SRS Public Lectures - Previous Events

Renaissance Prince to Infamous Tyrant: What Changed Henry VIII?
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 6:30pm

Suzannah Lipscomb (School of History, University of East Anglia)
The Storey Institute, Lancaster

The Blank Spaces of Early Modernity
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 6:30pm

Jonathan Sawday (Walter Ong Chair, Saint Louis University)
Asa Briggs Lecture Theatre A2, University of Sussex

Changing Patterns of Musical Dissemination in the Early Renaissance
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 7:00pm

Margaret Bent (All Souls College, Oxford)
MALT Lecture Theatre, New Main Arts Building, College Road, Bangor University

Reading, Writing, and Travelling in the World of Columbus
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 5:00pm

Barry Ife (Principal of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama)
St John’s College Auditorium, University of Oxford

How does the Archive Change the History of Renaissance Ideas? The Case of Montaigne.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 5:30pm

Warren Boutcher (Reader in Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary, University of London)
Sydney Smith Lecture Room, The Medical School, Teviot Place, University of Edinburgh

Why Did the Renaissance Value Rhetoric?
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 5:00pm

Sir Brian Vickers (Distinguished Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of London)
Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge

The Renaissance in Global Context
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 7:00pm

Peter Burke (Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge)
Trinity College Dublin 

Art or Material Culture? Reinterpreting the Renaissance Collections of the V&A
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 5:00pm

Peta Motture (Chief Curator, Victoria and Albert Museum’s Medieval and Renaissance Galleries Project)
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester

Touching the Renaissance
Friday, February 6, 2009 - 7:00pm

Evelyn Welch (Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary, University of London)
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Renaissance Encounters: The Invention of Printing and the Crisis of the Renaissance
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 5:15pm

Andrew Pettegree (Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews)
Arts Faculty, Lecture Room 3, 17 Woodland Road, University of Bristol