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August 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020

Premodern Events & Workshops Calendar

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October 29, 2020

James Ford Bell Library Lecture: Katherine Ibbett

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October 30, 2020

CEMH Digital Talk: Meredith Martin, Nina Dubin, and Madeleine Viljoen

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This talk will explore The New York Public Library’s upcoming exhibition Fortune and Folly in 1720 (Spring 2021) and its accompanying publication Meltdown! Picturing the World’s First...

November 6, 2020

CEMH Digital Talk: Junko Takeda (History, Syracuse University)

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The last major bubonic plague outbreak in western Europe, the Great Plague of 1720 ravaged the French Mediterranean city of Marseille and surrounding provinces for a period of three years...

November 12, 2020

CMS Digital Talk: Kristina Sessa (History, The Ohio State University)

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The Justininiac Plague (541 to ca. 750 CE), a recurring pandemic ofYersinia pestis infection that impacted communities across the Mediterranean reaching as far north as Britain, has played...

November 13, 2020

CEMH Digital Talk: Arnaud Orain (European Studies Institute of the University Paris)

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In 1720 during the plague of Marseille and during the climax and fall of John Law's System, private commerce, self-interest and competition mechanisms were under attack. From France to the...

November 20, 2020

CEMH Digital Talk: Charly Coleman (History, Columbia University)

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This lecture traces the surprising influence of sacramental theology on the reception of John Law’s System. Allusions to the mysteries of transubstantiation and transmutation abounded in...

December 4, 2020

CEMH Digital Talk: Margaret DeLacy (Independent Scholar)

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In the early eighteenth century, life was precarious. The closing years of the Little Ice Age brought unpredictable famines. Dynasties failed and empires were transformed. Global trade and...

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Premodern Events & Workshops Calendar

James Ford Bell Library Lecture: Katherine Ibbett

CEMH Digital Talk: Meredith Martin, Nina Dubin, and Madeleine Viljoen

CEMH Digital Talk: Junko Takeda (History, Syracuse University)

CMS Digital Talk: Kristina Sessa (History, The Ohio State University)

CEMH Digital Talk: Arnaud Orain (European Studies Institute of the University Paris)

CEMH Digital Talk: Charly Coleman (History, Columbia University)

CEMH Digital Talk: Margaret DeLacy (Independent Scholar)

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