Visual Representation:
The 18th-c. “Revolution of History Painting” Revisited

&

October 31, 2008, 1:30 PM
Mark Salber Phillips
Contrasts

November 10, 2008
David Nirenberg
University of Chicago
Enlightenment Revolts against Judaism

November 17, 2008
Carl Wennerlind
Barnard College
The Scarcity of Money and the Philosopher’s Stone: 
The Alchemical Foundations of Credit Money
  

Monday, December 1, 2008
Mayte (Maria) Green
University of Chicago
Dying fī sabīl Allā (In the path of God):
Prophecy and Martyrdom in the War of Granada (1568-1570)

of interest to early modernists
the Political Theory Workshop presents
earlier that same day:
also Monday, December 1, 2008
Pick Hall 506, 12 noon
J.G.A. Pocock
The Johns Hopkins University
Historiography and Enlightenment: A View of Their History
There is a precirculated paper for this, but it is not available for download.
It may be obtained by contacting Ian Storey of the Political Theory Workshop (ins@uchicago.edu). 
nb also that this workshop is on the same date but earlier in the
day than is Mayte Green’s (see above).

of interest to early modernists will be
a Nicholson Center conference
later in the same week:
*  *  *
December 4-5, 2008
Swift Hall, 3rd-floor Lecture Room
The Golden and the Brazen World:
Political Thought in British History,
Literature, and Philosophy
*  *  *
Thursday, December 4, 2008 ▪ 3:30 PM
Quentin Skinner
Queen Mary, University of London
Word and Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes
*  *  *
Friday, December 5, 2008 ▪ 10 AM
Ian Donaldson
University of Melbourne
Talking with Ghosts: Ben Jonson and the English Civil War
*  *  *
Friday, December 5, 2008 ▪ 2 PM
J.G.A. Pocock
The Johns Hopkins University
Historiography as Political Theory

Winter 2009

Monday, January 19, 2009, 5 PM
(special location tba)
Clark Gilpin
University of Chicago
The Experience of Defeat:
English Political Prisoners 1649-1662
(discussion of precirculated paper as usual)
(co-sponsored with the Nicholson Center and the Renaissance Workshop)

&

a Nicholson lecture:
January 22, 2009, 4:30 PM
Classics 110
Clark Gilpin
Within the Transfigurative Distance:
Letters from Prison in Early Modern England
(lecture with reception to follow)


Colin F. Wilder
University of Chicago
Debt, Equity and Individual Rights
in Early Modern Germany

Heather Welland
University of Chicago



Spring 2009

Friday, April 10, 2009, 4 PM
nb special time and place!
(co-sponsored with the Modern France Workshop)
H. M. Scott
University of St. Andrews

David Lyons
University of Chicago

Sean Dunwoody
University of Chicago

of possible interest to early modernists
the Political Theory Workshop and the Committee on Social Thought present:
April 20-21, 2008
Charles Griswold
Boston University

Susan Gaunt
University of Chicago

Alidost Numan
University of Chicago
Ottoman History Writing in the Reign of Bayezid II (1481-1512)
and the Early Formulation of Ottoman Rulership
and Dynastic Legitimacy

of interest to early modernists will be
a Nicholson Center conference:

April 24-25, 2009
Franke Seminar Room, time tba
Empire, Modernity, and
the British Social Sciences: 1700-1950
with keynote speakers
Henrika Kuklick
University of Pennsylvania
Sudipta Sen
University of California at Davis

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