STVDIO Seminar Series
The STVDIO series of research seminars promotes the collaborative, interdisciplinary study of the Renaissance in the UK and internationally, and aims to showcase the rich variety of work that is done on Renaissance topics, both at 糖心TV and beyond.
Most seminars will be in hybrid format this year, in person at the University of 糖心TV, on Tuesdays at 17:00 (UK time) unless otherwise specified below, and online circa 5.05pm (set-up time). The link for accessing the seminars will be provided on this page.
If you have any queries, please contact this year's organisers:
Autumn 2025, Term 1 (Tuesday unless otherwise stated)
7 October (Week 1), 5 pm: Tim Wade (University of 糖心TV), 'Fraught friendship, celebrity and party politics: English humanists in printed letter collections, 1516-1524'. Room: FAB2.32. Link to online registration .
4 November (Week 5), 5 pm: Nicola Royan (University of Nottingham), 'Talking About Their Generations: Scottish engagements with European Humanism, c. 1460-c. 1560鈥�. Room: FAB2.32. Link to online registration
Friday 21 November (Week 7), 4-6 pm: Joint (hybrid) EMECC/ CSR STVDIO event: 'Waste, Recycling and Leftovers in Early Modern and Renaissance Europe'.
Room OC1.07 Oculus Building and online. With
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Franziska Neumann (Technische Universit盲t Braunschweig) -Rubbish?! Waste and Recycling in Eighteenth-Century London
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Eleanor Barnett (University of Cardiff) - Leftovers: A History of Food waste and Preservation in Early Modern Europe
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Alessia Meneghin (University of Valencia) - 'An Economy of Leftovers in 15th-Century Arezzo: Textile Byproducts and the Secondhand Market in a Florentine Subject City'.
Respondent: Eloisa Ocando-Thomas and Chair: Beat K眉min
25 November (Week 8), 5 pm: Mercedes Blanco (Sorbonne Universit茅), 'Vernacular Poetry and Humanist Culture in Golden Age Spain: S谩nchez de las Brozas and Mart铆n V谩zquez Siruela, annotators of Garcilaso and G贸ngora'. Room: FAB2.32. Link to online registration .
Spring 2026, Term 2 (Tuesday unless otherwise stated)
POSTPONED Thursday 15 January (week 1): Joint EMECC/ CSR STVDIO event. 12.30-2 pm: lunchtime seminar (lunch included) with Stuart Carroll (York) on violence and enmity in early modern Europe in room OC0.05 (Oculus Building). Please note that Stuart Carroll's talk has been postponed. However, there will still be a reception and book launch at 4 pm for Jonathan Davies (ed.), A Cultural History of Violence in the Renaissance in FAB3.57.
20 January (week 2), 6 pm: Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford), 'George Buchanan, Silvae 3: Desiderium Lutetiae.' Room: FAB5.01 Link to online registration . **Please note the later time.**
10 February (week 5), 5 pm: Simon Smets (KU Leuven), 'Metre Matters in Psalm Paraphrases鈥擬eaning and Use 1500-1700'. Modern Records Centre seminar room. Link to online registration .
10 March (Week 9), 5 pm: Helena Taylor (University of Exeter), 'Women, Philosophy and Sociability in Seventeenth-Century France'. Room: FAB2.43. Link to online registration .
Summer 2026, Term 3 (Tuesday unless otherwise stated)
5 May (Week 2), 5pm: Cynthia Liu (American Academy in Rome/Blackfriars, Oxford), '"Just As" Stories: classical epic abroad'. Room: FAB2.32. Link to online registration .
12 May (Week 3), 4pm: BOOK LAUNCH: Marta Celati and Maria Pavlova (eds.), The Prince and the 'Condottiero鈥� in Italian Humanism and Renaissance (Peter Lang). Room: FAB2.32. Link to online registration .
19 May (Week 4), 5pm: Joshua Rushton (University of Manchester), 'Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World: Project Introduction and Some Early Thoughts'. Room: FAB2.32. Link to online registration .
16 June (
Week 8), 5pm: Kate Travers (University of 糖心TV), title tbc. Room: FAB2.32.
STVDIO Seminars are kindly sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre
and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance