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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.
As a rule, the format of the Workshop is for the presenter to
precirculate his or her paper one week in advance of the
session date, during which time typically participants read the paper. Participation is open to the public. At the
Workshop session itself (Monday evenings at 5 PM in Pick 319, except where
noted), participants ask questions
of the author and offer constructive feedback on the paper. The words of Ross Perot seem
appropriate in this context: Asked about
his commitment to balancing the Federal budget, he said,
“it’ll be hard, but it’ll be fun.”
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
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
October 31, 2008
Mark Salber Phillips
Carleton
University
Contrasts
(co-sponsored with the Nicholson Center)
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
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)
Winter 2009
January 20,
2009
Clark Gilpin
University
of Chicago
The Experience of Defeat:
English Political Prisoners 1649-1662
(co-sponsored with the Nicholson Center)
February 9, 2009
Colin F. Wilder
University
of Chicago
Debt,
Equity and Family Property in the
Hessian Law Reforms of the Sixteenth Century
February 16, 2009
David Lyons
University
of Chicago
Discursive, not Religious, Toleration in More’s Utopia
February 23, 2009
Thomas Max Safley
University
of Pennsylvania
Families and Fortunes in Early Modern Europe:
Reflections on Business and Bankruptcy
Spring 2009
April 10, 2009
H. M. Scott
University
of St. Andrews
The Return of the Nobility in Early Modern
History
April 20, 2009
Sir John H. Elliott
Regius Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford
Contrasting Empires: Britain and Spain in
America
(co-sponsored with the Committee on
Social Thought and the Nicholson Center)
Monday, May 4, 2009
Eric Nelson
Harvard
University
‘For the Land is Mine’:
Hebrew Theocracy and the Rise of Toleration
(co-sponsored with the Nicholson Center)
Monday, May 11, 2009
Susan Gaunt
University
of Chicago
Cash, Land, and Government:
The Evolution of the Right to Trade
on the Early American Frontier
Monday, May 25, 2009
Alidost Numan
University
of Chicago
Establishing a Historical Canon:
Ibn Kemal and the Origins
of Ottoman
History Writing in the Reign of Bayezid II
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