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The Humanities Research Centre invites paper proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on actor, image, and global screen icon, James Dean. The two-day conference will be held at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV's Institute of Advanced Study on September 30th and October 1st, 2015, 60 years after Dean’s death.

“Ben Lerner’s Pre-Emptive Elegies”

Postgraduate and staff seminar by Prof Jan de Vries ( University of California, Berkeley)

Readings:

The Economic Crisis of the Seventeenth Century after Fifty Years

The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: The Little Ice Age and the Mystery of the "Great Divergence"

Crisis and Catastrophe: The Global Crisis of the Seventeenth Century Reconsidered

A special additional event during the visit to ÌÇÐÄTV of Professor Jan de Vries (University of California, Berkeley).

A seminar for academic staff and postgraduate students, held jointly by the Global History & Culture Centre and the History Dept Research Seminar Series. The texts of three articles to complement the seminar are available here.

Joint with the Medieval Seminar Series

 'Bigamia from Antiquity to the Counter Reformation'.

This will be a joint seminar with the STVDIO series.

Professor D'Avray is a distinguished medieval and early modern historian, who has worked on medieval marriage, on preaching, on attitudes to kingship and death, and on rationalities. He is currently working on royal annulments and papal dispensations, instrumental ethics in the Middle Ages, and 'longue duree' structures of papal history. His recent books include Medieval Marriage: Symbolism and Society (OUP, 2005) Medieval Religious Rationalities (CUP, 2010), and Dissolving Royal Marriages. A Documentary History 860-1600 (CUP, 2014). Professor D'Avray is a Fellow of the British Academy.