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UCL Early Modern Exchanges
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The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
Thomas Ostermeier's Richard III: Staging Shakespeare in Translation
@uclselcs.bsky.social is pleased to welcome Elisa Leroy to give this talk.
12 February 2026, 12pm-1:30pm
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Thomas Ostermeier's Richard III: Staging Shakespeare in Translation
UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society is pleased to welcome Elisa Leroy to give this talk.
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 2, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 14
10 February 2026, 3:30pm-5pm
An informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 14
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 2, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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⚡ Lightning Talks at The London Archives ⚡

Are you a student or ECR? Need feedback on your work? Can you summarise it in 5 minutes? Join us for Lightning Talks at The London Archives - a friendly event open to researchers of London and its history!

📆 Wed 11 February
🕔 5pm
Lightning Talks at The London Archives - IN PERSON
Are you a student or Early Career Researcher? Need feedback on in-progress research? Can you summarise your research in 5 minutes or less?
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Rewriting Race in Early Modern Medicine
5 February 1-2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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Rewriting Race in Early Modern Medicine
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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VERY EXCITING BOOK!

Come and discuss this VERY EXCITING BOOK with @ihreurope1500.bsky.social on 18 May @ihr.bsky.social!

and get your copy from @harvardpress.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
January 20, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Time, Narrative & Emotion in Early Modern England
22 January 2026, 1pm–2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Time, Narrative & Emotion in Early Modern England
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 20, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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Winter Programme 2025-26 for our seminar on Europe & the World @ihr.bsky.social !

Mondays, 17:30 (UK time).

Everybody very welcome, in Bloomsbury or on zoom. All info and forms to get the zoom links here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
January 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Congratulations to UCL STS’s Professor Simon Werrett on the publication of his new paper exploring the rich intersections of art and science in eighteenth‑century Russia. A fascinating contribution to the field. Read it here:
Enlightened Icons: Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov and Glass Mosaics in 18th-Century Russia | Brepols Online
Abstract In the 1750s the Russian academician and chemist Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov experimented with making coloured glass in his laboratory at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. Lomonosov went on to open a manufactory nearby at Ust-Ruditsa, where he produced coloured glass mosaics. This enterprise has been represented variously as the work of a lone genius, as a failed business enterprise, and more recently as a form of projecting. The present essay places Lomonosov's glass work in a courtly context, as in part a continuation of the Academy's role of celebrating the Russian sovereign through spectacles such as fireworks and illuminations. Lomonosov sought to shape and contribute to a ‘ruling image” for the empress Elizabeth Petrovna, turning to mosaics owing to their capacity to interweave Russian tradition, Orthodox religion, and enlightened chemistry. Glass was a business, to be sure, but also a courtly, political, and religious material in Lomonosov's experiments.
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January 15, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Ethiopian Christianity, Islam and European Perceptions of Religious Sameness and Difference
10 December 2025, 5pm–7pm
A UCL Early Modern Exchanges seminar with Eduardo Fernández Guerrero (The Warburg Institute) and Carlos Cañete Jiménez (CSIC)
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December 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group
Session 13 is on 9 Dec 2pm-3:30pm
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. @ctlnkane.bsky.social
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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 13
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New IAS Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
26 Nov 2:30-4pm
Join IAS Postdoctoral Fellows, Rana Banna & Mary Newman, for the second session of their reading group, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
New IAS Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Join IAS Postdoctoral Fellows, Rana Banna & Mary Newman, for the second session of their reading group, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of se...
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 12
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
25 Nov 2pm-3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 12
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Historical Health & The Body Primary Sources Show-and-Tell
20 November 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Historical Health & The Body Primary Sources Show-and-Tell
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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New Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
12 Nov 2:30pm
Join IAS Fellows Rana Banna & Mary Newman for the first session, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting & smelling
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
New IAS Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Join the IAS Postdoctoral Fellows, Rana Banna & Mary Newman, for the first session of the reading group, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of s...
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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📆 Coming up on 18 Nov: UCL Lunch Hour Lecture, The Witch in the Bible and Beyond

Hear from Dr Alinda Damsma on her research about the impact of the Bible on the early modern witch-hunts. These lectures are free, open to all and online.

Book now: buff.ly/LupLYZS
@uclhjs.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense & Proof
12 Nov 2:30-4pm
This new @ucl-ias.bsky.social reading group explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
New IAS Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Join the IAS Postdoctoral Fellows, Rana Banna & Mary Newman, for the first session of the reading group, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of s...
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense & Proof
12 Nov 2:30-4pm
This new @ucl-ias.bsky.social reading group explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
New IAS Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Join the IAS Postdoctoral Fellows, Rana Banna & Mary Newman, for the first session of the reading group, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of s...
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 11
11 Nov 2-3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 11
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Displaying Sara Baartman, the 'Hottentot Venus'
6 November 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Displaying Sara Baartman, the 'Hottentot Venus'
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
⚠️Last chance to register!
Space, Mobility & Subjecthood in Early Modern History
29 Oct 5:30pm UCL & online
With authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic, feat. Bethan Fisk, Chloe L. Ireton, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure & Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez
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Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History
A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic, featuring Bethan Fisk, Chloe L. Ireton, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez. Respondent, Jorg...
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Join us for this term's Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social ! Newcomers very welcome, just email me to sign up!
For more info: tinyurl.com/y7kue3ek.
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
HYBRID: Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History
29 Oct 5:30–7:30 pm
A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic: Bethan Fisk, @chloeireton.bsky.social, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History
A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic, featuring Bethan Fisk, Chloe L. Ireton, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez. Respondent, Jorg...
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Emotions, Sound & Personhood in Early Modern England
9 October 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for the Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Emotions, Sound & Personhood in Early Modern England
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Gendered Time & Medicine in Early Modern Germany
23 October 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for the Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Gendered Time & Medicine in Early Modern Germany
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
September 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM