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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/
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 2d
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.
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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
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · 12d
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.
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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
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Chloe Ireton @chloeireton.bsky.social · 16d
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Chloe Ireton @chloeireton.bsky.social · 16d
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...
Poster image for "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic. Image of book covers and authors. More information on authors and books at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2025/oct/space-mobility-and-subjecthood-early-modern-history
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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · 12d
Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting
9 Oct 5:30-7:30pm
In early modern France, “oeconomie” referred to the art of managing material resources, particularly within a household. @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social welcome Dr Sarah Grandin (Courtauld Institute) for this seminar
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Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting
For this Research Seminar, we welcome Dr Sarah Grandin (The Courtauld Institute of Art) for a talk on ‘Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting’.
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 19d
Masculinity & Madness in Western India 1871-1940
25 September 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join us at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Masculinity & Madness in Western India 1871-1940
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Sep 3
Charms & Experiments in English Medieval Medical Manuscripts
11 September 1-2pm at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
Join this Historical Health & The Body Reading Group session for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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Two drawings of skeletons from the early modern period, with bones and muscles numbered
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Aug 20
Space, Mobility & Subjecthood in Early Modern History
29 Oct 5:30pm at UCL
This roundtable will be of interest to scholars working on the histories of imperial formations, subaltern lives, and intellectual histories from the margins of empires in the early modern period
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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...
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UCL Centre for Humanities Education @ucl-che.bsky.social · Jul 29
In our latest blog, @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social MFA student Noemi Stysiak reflects on our inspiring recent Celebration of Humanities Education, featuring research from @abbis.bsky.social, @samsonaws.bsky.social & many more from across @artshumsucl.bsky.social!

🔗: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/che/2025/07/...
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UCL Centre for Humanities Education @ucl-che.bsky.social · Jul 22
🎭 From lost comedias to lucid dreams, each year students from around the world reimagine Spanish Golden Age Theatre for the Our New Gold Festival.

Watch '24-'25's prize winners and read @samsonaws.bsky.social's (@uclselcs.bsky.social) reflections on the Festival in our latest blog:
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · Jul 18
Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 10
29 July 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 10
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
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Jul 14
Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
17 July 1-2pm @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
The article for this week's session is Heather Taylor's (2025) 'An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost': 'Non-medical' Charms and experimenta in Medieval Medical Manuscripts.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Jul 11
Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 9
15 July 2025, 2pm-3:30pm
This 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 9
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
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Alexander Samson @samsonaws.bsky.social · Jul 8
For anyone interested who couldn’t make it to my inaugural ‘Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern’ here’s a recording: mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/124439
Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern
Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern Professor Alexander Samson Before the shattering of organic and providential temporalities by universal clock time, a period dubbed the ‘early modern’ foreshado...
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · Jun 20
Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join at the Wellcome Collection for the Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
3 July 2025, 1pm-2pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Jun 20
📢 REGISTRATION OPEN!
Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library
9–10 Sep UCL @livesandletters.bsky.social
This symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives & methodologies.
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Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library
This 2-day symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies to open up existing narratives and bodies of evidence...
www.ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Jun 13
”Launch forth, my soul”: Medieval and Early Modern Religion and Seafaring
18 June 2025, 5:00 pm–7:30 pm
Showcases the work of Ukrainian academic, Dr Andrii Pastushenko. With co-speakers, Dr David Harrap (QMUL) and Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading).
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
”Launch forth, my soul”: Medieval and Early Modern Religion and Seafaring
This Centre for Early Modern Exchanges seminar showcases the work of Ukrainian academic, Dr Andrii Pastushenko. With co-speakers, Dr David Harrap (QMUL) and Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading...
www.ucl.ac.uk
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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · Jun 11
Professor Alexander Samson delivering his fascinating inaugural lecture on 28 May: 'Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern'. @samsonaws.bsky.social @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social #MarianEngland #UniversalClockTime #EarlyModern
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UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social · Jun 6
Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join @historyfinn.bsky.social and Katherine Wills at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for their Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
19 June 2025, 1pm-2pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Jun 6
Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 8
The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
10 June 2-3:30pm @ctlnkane.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 8
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
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Jun 2
”Launch forth, my soul”: Medieval and Early Modern Religion and Seafaring
18 June 2025, 5–7:30pm at UCL, London
With Dr Andrii Pastushenko, Dr David Harrap (QMUL) and Dr Richard Blakemore (U of Reading)
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
”Launch forth, my soul”: Medieval and Early Modern Religion and Seafaring
This Centre for Early Modern Exchanges seminar showcases the work of Ukrainian academic, Dr Andrii Pastushenko. With co-speakers, Dr David Harrap (QMUL) and Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading...
www.ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Jun 2
”Launch forth, my soul”: Medieval and Early Modern Religion and Seafaring
18 June 2025, 5–7:30pm at UCL, London
With Dr Andrii Pastushenko, Dr David Harrap (QMUL) and Dr Richard Blakemore (U of Reading)
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
”Launch forth, my soul”: Medieval and Early Modern Religion and Seafaring
This Centre for Early Modern Exchanges seminar showcases the work of Ukrainian academic, Dr Andrii Pastushenko. With co-speakers, Dr David Harrap (QMUL) and Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading...
www.ucl.ac.uk
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qUCL @qucl.bsky.social · May 23
Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 7
27 May 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 7
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
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · May 20
Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
22 May 1-2pm @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
We will be discussing Liane Maria Bertucci's ‘Herbs, Roots, Amulets, and Prayers in the Practices of “Saint” Vicente and other Healers in São Paulo in the 1910s’
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Historical Health & The Body Reading Group
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · May 16
Displacement & the French Revolution
29 May 9:45am–6:30pm @uclhistory.bsky.social
This interdisciplinary workshop gathers historians, historical geographers, literary scholars & art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution.
www.ucl.ac.uk/history/even...
Displacement and the French Revolution
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together historians, historical geographers, literary scholars and art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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